the berlin police say the use of violence is part of germany's legal system in response to claims of employing excessive force against protesters at a recent anti lockdown rally julian assault supporters gathered outside london's high court as it listened to washington's appealed to extradite the whistleblower to the us, former british opposition leader was among those blending support to the founder german as a threat to star one site depression in terms of what is also on the as the threats of example. so all about take my 1st helicopter right. can be for a better reason. and r t i joined the helicopter cru battling the devastating wildfires that have ravaged rushes far east for months. ah,

for broadcasting alarm to read from our studios in moscow, this is art international. i'm sean thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now the you and the special rapid tour on torture and neil's meltzer has met with berlin's interior minister and top of police officials about allegations of police brutality at an anti lockdown protest. earlier this month, you an expert said the authorities were open and ready to share material, but please have remained unapologetic about the use of force against demonstrators . the very question is, violence, violence hurts, violence, injured violence, looks violent, direct coercion. even with all the pictures that go with it is still part of a legal system. when those heron, thim for police officer slammed an elderly woman here the ground surface. and there

was a wave outrage here in germany call, and alex police brutality, but not from the side of the german police. they looked at the same scenes and called them off the course and even part of the legal system. the sucking statements came in response to prove a few years complaints of police misconduct as an antelope down pro, tacked on the 1st on them the some 5000 people came out to the streets. they were mad with force with officers. so when using peppers pre on one bake, hold on, all right, protest, almost 600 people arrested and also injured. such seems conduct thompson of the you know, what her, on tours, her nails smells. her number of videos have been spread that give ground for concern because a strong enough that human rights violations were possibly committed. he also said about the woman and the now infamous video could have died. yet to ultra is

a belief from critics a colleague of the purpose phrase her claim. he was actually protract, ensure that was neatly executed, had lever hold. the officer held the woman until contact with the ground so as to avoid head injury. police piano went so far as to criticize the worries on the report for his payments could only enrolled the demonstrators, the servants, footage of police brutality may not been you, but to officially now a claim. that's how she the 4th is a legitimate part of the code. legal system is certainly an original wait. describe it. journalist and author thomas fast, bender told us, german officials seemed to care more about police brutality abroad than at home. this is a troubling, a very troubling phenomenon which i personally have lived in germany for so many decades would not have expected. it is clearly excessive what we saw and it is troubling the reaction by the bird enforced the the refusing to admit

that i have been wrong doings, especially if we think that one year ago, the german media, the german public. so 100 percent li condemned the violence against black people in the u. s. a. i fully understand the german media, german official, criticize of the european countries for the us follow that hopefully. but why do they refused to do the same thing when their own police forces are concerned? that is the, the voting fact. helicopter crash into a lake and rushes far east come chalk region has left 2 people seriously injured. of the 16 on board 13 are understood to be tourists. one a small child of the m i. t 8 plunged into korea lake at 10 am thursday local time while trying to land in the surrounding nature reserve. the helicopter was taken,

taking russian tourists to the air is thermal springs and is now understood to have sunk to a depth of 100 meters. a people were rescued by local boat, 6 of them, tourists. the cause of the crash is still being investigated. the support of wiki leagues under julian assange have rallied outside the high court in london to protest in appeal by the u. s. it was filed against a january ruling not to extradite the whistleblower washington has now been allowed to challenge key psychiatric evidence against his expedition. the next hearing will take place in october. assault was arrested in 2019 for breaching british bail conditions. he remains in a london jail and is still wanted on espionage charges in the us. more than a decade ago, the wiki leaks co founder published thousands of classified documents, exposing pentagon war crimes. and i've got to stand and iraq, he could face up to 175 years in prison, if extradited to america, to keep partridge reports now from outside the court. here the u. k. is high court

of justice in central london. the u. s. is being allowed to appeal against the decision not to expedite. ricky league founded julian a sorry, an action which is broadcast. how much is the courses prove? what you're doing with the old system of justice has just been thrown out the window. the u. s. government is using the u. k. tax payers money for these aberrations of justice cases. the whole thing is going to be can't depend on the fresh official anybody $33.00 in the mainstream major in the you are on notice. if they do not get that by behind these they're going to be next. on january, the 4th, the british judge had ruled sonjee couldn't be expedited to america. fighting concerns about his mental health and the risk of suicide in a u. s. prison record remain in a british high security prison if he's considered

a flight risk and to spend the last decade, either in a prison or the ecuadorian embassy in london. when a decision on a soldier's native hearing isn't expected. and so we often want to fight the high court authority supporters were protesting against his extradition, including former opposition leader, jeremy coven. german is under threat to his impression, dominican what, what is also critical is the threats of example. what is news corporation? huge control of most media, television, radio and french media. and they become a tell section on john. this journalist richard met hurst watched a video stream of the hearing and says he was deeply disturbed by what he saw. i literally did a double take. i can recognize that it was a song she looked extremely old. you know, he's wearing a white shirt,

some glosses, his harris, his ruffled, and yet here the tie that was actually on just really looks completely. i mean, you know, part of the rash assessment. he looks very awful and ill and which is normal because the whole point of the high court, preliminary hearing today was to discuss his health. right. so we had extensive medical witness testimony during the extradition, hearing at the bailey back in september and october. and this was again, brought up today and is going to be brought up again in october and in, at the high court that his health is deteriorated. he's been tortured, and this is, i'm a journalist who's not serving a sentence. he's not a criminal, and he's in a maximum security prison in britain's guantanamo bay. i mean, someone needs to explain that to me what is happening because this is completely unjust, and it's a crime against press freedoms. and if it's an affront against his personal health, the most important thing about this case is press great, because when you have someone who's publishing, you know, work documenting war crimes from the united states in ghana, santa and iraq. because people, again,

they think this is something to do with 2015, absolutely nothing to do 2015. he's being charged julian songs being prosecuted biting because he published documents relating to iraq and afghanistan, you published evidence of war crimes of kidnapping rendition and torture. but if the high school students in the u. s. state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they're proficient in reading, writing, and mathematics in order to graduate. this is, according to a new all signed by the governor or to kill him up and picks up the story according to the bill that was signed into law in the state of oregon last month, students in order to graduate from high school in the state of oregon will no longer have to prove that they're capable of reading, writing, or performing basic mathematical operations. this is don according to the bills language, to help students from communities that have quote, historically experienced academic disparities. the testing that we've been doing in the past doesn't tell us what we want to know. we want to have kids getting

a chance to do and learn and be curious about everything. and what we've been doing is stopping their curiosity now, the bill from what it's supporters say is about trying to help students who are from immigrant populations or refugees who have come to the states who the examinations and the tests required for graduation are seen as kind of a barrier to them getting the high school diploma. now reportedly these rules will now be in place for the next 5 years now. the bill was signed into law without much fanfare. there was no signing ceremony. there was no press release announcing the bill. and it was added to the database a few days after it was signed. and now i was last month. and now there's been quite as strong a negative reaction. this is a progressive left form of education, dummy down kids. you are taking away the only tool to get to break the poverty

cycle. this is the type of legislation that they want to make black people a permanent underclass. these requirements were suspended during the pandemic due to the circumstances. but now this suspension of those requirements has been fully signed into law in the state of oregon. now it's possible that the federal department of education could step in to overturn these requirements. but many see this as a trend of lowering standards. for example, in the state of new york, they're getting rid of some of the examinations and tests that were once required. many critics are arguing there's kind of a dumbing down of american education. they see this as a result of that as, as, as a continuing of a process in which the academic standards are lowered across the united states. former oregon republican party chairman perry atkinson says the new law could drag down the states entire education system has really upset a lot of people and oregon parents in particular, school boards across the state are very upset about it. and i think that the fall

out is just now starting to happen. it's somewhat races. i mean, you're putting a class of people down and you're bringing everybody down in time. are you forcing colleges to lower their standards in order to get students in to pay their bills? the whole system of education gets damaged by this. i think that there's plenty opportunities. there are what we have head start systems here in oregon. we have tutoring, since we got everything in place to help a student struggling to succeed. that's what education is about not to bring the whole system down. this bill will create an evacuation out of public schools in the private schools and home schools and that in turn will hurt them financially. there's one of the most infamous symbols of the vietnam war, agent orange, the extremely toxic curbside, and to full ent, used by the us military and the campaign. the chemical cause, the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people and the lasting effects have passed down across generations. but of

a warning you may find the next images upsetting. ah, this me. that was born in 1975. and i was missing both my arms at the elbow down and my left leg from the knee down. the hospital that i was born in never seen anything like that one more. so they weren't sure if i was going to live or die. and it's made my life pretty cold growing up because i had to adjust to everything. ah . they were just following orders. they weren't arguing that they weren't gonna spread. they were commanded by the officials to spread. so they had to do what they

were told to do. i several major cases against every single one day when i'm not sure why they won't take responsibility, but as it is right now, over 8000000 people have died from the effects of aging. and there's countless numbers of people, more number disfigured into form and they have cancer, tumors. you can't even really name them all because it just so many. ah, i me, my mom live in the veteran. my disability would be a 100 percent over and they would take full responsibility for us and it was my dad . they said that there's no way that he kind of affected the veterans kids in the

veterans. and so they have serious health issues and medication like outrages me like i know several of my friends that are children of vietnam veterans. and with the almost is that they have, they literally spend thousands and thousands of dollars a month out of their own pocket because the us government will even the why the medication they need or they. and they've done the headline grabbing exclusions and scoops sway public opinion key political decisions, perhaps even entire elections is remarkable. just how much power unnamed or anonymous sources they cite really hold. that's more remarkable is how much the authors of such headlines often seem to have in common. our chief den hawkins has more the link between thing. thanks the military industrial complex and the media has been around for a while. often is yourself to follow the money on the trail is pretty hard to miss some of america's top foreign policy and security correspondence hold residencies

at the center for new american security. what exactly is the cna s the thing sang takes 2nd place for receiving the most us government and defense contract or funding sponsored for years by the biggest names in the defense banking and oil sector. the organization of course, claims to be impartial, seen as does not take institutional positions and policy issues and the content of cns publications reflects the use of the office alone along publication history of some of the names on the cns. ross suddenly for interesting reading. take one example before the iraq war, david sanger and michael gordon's report from iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction made dramatic headlines, helping shape public opinion before the invasion in 2003. in later years, their employees themselves are forced to admit that mistakes. but by then the damage had been done. a devastating conflict with consequences still felt globally

to the state. we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. that report concerned the aluminum tubes that the administration advertised insistently as components for the manufacturer of nuclear weapons fuel. it should have been presented more cautiously. the series of times, articles in 20022003 strongly suggested sadam. hussein already had all was acquiring and awful of weapons of mass destruction. many of those articles turned out to be an accurate. it's not like things stopped after iraq. the focus shifted to russia. one report, speaking of russia, linked masked men in ukraine. again, a retraction, swiftly follows, but the patent is clear to see even to the editors themselves. more recently, some of those grainy photographs have been discredited. it all feels rather. 7 familiar, the rushed publication of something, fighting, often based on an executive branch leak. remember that story on russians paying the taliban bounties for the heads of american soldiers co authored by erik smith,

another c and a resident. it was the bunks will be it's a year later, but it made for a great story. and if c n a s a long i do really well. they can graduate to top positions in the pentagon or state department, more than a dozen. i've been selected to serve in the blood and administration. let's give thing, thanks on their resident report as the benefits of the doubts, perhaps they do it here at the jury. listen basic principles. but let's also ask questions. where does neutrality and objectivity stop and conflict of interest begin? when should we feel uneasy about in the rec size, between a stablish mint and journalists? and should we always take information we see at face value or dig a little deeper? with the new york times, the washington post and foreign policy magazine have done over the last 20 plus years. and the name of journalism is nothing but war propaganda to support all us

aggression around the world. we see this going back to george bush's war on iraq that was based on the iraqi w and these hoax. and it continues to be that way. nothing has really changed only that 2003 for, you know, many journalists in the mainstream. it's kind of seen as an aberration when in fact, the iraqi w. m. the hoax set a precedent is now the rule that everyone should live in order to justify us aggression against it. rival countries like china, like russia, like bennett, way like cuba. and that's, that's just the way the u. s. considers. journalism is practiced. wildfires continue to rage and rushes far east sick smoke has covered cities and yahoo to ya and reportedly reached as far as the north pole volunteers, firefighters, heavy machinery and airborne forces are all involved in trying to extinguish the

flames and its heavy, exhausting work as our youth, dimitri poke discovered when he joined one helicopter cru headed to the front line . so all about sick, my 1st helicopter right, can be for a better reason. we're going to take a look over the fires of the region, just north of the capital. of course, we're going to see how about the situation because right now the fires are threatening several villages. we will see just how about it is and deliver supplies to the people on the ground fighting it and well take off. this isn't scary at all . on the way to the village of the views were stunning, but the closer we got to the village day became somewhat terrifying. first, it's clear skies in an endless horizon. and just moments later, it's

a wall of smoke. soon as we land, we see a whole bunch of heavy machinery. mister defense has a lot of military equipment, vehicles, and trucks and everything to this region because it's the most under threat right now from the flyers. armored personnel carriers, a couple of heavy duty diggers and several trucks. their purpose to create a mineralized zone there, which the fire will not be able to pass, but no less important are the human reinforcements, fearless volunteers, and professional firefighters say to are getting ready to head out to battle the fires. we, on the other hand, are moving on, we travel to nearby field and where to trucks, full of firefighters are having difficulties getting through the dense forest fires . so we lend them our helicopter right now and taking all the stuff out of all these firefighters that have been deployed here to help with the efforts. by the

way, these are 40 firefighters that have traveled all the way from the other side of russia . from cordelia moreland, gar hung, who have battled wildfires in their home regions this summer. but now that they have finished the job at home, they've traveled to korea to aid their fellow colleagues. and there they go to the front line of the seemingly endless battle. we came from more money to help the regions modem and we will work to extinguish the fires. we will do everything we can when we go back to your goods. and on the way we are once again reminded of just how chaotic situation is with the several more fires and even a new one apparently as we circle around it and the fire watchers note as location on their maps. all in all, not bad for my 1st helicopter flight. russia is not the only country battling wildfires, volunteers and firefighters in greece are also still fighting flames there. this drone video shows the extent of the damage in recent days of thousands have been

evacuated from the region and the greek pm has apologized saying they had done everything humanly possible, but that it wasn't enough. he also described the situation as a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions. almost 600 wildfires are burning across the country. several european states are assist in greece in its fight. i see them in the waste order was sent to move or should we do just gets up and go. we can't if we don't save our houses, who will? they're doing nothing. today is the 4th day and there are no aircraft yesterday. they only carried out to walter draws the local people, save the place to rest with little children left of course, but we are not leaving. even if the fire reaches to see we will not leave our village. we will stay for as long as we can. and do whatever we can do. we're going to stay here and try to save our place. we need to stay strong for our children. the politicians and the public have criticized the board. johnson,

after his official residence, splashed out nearly 100000 pounds on 2 paintings. it's huge, reductions in public spending. the lavish purchases come after the government approved a 20 pound a week cut to the universal credit benefit system and uplift introduced to support low income families. at the start of the pandemic, that's on top of a pe freeze for teachers and police along as a pay rise of just 3 percent for health workers on the coverage front line, the prime minister spending priorities, it's always about himself, as government cuts, universal credit and freezes frontline, nurse police pay, johnson has found more money to treat himself again. and a chess is in desperate need of funding on the pay rise in order to be able to recruit and retain staff and catch up with the enormous backlog of work. so

i think the issue about the paintings, or some think of an irrelevant my understanding is it's largely paid for through public money rather than donors as the government. and suggested that government is going back down stairs at the root. whereas the beginning of the coven, we were able to see that when money was needed, it could be found. in fact, the treasury lenses came up with a loss of money for the initial time to help the n h s. response of the crisis. and now i want to turn the top off again, and it's not the 1st time britain's leader has been question for expensive home improvements in may. the prime ministers adviser on standards, said johnson, that had been unwise and how costly refurbishments on his downing street home 11 downing street in fact, were funded the full details of which johnson has still not disclose this time the

government defended the work purchase by thing. most of the cash came from private donors. the government tax collection helps to promote the creativity of british art and culture. it requires new work, such a consulting and securing the approval of an independent expert panel. and the majority of funding for acquisitions comes from philanthropic sources, not taxpayer money. i know the former head of an english health service trust told us that the timing of this latest scandal could not be worse. i think is a very poor decision. on this occasion. i think there are 2 reasons why bad judgment. firstly, we've just recently gone through a pay a pay round without nursing stuff where the, the government of been pretty mean in the way that they've approached it. and secondly, of course is the overall economic situation. so whether or not these are good paintings and whether or not that good value for money is not as important as what

does it look like? what do people think when they see the economy is not very good. we've just denied frontline and h her stuff, a decent play. rise and the prime ministers hanging too expensive paintings in the sitting room. another 10, a just looks, but it's been a year since bella was engulfed in mass protests following a widely contested presidential election or spoke to a journalist activist behind the protest. roman petra salvage broke the favorites. excuse me, now, he reported on events from neighboring poland, where he had earlier claimed political asylum. and he came to global prominence in may when his flight from greece to us, when he was grounded and bellows for to savage, has been held and placed under house arrest. where he still remains after he had made confessions, incriminating former associates in recent months is also given a number of interviews in belarus, expressing regret for his role. but skeptics suspect that they have been made under

duress, fellow opposition activists claim. but the savage has been tortured in jail and allegation he himself has rejected on multiple occasions. and we cannot verify these allegations. but here are some of what for the service, for lucky partial goods in the years in the presidential election embarrass. and the process that followed over this year, your life changed dramatically. do you regret anything after after this, upon returning to bella rous, i've seen a lot of things from a different perspective. i got to talk in person with a lot of people. i had previously considered enemies. i realized that the world we're living in is not as black and white as you may think. if you get all of your information from program and media or from opposition, telegram channels, things are much more complex. you said in one of your interviews that you had some ideas about launching your own media projects. could you tell us in more detail whether you fund like this project and if so, when can we expect to see it on there? i've got plans, some big plans at that in beller. is there hardly any media outlets that occupied

the middle ground? and this is exactly what society wants at the moment because people are tired of brazen propaganda and hate speech. society is tired of never ending accusations. all you see in both opposition and pro government telegram channels. it's just a stream of invective. and i want to create something in the middle, something that anyone would be able to read without feeling a strong emotion. i hope to contribute to officials and the state becoming more open are the just for me. i'll be back in about 30 minutes with a look at your headlines. this is our international. mm. i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except when such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to

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