suspends the accountability america correspondent tony agreeing to reinstate it once a decade's old video of alleged crime is removed. i leave it there graphic content policy the reality here that is hard is it is you watching video right now and the american people need right now. for more u.s. intelligence analysts faces years in jail for exposing america's drone assassination program we 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 say that and so he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. astra zeneca is cope with vaccines in the spotlight as the european

medicines agencies top official links it's a blood clots while the medical body itself goes on pointing to the jobs benefits. petrol bombs on bricks the price of post. we discuss the background of the weekends of all attacks on police in northern ireland. 7 pm here in moscow thanks for joining us on all the international. our correspondent with r.t. america has had her twitter account suspended because she we tweeted a video of alleged us war crimes rachel blevins says the social media platforms attention was drawn by a video was made known as collateral murder which was 1st released by wiki leaks over a decade ago according to the john must twitter did eventually on rocker account but only after she removed at that post which the platform found in breach of its graphic content policy. then they surely would have heard me and by twitter and

told them i would stay in china now locked out of my last i sit down and to eat in which i shared the in this collateral murder video that was published by julian simon and we kulaks 11 years ago today 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 the footage like that out there on the internet because that would be hard for the families of the 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. but the video the center of the story was 1st released by wiki leaks in april 2010 or about to show parts of that footage but you warn you might find it distressing or the once classified u.s. military footage appears to show the in the screw minute shooting of over

a dozen civilians in a baghdad suburb from an american helicopter among those killed there were 2 employees of the which is news agency we can. tell in the video from a number of whistleblowers blevins again so the messenger is being blamed here all the actual perpetrator is quite away scot free. even though so many years have passed even though the senate is there clean this day even though you see it was just gasping u.s. soldiers murdering civilians and journalists in broad daylight and laughing about it they were up to it was no consequence 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 wife because that is the you publish speak as he goes for 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 there were crimes like now one happened much more than they think and they also need to know that when it comes to this just gusting crimes far too often no one is held accountable. for more u.s. intelligence analysts faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program that you'll hail pleaded guilty to transmitting and retaining national defense information his 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 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 they related to their disclosure is protected by the 1st amendment or the american government to alternative points of view and therefore 2 years ago hale was arrested and charged with violating the espionage act and other related offenses as boyden came to power the public anticipated changes in the drone assassination program but now media reporting he aims to boost armed drone exports to countries including those with poor human rights records john kiriakou a former cia analyst and muscle blower 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 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 his 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 when you can see the full version of our interview with john kiriakou on what's in the hoax throughout the day on. a connection between the astra zeneca covert vaccine and blood clots doesn't exist as 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 at their bodies health. well this for the confusion. of the safety over astra zeneca 1st of all we had this indictment from an e m a european medicines agency's top official one of the top officials saying that in his opinion there was a link in association between the astra zeneca jab 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 there is an association with the vaccine what causes this reaction however we still do not 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 invoice is going to change from the d.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 tired astra zeneca new or in one of these younger age group categories do you to have your vaccine in the next few days in this really now must be a worry because once again the safety of this vaccine in question now. i say

if the official here may advice 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 and questions about the process it is undertaken when it came to approving vaccines like astra zeneca. meanwhile the world health organization says there's no link so far between astra zeneca and blood clots in a positive benefit risk assessment of the vaccine what happens is that there are a number of committees right now and regulatory agencies and regulatory authorities looking at data and new data is coming every day and assessing the data so there is no link for the moment between the vaccine and the throne political. i spoke earlier to know. who believes the e.u. regulator 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 are unsure what to do because there are so many different conflicts in guidance is 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. it says rather than just allowing people to be getting 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 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 sure it's from them because recent not long ago they said that there was no connection with a black person and 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 all we see we just need to get beyond says and be able to make informed decisions about which friend of vaccination to use. i've heard so many of the leader of the. party on the linchpin of the ruling coalition the house call for a stricter lockdown as the country grapples with a 3rd wave of the covert pandemic the proposal though has taken some flack from all my cause. we disrupted 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 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 burlington 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 june 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 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. 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 armin lush'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 again 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 $4000.00 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 and only before the alternative for germany party told us that burning might have irreversibly lost the public's trust. there is no plan from the beginning it is forced it was only running after

the events we feel miserably in a vaccination program so we are now on the level of a developing country and we have a shift in public opinion people are upset with those locked are ones sometimes you just lose trust and then it's lost to people see politicians explained that they have a lock on for the next 3 weeks and did explain this since november and now we have to slog on for months and no even want to have a heart locked on so how can you trust such a government. march in support of business owners has turned violent in rome what is this have clashed with riot police in town for the italian parliament. or the unrest was sparked by an extension to ease the coronavirus restrictions until the end of april to include the closure of all non-essential shops and take away only services for talent for restaurants and cafes and many venues have

already gone bankrupt unable to withstand the financial pressure of a 3rd lockdown in one year we cross live that i just could you be a the president of a future nation an italian conservative think tank thanks for coming on the program good to have you with us today italy's going through a 3rd wave of the coronavirus presumably the government didn't have a choice but to extend this lockdown. so it's not for the full or let me say that and violence is only stronger so imagine that to me so if you are not good for our country because it isn't about us and the police it is not correct but the 2nd time we have to say that there are a lot of people a lot of the wholeness of the restaurant a lot of homeowners of shocked that are tired that are tired because they can't hoping they can work i have. only an constitution and you can see here. and the time that this is the 1st article of our constitution say that yto is

a democratic country based on low work so even norman people even the citizens can hoping their shops can't hoping the restaurant how they can leave so i have understand that people who understand the people that go in the street that the most great and great to see their balls but violence is not correct this were these restrictions on where we had a big impact on the hospitality sector what do you think the government should do to help have that balance between keeping people safe and keeping businesses afloat . how you know we have a new government that is led by the former president of the bank that these new government either link it with us to go down with the previous government of it because i think that the we have to change and have everything that these people need more money because if you say to hold their of their

restaurant you can open until the hand of paper you can open until maybe may or maybe in june in the summer. see ok we don't hold back the gorham has to be as something the government has to help give has money and the big problem in our county in this is that the government doesn't have the money to help these people so that's why those people who are angry today it was a resurgent where the in part and each time he said you see that from the last year to this year we lost 1000000 jobs in our country so you can imagine how it was difficult how they cannot solution is difficult economy in this one so the government has to have both people do you think being the government vaccination program at least could could bring some hope for the economy or the introduction of covert passports perhaps could that be one solution to the problem. i think that the problem of the nation is not

a legal talent government it's the equal of the european union we even see. for example to russia to so the other united kingdom to the circular a lot of countries how the european you know the situation of the senate term solution is better than in say the european union the problem of the tone of the program of germany the problem of france is there's an issue accompanying it is very slow because we don't have the vaccine but this is not the fault of our government this is the fault of the european union because the european union is there is long to give has seen so if you don't have. a few days it is difficult to really fall for it but there are a lot of situations that are not normal for example if you go in assam we enroll more in you know not this crowd of people inside but the rest rather close to sort of there is something that is not working in the constitution. to start it very

very fast of a significant thing. because you really affects your time here today on our team for national good to have you on the program. northern ireland has seen several lights of unrest with protesters hurling petrol bombs at police the voice saying what recent post cradles showed it was dashed 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 rest 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 due to. issues as well as a specific part of the brics it withdrawal agreement that's the 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 entering the night and from britain will have to go through specific checks essentially a treaty a 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 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 fame for that matter nor the d.p. are in the mood for to taunt anytime 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 increase in the last few weeks if not months. to its highest level of around 42 percent not just confined to the west 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 sun here but nicholas sturgeons reenergize efforts are seeing that trajectory continue as well even though looking at wales 'd 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 post back set unscared emeritus professor of international history at l.s.e. believes the brics at the leaves northern ireland on the call to other parts of the u.k. . till says that the union this loyalists produce a. majority you know and. being treated like 2nd class citizens under beginning to realize and feeling it. known protocol. more or less takes north away from you know it's a kingdom and makes it a kind of provence of the european union so they're in a situation. unlike the rest of all the european union law. applies to. and they're under the jurisdiction of the european. court of

justice so that means that you know the producer to since the not citizens of the european union and the laws of the european union for. being. in the course of doing this. a c.n.n. correspondent is among 9 people detained near the penal colony work travel in critical x. and alleys currently imprisoned in russia they were arrested over public order violations the media and supporters of the 44 year old blogger arrived at the passivity following claims his health had deteriorated. who has been following the story. the police have said that 45 people gathered outside the penal colony east of moscow and 9 of them have been detained for quote unquote violating public order some of them apparently for trying to get the access that they didn't have permission for not speaking of the c.n.n. journalists according to a russian foreign ministry department that oversees the work of foreign journalists

and this country the c.n.n. staff were standing right on the road outside that prison and ignored orders to clear the road and also refused to show their press credentials in this particular call me didn't only become the center of attention for russian media but also for international media because the kremlin critic alexina vali is serving his 3 year sentence there for violating the conditions of the suspended sentence he got after the investigation of a fraud case they plea the opposition activist has been complaining about his health and also about the treatment his getting out of that call and the but the latest update from the president officials that we're hearing is that he's been moved to a medical unit with fever so apparently he's now being observed and treated by doctors there now last week 2 of my colleagues set off to check on the reports of abuse and mistreatment of the mr and of ali in that penal colony but not as

journalists but as members of a russian human rights watchdog alike saying the volley compared that prison to a concentration camp but the crew was shown something that you'd expect to find in a normal prison including a library a proper medical unit plenty of visiting rooms and also leisure facilities blood some of the list obviously in the blood of the society. and the world doesn't leave a trace and it's an interesting business to look into them asleep at the police he says. which is why you want to know what is going to go on and pushes them away doesn't this doing its. job and measure the market. will keep you right up to date on a let's say no volleys health condition the international reaction to what and also what happens to the journalists that have been detained. documentaries shannon

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