it's. the top stories of the week it's revealed that the u.s. state department was forewarned by julian a song about massive leaks of documents from thing calls now for washington to pardon the wiki leaks founder. british prime ministers accused of canceling christmas as london is locked down following the discovery of a highly infectious new covert strain and while thousands flee the capital nation suspended travel with the u.k. . and 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. when i turned on the t.v. and i saw all these picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell no i'm still shocked a lot of what happened it's so hard to believe. a lie from moscow this is r.t. international one called him with the weekly taking you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days wiki leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julian a song says it could put the brakes on his possible extradition 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 confirmed it would challenge washington's claim that a song wanted to endangered lives this is what we hear 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. a transcript of for this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it supposedly 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 him actually lovely u.k. they are 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 songe politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month to ask a tale of reports. public enemy number one a man with no conscience no morals no remorse judy in a song chas being 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 argues 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 song just tempted to warn the u.s. 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. kate you. spread it around. to. the degree that. you're going to going to. 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 who 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 a 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. our viewers. 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 u.s. 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 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 and impossible harm to this i have no idea why this was not followed

through and took up the offer. to help julian 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 his warning. of a scramble to get out of the capital ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight on sunday comes as british scientists detected a new covert strain that's up to 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 as planned on london and much of southeast england is now under taya for the toughest level of

covert restriction 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. sort of overstrong for. you. it's called. i feel like you know sending you. sending your presents and a book called grinch who stole christmas i think he would be like you probably 93 he might be like a man but this is

a prime minister has got. you know basically probably just playing this for folks it's always like trying to stick you can for christmas you christmas if you know. if your best europe germany experience once. this person one of the christmas lockdown took effect the u.k. daily infection rate has a new record with almost 36000 you cope with 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 the blank. taken off mari father christmas hat like a lot of people because of the prime minister and the governments the cleary destroyed the christmas break scare a lot of the annoyance with the general public is because they were trying to rely or all the information that governments try to have cool to do. and what's actually

happened is fatal big preparing for me. and now it's being taken away and will be the evidence 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 it's 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 call of women should be recalled 'd to these soon as you can see how to earn mind that these decisions are made very strong are the advice of a small group or the process that we've gotten is less to. be independently fitted a review by other medical. professionals and with a more transmissible variant of care of it out there neighboring countries are battening down to try and curb the spread 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 also issued a travel bans on the k.k. . germany also announced a strict new lockdown this week with daily infection recalls being said there as well and it's a picture that's playing out across europe as peter all of the reports of the christmas lockdown period is a part of here in germany it comes at a particularly odd time the couldn't treat posted record breaking covert figures this week that combs 'd are saying that they will roll out a vaccination program in the coming weeks but also warn that the foundations of already being for a 3rd wave of coronavirus. we saw that a 3rd wave had started to build before the 2nd had 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 own 700000 deaths this year the highest figure since

1944 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 don't they actually destroyed our sector by making us clothes are established at 6 pm and blaming us for things they were guilty of instead. 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 a cultural venue's protest a shutdown on their places of work i did i. was. 'd in spain antibody testing is found that

one in 10 of the population had been infected with covert 19 the scale of this pandemic. it's hitting home in sweden as well with more deaths this november than amy since the spanish flu pandemic over a century ago and 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 of rome. 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 party. and have 1st ever t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief has given an emotional description of when she found out he'd been murdered the u.s. assassinated general kasem saw him on the in a drone strike in january so in absolute monny 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 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 me i'm still shocked how is the death of your 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 won revenge and they are waiting for an answer because they know what general silly money did for them and they know so well why trump order to kill my father. so so after that after killing my father american sought that everything will be stopped because they killed general soleimani to power of the middle east but they are so 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 chomped and they are so wrong they are thinking this will be end the end of general silly money this is the

beginning of our people are united and they will stand and front of such a they just powers. you're watching the weekly still ahead lin's burgeoning drugs crime nazis had in congress come to just how bad our brazen problem really is it's all next story when we come back. well i think the wish to extremely bad you know understanding other cultures and other kinds of society. there 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 other cultures i think that 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 know of a bowl of really studying you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again drug crime has risen massively and with dealers taking over swathes of the german capital losses to channel r.t. german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of the city 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 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 when i meet he takes a rubbed elbows out of his mouth and the standard price for a job is just $10.00 euros by keeping 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 going to elicit gurlitz upchuck ethnic groups from africa most of them not rejected asylum seekers i'm not deported recording to them all the acting the africans are acting out is 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 rejected you saw him saying he is and should not be in this country secondly. activities arab who are dominating certain areas and. their 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 said he thought washington was a friend it till the view not just 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 embargo to 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 that 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 us 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'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 yosef erin says it 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 being acted very nice a metric we very unilaterally certainly will try to reciprocate and complicate things for the united states in bilateral relations and american activity in the region as well start you can also see by us sweated 36 producing parts for the 35 american president that there be an american president today if you read our vision but i don't think you will pay any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new administration coming in we've already seen mr bush call for

a review of the sanctions hoping that. going forward. the pandemic has changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to government surveillance and philosophy thinks the old ways of doing things are now gone for good he's written about that dot com but he's also been speaking to us sharing his vision of what's ahead. that's great if we can save our lives. just afraid. to you know perspective now i think it's happening would be so much smarter but a lot cheaper and the same damn deep fried lest they die to go all socialized and so it's no dispiriting dream and those now we have to think of the north it's more 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 measures

looking 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 legal don't get me on the horizon even the prospect of so why are brain dead mind process use may be dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here and you. are. except that we learned from. apes dead meat it's crazy. it's possible. second point to give you any details that sound good for your.

interest and so the point today scientists seriously yes. open by their by gaming but they are all in the being we stepped many many media to go sure the saudis east deny science just isolated lately to go on with the nice lady not the same thing. are you. going to go in on me and most of the me. and you will get about. all of these and you will be jesus that hey that's it for me thanks for watching daniel concession the next edition of the weekly in around 35 but it from that.

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