in the top stories of the we've just gone it was revealed the u.s. state department was actually warned by julian assange about the massive leaks of documents dumping calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. also the turkish president hits out at washington for sanctions imposed over and pressed purchase of a russian missile defense system. what kind of an alliance is this decision is an open attack on the sovereign rights of our country. the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the us this here gives an emotional 1st interview to are really how she learned of her father's death. when i turned on the t.v.

and i sold these pictures. i understand what happened and. from that they tell no i'm still shocked about what. it's so hard to believe. and renowned. explain to our t. why he believes corona virus means that our world will never be the same again. we should. welcome to the weekly here on our team international where we bring you the top stories from the past week. we had of wiki leaks confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for joining a sausage 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 that the state

department about a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 appearing to be in stark contrast then to washington's claims that a staunch wanted to endanger lives this is what chris inhofe and son 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. a transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it supposedly throws out the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department it is their indictment and which they are trying to use now 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 asuncion politicians and activists want i will trying 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 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 is 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 that the whistle blow was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington that sells a new t. released tape has revealed 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 to mold the cools 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. i think over time. trying to figure out. the right kate. to. spread around. to. the degree that. we believe we're going to. become public. some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it burn as we've been told whose

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 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 in washington the very same who now want to send him down so life. having. people out of your incidents more and more. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to train. the holdback it's cool to the wiki leaks at its 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 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 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 possible harm to this i have no idea why this was not to follow through and it took up the offer. to help the julian was was carefully and considerably. worried in altering 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 . there's little doubt that covered has impacted all our lives in one way or another and in an article for our 2 dot com are now philosophers lovers reject says there will be no return to normal once the pandemic is over we asked the slovenian academic to expand on why and 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 strange think it's happening would be so much smarter but a lot cheaper and the same damn deep fried lest they die to go all socialized and so it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and then already it's more desperate enjoyment like let's enjoy and wait last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something although i am far measures low down and. many use decent book establish. their own. lebanon into what i call a post human state of being totally. me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain our minds process

usually been dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. that we learned from. me. to give the details. interest and point today science seriously yes. they are all in the being that many many millions. deny science just isolated the one with. the same.

shells. and most of the money. and you get. all these new. drug smuggling has risen massively and berlin with drug dealers now controlling swaths of the german capital our sister channel r.t. german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city and this is what they found.

the intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused to and then she started grabbing me i called the police but they arrived too late so i gave a statement but nothing has changed so. it's not that 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 gone 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 is this $20.00 euros by giving the money and we go our separate ways.

the most important reason for this freestyle drug trafficking is a very lenient city government and they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the got a list of gurlitz upchuck ethnic groups from africa most of them not rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law they activate the africans are acting out of going to some cock and trying to make a living but they're not alone. immigrants looking for 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 are of crimes who are dominating certain areas and bill in their very very well organized and organized crime and. their word is the role and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany. and her 1st t.v.

interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief has given an emotional description of when she found out that he'd been murdered us assassinated general kasem salmoni in a drone strike in january set up samani also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death you can still watch the full interview any time at r.t. dot com but here's a short clip i got so shocked unfold stress 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 me i'm still shocked how is the death of you off the road 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 of the middle east but they are so 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 a general money has a military from people that they will take revenge from 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 ass 400 surface to air missile system an angry presence out of one said he thought washington was a friend it. beautiful 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 and 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. 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 us or thora t. on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. ankara bought the s $100.00 system last year and the trump administration's been threatening to punish turkey ever since claiming a russia system is a danger to nato istanbul a base political analysts use of am says everyone has plenty of ways to retaliate if he wants. it's a huge snow because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole has 400 trucks that believe acted very nice a metric we very unilaterally 30 will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in need of bilateral relations and american activity in the

region as well start you can also see by us whether it is 30 k. producing parts for it yet 35 years american president of the air base an american president that shouldn't use the radar station but i don't think turkey will pay any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in we've already seen the turkish president called for a review of the sanctions where he's hoping that they could be lifted or be going forward. still have londoners rushed to get out of the capital i had a tougher new lockdown rules i mean disturbing developments with the comment virus itself we look at the broader coverage response across the continent after the short break.

to. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the weekly londoners have scrambled to get out of the capital and what's being called the biggest evacuations since world war 2 after the city announced a new extra strict lockdown from saturday night people even jumped into hugely expensive taxis taking them to the other side of the country to save their christmas freedom as it's revealed a 70 percent more infectious corona virus strain spreading fast him boris johnson had earlier admitted it would be hard to enjoy the festive period as usual this here. given the early evidence we have only a new variant of the virus the potential risk it poses ease with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't continue with christmas as planned

johnson's words echoed a warning from the world health organization which this week said the holidays are no time to relax about coded adding that the pandemic may get even worse across the continent and germany a strict new lockdown a was also announced this week with records being set there for the number of new covert cases but the problem goes even wider than that i asked peter over reports. the christmas lockdown period is a policy here in germany they comes at a particularly odd 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 it starts it's a build before the 2nd one 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 or don't they actually destroyed our sector by making us close our stablish at 6 pm and blaming us for things they were guilty of instead. down 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 a cultural venue's 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 contacts to a minimum peter all of a burly. hundreds of restaurant workers rallied in central new york city this week after a new lockdown restrictions came into force there which protesters warn will force most of businesses out. right. or wrong. whatever you want to try to refer to are right there they don't we were after governor andrew cuomo ban indoor dining demonstrators the minute support from the government our port found that without help more than half of the city restaurants will close forever and then some of the most iconic venue's may have to shut up and ports. 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 google is closing cycle in this country my business is on hold no water walks no go literally

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 every day and we were there some people we had a little bit of business we could do of these 2 little bit more right here the break from people back to work and it's terrible to tell them they can only give them 15 hours of people working full time jobs. so it referred. to as having told people that and i'm scared of my families i'm going to have a job you know if you will if there is nothing because we will be shutting down

probably by more that's a realistic look right now $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 emerged 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 that's our break down to some of the biggest headlines from the past week more on those stories and the latest news at our website r.t. dot com. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront a shooting let it be an arms race on all fronts very dramatic if they follow the only a fully engaged exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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