ah ah, for how long can this go on to day is international human rights day? what a shame, how cynical has been called a dark day. the journalism during the sound support is lash out to the london high court ruling to allow his possible extradition to the united states. yet another hearing is now needed to decide his fact. we call on russia to return to the pharmacy, answered the escalators. the west urges russia to take the heat at the ukrainian crisis while sending though $16000000.00 worth of military 18 kia and a reportedly considering more and in american billionaire is forced to return $70000000.00 worth of stolen antiquities had been forwarding for decades, but there is anger after it's revealed, he won't face criminal charges. ah,

hello, good afternoon, just gone 5 o'clock in moscow. you watching art international. come start. the sassy with the news that more than 50 people are thought to have died off to kentucky's worst ever tornadoes with face t that the overall death tell could actually end up twice. that number, kentucky governor has declared a state of that. it's a state of emergency. we are nearing the end of the most severe tornado of van and kentucky's history. a roof collapse at a candle factory has resulted in mass casualties. as a 4 45 am 56854 kentuckians are without power. the primary tornado was on the ground continuously for over 200 miles in our state

. something we have never seen before. while these pictures de show the destruction in the city of may field in kentucky, they are thought to show that destroyed at candle factory that he was talking about its roof earlier collapse after the tornado struck me. mile in the state of illinois workers have been trapped inside an amazon warehouse after its roof collapse to when it was hit by a tornado local media. and i reporting that some employees have been rescued from that facility. and up to a 100 people were inside the building at the time, according to the authorities, although there were no reports of fatalities as yet. and then in neighboring arkansas, one person is thought with being killed and 5 seriously injured. after the same storm damage to nursing home, there are many others were trapped inside that building. the severe weather is also claimed at 3 lives in tennessee, of course will bring you at more details as we get them. now at our day for journalism,

that's how supporters of june assange have reacted to the british high court ruling that the wikileaks founder can be extradited to the u. s. to the u. s. washington, when it's appeal against a previous decision blocking assange from being sent to america to face trial, campaigners slammed the latest ruling though, which was handed down on the you ends, human rights day. we condemned today's u. k. high court decision to allow the expedition of julius on to the us, which will prove historic for all the wrong reasons. we fully believe that julian assigned has been targeted for his contributions to journalism. i now the, now the people got that in front of the court condemning the decision. previously, a lower court flocked to san jose x position as concerns about his mental health sauce. it was rude yesterday that that was no longer a concern after the us to give assurances that he would not serve any sentence in the maximum security prison or solitary confinement. because his lawyer,

though described those pledges is vague and unreliable. the fiance, hopefully we can least found, made in the motional statement following the analysis for how long can this go on today is international human rights day? what a shame, how cynical to have this decision on this day to have one of the foremost the foremost publisher journalists of the past, 50 years in the u. k. prison. accuse of publishing the truth about or crimes about the i killed teams. were to give you some background in 2019 june. the song was hoarsely removed by british police from ecuador embassy in london. after the country terminated his 7 year asylum that he had sought refuge following sexual assault allegations in sweden, which were later dropped,

the british authorities arrested him, though, on a separate charge of jumping bail. now america, once a week leaks found there, extradited on claims of conspiring to the government computers and publishing classified material. we spoke with the u. s. national security agency whistleblower william binnie about the case and also with rafael korea. the former president of ecuador, whose administration gave us on political asylum, they own their own accord, what a gift to london court. ready gave to the united states on the human rights day. that's grim irony on human rights stated the rights of the journalist are blatantly violated and his sin was telling the truth. if a sancha revealed the secrets of china, russia, or left wing latin american governments such as mine, he would be applauded by the mainstream media 100 in the united states congress and the cape parliament. but as he went against to had you money, the united states, he was called a criminal. the press is quite, looks the other way or even supports this crack down on their colleagues. it's

completely incomprehensible. it could be understood if it was secret information about the location of troops or intelligence facilities, but we're talking about war crimes. this cannot be a state secret. the world has to know about them. there must be transparency. that's what assange date is. that's why he's being punished of the world has really turned upside down. and what we see now is blatant hypocrisy. it really both bad for freedom and democracy around the world, publishing data and violation of the espionage. what on that is the united states law is not a world wide law, not in law in other countries. so there's a real problem with this to, to brain court ruling on that issue of the, of the espionage x is spending 1st amendment rights. they said it was justified in time of war blot. well, i was when i were not in a war now, congress is not declared war and we had no declared war. why are they indicted? the a senior editors, at least of the, of the guardian,

the in new york times the washington post. all them who have also published this kind of material. why are they doing that? that's a violation of our laws. they're not equally applying the law. when was the last time you had a verifiable truth from the united states government that they put out to the public? what, when can you just divide from through other sources and means and methods that are validity of what they've been telling you? you can't, they rely that they lie to congress directly. they get caught in lying and they just ignore it. nobody does anything. i mean, they're exempt from the own laws that they pass. that, that's why we have here in the united states, 2 sets of laws, one for those of the people. and the rest of those in power have a different set of laws. when it's not gonna a notice that the extradition ruling against junior sonjee came not only on human rights day, but also on the same day that the u. s. wrapped up pates multi national summit for democracy at which president biden did push for people to be able to breathe freely

while after he said that he was seen, criticized for not applying the same principles to julian massage. and as we close out the 1st gathering, let's let, let us together reaffirm our determination. if the future will belong to those who embrace human dignity, not those who trampling one wish to potential other people on those who stifling and who gives people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hair. this shameful verdict, in a political case against a journalistic and public figure is another manifestation of the cannibalistic world view of the anglo saxon tandem. the west marks international human rights day and the end of the summit for democracy with dignity. this news is devastating. the persecution of julian assange as a disgrace. meanwhile, biden is holding his cynical democracy summit and the hypocrisy and the cruelty. now, while the u. s. is busy promoting democracy in other countries,

his own seems to be at risk because a stock own base. think tanks, annual review with democracies around the world has the re 1st time put the u. s. in the back sliding category sonjee freedom campaign. a john re says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same at home. i think with it's remarkable director, especially on human rights day that the judges in this case should have found that it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it security service leads. cia has previously been threatening to kidnap all kill him. the problem with many modern states, they're all for a democracy and freedom of speech and a free press in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get past that hypocrisy and understand. but freedom of the press is a universal human right. because it's part of freedom of speech,

we won't be making very much progress. on other news, tensions over ukraine are running high with russia, slamming the west, feeling the escalation and voicing concern at nato's actions in the region. moscow is one that they could potentially lead to a large scale conflict, of course, has been set to draw ukraine into needs. such irresponsible behavior is an unacceptable threat to security provoking serious risk for all parties involved up to a large scale conflict in europe. while the us revealed on thursday that 30 javelin anti tank missiles, systems were delivered to ukraine back in october, as part of a $60000000.00 military aid package. and a further $200000000.00 could be donated. at the same time, russia is being urged to respect borders by both nato and the military build up in their own ukraine. this races, tensions undermine security. in europe,

we call on russia to return to diplomacy and to de escalate the about. and we expect russia to de escalate and refrain from any aggression towards his neighbors and respect the rights of sovereign states. what it does come after ukrainian navy ship named don bass approached rushing waters without authorization on thursday. a move that russia regarded as a threat to the navigational safety of other vessels in the area. ukraine denied all allegations and insisted ship was an unarmed search and rescue vessel that never entered restricted waters or post any threat the vessel did eventually change course not. give you more perspective here the eastern ukraine regional don't bass has been making the headlines since 2014. when war did break out there. the unrest has become a seat of discord between kiev and moscow. i discussed the broader situation with our senior correspondent, motor gas, the a, some back grant. all of this, i mean, this site is, incident does come against the backdrop of

a rapid escalation. hasn't intentions in recent rates between ukraine, m, russia? well, an escalation both rhetorically. we would, we have seen this hysteria reach fever pitch about the situation over ukraine, about potential plans to invaders, some country se, but the situation on the ground in ukraine is perhaps worse to war because that is where people are dying. people are dying. people are suffering. people are going through through al and have been going through hell for many years now. we have, we have seen of the united states pacifically pumping weapons into ukraine for the ukrainian military. and these are weapons b, b, b, they a javelin miss. are supplied by the united states or by dr. drones supplied by turkey. these are weapons that are flowing into you credit and immediately going to the conflicts of where the civil war is being fought and the east of ukraine. there are more than 2000000 civilians are trapped in the conflicts own in east the new

grade. and they're just having to brave without people going to sending their kids to school. they will have to worry about a tang shallow mortar round landing there on the grounds of the school. vladimir putin is like and what is happening to a walker sort of. so she, i should say the risk for me as the 1st step towards genocide. what's going on and on bass now very much resembles genocide. we see it and we know about it. the western narrative illnesses potential russian aggression amassing its shapes within its own borders on the edge we with ukraine. but very little said about ukraine's actions in recent weeks. or we hear about is these potential plans emanating from the she, i of the white house, the british government. these plans that no one previously knew about that russia was planning to invade. a huge area of ukraine was unclear how they would be able to achieve this with, with, even if we believe the caea and others with,

with such a small force. but let's look at what is happening again on the ground. you have the o. s. c, they're reporting on says fire violation. so their work is constant and round the clock. ukrainian artillery enforcers destroyed or damaged 5 times more civilian infrastructure at schools at workplace as people's homes. 5 times more infrastructure was destroyed and damaged by ukrainian forces. the vice versa, you also have the situation in which ukraine still still 6 years on, refuses to negotiate with the breakaway republics. aside from that, there are also all manner of promises and assurances that ukraine keeps on hearing from, from britain, from the united states that they've got their back, that thou help them, that they'll keep the russians away. and what i, what that does is it emboldens you credit. and unfortunately, the situation is such that aside from very one sided coverage, you have

a situation in which piece simply isn't desirable or chance, nor for thomas fast ended to tell us that in his opinion say there is a real risk of a full scale european will there is so something that has not been here for decades . that is the perspective, the real perspective or for a major european war. so he and now the key for a potential war in europe lies now 100 percent with the key of government. if key, if decides to provoke a russian invasion and that there will be a russian invasion as soon as key of starts a major offensive against the break of a republics, in that case, automatically. busy the blank shack will be full of western support for the ukrainian side. so the western narrative says that whatever crimea, whatever a key if does to reclaim or even reconquer the breakaway republics, or even crimea,

would be executing their sovereign rights on their sovereign territory. and we should hope that both the washington and moscow, and of course, all to also perez and berlin understand that there is a real risk of a european war here. watching out a nice to last heat. the sour bad news for american shoppers is price is their search to a near 40 year high. we'll talk more about responding inflation just after the break. ah ah ah

ah . so we've talked about the rising chance of civil war and america, and it could either be between the have yacht and the have not. it could be between the big points days like texas or florida between the non been point states. but the rising tension is comparable because of the rise and coefficient that is now the spread between the very top and the and the bottom is getting extremely wide. the welcome back. now in american

billionaire has been forced to surrender stolen antiquity, that he had been hoarding for decades. the case of hedge fund pioneer micro. steinhart is shocked archaeologist and historians around the world. and this collection of plunder, dart is estimates to be worth something like $70000000.00. let's have a look at some of those items that many of which were stolen and smuggled. one is this the stikes head. right. and it does take back to the 5th century b. c. and it's worse. i'm like 3 and a half $1000000.00. and another ran asked the pace was law acts that's a small chest. the human remains with an impressive price tag of $1000000.00. and then finally, here among the reset of death mask dating back to something like 7000 b c boss, steinhardt gave up the treasure as part of a deal. which does mean though he will not face criminal charges. now the origins of the looted antiquities, the stretch across 11 countries, among them, italy,

greece and israel, all robes of their cultural heritage, exposed to say that the damage inflicted is immeasurable. kim's damage has been done to the countries of origin, sociological sites. the main damage is cultural in the sense that we are losing the history of his objects. our common sort of past. and this is the, the biggest can i am that it is being performed by looting on the global level, the loss of history, the loss of information. however, the only hardship for michael steinhart and all of this is a lifetime ban on acquiring any of the relics in the future. and his public outrage, what's perceived as a remarkably lenient sentence. with most respondents to a pole, to insisting he's gone away. seemed likely the justice system in the u. s. was

constructed primarily for 2 reasons, punish the poor, protect the wealthy, know jail for the rich and powerful. this country has been sold to the highest bidders. our country's legal system as a joke, stolen 70000000 in art and no jail time. i remember a guy in louisiana getting 40 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread because he was starving. there is no justice if you're rich. i'm sure that all that will be unsafe to pick up the case again, my preference would have been to be pressed saturdays and having possibly a conviction as well. i'm not very happy about the final result. it has demonstrated very clearly that michael stein knew that there were serious problems with the provenance, the collective history that these of the objects he was acquiring, or at least should come, had very, very strong indications about the possibility of being looked. and

there's objects now, america is in the grip of surging inflation, not seen since the 1982 prices rising across many sectors for 6 months in a row. in november prices for us, consumers to jump by nearly 7 percent compared with you for more than one percent a year ago. triggered by the current of ours pandemic, inflation has hit everything from food and energy to highest rentals and also cars . but the u. s. federal reserve is still hesitant to take serious action to curb, despite such as raising interest rates. economists, peter earl told us that higher inflation drives people to take home more test. there's a view that low level inflation is, is good to be economy. i'm not sure i subscribe to that, but certainly the kind of inflation we're seeing now is very pernicious and it breaks down as many aspects of the economy in many ways the pandemic,

or rather the central banking response to the panoramic is the main factor that's creating in place right now, last year the federal reserve increased the years. one is our supply by between 30 and 40 percent, and the root cause inflation has lots of money chasing the same are fewer goods and services. so that's the main one that is going to try to lift interest rates due to tamp down to this question, but they can't do they stop to open market bond purchases and they said they won't stop that until april or may of next year. so give me a while this in place may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. they don't even really benefit from high inflation, systematically or creditors. because if you take debt and inflation rises, you wind up paying off that debt in cheaper, which is a mess, less valuable currency, whether it's dollars or pounds or whatever. so in a sense, hires inflation rather promotes higher levels of debt, which is also a bad thing. while anger over present biden's handling, if the economy isn't bad news for everybody, because a budding entrepreneur in the state of massachusetts is turning the dislike into

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counterparts. i mean, clearly the political environment is getting more and more hostile and if the left stands for all of these positive. 7 things then it must stand to reason that the right is behind all of the bad things. but now one poll which asked respondents whether they would be willing to engage in different types of relationships, both personal and professional, with people who voted for a different presidential candidate than they did. 31 percent of republican said no compared to a whopping 71 percent of democrats, who said that they would not go out on a date with someone who had voted for the opposing party. even when we look at less personal relationships. the divide between who democrats and republicans are or are not willing to engage with remains pretty stark. when asked whether they would shop at or support a business of someone who voted for the opposing presidential candidate. only 7 percent of republicans said no compared to 41 percent of democrats. so essentially, democrats may very well believe that they aren't the ones driving division. they are simply standing up to the unacceptable behavior and views that are displayed

amongst republicans. well, that is an interesting theory, but to that i have another survey that once more leads democrats holding the short end of the stick in his book, the righteous mind, social psychologist jonathan. hi, did some very illuminating research into how different people perceive opposing political parties. the results were clear and consistent moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as very liberal. and i continued to note that the biggest errors in the whole study came one liberals answered the care and fairness nations while pretending to be conservative. so ultimately, yes, political division in america is very real and much of it is being driven by democrats and people on the left. and what is so frustrating about all of this? no one should be forced to associate with someone that they really don't want to. but if you are choosing to cut ties with someone over political differences, in my opinion, the least you could do is make certain that those political differences are in fact

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and maxine protection? so it is suggesting that know the virus is still got some way to go. it will drop the most surprises. ah, scientific knowledge has never been so readily available to everyone across the globe, but overwhelmed by information. can we distinguish? the real signs from the one being imposed upon.