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 to call for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. plus the turkish president has washington for sanctions imposed over ankara's 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. also this hour the daughter of their own former military chief assassinated by the us this year against an emotional 1st interview to r.t. revealing how she learned of her father step. when i turned on the t.v.

and i saw all these picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell me i am still shocked. that it's so hard to believe. and. 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 to international where we bring you the top stories from the past week. wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of the 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 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 songe wanted to endanger lives this is what prison happens and told us 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 which they are trying to use there to get a much of the 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 already signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against a songe politicians and activists want someone trying to pardon him before they are going 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 whistleblower 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 us state department and then boss head 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. top my daughter. because. i came to. spread it around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. some possibility. so not right to 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 done 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 here is that it's more your problem but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to frighten you. hold back it's cool 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 man who was cost out as a traitor and without running out for donald trump's presidency i'm on wiki leaks bob said 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 sonorous 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 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 . drug smuggling is a prison massively and berlin with drug dealers now controlling a swath of the german capital our sister channel r.t. german take a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city and this is what they found.

in. the intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused and then she 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 that was just $10.00 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 are rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the activate the africans are acting out it's going to suck cock and trying to make a living but they're not at. 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. who are dominating certain areas and. they're 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 he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general custom selling money and a drone strike in january then absalom on it also speaks about the water consequences of her father's death i 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 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 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 departure 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 sort of money has a military from people that they will take revenge from trump 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 interest powers. the us has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s. 400 surface to air missile system an angry president on said he thought washington was a friend it of a view 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 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 by it because this nation 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. authorities on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. the trumpet ministration have been threatening to punish turkey ever since ankara announced plans to purchase the s. 400 system washington's position has been that it's a danger to nato is temple based political analyst who said i am 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 up throughout this whole s 400 process being acted very asymmetrical the various unilaterally certainly will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in the bilateral relations is a an american activity in the region as well you can also see by us whether it is turkey to see producing parts for the f. 35 there's american president or the air be american president that today's youth radar station but i don't think charity will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new victim in the street she 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 a puff or new lockdown rule permitted starting development i think of the virus itself and look at the broader covert response across the continent after this

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join me every thursday simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back to the weekly londoners were scrambling to get out of the capital on saturday head 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 a british scientist attempted a new covert strain that's 70 percent more infectious and the prime minister has admitted 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 with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't continue with christmas as planned johnson's words acco 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 a stricter new lockdown was also announced in germany this week with records being set there for a new number of cases but the problem goes even wider than that as peter all of our reports. the christmas lockdown period is a policy here in germany comes at a particular time the couldn't treat 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 in the us 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 $700000.00 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 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. 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 party early. there's little to no 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 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 i

think it's happening would be so much more of. the same damn deep a straight lest they try to go all socialized and so it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like let's enjoy in hawaii last who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or something i am for measure us look down and. many of us use decent book establish major museums both their own and 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 and you.

think we should. have. that we learned from. each date me. going to give you any details and you try your. interest and point to day science seriously yes. but they are all in the being that many many millions. deny science or just isolated. just like not the same to. me and most of the money. you get about.

all these new. also 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 have since 2017 but our senior correspondent 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 her 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 novacek 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 claimed the 20 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. squad is in frequent 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 it be applauded by his peers 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 page the data by western intelligence agencies because they sure as heck didn't find it in the dark net as nevada in the alluded you don't find the geolocation data of f.b.i. agents cell phones on the dark net which is pretty horrendous it would mean western intelligence agencies and journalists are in cahoots the 2nd explanation is that

this i open an exposé is about as worthless as the last one hospital task that the russian opposition alexina founding was poisoned by now if agent from the north so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies try 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 this latest grad investigation claims that the lost grad investigation was well made up note also that there is no data about any offense be poisonous reside in an old it was there in the hospital therefore the rumor that f.s.b. agents could possibly have poisoned him again and holmes which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. that was the weekly here on our t.v. for all the latest and absent reports on twitter or facebook. so

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