what's. going to come up. we're going to go. over. the top stories of the way it's revealed 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. the british prime minister's accused of canceling christmas that is in lockdown following the discovery of a highly infectious new strain of thousands flee the capital e.u. nations suspend their travel with the u.k. . the daughter of iran's former military chief who was assassinated by the u.s. this year gives an emotional 1st interview to revealing how she learned 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. what happened it's so hard to believe. and the turkish president heads out to washington for sanctions imposed over and purchase of a russian missile defense system. so what kind of an alliance is this this decision is an open attack on the sovereign rights of our country. over the weekend developments on the biggest stories of the past 7 days this is the weekly for a marti international 1st 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 united states the audio seems to prove the whistleblower tard tried to warn the state department about a mass breach of classified information back in 2011 if confirmed it would

challenge washington's claims 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 trying to use now to get them actually lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives under risk. of following the revelations more than 400000 people around the world signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against a songe politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month to ask the report's. 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 is 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 as 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 tapes reveal a song get 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 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. i think over time. because. it came to. 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 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 shot of a piece done a 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 your problem. 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 allowed to be 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 $175.00 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 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 considerably. who worried him 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 crime has risen massively in perl and 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 where they found.

boom. boom. boom. 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 so. 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 will bond with when i go to the station looking for

a dealer i tell him what i need he takes around out of his mouth the standard price for a job is just to endure 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 the 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 decent work but as i said most of them rejected you saw them sink is 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 it's almost crime and. their word is the law and this happens not just in berlin but also in other cities in germany. londoners who are scrambling to get out of the capital on saturday evening ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight comes after party 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 normal. 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 cannot continue with christmas as planned london or much of southeast england is now in the tampa for the toughest level of code 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.

i've got no call for the power structure. here. it's called. crop. crop. like you know sending yet. sending a president and who told grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably never knew before he might be like remember this the prime minister has got. i think you know basically they are probably just playing this for folks it's always like controlling games is that you can for christmas you christmas if you

know to be seduced you don't know if your best europe germany experience once. this person. wears the christmas lockdown took effect the u.k. infection rate hit a record high with almost $36000.00 covert cases registered at this sunday but despite the surging numbers political commentator anthony weber thinks there's going to be widespread flouting of the rules to a lack of trust in the government. i've taken off laurie for christmas how well i can also be good because the prime minister and the governments are clearly destroyed the christmas break scare a lot of their noir the general public is because they were trying to rely or we would question the government's trying to have cruelty. and what's actually happened is fatal big preparing for me. and now it's being taken away 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 turnout so we're not a number of people or people are not concerned since at least new regulations we've also got a longer piece in the column will and should be recalled to our debate these loans because you had to earn mine these suspicions are mace very strong are the advice of a small group or the process that we've gotten is that students from. the very thing they review by other medical. professionals. and with a more transmissible variant of covert out there neighboring countries are battling down to try and stop it reaching their shores france and germany a freezing transport links for the q. case starting from later tonight islands also doing the same for at least 48 hours and the netherlands belgium and italy have already suspended at travel from

thinking. a journey to also douse a new strict lockdown this week with daily infection records being said that it's also a picture playing out across europe and spain to all of the reports. the christmas lockdown 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 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 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 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. '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. an official investigation into sweden's coronavirus strategy has found that stocco 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 contacts to

a minimum peter all of a party girl is. still to come on the weekly philosophy thinks the pandemics pushed us into a new era and there's no going back we'll hear his thoughts on where we're all heading among all stories after the break. you know understanding other cultures and other kinds of society. precisely because it believed every word should be motoring 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 it just doesn't

understand china and i 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. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the weekly in the 1st of a t.v. interview the daughter of the firearms former top military chief is given an emotional description of when she found out that he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general custom sum of money in a drone strike in january so in uppsala money also speaks about the wider

consequences of her father's death you can watch the full interview any time with auntie dot com i got so shocked unfulfilled stress like my heart was going 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 brought iran together what happened in iran and iraq. was something 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 all so well why trump order to kill my father so so

after that after killing my father america thought that everything will be stopped because they killed gen 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 that generously money has a military from people that they will take revenge from chomped 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 united states has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s. 400 surface to air missile system and i agree president ed owen 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 development body imposing visa restrictions on 4 officials among other things russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but 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. the trump administration had been threatening to punish turkey ever since the country announced plans to purchase the f. 400 system washington's position has been that it's a danger to nato istanbul based political analyst yourself erin says that edwin 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 asymmetrical 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. the producing parts for the f. 35 there's an american president that gives you the air be american president that

radar station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new that ministry she coming in we've already seen the turkish president called for a review of the sanctions where he told being that they could be lifted going forward. pandemics changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to government surveillance and also festival changing things the old ways of doing things i'll go i'm so good here in about this for all to come and he's also spoken to us giving us his vision of also had. 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 damn people are afraid lest they die 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 it while he lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or so i am to measure us look down and. many use decent book establish. their own. so i'm going to do what i call a post human state of being totally. 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. the dead to me.

to. sound good for your. interest and so the point today science seriously yes these. open. but they are all in the being that many many mediocre. easy's deny science are usually the one with the nice lady not the same. but you are. going to go along me. most of the me. and you. only knew. that. that is the way for the worlds of parts next looking at what china's next moves might be given that it's pretty much the only country to

register economic growth and what's been a wretched you buy from moscow this is a. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to every state in the united states we've seen very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off. their dose after dose. and really became his drug dealer who's to blame patients. doctors manufacturers all the governments of.

color welcome to worlds apart we will heard the cliché that the chinese word for crisis is composed of 2 characterised 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 only major economy to register growth this year much today and be its american competitor in

don't trouble hasn't 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 are you who 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 outdated before it hits the printing press and i would attribute your ability off your book to find that you were among the 1st in the west you. cast doubt on this assumption that as china was more denies it would also westernized how did you. these realisation only way back until 80000. yet why didn't it actually the 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 was so that the proposition that as china modernized it westernized because modernization was seen as synonymous with western eyes a ship and. i reject this view because i actually have only got to understand a bit of china to see that that would never happen i mean you know there's an extraordinary continuity about china over a 2000 year period not resisting government so the idea that somehow western eyes a ship was going to happen was an illusion the other thing by the way i predict in my book if you of course china will replace the united states as the leading pair and the world which i think a very large number of people around the world probably now beginning to feel it's

true now e.u. call this idea an illusion and many in washington now call it any spade bed what i'm surprised by eased by the sheer back woods existence and the ease with which it was adopted because i present a scheme to be super promises on details and it isn't it ultimately based on the assumption that all non-western areas are savages because the only salvation is in adopting western ways. yes i think there's a lot of truth in that you say the west has dominated the wealth of let's say roughly 200 years and the assumptions grown up that the the western model is universal in other words it's a predictable true and should be adopted by everyone and therefore progress a's progress towards adopting a western model and this is to me a nonsense i mean you know historically things don't work no.