the top stories this week reveal that the u.s. state department was forewarned. about massive leaks of documents from them calls now from washington to. the british prime ministers accused of canceling christmas. following the discovery of a highly infectious strain and while thousands flee the e.u. nations suspended travel from the u.k. . the daughter of iran's former military chief assassinated by the u.s. this year gives an emotional interview to r.t. 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 me. what happened it's hard to believe. live from moscow welcomes the weekly hero. welcome to the program. and we can confirm the authenticity of a 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 or the audience seems to prove the whistleblower trying to warn the state department about a mass breach of classified information in 2011 if confirmed it would challenge washington's claim that a song is wanted to endanger lives but this is what we can achieve told us you know 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 and which they are trying to use now to get him actually lovely u.k. they were talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk or following those revelations more than 400000 people around the world signed a petition calling on washington to drop the charges against the sons politicians and activists want donald trump to pardon him before the outgoing president leaves office next month saskia taylor has this 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 is closer to being the high tech terrorist 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 that actually the whistleblower was more concerned about the collateral damage of his exposé than washington that sells a new t. released tape field a song to 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. having teletypes.

thought about. trying to take out. cable. on cape cod. 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 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 you should be treated as an enemy combatant with you 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 but we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying to train. hold back its door 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 to 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. the essence for a stance 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 to follow 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. londoners travelled to get out of the capital ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight on sunday this comes after british scientists attacked that in you cope with strain at 70 percent more infectious the prime minister's admitted 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 for london and much of the south east of england is now on the tier for the toughest level of covert restrictions which include a ban on household mixing over the christmas period of the rules been met with

widespread frustration and also a dose of mistrust in the government's handling of the crisis. sort of. 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 never knew before he might be like a man but this is i mean you still have. you know the basic you know you probably

just playing this for folks it's always like. just if you can for christmas you christmas if you know. it's your best europe germany experience wants. to see. well as the christmas looked on took effect the u.k. daily infection rate has a record high with almost 36000 new covert cases registered on sunday despite the surging numbers but i think any weather predicts a widespread flouting of the rules and its distrust in the government. i've taken off my 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 we mention the government's trying to have cruelty. and what's actually happened is they will big preparing for me. and now it's being taken away and will be the

attitude is incredibly flawed speak quite frankly i don't think people are going to be questioning the doctrine polis straight but i also think it's so you know a number of people or people are not concerned since at least new regulations we've also got a longer term peace and calm women should be recalled to date these things because you have to burn mine these suspensions are mace very strong are the advice of a small group through the process that we've gotten is that students are. being independently fitted it will be by other medical. professionals or with a more transmissible variant of covert now out there neighboring countries of battening down to try and curb the spread france and germany are freezing transport links with the u.k. starting tonight on and it's doing the same for at least 48 hours and they're the

ones spelled zoom and italy have also issued travel bans on the u.k. and germany has also of course that else their own strict lockdown this week with daily infection records being set as a picture playing out across europe as peeta all of the reports. the christmas lockdown period is a policy here in germany 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. 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

1944 were 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 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 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 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 party early. in her 1st ever t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief was given emotional description of when she found out he'd been murdered us assassinated general casey and saddam adina drone strike back in january as an opposite of mahdi also speaks about the water consequences of her father's death you can watch the full interview any time 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 now i'm still shocked how is the death of your father brought iran together what happened in iran and in 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 want revenge and they are waiting for an answer because they know what generals really 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 cause a lot but 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 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 would 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. still ahead ribbons those running drugs crime oddities hidden cameras capture just how bad of brazen the problem really is isn't explore it when we come back after the break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program drug crime has risen massively and with dealers taking

over swathes of the german capital also german took a hidden camera to some of the most troubled areas of that 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 dentist $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 the

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 decent work but as i said most of them are rejected asylum seekers and should not be in this country secondly there are. activities. 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 united states has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s $400.00 surface the way a missile system that angry president said he thought washington was a friend it does the view not as 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. embargoes target turkey's arms procurement and development body imposing a visa restrictions on for officials among other things russia's foreign minister says the move breaks international law but doesn't surprise him. a should move through 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. trouble ministrations been threatening to punish ever since anger announced plans to purchase the s 400 system washington's position has been the a danger to anyone to stumble by and i think a lot of you so farand says that's plenty of ways there tony it's a huge no because we see the americans saying that they want to give diplomacy a chance but throughout this whole s 400 process being acted very weak symmetrically very unilaterally certainly 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 you'd. see 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 issued coming 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. the pandemic has changed almost all aspects of life from work and travel to government surveillance but also must level his thinks the old ways of doing things are gone for good you put an article for all tied up called i spoke to us as well giving his vision for the future. there's just 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 time people are afraid lest they die to go all socialized and so it's not just their steam dream and those now we have a bank and an already small enjoyment like let's enjoy it while it lasts who knows

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