every few suspends the account of an r.v. america correspondent only agreeing to reinstate it once a decade old video of alleged u.s. war crimes is removed. u.s. intelligence analyst 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 he really doesn't have any chance of acquittal. backseats in the spotlight as the european medicines agency's top official links it to blood clots while the medical body itself pointing to the jobless benefits. petrol bombs and bricks the price of post border checks in northern ireland we look at the background to the weekend's violent attacks on

police. worldwide this is the international from moscow where it's just one of the morning on wednesday welcome to the program 1st for you a correspondent with the america had her twitter account temporarily suspended with the social network are you going to lift the block off the she removed a video of alleged u.s. war crimes which she'd tweeted they were about to show you some footage of the video and just be warned that you might find it disturbing to watch 1st released by wiki leaks in 2010 the once classified u.s. military video appears to show the indiscriminate shooting of over a dozen civilians in a baghdad suburb from an american helicopter among those killed are 2 employees of the reuters news agency wiki leaks said it had managed to obtain the video from a number of whistleblowers america's racial blevins shed. told by twitter. so i was

simply given a notice in which is that i was locked out of my account and the only way to get back into my account was to take down that tweet without video and now they said that they were doing this because i violated their graphic content policy essentially because in that video you were watching civilians and journalists lose their lives and the context that they give behind that is to say that for the families of those victims that would be hard to watch that would be hard for that footage to be out there and to that extent they're correct about that i mean this is disturbing footage this is graphic and yet at the same time it's also even more disturbing for those families to know that even though that footage has been out there the attackers the murderers who are responsible still have not been brought to justice and so i wanted to put that video out there to service their own minder even though it has been alive and years since this footage was released those pilots those u.s. soldiers you see in that video who are literally murdering citizens civilians and

journalists in broad daylight has no consequences for those actions well over the years the video the twitter claims breaks its rules has been posted by many other uses but it has a post a saucy journalist that triggered it system ribbons insists that a little graphic the footage still needs to be brought to the public's attention. something that is a reminder of just what us law and has accomplished because here in the united states are major media organizations like say c.n.n. or fox news they don't show you for it it's like that they don't show you how horrific it is a when the u.s. military commits these terrible war crimes in other countries they don't tell you what is actually going on with this so-called war on terrorism and yet it's people like us on to have taken the steps to put that information out there to bring the actual footage to light to show the public public that and now at the same time you see the u.s. government going through promote. by even talking

a saw and going after him trying to get his head on a platter more a lot as a notice to anyone else who may try to do the same who may try to bring other footage to life i think that what we're seeing is. increasing moves on the part of these digital corporations and we know nothing about them they're completely opaque they know everything about us as forms of censorship for the ruling elite in particular the establishment elites in the republican and the democratic party who are blocking their critics on the left or the right you have to remember that during the obama administration and barack obama's vice president was of course joe biden expanded the targeted assassinations through militarized drone drones and there's complete continuity between republican and democratic administrations on this issue which is why the biden ministration has supported the appeal in london

to get julian a songe extradited to the united states. the u.s. intelligence analyst faces up to 10 years in prison for blowing the whistle on washington's targeted drone assassination program daniel hill 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 data which i'll give to the online news site the intercept back in 24 tape was made available to the public and is now accused of disclosing classified intelligence information his supporters say these kind of exposure is a 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 a vital public importance and they related to their disclosure is protected by the

1st amendment i was arrested 2 years ago and charged with violating the espionage act and also other related offenses when joe biden came to power some hope to be changes to the drone program now there are reports he aims to boost the export of our money weapons to countries including those with poor human rights records of former cia analyst john kerry from earlier told us that 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 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 and you can see a full interview with john kerry all called the latest edition of watching the hoax which is online now out on t. dot com. a connection between the astra zeneca coded vaccine and a blood clot doesn't exist so says a senior official from the european medicines agency but its cause has yet to be defined meantime the agency itself isn't rushing to link that to a shell to do you know explained. well this is the confusion on. 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 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 major a 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 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 on you 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 if 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. questions about the process it is undertaken when it came to approving vaccines like astra zeneca.

the world health organization says there's no link so far between astra zeneca blood clots highlighting the positive benefit risk assessment of the vaccine what's happened 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 that data so there is no link for the moment between the vaccine and the throne political. astra zeneca job on children in britain is also being put on hold while the u.k.'s medical regulator makes its own checks we asked people in london if they're concerned about the vaccines potential link to blood clot. i had my 1st box in on the good book problem mom's not getting it because she saw this from some health condition she's not getting it simply because of the little clots and we do actually know someone who's had a stroke since get in the vaccines i'm not all of them are that you know because they love you for has been vaccinated there ok this would be even more side effects that we don't even know about this is just one thing they're picking out they have no idea what this can all i guess the fear is

a bit bigger don't do you actual problem we've got a good public health system that keep an eye on these things and obviously they'll be looking at the latest research but while the advice to still take the vaccine i would still take the vaccine at national health campaign and i am a bennett believes the e.u. regulator should act immediately and open 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's a nation but yet the general feedback that i'm receiving is that people are unsure on what to do because there are so many different complete 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 recently need to know how serious and how

dangerous is the vaccine if it is dangerous or if it's not believe me it says rather than just allowing people to be guinea pigs and just allowed to be given these facts in 1000 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 it be wanted to get the sure it's 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. it without say on the way italian businesses pushed to the brink by lockdown after

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seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become sick as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. alone again a march in support of struggling italian businesses has turned violent in rome with protesters clashing with riot police in front of parliament. it. was thank you and rest was sparked by an extension to easter coronavirus

restrictions until the end of april thankfully the closure of all non-essential shops and take away only service for restaurants and cafes many venues though is already gone bankrupt unable to withstand the financial pressure of a 3rd lockdown in a year even many italians furious at the prospect of more restrictions. she's yelling cut in our chain signals cells because we can't go ahead and accept the situation we want to reclaim our jobs in our freedom we ask for an immediate end to the national walk down and for the immediate opening of all commercial activity without any restrictions regardless of the statistics related to the disease the fact we can't go out after tenet nights that we can't go where we want not respecting our rights which are constitutionally mandated is a form of tyranny on the founder of an italian conservative think tank told us earlier that he believes government inconsistency to driving people to dispair. i think that people are frustrated because if we don't have

a date for the hand of the lock down or we don't have a plan for the next 2 weeks and we don't have a date to hold the next we certainly don't know if they're locked down the roof i don't know in the head of state but we don't know if that lockdown will finish in the hand of me every week and have rebate the government to change it in the laws and have remake of the government to say that the long now that we need it for next weeks and this is mission is fight difficult for the ends of the world the 1st article of our constitution say that italy is a democratic country based on the level so if the number of people in the seated sense can open their shops it can to hoping the restaurant how they can leap so i handed stand that people really understand the people that grew up in the street that the most free and great to see the royals and the big problem in our county in

this nation is that the government don't have the money to help this people so that's why those people who are angry today it was found was that a research ship where. in part and each time he says you see that from the last year this year we lost $1000000.00 jobs in our country so you can imagine how it is difficult how the economic solution is difficult economy in this one and so the government has to help old people. called an island has seen several nights of on rush with protesters hurling petrol bombs of police and anger over post bricks and trade roles he had once dash to have 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 a seeing rising tensions due to post of bricks issues as well as a specific part of the threats that 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 northern ireland from britain will have to go through specific checks a century treaty a completely different to the rest of the united kingdom it's always been a huge sticking point in both theories of maize 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 serenity 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 milton art and protocol and his sayings 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. 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 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 real concerns when it comes to the disunited kingdom post bracks at belfast based political commentator for. futile to try and renegotiate the northern ireland protocol. as work has always had. political response to the destabilization of the peace process here and continue. creating positive. using violence to try to do to renegotiate the whole of whom that's not going to

happen anytime soon so it's a completely. normal as flexing their muscle trying to use violence who shouldn't be able for the. representatives. and the. soyuz rockets imposition of the law and the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan to blast off for the international space station on friday just a few days before russia marks the 60th anniversary if you regard it becoming the 1st person in space concert following this latest mission. well for those who are not involved in the space program itself this is arguably the best moment to see the rocket up close when they transfer it from an assembly hangar to the launch pad and you know i mean wow just look how look how big it is and you know i got to tell you something that i watched this on t.v.

many times but this is absolutely different when you see something like this in person by the way the sawyers rocket is 50 meters long and it weighs over 300 tons and of course it takes a base to retrain even to haul it they move it slowly and carefully because as you can see we can move along in more alaska pop with it there's no need for haste at this moment because it's important not to disrupt the sample rocket just days before liftoff the reason why the soyuz rocket is so big because it needs a lot of fuel to overcome gravity and that's what a space rocket basically is is just a massive fuel tank up to 90 percent of it burns out during the flight sequence in the past and then used parts simply fall back to earth and that's why by the way that was one of the reason why baikonur was built. in sparsely populated steps of kazakhstan because you don't want used parts of rocket to fall on someone's house

the spacecraft itself is much smaller if you compare with what the rest of the rocket sits right on the tip of the rocket inside a capsule let's go in to protect the space crew while they're going to make blast their way to orbit. and this time we have 2 russian cosmonauts and want to merican astro. despite a vastly have in space is dragon program they still dependent on russia and pay the country to stand its astronauts into space and a way to preparation is in full swing now his passion for russia's peter dubrovsky this is going to be his 1st ever space flight leg novitsky now the russian crew member and space ships captain on the other hand has more experience he's already

has 2 space missions under his belt the same goes for mark bonner hey who's not only been to the ice sas in the past but also perform several spacewalks now if everything goes as planned they will be in space at this 60th anniversary of your garden's flight which made him the 1st average human in space and set the space age which we live in today just over 550 people have been able to visit earth's orbit ever since but thanks to your garden and other pioneers of space travel we know that this is possible and that gravity is not our limit. and obeying well constantly will be with us live on friday to bring us here on to it and that's it from a show and tell us what we just have a half an hour we go next to.

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