blue, a world has really turned upside down and what was see now, he's blatantly progress. when was the last time you had a verifiable truth from the united states government that they put out to the public? it's been called a dark day for journalism julian assange supporters lash out at the london hi courts willing to allow his possible expedition to the united states. yet another hearing is now needed to decide his fate. we call on russia to return to diplomacy and to the escalator. the west urges russia to take the heat out of the ukrainian crisis while sending $60000000.00 worth of military aid to give and is reportedly considering more. plus the curious

tale of the american billionaire forced to return $70000000.00 worth of stolen and to take what east he had been affording for decades. but there's anger after it's revealed. he won't face criminal charges. ah. are we broadcasting live direct my studios in moscow? this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now a dark day for journalism is how supporters of julian san should have reacted it to the british high court ruling that the wiki leagues founder can be extradited to the united states. washington one, it's appeal against a previous decision blocking assange from being sent to america to face trial. campaigners slammed this latest ruling which was handed down on the when human rights day. we condemn 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 saw and just being targeted for his contributions to journalism i now, oh, now people gathered in front of the court condemning the decision. previously, a lower court had to block the sanchez extradition over concerns about his mental health. but it was ruled on friday that that was no longer a concern. after the u. s. gave assurances that he would not serve any sentence in a maximum security prison or solitary confinement. sanchez, lawyers described those pledges as big 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

journalists of the past. 50 years in a u. k. prison, accused of publishing the truth about or crimes about cia kill teams. here's a brief recap of the recent back story in 2019 julian songs was forcefully removed by british police from ecuador, as embassy in london. after the country terminated his 7 year asylum there, he had sought refuge after sexual assault allegations and sweden work which were later dropped. the british authorities arrested him on a separate charge of jumping bail. america wants the wiki, likes founder extradited on claims of conspiring to hack a government computers and publishing classified material. we spoke with us national security agency whistleblower william binnie, about the case and also with rafael korea. the former president of ecuador, whose administration gave assange political asylum according to what

a gift du london court gave tis united states on the human rights state. that's grim irony on human rights to the rights of the journalist are relate hensley miley, and his sin was telling the truth, even sancha grantly of the secrets and try now rational or left wing latin american governments such as mine. carol, if you would be applauded by the mainstream media, horner in the united states congress and the cape parliament. but if you went against the, had you money of the united states, you was called a criminal me. 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, is what we're talking about. war cries, 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 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 in court ruling on that issue of the, as the espionage actually spending 1st amendment. right. they said that it was justified in kind of war thought, as you well, i would point out, we're not in a war now, congress is not declared war. we had no declared war. why are they indicting the a senior editors at least of the, of the guardian 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 ability of what they've been telling you cant,

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 law, one for those of the people. and the rest and those in power have a different set of laws. it has not gone unnoticed, that the extradition ruling against julian assange came not only on human rights day, but also on the same day that the u. s. wrapped up, it's multinational summit for democracy, not which president biden pushed for people to be able to breathe freely. it didn't take long then for the criticism to roll in that he was not applying the same principles to juliana sash. and as we close out, the 1st gathering, let's let, let us together reaffirm our determination at 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

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 there is that this while the u. s. is busy promoting democracy in other countries, its own seems to be at risk. a stock home based thing tanks, annual review of democracies around the world has for the 1st time put the u. s. in the back sliding category. assange freedom campaigner john reese says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same at home. i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights style that the judges

in this case should have fine, but it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it's security service leave. cia has previously been threatening to hit that old, kill him, the problem with many multiple sites. they're all for 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 that freedom of the price is a universal human right, because it's part of freedom of speech, we will be making very much progress more than 70 people are thought to have died after parts of kentucky were devastated by the worst tornadoes in the states history with fears that the overall death toll could exceed a 100 before the end of the day. storms tor 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 an entirely devastated this will be, i believe, the deadliest tornado system to ever run through kentucky. or one of the worst hit places in the city of mayfield, kentucky. these pictures show the destruction at what was a candle factory. its roof collapsing after the tornado struck authority say as many as 110 people were inside. when the building was hit by the storm, the governor fears states the death toll could possibly exceed 100 people. meanwhile, in the state of illinois, workers have been trapped inside an amazon warehouse after its roof was hit by a tornado and collapsed. local media is reporting that some employees have been

rescued from the facility of to 100 people were inside the building at the time. according to authorities, there are reports of possible deaths, but the number of victims is not yet known. and the neighboring arkansas, one person who saw to have been killed and 5 seriously injured after the same as storm damage to a nursing home there. many others were trapped inside that building. the severe weather has also claimed at least 3 lives in tennessee. tensions over 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 it 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. or the u. s. revealed on thursday that 30 javelin

anti tank missiles systems were delivered to ukraine in october. and as part of a $60000000.00 military aid package and a further $200000000.00 could be donated this company, ukraine accuses russia of sending military assistance to the self proclaimed to republics in the east of the country. a claim that moscow denies. however, russia is still being urged to respect borders by both nato and the you military build up in on their own ukraine, this racist tensions undermined security in europe. we call on russia to return to diplomacy and to the escalate the about, and we expect russia to de escalate and refrain from any aggression towards its neighbors and respect the rights of sovereign state list with. the escalation happened after a ukrainian navy ship called the dumbass approach to russian 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

allegations and insisted that the ship was an unarmed search and rescue vessel that never entered restricted waters or opposed to any threat. the vessel did eventually change course and give you more perspective the ship is named after the eastern ukrainian region of don bass, which has been making headlines since 2014. when war broke out there. that unrest has become a seed of discord between kevin moscow and on thursday, russian president vladimir putin compared what is happening in the region through a war crime? lawrenceville is he, i should say that russo phobias the 1st step towards jennifer. what's going on and on bass now version of genocide, see it and we know about it. the situation, at least in ukraine at the moment. so i could liken it to you when 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 you. artillery there is a small arms fire beer between the 2 sides, both sides blaming each other for violating the truce. um, you know that there are men scores that are in place there that are supposed to prevent the sides from warring against each other, however and, and has been proven recently as well. ukraine continues to violate those musical chords 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. there's the union here is shelling continues every day and i sometimes further away, sometimes closer. but every day put in heavy machinery, empty aircraft, missiles and heavy artillery key with so we go down to this basement. we do not go further because it is grad over there. here susan and boxes that my son received. he spent almost an hour. but in general, we have not eaten in this basement for a long time because now we are used to constant machine gun and artillery. shelling and my id is lydia. my 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, it's very close to my heart because i do have relatives there as well as 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 of the very also they 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 both crimea and don boss, so even in t, if there isn't a single opinion. so meanwhile,

the people continue to suffer in van bus, journalist and author thomas fast vendor told us that there is a real risk of a full scale european war. there is something that has not been here for decades. that is the perspective of the re perspective of a major european war. so he and now the key for a potential war in europe lives now 100 percent with the key of government if key, if the sites to provoke russian invasion. and there will be a russian invasion as soon as the key of starts a major offensive against the break of a republics. in that case, automatically. busy the blank check will be full of. busy western support for the ukrainian side. so the wisdom narrative says that whatever crimea, whatever key it does to reclaim or even re conquer the breakaway republics,

or even crimea, would be executing their sovereign rights on their sovereign territory. we should hope that, that both washington and moscow and of course, also paris and bold and understand that there is a real risk of a european war here. so the common program, bad news for american shoppers has prices surged to a near 40 year high. we'll talk more about the spiraling inflation after the break . this is our international stay with the ah.

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ah welcome back. this is our international. non american billionaire has been forced to surrender stolen antiquities that he had kept for decades the case of hedge fund pioneer michael stein heart has shocked archeologists and historians around the world. and his collection of plundered art is estimated to be worth about $70000000.00 and was have a look at some of those items, many of which were apparently stolen and smuggled. and they include this one which dates back to 5, b, c, and is worth 3 and a half $1000000.00. another rare masterpiece is the lar knox, a small chest for human remains with an impressive price tag of $1000000000.00. and also, among them a set of death masks, dating back to 7000 b. c. steinhardt gave up the treasures as part of a deal,

which means that he will not face criminal charges. the origins of the looted antiquities stretch across 11 countries. among them, italy, greece and israel, all robbed of their cultural heritage. experts said the damage inflicted is immeasurable. jim's damage has been done to the countries of origin. you're looking to call 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 crime that it is being performed by looting on a global level. the loss of history, the loss of information. the only hardship for michael steinhart though, is a lifetime ban on enquiring any other relics in the future. his lawyer says the collector is very pleased to the investigation concluded without any charges,

but there is public outrage at what is perceived as a remarkably lenient ruling with most respondents to a poll, insisting that he's gotten away 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 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 study that these of the objects he was acquiring, or at least should have had very, very strong indications about the possibility of being looted in america. in the grip of surging inflation not seen it since the 1980s with prices rising across many sectors for 6 months in a row. in november prices for us, consumers jumped nearly 7 percent compared with a little more than one percent a year ago. triggered by the current a virus pandemic, inflation has hit everything from food and energy to house rental than cars. but the u. s. federal reserve is still hesitant to take serious action to curb the spike width such as raising interest rates. economist, peter earl says that higher inflation drives people to take on 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 band i make is the main factor that's creating the place right now. last year, the federal reserve increase the years wanted to supply by 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 in place may get a bit higher before they're able to do that. they don't even 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 a inflation rather promotes higher levels of debt, which is also a bad thing. but it seems anger over president biden's handling of the economy isn't bad news for everyone. a butting entrepreneur in the state of massachusetts is turning the dislike into dollars and has opened a shop selling some of unique anti biden merchandise. now the owner says his customers feel deeply unhappy with what is happening in their country. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm mm mm mm mm mm mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. yeah, i bought this hat. i thought this is really cool that i got some

other things, a good quality order. still granted labrador with a with a i think it's fantastic. i've run out of town and i absolutely love this great,

absolutely job. i'm glad that people are and defend their right people. most surprises for them. and, and colleges high schools, it seems to be, it seems to be catching on really well in our customers because we had some new england but from 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 a themed store just let's go branded store and that's how we started. but despite his view that it's all about having different opinions, polls tell us a different story. turns out that for some in the us, your voting choice may actually be good reason not to date you or even talk to you political commentator. and our tea contributor lauren chen reveals who is sewing the division. 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 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 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. that those are for me, the sarah, i will be back in about 30 minutes. another phone for speech news say with us or international ah, ah, many of the school the delta would be the sort of p i'd you like, well, you're not going to get an order. sure. any more transmissible than delta and not what's happened. you got something which has popped up with more than 30 changes in that spite protein that we're all interested in is ace accumulated. all the mutations we've seen in different varies only one bars. and that raises some really

interesting issues about where did he come from in the 1st place. is it possible to get even more music and what's gonna happen in terms of disease severity and vaccine protection? so it is suggesting that know the virus is still got some way to go through optimal surprises with well, i started with so they know what exact numbers the julia this to my that if you are you familiar with the way down to them? i don't my idea what that was do my like.