While will be the 2. Getting 00. Theyre breaking the law to try and get him there. Are lots to talk about than just tend to play on this saturday afternoon in moscow welcome to the program live from the Arts InternationalWorld News Center is kevin any of the next half stick around for the latest were reporting on today starting with this that the u. S. Media now is throwing yet more made ling accusation east this time with the democrats front runner for the 2020 president ial election being dragged in Bernie Sanders is leading the polls ahead of the next nomination vote in the state of nevada and now the Washington Post is claiming through unnamed sources that hes receiving russian help for his campaign. It was not clear what role theyre going to play we were told that russia maybe other countries are going to get involved in this campaign and look heres the message to russia stay out of american elections the do nothing democrats using disinformation hawks number 7 dont want Bernie Sanders to get the democratic nomination and they figured this would be very bad for his chances its all rigged again against crazy Bernie Sanders didnt take long for one democrat rival billionaire Mike Bloomberg to jump on the report to target 1 sanders online posting his 2016 president ial Campaign Slogan fill the persian in russian well at the other end of the political spectrum the New York Times claims to the President Trump is also a benefactor of alleged russian help moscow is dismissing the report and says it expects similar claims to multiply in the run up to the election these are just the usual paranoid claims which unfortunately we will be hearing more of as the us elections approach of course they have nothing to do with the truth so ask a tailor next takes a closer look at the latest election meddling claims dear diary i know i can be a bit of a warrior you know better than anyone but this time i really think we might have a fear e s. Situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple u. S. Intelligence agencies that the Russian Federation is once again trying to interfere in our 2020 alexion our president ial election again to try to elect donald trump the russians off to american democracy again and theres just so much evidence to back it up this time in a closed meeting undisclosed intelligence officials told congress that moscow wants to keep orange one in the white house for another few yes and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so its a sure thing i turned on the t. V. And everyones quoting it a bombshell revelation just makes me panic more than americas democracy once again under attack by a foreign adversary new revelations about russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election with the hope of getting the president president reelected and also to make americans doubt the integrity of the election process this is not a 4 year ago flashback folks this is 2020 and the media wouldnt so panic to jump on the bandwagon just to boost their ratings that would be unconscionable wouldnt it i know youll say im im spiraling but can you see how burn up proof this latest report is i mean i agree i did read the article which published the info for us and there isnt a single concrete fact a piece of evidence provided but they promise it will all come to light soon both republicans and democrats the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted the conclusion the rush is again favoring mr trump selection how soon the House Committee might get that information is not clear and if that wasnt convincing enough tom fought the director of National Intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him that cant be a coincidence can it i mean thats basically admitting that hes a criminal stooge and the president of the United States is now helping the president of russia help the president of the United States. To get reelected now i dont want to exaggerate or anything but this is a National Emergency we are now in a full blown National Security crisis by trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to Congress Trump is abetting a russian covert operation to keep him in office from moscows interests not americas. And politicians are panicking to it so seriously even tweeted about it poor henries also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 26. 00 didnt tast i suppose putins pop is at it again taking russian help for himself he knows he can win without it and we cant let it happen i mean this is someone fat the democrats are just being unlucky the mourner report was a boston pietschmann felt flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over the i mean just to conspiring democrat candidates on offer take joe biden for example sure hes got a chance on approach but hes clearly a good parent and thats got to count for something right then does Michael Bloomberg sure he made a few crude comments apparently about women back in the eightys but these were different times now hes just a good old 2 clean billionaire and Bernie Sanders our good old bunny mo was giving his honest opinion when he allegedly said a woman couldnt become a president no no the more i think about it the clearer it is a trump 2020 victory could only have the kremlins fingerprints all over it. Diary what a disaster. So i could tell you there was a lot of mind now coming up i can tell you the Washington Post is facing a backlash for overplaying the importance of the top one percent of the election to talk about that in more detail in about 10 minutes. Story from europe next leading politicians in germany of lashed out at the anti gratian alternative Germany Party in the wake of wednesdays racially motivated Mass Shootings at 2 bars in harlow in which 9 were killed the lawmakers argue that they have helped create an atmosphere of hatred. At 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf whats happening is one man carried it out but there were those who had provided him with ammunition and the a of these definitely among them used it in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this weeks tragic slayings in now weve seen politicians from the Christian Democratic Union the social democrats they really coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative to mediate if they are funding the flames of far right extremism in the country of course theres a direct connection between the growing strength of the a. F. D. And the increase in right wing violence citizens of foreign descent are being denied their Human Dignity its so dangerous because it brings someone to a point where they commit a crime here we have a fatal disinhibition at work and the a. F. D. Bear responsibility for that too 9 people were killed this week 2 shooting incidents at 2 separate she should bars in the city of homs now all of those that were killed were from an immigrant background most of them were young people as well we heard from one eyewitness who describe for us the scenes of that night. The man came in and started shooting at a kiosk then he came to us he shot the 1st person in the head then shot of the 2nd person well drop down to the ground i pretended to be dead we all pretended to be dead we all fell down and he the shooter had emptied his magazine and by then and just run away. From my eyes i was ok i was still alive but i just didnt want to believe it was real i asked unit everything was ok he groaned he got me he got me there was a hole in his neck i shouted the other guy to ask if he was ok he hadnt seen a bullet in the shoulder yet he didnt see the blood as he was wearing a coat he said yeah im ok i stood up and saw interest lying is rather nice and it was doubtless the others were lying there too so i went out and peeped into the kiosk. The people in there ruled out i didnt know what to do i just couldnt believe it was happening or police have confirmed that the main suspect had killed himself his body was found along side the 7. 42 year old owned 2 weapons legally the handgun that he used to carry out the attack had been modified to allow it to release bullets quicker than alongside calls for tighter security and more surveillance of far right to vittie in germany there are also calls for tougher gun laws in the country. And i have to Spokes Person claims the german stablish was desperately trying to link the atrocity to his party. And the killer was a paranoid he was sued because of. The police said it very soon on twitter. This guy had no connection to any any Political Group to any. Extremist or any right wing groups and what as terrible as the situation that the the all Political Parties are trying to stick it somehow to the a. F. P. This is the only way how can they manage to fight against us because they have no real political arguments and pollen in the political discussion so therefore they are always just trying to push us into a right wing corner so that people are afraid even to talk to ours to listen to our political arguments we are we are living in the in the very heavy political oppression in my mind we are not free to express what we want our people are permanently under attack off the left extremist and. You know what what happened now is that we are putting in the corner where we dont belong. Huge we each week some of the wiki leaks founder Julian Assange he said think it is us extradition hearing in london in a court there on monday the supporters of planned protests over the weekend before it with veteran british rocker roger waters heading to the rally as well he says soldiers facing charges of hacking a us can government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 he spent 7 years in londons Ecuadorian Embassy before being removed by police for pink floyd frontman told us why hes protesting this saturday. Julian assange should america getting a fair trial 00 charges theyre breaking the law to try and get him there that would there is an extradition treaty between the u. K. And the United States which has a number of articles of the forethought to koloff ways that no extradition proceedings should even taught if there is a political motivation to it this is a political course it is 100 percent political so a legal proceeding its all its a joke and its disgusting and and for english prudence to fail an ordinary journalist doing his job properly like paris makes me ashamed to being which. Theyve almost killed him in belmarsh hes really sick if you read Craig Murrays description of him in the in the last hearing before that awful magistrate. Its really really moving craigs a friend of his and hes you know chilling could he could hardly remember a zone name. He may be that got a drug a law which they probably have to probably go on all kinds of you know trial lawyers to see as well but. Now hes been in prison for 7 years now in the Ecuadorian Embassy and now in the spikes security place at boma its disgusting he hasnt committed a crime. The case is crucial only if you believe in the rule of law and freedom of speech and he and if you believe that the press and journalists have a responsibility to inform the public if they kill a song its going to be at the back of everybody elses my all my god they killed him theyre going to kill me too if i step out of line its a way of a search for authority so that nobody will report on anything that said conveyed to power. Skum it is no crime apart from a minor bail in fridge when he did it its absolutely clear now that he didnt rape anyone in stock oh that was a pull up thing to try and get him there he was so right when he said he was frightened of going to sweet because they would actually date 6 that what they would have done is this is being borne out completely by whats happened now here in the United Kingdom where the u. K. Government have decided to feed him to the wolves. On human Rights Groups hard demanding that a British University suspends a Masters Program it runs with bahrains Royal Academy of policing hundreds for University Flights academics to bahrain despite rights campaigners condemning the kingdom as a torture hub for prisoner abuse a director for the bar an institute for rights and democracy told us that the dieter the legations from 10 prisoners who allege theyve been tortured have come forward. We opened those testimonies which came to us directly from the Central Prison behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals or tortured this is im talking about the 1st hand testimony from the victims that ikey detailing how they were abused. There is a consistent account on many of them where subjected to physical and psychological torture some of them were subjected to electric shocks some of a lot of them where to the naked that during their interrogation they were blindfolded some of them and if they were raped and sexually assaulted had the they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happen to know that my own family including my brother in law were subjected to torture at the Royal Academy this is what i got from his last chord. In 27. 00 c. The un report called for the claims of torture and ill treatment of prisoners to be more thoroughly investigated as previous complaints by the Rights Groups were not reviewed independently university refuses to confirm how much is being paid by bahrain it says its a commercially sensitive issue and the information wont be given out but it says it will give consideration to a request to respond in the coming days if they do well let you know weve all source the bahraini Government University to comment Rights Group Says its repeatedly called for the cost to be dropped the British Government got to stop their own go and get training with Security Forces because if it did anything did the in a set of improving the situation they just simply have them to cover up abuses the place where they teach the course is the place where the prisoners get tortured so its extremely serious allegations we have extremely strong evidence and can be even better fired within Asylum Seekers in britain. Coming up a bit later this developing story. Pretty much where police have raided the roof of a top russian athlete wife. And it could turn into a diplomatic row was well we gauge it coming up. Next geysers financial Survival Guide liquid those that you can convert is it as point is really. To keep in mind though as to take me into places. Or. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see if. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. The day or thinks. We dare to ask. A small us or us talk about for the break going to tally in police raid on a hotel that houses russian athletes is creating a diplomatic spat it involves a champion russian biathlete who previously served a doping ban Russian Embassy in its least question the legitimacy of the search thats going to cross. Just a them really. Goes down of course is a go is it clear why the police moved on the russian athletes whats the fallout from it so far whats going on here than what the whole scandal stems from the allegation that has provoked which the personal coach of the russian by athlete that he was using a fake accreditation to move around the the competition now the alexander logon of and xander has provoked the both of their rooms searched and their mobile devices including such things as their personal notebooks and phones confiscated by the police the head of russias. Federation the head of russias Biathlon Union has described the situation as it unfolded because he was with the cleat. The french team also had the same situation at this world cup but their man was only fined 500. 00 euros and now the case has been exaggerated to an absurd level im 100 percent sure this was well planned. Well this is the official version of events from the russian side and alexander logging of he does have a history of doping abuse he was disqualified and he was facing he did it he was banned from participating in international and all sorts of championships i should say but he returned the ban was lifted and he was allowed to compete again and he was at the competition he is at the competition in austria right now so this whole thing is turning now into a bit of a diplomatic scandal too because for instance russia is saying that the presumption of innocence should be maintained in this case and they have sent out letters to the to the italian authorities to the police and the Russian Olympic Committee has demanded explanations as to why why such measures have been taken literally hours before logging of was supposed to go on track and compete in the relay by the way he still will be doing that he has not been pulled from the competition and now also russia is saying that while casper of overage may have used somebody elses accreditation at the at the competition but still the sanctions and the measures taken against them are disproportionate compared to what athletes from other countries are facing when the are being caught red handed doing Something Like that have a listen. They didnt allow us to leave the room but they had no questions for me they took all of our devices put them on the table but they confiscated our exams devices to copy all the data from his phone and computer we asked them when they would return the devices they answered they didnt know and experts would analyze them and copy all the files i had a matter of seconds to message my teammates and coach while the international Biathlon Union has announced that it is launching a criminal not a criminal but a legal case into this Legal Process into this case i should say. Well well have to see how there are allegations fair in court yeah ok keep following for us producing more updates as they come through or later on today go thanks for now. Next spec to the race for the white house in the states the Washington Post has altered a headline which originally suggested the elites of politics in the financial world should play a key role in picking the next u. S. President it comes out of the outlet found itself in the spotlight online. Democracy dies in darkness unless darkness is what the elites need to regain election in which case maybe democracy isnt all that great anyway there goes to run the headline that says silence presents the wealthy are speaking under the current us election system primaries take place at the beginning of an Election Year to select count the nerves in some states every citizen can vote in others only registered voters over its not just votes that secure the nomination its also done to the number of delegates they get depending on the size of the state complicated legal and media analyst larnell believes the article is simply a bold move for attention here. First of all it was one of the most poorly constructed arguments ever i read it and i thought to myself i dont understand what this is suggesting so i gave it to a couple of by learned colleagues they dont know what it is either we dont know what exactly this is suggesting who are these elite this is a College Professor a ph d. Ph d. Stand for something this far as the Washington Post goes it is a rag it is a hospital mop it is it is it is nothing it it it though the glory days of yore from watergate its over with not only that the print media in this country newspapers are closing the New York Times as a joke so what you see right now is one last gasp effort to put something in there to get people to talk about it. Also this weekend the u. S. Has had a round with more sanctions of fridays parliamentary elections washington is targeting the council of vets candidates for excluding thousands from taking part the u. S. Has blacklisted 5 Council Members now one of them said back saying their strictures have nothing to do with supposed supporting democracy. Even without boycotts and sanctions on members of the Guardian Council the u. S. Regime has soon but it has nothing to do with democracy its a. Dictatorship and milked the region like a cow we are now more determined to learn to hold votes to the people. Even after a huge number of turns of its ruled out some 7000 more were vying for 290 seats in Parliament Early results will be announced later saturday is the 1st nationwide ballot since u. S. Sanctions against iran were reinstated in 2080 as washington stepped up its pressure on to run after drawing from 2050 run nuclear deal. While the election comes to run struggles with economic recession ongoing and spiraling tensions with washington over the killing of irans top military general while middle east analysts we spoke to says the sanctions are a way for the u. S. To open interfering for elections i think that its fine for the west to be pointing the finger at iran because that when theyre actually quite in 4 fingers at themselves showing because the world now has come to laugh at america at the elections that theyve been holding the farce and the lies and propaganda but i think theres also a dark message in this and i think that is to agitate iranians inside iran and polarized. The United States wants to give the impression that is on the side of people who have who are more pro west and there are dark reformists there is nothing more outrageously open and obvious about the interference in these sanctions because the sanctions insult as far as the monetary things girl doesnt make any difference its just the message theyre sending and theyre saying how do you not pick the candidates that we will prove us more thats basically what it is. Starting traditions no longer different states of the german city of cologne a special festival cake on sale in one of the citys bakeries a stir debate online there it is some see theres a pandering to racist stereotypes known as chocolate kisses the streets of overly large lips and according to some are offensive to black people. I just received a photo from a cafe in cologne from a good friend the White Chocolates are just as bad they are supposed to look like north africans do a cafe can visit from a bakery disgusts me the point is that the chocolate current marshmallows are made to show racist stereotypes with eclipse so whats the word all in cologne people the streets there we spoke to some of them it seems theyve still got an appetite for their controversial confectionery. But mr martin no i do not think its racist its a tradition that does not refer to anyone in particular so i think its all right to sell it veitch does russia nonsense its always been this way i see nothing racist about it and we saw no how is it racist it looks nice im over it simple as a color of chocolate i wouldnt think it turning things negative of kale fall no way its racist i think its nice and theres no need to view it this way is a tradition which should be preserved. And its made her long to me black and White Chocolate have nothing to do with racism its rather a matter of taste they taste different jobs negative everything in the past has swarms of locusts had from pakistan to china officials there are preparing unique air force now to try to fight off the plague like threat. Let me get this. Right. Frank. Well thats it for me for now and i think ive been reporting on from russia check out all social media. Programs you know part of world lined up ready to go after this break. We can. See it in your circles modesty. And you know. The new much for the call of a little. More of a. Look. At. The white english. But never. Seems to trace. That. Im Afshin Rattansi and were going underground ahead of a london trial that could decide the fate of all journalism and the ability of the public to understand how their consent is being manufactured by the powerful coming up on the show are you comfortably numb close to 10 years since collateral murder revealed nato nations indiscriminate targeting of journalists and civilians former pink floyd front man what youll watch is slams the British Government persecuting wiki leaks founder Julian Assange plus greed in an industry exposed by wiki leaks as London Fashion week shuts down its glamorous facade we talked to steve coogan and Michael Winterbottom about their satire on capitalism featuring the last ever on screen before months of u. K. Celebrity Caroline Flack all this of all coming up in todays going underground the 1st ahead of next weeks hearings on the trial of Julian Assange still heard nothing from u. K. Labor leadership contenders in defense