we have to get out of my mind do in a moment you know coming. from the. from. the from. in the week's top stories it's real that 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 founder. plus the turkish president hits out at washington for sanctions imposed over and 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. also this hour the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the u.s.

this year gives an emotional 1st interview to our chief reeling how she learned of her father's death and. what i turned on the t.v. and i sold his picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell no i'm still shocked and what. it's so hard to believe. and renounced last explains why he believes corona virus means that our world will never be the same again. you're watching the weekly here on our to a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. 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 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 kristinn hrafnsson 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. and transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it's it basically throws the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department at their indictment and which they are try to use there 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 $400000.00 people around the world have signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against a songe and politicians and activists want donald 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 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 that the whistle blow was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t. released tape has revealed

a song to tempted to warn the us state department undone 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. trying to pick up. on cape cod. 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 burn as we've been told is easy

is disguising. 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 he 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. to 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 saunders 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 it took up the offer of the help julian was was carefully and from city of new. who worried him in offering to say to form the state department never came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on his warning. drug smuggling there is a massively and berlin with drug dealers now controlling swaths of the german capital our sister channel r.t. german tech 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 he takes around those out of his mouth the standard price for a job is just $10.00 a year it's like even 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 gun to elicit gurlitz upchuck ethnic groups from africa most of them not rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the activate the africans are acting out of going to suck cock and trying to make a living but they're not. 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. activities are of crimes who are dominating certain areas and bill in their very very well organized organized crime and. their word is that lol 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 soleimani and a drone strike in january so now sell them on it also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death you can still watch that 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 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 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 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 dangerous powers. the us has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's asked 400 surface to air missile system and angry present anyone said he thought washington was a front. 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 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. it looks like a should have moved through this is of course another example of americans towards international law a manifestation of a legitimate uni lateral 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 with or it's the on the international arena where it is a responsible position in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation has. been mr action has been threatening to punish turkey ever since ankara announced plans to purchase the us 400 system because we received

the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole has 400 process. acted very deep the metrics 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 30 can also be buying u.s. weaponry to turkey and the producing part for the i 35 american president if you could there be an american president that you do if you read our vision but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in we've already seen the turkish call for a review of the thank you nicole being that they could be lifted or going forward. still has a lot and there is a rush to get out of the capital i had of tougher new lockdown rules and the disturbing developments with the colored virus itself we look at the broader covert

response across the continent after this break. i think the wish to extremely bad in understanding other cultures and other kinds of society. precisely because it believed every word should be procured in a west direction. so it doesn't really feel the need to understand all the coach. issues one of the great problems the west faces now is that he just doesn't understand and i can't make sense of john will cause you can't make sense of journey if you don't overbuild to really study you.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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 at 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 on this new variant of the virus the potential risk it poses it is

with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned johnson's words echo a warning from the world health organization which this week said the holidays are no time to relax about coded adding that the pandemic make it even worse now a strict new lockdown was also announced in germany this week with records being set there for the number of new cases but the problem goes even wider than that as peter oliver reports. the christmas lockdown period is a part of here in germany it comes at a particularly odd 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. 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 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. 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 party early. there's little to no doubt that covert has impacted all of our lives in one way or another and in an article for r.t. dot com a renowned philosopher says there will be no return to normal and 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. i spect it's now a strain to think it's happening would be so 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 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 for measure us look down and. many use decent book establish. their own. lebanon into what i call a. human state of being totally. 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. are going to give you any details. for your. interest and point to date. yes. but they're all in the being that many many millions. do not. go on with. the same. most of the money. and you. only knew. that. this week an apparent

bombshell investigation was published claiming to name and shame russian agents mainstream media outlets put out details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figurehead aleksandar only since 2017 our senior correspondent ragas have argued 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 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 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. squat is in frequent contact with a scientist from this institute now my big question in all of this is about the rule looking reading and sounding like fanfiction or cia agents daydream about how he would expose. as the russians of 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 and that has never been the alluded and you don't find the geolocation data of f.b.i. agents cell phones on the darknet 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 leader alexina found he was poisoned by now if agent from the. so a few days ago british pundits claim that russian spies tried to poison the volley 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 last grad investigation was well made up note also that there is no data about any effort to be poisonous reside in an ohm square novel that was there in the hospital therefore the rumor that f.s.b. ages could possibly have poisoned him again and omsk which was distributed by the times is not true this is what you call open ended. that's been our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week from on the stories and the latest news head to our website our team dot com.

as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of it is and we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage gave many people no choice though there's been a problem with the city knows turn to bitch and told me stay away oh miss colton simms of course will do that there is no answer because yes that requires resources

the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible comes. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. ca welcome to worlds apart we will heard the cliche that the chinese word for crisis is composed of 2 characters 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 repelled because of it 19 slowed down china is now said to be the your only major economy to register growth this year much today on b o it's american competitor donald trump has and 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 your bill has been in publication for more than a decade now it's been reprinted to me she is quiet at an achievement in this day and age when and now it is often gets all of dated before it hits the printing

press and i would attribute your ability of your book to the fact that you were among the 1st in the west you. cast doubt on this assumption that as china was more denies it with all sorts westernized how did you convert to these realisation old the way back and delay to thousands. yet what did it actually. reason the books have jura bitchy is the 2 reasons that exactly the reason you just said i mean i i at the time everyone assumed or not most of the west the ship that as the proposition that as china modernized it westernized because modernization messina's synonymous with western eyes a ship and. i reject.