join me every thursday on the alex salmon show, but i will be speaking to guess in the world of politics, sport, business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. ah, the u. s. puts 8500 troops on high alert. the pentagon says they're ready for deployments in eastern europe if russia ukraine, and thus, despite moscow thing, it has no such a british government minutes to quit. while fleming, what he calls the prime minister's lamentable track record. in fact, the claims of massive fraud in the government. cobit load scheme and wiki league, found it during a sound when the right to appeal to the u. k. supreme court to prevented extradition for the us on espionage charges. the ruling has been welcomed by his

family on support. what happened in court today is precisely what we wanted to happen, but we are far from achieving justice in this case. because julian has been incarcerated for so long and he should not have spent a single day in prison. mm hm. hello and welcome to the news here on our team to national. my name is peter scott coming to you live from our headquarters here in the russian capital. thank you for joining over. the u. s. is putting 8500 troops on high alert to count the suppose that threat from russia. pentagon spokesman john kirby says the units could be sent to eastern europe if russia attacks ukraine. although moscow has repeatedly denied any such plans. these would be additional brigade, combat teams, logistics personnel, medical support, aviation support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as transportation and,

and maybe even some additional capabilities after that the secretary wanting to get ahead of the potential activation and making sure that these units have the time to prepare if and only if they're deployed the u. s. and if nato allies have also started a series of navy drills in the mediterranean sea and nato secretary general un stalson, burke has said the alliances considering deploying extra troops near russia's borders. b to oliver has more on that story. an awful lot going on on monday concerning nato troop movements and planned movements as well. what we can expect is that there will be more nato troops arriving in the east of europe. later on monday us time, they'll be a coal between the u. s. president and u, repay and leaders. but earlier, we heard pretty much confirmation of this from the nato secretary general against oldenburg, nate will not compromise on core principles. we stand for the right of each nation

to choose his own alliances. and naples door remains open. we are considering to further enhance our presence in east on part of the lions. this could include the deployment of additional nate or battle groups, while those navy war games continue in the mediterranean involving the at yet the american aircraft carrier, the u. s. s. harry truman, we've also heard on monday from france, denmark, the netherlands, and spain who've all either committed or said they're considering committing moving military hardware or troops to eastern europe. now dmitri pest golf, who's the the kremlin spokesperson, said that moscow as paying very close attention to these movements, reduced in such a nato actions and increase nato activity. now, borders cannot be ignored by our military, her responsible for the security of our country. there is

a constant process of drills, maneuvers and military build up, which has never stopped and will continue. e u foreign ministers were meeting in brussels on monday. they had a lot to talk about, including proposals by the you commission for as much as what could be 1320000000 euros worth of financial package for ukraine. but one thing that jo said, but l, the a u foreign policy chief did come away from the meeting, saying was pretty much what he said when he went into the meeting, which was there would be no pull out of a you diplomatic staff and their families from embassies in keith, similar to what had been done by the united states and the u. k. i don't think we had the time applies as far as the negotiation going on and they are going on. i don't think that we had left brain and, and live there was an awful lot of pressure on germany and therefore minister analynn a bare bach in this meeting of foreign ministers on monday. germany is come under

a lot of pressure because it's refused to send weapons to ukraine. now, germany has said it will provide financial aid. it's also said it'll provide medical aid and that it would increase s surveillance operations carried out from romania. what we've also heard coming out to germany is the, the chancellor here all our shows saying that should that be an invasion, that would be strict stream consequences for russia, but amongst senior politicians including those no longer in government, of course. and the in the terms of markets voted the leader of the state of bavaria . he's been speaking to the press saying that europe shouldn't talk to russia as if it was an enemy. we must reject aggression and avoid escalation. nobody wants a war in europe. in doing so, the territorial integrity and independence of ukraine under international law must be respected, but constant new threats and never tougher sanctions against russia alone cannot be the solution. on the one end because sanctions have had little effect for

a long time. and on the other hand because these new sanctions would often harmless just as much. meanwhile, boars johnson, the british prime minister, has been having his se that's after london sent thousands of anti tank weapons to ukraine just last week, as well as a team of special forces to train people how to use those while barry and ukraine now the british prime minister is saying that an invasion of ukraine could be a disaster of historic proportions, but we also need to get a match in thinking ukraine from a, from a russian perspective is going to be a painful violence. and this is, this could be menu check. awful lot of movement in this story throughout monday, most of our movements seems to be in the form of nato military hardware item moving or planning to be moved further towards the eastern frontier of the alliances boundaries on c will i to, based on the executive director of world beyond war,

david swanson says that most americans don't actually want war, but the u. s. media continues going after it's boogeyman. well, i think it's a sort of a self fulfilling of belief. and this notion that russia in response to all the militarization within ukraine and neighboring countries by nato of put all of these troops months ago, near the border and hasn't used them, hasn't invaded ukraine. most people are not in the military have nothing to do with the military pay. very little attention to the news at all. i and certainly if asked whether they want a major war or not would say no, but are generally aware of small scale u. s. war making going on constantly eternally around the world. i and are horrified of vladimir putin or having nightmares about vladimir putin have been ward that, that the evil dr. putin is trying to take over the world and something must be done to stop him. it's another munich,

it's another appeasement. it's another moral failure to launch a war quickly enough. and this is, this is what they're fed. a constant diet of on u. s. television, a senior, conservative minister has resigned in the u. k. in protest of the government's handling of fraud allegations surrounding multi 1000000000 pound cove, it contracts. theodore news exits as piled even more pressure on bar. i, minister boys johnson who's already reeling from scandal over low down parties at downing street. he sally reports from london to the resignation of a peer in the house of lords, lord agnew of olson, who served as both a cabinet and treasury minister and his role was responsible primarily for investigating cases of corruption or fraud and into take his frustration which has led to his resignation. today is linked to the governments about back loan ski. now this was

a scheme which was hugely popular in the country at the time. loans being given to small businesses of a height of the pandemic in the lockdown to help save businesses to help save jobs, the treasury doting out 47000000000 pounds of money to desperate businesses all across the line to give them a lifeline. but as the national audit office estimates that up to potentially 5000000000 pounds of that could have been, fortunately claimed lord agnew spectacularly resigning the discharge books earlier saying that his attempts to try to get these instances of alleged fraud investigator will mess with nothing. but in action by other government officials, it is my deeply held conviction that the current state of affairs is not acceptable . given that i am the minister for counter fraud. it feels somewhat dishonest to stay on in that role. if i am incapable of doing it properly, this is not an attack on the prime minister, but a combination of arrogance, indolence and ignorance freezes the government machine. now we heard the lord agnew

stating that his resignation was not intended as a attack on the prime minister, but it's hard to see how it could be anything but a huge blow on bars. johnson, who's under immense pressure following revelations of a number of incidences of breaking of lockdown roofs by himself and others within his government and the highest levels within down the street. while the rest of the country essentially locked. and there are new reports emerging lead that forest johnson had a birthday party held for him, organized by his now wife carrie. and that revelation states the forest johnson attended that party in the cabinet office in down the street at a time when the country was in the 1st national lockdown. an indoor gatherings were strictly abandoned. and we've heard and seen this prime minister for shrugging

of accusations of racism shrugging off accusations of corruption within his administration. but it could be these revelations of parties and other events which broke lockdown rules, which could cause an end to his premiere ship. and we've already seen him having to be humiliated, essentially, politically, and apologize at the dispatch box in the house of commons. i want to apologize. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. oh, but mister speaker with hindsight, i should have sent everyone back inside. i should have found some other way to thank them and i should have recognized that even if it could be said technically to fall within the guidance, there would be millions and millions of people who simply would not see that way. a senior civil servant within the government, su gray has been passed with investigating those instances of rule breaking. and

what the prime minister alleged role in those events were. and it's thought that su grey's report could make or break forest. johnson's political future, no doubt, to the glee of his political enemies, those who oppose him on everything from his lockdown policies. those who say that he hasn't been harsh enough with the lockdown policies, and that he scrapped things like vaccine passports to those who oppose him on the question of briggs it. but importantly, those on his own back benches as well, who are paying for his blood. and so all eyes will be on what 2 great reports. well, earlier we spoke to a house of lords member lord prem, sicker. he says it's simply replacing, the prime minister won't solve the problem. as the u. k needs to completely over hold the weights governed. the minister would speak a minute or 2, but as the, as has a speech lasted longer and they started criticizing the government. we sensed something

was then it became more dramatic on the slime. there's a resignation letter on the dispatcher table and actually walked out of the chamber . i not really see anything like that before. many people from outside have already sense that something is seriously wrong with the government, very, very serious, and died and insight into incompetence. and the heart of the government simply replacing one prime minister with another prime minister, believing in the same ideology, values, and policies is not really good enough. what we really need is a complete change in the way this country is governed. simply replacing one sort of gods with another god with another set of gods isn't really going to do much of the country. so we need new people center politics. and that is not really all for the

moment by any political party wiki leagues founder julianna's sanchez won the right to have his extradition case reviewed in u. k. supreme court. he's currently wanted by washington on espionage charges, but there's still no prospect of a son's been released. and his fiance says his health is deteriorating. thus after suffering. a stroke recently imprison ortiz, a shot it was dusty, has the latest unison has been granted permission to take his case to the court. of course, that means that he can now appeal to us extra addition decision that was growing the end of last year. we'll start with a decision where the court ruled to overturn the previous decision not to expedite june assange on the basis. it would be oppressive, considering how high a risk of suicide he may be if he was sent to the united states and held in custody . that then throughout the year, last year,

the court then changed their mind following a 2 day appeal. as the u. s. offered a certain packages, assurances to the fact that he would not be held under maximum security conditions . in the last few minutes, we did hit the announcement, and indeed, morris is the partner of june. the sergeant held this as a victory. what happened in court? today's precisely what we wanted to happen, but we are far from achieving justice in this case because julian has been incarcerated for so long and he should not have spent a single day in prison. as long as this case isn't dropped. as long as julian isn't freed, julian continues to suffer for almost 3 years. he's been in belmore prison and he's suffering profoundly day after day, week after week, year after year. we also heard from the editor and she says again, this is a school victory. of course eunice, i'm still remains behind the putting the last prison. what we need for this case

could be dropped entirely. that is, that is that is the only real victory for war for journalism. but for julian, this is of course of the pro longed incarceration is already been for more than a 1000 days in belmont prison. we've always been protesting vigorously, the fact that after the united states lost in the lower court, they were allowed to submit the so called up. so sort of assurances with, i mean it, it, the general's purpose perspective is just absurd since the ruling in favor of the united states some months ago. so just came off the high court directly behind me to allow this case to be sent to the supreme court. now not all cases go to the supreme court. there must be an all people point of law and the case needs to have a public importance that now has been deemed a public importance. and the sanchez team were arguing those implications for the future of public interest reporting and the ability to defeat politically motivated

cases. they argue that this case is absolutely politically motivated. we look throughout the year last year, all of these reports of the caea puts to kidnap kill assassinate, a song spy on him. while he was pulled up in london's ecuadorian embassy, they argue this deems it a politically motivated case. and as we well know, under the u. k. u, as extradition treaty, nobody can be expedited on political grounds and that is indeed enshrined in that law in that treaty. then, of course, on the grounds of future reporting, many of us on to supported. i did a defense, they argue that the united states is simply making an example of june assange for revealing these legible crimes of documents relating to the war in iraq and afghanistan. mm. back

a with, [000:00:00;00] ah . so what we see now is a decade long soccer, illegal labyrinth, a horror story. i put you in a sand. well, he goes through, back and forth, various court system here in the united kingdom. all of these protests is when they heard that announcement some few minutes ago. they all are opted into charles

saying, free, free at eunice, orange. of course, this isn't the end. he's still behind boston. there's still a long way to go to june a song to try and fight against expedition to the united states. earlier we spoke with pink floyd co founder roger waters who said this is only a small victory for us orange. obviously this is bad and yours hadn't been denied blues to appeal to the u. k. supreme court. if he, if he had been denied that may by the high court appeal go, his, his name would have gone straight to pretty, but joe, who would have shouted off with his hedge and sent in the united states to be killed. so service is a small victory, but a stellar explained in just his snatches of your programming and on. while i was

sitting here waiting to talk to stellar explain, julian, so should not have spent a single day either in the wood, dorian embassy, where he was sort of locked up for about 8 years for certainly not so much. please go to prison because he has committed no crime. how many times we have to explain this to the rest of the world. obviously he has committed no act of espionage by any definition of the word, probably in any language, anywhere in the world. it should trumped up nonsense piece of nonsense. all. clearly it's obvious to everybody, the whole judicial procedure that's been going on in the u. k. is shirad. it's a piece of theater. to persuade those of us who need persuading like them trying to persuade me. i suppose that this man deserves to be punished in some way for

what he has done. we should be building statues to judy in those songs in our towns, squares, not punishing. what he has done is expose inconvenient throughs to the powers that be to the ruling clause. there's been a deadly shooting in the germantown of heidelberg, a gunman, open fire, and a university lecture hall, killing one students and injuring several others. thus before turning the gun on himself, his all teeth donny armstrong with more. one dead, 3 injured after a shooting at heidelberg university. that's the oldest university in germany, one of the most renowned in europe and for the world in the world for that matter, police said in a press conference just wrapped so recently that an 18 year old man himself, a student stormed into a lecture, theatre around 1230 local time, open fire on the students present,

then left the building before turning the gun on himself. and police said there were 4 injured originally, one of them critically. and we can confirm now that one of those victims that was critically injured has to come to her injuries later in the hospital. there were reports that she had been shot in the head by the attack in a police at the perpetrator who was acting alone, a lone wolf attack, as it were, was a student himself and used a long barrel go. now that's a rifle to you. me. the type is held in 2 hands and propped against the shoulder. a search after the attack did find that there were 2 of those such guns on the about the body of the attacker. now this has been a huge event in the city of heidelberg, a huge student population. there we have had some comment from the chairman of the student body pizza ableman. he said that this is

a catastrophe and incredible shock add to the city. the north of the city has been cordoned off. a swat team was deployed there, a helicopter also to aid in the the search the if there is no threat to the public as we understand now, of course that threat was neutralized when the attacker turned the gun on himself. police say there is no political or racial motivation behind the attack. the gunman acted alone. however, when this did 1st, when news of fierce attack 1st broke on social media, there were reports that this was down to radical veganism and the perpetrator had some kind, deep hatred for students. some was exact thing, some sort of sick, revenge for the suffering of animals on humans. that was rubbish. and the police are said now that it was a lone gunman, 18 year 18 years old. former students are there is a p in a press conference. it's been wrapped up, is kept as up to date and we will keep you up to date here

r t on any information that we have as and when it happens. and staying with that grim topic of gun crime, an 8 year old girl was shot and killed while walking with her mother in the u. s. city of chicago. that was over the weekend. melissa ortega was hit by stray gun fired during a gung fight. and with saw in crime rates policing in chicago is once again in the spotlight, and one local pastor is crying out for change. is there any hope for chicago? the chaos. the lawlessness is so bad is chicago, that the criminals, openly mark. i police and i city leaders even now governor, what makes me so angry? hearing you that we see our leaders marking our efforts with their wishy washy id. like to find the police. come on there. the police are not our enemy. how many more will it take before our leaders wake up? you know what?

they'll never waker. you know why they don't care. well last year chicago recorded his highest homicide rate in 25 years, standing at 797 deaths. meanwhile, the week starting the 10th of january, so overall crime of nearly a quarter compared with 2021. when we spoke with dominic ego, a former police officer from chicago and he says it's short sighted to place the blame squarely on the police. santa freaks a certain situation. this happens disturbingly repetitively in chicago is, is broken, ga government system. we have from our job seats 30 kim fox to the mayor and her vilification of although the police officers won an ether to our share of tom dark, whose absence at the helm, the def, on the police know that is one thing in the next year, is going to be something else. the police will always be the pawns cuz they're right in the middle. you've got the elected officials who make the promise, elect me. i'm going to change things. you've got the state attorney who are making deals with the defense attorneys who are also elected position states attorney.

y'all elect me, i'm going to do x, y, and z. then you have the, the citizens who are committing the crimes or also the ones you are calling for safer neighborhoods because of the crime. if not, everyone's committee cries and you have the cops, the ones you are right in the middle and the entire burden of peace and prosperity is put on their shoulders with no support from communities or the ones who are there, you ought to back them their, their government shall, they're the ones you're taken, the worst position, the hits on all side. and they are always going to be taking the it's, it's, it, they're the pawns. that's how the news looks. odds 5, 30 am moscow time on tuesday, the 25th. i'll be back in just over half an hour with the rundown of the headlines

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