goodall for one who's doing the. sprint is the account of an r.t. america correspondent only agreeing for reinstated once a decade old video of alleged u.s. war crimes is removed. and i leave it there graphic content policy the reality here it is hard is it is you're watching video right now and the american people need right now. former u.s. intelligence analyst faces years in jail for exposing america's drone assassination program you speak to a whistleblower who's in close contact with him. he did it because he was exposing a war crime he's not allowed to see that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. because code a vaccine and use in the spotlight as the european medicines agencies top official

links it's a blood clots by the medical body itself goes on pointing to the jobs benefits. of the warms bricks the price of post border checks we discussed the background of the weekend's violent attacks on police in northern ireland. from moscow thanks so much for joining us on r.t. international tonight i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. our correspondence with r.t. america has had a twitter account suspended because she recently did a video of alleged us war crimes. the social media platforms attention was drawn by a video widely known as collateral murder which was 1st released by wiki leaks over a decade ago according to the journalist twitter did eventually block her account but only after she removed that post which the platform found in breach of its

graphic content policy. i had then they surely would have heard me and by twitter and told them i would stay in china now locked out of my class i sit down and to eat and which i shared the in this collateral murder video that was published by julian assigned and we kulaks 11 years ago today says that i have 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 that they didn't put it like that out there on the internet because that could 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 that the people who did it got to walk away with no consequences because that's what happened in this case with the video for the story was 1st released by wiki leaks and pulled 2010 we're about to show paul so that footage but be warned you might find the video distressing.

well bring that to you a little later they want classified u.s. military footage which you can see there on your screens appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of over a dozen civilians. from an american helicopter among those killed there are 2 employees of the reuters news agency. said it had managed to obtain the video from a number of whistleblowers. again believed the most dangerous being blamed here while the actual perpetrators get away scot free. even though so many years have passed even though the senator is there 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 consequence is you know who was lying for all of that to me and who is now sitting in prison right now julian assange being tortured he could lose his life because that is the you publish speak as he

goes for the right to use 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 the so-called 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 now we want to happen much more than they think and they also need to know that when it comes to those just crimes far too often no one is held accountable. for more u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program. pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information this case comes amid must 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. well information about these and similar cases was given by hail to journalists from online news publication intercepts that was back in 2014 later became available to the general public and the analyst was

accused of disclosing classified intelligence information advocates for the defendant claims such exposures are necessary for a strong society. using the espionage act in this way to prosecute journalists sources and 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 the related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment or the american government stuck to an alternative point of view and therefore 2 years ago hale was arrested and charged with violating the espionage act and other related offenses or as biden came to power the public anticipated changes in the drone assassination program now

media though reporting here aims to boost the 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 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 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 a son 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 what you can see the full version of our interview with john kiriakou on what's in the hawk throughout the day on author into. a connection between the astra zeneca covert vaccine and blood clots doesn't exist says a senior official from the european medical agency but its cause is yet to be defined meanwhile the agency itself isn't rushing to link the 2 shot of even skate that he thought of. well they still have the 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 there was a link in association between the astra zeneca job and the rare form of blood clotting this is blood clotting in the brain areas 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 give 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 the reason association 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 a 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 advice is going to change from the e.-m. a direct plea 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. manslaughter case looked up here in france after a 38 year old social worker or 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 vaccine 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 economy advice does change in the next few days or the next few weeks that might also pose questions with people wondering whether they can trust the safety of what's being approved by the way and it will raise a lot of questions about the process it has undertaken when it came to approving vaccines like astra zeneca. or i spoke earlier tonight. believes that you're going to have to act immediately to not put human lives 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 for a different type of that situation but yet the general feedback that i'm receiving is that people aren't sure what to do because there's so many different conflicts in i didn't given 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 guinea pigs and just allowed to be given these facts in a show and without that assurance and reassurance i definitely hope that they learn from this and they start listening to people's feedback 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 blood cause and then today surprisingly we've been that we've learned that they could be or maybe a connection with this red 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. the leader of the christian democratic union of germany armin lash out to calls for a stricter lockdown of the country struggles to contain a 3rd wave of the coronavirus initiative was met with criticism from all my control . we disappear all because 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 tired of the pandemic too many already to take another step now and then move to another fees from may june 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 burlington saying he doesn't think mr lasher it 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 moments of for me the restrictions must be made stricter because the numbers

are going out and the restrictions that we have now are not enough to deal with it i think in 2 or 3 weeks or maybe a month we will have a problem there for us to we need more to experiment restrictions and move explanations that 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 its 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 it sounded ambitious then it sounds incredibly ambitious right now we also heard from yen spy on 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 over the weekend he's also you 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 lash its plan and says lockdown is what's needed. let's now bring in dr marc siegel in crime who's a german m.e.p. from the alternative for germany party sir thanks for joining us today good to have you on the program. how would you score the german government's handling of the pandemic on a scale of $1.00 to $10.00 how good a job do you think is being done. oh i would say it's the one where it's they be had no do overs no plan from the beginning it is lost it was only

running after the events so in this thread it genie no idea no clue on anything you see it. always reacting. on the one hand and on the on the other hand we fail miserably in a vaccination program so we are now on the level of a developing country and even within the european union we are far behind and if you look to great britain day now of fruits of. our hat of the whole continent just sick and say no plan for vaccination no plan for restricting qubit just running running behind that's clearly not tended to warm and it shows to germany is governed very badly in this field do you think that germany's 16 regions should decide on their own locked on measures their

own looked at restrictions or would that be too chaotic should not be some sort of solid policy at a federal level here. this is what i get our merkel try it's a she she made a conference of off the governess and then they decided to get or so indeed we had on the on the major measures we had unity our constitution allows the federal government order of to the federal level to do it on its own zadie could make a lot more and tend then to decide it on their own but that's not merkel side of merkel always wants to bring. many people and many policymakers in her camp which is to prevent her power because if several parties are to get over to her and. bating on the measures there no one can really oppose her. it was the

idea and it went event ride ride well for her from if you look to the polls until generally i would say but no people they are upset with those locked arms and their data and trust her policy anymore. they don't trust the policy of all the governors anymore and we have a shift in public opinion so no she could say i do it i take leadership i make it on my own and i decide. that is what she is thinking about off to after her last t.v. interview. we will see i don't i don't think so so now she is pushing her crown prince i mean lush it to make a proposal that we will see i mean it's not her side to take the lead it is it always has been her style to wait and see and then make a decision that is shared by by a west majority but i don't see the vast majority anymore in the country so she

comes to an end but her style of politics oh i want to come back to the polls you mention that because the poll suggests many germans are losing faith in the government's policy on the pandemic what do you think needs to be done to regain the public's trust. that is hard because on the one hand after a month of lockdowns which were horribly communicated so we began back in november of 2020 and it was said to do it less until christmas and now we are are we stick in that locked and we have passed you know dictated the western easter now so what will you tell people now we have to plan after we hadn't it for many months that there's a problem here. sometimes you just lose trust and then it's lost and the only way to come out is still have

a significant share of the population being vaccine. but people know nowadays that the german government is doing everything wrong in bringing the vaccines to the people and they don't have any any idea to make it quicker sylvio heating to water some are already people can can see the brits and the israelis and maybe doing variants partying on the favorite german party locations and time of them are your kind anyway in the mediterranean area and they being at home and. yes locked in. communities not able to travel so. you can build up trust when your politics is obviously failed. public political p.r. comes to an end. yes so a lot of decisions to be made given that a 3rd wave in germany right now ducks them german n.e.p.

from the the party thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today. northern ireland has seen several lights of unrest with protesters hurling petrol bombs at police the voice anger at recent post. showed it was that he has the details. we've seen numerous police officers injured and as these violent clashes as well as dozens of people being arrested some as young as 13 and 14 years of age and so now police are 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

a seeing rising tensions due to post bricks issues as well as a specific part of the brics it withdrawal agreement that's a northern ireland protocol is coming under fire today what we're seeing is it all 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 it completely different to the rest of the united kingdom it's always been a huge sticking point in both theories of may's attempted bret's that deal but also boris johnson signed sealed and delivered bricks it deal that is a huge sticking point officials in brussels dublin and london just sore 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 all to do with that northern ireland protocol and it seems all of this stoked up tensions is accelerating by breck's at seeing the appetite to unify northern ireland an island really increased in the last few weeks if not more. months to its highest level of around 42 percent not just confined to the wish for 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 some years but nicholas sturgeons 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 of real concerns when it comes to the disunited kingdom. prefer sort of international history at. the brics the all leaves northern ireland on the parts of the u.k. . till's says that the unionist loyalists produce a. majority you know on. being treated like 2nd class citizens under beginning to realize and feeling it. known to cool. more or less takes northern ireland away from the you know it's a kingdom and makes it a can of provence of the european union so they're in a situation unlike the rest of britain and all the european union laws regulations directives apply to them. and they're under the jurisdiction of the european. court of justice and that means you know the producer too since the not citizens of

the european union and the laws of the european union for. being applied to them in the course of doing like this. correspondent from c.n.n. is among 9 people detained near the penal colony work from an uncritical accent of allie's county imprisoned in russia they were arrested over public order violations the media and supporters of the 44 year old blogger arrived at the percent of the following claims his health had deteriorated a lot now to the printer for the latest on this thanks for staying across the story what exactly the details here why would be the press there in the 1st place. daniel good evening well the police are now saying that 45 people gathered outside the penal colony east of moscow and 9 of were detained quote unquote for violating public order apparently some of them for demanding the axis that they

didn't have permission for not speaking of the c.n.n. journalists and particular according to a russian foreign ministry department that oversees the work of foreign journalists in this country the c.n.n. staff were among the group that was standing right on the road outside that prison and ignored orders by police to clear the road and then also refused to show their press credentials anyway what do you have to understand that a penal colony is a type of prison in russia not with the highest level of security but still it's a heavily secured and a restricted compound so you can do anything you want there there are special rules and if you violate these rules then there could be trouble this particular call me became the focus of international attention not only media attention in this

country after kremlin critic alexina vali began serving his 3 year sentence there that is because of his violations of the conditions of an earlier sentence for a fraud case now lately alexina vali began complaining about his deteriorating health and also about the treatment that he's getting alexina volley was demanding proper treatment for what he was calling severe back pain and numbness and both legs according to mr and volley the only treatment that he was getting was pain killers the latest update. on his health condition is that the blogger was moved to a medical unit with fever so apparently he's being observed and treated by doctors there now i can tell you that last week 2 of my colleagues set off him.