a world has really turned upside down, and what we see now is blatantly bunger. when was the last time you had a verifiable truth from the united states government that they put out to the public. it's being called a dark day for journalism. join us on supporters lash out at the london, the high courts were willing to allow his possible expedition to the united states . yet another hearing is now needed to decide his fate. we hold on in our shop to return to diplomacy and to deescalate the west urges russia to take the key to out of the ukrainian practice while sending $60000000.00 worth of military aid. the key of and is reportedly considering more plus the curious tale of the american 1000000000 air, forced to return $70000000.00 worth of stolen antiquities. he had been hoarding for

decades, but there is anger after it is revealed and he won't face criminal charges. ah, i broadcast my direct for a studio, monica, this is art international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. are now a dark day for journalism. this is how supporters of gillian assange have reacted to the british high court ruling. that the wiki leagues founder can be extradited to the united states. washington one, it's appeal against the previous decision blocking assange from being sent to american face trial. campaigners slammed this latest ruling which was handed down on the u. n. c. human rights day. we condemn today u. k. high court decision to allow the expedition of julian songs to the us, which will prove historic for all the wrong reasons. we fully believe that julian

assault has been targeted for his contributions to journalism. now the people gathered in front of the court condemning the decision. previously, a lower court had blocked assumptions, acquisition over concerns about his mental health, but it was ruled on friday that that was no longer a concern. after the u. s. gave assurance, he would not serve any sentence in a maximum security prison or solitary confinement. assumptions, lawyers describe those pledges as vague and unreliable. his fiance made an emotional statement after the announcement 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 of the past, 50 years in the u. k. prison. accuse publishing the truth

about or crimes about the i killed him. here is a brief recap of the reason that back story and 2019 joint songs was forcefully removed by british police from ecuador is embassy in london. after the country terminated his 7 year asylum there, he had thought refuge after sexual assault allegations and sweden, which were later dropped the british authorities arrested him on a separate charge of jumping bail. america wants to be ricky leeks, founder extradited on claims of conspiring to hack in government computers and publishing classified material. we spoke with us national security agency whistleblower william binnie, about the case and also with rafael career. the former president of ecuador, whose administration gave assange political asylum according to what a gift du london court 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 the had you money of the united states, he was called a criminal. the press is quite looks the other way or even supports described 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 dangers are. 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, is not in law in other countries. so there's

a real problem with this to, to bring a court ruling on that issue of the, of the espionage ack. suspending 1st amendment rights, they said 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 aren't they indicting the a 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 as 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 of i from through other sources and means and methods that are validity 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 laws, one for those of the people and the rest, and those in power have a different set of law. it has not gone unnoticed that the extradition ruling against julian assange came not only on human rights to day, but also on the same day. the u. s. wrapped up, it's multi national summit for democracy at which president biden pushed for people to be able to breathe freely. it didn't take long event for the criticism to role in that he was not applying the same principles to join a such. and as we close out, the 1st gathering, let's let, let us together reaffirm our determination in 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 give their people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hand. 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 a sondors that 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 a stockholm based thing tanks. annual review of democracies around the world has for the 1st time put the u. s. in the backsliding category. the sonic 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 so especially on human rights style, the judges in this case, i should have find that it would be safe to extradite julian assigned to the country where its security service leave. cia has previously been

threatening to hit that old kill in the problem with many multiple sites there old 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 price is a universal human right, because it's part of freedom of speech, will be making very much progress within 70 people are feared to have died after parts of kentucky were devastated by the worst tornadoes in the states, history and rescue workers have already found more than 40 missing people amid damaged buildings. but there are concerns the death toll could exceed 100 individuals shelters have been with the help of the red cross. and kentucky's governor has declared 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. these images show the destruction of 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. tornadoes have also reach havoc and other parts of the central and southern us in arkansas, one person who thought to have been killed and 5 seriously injured after a storm damage to a nursing home there. many others were trapped inside the 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 at nato's actions in the region. moscow says they could potentially lead to a large scale conflict. a course has been set to drop 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, the 30 javelin anti tech 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 this company as ukraine accuses russia of sending military assistance to the self proclaimed 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 military build up in their own ukraine. this races, 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 members and respect. the rights of sovereign stainless with the escalation happened after a ukrainian navy ship called the dunn bass, approached 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 all allegations and insisted 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 to give you more perspective, the ship is named after the eastern ukraine 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 to a war crime? so he,

i should say that russo phobias the 1st step towards genocide, what's going on and on bass. now are genocide, we see it and we know about it. 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's 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 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 the 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. there's a small arms flyer beer between the 2 sides, both sides of blaming each other for violating the truce. you know that there are men scores 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 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, this eat with their own eyes. let's have a listen to what the people are saying. you're here, shelling continues every day. you did not sometimes further away, sometimes closer. but every day putting heavy machine guns empty aircraft, missiles and heavy artillery. listen, we go down to this basement. we do not go further because it is wet over there. here susan and box my son recently 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 my years 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 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. 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 hoping 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 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 they're advocating violence once again. meanwhile, a president zalinski earlier on saturday. i, he does not exclude a referendum regard regarding the status of 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 was journalist and author, thomas fast vendor told us there is a real risk of a full scale european war. there is sir, 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, 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 crimea, or whatever a key if does to reclaim or even reconquer are the brake away, republics, or even crimea would be executing their sovereign rights on their sovereign territory. and we should hold that on there that both the washington and moscow and of course, all to also of paris and berlin, understand that there is a real risk of a european war here. still the coming to program bad news for american shoppers as prices asserting to in your 40 or high will talk about more of the sprawling inflation after a short break. this is our international what

we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time. time to sit down and talk to welders driven by drink shaped bank concur sent those with

who dares sinks. we dare to ask a ah welcome back. this is our t international. now in american billionaire has been forced to surrender stolen antiquities that he had kept for decades. the case of hedge fund a pioneer, michael steinhardt has shocked archaeologists and historians around the world. and his collection of plundered art is estimated to be worth about $70000000.00. and let's have a look at some of those items, many of which were apparently stolen and smuggled. they include this one which should 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 $1000000.00 and also among them, a set of death masks, dating back to $7000.00 b. c. steinhart gave up the treasures as part of a deal, which means he will not face criminal charges. the origins of the looted antiquity stretch across 11 countries. among them, italy, greece and israel, all robbed of their cultural heritage. experts say the damage inflicted is immeasurable. to stubs has been done to the countries of origin. you're looking because sites the main damage is cultural in the sense that we are losing the history of his objects. our 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. the only hardship for michael stein hard though is

a lifetime ban on acquiring 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 rolling with most respondents to a poll, insisting that he's gotten away to 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 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 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 looted as americans in the grip of surging inflation, not seen since the 1980 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 just a year ago. triggered by this krona virus pandemic, inflation has hit everything from food and energy to house rentals and cars. but

the u. s. federal reserve is still hesitant to take serious action to curve the spike, 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 the place we're seeing now is a very pernicious that makes life doubt as many aspects of the economy in many ways in the pandemic, or rather, the central banking response of the band i make is the main factor i that's great in 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 name said they won't stop back until april or may of next year. so it's gonna be a while this employees 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, ah, inflation rather promotes a higher levels of debt, which is also a bad thing. a shop owner in the state of massachusetts is turning the public dislike for joe biden, in to dollars selling some unique anti biden merchandise with the slogan, let's go brandon. he says, people want to express their discontent with what is happening in the 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. yeah,

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absolutely love with absolutely job. i'm glad that people are starting and defend their right people. my surprises for them. and in colleges high schools, it seems to be, it seem to be catching on really well in our customers because we had some going on, but trump stores our customers were asking for it. so we started carrying it and it 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. despite his view that it's all about having different opinions. polls tell us a different story, it turns out that for some of you, us, your voting choice may actually be a good reason not to date you or even talk to you. political commentator and argy contributor luncheon comments on who is showing 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 counterpart, right? 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 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 do when 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 when liberals answered the care and

fairness questions 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 bad your news for this hour. i will be back in about 31 minutes with another phone fresh looks through with us or to international. ah, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders at conflict with the 1st law of the patient. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. and the point obviously is to place

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