plug plug plug. plug. in the week's top stories it's revealed that the u.s. state department was actually warned by julian assange about massive leaks of documents prompting calls out to washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. also the turkish present hits out at washington for sanctions imposed over and pressed purchase of a russian missile defense system. what kind of an alliance is this 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 year gives an emotional 1st interview to our team revealing how she learned of her father's death. when i

turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell no i'm still shocked of all what happened it's so hard to believe. and renowned philosopher explain to our t. why he believes on a virus means that our world will never be the same again. this is the weekly here on our to you welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shape the week. has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for join us and says it could put the brakes on his extradition to the u.s. the audio seems to prove the whistleblower tried to warn the state department about

a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 if confirmed it would challenge washington's claim that a song he wanted to endanger lives this is what kristen happens and 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 sits basically throws the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department it is their indictment and try to use their to get a measure the lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk since the revelations more than 840-0000 people around the world have signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against assad and politicians and activists want i want term 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 judy in a song chas being 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 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 saundra tempted to warn the us 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. having teletypes. state. database archive because. it came. down right kate. spread around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. to some possibility. so not 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 it 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 here is that it's more your problem. we have been calling. a cop and p.m.c. . every day trying to explain it to. hold back its store 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 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 stop this or mitigate any and impossible harm to this i have no idea why this was not to follow through and it took up the offer of the help the julian was was carefully and considerably. worried and in offering to say department the state department never came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on his warning. drug smuggling the reason massively in 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 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 so 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 freestyle drug trafficking is a very lenient city government and they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the drug dealers at gurlitz upchuck ethnic groups from africa most of them out rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law they activate the africans are acting out of going to suck 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. clown activities climbs who are dominating certain

areas and bill in their very very well organized 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 he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general custom somani in a drone strike in january then of samadhi 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 and full of 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 the 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 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 a general sort of 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 and angry present everyone said he thought washington was a friend it. butin 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 the embargoes target turkey's arms procurement and development body imposing visa restrictions on 4 officials among other things russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but that he's not surprised. but look at your stature should move through 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 thora t. on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. just the trump administration has been threatening to punish turkey ever since i announced plans to purchase the s. $400.00 system washington's position has been that it's a danger to nato as a base political analysts have arum says everyone has plenty of ways to retaliate.

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 certainly will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in the bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well start you can also see by us whether it is turkey to cease producing parts for the f. $35.00 there's american presence in georgia the airdate american president that should it you can read our station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in and we've already seen the turkish president called for a review of the sanctions where he told being that they could be lifted or going forward. still ahead londoners rushed to get out of the capital i had asked for

a new lockdown rule i made the startling development but they covered by our self we look at the broader coverage response across the continent for the sharks right . the world is driven by a dream shaped by our own person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back londoners were scrambling to get out of the capitol on saturday ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight people forked out huge sums of money for taxis to other parts of the country to celebrate christmas as comes after british scientists detected a new covert strain about 70 percent more and factious and the prime minister has

admitted that it will be hard to enjoy the festive period as usual. given the early evidence we have only this 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 akko 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 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 cases but the problem goes even water than that as peter all over explains. the christmas lockdown period is a part of here in germany comes at a particularly odd time the country posted record breaking covert figures this week that combs 'd are 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. 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. 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 party early. 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 phosphorus levels reject says there will be no return to the normal once the pandemic is over we asked the slovenian academic to expound 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. i spect it's now a strain to think it's happening with this much more of. 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 in the north of the smog that's enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something i am to measure us look down and. many of us use took established oath that only we. do what i call a post human state of being. me

on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain. mind process recently been dealing. with doesn't need to be exaggerating here new. i mean. these. are. that we learned from. me. is going to give you many details. interest and point to day science. yes. but they're all in the being that many many millions. deny science just isolated.

most of the need. and you get. all these new. this week and apparent bombshell investigation was published claiming to name and shame a russian agents mainstream media outlets put out details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figure had an accent of only since 2017 but our senior correspondent rhonda staff argues it provides more questions than answers. on monday c.n.n. dispy girl and several other outlets premiered their latest hit tales about how a dozen russian f.s.b. agents tailed live on the for years and so incompetent were they that the script writers claimed they managed to identify them their phone numbers there every step their calls that tax their addresses they even uncovered

a prior deadly plot to poison the valley with one of the most toxic substances known to man move a chalk hero see forgot about it he remembered just a few days ago jus to a clumsy mistake by russian intelligence his wife took the hit she apparently felt terrible dreadful like never before so she went for a nap. apparently cured. alexina valmy believes that the mysterious sickness his wife describes is very similar to the feeling of impending death that he experienced on board the airplane on 20th august after being poisoned with no for chuck aside from the comically incompetent russian spies and agents who somehow for many years fooled the world into thinking that they weren't clowns and aside from the valleys amazing resistance to being killed i mean this guy would put bugs bunny or the road runner to shame aside from that what really stood out in this

claim that the laughably useless russians have a nano substance which removes all traces of chemical weapons which they somehow forgot to use of the problems of chemical and climbed the 2800 invention of numbness or been set for a moving traces of chemical weapons from infected sites crucially at least one member of the f.s.b. squat is in frequent telephone contact with a scientist from this institute now my big question in all of this is about it all looking reading and sounding like fanfiction or cia agents daydream about how he would expose. the russians of be applauded by his peers knew my big question is about you know whether any of it's true because there are 2 explanations in the 1st one is that these journalists were given the entire ph the data by western intelligence agencies because they sure as heck didn't find it in the dock and that has never been the alluded and you don't find the geolocation data of f.b.i.

agents cell phones on the dock net which is pretty horrendous it would mean western intelligence agencies and journalists are in cahoots the 2nd explanation is that this opening exposé is about as worthless as the last one hospital task that the russian opposition. was poisoned by now if agent from the north so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies tried to poison the valley again while he was in a coma i mean how hard would it be he's right there literally in a coma if you wanted to kill him you really really couldn't miss and these latest grad investigation claims that the last grad investigation was well made up. also there is no data about any of us be poisonous resided and all that was there in the hospital for the rumor that f.s.b.

ages could possibly have poisoned him again and which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. that's our look at just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days as always thanks for telling an. 11. year. old. russian television son to demonstrate is right now the propaganda machine. is rushing. to. recall election

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and they should be we used to think they'd stop working all the patients would become addicts or they'd be sedated and. these 6 cases show how wrong those views were. in this little film the public was assured with certification the content would show no risk of addiction despite its high concentration in opium to make it believable a real doctor and real patients with this. feeling that this treatment usually reserved for patients in the terminal phase of cancer can be used without any danger for common pain. they are going to enjoy every day you know you can really enjoy must say i have been on this new pain medication i have not missed one day of work and this medication does not turn you into a zombie it is turned me into an actor.