among. the top stories of the week it's revealed the u.s. state department was forewarned. massive leaks of documents calls now for washington to. the british prime minister is accused of christmas. following the discovery of. e.u. nations suspend travel from the u.k. . while the u.s. this year gives an emotional interview to aussie revealing how she learnt of her

father's murder. when i turned on the t.v. and i saw his picture. i understand what happened. from that day tell now. it's so hard to believe. from moscow welcome to the weekly. thanks so much for joining us on the program. now we can leaks has confirmed the authenticity of a recording that could be a game changer for julia songe and says it could put the brakes on his possible extradition to the art of state the audio seems to prove the whistleblower did try to warn the state department about a massive breach of classified information back in 2011 if confirmed it would challenge washington's claim that assad's wanted to endanger lives this is what the wiki leaks editor in chief told us in an exclusive interview this evidence that you

heard and i can control him that this is authentic is not new to the courts in the u.k. transcript or through this conversation was presented to the court in september well this should have a tremendous weight because it's basically the argument that is in the narrative for the justice department in their indictment and try to use you know to get emotional loudly u.k. you know talking about irresponsible behavior and putting lives at risk all following those revelations more than 400000 people around the world signed a petition calling in washington to drop the charges against assad's 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 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 he relies 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 that 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 is committed to 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. right 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 it is to schedule. 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. we have been calling. the embassy. every day trying. to 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 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 you know 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 clear fully and considerably. worried in offering to say to the state department that we came back to julian for more information and seem to have not done anything based on his warning. londoners scrambled to get out of the capital ahead of lockdown measures that took effect at midnight on sunday this comes after a british scientist attack that a new covert strain at 70 percent more infectious the prime minister's admitted 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 it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas those planned london and much of the south east of england is now on a tear for the toughest level of coverage restrictions which includes

a ban on household mixing over the christmas period and the rules have been met with widespread frustration also of those of mistrust in the government's handling of the crisis. sort of you all are still. here. it's called what you. call i feel like you know standing here. sensing your presence 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 i mean you still can't get. it you know with the basically probably just plain that's what folks it's always like trying to stick you can for christmas you dismiss if you know. if your best europe germany experience once. well as the course was looked on took effect the u.k. daily infection rate had a record high with almost 36000 new covert cases registered on sunday despite the surging numbers political commentator anthony weber predicts a widespread flouting of the rules and its distrust in the government gets the blame. taken off my father christmas hat like a lot of people because of the prime minister and the governments the cleary destroyed the christmas bonus year a lot of the annoyance with the general public is because they were trying to rely or we mention the government's troilus you are trying to do. and what's actually

happened is better will be preparing for me. and now it's being taken away and will be the attitude is incredibly flawed speak my friend and i think people are going to be questioning at their government policy but i also think journalists so you know a number of people or people are not concerned since at least new regulations we've also got a number of m.p.'s in the call of women should be recalled 'd to our debate these things because you have to burn mine these suspicions are mace very strong are the advice of a small group of the process that we document is less to. be independently feared a review by other medical. professionals or the more transmissible variant of covert out there neighboring countries are now battling doubt to try and curb

the spread france and germany of freezing transport links with the u.k. starting from tonight and is doing the same for at least 48 hours and the netherlands belgium and italy have also issued travel bans on the u.k. and germany introduced a strict new lockdown of its own this week with daily infection records being set it's a picture playing out all across europe as peeta all of the reports. the christmas lockdown period is a policy here in germany comes at a particularly apt time the couldn't treat posted record breaking covert figures this week that combs is. 'd 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 own $700000.00 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 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. 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 1st of period may well be a lot more distant than we used to as european leaders to keep contact to a minimum peter all of our party early. in our 1st ever t.v. interview the daughter of iran's former top military chief was given an emotional description of when she found out he'd been murdered the us assassinated general. drone strike in january zainab solomonic 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 now i am still shocked how is the death of your brought iran together

what happened in iran and in iraq. was something 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 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 would be stopped because they killed general soleimani departure of the middle east but they are so wrong they didn't see the anger of the od 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 trump and they are so wrong

they are thinking this 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. the recent cyber attacks on multiple us federal agencies of cause a stir in the news for the last week the us government has still not definitively determined who was behind the attacks and members of the incoming baud administration of vowed to go beyond me as sanctions when the culprit is identified . i think in terms of the measures that i buy new administration would take it's not just sanctions it's also steps and things we could do to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to repeat this sort of attack or worse still engage in even more dangerous attacks and we don't know fully what happened the extent of it and frankly we don't know fully for sure who did it joe biden i know we'll have

a robust response once we find out the perpetrator and the extent of it i mean while politicians from both major parties alongside us media have already rushed to judgment on naming that betrays a with moral miss is causing. more russian hacking hysteria leave it to the mainstream media to sneak it in under a month before trump's exit from the white house russia is behind a cyber attack massive cyber attack the brits believed to be the work of the russians russia's massive cyber attack yes the elusive russian hackers whose existence is still a mystery have once again made their entrance into america's political arena this was a very significant effort and i think it's which case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the russians that he is the most activity the national cyber security agency has yet to lay the blame on anyone entity for breaching several private companies and key u.s. government departments including the treasury homeland security and even nuclear

security coming from pompei although the anti russia hysteria is a bit of surprise because his boss seems to think it's just a diversion the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality i have been fully briefed and everything is well under control russia russia russia is the priority chance when anything happens because lynching media is for mostly financial reasons petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be shina it may you think after the countless wasted hours since the election hacking accusations of 2016 trying to prove russian collusion with trump trying to find the russian hacker a smoking gun the political establishment might want to try something new but actually this time even the republicans are just as much out for blood as the democrats where the president has a blind spot when it comes to russia and so you can expect that that's the response that he would have the cia the national security administration and others who looked at this well there's no question has come from russia all indications point

to russia for the present united states either tries to deflect or is not willing to call out. the adversary as we make this after beautician he is not making our country safer for the president to once again so see full it's an eerie. go over the presence of rivers see what he also suggested when the russians cracked erections in 26 might have been china so what exactly is it that keeps reviving this fear of russian hackers if there was something for people to be scared of surely there would be some evidence of it unless there's other motives at work here this isn't new right this is exactly what u.s. foreign policy has been for decades which is unsubstantiated or just false claims about a foreign country to bed pave the way for some sort of international idiocy and what we're seeing over here is a dangerous echo of that exact same behavior which is assigning blame without any kind of evidence without any kind of backing with no public scrutiny with no

transparency of any kind to me it's been used as a distraction and then after the extensive extensive research on russia the every kind of legal and and technological scrutiny of russia during after the 2016 election you know there was something there we would have found it the fact that i'll bet an investigation a bad scope turned up basically nothing so just to me that we're looking at a scare tactic not not really a meaningful analysis of the situation. drug crime has risen massively in but end with dealers taking over swathes of the german capital also as the shuttle altie german took a hidden camera to some of the worst most troubled areas of that setting 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. 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 job was just $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 truck ethnic groups from africa most of them are rejected asylum seekers not deported according to the law the acting the africans are acting out it's 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 u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey over its purchase of russia's s 400 surface to air missile system an angry president said he thought washington was a friend it of a beauty 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 for officials among other things russia's foreign minister says the move breaches international law but doesn't surprise him that look at this this is 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 thorazine on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. trumbo ministration has been threatening to punish me ever since and thrown out the plans to the us 400 system washington's positions bennett a danger to nato stumbled by political analyst you so farand says one has plenty of ways to retaliate 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 acted very unique 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. see producing parts for the f. 35 there's an american president or the air be american president that should it you can read our station but i don't think he will take any very aggressive steps right now especially with the new 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. to find them it has changed almost all aspects of life from what travel to government surveillance photos of us level vision things the old ways of doing things all gone for good is what an article for all teed up called money spoke to

us giving his vision for the future. 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 at the same time people prayed lest they die to go all socialized and so it's not just shifting dream and those now we have a bank and an already desperate enjoyment like let's enjoy it while he lasts who knows what will happen i did a virus she's waiting to die and people or so that although i am far measures low down and. many use defs took established major museums both their own and we'll. do what i call a boast human state of being totally their own to me then there is

on the horizon even the prospect of so why our brain. mind process recently been dealing so definitely i'm not exaggerating here and you. think we should. have. except that we learned from. a. date me. it's possible. second point to. do you any. good for your. interest and so the point today science just seriously yes these books should be opened by the but they're all in the being that many many mediocre schools go to school but he stays east deny science just isolated lately to go on

with life maybe not the same thing. are you. going to go in on me. most of the need to. be and you get about. all of these and you will be. journalist and filmmaker john pelzer of the guest and on the ground next that neil harvey will be with you in just about half an hour's time to ring in the morning news update to join us again that. russian television some demonstrators right now the propaganda machine. is always russian.

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with time running out will in should intervene in stop the persecution of julian assange also as this tumultuous year comes to an end we assessed the cost to average working people and while he is only getting worse. time after time see and welcome to going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on. my birthday january the 13th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season. i'm joined now from tucson arizona by one of the most cited intellectuals one of the father of modern linguistics american dissident you know i'm from ski you know i'm.