it. was. it. was and am. an r.t.a. exclusive wiki leaks confirms the authenticity of the recording that could spin the narrative on julian assange and it shows the whistleblower did try to prevent or not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables that came to the courts knew about the tape when desired defining on his extradition to america. due. to the u.k. transcript of this conversation was presented to the poor to improve. also with covert 19 cases creeping closer to 3000000 in russia experts say the infections are

reaching a flat so as the country readies for week 3 of its mass vaccination program. the top british lawmaker faces a backlash after saying you know surf should be ashamed of a quote political stunt as the charity organization aims to put food on the table for vulnerable children this christmas. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mina caring. the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julian our son and says it could put the brakes on his extradition to the united states the audio seems to prove the whistleblower in fact tried to warn the u.s. state department about a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 and appears to be in stark

contrast to washington's claims that our songs wanted to endanger lives this is what kristinn hrafnsson told us in an exclusive interview. this evidence that you heard and i can confirm that this is authentic is not new to the courts in the u.k. transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it suits basically the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department it is their indictment and they are try to use their to get a much of a lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk following these revelations more than 400000 people around the world have already signed a petition calling on the us 5th efficiency to drop the charges against us sons' politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves office in january saskia tell them apart. public enemy number one

a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judean a solemn child's been smeared as a villain who revealed the ugly face of u.s. foreign policy but i would argue that it's closer to being in the high tech terrorists this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests it is an attack on the international community wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service but argues a narcissist who has created nothing of value he relies on the dirty work of others to make himself famous he is a fraud a coward hiding behind a screen 10 years that narrative ron but is it all about to change is that actually the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t. released tapes reveal a song just tempted to warn the u.s. state department and then boss had to reclaim 10 back in 2011 not only does it seem

she had to mold the cools she want as far as this he has to answer for what he has done so what was the motive for helping a firestorm was coming in the form of a rogue wiki leaks employee online. i think over time. because. it came. to. spread around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it burn as we've been told is easy is disguise. traitor

a treasonist i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a beast on our great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant which he would should be closed down permanently and decisively no instead we hear a song trying to protect those and washington the very same who now want to send him down so life case for. having. people here is that it's more your problem. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to. hold back it's thought to the wiki leaks out it's even advise the state department to tell anyone why the encrypted files could be allegedly found and also help to remove them a decade on a song just sitting in london's belmarsh prison waiting to hear whether he'll be extradited to the us to face a potential 175 yes sentence that's a hell of

a sentence for someone who tried to warn the very top of what was coming so is it any wonder now that cools a mounting for president trump to pardon the whistleblower on hoping that he will pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do donald trump since you're given pardons to people please consider pardoning those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state mr president if you grown so you want to act of clemency during your time in office please free julian assange those you alone can save his life. you donald trump can save julian and encourage brave activists world wise time and timing is everything it's change the image of a man who was cost out as a traitor and without running out for donald trump's presidency i'm on wiki leaks bad set to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america to part an unfit give

a man who wanted to save washington from its shame time is of the essence for a saunders to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate any and impossible harm to this i have no idea why this was not to follow through and to call for. help julian was was crucially and i'm considerably. worried in offering to say to the state department never came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on his warning. we spoke to journalists activists and former diplomats about these latest developments. they've built a case around. the claim that he's a loose cannon that he's not a journalist this obviously throws that out the window because it shows he was doing his stooge ill gents as he's always claimed to have done. but you know it

doesn't change the american government's attitude it's i will be astounded if trump has the guts to pardon and drop the church or drop the charges against him which i suppose he could actually order his. department of justice to do still lame duck president a lot of people have commented in reply had no idea they thought the julian in the injured america. recklessly believe the lies john the heat in the middle for years . and i guess hearing julian speaking as a young boy and hearing him. basically pleading with the state department to help him help them help people really changed a lot of people i think very pleased with the only evidence. i hope i'm hoping that it gets a chance because i don't see how he could possibly here that he and continue this

political persecution remember of course that the. people are very pressing for extradition of doing this and jim pearson for. to be prosecuted for espionage for the crime of being a journalist the people who want that's exactly the same people who were pissing befalls gates narrative. so donald trump has a powerful motive to. to go against those people and to and to come to their influence so i'm not without hope that donald trump who will issue a pardon julian was not the 1st person to release this and. and it was already on dozens of websites. twitter obviously the guardian carty that password to get the files and then they ended up only prosecuting julian julian is the only one that. he's the only one he's currently sitting in. while dozens of other people

published it or eat it what sense does it make if you allow the 1st 99 people to free and then punish the 100 birds. it's been the democrats that are angriest at him because of you know the clinton capes that he released. and. you know the the prosecution of the war under obama. it was. certainly had the ability to to pardon him or drop the charges really it's dropping the charges because he hasn't found guilty of anything. and that could have been done with as you know a stroke of a pen any time by obama and he never did it nobody actually who was was harmed by the leaks and in the end of the earth that's quite an important thing to state the chances of the legal process in the end going against you in the very limited time

and i think the grounds for extradition is for a political offense and it does excluded by the u.k. u.s. extradition treaty and i think it will be knocked down by a higher court in the u.k. the worse and the united states i think in a very obvious attack on the 1st amendment implied in using the espionage act against a journalist would get it knocked down in the higher courts and in america so the ultimate legal i'm not too concerned about the problem is the terrible terrible conditions julian has been kept in in in a maximum security jail alongside terrorists. additions amounting to do watch or. not know who to go. to the latest now on the 1902 asian here in russia this friday 28000 new cases have been confirmed it takes

the total number of infections in the country to almost 3000000 and the mean time to roll out of this but make the vaccine is almost into week 3 from monday journalists sound transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it has ramon costa for the details number of cases here to russian capsule remains very high however a group of scientists from the st petersburg state university and nouns that the pandemic already began in the russian capital this week now they supported the claim with their own mathematical model created to predict the spread of a covert 19 the situation in st petersburg remains alarmingly tense cording to local health officials only 4 percent of hospital beds that were earmarked for cold with 1000 patients remain vacant and that means that the hospitals are almost filled to capacity now the situation is certainly different throughout the country president putin's spokesperson trip this call for said earlier that at the moment

there are no plans for a complete lockdown in russia while the head of state himself he admits to country having some issues with a pandemic but everything is under control this have a listen. you go to work because those you know health care system in any country was prepared for it our system proved to be more or less efficient we are aware of issues that we've had and we are dealing with them the pandemic required closing down some facilities and production unemployment has been on the rise and incomes unfortunately have been going down this is not just empty talk we know how to make it better russia was the 1st country in the world to come up with and start producing its own vaccine it's 95 percent effective not a single serious case of side effects foreign colleagues are ready to work with us now the russian president also announced earlier that in addition to putting the

and rowena other vaccines are now in development meanwhile russia is now in 2 weeks where people can get inoculated against the corona virus and speaking about moscow in particular so for more than 15000 people were vaccinated at one of 70 dedicated places in the russian capital mayor of the city sergei said gun instead that a 1000000 more citizens may get their call the child starting on monday december 21st now inoculation is currently limited to people in the 18 to 60 age group and those people who are older will also get their vaccine however that will happen a little bit later. one of the most devastating effects of the covert 1000 pound demick is being people falling below the poverty line in the u.k. the house of commons later is facing a backlash over comments made about

a unicef program to feed poor families in person take up raise marks said the u.n. agency which usually provides disaster relief should be ashamed of what he called a political stunt the charity is working to make sure children have food on the table this christmas during the hard hitting coronavirus pound. the real scandal that unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest the most deprived countries in the world where people are starving whether from injury whether civil wars and they make political points of this current giving i think $25000.00 pounds to one council it is a political stunt of the lowest order unicef recently launched a wide ranging program aimed at tackling food insecurity it would be going to go over $700000.00 pounds to community groups all over the u.k. the organization is also helping feed children in underprivileged borough of london giving out food parcels under sure in 25000 breck 1st saw distributed to schools

there the campaign has put a spotlight on food poverty and the u.k. considered one of the wealthiest countries in the world according to unicef children 20 percent of all u.k. households could be going hungry and an estimated 2400000 children live in so-called food insecure homes free school meals programs have seen huge numbers of families line up unicef has defended his decision to provide humanitarian help to children in the u.k. for the 1st time ever unicef u.k. is responding to the some precedented crisis and building on our 25 years experience to working on children's rights in the u.k. with a one off domestic response launched a notice to provide support to vulnerable children and families around the country during this crisis period earlier i spoke with the founder of the largest independent food bank in the u.k. who says the government's handling of the poverty crisis has been unacceptable. i think the reality is the government's own figures show that in britain 4.5 children

get 1000000 children get free school meals and before the pandemic the government's own figures confirmed 12000000 people in britain were in poverty i think what unicef of dawn has of course given some money to people in britain and britain is one of the great generous countries in the world for giving money so it's only just right that when our people are in crisis that unicef gives us some cash by the scandal is we have a government that keeps pussy footing around the real crisis in britain i'm not spit 15000 people 15000000 people in the 1st 6 richest economy on the planet going hungry and that's not acceptable we should be leading a global campaign to end poverty not pussyfooting around it we're now feeding so many people we can hardly cope it's not something that we can just depend anymore on our government our government around the world are all tied up with the pandemic

trying to get people safe and stop people dying letting people go hungry is not a priority and so we as people and we as communities need to take back power and politicize it in a way but we can eradicate the problems. still ahead in the program the very official meant to ever see equality in great britain has found a south accused of discrimination and hypocrisy that story and more after this will . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. because there is this huge gusher of money printing bedsteads coming out of the

central banks and because. nothing working against it because it's not. producing anything like toyota or a ford or some other company where you could look at the actual products in a meaningful context of the global economy in ascribe a value to it you can simply say that well we think that tesla has a meaning which is mostly i mean. money is the me so we're going to make a we're $600000000000.00 today and it could be worth it could drop 90 percent tomorrow. welcome back this friday marks international migrants day and thousands of

undocumented asylum seekers have filled the streets of some 50 cities across france this is the scene in paris organizers of the demonstration of so far refused to back down and dispersed with 19 restrictions in place in the capital this comes just weeks after police dismantled a makeshift camp in the city something which triggered a public outcry the time. the case minister for women and equalities has been accused of discrimination and shunning her responsibilities there's allegations of a fight at liz truss off to her announcement on a policy overhaul said to focus more on social class and character. so maybe hard society more equal we need the ecology debates to be led by thoughts not by fashion the new approach will apparently center on principles of fairness and dignity that includes listening to more represented voices in society who may be impaired or

discriminated against the british prime minister also stressed more attention is needed on geographic inequality but choices speech has caused outrage in westminster and beyond. truss's attempt to separate classroom races divisive garbage we need to create a fairer society for everyone but this means recognizing that the barriers faced by black asian and other minority ethnic people are facts not fashion black lives matter the opposition in britain also slammed trus for her role as international trade secretary in which the labor party and activists called out a total lack of equality trust has appointed hundreds of trade advisors to near roles government data highlighted that almost all were white males a quarter of her appointments were women with just 12 from asian descent and one black person cabinet office will suggest around 14 percent of government staff should be from ethnic minorities by 2822 and half of all new employees are female

we spoke to john go on to talk radio host and columnist tuesdays equality is all about people in general or particular minorities. well i think she's got a good idea because she's focusing on class and she's trying to say look it can't all be about identity politics which has actually now infested the political culture in our country so it's about class it's about equality it's about everybody have an equal chance we need to do the data works on that basis and promote a more equal society without enough of quotas the best person whether that's a woman a man a straight person a trans person whatever should get the job we have to go back to basics we have to say it's equality for all. sports stop cortez cut russia's ban from

all major sporting events they don't ping offenses from 4 years to 2 and says that the countries that are fleets will only be able to compete as neutrals however rush is the olympic chief still believes that the punishment is too harsh. this is we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world then to doping agency's claim and deprive russia 19 oping agency of its compliance status with the world anti-doping code our position is initially based on the fact that there are no grounds for any full or partial punishment for sata and consequently any sanctions against the participants of the case we believe that in this part of the court did not fully take into account the presented dark humans everyone is so used to sanctions against russia as a whole this is no surprise i would not like to be categorical but in general this is normal it is necessary to punish but cities are not sent to prison for the crimes of a few here the whole country has been punished because someone stumbled. it's an

ambiguous story in general this decision was predictable but this is not for us to decide sports politics is such that if you have inside information about what is happening at the top therefore we were only in the process of waiting but the rough picture was clear it was clear that an attack was underway on russian sport so it would hardly be allowed to play under our flag but i am glad that there was no complete dismissal of the ban means no russian flag will alphabet international sporting events until the end of $2822.00. the next summer and winter olympics on football world cup but it's mardi gras you have explains there still could be twists and turns to come. in what may be described as a remarkably anticlimactic conclusion the court of arbitration for sport refrained from an outright ban and watered down waters recommended participant after years of scandal and accusations bickering and petty insults the duping savior is over for

now russia which categorically denied allegations of state assisted duping wanted all restrictions lifted but instead must settle for 2 years rather a 4 year bad during this period it could neither host nor be the major sporting tournament its flag and national anthem will also be bad but clean russian athletes not involved in the doping scandal will be allowed to participate at the olympics the collective punishment clause that someone did to taint every russian athlete is a potential cheat is gone the was nice because of the most important result of our collaborative effort is the fact that the court of arbitration for sport has been extended its support for a world on to duping agency in applying measures of collective for accountability and refused to introduce additional participation criteria for russian athlete and

the olympic games paralympic games and world championships the world and he duping agency wanted to rule it but it says it respects the court's decision for liz phair for the next 2 years so no more scandal no more investigations who fully it all ends all restrictions will be lifted it's a new start which not everyone is happy about the united states especially has made a stink of it that have preferred a more permanent battle usada acknowledges the devastating decision from the court of arbitration for sport in the russia case that hands water and clean athletes a significant loss at this stage in this sordid russian stay. sponsored doping affair now spanning close to a decade there is no consolation in this week watered down outcome to once again escape a meaningful consequence proportional to the crimes much less a real ban is

a catastrophic blow to clean athletes the integrity of sport and the rule of law which of course is ridiculous given the unprecedented enmity between the u.s. and the world adds he duping agency largely because washington allegedly attempted to seize control of it and threatened to cut its payments to wada if it didn't play along it didn't and it made clear that american athletes risk being blocked from the olympics if washington stops paying its jews at the end of the day this final ruling pleased know what a gulp of that these are these duff times for wada with calls and cries demanding the agency reform or else but unless something changes the decision is final and then and a fresh start. thanks using r t international that's all for me for today by showing thomas will be with you at the top of the hour.

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