really studying your. top stories of the week. that the u.s. state department was forewarned by julian a song about massive leaks of documents prompting calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. british prime ministers accused of canceling christmas as london is lockdown following the discovery of a highly infectious new covert strain and while thousands flee the capital. to spend and travel with the u.k. . the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the u.s. this year gives an emotional 1st interview to revealing how she learned of her father's

murder. but i turn on the t.v. picture. i. know what happened. from that they tell not. a lot of what happened and it's so hard to believe. so because president heads out to washington for sanctions imposed over chris 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. other sunday i'll say and that means we take you through some of the biggest stories we've been covering here over the past 7 days welcome to the program 1st 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 end.

tradition to the united states 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 kristinn hrafnsson told a sin an exclusive interview there's evidence that you heard and i can confirm that this is authentic is not new to the courts in the u.k. transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it's basically it's also the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and they are tried to use you know to get emotional lovely u.k. you know talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk of following the revelations more than 400000 people around the world signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against a sound politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month saskia taylor reports. 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 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 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. daughter. trying to take out. cable. right kate. 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

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 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 or. less but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying. 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 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 a'sssos 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 part an unfit 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 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 that 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 this warning. drug smuggling is resident massively in berlin with drug dealers now controlling swathes of the german capital our sister channel r.t. german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city 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 to 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 a rubbed elbows out of his mouth the standard price for a dose is $20.00 euros i give him the money and we go our separate ways it is. the most important reason for this 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 multi-port it 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 are rejected asylum seekers and should not be in this country secondly

there are. klan activities arabs who are dominating certain areas and. there are very very well organized and organized crime and. their word is the law and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany. londoners were scrambling to get out of the capital on saturday night ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight comes after pretty scientists detected a new covert strain that's 70 percent more infectious and the prime minister's 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 those planned london and much of southeast england is now under tier for the toughest level of coverage restrictions in england and they include a ban on household mixing over the christmas period the rules have been met with

widespread frustration and also a dose of mistrust in the government's handling of the crisis. i've got no call for the power structure. here but. it's called what you. call. like you know sending. sending your friends and all grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably 93 he might be like remember this the prime minister has got. you know

basically probably just playing this so it's always like. you can for christmas you see this if you know t.v. since they don't look america. it's for those of. us 21. your best europe germany experience once. with a more transmissible variant of covert out there neighboring countries about ming down to try and stop it reaching their shores the netherlands belgium and italy have suspended ad travel but the u.k. germany is expected to do the same for midnight tonight according to a government source that all fronts as also wondering whether they should be following suit to eurostar trains between london brussels and amsterdam are also being counseled from monday let's go live now to a political commentator and see whether welcome back to r.t. see those pictures of packed trains packed terminals in central london just as

everyone's found out there's a more infectious strain of covert out there should the government of anticipated that reaction last night. well festival cohen i've taken off my father christmas hat like also paid to because the prime minister and the governments are clearly destroyed the christmas base year but we won't go into the . next occasion yes we had it the official i had to review. was going to happen all the sexy for december no no hole will we not untypical december everything changes and when we get students are going to pay a lot of shifts a situation. it used just as our. and a long time ago commentators were in city. to go to offices or crisis or. basically this is all earth lord editor it's

a parody of this that you need stranger perturbing non-si. virus but her reality aids are the whole government cases based on are in fact more cases science is free and motor stoneheart cheap mean people actually go into the hospital with a serious illness or. are. counted 90 so if you know what we're really doing with the death rate which is very very easy it's about 6 not you house reaches our your point 6 percent in the sense of the population so once we get our pretty learn our very own interests or other nature who wants that is and is certainly not reached in the suv or shut down the whole issue for this is what people are concerned about how beastly it is a lot of people are so rude we're not going to happen is for us. because of the

organization called the national alliance for freedom could walk. down switches sets start to coordinate so her. activity against this man did not and he says and who are starting to say well we were misled we are misinformed we will parliament to be recalls. we these mergers and she had commentary son she didn't. so we could but mainly it's a very disciplined own country but a country in which variables are and thing what was the prime minister thinking then he wanted families to have as normal a christmas as possible but he's also got the anti lock down brigade on his own backbenches there's also a lot of public skepticism over the government's handling of this and in many ways lots of governments are still trying to fill their way through this pandemic to who is he trying to place. well as israelis are very interested in current use so be

very pretty have you conversion before he's been misleading. the very public ari it does sound weird if you. are a loon on state certainly not recent regime your own 60 a month ranger all of you who are certain. our hearts are going to the reasons we get to the slaughter on a space plane we're not sure who are trying to send us than your 100 so it's a lot she is it long since you lost. the well to the noble truth which is very very well ok we're going to have to leave it there but i hope you don't have to completely put the christmas hataway on to do have something of a merry christmas thanks for joining us on a hottie. over christmas restrictions in the u.k. backed up by a warning from the world health organization this week it said that the holidays

are no time to relax about cove it but the pandemic could even get worse germany had also announced a strict new lockdown this week with daily infection records being set there and it's a picture playing out across europe as peter all of an hour report. the christmas lock down period is a part of germany they comes at a particular time the couldn't treat posted record breaking covert figures this week they. 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 busy in the us we saw that a 3rd wave it starts it's a build before the 2nd and actually subsides 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 only actually destroying 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 at cultural venues protest a shutdown on their places of work i did. i. was c. 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 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 contacts to

a minimum peter all of us. still to come on the weekly. pandemics pushed us into a new era and there is no going back more on that among all stories up to this.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for indication let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development if only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. all over again you know 1st of a t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief is given an emotional description of when she found out he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general custom saddam out to get

a drone strike in january zainab salbi money also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death you can watch the full interview any time at all t. dot com i got so shocked unfulfilled 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 now i'm still shocked how is the death of your father brought 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 streets 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 generals really money did for them and they know so well why order to kill my father

so so after that after killing my father i marry because a lot but everything will be stopped because they killed and they're also a money to power 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 the generosity 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 silly 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 president hu and said he thought washington was a friend it. viewed not just

a nato member it is being applied against our country for the 1st time what kind of an alliance is this if 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 develop a body imposing visa restrictions on 4 officials among other things the russian foreign minister says the move breaks international law but he's not surprised. should move through this is of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of illegitimate 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 u.s. or thora t. on the international arena is a responsible position in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. trump administration's been threatening to punish turkey ever since the country announced plans to purchase the s $400.00 system washington's position has been that it's a danger to nato istanbul based political analyst says and has plenty of ways to retaliate it's a huge no because we received the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole has 400 process being acted very nice symmetrically very unilaterally 30 will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well turkey can also be buying u.s. whether it'd. be producing parts for the $35.00 american president if you.

read that if you if you read our vision but i don't think you will be any very aggressive right now expected with a new military she coming in we've already seen mr bush call for a review of the thank you. for going forward. pandemics changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to government surveillance and philosophy things the old ways of doing things are gone for good he's written an article about that for our dot com and he spoke to us giving us his vision of the future. that's great if we can save our lives. just afraid. to you know perspective now a strain to think it's happening would be so much smarter but a lot cheaper and the same time people are afraid lest they die to go all

socialized and so it's not just their steam dream and those now we have a bank in the north of the small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while he last 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 use decent book establish major museums both their own and we'll. do what i call a post human state of being totally legal don't get 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. set that we learned from. apes date me

it's crazy. it's possible to lead. to. your many details and sound good for your. interest and so the point today science to seriously yes these books should be opened by the by gaming but they are all in the being we stepped many many mediocre schools go surely so easy to do nice science to just isolated lately if you want to be like the nice lady not the same these groups are you already. going to go on let me know most of them are me. and you. only xenu only needs to be jesus there. and that's the weekly for this hour up next tracing the root causes of mass homelessness in today's america.

i think that the west being the bad in understanding other cultures and other kinds of says that. there precisely because it believes everyone should be motoring you know in a west direction. so it doesn't really feel the need to understand other cultures i think that this is one of the great problems the west faces now is that it just doesn't understand and i can't make sense of will cause you can't make sense of journey if you know about the really studying it.

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