join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. top stories of the week. that the u.s. state department was forewarned by julian assange about massive leaks of documents prompting calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. british prime ministers accused of canceling christmas lockdown following the discovery of a highly infectious new covert strain of thousands flee the capital suspend travel with the u.k. . military chief assassinated by the us this year gives an emotional 1st interview to 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. it's hard to believe. international from moscow and call him brian this is the weekly taking you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 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 possible 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 we've confirmed it would challenge washington's claim that 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. and 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 which they are trying to use now to get a much of a lovely u.k. they are 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 the sound politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month saskia to report. public enemy number one a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judean a solemn chas 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 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 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 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. i think over time. because. it came to. 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 is described. 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 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 your problem 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 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. the essence for a sourness to avoid a life in jail the assistance was offered to to to stop this or mitigate any any possible harm to this i have no idea why this was not followed

through and to quote the offer of the help julian was was carefully and considerably. worried in offering to say that the state department never came back to julian for more information and seemed to have not done anything based on his warning. under the scramble to get out of the capital ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight on sunday came 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 and much of southeast england is now under a tear 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. i've got to cope sort of all are still. here. it's called. can't. call i felt like you know sending you. sending your presents and a book called grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably never knew before he might be like a man but this is i mean you still have. i think you know the basically the public

just playing this for folks it's always like trying to stick you can for christmas you christmas if you know what you said you don't know if your best europe germany experience once. this person. was the christmas lock down took effect the u.k. deadly infection rate had a record high with almost 36000 new covert cases registered on sunday but despite the surging numbers political commentator anthony weber predicts a widespread flouting of the rules says it's distrust of the government that's to blame. you know all laurie father christmas how will it also be true because the prime minister and the governments the cleary destroyed the christmas scare a lot of the annoyance 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 away and. the evidence is incredibly flawed speak quite

frankly i don't think people are going to be questioning or their government poll is straight but i also think turnout so you know a number of people who'll people are not concerned since at least new regulations we've also got a longer term peace and the whole of women should be recalled 'd to debate these things because you have to burn mine these decisions are made very strong are the advice of a small group of forces that we government is less than $200.00 be independently fitted. by author medical. professionals with a more transmissible variant of covert out there neighboring countries are battling it down to try and stop it reaching their shoals france and germany a freezing transport links with the u.k. starting from tonight ireland stay the same for at least 48 hours and the

netherlands belgium and italy have already suspended and travel from the u.k. . and germany also announced a strict new lockdown this week with daily infection reynolds we had set there as well that it's a picture that's playing out across europe as peter all of the reports. of the christmas lock down period is a policy here in germany they consider particularly how to time the country posted record breaking covert figures this week that coleman says 'd are saying that they'll roll out a vaccination program in the coming weeks but all. so warns that the foundations of already. for a 3rd wave of coronavirus. 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 1044 were 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. they actually destroyed our sector by making us clothes are established at 6 pm and blaming us for things they were guilty of instead. 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. thousands of workers a cultural venue protest a shutdown on their places of work i did. 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 and an official investigation into sweden's coronavirus strategy has found that stocks 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 contact to

a minimum peter all of a faulty early. in her 1st of a t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief has given an emotional to father's death and you can watch the full interview any time it auntie don't come. i got so shocked and full of distress 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 am 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 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 generals really 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 departure of the middle east but they are still wrong. they didn't see the anger 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 sinking this will be end the end of general soley money this is the beginning our people are united and they will stand in front of such a they just powers. you're watching the way clay still ahead

is a burgeoning drugs crime i'll teach hidden cameras captured just how bad i'm brazen the problem really is it's all next story when we come back. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

drug crime has risen massively in berlin with dealers taking over swathes of the german capital all sister channel aussie german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city this is what they found.

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. it's not can 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 built on when i go to the station looking for a dealer and 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 drug trafficking is a very lenient city government and they instructed police to turn a blind eye towards the drug dealers of gurlitz up ethnic groups from africa most of them are rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the activate the africans are acting out of going to some pocket and trying to make a living but they're not at all. 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. activities. 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. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s 400 surface to air missile system and i agree president had said he thought washington was a friend it till the did not as a nato member it is being applied against our country for the 1st time what kind of an alliance is this 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 individuals among other things russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but that he's not surprised either . should move through this is of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of a legitimate 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 us or thorazine on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. with 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 istanbul based political analyst yourself erin says edouard has

plenty of ways to retaliate it's a huge snow because we received the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this 4 x. 400 process being acted very early 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 turkey can also see by us whether to turkey she's producing parts for the f. 35 american president. today if you read our station but i don't think you will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in we've already seen the turkish call for a review of. hoping that it could be going forward. pandemics changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to go home and surveillance

and philosophy things the old ways of doing things are gone for good he's written about that on the dot com but he also spoke to us sharing his vision of what's ahead. that's great if we can save our lives. we were 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 no dispiriting dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die. or so i am for measure us look down and. many of us decent took establish.

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they are all in the being that many many millions. deny science just isolated the one with. the same. shells. right most of the money. and you get. all these new. ok that's the way to live for this hour thanks for watching up next more on the opioid addiction in the united states. today the industry prefers to spend millions of euros in you know being. a reconditioned i will be sniffing all about making money making profits in some of the corporations international markets import export do you imagine the number of

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we doctors were wrong in thinking that opioids can't be used long term they can be and they should be we used to think they'd stop working all the patients would become addicts or they'd be sent to. the 6 cases show how wrong those views were. in this little film the public was assured with certification the content would show no risk of addiction despite its high concentration in opium to make it believable a real doctor and real patients' bill witness. confirmed that this treatment usually reserved for patients in the terminal phase of cancer can be used without any danger for common pain. they are going to enjoy every day you know you can really enjoy a mass a.