the this week's top stories, italy temporarily exempt. the citizens of neighboring san marino from needing coven passports if they've had russia sputnik v vaccine. that's despite the jap not being recognized by the u. we speak exclusively the fat marino's health minister. we have some data from the guarantee of the cmc. we are closer to a 100 percent off a few c, l. c. mass evacuation. this homes burned to the ground apocalyptic scenes. devastating wildfires range throughout the world from turkey and greece to russia and the us and a jailed hacker who exposed abusive conditions at the prison in which he's being held is denied telephone access to his lawyer. his wife brands, it an act of retaliation bureau, the prison lawyer,

telling them that she can only like speak to them if they have a coming port deadline. whereas she's not applying guys. requirement to any of the others in the ah, it's time for a rundown of this week's top story. it's time for the weekly on our t international. i'm your host donald quarter. welcome to the program. italy is temporarily exempted residence of san marino from needing coven passports to travel there. the microstates sits entirely within italy's borders and has nearly completely inoculated its adult population. with russia picnic the vaccine, which is not on the list of the use approved vaccines. brussels recently agreed to accept cova job certificates issued by san marina one vatican city. but only the

ones. it's given the green light to the passes allow free movement between those 2 non states and the block. however, the student v vaccine still does not have approval, and we had a chance to speak with the nation's health minister. our green boss, recognize this from you, but it's only for the people the summary know about you, naked by pfizer. so the people and it is 94 percent of our population that's will be seen that as the problem to move into italy and surveys are equally bar or restaurant or ok and the order closed space close space. so we are now working with the italian government to, to find a solution to this problem. the use of spoken agree in san marino has shown it has

an efficacy rate of more than 91 percent. 2 percent of those innoculated suffered side effects with less than half of those people being over 60 years of age. the health minister added that all those jabbed with support nick in san marino have developed antibodies against coded. we did some strategies about the cfc of the sporting relaxing. we have some day, some data guarantee of the d, c, and c. we are closer to a 100 percent off a few c, l, c. and so all our people develop anti bodies and which can be much the nation after one week from the start of the 2nd. those of maybe we

started to, to, to free our ospital and our accounts and, and now we have people in, in, in the roof up because someone called me from a turkey to the united states and russia to italy. devastating wildfires are raging throughout the world in greece. this week 2 people were killed in the surging fires . me the

many people were forced to leave their homes outside. the greek capital and mass evacuations are being carried out on the nearby island of a via, with hundreds of people fleeing the inferno via boat. on friday, the nation said it was struggling to contain more than $150.00 wildfires with the prime minister warning that a heat wave had turned to greece into poverty. described as the worst in decades. massive blazes are causing havoc and turkey as well. at least 8 people have been killed and around 10000 evacuated amid extreme wildfires burning along the coastline. popular tourist destinations like bo durham and mar morris have been hit . one local describe the scene there as raining ashes and on saturday,

heavy rains brought at least some relief to the country. meanwhile, there were some surreal scenes in california this week, one town in plumas county looked like an apocalyptic hollywood movie. tinder drive, education and strong winds. the dixie fire, as its being named tor, through greenville remains of homes and abandoned cars. totally burnt out. are a common sight with buildings dating back to even the gold rush era, completely destroyed along with a school gas station. church hotel and museum and russia. siberia has also been hit hard by massive wildfires. there were large scale evacuations of villages with firefighters battling infernals on the russian republic of your kuta fires blanketed large areas in thick smoke. a computer engineer is currently serving a prison sentence in the u. s. for hacking a hospitals computer systems. martin got spelled,

says he did that to draw attention to across the battle between the facility and the parents of a child being kept there without their consent. mister god felt recently turn to us after he was denied telephone access to his lawyers. me. mr. got sells wife claims communications with his lawyer were cut off shortly after the he wrote an article published on our website in the pc describes cases of mistreatment at the prison in which he's being held. the authorities though say his lack of phone access or miss treatment was simply down to their changes in covert policies. the activist swipe is not satisfied with that explanation. they read all of his mouth, so they had a heads up on what was coming. they shouldn't, it's legal privilege mail, but i guess i guess they were aware he has multiple attorneys who are trying to get in touch with him for meetings about strategic matters. he answered an appeal and

they're like just and other stuff in court and they just can't reach him. they're telling him that they, catherine fear, vault is that bureau of prisons lawyer. and it's telling them that she can only let him speak to them if they have a coming court deadlines, where she's not applying that requirement to any of the other inmates. we contacted officials and leading human rights organizations for their take on mr . gods feld's case. and the european court of human rights and human rights watch both told us that they cannot comment on the issue. but let's take a look back now at how the situation unfolded. i please let me know right now i needed all my family ah,

in. she has been totally medically, abuse, finally, common sense prevails. ah, i just don't know how this really happened because it doesn't feel like it's, it's real, a feel so good to be home in the news

we spoke with geopolitical analysts, patrick kenning sent, and barret brown, the journalist who was himself imprisoned in connection with a data leak marty himself, over throughout the entire imprisonment has been retaliated against 4 other particles. he's written lawsuits. he has filed against the system against the visual wardens and so forth. having done for years and feds myself, the prison, the u. s. for my activism and having written, calling from prison. i've been in prisons where there wasn't a lot. i've been in prisons where, you know, i was, i was pulled off the phone. what in the course of doing an interview with the interview and been put in the shoe for doing that or view and then release after investigation. you know, 2 weeks later, i was re arrested the orders in 2017 for getting interview device after i got out

of prison. no one has been involved in activism. should be tried in the us, north gosh, where there just did that. the record of the us saw it on this is a mentally vile. the harm should be proportionate to the sentence, not the potential harm. and increasingly, what we see, certainly in the us justice system, is this kind of trend of symbolic convictions and symbolic sentences, whereby the politicization of the justice system and the what used to be due process is become increasingly clear sized. and i think we can see that in so many different cases, especially with the area of cyber crime or hacking, it seems that and i think maybe this just really speaks to the ability of hackers or hacked of ists to threaten the power structure which has become increasingly

dependent on digital networks, we only have to look really at the julian assigned case as, as the sort of top level sort of case in this area. he is absolutely and political prisoner, and it's not so much about what he did. it's about what he represents and the ability of an organization to get around the powers of the state. me and now a stark warning from the united nation. it's special envoy to afghan a stand says the country is descending into a situation of catastrophe. so serious that it would have few parallels in this century. meanwhile, the u. s. and the u. k. are urging their citizens to get out of afghanistan as the latest taliban offensive in the country sees the terror group making sweeping territorial gains after

a series of rapid advances in rural areas. over the past several weeks, the insurgents are now targeting big cities with the key northern town of couldn't do lives, becoming the 3rd provincial capital seized in the last 3 days. now the taliban has taken the governor's office and police headquarters under its control with battles still going on in some parts of that city. according to reports, 14 people were killed including women and children, and more than 30 people were injured. there are scenes of destruction and conduce with buildings in ruins or set of lights. meanwhile, at least 700 former taliban fighters were released after the group captured another regional capital called sure bergen in the north of the country on saturday. that's despite us bombers being sent to the country to strike taliban positions. there is also heavy fighting between security forces and the taliban in another northern afghan province of coon, r l. it's left around 50000 people in the region displaced in the last 2 months.

and dozens of families from coon are found shelter in the local school. women and small children are making due and cramped classrooms with poor living conditions. the refugees told us about their plight. mongrel, no, hasn't. we had a good life in our village. we had everything due to the fighting between security forces and the cal about everything has been destroyed. the bottom line off isn't the county been detect our area and we had to flee a village. we saved only ourselves without any belongings or clothes. now we are living in this school building many kim, this is young initiative taliban loc, texas, all village around to mom and was heavy fighting with homes due to the fight in and out of hunger after working for tonight we arrived here. we spent the 1st night in the talk, then we came to the school. here we are facing problems. as you can see the on the map here. the capitol is entirely encircled by either contested or taliban

controlled territories with a number of attacks targeting government figures. couple has just seen the funeral of the countries media chief. he was shot dead in a raid on friday, a spokesperson for the tower groups said it punished him for his deeds, claiming, and had sent a special unit to carry out the assassination. this killing comes days after another targeted taliban assault on the afghan defense ministers home in cub. all. we've got the latest on the spiraling situation from a local reporter named bill. all star worry. the fall of going to city where the taliban have been able to take control of most of the city as well as government buildings come in, a quick succession. the city of title upon which is a couple of tough problems just next door, also fell to the taliban. and what we are also hearing from one officials in a place like condos in the hot that there are also strikes by the americans, as well as by the african government. the cause of this war for ordinary ones for

businesses, is simply too much. we also heard from the tall about issuing a statement in the city of telephone, instructing its fighters not to take revenge, not to torture, a new one, and not to go to people's homes. dot com is a city which was the home or former normalized leader. the commanders who fought against the taliban in the 1990 s. these are also provinces that have provided soldiers to the african nations security forces. but the worry of ordinary ones, even in a place like call is quite clear. john of the americans made a bad decision because they left abruptly and paved the way for the taliban to launch in immediate attack. the taliban don't differentiate between the government and public property and infrastructure. they burned down below in the current situation. so withdrawal of americans is pretty very costly for us guns. the fighting has gained the ferocity. it spread with high intensity across all of our

gas stem. i'm going to run from when the americans came to the dentist on. they came to defeat terrorism. 20 years have passed and the americans haven't defeat the terrorism, said terrorism has strengthened and regional and global terrorism was turned of can . it's down into a hub of terror. the people of afghanistan being looted and mercilessly killed and public infrastructure is being destroyed. now you're seeing people standing up to the taliban in area as these are former northern lives leader than commanders. not necessarily only, nor in other parts as well. that gets my hon is fighting against them. now 4 weeks actually in the city of head odd as well as the african government and then the americans are carrying these strikes. but it is important to point out that urban attacks are becoming more and more regular for the taliban. we also assess the situation with anti war activist kennestone. the americans are continuing their

bombing in order to try and halt the taliban in advance. but it's not working. and they're trying to prop up their government in kabul. such that the taliban might find it useful and important to make coalition. ready government with them, the important thing to remember is that for the, from the point of view of the entire world is that the reach of the u. s. empire is shrinking. so now the u. s. empire has failed in trying to subdue afghanistan, and they couldn't, couldn't continue. it's illegal occupations because it was unpopular from the very start with the afghan. he's and it was a violation of international law. and us recently had its self imposed debt ceiling . but that's not stopping democrats for, from pushing ahead with an infrastructure package worth one trillion dollars. senate has even silence debate on the legislation. on top of that,

democrats are feeling confident enough to ask for another spending package totaling $3.00 trillion dollars. it will all ultimately require having to increase the debt ceiling, and republicans are having none of it. if they don't get more of a say on how the money spent, if they don't need on our input, we had our help with a debt limit increase that wrecked actually. as he is reckless plans, you will require the debt ceiling limits, the amount of money that the u. s. government can oh, it was reinstated last year after a 2 year suspension and then automatically recalibrated to equal the current debt level, forcing the treasury to cough up for government bills. marx, kaiser, host of the kaiser report told us the u. s. has no choice. it just has to keep on borrowing b u. s. economy and conjunction with most of the west is one enormous ponzi scheme, need fresh money to keep a ponzi scheme going, if you tend to contact,

you understand that 0 percent interest rate and global that the gdp is over 300 percent. and the ability to pay back any of these loans is berkeley. you can understand why now the debt in the u. s. is going to start to become hyperbolic. and this is having an interesting corollary. and that is causing a real inflation because all that money printing attempting to tamp down the debt, which is causing people at the shops of the gas station. and notice that the price of living is going up per separate this way. and this is causing a real, causing a real damage in america right now. i think they're going to get to the point where they've got to eliminate the idea of a stealing. and they're just simply going to say that we're going to engage and unlimited on encumbered money, print thing, and debt creation. you can stop upon the game. there's only one way to this ends,

and that is through a massive default. and because the us doesn't want to experience that there are simply going to print to infinity. so the us, the us dollar becomes like that as well and all of our or other hyper inflationary currencies. and that's what we're looking at right now in the u. s. and other countries, do you think any other countries around the world are starting to scale by from the usage of the dollar? we just have to look at the usage of the dollar global. and you notice that in the last 20 years has come down every year, every 2 years has come down. russia has completely out of the us dollar and assess them up to be in an interesting situation. as you see more of cooperation with china, russia, iraq, they don't want to be involved in the dollar because the us as weaponized, the dollar by sanctioning by interfering and swift, the global money transfer mechanism. and by playing politics and by getting in the way. so these countries have study, you know, what, we need our own system. so they're creating their own system. un special repertoire

on torture says there are grounds for an official intervention against police and berlin, and follows numerous accusations and brutality against those recently pro protesting the tightening of coven restrictions, disturbing footage has emerged from last sundays. demonstration, the after these images of an officer throwing a woman to the ground went viral. berlin police confirmed an investigation into suspected bodily harm had been opened. but the head of the german police union told us criticism and pressure exerted on the officers might be unfailing. consider affordable, talked us money. i am sure that my colleagues acted in accordance with the law. in addition, more than 60 police officers were injured. they clearly did not stumble but suffered during the protests, which by the way, were fast and peaceful because they violated public orders. since they were banned, the police are the center of criticism and such deployments. that's something we're used to. society is becoming ever more polarized politics that cultivate anything

but peaceful conversation of contribution to that. and the police on right between irreconcilable fronts that are no longer ready to engage in dialogue. i know that doesn't make up police work any easier. i don't have any other opinions about this colleague say they have been under pressure and these events a lot of colleagues have been injured and that doesn't make the situation easier. we'd like to see politics being used to calm people down on all sides of events. around 5000 people took part in anti lockdown protests in berlin last weekend. more than 600 people arrested officers used baton and pepper spray against the demonstrators in a german lawyer we talked to believes the use of force was grossly disproportionate . that's what we seen in the video is quite shocking, at least to me. and if you assess it from a legal perspective, you'd ask yourself if there was a threat, but from what it looks, it's just an elderly lady trying to pass by the policeman. i don't think it is an

extremely tense situation which justify the police of the throwing the lady to the ground like that. if you look at the standard legal definition of a threat, it just didn't look like one of the policemen wasn't being attacked. and there was no gross disturbance of the peace and public security that lady just wanted to pass by. from a legal perspective, the officers conduct, quote, disproportionate freedom of assembly. the constitutional rights can be restricted. for instance, in a pandemic like the one we're seeing, there may be restrictions where they shouldn't be a difference where the people have notified of their rally beforehand or not. they should be able to gather spontaneously, to that pietro and known in the open in citizens shouldn't be in fear of being subjected to this kind of treatment. when going to protest and a huge show of people power a quarter of a 1000000 protesters took to the streets of france on saturday to vent their anger at plans for mandatory cobra to help pass this. c is the 4th weekend in a row that such demonstrations have been held. numerous trade unions,

including medical groupings, have been rallying their members against the controversial passports. earlier in the week, people in the french capital made their feelings clear. after the country's constitutional council rules, the governments moved legal. we gauge the mood of paris. this is not gives you the rooms today. we're not talking about deprivation of social right. this is going about an attempt on human rights. we're forced to vaccinate. this is real to tele, terry news. but there's other, but because it helps divided the french people into 2 categories, going vaccinated and unvaccinated. for me, it's the beginning of the dictatorship. it is the dictatorship that the pass. from next week onwards, people in france will have to show a covert passport to enter restaurants, cafes and even hospitals will help loc worker's face mandatory vaccination. by next month, it's a seemingly perpetual series of furious rallies over the pressure to vaccinate and

pandemic restrictions as well. so seems like this in late july. the money didn't even before demanded your estimation was introduced. there had been more than 10000 lay offs in french hospitals, but can the local health care system afford to lose all this employee? many people now say that they want to leave their work and not only in hospitals, if you have a closer look at what's happening now, you'll see that some specialists refused to comply with the vaccination order and say, whatever of my job, i choose to work as an independent specialist, so stop working on that. that's all for this hour. make sure to stay tuned for the weekly once more in just about 30 minutes.

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