[000:00:00;00] ah ah, breaking news here ne, a national, a bomb scare in washington, dc at the us health and human services department building these a live pictures of capitol police investigating the scene you ordered. poland took off of a 1000000 euros every single day. that abandoned was a controversial reform to his system. in warsaw accused brussels, all black land and freedom for a possible 175 year prison sentence food and a song. his fate rests in the hands of the you. case high course as an extrusion of appeal hearing to the u. s. for the whistle. lower stocks today in london.

ah, no, they're long from moscow. thanks for joining us on, on the international. i'm danny wilkins, swerve you all tonight. welcome to the program. will begin now with breaking news from washington. d. c. were a bomb scare has taken place, or we can show you now some live pictures of the scene where us capitol police are at the department of health and human services building is currently unclear what exactly has raised the alarm there. as you can see, the roads are near the building have been blocked, off the area has been evacuated, will bring you more as we have it, and we can go live now at ortiz at caleb more pin to give us a bit more. he would be with us just a little while later, as we say at that bomb scare at taking place,

the area has been cordoned off and these are live pictures are very common area so far as we can see in washington dc. but so we will bring you more information as it comes through through our local enforcement, secure services. a poland is crying blackmail, that's after the e you order it's members, fate to pay a $1000000.00 euros every day into that scrape certain at scratch for a long wrangled over judicial reform. the back in july, the european court of justice rules that poland supreme court must the walls should disciplinary chamber of judges argument put. the independence of the countries judiciary at risk of poland has simply ignored the ruling. one of the reasons that you court says it had to get south. the vice president recalls that a member state cannot plead provisions practices or situations prevailing in its domestic legal order to justify failure to observe obligations arising under you

law. it appears necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of the interim measures by providing for the imposition of a periodic penalty payment on poland in order to deter that member state from delaying bringing its conduct into line with that order. or earlier this month, e, you polish relations soured. further. when warsaw talk court ruled polish laws had priority over europe's of holies from an as war that his country will defend its rights and will not be intimidated. what will happen if you are a pain commission? start to 3rd world war by going to defend our right with any weapons which are at our disposal. we got her views on the dispute from former u. k. a labor party and p, kate hurry, and from pul, nato, a former member of the european palm erecting, just like i'm afraid you always act in a very overpowering bullying way. i mean, the amount of money is, is huge, but you know,

it's the principal really that matters. and i'm imagining that that's what the police government would be interested in. and not necessarily the actual details, even if, if we find that very, very more line. it's the question of who actually relevant to their country, and we're finding this even in, in my own pocket, united kingdom, northern whether you're trying to interfere and run on and even though it's probably not. so this is, this is nothing new from you. i just hope that the polish government i don't actually take own isn't very, very significant issue of i who actually runs the country and who controls the whole well, it's invested doesn't sense, especially considering that the polish prime ministers argued the german coal, the spanish, the french they will pass in the rulings regarding the privacy of the you law, yet nothing seems to happen. so in the european union,

it seems that there's one rule for the east. central european countries like poland . i don't know for the rich west of european countries. and i think it's wholly on the whole polish dispute as split the europe ian union in many ways. well, there's a split that amongst the capital, but also there's a split amongst us petitions. so whereas the european commission wants to sit down and have more conversations with poland regarding this issue, the european parliament wants to see poland punished right now. and therefore european parliament has threatened to to suit your opinion commission unless the acted before november the 2nd. so there's problems all rounds and this is got the, this is going to play out now for quite a long time, but it will be interesting to see how also responds no more than half the time population. i've got a stone could face acute malnutrition, this winter with many dying, said the warning from the un, which is the morning immediate action is license reports has

a record $22000000.00 plus guns will suffer from food insecurity. almost 3000000 children and 5 are at risk of doing that, submit the precarious state of the economy which has been heavily dependent on foreign funds for years. about 4 percent of gross domestic product has been international. a lacrosse as follows. the chaotic us drop off or 20 year mit re presence that the taliban cloth by much of the world as a terra organisation. rapidly we took control of the country and its capital called bull. since then, western countries, along with his national financial bodies have stopped their payment, us food and agriculture organization has warned, the worst is yet to come. ah, 1st and foremost situation today in afghanistan and looking forward is really, really alarming. let's remember 70 percent of afghans people live in rural areas involved in agriculture. so the drought has had had a massive effect already. that's why on this year we were already sounding the alarm for this or, you know,

the describing tearing crisis. children are the worst hit a few days, a few weeks of deep hunger can lead to stunting. it can lead to wasting these a. secondly, look at the short term. we're talking about the country in which agriculture. as i said it's, it's, it's 80 percent likelihood that's, you know, it was, it's the most important sector in terms of people's lives in this collapse is now done with we're looking at massive displaced. there are thousands of health clinics that are struggling at a time when because of the, the crisis, the need to going up. we're starting to see more and more children suffering from severe acute mount attrition. the clinics need need money for the doctors of the salaries of equipment except with a really big, broad, deep, terrifying trinitarian crisis. well, even today we're talking about 19000000 people who are, as we say, acutely food insecure, that means they're experiencing hunger on a daily basis. and as you said, we haven't seen the worst yet. the projections are the by the end of the year and

next year, 23000000. that's more, that's 55 percent more. busy than one out of every 2 afghan men, women and children will be in that situation. in september, a high level meeting in geneva took place a $1000000000.00 was pledged. not that about 275000000 has arrived in the hands of human terrans fm. i an organization w, p, unicef. so one of the money that was pledged has yet to arrive, but who quite honest, it's only gonna be a drop in the ocean. the situation is, is deteriorating so quickly, so dramatically the scale and the speed of which the humanitarian catastrophe, which military crisis unfolding heading towards catastrophe, means that unfortunately far more money is required. well, let's return to a breaking news story this our on that. so what's going on in washington dc and the bomb scare the department of health and human services building, currently cordon off by security forces. let's go live to caleb moore open to bring

us the latest situation. caleb went to stand still. not certain. what exactly has caused this alarm, where the threat has allegedly come from? and what more do we know so far? while this is downtown washington, d. c, not too far from the white house, not too far from the u. s. capital building and this is considered to be a very serious matter. we have the u. s. department of health and human services. apparently has had a bomb threat against it. and from what we understand, independence avenue is closed down. a number of streets are closed in the downtown washington dc area c street, 2nd street in d street. there are police blocking off the street so no one can get in buildings or being searched. it's not just the department of health and human services that has been closed down from what we understand. the dc botanical gardens are been closed down. the o. neill federal office building has closed down. the general service administration building has been closed down the voice of america,

the headquarters of the us government news agency has been closed down and the bomb squad and the security services are taking this very seriously. our security in washington dc has been on ad. we remember what happened last january and how for a while, it seemed like there was just a big fence around the capital. the national guard was on the scene, things are being taken very seriously at this point. i understand this is in response to a bomb threat. this is not an active shooter situation or anything like that. now this is a serious bomb threat that has had, the federal agencies are concerned, the buildings are being searched and at this point, folks are on edge traffic in dc has certainly been altered by these streets being closed down. or this is a rather sensitive and important area for the united states. this is where the federal government seems to operate. we have office buildings closed down, et cetera. so we're all watching the situation, hoping that sooner they will have conducted their searches and conclude this bomb threat was not legitimate. however, if something more serious happens,

we will certainly be hearing about it. thanks kind of open for that update. kellum, open their life from new york. sweden has gone from having one of the lowest gun crime writes in europe, so one of the highest over the past 2 decades. and following the recent high profile kidding of a 19 year old wrapper called a na, several politicians and now demanding urgent action. we are in the national crisis, and now the political leadership needs to take back control over the situation. the limits of what can be accepted in a civilized country were supposed a very long time ago. we need actually not words to turn the tide and get sweden in order. now more than anger and despair are required, action is needed. where many who mourn who have had enough of the senseless minds and want to see again crime fought with sweden's gun on its right. 7 on the rise since 2013,

the majority of fatal shootings have been linked to organized crime countries. annual gun homicide writers. much higher in relation to other european countries. a group of politicians have submitted a $34.00 point plan to the government aimed at combating gun crime. at the heart of the program lay efforts to both the security. a one measure being undertaken is to recruit an extra 10000 offices by 2024. we're m p can to anchor off, believes we can fill these major changes to reverse those figures. our last 2 week against organized crime, punishments are to lean. so there's a lot of things you need to do in the area of criminal law that is not being done, not by the current government, not by the former government because they don't realize what's needed to be done. and we need the major changes in sweden. to fix this problem,

we need to real life sentences. we need much more surveillance. when it comes to criminal gangs, we need a special penal code to fight criminal gangs that i propose 10 years ago. but no one listened back them and the government current and the former government, they are doing minor changes, but those changes doesn't matter. imprison wiggly, exxon is healing a song, finds himself back in court today as a to day extrusion hearing gets on the way in the u. k. mark ward is considering appealed by the us over a previous ruling to block the with lows. extradition is wanted by washington to say 17 challenges of espionage and one of conspiracy to hack. a government computer is convicted. you could face a prison sentence of 175 years. me . i

learned to shut it was dash the father report from outside the court with jonas, which met us to follow the stream of the hearing. also, reporting from vienna today we have the beginning of the appeals process. so august 11th, the last time we were in the, in the high court was to determine the grounds of appeal. and that was a major victory for the us because they were granted all 5 grounds to it. you know, mainly focused on, on the phone, just health. and so the entire extradition case has now become about a sanchez mental health here. nothing to do with journalism anymore. nothing to do with the war crimes exposed. and so today, you know, i'll get into the arguments as details i can in a moment, but you know, regarding his sons where we only saw him for a few a few minutes. you know, he looked quite tired and a moment. so something that stood out to me was when the prosecution, because today was largely focused on what the prosecution is going to say tomorrow, be the defense out. while the prosecution was arguing about his a lot of sand, his mental health, you could hear the audio from the court room in the background. while looking at

julianna's on, she was, you know, via video link he's, he's beaming in the video link from bell marsh from belmont prison. and you know, he looks so tired and worn out, which is natural, you know, and you, one of us and we've been thrown in jail arbitrary liddy. tain for, for 7 years, for bell wash for, for 2 years, we'd all look like that. it's terrific. what they're doing to him, it was a really easy moment for me seeing him worn out like that. and at the same time in the background, can you the lawyers talking about? i'm like no, he's not. there's nothing wrong with him. he's perfectly fine. let's extradite him . nothing bad is going to happen. this is all made up. he's on the linger, that's what was happening today. you know, it's an unbelievable site right here in central on to the courts of justice has now come to an end. today was all about washington presenting that case to try and overturn that decision made back in january by the british judge not to actually tried doing this on to the united states. so the u. s. law is put forward a whole series of arguments, including the offer of an unprecedented reassurance package on the basis that unit

sounds would not be put into the most maximum security prison in the united states . and that any person he is put into, he will be absolutely safe. and those people at high risk of suicide are kept safe . according to these u. s. lawyers, they also desperately try to discredit the psychiatric assessment and evaluation rate by doctors on june assigned to put out something that many people outside the court have severely gone against. it's no surprise really considering the united states one hand. there's an edge role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. what they want to say is in phase trial in the united states and they've got him an indicted under 18 counts of the espionage. 1 publishing these classified documents all related to the war in iraq, alex valley, some tough, one of conspiracy to hack the government computers as well. so that's really what has happened at throughout both the morning session and the afternoon session today . but here on the outside of the court protective,

have already been very vocal in defending june. sergeant today we've heard from you or people that they will not stop campaigning until june. lesandra is free. oh wait. a condition with the u. s. has abused the laws, the agreement with this country. it's abusing the expedition agreements with this country in order to have this hearing today. it has to come to an end. julian has to be free. many protesters here today. ok. there's been huge developments in recent months that could potentially be game changes within this case. and that's

the very fact that, thanks to an investigation, they found that around 30 intelligent former intelligence offices, i, for the cia found that there was actually i to kidnap and even assassinate during the songs when he was in london's ecuadorian embassy. that is something though, that the united states has actually repeatedly denied, but protested his say that they should be enough to throw out the court case entirely and is a 100 percent proving. i'm confirming that this is a politically motivated case and well, some st. powers, likely, united states may call you in a solid to terrorist here outside the court room. they hail him as a hero. a real with mom is pretty proof of what's going on here. i mean, generally, if you've committed a fairly serious offensive break, you've got jail for 2 and a half years, but he's not convicted of anything you know,

weekly published. the truth is to pull the us up now with now with painting gets the decision dated january. the should milk we exercise in the fact that the united states can reach their long term out into the world. and corporate journal in debt is not even an american who has never worked in the united states and charge or try to charge him with the us called b trust ticket. anything they say they talk about the fees extradited conditions, what pre severe. but if he's expedited, they will kill him effectively. lavelle to william benny us, us national security agency, whistleblower and former intelligence official at the end. a se,

thanks so much for joining us. so good to have in the program today. what are your thoughts on this hearing? do you think things are more likely to go one way rather than the other on this? how do you like to song his chances of potentially sing? freedom will be extra in today's well, i think that the governments around the world are cooperating with the united states government to do this. i mean, after all this whole business was doing a song started out with false charges from sweden and those who are dismissed after a while because they had no complaint that no file file complaint. so this is fabricate it is, this is raining somebody, this is a crime. the people in the governments involved in this should be brought up on charges. i mean, it's not that this is a total fabrication of the government and the only what the reason they're doing is pretty straightforward. they want to make sure that the rest of the media that publishes information to the public does what they're told and publishes what

they're told to publish and nothing else. so that the rest of the population countries will be totally uninformed ignorance and, and, and control by, by the central government. that's what's going on, or they're trying to st. silence. anybody who tell the truth. how surprised while you, by the recent, pretty wild claims of a c, a plot to kidnap and possibly even assassinate a songs? do you think there's any truth to those at all? from my neck of the woods? i'm a country boy. i would say, don't surprise me. none, right, it's, it's basically contingency planning on that people do in the military and so on as to how you can resolve an issue that they want resolve. and clearly, us government wants to get rid of doing songs and other reports, really one key witness apparently allied in their testimony. why do you think that's getting pretty much next and no attention given it's sort of some trial to you to the foundation of human assault,

just case or the case against them rather. well, you see that's the proof of the pudding here. this is the control of the media and what information is, is disseminated to the public. when you get something that doesn't fit the narrative that you want the public to understand and know when you start, then you cut it out and you filter it out. you, you make sure like that's what the main, the main companies over here like, like the social media companies are doing over here in united states. they're silencing any kind of any kind of opposition to cobra 19 regulations or anything that's going against the government's view on anything in there. so i don't think anybody's coming up with things like the, for example, my wife narby, radiated by, by electronic warfare in the military line of sight, high frequency, very high frequency signal here. and why are they doing that to us?

it's like the cuban embassy we're in the cuban sea of the us us. so, you know, this is what governments are doing. they don't want the public to know what they're doing. they want to control the public. well, you know, i always go back to reagan quote by president reagan. we are a government or a country with a government. well now, as i've been saying for the last 20 years, we're now a government with a country the u. s. schools is adamant in their case, the songs would be safe in the state, so jail has health, physical woman who is not at risk, you'll get a fair trial. he between 2 fairly is that something you believe they lie? i mean, when was the last time they said anything that could be relied upon as being truthful? that's fair enough certainly. and you just go back to those allegations or oversee a plot and measure brought rather to keep them apple or even assassinate the songs . should he, when he read them in 2 days and there was a school of thought that he might well do that. what will be next to them?

do you think you'd be safe? that's always questionable because you never know the people in the intelligence can either go very record or get a getting back at people. if you can recall down through history, people been poisoned years later or isn't dismembered and things like that. these kind of agencies do whatever they feel they want to do or need to do anywhere in the world. and that's basically universal threat. i, you know, i would, for him, he's always going to have to look over his shoulder. all right, so we will find out of course in the next 2 days will in many us national security agency with flow and former intelligence officer at the and i say thanks so much for your time here today, sir. thank you and the u. k. new report says the government has failed with it said a chef test and trace program unveil as a contact facing operate. so that's the main objective of cutting co. it was not

a sheet. any chess test and trace has been one of the most expensive health programs delivered in the panoramic haven't been allocated and i watering 37000000000 pounds over 2 years has focused on delivering programs. but outcomes have been muddled. and a number of it's profess, ames have been over stated or not achieved. and a chest destined traces continued over alliance on consultants is likely to cause taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds. the test and trace that was last 2 years ago and cost britain, the equivalent to 20 percent of the nation has annual budget. the system alerts it fuses in case they tend to prolong contract with someone infected with covert it advisors, but not legally obliges them to self isolate. for 10 days, partial admitting there's some malfunctions the u. k. student says that advantages over way the disadvantage. well, let's go live now to go. john, want s p attrition and co chair all over the campaign group. keep on just public.

thanks so much for joining us. a good savvy with us today. pretty damning reports on the effectiveness or the lack of effectiveness of this app was really such a failure. yes, i mean it's more than the app, the whole system of testing tracing. and then the amount of support or lack of visits, be in office that people need to isolate. i think it's hugely embarrassing for the government. they had what they said would be a well beating system. actually, in the view of this committee has not made any difference to the spread of infection. and this enormous coffee, as you said, is about one 5th of the entire budget to the n h s in one year. there's also this really grotesque element to pay me something like 2000 management consoles and some of them as much as $6000.00 pounds a day,

which means someone like that could add as much in a week as a whole year. and you know, what is this a cheat? well said, according to this committee it's, it's not achieved anything given that it's also a kind of key element within the current strategy plan, a so called which is rejected. bringing in some other mitigating measures against it, such as malware working from home, given that it's also a key element of current strategy that so it's a huge the embarrassing of the government is insisting it was at least a, a possible success in curbing the rise of covered cases, it wants some credit for that. do you think we can take away any positives from the way the system was implemented? well, i think they this committee,

the audit committee is clearly at odds with the government over analysis. and you know, just a week ago, we also had the report from the commons, select committee on health and the one on technology. one of the chairs is that was jeremy hunter, former health secretary. and they also highlighted the fact that the test didn't trace system has been chaotic, rolled out slowly and they did actually hampered the response. so the panoramic and wasn't able to prevent the 2nd wave in the 2nd locked down. so i think as very little going for this system. and unfortunately, it highlights a kind of common characteristics that run through the government. thinking that if you throw money private companies, you're going to get something that's expected. and they should have learned by now . since you know the case,

what the fees would you think for the truck and trade system given the government will end up eventually scrapping the output even given the asset michel some spend . i mean, would certainly be an admission of defeat. but of an embarrassment for the government . well, i think they, they, they should have invested in an h. s. laboratories and in local public health teams . these are the kinds of things which people have been saying for a month now. very little evidence. they've done that. so they don't complete, it can still claiming it to be the success of you said so i think they'll keep shoveling money at it and say no, no, everything is fine. the commons accounts committee is got it wrong. the select committee is got it wrong, and they just carry on burying their head in the sand, which is basically the current pandemic management strategy. because the only thing that they focus on is back to

a nation that's not going very well either at the moment. that's always been the only way out and the new measure that they think is of real importance. right? because you're on the fantasy pediatrician and co share of the campaign group keep all an inch as public. thanks for your analysis of that story. you're not international thinking. well that's it for this. our station next will boom. but you can, you can go to several different episodes on the ground. so we return in half an hour with the latest you want us again. me. ah, me the news.

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