delve deeper into this i'm happy to welcome on to the program once more journalist and broadcaster neil clark neil good to see you knew the person who put the letter forward joe stevens we know that she's made statements about the importance of press freedom in the past does her crusade therefore border on hypocrisy mean it isn't your fault or at least blatantly hypocritical because she was in the house of commons talking about press freedom. and then the same very same person writes this this outrageous letter and i think we sometimes use the word outrageous too freely but this is generally outrageous. a leading british parliamentarians shot a spokesperson on media writing to the independent the supposedly independent media regulation u.k. basically urging it to take the television station off at a closing down the same time she was talking about press freedom this is really quite out re just there needs to be a backlash against this and what the labor party doing at the moment is quite that it really they are attempting to be more hawkish on russia than the government seems to be the line t

a pleasure to welcome world the 1st journalist broadcaster neil clark onto the program neil good to see you it was only did as you know that the vote would favor the amendments that's what all of the early polls suggested but that you expected to be by by such a margin. well it's hard when you consider there were 147 different things than people were basically voted to decide what would be the issues that would get people out why they would get out and vote perhaps some people went out to vote because of the economic amendments probably for example the pension indexing the pain sions to gratian the minimum wage making sure it got below the cost of living etc all the other people it may have been that but that the constitutional parts of it were more important let's face it you show that most russians or a large number of them will sizable percentage are happy with president putin and they believe he bought the country stability and gradual economic progress i mean that so it's a very hard unless we get opinion polls or surveys to show why that would be a little. call to decide what woul

thanks ali there for us in london only we can get more reaction now from neil clark is a journalist and broadcaster based in the u.k. to you very welcome thanks for coming on the or. you've had a chance to look at the details i know of this report in the press conference do you think it's right to say that russian influence in the u.k. is now the new normal give more you've read in the report. isn't it interesting andrew that they use this hideous phrase the new normal this is what we this phrase we've been hearing ad nauseum the last few months it in the context of the cold it is a situation we've been told we have to get used to a new norm or own for social distancing in face masks mandatory face masks and that our lives must change the actually the very 1st thing the guy reading out the report says is this is the new normal it's not interesting that used to be the standard catchphrase now where the establishment try to impose something on the rest of us the new normal no i've actually gone through the report much ado about nothing i think william shakespeare's plays the best way to d

jonathan broadcaster neil clark says he's not been tightly content by the report's findings. absolutely sign of lacking in any kind of evidence but it is quite remarkable and all those people who spent the last 2 years is treating times released the russian report well if this really was what you were getting so excited about that's nothing one of these is a mother. in law who can get into a lot of empty russian bottle a lot of nonsense but what we're talking is actually hot whole evidence which of course conveniently is rejected so that sells out what we call possibly telling what is evidence is it true that you talk about the secret but just meet us so anybody who actually reads this report actually believes the case has been proven i think i can be very wrong to do that. crane now where a man has taken 20 people hostage on a bus in the center of the city of sc well let's get some more details from our correspondent donald courts don't know what more can you tell us about all of this is upset about being story. well. the police already have the city center locked down and y

journalist in broadcasting neil clark says he's not entirely convinced by the report's findings. absolutely siloed lacking in any kind of evidence but it is quite remarkable most people who spent the last 2 years treating hashtags released the russian report well is this really what what you were getting so excited about this nothing one of these is a mother a lot of conjecture a lot of anti russian bile a lot of nonsense but what we're lacking is actually hard core evidence which of course conveniently is redacted so that sells out what we can't possibly tell you what this evidence is it's redacted it's talk by the secret we just believe us so anybody who actually we just report actually believes the case has been proven at the get go be wrong. now with countries paralyzed by the coronavirus the race has been on to develop an effective vaccine that could unlock the world russia says it is the 1st to cross the finish line having successfully completed trials although as more and explains not everybody is buying into those claims. mooste reasonable people would see a vaccine for w

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