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to have one of the foremost the foremost publisher journalists of the past, 50 years in the u. k. prison, accused of publishing the truth about or crimes about the i killed teams. it's a long story. but as a brief recap, with the recent history in 29, st julian sans was forcefully removed by british police from ecuador was embassy in london after the country terminated the 7 years solomon wrote me, can remember this is the pictures that we took while he sought refuge off the sexual assault delegations, and sweden, which related dropped the british authorities, arrested him then on a separate charge, a jumping bail. americas still wants to kill eggs founder, extradited of the claims of conspiring to government computers and publishing classified materials. we spoke with us national security agency, whistleblower william benny about the case and also with rafael carrera,
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the former president of ecuador, whose administration it was that gave some political asylum. but normally when i go to what a gift to london court gave to the united states on the human rights day, that's grim irony on human rights state. the rights of the journalist are blatantly violated and his sin was telling the truth. if assange 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. and the press is quite, looks the other way or even supports this crack down on their colleague. 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 that. there must be transparency. that's what assange did. that's why he's being punished. the world has really
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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 act. what on that is the united states law? it's not a world wide laws, not in law in other countries. so there's a real problem with this 2 debris court ruling on that issue of the of the espionage act. suspending 1st amendment rights. they said it was justified in time of war. well, i would, when i were not in a war now, congress is not declared war, and we had no declared war. why aren't they indicting the a senior editors at least of the, of, of a guardian, the in new york times, the washington post. all them who have also published this kind of material. why aren't 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? when,
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when can you just divide from through other sources and means and method that validity of what they've been telling? you can't, they've lied, they lie to congress directly, they get caught 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. and those in power have a different set of laws. it's not gone unnoticed at the extradition ruling against julia. sounds came not only on human rights day, but also on the same day the u. s. route to pitts multi national summit, full democracy, which president biden pushed for people to be able to breathe freely. well, that didn't take long them for the criticism to role in that he wasn't applying the same principles to julia sanchez. and as we close out the 1st gathering, let's let us together reaffirm our determination the future will belong to those who embrace human dignity. not those who tramp, one wish to potential other people on those who stifle and who gives people the
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ability to breathe free, not those who seek the suffocate their people with an iron hand. this shameful verdict, in the 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 is a disgrace. meanwhile, biden is holding his cynical democracy summit and the hypocrisy and the cruelty. and then is this, while the u. s. is busy promoting democracy in other countries, seeds own seems to be at risk. a stock home base. think tank than the annual review of democracies around the world is put for the 1st time, the us in the back sliding category. assange freedom campaigner john reese telling us that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same at home. i think with it's remarkable that especially on human rights day that
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the judges in this case should have found that it would be safe to extradite june assigned to the country where it security service the cia has previously been threatening to kidnap or kill him. the problem with many modern states, they're all for democracy and freedom of speech in a free press in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get past that property and understand. but freedom of the press is a universal. ready human, right? because it's part of freedom of speech. we won't be making very much progress. or the 70 people thought of died after parts of kentucky were devastated by the worst tornadoes in the states. history with fear that the overall death tell could exceed a 100 before the end of the day. storms tearing across parts of the central and southern us. with a kentucky government declaring a state of emergency. this has been the most devastating tornado event in our
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state's history. the level of devastation is unlike anything i've ever seen. satellite far too many homes, that people were likely an entirely devastated this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado system to ever run through kentucky. one of the worst places is the city of may field in kentucky. these pe show the destruction of what was a candle factory. the roof collapsing for tornado struck according to officials as many as a 110 were inside the building. when the storm struck. meantime, instead of illinois, workers have been trapped inside an amazon warehouse after its roof was hit by the tornado and collapse. local media reporting that some employees have been rescued from the facility. the worries of $200.00 were inside the building at the time. there are reports of possible deaths, but the number of victims is not yet known. in every arkansas,
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one person's thoughts have been killed in 5 seriously injured after the same storm damaged in nursing home. the many others were trapped inside is believed. the severe where there's also claimed 3 lives in tennessee. tensions of ukraine are running high with russia slamming the west for fueling, the escalation and voicing concern nato's actions in the region. moscow says they could potentially lead to a large scale conflict. a 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. us fulfilled on thursday, the 30 javelin onto tank missile systems were delivered to ukraine in october as part of a $60000000.00 military aid package. and a further $200000000.00 could be donated his competence. ukraine accuses russia of sending military assistance to the self proclaimed republics in the east of the
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country. a claim that moscow denies. however, russia is still big enough to respect borders by both nato and the e. u. military build up in and around ukraine. this races, tensions and undermined security in europe. we call on russia to return to diplomacy and to the escalate the about, and we expect russia to deescalate and refrain from any aggression towards his neighbors and respect the rights of sovereign states. the escalation happened after a ukrainian navy ship couple of years ago approached russian waters with that authorization of thursday evening. this happened a move at russia, regarded as a threat to the navigational safety of other vessels in the area. ukraine denied all the allegations and insisted the ship was an unarmed search a rescue vessel that never entered restricted waters or post any threat. the vessel did eventually quickly change course tv. more perspective though, this ship is named dom bass name than after the eastern ukraine region. of
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a dumbass, which has been making the headlines since 2014, when war broke out there, that unrest has become a see the discourse between care for moscow and on thursday, russian president vladimir putin like and what's happening in the region to a war crime. lawrenceville is she, i should say that russo foby 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 just to show the situation, at least in ukraine at the moment. so i could liken it to a human italian catastrophe. ah, the ward there has been happening for the last 8 years and i'm there at least $56.00 times a year. i'm going back there in december again and when talking to people generally, and they're saying that we are really tired of this least tell us when is this going to stop? we are talking about escalations there from time to time. but 3rd, to tell you honestly, the escalation hasn't stopped in the last 8 years. people that live along the front
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lines, they're constantly being shelled out of the of a with artillery. there's a all arms flyer beer between the 2 sides, both sides blaming each other for violating the truce. um, you know that there are minsk records that are in place there that are supposed to prevent the sides from worrying against each other. however, i and has been proven recently as well. ukraine continues to violate those misc accords by using a heavily armed drones along the front lines. are they using high caliber artillery and of course are the people there. i mean, they see with their own eyes. let's have a listen to what the people are saying is be your machine and continuous every day . sometimes fed away, sometimes crowder, but every day, heavy machine guns and aircraft, missiles and heavy artillery. good. we go down to this basement what we do not go
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further because it is wet over there. here sit in on a vaux, my son recently spent almost an hour. but in general, we have not hidden in this basement for a long time, because now we are used to constant machine gun, an artillery shell in the years lydia, the house i am living in was simply given to me by ordinary people because my real house was bombed in january 2014 and my daughters in july, people have a different opinions as to how this conflict with and so once again i'm talking about the regular people. of this conflict is very close to my heart because i do have relatives there as well, or the majority, large majority of the people they want to link their future with russia more than 300000. so don barza residents have already received a russian citizenship. now ukrainian officials, they're still holding for a united country, but sir, people in the government serve,
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there are just as many opinions regarding this, the solution of the conflict as there are officials. but some are the very often the contradict each other in their methods. their ways how to unite the country once again. for example, just recently, their foreign minister said that the only way to do to stop the conflict is not dialogue, but sir, is through force. so there advocating violence once again. meanwhile, our president zalinski earlier on saturday i, he did not exclude a referendum regard regarding the status of fo, both crimea and dunbar. so i'm even in t if there isn't a single opinion. so meanwhile, the people continue to suffer in than what jealous north thomas fast spend a telling us. there's a real risk of a full scale european war. there is a, something that has not been here for decades. that is the perspective,
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the real perspective or for a major european war. so here now the key for a potential war in europe lives now, 100 percent with the are 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 are in that case automatically. busy the blank check will be full of western support for the ukrainian side. so the western narrative says that whatever i crimea or whatever, a key if does to reclaim or even re conquer are the brake away. republics, or even crimea, would be executing their sovereign rights on their sovereign territory. and we should hope that are there that both the washington and moscow and of course, are also also a perez and berlin. understand that there is a real risk of
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a european war here. christmas is coming. tis the season to be jolly, but oh, bad news for american shoppers such as prices, serge 2, and they a 40 year high, we're going to talk about the spiraling inflation. and what is going to bring it where it's going to go after the break here? what are the international ah, we've talked about the rising chance of civil war in america, and it could either be between the ab yachts and the have nots. they could be between the big coin stays like texas or florida between the non bitcoin states. but the rising tension is comparable because of the rising genie coefficient as is now and they spread between the very top and the and the bottom is getting extremely why many was full, the delta would be the sort of p i did. i could, well,
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you're not going to get a shoulder any more transmissible than delta and not what's happened. you got something which has popped up with more than 30 changes in that spike protein that we're all interested in. it's accumulated, all the mutations we've seen in different varies all in one bar. and that raises some very interesting issues about now, where did it come from in the 1st place? is it possible to get even more mute and what's gonna happen in terms of disease severity and vaccine protection? so in any suggesting the know the virus is still got some way to go through the more surprises ah. hello again, live for moscow itself. international kevin? oh, and he would do this out now. next, the story about american billionaire who's been forced to surrender stolen antiquities and he kept for decades the case of hedge fund potty, michael stein,
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shop, toxicologist historians around the world. though his collection of plundered arts estimated to be worth around $70000000.00. let's take a closer look. well, these are some of the items which were apparently stolen, smuggle, they include one which dates back to this $15.00, b, c. it's worth 3 and a half $1000000.00. then there's this. it's called the law next, a small chest for human remains with an impressive price of $1.00. you would think to look at it, but $1000000.00. also, among them a set of death masks, dating back to 7000 b. c. the amazing stuff. so no steinhoff gave the treasures as part of a deal, which means he won't face any criminal charges. the origins of these looted antiquities, stretch across 11 countries to bring that a big see where from italy, greece israel, old robbed to the cultural heritage along the way. experts say the damage inflicted in fact, is immeasurable. to stubs has been done to the countries of origin,
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sociological sites. the main damage is cultural in the sense that we are losing the history of his objects out a common set of past. and this is the, the biggest crime that it is being performed by looting on a global level. the loss of history, the loss of information seems handhold is the only hardship for michael stein. hard is a lifetime bud on acquiring any more of these relics in the future. is lawyer said the collect is very pleased, the investigation concluded without any charges. but the public outrage, what's perceived as a remarkably lenient ruling. a pole out said most people thought he got away with it far too lightly. 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
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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 there 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 collect, the history that these of the objects he was acquiring, or at least should come, had very, very strong indications about the possibility of being looted as object. murray because the griffith surging inflation not same since the $980.00
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with prices rising across many sectors for 6 months in a row. now, in november prices for us consumers job nearly 7 percent compared with little more than one percent here ago. triggered by the corona virus pandemic, mainly inflation said everything from food to energy to house rentals to cars. but the u. s. fed reserve is still hesitant to take serious action to try to curb the spike, like raising interest rates. i spoke to economists, peter early told me that higher inflation drives people to take on more debt. there's a view that low low level inflation is, is good to be economy. i'm not sure i subscribed 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 begging response of the panoramic is the main factor. that's great in place right now. last year, the federal reserve increased the years money sharp supply by between 30 and 40 percent, and the root cause inflation is lots of money. jason,
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as they were fewer goods and services. so that's the main one that is going to try to lift interest rates due to tamp down of this question, but they can't do they stop to open market bond purchases and they said they won't stop back until april or may of next year. so give me a while, was in place, may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. they don't even really benefit from high inflation. systematically are 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. bah, this mail when the blows nobody, any good, as they say anger of a president biden's handling of the economy is about these for everyone. a buddy entrepreneur in the state of massachusetts is turning the dislike into dollars, is opened up a shop selling some unique antibody merchandise. the owner says his customers feel deeply unhappy and what's happening in the country. mm
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. oh, a. i think it's fantastic. i'm from how to tell and i absolutely great absolutely job. i'm glad that you are satisfied with people. most surprises for them. and, and you know, college is high school. it seems to be, seem to be catching on really well in our customers because we had some new england trump stores our customers were asking for it. so we started carrying it and it went over. it was taking up 80 percent of our sales. so i said, let's just do it themes store, just let's go brandon store and that's how we started. but despite his view
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that he's sol about having different opinions, polls tell us different story. turns out the for some in the us, your voting choice may actually be a good reason not to date you or even talk to political commentator not to contribute. lauren check reveals who sewing the divisions and today the progressive left and really democrats in general, loved to think of themselves as the party of tolerance, openness, acceptance, and just in general, good things, sunshine and rainbows. and so predictably, when it comes to discussing polarization in america, or who exactly is responsible for increasing harsh political sentiments, it's very easy for people on the left to point the finger at their conservative counterparts. i mean, clearly the political environment is getting more and more hostile and if the left ends for all of these positive 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
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different types of relationships, both personal and professional, with people who voted for a different presidential candidate than they did. 31 percent of republicans 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 republican 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
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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 real to the well. now a few other headlines in brief are yellow vesper testers have begun a new round of rallies in france. demonstrate as demands include, the removal of mandatory coven inoculation. the also to scrap requiring passes to
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get into public places. the movement took off in 2018 by then the against the crowns government. so social policies like hikes and fuel prices have gone on ever since. oh, in one mass, raleigh, to another thousands of hit the streets of vienna saturday to protest against philip. europe's harshest coven restrictions and vaccine mandates demonstrate as hell. banners, calling for freedom against compulsory inoculation. several were arrested from february the 1st next year. every ostrich over the age of 40 must get a corona virus job is the 1st country in europe to bring in those kind of rules of re mexico around $200.00 central american migrants are reported to be marching to mexico city from where they hope to eventually travel further north and get into the us. each year, thousands of people fling poverty and violence cross mexico southern border from guatemala, many marching in large numbers for some sort of safety. the president,
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a guatemalan blamed president biden, for these caravans highlighting the democrats lukewarm rhetoric on illegal immigration. and that's how it sees. well, these attend with me, kevin. oh, and thanks for watching this. we can stand by for various programs and your part of the world here. after the break you ah ah, i mean, ah, i'm ashley resent senior wasn't going on the run 57 years to the day,
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