there's been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. top stories of the week it's revealed that the u.s. state department was forewarned by julian assange massive leaks of documents prompting calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. the british prime minister is accused of canceling christmas. down following the discovery of a highly infectious new covert strain thousands flee the capital e.u. nations suspend their travel with the u.k. . 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. what i hear on the t.v.

and i picture. i understand what happened. from that they tell. a lot. it's so hard to believe. the turkish president heads out to washington for sanctions imposed over his 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. there were the weekends developments and some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days this is the weekly for a motley 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 extradition to the united states the audio seems to prove the whistleblower tried to warn the state department about a massive breach of classified information back in 2011 if confirmed it would

challenge washington's claim that a song wanted to endanger lives this is what wiki leaks editor in chief 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. 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 out the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and which they are try to use now to get a max of the lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk following the revelations more than 400000 people around the world signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against the sound politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month saskia taylor reports. look i mean 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 that the whistle blow was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington itself a new t released tapes reveal a song get 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 cools she went 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. having teletypes. top my daughter. because. it came. right katie to. spread it 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 burn as we've been told is easy is disguise a true. 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 and 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 train. 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 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 of the. since 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 the julian was it was carefully and 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 crime has risen massively in berlin with dealers taking over 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.

before 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 a rubbed elbows 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 drug dealers at gurlitz upchuck ethnic groups from africa most of them are 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 'd 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 arab who are dominating certain areas and build

in their very very well organized crime and. their word is the law and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany . none of us were scrambling to get out of the capital on saturday evening ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight comes after british scientists detected a new covert strain that's 70 percent more infectious and the prime minister's admitted that 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 the much of southeast england is now on the table for the toughest level of covert restrictions which 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.

cope sort of the power structure. here. it's called project. called i feel like you know sending you. sending a president and a book called grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably 93 he might be and i can remember this the prime minister has got. i think you know with the basically probably just playing this week it's always like trump we just can't for christmas you for christmas if you know what she said you don't want to

see the america. is for people of america. 21000. if your best europe germany experience once. this person does. well echoing some of our political commentator anthony weber told me last hour that he thinks the lack of public trust in the government could result in the rules being floated. i've taken off laurie for the christmas hat like also people because the prime minister governs the cleary destroyed the christmas tree scare a lot of their nords with the general public is because they were trying to rely or we would question the government's trying to use a tool to do. what's actually happened is fatal big preparing for me. and now it's being taken the right way and. the attitude is incredibly flawed speak

quite frankly i don't think people are going to be questioning whether their government poll is straight but i also think journalists so you know a number of people who are people are not concerned citizens of these new regulations we've also got a longer piece in the column with should be recalled to date these loans because you had to burn mine these suspicions are mace very strong are the advice of a small group through the process that we've gotten is that students are. seen in the. review by authors medical. professionals. or the more transmissible variant of covert out there now in neighboring countries are battling down to try and stop it reaching their shoals the netherlands belgium an s.l.a. have suspended ad travel from the u.k. france is considering whether to follow suit germany is banning all passenger

flights from the u.k. coming into midnight tonight saying that continued travel would worsen an already dire situation at home mcdermott government also announced a strict new lockdown this week with deadly infection records being set there and it's a picture playing out across europe as peter all of a now reports. 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. '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 busy 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 deaths this year the highest figure since

1944 during the 2nd world war rome has put in place new regulations to run from 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 of. 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 a cultural venue's 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 rates 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 us. still to come on a weekly philosophy thinks the pandemics pushed us into a new era and there is no going back it's among all stories still ahead after this . is your media 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 so. direct. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again 1st of a t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief has given an emotional

description of when she found out that he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general cus i'm sort of money in a drone strike in january they have sort of money also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death and you can watch the full interview any time. i got so shocked unsought dress 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 brought iran together what happened in iran and iraq was something 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 events and they are waiting for an answer because they know. what general fully 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 gen so money to power 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 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 united states has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s. 400 surface to air missile system and angry president said he thought washington

was a friend. butin 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 embargo target turkey's arms procurement and development body imposing visa restrictions on 4 officials among other things the russian foreign minister says the move breaks international law that he's not surprised. or 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 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. from the trump administration's been threatening to punish turkey ever since the country 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 mr farron says and 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 acted very big symmetrically very unilaterally will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well you can also see by

us whether he'd see producing parts for the f. 35 american president that gives you the air be american president that to date your radar station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new thinking ministration 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. pandemics changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to government surveillance and also the subways inject things the old ways of doing things going for the good he's written an article about that for all teen dot com and he's been speaking to us giving us his vision for 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 quickly so much more of. the same time people

prayed lest they die to go all socialized and still alone it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank in the north of the small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. i am for measure us look down and. many of us use. stably. oath don't we. do what i call the most human state of being. me on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain our minds process recently been dealing. with doesn't need to be exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. don't wear

that we learned from. aids dead meat it's crazy. it's possible. second point to. any details sound good try your. interest and so the point today scientist seriously yes these books should be opened by the by gaming but they are all in the being we stepped many many media to go sure they say zees deny science or just isolated to go on with the nice lady not worth the same. or you are. going to go in on me. most of the money. and you will get about. all of these and you will be. and that's the way for

the next continuing a challenging look at the reasons behind masks and the status in the united states today. date industry prefers to spend millions of euros you know the. d.-day reconditioned is. all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets. do you imagine the number of chronic diseases that are out in every community it is no due to new viruses own new microbes that's not true so it is due to. their momentum to simply.

really just accumulate could only come in to see them to be so. if the so food industry is successful it will create more jobs it will create more value added it will create more growth so i don't see why we shouldn't also fight for the interest something in to street out sense that we are british and we want regulation i was in just belief we don't behave as if yes penalty that's right. but i think the west big screen you back in understanding other cultures and other kinds of society. precisely because it believed every word should be motoring you know in a west direction. so it doesn't really feel the need to understand all the coach.

she's one of the great problems the west faces now is that it just doesn't understand china and i you know you can't make sense of china will cause you can't make sense of journey if you don't have a bowler really studying it. little simple spiros mean sure when you read all of those lists nissho to show you just what that also has been have to go to but some to publish were doing more to roll. the video that you will quote them in the us want to quickly sing months alone. when you wash them for then you're pretty good it's all profit and you must say you're another write up to quote the above though but all of us waltz up on the stage do it and you must at those like you want to post them also from there will still put it and you will roll it over to sheldon what all the money. is like i bet on we. will get that in this place just. some of what they did that we know more

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