ah the world has really turned upside down and what was see now he was blade and would like banners. when was the last time you were a verifiable truth from the united states government that they put out to the public? a spring called a dark day for journalism, jeremy sand supported to lash out at the london high court ruling to allow as possible expedition to the united states. yet another hearings now needed them to decide his fate. we call on russia to return to diplomacy, answered the escalade. the west urges russia to take the heat of the ukrainian crisis while sending $60000000.00 worth of military atm at the same time and reported they considering more. plus the curious tale. if the american billionaire forced to return $70000000.00 worth of stolen antiquities,

even holding for decades, but as big anger offers been reveal the bold face and criminal charges ah live for moscow will come to alt internationals world news at midnight with me. kevin owen, a dark day for journalism than that. so supporters of julian assange have reacted to the british high court ruling that the wikileaks found can be expedited to the united states. washington wanted to appeal against a previous decision blocking. a son from being sent to american face trial campaign is slammed this latest ruling which was handed down on the un human rights day. we condemn today's u. k. high court decision to allow the expedition of julian sans to the u. s. which will prove historic for all the wrong reasons. we fully believe that julian assigned has been targeted for his contributions to journalism.

oh, people gathered in front of the court condemning the decision. previously, a lower court said block to sound his exhibition of concerns about his mental health, but that was ruled on friday to be no longer such an item of concern. after the u. s. gave assurances, he would not serve any sentence in a maximum security prison or solitary confinement. but the son just lawyers described those pledges as vague and unreliable. his fiance made an emotional statement after the announcement. for how long can this go on to day? is international human right state. what a shame, how cynical to, how this decision on this day to have one of the foremost the foremost publisher journalist of the past, 50 years in

a u. k. prison accused of publishing the truth about war crimes about cia kill teams. is a brief recap of the recent history in 2019 julia sandra's forcefully removed by british police from ecuador embassy, london. after the country terminated his 7 year asylum. there was a roughly used edge to capture those pictures being to run the world. he'd sought refuge after sexual assault allegations and sweden, which were late to drop. the british authorities arrested him then our separate charge of jumping bail. america wants the wiki leagues found a extradited on claims of conspiring to hat government computers and publishing classified material. we spoke with us national security agency, whistleblower william benny about the case and also with rafael, kara, the former president of ecuador, whose administration it was, gave massage, political asylum. according to what a gift to london court gave to the united states on the human rights day. that's

grim irony on human rights to 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, carol, you would be applauded by the mainstream media. horner in the united states congress and the cape parliament. when, as he went against the, had you many of the united states, you was called a criminal me, the press is quite, looks the other way or even supports this greg down on their colleagues. i mean, it's completely incomprehensible. it could be understood if it was secret information about the location of troops or intelligence facilities. is what we're talking about. war cripes. this cannot be a state secret. the world has to know about them. there must be transparency. that's what assange day is. that's why he's been punished since 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 date, a violation of the espionage that we're now that the united states law is not

a world wide law, is not a law in other countries. so there's a real problem with this to, to bring to court ruling on that issue of the as the espionage ack. suspending 1st amendment rights. they said that it was justified in time of war blot, as you well, i would point out, we're not in a war now, congress is not declared war and we had no declared war. why are they indicting the senior editors at least of the, of the guardian, the new york times the washington post. all them who have also published this kind of maturity. 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 did that they put out to the public. when, when can you just divide from through other sources and means and methods that validity of what they've been telling you? can't they lie that they lie to congress directly? they get caught lying and they just ignore it. nobody does anything. i mean,

they're exempt from the 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 law. and it's not gone on notice that the extradition ruling against hearing the sounds came not only on human rights day, but also on the same day. the u. s. wrapped up, it's multi national summit for democracy, which president biden pushed for people to be able to breathe freely. didn't take long them for the criticism to role in that it was not applied. those very same principles to julian assange. and as we close out the 1st gathering, let's let, 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 aren't those who stifle and who gives people the ability to breathe free are 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 salad 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 there's this while the u. s. is busy promoting democracy in other countries, its own seems to be at risk, stockholm based thing tags, annual review, or democracies around the world. as for the 1st time, put the u. s. in the back sliding category a sound freedom campaign. a john reese telling us that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same. um i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights day that the judges in this case, we should have found that it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it security service lead cia i'm has previously been

threatening to kidnap all kill him the problem with many more than states, they're all for our 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 more than 70 people. a thought of died after parts of kentucky were devastated by the worst tornadoes and the states history with fear that the overall death toll could exceed a 100 before the end of the day. storms tearing across parts of the central and southern us with the kentucky governor declaring a state of emergency. this has been the most devastating tornado event in our state's history. the level of devastation is unlike anything i've ever seen

. satellite far too many homes, that people were likely in 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 mayfield. kentucky will look at these pictures, showing you what was a candle factory, its roof collapsing after the tone a to struck according to officials. as many as a 110 were inside that building when the storm had. meantime, the state of illinois workers have been trapped inside an amazon warehouse after its roof was hit by a tornado. and again collapse. local media reporting that some employees have been rescued from the facility, but up to a 100 were inside the building at the time. according to authorities, the all reports of possible death, but the number of victims still not yet known. in neighboring r console, one person thought to have been killed and 5 seriously injured of the same storm damage to nursing home. there many others were trapped inside that building. the

severe weather is also claimed at least 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. the course has been set to draw ukraine into nato. such irresponsible behavior is an unacceptable threat to our security provoking serious risks for all parties involved up to a large scale conflict in europe. the reservation 1st, that 30 javelin anti tank missiles systems were delivered to ukraine in october as part of a $60000000.00 military aid package. and for the $200000000.00 could be donated as well. coming as ukraine accuses russia of sending military assistance to the self proclaimed republics in the east of the country, acclaim moscow denies. but russia is still being urged to respect borders by both

nato and the e u. mills or build off in on their own ukraine. this racist tensions and undermines 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 its neighbors and respect the rights of sovereign states. that escalation kicked off after ukrainian navy ship called the dog bass approached russian waters without authorization on thursday. a move that russia regarded as a threat than the navigational safety of other vessels in the area that ukraine denied all allegations and assisted the ship was an unarmed search and rescue vessel. and that it never entered restricted waters or post any threat. the vessel did eventually change course, but giving more perspective the ships named after the easton ukraine region of don bass, which has been making headlines now since 2014. when war broke out there,

that unrest has become a seed of discord between ki evan, moscow. and on thursday, russian president vladimir putin compared. what's happening in that region now? to a war crime doors, the he, i should say that, russo, for we 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 for the situation, at least in ukraine, at the moment. so i could liken it to a human, it's area and catastrophe. the war there has been happening for the last 8 years and i'm there at least 56 times a year. i'm going back there in december again and when talk into 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 said to tell you honestly, the escalation hasn't stopped in the last 8 years. people that live along the front

lines, they're constantly being shelled out of the of a, with artillery a small arms fire beer between the 2. the size, both sides are 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, and has been proven recently as well. ukraine continues to violate those men's records by using a heavily armed drawings along the front lines. are they using high caliber or artillery? and of course are the people there. i mean, they see with their own eyes that sir have a listen to what the people are saying is be your machine continues every day. sometimes fed away sometimes closer. but every day, heavy machine guns and aircraft missiles and heavy artillery wookey good. so we go down to this basement what we do not go further because it is right over there from

here sitting on a wagner, my son getting killed and almost an hour. but in general, we have not hidden in this basement for a long time and stuff because now we are used to constant machine, gun and ideal in a shallow family. it is within 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 would end. so once again, i'm talking about the regular people of this conflict. it's very close to my heart because i do have relatives there as well. the majority, a 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 people in the government serve. there are just as many opinions regarding this

. the solution of the conflict as there are officials. but some are the very often 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 conflicts is not dialogue, but it is through force. so there advocating violence once again. meanwhile, a president zalinski earlier on saturday. he does not exclude a referendum regard regarding the status of fire both crimea and don boss. so even in t, if there isn't a single opinion. so meanwhile, the people continue to suffer in done, but jealous turned off a thomas fast spend a told us as a real risk of a full scale european war. there is so something that has not been here for decades. that is, of 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 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 in that case automatically. busy the blank shack will be full of. busy western support for the ukrainian side. so the western narrative says that whatever are 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 both the washington and moscow and of course, are all to also a paris and berlin, understand that there is a real risk of a european war. here you are ching, art, internationalists, kevin,

over here. thanks for checking in this, we can hope it's going good for you, but talking to going good will christmas is coming. jolly times are ahead. bad news though, for american shoppers is prices serge, 2 and a 40 year high. talk about the spiraling inflation where that's going to lead after the break what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be in arms. race group is on often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical of time. time to sit down and talk

join me every thursday on the alex simon, sure. i'll be speaking to guess of the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. oh, we've talked about the rising chance of civil war and america, and it could either be between the have yachts and the have nots. it could be between the big coin stays like texas or florida between the non bitcoin states, where the rising tension is comparable because of the rising teeny coefficient that is not only spread between the very top and in the bottom is getting extremely wide . oh, i guess we'll next the story of an american 1000000000 who's been forced to surrender stolen antiquities, that he kept for decades. the case of hedge fund pioneer michael stein heart. that

is shocked archaeologist historians around the world and his collection of plundered art is expected to be worth around $70000000.00. let's take a look at some of these items and apparently was stolen, smuggle, they include, well, what you but see coming up here 1st, the one that dates back to 5, b, c. it's worth 3 and a half $1000000.00. you can probably see that more clearly the me products better real life, another rare masterpieces. the law next a small chest of human remains with an impressive price tag of a $1000000.00. then we got the death masks dating back to a 7000 b, c. and worth a heck of a lot of dosh as well, or steinhart gave up the treasures in the end as part of a deal, which means that he won't face any criminal charges. where do these things come from? all the origins of the looted antiquity stretch across 11 countries, italy, greece see israel, for instance, all robbed of their cultural heritage along the way. experts say the damage inflicted is immeasurable. jim stubbs 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 me that it is being performed by looting on a global level. the loss of history, the loss of information, and the only hardship for michael stein out, it seems as a lifetime ban on requiring anything like this in the future or any other relics. his lawyers says the collect is very pleased, the investigation concluded without any charges, but the public outrage, what's perceived as a remarkably lenient ruling and most responding to a poll that was put out. but it insisted he got away thought too lightly. the just the 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 there will bits answers 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 she was acquiring, or at least should have had very, very strong indications about the possibility of being lupin is of america in the grip

a surging inflation not seen since the 1980s with prices rosencross many sectors for 6 months in a row. in november prices for us, consumers jumping to the 7 percent compared with little more than one percent a year ago. triggered by the karone of ours pandemic, mainly inflation cit. everything from food to energy, to house rentals and cars. but the u. s. federal reserve is still hesitant to take the big step, the serious action of curbing the spike, like raising interest rates. because that leads to its own problems, i supposed to call him peter ro, who told me that higher inflation drives people to take home more debt. there's a view that low level inflation is, is good for the economy. i'm not sure i subscribe to that, but certainly the kind of place we're seeing now is a very pernicious that makes life doubt as many aspects of the economy and may wage the pandemic, or rather, the central banking response of the pandemic is the main factor that's great in the place right now. last year,

the federal reserve increase the years. one is our supply between 30 and 40 percent, and the root cause inflation is 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 to tap down this in place, but they can't do they stop to open market bond purchase, as they've said, they won't stop that until april or may of next year. so it's gonna be a while this inflation may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. it will really benefit from high inflation, systematically r, r r r creditors because 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 we should hires, ah, inflation rather promotes higher levels of debt, which is also a bad thing. but is they'll wind that blows? no, be any good seems angry. the president biden's handling of the economy isn't bad news though. everyone abutting entrepreneur than in the state of massachusetts is tending the dislike into dollars as i would a shop selling some unique antibody merchandise. the owner says his customers feel

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went over was taking up 80 percent of our sales. so i said, let's just do a themed store just let's go branded store and that's how we started. but despite his view, that is all about having different opinions pole tell us a different story. it turns out that if some of you in the u. s voting one way or another, it could be a reason not to date you or even talk to political commentator now to come and take to lauren chen reveals who sewing this division. then 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 counter partners. 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 thing. 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 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 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 real. the thoughts of lauren shen on the program? yeah, no,

let me take you through 3 more at lunch before i say good bye for my yell of best protests is sit here. we've got a new rand rallies in front speaking out against mandatory vaccinations and coven passes french and public places. the movement took off in 2018 against initially mccorda government, social policies like hikes and fuel prices. it's been kick no one ever since. oh, and from one mass, ready to another. thousands hitting the streets of vienna on saturdays to protest against some of the few latasha cobra restrictions and vaccine mandates. demonstrate his health banners calling full freedom against compulsory note collation several were arrested and did from february the 1st next year. every austrian, over the age of 14 must get a corona virus job. the 1st country in europe to bring him such rules. in mexico, around $200.00 central american migrant sir reported to be marching to mexico city

. what a long trek that is from where they hope to eventually travel further north and get into the u. s. e. g, a thousands of people fleeing poverty and violet cross mexico southern puerto, from guatemala. many marching in large numbers to try and make some safety around them. what of alice, presidents has blamed joe biden for the caravans saying they're encouraged by the democrats lukewarm rhetoric on illegal immigration and that saw t's world news at midnight with me. kevin owen, thanks for watching this weekend and this needs addition stand by for various programs from us in your part of the world after the break. ah, no look forward to talking to you. oh, that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, accept.