u. k. lots of support his poured onto the streets of new york and london over the weekend to mark is 50th birthday and demand his release. australian m. p. george christianson was among those who filmed the video in support of their fellow countrymen. a lot of people were viewing this beyond the assange campaign. feeling this is just something that the trump administration was, was doing well. it actually wasn't the trump administration that was dying. and of course we know now that don't trump consider issuing a pardon to join the signs for someone that wouldn't, that was going after him. you wouldn't be thinking about issuing a pardon. so this is something that the u. s. department of justice is showing and there, that's why nothing as simple as simply dropped with the change of regimes in the us or administrations in the us. you know, it's almost pain swept to the side by a lot of the mainstream media. and you even have some journalist tonight still protest at calling him a journalist. will a

u. k. make a lot of money trying to make governments look even authoritarian wise clients of those firms can be found in washington, d. c. re odd. tel aviv bay j among others. but one region where the industry is on the rise is africa. we've seen it shadow we saw exposed in rwanda, cameroon, zimbabwe, south africa. and those are just the stories that we know about. since p r operatives ply their trade behind the scenes out of camera range. usually that is the listening posts. ryan, cause now pulls back the curtain on the secret of world of p headliner for the wind injustice minister jack february 2021. rhonda is just this minister johnson b. c. a is in the hot seat on al jazeera upfront. he's there to address the ongoing trial of a well known rwandan dissident who claims he was kidnapped and forced back to the country. paul was up again, a got on a plane and he was going to burn the what he ended up in wanda. instead, how to get there more than enough rise in galley blaine. me interview with standard news fare, administer deflecting tough question, looking to avoid any negative headline. how

u. k. so thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, obviously, there's a lot of confusion around the world, and i have to say in the u. k as well, about this and new direction, the government is going in looking at the number of infections. what do you make of the decision to have freedom day on monday tomorrow? well 1st of all, yes, we are looking at roughly $50000.00 cases per day that we know about. and that's important because of course, remember that about 50 percent of the cases of chrome bars have no or few symptoms . and so people often don't know they've got the virus. so we can probably double that. we're probably looking at $100000.00 cases per day at the moment, which does seem stupendously high. but if you take that number and ask when we had our last outbreak, the big wave in january, which was caused by the circle, kent or alpha variance. what will we seeing in terms of cases in hospital and what are we seeing in terms of those cases in hospital translating into mortality, some crone of ours. and it's like night and day. it couldn't be more different because now wha

u. k. nobody in lots of parts of europe, australia, lockdown. somebody has to make that stuff for us though that we're spending dollars . me check on. right, well this is a interesting stuff from wolf richter because he loves that sort of supply data. he loves it and it's a good site to go to wall street dot com and check that out, plunge of retail inventories collapse of new and used vehicle inventories turns out when the u. s. government spends 5 trillion dollars and borrowed fiscal stimulus over 16 months, and the fed hands out fortunately in dollars and monetary stimulus over the same period, causing asset prices to boom. demand for goods is going to wash over the land. and so now me like waves and supply chains snake all over the world, amid finally honed justin time inventory strategies get tangled up as retail sales spiked in historic manner. shortages of all kinds have been cropping up, including the semiconductor shortage that has slammed the auto industry with a vengeance. right? this is so messed up because the money printing 6 trilli

u. k. germany relationship as you want said, we share the same values and we share a lot more than that. germany is the u. k. second largest trading partner, 3 quarters of a 1000000 brits work for german companies or vice versa. more than 21000 germans attend u k. universities and one in 5 people in this country driving around in a german car. and today i'm going to and i have agreed to expand those links because we're going to be expanding our youth exchanges, creating a new cultural dialogue. and as we speak, a new energy superhighway is being established between our countries, which will enable british t to be brewed with the the harvest of german sunshine and german breakfast will be grilled. i hope, using british wind time angle leave. just address the british cabinet. you enjoyed it and you are the 1st for leader to do so this century. and what we've also agreed is that from now on german and u. k. cabinets will meet every year to discuss shadow issues. and the 1st arrangement of this kind of for the u. k, angular on behalf of the u. k. i want to thank you for your truly historic c

u k, president of a lot of mutual landscape is in berlin, where he has been received by german president tank walter stone meyer. mister zelinski will also hold talks with the chancellor. they're expected to discuss ukraine's reform process and the ongoing conflict in the countries east. ukraine is seeking e u. n. nato membership officials in india. a lightning strikes have killed at least 18 people as monsoon rains and thunderstorms hit the country's north. among the dead or children for cancers have warned more lightning strikes. over the coming days, the italy have been crowned european champions. ed wembley stadium in london after beating england on penalties. it was heartbreaking and for the english who missed 3 penalties. and last, despite their home advantage. but for italian fans back home, it was time to celebrate after and now be nigh nail biting rather finish the fun, which was just the start of the party in italy. oh, after another glorious night on the world football stage, fans of the duty painted cities red across the country. ah, moved by their team writing another hard s

u. k. successful vaccination program is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. his nearly 70 percent of the adult population have had both data the vaccine and that definitely has significantly we can the link between cases, hospitalization, and fatalities, but not link has not yet been broken. so is unclear at this stage exactly how many cases all going to lead to problems for the health service. so then the question or the moral ethical question for some of exposing a population young population in particular, who haven't yet had one or both sides of the vaccine to the virus. many outlining the risks of long cove it. and finally, of course, there is the risk that widespread cases could lead to a new variance emerging. so a lot of concern here, the government grits part is arguing if it doesn't lift these restrictions now, then when will it it saying that it is being aided. not just why the vaccination campaign, but also the summer months, more people mixing outside clothing holidays as well. their argument is this has to be, this is the now essentially it's a

u. k. at the moment you've probably heard what guys wrap these release of the legal restrictions. there's going to be a lot more cases cases than the u. k. could well go up to a $100000.00 per day. that is not impossible. and that means a lot of people are going to be exposed to the virus. so there's going to be a lot more natural immunity. and people that have been vaccinated when they're exposed to the virus, being exposed to the vice will get them an extra boost of immunity as well as if that got a boost that does the faxing. so overall immunity communicate, you heard immunity. if you want to call it that is increasing, but we're not there yet. it's probably going to be around about the 9995 percent mock because this delta variant is so transmissible. we know that pfizer and by on tech are developing a what they say is a booster vaccine that could protect against the delta variant. the f d a in the united states says it's too early to say that they're needed it. but do you think it's inevitable that we are all going to need booster shots? think there's 2 questions that one is how long will the emergency

u. k, it's got the worst of both worlds. it has a lot of cases, a lot of death and a lot of damage to the economy. the u. k. is a major travel, but how could this affect the rest of the wall? especially if more vaccine resistance, more infectious variance emerge in the summer. while that is a big danger in the summer, if you have a lot of virus replication, lot of new infections during the summer, you're going to get more mutation taking place that has to happen. and if you get that happening in a country like the u. k, for about half of the population is vaccinated. you're actually giving an evolutionary advantage to variance that actually it can bypass the immunity generated by vaccination. so there is a real worry that we may get more mutations and we get to make it more dangerous mutations because we're just going to have so many cases that could be a really terrible outcome of the this complete removal of all of our protections. gabriel scouting, thank you for joining us. pleasure. thank you. well, i'll for you as president joe bide

u. k. economy actually is remain so healthy. and so many workers of being able to go back. also a lot of adaptations in the u. k. like here's a couple of tangible example for you. now 75 percent of shoppers say that they are shopping online versus pre previous to the pandemic. there was 3 drive in movie theaters in the u. k. called cinema was now there are 42 in the u. k. so drive in everything that never existed in the u. k at all. so i think the economy has adopted very well. i don't think it will be a hard hit with a 2nd shut down. because there is far more adaptation and the economy has adjusted also, you're going to see that the borrowing know from the government, which is the highest it's ever been since $946.00 is going to increase. that is the long term worry. how will this government borrowing affect the long term economic prospects for the u. k. in any other country that has shut down and the u. k. won't be alone there because as we talked about last week on the show, the global debt in general is up because of all of these stimulus. now we've talked at length about how the breakfast brack. that saga i

the government one that's resonated with a lot of people here, even the conservative politicians now a questioning how the u. k. government should respond to this, a lot isn't feeling very much that the government has been put in a very difficult embarrassing situation. by now. you can imagine a lot of people been rolling their eyes when they've heard comments coming from the prime minister. what about the public response to these races? tweets on social media. what kind of backing are the players getting? well, of course, initially extremely phase condemnations for him. all circles really, you hands the prince william saying he was sickened by this racist abuse you had. the football english football association can just tweet top to tweak condemning this raises to view what you've seen. now, though, it's a complete out pouring of support for these players. just look at what happened at the mirror for one of those players marcus rash, but today was d face. the police are investigating that since though it has been covered by hundreds of messages of support. really moving images of if children going down there

lot of people here. even the conservative politicians now a questioning, how would the u. k. government should respond to this, a lot isn't feeling very much that the government has been put in a very difficult embarrassing situation. by now. you can imagine a lot of people been rolling their eyes when they've heard comments coming from the prime minister. what about the public response to these races? tweets on social media. what kind of backing are the players getting while, of course, initially extremely phase condemnations for him. all circles really you hands the prince william saying he was sickened by this racist abuse. you had the football english football association condemning just sweetheart, to tweak condemning this races to view what you've seen. now, though it's a complete out pouring of support for these players. just look at what happened at the mirror for one of those play marcus rush. but today was the face, the police are investigating that since though it has been covered by hundreds of messages of support. really moving images of, if children going down

u. k. the reason you're thing, lots of lines just say, you know, is that, that's lots of countries. we wanted to get as many countries as much data as possible. and what you see really is a trend with all of those countries, don't you? it went up it plateaued and it came down again. alpha variance is not gone, but it is definitely gone down. compared to say beta, which was the south african varied, quite erratic, and few a line search and a few countries. but the bulk of them you see down the boston, they're in of state, very low as they did with gamma. this was the one we 1st saw in brazil. again, most of the countries there infections quite low that and then we have delta, delta varian which came from india. a spring board, almost if you like, of april 2021. the and all it has done is go up and up, there is no sign of any plan. so yes, and if we look at this map very briefly from out to 0 dot com, this just gives you an idea of where the delta variant has spread to over 100 countries. but look at this, the us, the u. k. russia, where else singapore, indonesia, even australia, all

there's a lot of opposition. the u. k. germany on the part of the e. u is opposed as well as other rich countries. japan, australia, norway, switzerland. these are countries that believe that if you simply do away with intellectual property rights, you set a very poor precedent in terms of future investment, risk research innovation by these big pharmaceutical companies. they'd rather see a system of licensing rights handed out to developing countries. technology transfers so that you can manufacture those vaccines on the ground that you don't do away with the all important profit principle. so without consensus, there's unlikely to be agreement. it may be pushed down the road to another meeting in october to too late, of course, say activists, and campaigners who will and many more people will die in the meantime. infection rates are rising fast across the developing world. and as they do so, to will rise the risk of the emergence of yet more dangerous variance, undermining further the world's ability to escape this pandemic. still, i don't all do 0.

lot of people here. even conservative politicians now a questioning how the u. k. government should respond to this. a lot of in, of feeling very much that the government has been put in a very difficult embarrassing situation. by now, you can imagine a lot of people been rolling their eyes when they've heard comments coming from the prime minister. what about the public response to these races? tweets on social media. what kind of backing are the players getting? well, of course, initially extremely phase condemnations. for him all circles really you hands the prince william saying he was sickened by this racist abuse. you had the football english football association condemning just tweet off the tweak condemning this races to view what you've seen. now though it's a complete out pouring of support for these players, just look at what happened at the mirror for one of the players marcus rush, but today was the face. the police are investigating that since though it has been covered by hundreds of messages of support, it's really moving images if, if children going down there writing notes showing t

u. k is, is very low, a lot of return. but i think the children are a different matter and i just thought them becoming by the problems in the future. maybe they should be returned to their own countries. chris, may i just follow up with you about one aspect of what you're talking about when you're talking about children, potentially being separated from their parents? do we yet know what the legal procedure is for that? how do governments go about trying to repatriate children if say the parents don't agree with that decision or don't want to be separated from them? do you happen to know what goes into that and what the challenges are? well, no, i don't. and i would suggest it probably won't happen unless the parents agree to it. but, but we've already heard that the idea in belgium is to bring the women back. they go to prison, potentially with that that they will go to prison and the children taken into care and then you know, 2 years, worst case scenario, the parents are returned and they can go back to their parents.

lot of people here. even the conservative politicians now a questioning how the u. k. government should respond to this. a lot of them feeling very much that the government has been put in a very difficult embarrassing situation. you can imagine a lot of people been rolling their eyes when they've heard comments coming from the prime minister. what about the public response to these races? tweets on social media. what kinds of backing are the players getting while, of course, initially extremely phase condemnations for him. all circles really you hands the prince william saying he was sickened by this racist abuse you had. the football english football association can just talk to tweak condemning this races to view what you've seen now though it's a complete out pouring of support for these players. just look at what happened at the mirror for one of those play marcus rush. but today was the face, the police are investigating that since though it has been covered by hundreds of messages of support. it's really moving images of if children going down there writing not

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