find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. twitter suspended the account of one r.t. america correspondent only reinstated once a decade old video of alleged. removed. content the reality here part is it is you watching feel like knowing the american people need. astra zeneca as covert vaccine is in the spotlight once again as the european medicines agencies top official blood clots while the medical body itself goes on jobs benefits. for more u.s. intelligence faces years in jail for exposing america's assassination program we speak to a whistleblower whose close contact with him. he did it because he was exposing

a war crime he's not allowed to see them and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. bricks the price of post brooks at border checks we discussed the background of the weekend's violent attacks on police in northern ireland. from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on r.t. international hawkins wherever you are today welcome to the program. with r.t. america correspondent having a twitter account suspended because she retreated a video of alleged u.s. war crimes racial blevins says the social media platforms attention was drawn by a video widely known as collateral murder was 1st released by wiki leaks over a decade ago according to the journalist twitter did eventually unlock her account but only after she removed that post which the platform found in breach of its

graphic content policy. then they surely are not related by and told them i would. now locked out of my last i sit down a tree in which i shared the in this collateral murder video that was published by julian simon and we kulaks 11 years ago today he says that i had violated their graphic content policy one of the things that twitter pointed out was that this video shows the loss of life and they said they didn't put it like that out there on the internet because that would be hard for the families of those victims you know it's harder for the families of those victims don't know that their family members were murder and the people who did it got to walk away with no consequences because that's what happened in this case the video the center of the story was 1st released by we could take some 2010 contains classified u.s. military footage which appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of over

a dozen civilians in a baghdad suburb for one american helicopter among those killed there are 2 reuters staff we can stop saying the video from a number of whistleblowers racial relevance again believes the messenger is being blamed while the actual perpetrators got away scot free. even though so many years have passed even though the senator is there to clean this day even though you see it was just asking us soldiers murdering civilians and journalists in broad daylight and laughing about it they were up to it was no consequences you know who was the intro that to me and who was now sitting in prison right now julian assange being tortured he could lose his life because of the footage that he published because he needed those videos public in the 1st place see the reality here is it is hard is it is to watch a video like now and that's what the american people need right now they need to see what their tax dollars are paying for they need to see what is really going on

in this whole the war on terrorism with the media and journalists never show them the realities of what actually happens on the ground they need to know that we're crimes like that i want to happen much more than they think and they also need to know that when it comes it is just gusting crimes far too often no one is held accountable or former u.s. intelligence out of us faces up to 12 years in jail for blowing the whistle on washington's thomas a drone assassination program that pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information its case comes amid mass disclosure of similar crimes allegedly perpetrated by the united states.

i have to tell you when he called me a few hours ago he was surprisingly upbeat and optimistic and he he remarked about how much press this issue has been getting since he decided to plead guilty so in the end i think that he thinks that this is been worth it that americans know more about the drone program now than 8 they did 6 months ago or a year ago and even though he's likely going to go to prison it was worth it the u.s. is flying these drones or at least it was until recently that were used ostensibly to kill terrorists or would be terrorists but in reality to kill anybody who might

resemble a terrorist and that included women children the elderly and anybody else who happened to be on the ground i believe that we're we're a nation of laws and we have to abide by those laws whether we like them or not if we don't like them we should change them go through the process and change them if congress has not declared war on a country we don't have a right to attack it we just can't decide that we don't like the politics of whoever happens to be in charge in a place like yemen or pakistan or afghanistan and then launch drone strikes against them it's a violation of international law. information about these and similar cases was given by hail to journalists from online news publication the intercept back in 2014 it later became available to the general public and the analyst was accused of disclosing classified intelligence information because for the defendant claims such exposures are necessary for a strong society using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists

sources as spies chills newsgathering and discourages sources from coming forward with information in the public interest particularly when it relates to national security where government secrecy is at its height these documents detail the secret unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world including u.s. citizens through drone strikes there are vital public importance and activities related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment or the american government stocked with alternative points of view and therefore 2 years ago hale was arrested and charged with violating the espionage act and related offenses and was biden came to power the public anticipated changes in the drone assassination program now media reporting hearings to boost armed drone exports to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou a former cia analyst and whistleblower told us the terms of the espionage act leave hale with little hope. this is the really the worst part of the of the

espionage act this is the reason why ed snowden can't come home this is the reason why i couldn't go to trial this is the reason why jeffrey sterling the other cia whistleblower was convicted because there is no affirmative defense we are prohibited by law from going into court and saying i did it but i did it for this reason and in in the case of daniel hale this was a war crime he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal the best thing to do for daniel as it was for me as it was for so many others here charged under the espionage act is to take a deal and to hope for the lightest possible sentence the decision that was made early on even before joe biden was inaugurated to pursue the appeal against julian assange it was that decision that made it clear that joe biden was going to pursue national security leaks just like barack obama did and just like donald trump did

after him when you can see the full version of our interview with some creole cohen what's in the hoax throughout the day here on our. the connection between the astra zeneca covert vaccine and blood clots does exist as a senior official from the european medical agency but its cause is yet to be identified meanwhile the agency itself isn't rushing to link the 2 or more details of course live to show that you can ski in paris to get the latest charlotte news certainly for astra zeneca but no cause identified between this between us was underground these blood clots as of yet what's the latest how's this going to affect things over in france and indeed internationally for the for the vaccine. well there's further confusion. over the safety over astra zeneca 1st of all we had this indictment from an e m

a european medicines agencies top official one of the top officials saying that in his opinion they was a link in association between the astra zeneca job and the rare form of blood clotting this is blood clotting in the brain maria cover larry made accusations in an interview with an italian newspaper and those accusations have now gone the viral around the world this is what he had to say. we're trying to get the precise picture of what is happening to define in detail the syndrome due to the vaccine in my opinion we can now say it is clear there is an associate with the vaccine what causes this reaction however we still do not know now despite that being his opinion he said that the risk benefit ratio was still on the side of astra zeneca and he suggested that any change in advice on how that job is used would be in regards to age groups rather than anything else that's already

something that's taken place here with france germany and norway where astra zeneca now isn't being given to young. age groups however. within hours of this interview came out and said itself in a very brief statement that despite that claim it is not yet itself reached a conclusion as to whether there is an association between astra zeneca and these incredibly rare blood clots and it is continuing of course to monitor the situation in regards to that so it doesn't appear as if the invoice is going to change from the major a lead today but these need to top official from the board the are likely to just heighten the concerns that there are about the job already there are complaints is a manslaughter case being looked at here in france after a 38 year old social worker health worker received one dose of astra zeneca and

then died less than 2 weeks later a rare type of blood clotting so there are concerns about this job and if you're somebody who's just had astra zeneca and you are in one of these younger age group categories do you to have your facts seen in the next few days and this really now must be a worry because once again the safety of this vaccine in question now if i say if the official may advice does change in the next few days or the next few weeks that might also pose questions to people wondering whether they can trust the safety of what's being approved by the way and it will raise and questions about the process it is undertaken when it came to approving vaccines like astra zeneca. for that update live from paris with the latest. and we spoke to.

believes the e.u. are going to have to act immediately to stop human lives being put at risk. i think it would have been very useful to treat this is very seriously because we're dealing with the lives of people so i think from the moment there was any doubt they should have acted very quickly on that and of people are very worried and they obviously. prefer him to go through different type of that situation but yet the general feedback that i'm receiving is that people are unsure what to do because there's so many different conflicts in i didn't even out so it's very difficult for people members of the public to make their mind up definitely need some confirmation of the risk and we need to know how serious and how dangerous is the vaccine if it is dangerous or if it's not what we need. rather than just allowing people to be given a piece and just allowed to be given these facts in nations without that assurance

and reassurance i definitely hope that they learn from this and they start listening to people's back and concerns you know what if they can reassure us entirely then i guess it will be a different thing so i think for me wanted to get the assurance from them because recent not long ago they said that there was no connection with a black person and today surprisingly we've been we've learned that they could be or maybe connection with this real type of brain. and that's the issue and that's the concern because always the we just need to get beyond says and be able to make informed decisions about which friend of vaccination to use. a scandal as are often in france after the murders the ministers allegedly attended secret and lead cafes and restaurants and a violation of code restrictions and on the cover report from luxury restaurants probably opening the doors to your ip guess what interview or even claimed he

himself had illegally darden restaurants with a certain number of ministers. and he didn't wear masks they're not buying bottles of champagne. was of the french government there have been i don't mean on a dish of the gatherings. if ministers have broken the rules they must be punished like anyone else if this is territory so well informed let he name names there are not 2 types of citizens those who have the right to party and those who don't restaurants are supposed to have been closed in france and sucked. out of the coronavirus we gave reaction to the claims on the streets of paris. it was because of course we all need to relax but such a different attitude to people is simply shocking most french people like streamlet attentive we are asked to be on our guard and so it is surprising that people are treated differently it seems that everything is allowed for them and they have the right to do what others do not have the right to do i think these ministers need to ruin to the restaurants because people have not been to restaurants for

a long time if they invited us it would be nice. on the one hand they tell us stay at home do not go to restaurants close the restaurants and so on and they spend money there and do not worry about the coronavirus and we the people have no right to go there it's not fair this is an injustice and for going to a restaurant these people men and women are not waiting for the same consequences that would await for those who were caught doing this it was not for myself it is true then i think that they are the embodiment of the state the embodiment of decisions taken at the state level therefore they should be a role model and if they do not adhere to the rules that they demand from this it isn't then their power loses it so i think it's very bad if it turns out to be true since their ministers need to watch their behavior. the leader of the christian democratic union of germany army. calls for a stricter lockdown as the country struggles to contain a 3rd wave of the coronavirus initiative was met with criticism from lawmakers. we

decided already i think we need another transitional look we need to build the bridge again to the dates when everyone is vaccinated i know that many a time of the pandemic but many already to take another step now and then move to another fees from me jews and lash it isn't just the chairman of the christian democratic union party he's also the head of the state of north rhine-westphalia and some of his fellow local leaders aren't particularly happy with what he's had to say the leader of the state of terror in jail the mayor of both question the well the sense of having a short term lockdown michael miller who's the mayor of lynn saying he doesn't think mr lasher has thought about the long term implications of putting everybody into a north lock down this is ultimately the one of the big problems with coming up with a unified position here in germany it's not like i'm going to medical can say from the chancellor's office this is what we're doing everybody get on with it what ends

up happening is the leaders of the 16 states listen to what mrs merkel has to say and then go we're not sure if we really want to do that and that has resulted in a lot of problems lot of lack of clarity when it comes to an overarching plan here in germany. now saying we need a 2 to 3 week lockdown this is a change in tune from the leader of the the state of north rhine-westphalia previously he was one of the loudest voices saying we need to open up everything the c.d.u. chairman is still the bookies favorite when it comes to being his party's candidate to run for chancellor in september however going into a short term lockdown may well win him some support based on those that i spoke to on the streets of berlin i am happy they're putting more regulations on place i think things are looking a bit grim and it seems like it's going back to you know christmas despite we had back in christmas so i'm happy if things go back to. the way they work christmas is

full lockdown i think that something mark stream has to happen i don't know if it's going to be a lockdown then they have to be more aggressive and say you can't leave your house you can't see people i think trusting people to do the right thing isn't working in the moment specifically the restrictions must be made stricter because the numbers are going on the restrictions that we have now and not enough to deal with it i think in 2 or 3 weeks or maybe a months we will have a problem there for us to we need more to expand the restrictions and move explanations than germany was supposed to go into a locked out over the easter weekend in fact it was announced from the chancellor's office by angela merkel herself only for her to turn around just a short while later and say actually they weren't going to do that this would be ultimately a good turn on that u. turn if they were if germany is to follow through on the arm and lush it's plan not exactly what you want to see doesn't give confidence in leadership when you having

this type of planning or lack of planning concerning figure is that 2 thirds of germans don't have any faith in the plan that's been put out in or that says that they should or everybody should be at least offered one vaccination by the end of september that sounded ambitious when it was 1st put forward at the end of last year well if it sounded ambitious then it sounds incredibly ambitious right now we've also heard from yet inspiron the health minister here in germany he's not painted a pretty picture of the state of affairs at all he said that there's been an increase in the number of people going into intensive care with covert $4000.00 over the weekend he's also said the vaccination itself won't be able to stop the 3rd wave of covert 19 that's currently gripping germany he says on side with arm in lush its plan and says lockdown is what's needed. northern ireland has seen several lives of unrest with protesters hurling petrol bombs at police the voice anger at

recent post broke the trade rules showed it was dusty the details. we've seen numerous police offices and these violent clashes as well as dozens of people being arrested some as young as 13 and 14 years of age and so now pizza really appealing to community leaders to try and stop this disorder and stop this on the breast as well but it all follows on friday decision not to prosecute leaders of the irish nationalists the shin fein party for allegedly breaking coronavirus restrictions for attending a funeral of a former. leader last year that funeral was in june and allegedly around 2000 people attended so that is one part of the narrative but also receiving rising tensions poster bricks issues as well as a specific part of the withdrawal agreement that's the northern ireland protocol is coming under fire today what we're seeing is that old boils down to the fact that these new trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k.

essentially creates a defacto border on the irish sea quizes that goods and during the night and from britain will have to go through specific checks a century treaty at completely different to the rest of the united kingdom it's always been a huge sticking point in both theories of may's attempted break that deal but also boris johnson signed sealed and delivered deal that is a huge sticking point officials in brussels dublin and london just on technical terms but actually what we're seeing is a real a motive behind it it's an erosion of sovereignity for some it's a betrayal by the british government and all acutely rips up the good friday agreement all together and all the promises of peace within it as well it does seem like neither the shin fein for that matter nor the d.p. are in the mood for to taunt any time soon when it comes to these violent clashes old to do with that milton art and protocol and it seems all of this stoked up tensions is accelerating by breck's it seeing the appetite to unify northern

ireland an island really increase in the last few weeks if not more. once to its highest level of around 42 percent not just confined to the wishbone nationalists either but that appetite is also growing amongst the devolved nations too we know that over in scotland that appetite has been growing for years but nicholas reenergize efforts are seeing that trajectory continue as well even though looking at wales which is the 2nd smallest nation of the 4 nations they're jumping on the independence bandwagon too with around 25 percent in the polls saying that they would vote for independence which is double what it was around 6 years ago so it seems like these recent clashes over the last few days in northern ireland really are just real reflect real concerns when it comes to the disunited kingdom. professor of international history at a sea believes. leaving all that on and on equal to other parts of the.

till's says that the unionists that loyalists. are to you know. being treated like 2nd class citizens and are beginning to realize in feeling it. known to cause. more. takes more. and makes it the can of provence of the european union in a situation. unlike the rest of all the european union law. to apply to. and they're under the jurisdiction of the european. court of justice and that means. to seduce and so not citizens in union and the laws of the european union for. being applied to the course of doing this. police in the us state of maryland i've responded to

a shooting in the city of frederick where they say there are 2 big teams and one suspect has been shot and their condition is unclear as we speak to the ins and it is reportedly no longer considered to be an active shooting over the local news service has advice residents to avoid the area. a response from c.n.n. is among 9 people detained near the penal colony where kremlin critic alexei navalny is currently imprisoned in russia they were arrested over public order violations of the media and supporters of the 44 year old blogger arrive at a percentage he following claims his health had deteriorated a lot now to what he correspondent here but for more. details do we know here why were they there in the 1st place. hey there well 1st of all we have an update that's a statement from the police officials who are saying that about $45.00 people gathered outside the penal colony just to the east of moscow and

9 of them were detained for violating public order apparently they were demanding access to the blogger like say a volley and we understand that among them were c.n.n. journalists as well now we do have to understand that this is a prison facility it's a type of prison it's pacifically called appeal a penal colony sorry and this is clearly an area like in other countries that it's heavily secured you need special permission special documents to be there and of course to work as a journalist as well so now these 9 people will be under for a further investigation for whatever they were trying to do there at this point but again this particular penal colony was the focus of attention not only here in

russia but internationally as well after claims by alexina vali that he's not being treated well enough there alexina vali has lately been demanding proper medical treatment as he's putting it for severe only been given pain killers the latest update on his health condition is that the kremlin critic was actually moved to a medical unit for observation with fever so apparent the he is being treated now i can tell you that last week 2 of our colleagues set off to check out the alarming reports of abuse and. mistreatment of alexina volley in that penal colony but not as journalists but as members of a russian human rights watchdog earlier alexina vali called the penal colony

a concentration camp but i can tell you that our colleagues were shown a library a medical unit leisure facilities and also visit rooms so clearly that's not a resort but also calling it a concentration camp was apparently a bit too much. but some of. this is the love of society. at the beach and i think it's interesting business with them sleep because. she doesn't believe what you want to know who does this seem to want to push just let them. see that. so apparently with the detention of 9 people outside that penal colony. when the investigation happens and when it becomes clear what exactly they were doing when their identity is checked perhaps we're going to hear more from them and

from russian police when they are released you have to keep us updated on any news on that story with the latest. well that's it from the city but also for this hour about how often i will the latest headlines to join us again on our team international.

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