in the week's top stories it's revealed that the u.s. state department was forewarned by julian assange about massive leaks of documents prompting calls now for washington to harden the wiki leaks founder. the turkish president heads out of washington for sanctions imposed over ankara's purchase of a russian missile defense system. what kind of an alliance is this decision is it open at times on the sovereign rights of our country. also this hour the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the us this year gives an emotional 1st interview to r.t.

revealing how she learned of her father's murder when i turned on the t.v. and i saw all these picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell me i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe. and philosopher islam tells our t. why he believes the pandemic will probably change the world as we know it. started. this is the weekly here on our 2 international welcome to our roundup of the headlines that shaped the week just gone. with the 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 trying 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 chris and he 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's of basically 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 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 sunt 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 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 the high tech terrorist 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 whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t release tape has revealed a song to 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 want as far as this he 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. because. it came. right kate. spread around. to. the degree that. we believe we've. become public. to some possibility. so no right can see dropping a political bombshell standing back and watching it on as we've been told is 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 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. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to. hold back its door 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 part in those who at great personal sacrifice to 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 to replace him in the white house this could be the last chance for america to pardon and for 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 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 this was a 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.

moving. the intimidated me a well built young man came into my kiosk i told him to get out but he refused to thank you 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 is this $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 are rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the activate the africans are acting out and going to some poc and trying to make a living but they're not lead. 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 or crimes who are dominating certain

areas and bill in their very very well organized and 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 us assassinated general custom salomone in a drone strike in january so on absalom on and also speaks about the water consequences of her father's death you can 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 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 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 that generously 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 s. 400 surface to air missile system and angry present at onset 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 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 by a. 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 to you on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. the trump administration had been threatening to punish turkey ever since i incur announced plans to purchase the us 400 system washington's position has been that it's a danger to nato is double bass political analysts to some error says everyone has

plenty of ways to retaliate. it's a huge no because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole s 400 process being acted very symmetrically very unilaterally certainly will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in need of bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well you can also see buying u.s. weaponry to turkey to cease producing parts for the f. 35 there's american present day injured there be american presence that today's youth radar station but i don't think charity 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 to 40 going forward. still had on the weekly londoners rush to get out of the capital i had

a tough new lockdown rules and the disturbing developments with the crown of virus itself we look at the proper response across the continent after this break. join me every posting on the alex sullivan show and i'll be speaking to get from the world of politics or business i'm showbiz most i'll see you then. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is right.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or a mate in the shallows. welcome back londoners were scrambling to get out of the capitol on saturday ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight people forked over 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 that 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 ease with a very heavy heart i must tell you we can't 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 may get 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 all 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 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 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 $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. 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. 'd 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 are wrong. 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 of our lives and in an article for r.t. dot com a renowned philosopher says there will be no return to normal on spending mick is over we'll see slovenian academic to expand on why and he told us 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 fried lest they die to go all socialized and so it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have to think of the north the smog and the enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus. or something although i am far measures low down and. many use diesel establish. their own. lebanon into what i call a. human state of being. me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain. mind process he's really been dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here.

i mean. these. are. that we learned from. me. to give you any details. interest and point today science seriously yes. but they're all in the being that many many millions. deny science to just. go on with. most of their money. and you can.

only see a new. and apparent bombshell investigation was published this week claiming to name and shame russian agents mainstream media outlets put out details of security operatives hot on the heels of opposition figure had sent 2017 but our senior correspondent mark asked if argus 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 alexei navalny 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 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 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 pitch the day the by western intelligence agencies because they sure as heck didn't find it in the dark and that has never been the alluded 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 found enough 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 grand investigation claims that the lost 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 our look at just some of

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