oh you can defend yourself. could. see. the enemy knows. the top stories of the we cannot see 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. british prime ministers accused of canceling christmas as london is lockdown following the discovery of a highly infectious new strain and while thousands flee the capital a u. nations suspend their travel with the u.k. . the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the u.s. this 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 his picture. i understand what happened and. from that day tell now i'm still shocked what happened it's so hard to believe. there is 11 pm on sunday here in moscow it's the weekly taking you through some of the biggest stories we've been covering here over the past 7 days 1st to wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julian the songs and says it could put the brakes on his extradition to the united states the audio seems to prove the whistle blower 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 saw and 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 suits basically the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and which they are trying to use now to get a much of a 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 a sound politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month to ask it a report. 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 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 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 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.

our children because. it came. right kate to. spread it 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 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 son of a beast on our great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant when he would 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. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying. to hold back it's stored 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 it will 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. of the essence for a son and to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate to any and of course a blow hard to this but i have annoyed you know why this was not to fall into a new 2 called for well sure if you hold that giuliani was was crucially and

considerably. who worried him in altering 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. in her 1st t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief is given an emotional description of when she found out that he'd been at the u.s. assassinated general because i'm sort of manning in a drug strike in january so i have sort of money also speaks about the wider consequences of her father's death you can watch the full interview any time at r.t. dot com 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 bens 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 so money to power off the middle east but they are still wrong. they didn't see the anger of 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 silly money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they just powers. london as were scrambling to get out of the capital on saturday evening just i was ahead of lockdown measures that took effect of midnight came after a british scientist detected a new covert strain that 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 with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned a lot of the much of southeast england is now on the table for the toughest level of kind of infrastructure 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 to cope for the power structure. here. it's called. crop. crop i felt like you know sending it. sending it presents and a book called grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably $93.00 he might be like a man but is that i mean if they have got. i think you know with that basically

they probably just playing this with focus it's always like charlie games is that you can for christmas you for christmas if you know to be seduced you don't if you're best in europe germany experience once. this person. or is the christmas lockdown took effect the u.k.'s daily infection rate hit a record high with almost $36000.00 new coated cases registered on sunday but despite the surging numbers political commentator anthony weber predicts a widespread flouting the full rolls and its distrust in the government the sibling . of taken all laurie for christmas well it will also be good because the prime minister governs the cleary destroyed the christmas scare a lot of the r. noir 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 very great and. the attitude is incredibly flawed speak quite frankly i'm going take people who are going to be questioning whether their government poll is straight but i also think journalists still you know a number of people who'll people are not concerned citizens of these new regulations we've also got a longer piece in the whole of when should be recalled to date these things 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. being very feared a review by an author or medical. professionals. and with a more transmissible variant of covert out there neighboring countries are battening down to try and stop it reaching their shores france and germany are freezing transport links with the u.k.

starting from tonight arlen's doing the same for at least 48 hours and the netherlands belgium and italy have already suspended ad travel from the q k. . germany also announced a strict new lockdown this week with daily infection records being set there too and it's a picture that's playing out across europe as peter all of the reports next. the christmas lockdown period is a part of germany 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 it 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. 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 0 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 our early. so troubling numbers all around right now and yet even though covert vaccines to getting the green light far from everyone is ready to take the shot we'll discuss what's behind that skepticism in less than 2 minutes from now. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back u.s. regulators have approved

a 2nd covert vaccine for emergency use raising hopes of an end to the pandemic the madonna job is being rolled out alongside the pfizer biotech drug which is also being administered in the u.k. but despite the apparent breakthroughs manufacturers are facing a wall of public reluctance in the u.s. the latest polls show only 60 percent of the population or willing to take a covert vaccine that falls well short of the 70 percent that scientists say need to gain immunity to try and eradicate the disease there's also a high level of mistrust in europe as well a survey in the science journal nature found that 59 percent of people would take the job in france just 56 percent in poland while in the u.k. more than half of respondents have said they're concerned about possible side effects or with us to discuss it now and the summer offers a therapist in a spokes person for the scottish libertarian party and also talks about duncan who's a senior clinical nektar at the university of exeter medical school gentlemen welcome to r.t. . first of all to you is this just

a natural extension of the usual anti vaccine. is there something different this time. well mixture of or i think for this particular vaccine there's a few reasons why people are skeptical one is that the safety procedures have been very much truncated for the strug and compromised they've skep the animal tests and the observation period for humans subjects is very very low and it's also a very new tape of technology this am or any which is never really been used before so there is a new factor is also these companies are not liable for damages so those who are of an antivirus persuasion can say or there's something spooky going on here you know usually if you buy a product and it damages you then you're able to sue the company for damages and no drug is completely safe but at least this form some sort of counterbalance

against companies skimping on safety procedures and finally buys or has our history of fraud and corruption already i mean they set the record for the largest health care fraud settlement in u.s. history and it's to the tune of 2300000000 they were sitting so and people people are are worried as to whether this vaccine has been rushed through and is actually going to be safe for them. given that even over the counter medicines that we've already taken for decades come with a list on your arm of possible side effects and things you should and shouldn't do if you've got existing conditions why do you think skepticisms bubbling up so much over these vaccines. may i 1st start by countering what my fellow panelists has just said which is safety corners have been cut they have not been cut they have gone through independently verified protocols for testing the vaccines 1st in the animal model followed by small samples of human beings followed by phase 3 large

samples of human beings so coming back to your question about safety measures and and side effects well. the issues are that these days people don't trust official media and official government lines which is understandable because we've had discredited politicians who lie and having lied they get away with it and therefore there's a lot of discontent in the community about who is telling the truth what we as experts scientists need to do is take the front stage and talk about our how the vaccine works how it produces immunity what it does what it doesn't do and carry the people with us i remember in my days when there was a lot of concern around the m m r vaccines i did what you would call a lot of shoe leather be demure ology where i talked to my patients i explained to

them the issues i explained to them the pluses and the minuses of being immunized and i managed to take most not all of my patients but most with me that this was a saved thing to do it saves lives and any other politicians making it worse. well i mean confused. and told that these safety procedures haven't been cox that usually takes 10 to 15 years to develop and. put through our vaccine so that's so i guess the politicians are partly to blame because if you look at the people who are available to that's available online it seems completely are all odds with what the politicians 'd are saying is it's necessary i mean you can't tell from the data from one region to another where is how the heavy law don't where is hard are soft one where is how to my mask and the

where is not the data doesn't seem to back up what we're being told is good for us doctor one county or the surface between rushing things through and cutting corners i guess people are going to have a particular rational concern about how rapidly these vaccines are coming through the system compared to normal. let me put that commits to bed once and for all if i may and thank you for the opportunity. the vaccine has not been rushed through and let me explain why when we normally start our research program what you have to do is it is always on a slow burn and the slow burn is does r. and vaccines work and then you do your ph d. and you do your for the study and then you try and get funding and then you try and get ethical approval and then finally this is the hardest bit most difficult made you have to find funding for phase one phase do phase 3 and in between the

companies change their mind an interest in the product in this case this was a global effort and global pandemic and if we came in a bottomless pit of money and therefore the money was released the result was that to do a lot of the tests as quickly as possible with the funding available and therefore it was able to do it in a short time not because we were cutting corners but because all the normal barriers the bureaucratic nonsense of funding not being able to find that the the people to do the experiments on etc were all and abled and that's why we've got the vaccine in record time. antony do you see the skeptics being won over eventually given that everyone's suffering from some sort of lockdown or covert punishment as it were economically. yeah appreciate that quick clarification because something that libertarian main that people see is often that there is too

much red tape around passing drugs i'm just wondering you know can we really new people are more worried about the long term effects like what if something happens you know 36 months years down the lane have the herds and off to discover if people are rescued of those kinds of. say to fix. dr john connor you're nodding yes yes yes very happy to answer this so what we do is not only once the vaccine is licensed but after the licensing of any product is specially a new product you survey and you follow up a large it representative sample of the people so you don't just immunize and forget you immunize put it in the g.p. records and national health service health records and you fall of these group up and you follow it up for city asli over a long period of time to look out for unknown unexpected unusual signs and symptoms

and let me explain further the rapid response that we had in the united kingdom when 2 people were immunized and there had what you would call a severe allergic reaction the systems sprang into action immediately we were able to act for hours we were able to change the data sheet and this was not this was not like this vaccine is dangerous it was unknown unexpected unusual event in otherwise very allergenic people but otherwise the vaccines are safe and we carry on with the safety because we are immunizing otherwise fit and well people so we've got to maintain very high standards and think something i thought i'd imagine that your be particularly concerned about would be the question of choice and in order to accelerate inoculation to get it out there into the communities. suggestions such as in the u.s. of companies being allowed to say you must have an inoculation in order to be able

to sign a contract whatever how does that rest with you might end up with this 2 tier system whereby people who don't want to get vaccinated are kind of excluded. that's the thing that i'm most afraid of i mean i am all for those who are less skeptical 'd about the vaccine take it forest and let's see what happens and some people are cautious and i think we've got the right to be cautious because there is a history of big pharma. and tomfoolery so i think that if we are going to the stage where vaccines are manned is a serious and penge men on people's civil liberties most people feel a lot better if they can see those who are keen to take the vaccine do that and several months then the lane once their concerns are a lead they can make it seem decision just quickly that from dr john carney to finish because a lot of people if they want to travel to foreign climates they don't mind getting a job for yellow fever or against malaria they're quite happily do that some

countries demand a certificate vaccinations have to be forced through just quickly well i i don't think that just because you have been vaccinated and you have a significant it implies that you are not in fact good or infectious that thing we don't know because we don't know how long the immunity lasts for and 2nd thing we don't not especially with the fires and modern novak scenes that if you have the vaccine do you also get a mild illness and therefore could be potentially infectious but not symptomatic or not ill because that bit was not tested for but in time in time we will not how well the vaccines are performing and then we will be able to immunized therefore protected and protected for a long time or not you know we're all learning as a world day by day hour by hour if sometimes gentlemen i really appreciate your time on r.t. tonight thank you. thank you thank you for this our focus of next film united

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