well we think. so we're going to. today. tomorrow. in archie exclusive the wiki leaks confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could spin the narrative on julian assange it shows the whistleblower did try to prevent not facilitate the release of thousands of sensitive u.s. cables it is claimed that the courts and knew about the tape when deciding on his extradition to america. this is evidence that you. sure of that. is not new to courts in the u.k. a transcript of this conversation was presented to the court in september. also with 1000 cases creeping closer to 3000000 in russia experts say the infections are

reaching a plateau now as the country readies for week 3 of its massive vaccination program . and a top british lawmaker faces a backlash after saying unicef should be ashamed of a quote political stunt as the charity organization aims to put food on the table for vulnerable children this christmas. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the head of wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julian assange 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 massive breach of classified information back in 2011 and appears to be in stark contrast to washington's claims that a songe wanted to endanger lives this is what christian raf nansen 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 supposedly throws the argument that is the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and which they are trying to use there to get a much of a lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives under risk following these revelations more than 400000 people around the world have already signed a petition calling on u.s. officials to drop the charges against a songe politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before he leaves

office in january. or reports. 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 sarge is 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 that sells a new t released tapes reveal a song to 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 committed to cools she went 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 and as we've been told is easy

it is to schedule. 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. having. people the residents. we have been calling. to and p.m.c. . every day trying to. hold back it's thought that 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 don't all trump can save julian and encourage brave activists worldwide 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 bottom 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 son and to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate any and of course a blunder into 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 altering to say the problem 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 gentz to seize always claim 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 while he's lame duck president a lot of people have commented in reply had no idea they thought the julian in the injured america. recklessly believed the lies john the heat of battle 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. hope and hoping that it

gets a chance because i don't see how he could possibly here that and continue this political persecution remember of course the. people are very pressing for the extradition of julian assange jim pederson for. to be prosecuted for espionage for the crime of being a journalist the people who want that's exactly the same people who who were testing before us should get 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 with. 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 like twitter obviously the guardian carty that password to get the files and then they ended up only prosecuting julian julian is the only one

. he's the only one he's currently sitting in prison. while dozens of other people published it or what sense does it make it's you allow the 1st 99 people free and hunnish 100 words is that 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 has no 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 was harmed by the leaks and in the end of the earth that's quite an important thing to stake the chances of

the legal process in the end going against you in the very limited time and i think the grounds for extradition for a political offense does excluded by the u.k. u.s. introducing treaty i think 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 but the problem is the terrible terrible conditions julian has been kept in a maximum security jail alongside terrorists. additions amounting to 2 inches. which is a problem. the latest now on the covert 900 situation here in russia

this friday 20000 new cases have been confirmed it takes the total number of infections in the country to almost 3000000 in the meantime the roll out of the sputnik feedback scene is almost in 2 weeks 3 and from monday journalists and transport workers in the capital will be among the next in line to receive it here's artie's romano called sort of with more 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 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. 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 of this. you go to work because there was no 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 sputnik the end vaca rhona 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 for more than 15000 people who are vaccinated at one of 70 dedicated places in the russian capital mayor of the city sergey said that instead that a 1000000 more citizens may get their call the chilled starting on monday december 21st now inoculation is currently limited to people in the 18 to 60 age group and those people who are alder will also get their vaccine however that will happen a little bit later. one of the most devastating effects of the covert 1000 pandemic has been people following a blow the poverty line in the u.k.

the house of commons leaders facing a backlash over comments made about a unicef a program to feed poor families in britain jacob riis mog 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 and during the hard hitting coronavirus pandemic. the real scoundrel that unicef should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking off to people in the poorest the most deprived countries in the world where people are starving whether famines or whether civil wars and they make political points of this kind giving i think 25000 pounds to one account so it is a political stunt. unicef recently launched a wide ranging program aimed at tackling food insecurity it will be granting 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 and assuring 25000 breakfasts are distributed to schools there the campaign has put a spotlight on food poverty in the u.k. considered one of the wealthiest countries in the world according to unicef children in 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 signed up in itself has defended its decision to provide humanitarian help to children in the u.k. for the 1st time ever unicef u.k.'s responding to the some press tented crisis and building on our 25 years experience of 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 we 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 a word in poverty i think what unicef a dog on his 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 he just writes that when 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 to brush it i'm not speak 15000 people 15000000 people in the 6 richest economy on the planet going hungry and that's not acceptable we should be deleting a global campaign to end poverty pussyfooting around it we now feeding so many people we can hardly 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 oversee equality in great britain has found herself accused of discrimination and hypocrisy of that story and plenty more for you after a short break this is our team for national. is there such a thing as public opinion anymore after all after 2 election cycles in a row data has been largely imperfect because there's more than just one public and

there are good reasons not to trust the.

welcome back this is international 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 have so far refused to back down and dispersed with covert 1000 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 at the time. patients in northern ireland are being treated in the back of ambulances in hospital car parks because of chronic lack of capacity as cover the search queues of ambulances formed outside clinics and throughout the country and with no beds free at a hospital in county antrim 17 lined up outside its emergency department one

patient reportedly stayed there overnight we spoke with medic john kelley i being a doctor for over 35 years. so. i actually. are. it is very important that we get our section rates are controlled and we need clear concise advice to our population and we need clear action by our executive reaches those numbers we do know that locked up in dos reduce them i know with this difficult. we need to get the numbers to i'm about our health service and coke until hopefully we start to get a vaccination rolled out to our population the situation has been called critical with more than 59000 confirmed cases and 1100 deaths northern ireland will go into

a 6 week lockdown after christmas day residents are being urged to leave their homes only for essential reasons the deputy 1st minister said there was little choice. but to be disappointing to many i think a lot of people also would have expected it and it's very clear that we needed an urgent intervention and i think this is the right decision by the executive albeit i accepted the challenge and for many many people unfortunately last time seems to be the only true look we have to reduce numbers of people getting those fires hospitalizations and that's it's a very difficult decision for our pop for our politicians to make they have to balance the risks of. increasing numbers going into hospital into a. chance against the mental well being of the population and oh absolutely economic problems this has caused. i think

a prolonged lockdown would have been beneficial here. in the u.k. as minister for women and equalities has been accused of discrimination and shunning her responsibilities those allegations were fired at liz truss after her announcement on a policy overhaul said to focus more on that social class and character. to make the whole society more equal we need the equality debates to be led by thoughts not by fashion the new approach will apparently center on principles of fairness and a dignity that includes listening to more represented voices in society who may be impaired or discriminated against the british minister also stressed more attention is needed on geographic inequality but trust his speech has caused outrage in westminster and beyond liz trust his attempt to separate class from 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 liz truss 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 new 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 rule suggest around 14 percent of government staff should be from ethnic minorities by 2022 and half of all new employees female we spoke to john gaunt a talk radio host and a columnist who says equality is all about people in general not particularly 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 work from 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 a quality for all. sports a top court has cut russia's ban from all major sporting events for doping offenses from 4 years to 2 and says that the country's athletes will only be able to compete as neutrals however russia's olympic chiefs are still believe that the punishment is too harsh. this is we do not welcome the decision to partially satisfy world anti-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 saddam 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 abnormal 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 and 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 band means no russian flag or anthem at international sporting events until the end of 2022 and that includes the next summer and winter olympics and football world cup. they have comments 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 then 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 battle 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 lot involved in the doping scandal will be allowed to participate at the olympics the collective punishment clause that someone did to paint every russian athlete as a potential cheat is gone she thurst it 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 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 a ruling but it says it respects the court's decision for his fare 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 a 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 we shift course is ridiculous given the unprecedented enmity between the u.s. and the world as 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 bugged from the olympics if washington stops paying its jews at the end of the day this final ruling pleased know what top of that these are these the tough 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 30 minutes that's when i'll be back with another look at you news this is our international.