i'm. going to put. in the week's top headlines it was revealed the u.s. state department was actually warned by julian assange about massive leaks of documents prompting calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks. turkish present his at washington for thanks and imposed over and press purchase of a russian missile and system. what kind of an alliance is this this decision is an open attack on the sovereign rights of our country. also this hour the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the us this here gives an emotional

1st interview to our t.v. feeling how she 1st learned of her promise to. what i read on the t.v. and i saw all these picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell no i'm still shocked i was what. it's so hard to believe. and renowned a philosopher explains why he believes coronavirus means the world will never be the same again. i was just. watching the weekly here on our to a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. i had of wiki leaks 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 u.s. the audio seems to prove the whistleblower in fact tried to warn the state department about a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 appearing to be in stark contrast then to washington's claim that a song that wanted to endanger lives this is what kristen half ansen told us in an exclusive interview this is evidence that you heard and i can control him but this is all sent 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 try to use them to get a much of a lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk since the revelations more than 400000 people around the world have signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against a songe politicians and activists want all

a trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month saskia taylor has more. public enemy number one a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judean a solemn chas 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 as a narcissist who has created nothing of value here lies 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 it actually the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t released tape has revealed

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 kools she went as far as this key 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. having teletypes. our children because. it came. right came to. spread around. to the degree that. we believe we've. become public. some possibility. so no recklessly 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 you should be treated as an enemy combatant with you 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 here is that it's more your problem. we have been calling. to end p.m.c. . every day trying to. hold back its 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 they will 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 time and timing is everything it's change the image of a modest who was cost out as a traitor and without running out for donald trump's presidency i'm on wiki leaks but on to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america

to part an unfair give a man who wanted to save washington from its shame time is. the essence for a sourness 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 had to go for all of the help the julian was was carefully 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. there's little doubt that covered has impacted all our lives in one way or another and in an article for r.t. dot com renowned philosopher reject says there will be no return to normal once the pandemic is over whereas the slovenian academic to expand on why he told us it's

because the crisis has opened up opportunities to control people like never before . that's great if we can save our lives. we were just afraid. to you know perspective now a strain to think it's happening would be so much smarter but a lot cheaper and the same time people are afraid lest they die to go all socialized and so it's not just shifting dream and those now we have a bank and then already it's more enjoyment like less enjoying to eat last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something you don't know i am for measure us look down and. many of us decent book establish major museums both their own and we'll. do what i go to post human state of being totally b.t.w.

maybe then there is on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain our minds process recently been dealing. with doesn't need to be i'm not exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. that we learned from. me. to. interest and pointed a scientist seriously yes. but they're all in the being that many many millions. deny science or.

go on with. the same. most of. all these new. drug smuggling has risen massively and berlin with drug dealers now controlling swaths of the german capital are such an arty german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city and what they found .

the intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused and they started grabbing me i called the police but they arrived too late so i gave a statement but nothing has changed. if not then you can see them looking out for a potential victim and if somebody is not paying attention they smash their bag or wallets. that i'm open with when i go to the station looking for a dealer i tell him what i need he takes a rubbed elbows out of his mouth the standard price for a job was just $20.00 euros i give him the money and we go our separate ways.

the most important reason for this drug trafficking is a very lenient city government and they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the drug dealers of gurlitz up ethnic groups from africa most of them are rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the activate the africans are acting out of going to some pocket and trying to make a living but they're not early. immigrants looking for 'd decent work but as i said most of them rejected you saw him saying he is and should not be in this country secondly there are. activities. who are dominating certain areas and. there are very very well organized it's always nice crime and. there would be just that mole and this happens not just in berlin but also in other

cities in germany. and her 1st ever t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief has given an emotional description of when she found out he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated journal custom salmoni and a drone strike in january as an absolute mani also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death i can still watch the full interview at any time r.t. talk but here's a short clip i got so shocked and full of distress like my heart was going out from my chest when i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened and from that they tell not i'm still shocked how is the death of your father wrote iran together what happened in iran and iraq was something it's something so special in the history you see how people come to the street and they are crying

and they are sad and they are angry and they wonder bench and they are waiting for an answer because they know. what general fully money did for them and they know also well why order to kill my father so so after that after killing my father america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani dipali off the middle east but they are still wrong. they didn't see the anger of the art in the eyes of iranian people they didn't see their tears they didn't see their sadness and i have to say that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chomped and they are so wrong they are thinking this war will be end the end of general soli money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such

a they just powers. the us has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s. 400 surface to air missile system an angry president at a one said he thought washington was a friend it. did not just a nato member it is being applied against our country for the 1st time what kind of an alliance is this this decision is an open attack on the sovereign rights of our country turkey is a valued ally and an important regional security partner for the united states and we seek to continue our decades long history of productive defense sector cooperation by removing the obstacle of turkey's s 400 possession as soon as possible embargoes target turkey's defense industry and officials whose assets will be frozen and visas restricted russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but he's not surprised. but look at your solution should. this is

of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of illegitimate unilateral coercive measures that the united states has been using for many years even decades left and right and of course it doesn't increase u.s. or thorazine on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. and robot the s $100.00 system last year and the trump administration's been threatening to punish turkey ever since claiming russia system is a danger to nato istanbul base political analyst use of arms says everyone has plenty of ways to retaliate if he wants to. it's a huge snow because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole s 400 process being acted very asymmetrical very

unilaterally or do will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in the bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well you can also see by us whether it is turkey to cease producing parts for the f. 35 there's american presence injured there be an american president that shouldn't use the radar station but i don't think turkey will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in and we've already seen the turkish president has called for a review of the sanctions where he told being that they could be lifted or go to the forward. so i had londoners rush to get out of the capital i had a tough new lockdown rule amid disturbing development i think of it by a. look at the broader covered response across the continent after this short break .

i think the wish to extremely bad in understanding other cultures and other kinds of says that to. them precisely because it believes every word should be poaching you know in a west direction. so it doesn't really feel the need to understand of the coach i think that this is one of the great problems the west faces now is that it just doesn't understand china and i can't make sense of china will close you can't make such a journey if you don't have a bowler really studying it. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let

it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the weekly londoners how scramble to get out of the capital and what's being called the biggest evacuation since world war 2 after the city announced a new extra strict lockdown from saturday night people even jumped into hugely expensive taxis to take them to the other side of the country to save their christmas freedom as it's revealed a 70 percent more infectious part of our strain spreading fast fam boris johnson had early admitted it would be hard to enjoy the festive period as usual this here . given the early evidence we have only new variant of the virus the potential

risk it poses with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't continue with christmas as planned johnson's words akko a warning from the world health organization which this week said the holidays are no time to relax about coded adding that the pend may even get worse across the continent in germany a strict new lockdown was also announced this week with records being set there for the number of new coping cases but the problem goes even wider than that peter although reports. the christmas lockdown period is a policy here in germany they comes at a particular time the couldn't treat posted record breaking covert figures this week that combs is. 'd saying that they will roll out a vaccination program in the coming weeks but also warn that the foundations of already. for a 3rd wave of coronavirus. we saw that a 3rd wave had started to build before the 2nd and actually subsided we need to

give a clear signal this christmas the new year must be different to usual it's not just germany italy is facing a grim record of its own 700000 deaths this year the highest figure since 1944 were during the 2nd world war rome has put in place new regulations to run from monday the 21st until january the 6th that will see restaurants closing at 6 pm and 10 pm curfew but hospitality workers say these measures will ruin them all and they actually destroyed our sector by making us clothes are established at 6 pm and blaming us for things they were guilty of instead because during lockdown we didn't receive anything not the 1st time the 2nd 3rd or 4th a similar scene is playing out in france where the stay at home order has been replaced with a curfew that move has seen thousands of workers at cultural venues protest

a shutdown on their places of work i did i. was. in spain testing is found that one in 10 of the population had been infected with covert 19 the scale of this pandemic is hitting home in sweden as well with more deaths this november than any since the spanish flu pandemic over a century ago. and an official investigation into sweden's coronavirus strategy has found that stock must take the blame for its high death rate prompting the swedish prime minister to put out a statement saying the country got its tactics of role i think most health officials didn't see such a wave in front of them they spoke about clusters it's not like we weren't prepared for something to happen again but no one could have predicted the strength of it

some conclusions have been made about where we could have done better in a week's time families would be coming together across europe to celebrate christmas however this year with covert dictating the rules the festive period may well be a lot more distant than we used to as european leaders to keep contact to a minimum peter all of a. hundreds of restaurant workers rallied in central new york this week after new city a lockdown restrictions came into force there which protesters warn will force most of them out of business. and through. whatever you want to try to refer to our friend or neighbor are not waiting for error. after governor andrew cuomo ban indoor dining demonstrators demanded support from the government the report found that without help more than half of the city restaurants will close forever and even some of the most iconic and used may have

to shut down. reports. the coded night teen pandemic has been deadly for a society's most vulnerable even the big guns are not safe and for businesses it's no different here in new york city the latest victim is club 21 and i connick establishment that is now shutting its doors the restaurant has been serving customers for a century there's been some big stars along the way such as novelist ernest hemingway tennis player john mcenroe as well as every sitting president since roosevelt except of course george w. bush and barack obama in light of the going global crisis and it dissipated extended recovery period for the hospitality industry the difficult decision was made that it will not be feasible to reopen the 21 club in its current form for the forseeable future club 21 is not alone small businesses have been devastated some estimates say that as many as 50 percent of them could go under soon go with

closing secular in this country my business is on hold no audit walks no go literary openings and i can't even open my studio because therapeutic massage is so up close and personal i have only come back to about 40 percent of my previous clientele i am afraid that the gov will shut us down again which will be the end of my business i also believe the ruling elite does not care about small businesses. the new york state restaurant association made up of over 6000 operators has many who fear they won't make it through the next 6 months you carried everyone in or every day and we were there some people we had a little bit of business we could do the of these little bit more right we had to bring some people back to work and it's terrible to tell them but you know we give them the you know hours of people working full time jobs. so we've heard. having told people that and i'm scared for my family i'm going to have

a job you know a few months if there is nothing because we will be shutting down probably by more that's a realistic look over and out $552000000000.00 was provided as a bailout to small businesses during the pandemic however a big chunk of that went to major corporations tied to big banks not the little guys who are struggling to stay afloat meanwhile those that are still open for trade are facing even tougher restrictions now one bar owner in los angeles was fighting back tears and anger when mayor eric garcetti closed down her outdoor patio and just across the way a hollywood movie set had outdoor dining all set up town but this is dangerous. but right next to me as a slap in my face. that face politicians love to praise small businesses but is the whole game rigged it

seems like when we finally emerge from this pandemic we might as well have dined out sheerest and said farewell to our favorite local spots caleb mop and artsy new york. as a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days for all the latest and up to the minute reports all of us on twitter or instagram. and she should remain for those who didn't just isn't just a reason i. don't mind the chest but. the shuttles all. the time because look at the my face you know for a long today in my country not in the east of upstate the map. about

the afghan army told everyone that if the bush at last sept is that. going to be a willful blindness the muslims who go no i mean that i'm still going to go to the home i'm almost around to. use the term obama i don't know i'm going to. look at what's called the minimum 0.05 comes to my homeland going to come up thinking i come up each time she comes home to go tell mr gompers going to go give up we have to get out what am i doing going to. all. bark.

collar welcome to worlds apart we will heard the cliche that big chinese words for crisis is composed of 2 charge choice signifying danger and opportunity and while the story itself appears to be a misconception it hasn't stopped beijing from pursuing the exact same strategy looking for silver or even. golden lining see in every cloud coming confidently to repel the comet 19 slowed down china is now said to be the only major economy to register growth this year much today m.b.o. its american competitor in don't try and hasn't managed to stop china and joe biden do it well to discuss that i'm now joined by martin jakes former senior fellow at the department of politics and international studies at cambridge university and

author of when china rules the world mr jakes it's good to see you thank you very much for taking time to talk to us. now you will has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted to me she is quite at an achievement in this day and age when and now it is often gets outdated before it hits the printing press and i would attribute your ability off your book to find that you were among the 1st in the west you. cast doubt on this assumption that as china was more denies ing it would also westernized how did you convert to these realisation old a way back in belated thousands. yet what did it actually the reason the book should have jura bitchy to reasons that exactly the reason you just said i mean. at the time everyone assumed or a lot most of the west the should. the right position.