Most of this is Arch International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us and supporters of have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned wiki leaks founder a hearing on his possible extradition to the u. S. Gets underway on monday. As more. Im here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of Julian Assange to the u. S. We launch from australia house. To Parliament Square and you can see behind me theres a lot of talks going on in entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of democracy and support as they gather to. Ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. Serious this. Is a crazy. Is more freedom of the bombing future of. Journalism. Of. Journalists. Have to be able to scrutinize the wrong to be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u. S. He could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. Accusing him of hacking a u. S. Government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporters worried about. Showing everybody how totalitarian they really are by saying your crime is that you publish crimes american war crimes that you published america more crimes now that its not a crime its in the Public Interest this is what im saying america is not democracy a tall told will share what governments want to know is total control of information and that means they dont want dissidents they dont they want what looks like a free press so it can sort of tell nasty stories about footballers wives and that kind of thing but its not free at all when it comes to us things that matter is i think always done is provided. A safe place for information to go on i dont think hes committed a crime at all to people here its a question of the freedom of speech journalists have spoken out and said that thats all hes doing hes doing what other journalists do they cant understand why hes in prison at the moment in belmarsh prison they seem as a hero hes already spent 70 years at the Ecuadorian Embassy and he asked for asylum. He wanted to avoid going to jail but now he has been arrested by the British Police breaching bail conditions his house says his physical and Mental Health has apparently deteriorated quite badly theyve been experts from around the world theyve been condemning the u. K. Handling of him morning that being as objective psychological torture in jail more than 100 medics have signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action as i said many high profile supporters and they are very proud of his. Courage by the people that come out today. Maybe it may just be the tide is turning with you you could say you know you say what why is everybody here today theyre here because they dont believe mainstream america they dont believe. Me ive come to street level over all these years. Just days after accusing russia of trying to help trying to get reelected us media is now saying that the kremlin could be helping Bernie Sanders the democratic candidate says his team received a tip off from unnamed sources 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 book his the message to russia stay out of american elections one democratic rival billionaire Mike Bloomberg was quick to make light of those claims his team posted a video with the slogan feel the burn in russian and last week the u. S. House Intelligence Committee was reportedly told that russia was trying to help donald trump that information came from anonymoUs Intelligence sources donald trump flatly dismissed of those allegations. Did you see that i see these phoneys these the do nothing democrats they said today that cotton wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. Moscow meanwhile has ridiculed the latest reports of meddling the kremlin spokesman said he expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election taylor now takes her own unique commentary look at the latest meddling accusations. 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 serious. Situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple Us 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 muska 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 soul 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 fired 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 the president of the United States is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united. Daves 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 hillarys also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 26 didnt test i suppose putins pop is at it again taken russian help for himself he knows he can win without it and we cant let it happen i mean this is so unfair the democrats are just being unlucky the mourner report was a boston pietschmann fell flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over that and just tick inspiring 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 says 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 are good role model 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. An emergency e. U. Budget summit has seen the blocks leaders have failed to agree on how to make up of the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by briggs or what has come out of the dark the differences are still too large to come to an agreement unfortunately we have to suspend this summit. These divisions of we dont need britain for that they were playing out during the financial crisis a decade ago during the migration grazes were now seeing them on budget issues despite calls for compromise at fridays negotiations Member States were not able to overcome 2 clear areas of disagreement the 1st Sticking Point is that the blocs socalled frugal 4 do not want the e. U. Budget to be. In one percent of its Gross National income those countries denmark austria sweden and the netherlands also want to keep receiving rebates on the contributions they paid to the e. U. In addition there is no consensus as to how the 7 year budget would be allocated political commentator ica hammer gave us his thoughts on that is. On the one hand it shows clearly now the division that has been only britain germany and only have one or 2 other countries that were a net payers into the system were on the on the brakes when it came to inflating the budget and so on and this and the rest was taking and the rest was the majority but germany used to have together which britain. Be top our and this has been lost so now there is no no limit anymore germany and i think this is this has been secretly all over that time already but now with britain it really it goes it went to the open and its for everybody else. Rights groups are urging a British University to suspend a Police Training program it runs in bahrain staff from Huddersfield University regularly travel to the country to teach a masters course in security science to Police Recruits this is despite long running allegations of torture in the gulf kingdom the director of the Bahrain Institute for rights and democracy says it has testimonies from 10 prisoners who say that they were tortured. We opened those testimonies which came to us that it did from the prism behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals or thought this is im talking about the fears 10 testimony from the victims that are key detailing how they were abused. There is a code. Distant account on many of them were subjected to physical and psychological torture some of them were subjected to electric shocks some of a lot of them were naked that during the interrogation they were blindfolded some of them were raped and sexually assaulted had the record to me they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to know that my own family including my brother in law was subjected to torture at the Royal Academy this is what i got from his last chord in 2017 the un community against torture filed a report on bahrain it highlighted rampant prisoner abuse and the authorities failure to investigate claims meanwhile Huddersfield University has refused to disclose how much it is being paid by bahrain calling it commercially Sensitive Information how does feel the University Says it is considering the complaint and will respond in the coming days mr all day again says his group has repeatedly called for the course 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. U. S. Defense secretary mark asper has taken part in an exercise to determine how washington would respond to a Russian Nuclear attack in europe this according to officials. The scenario included a european contingency where you were conducting a war with russia we simulated responding with a Nuclear Weapon the war games come as the United States looks to upgrade its Nuclear Capabilities earlier this month the department of defense requested a military budget of more than 740000000000. 00 for 2021 and it wants an additional 4000000000. 00 for Nuclear Weapons in 1000 percent increase on the current level russia has responded by warning that the u. S. Is undermining global stability. We condemn such actions because firstly they clearly demonstrate washingtons readiness to follow the path of confrontation and further lower the trash for using Nuclear Weapons. Instead of focusing on efforts to strengthen the arms control system including the Nuclear System the United States is playing an extremely dangerous game peter nick is a historian and the director of the Nuclear Studies institute at American University in washington d. C. He told us that while the exercises themselves are fairly routine he finds the current tensions between the u. S. And russia concerning. This kind of a war games are actually pretty common. Conduct on a regular basis. But whats different now is the climate the relation between the United States and russia are very very shaky right now over the years theyve simulated this kind of nuclear war limited nuclear war many times what usually happens is that it escalates out of control there is almost no scenario in which a limited nuclear war and this after each side sheets off one Nuclear Weapon the much more likely scenario is that it continues to escalate and then were all finished. Police in italy have raided the room of a top russian athlete thats sort of much more after a short break visits are to confront. Lead. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on the spear in Dramatic Development only and going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. America this is our 2 international now Italian Police have raided a Hotel Housing and a team of russian athletes competing at the biathlon World Championships the search targeted Alexander Logan off a champion by athlete who was previously hit with a doping ban his car was also reportedly searched the Russian Embassy in rome said that the preliminary results of the search found no evidence of banned Substance UseInternational Biathlon union has denied the raid was made at its request but he was on off has the details of all the scandals stems from the accusations of the personal coach of the russian biathlete del xander logan of that he used a fake or somebody elses accreditation to move around the competition site now he and Alexander Logan of himself have their hotel rooms searched by the police and their personal Electronic Devices were confiscated by the officers that includes their notebooks and mobile phones heres how to log in to a room may describe the situation as he witnessed it 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 the experts would analyze them and copy the files i had a matter of seconds to message my teammates and coach now apparently the measures were to. Taken out of suspicion that kasparov reached the coach that he used a fake accreditation to bring doping to bring Illegal Drugs to his athlete but while only comes to Alexander Logan of he does have a history of Substance Abuse he was banned from participating in competitions but then was reinstated the ban was lifted and he was back in the he was back i should say in the big sports but here this whole thing is turning into a bit of a diplomatic scandal because russia is saying that in this particular case the presumption of innocence has to be maintained and that no allegations no accuse ations who should be taken at face value and Alexander Logan for instance of that whole thing happened literally hours before he was shot jewel to participate in a biathlon relay which he is still doing by the way he was and pulled from the team all saw russia has sent all sorts of less says the ministry to the Sports Ministry is involved they are demanding explanations as to why such measures are being taken and apply to the russian team but its another nations team in question then a completely different set of measures is being taken and not as harsh as russia has to bear the french team also had the same situation at this world cup but their man was only 4 and 500 euros and now the case has been exaggerated to an absurd level im 100 percent sure this was well planned. Now the International Biathlon union has launched a legal investigation a legal case against the russian team and against the coach so well have to see how their version of events fares in court. The e. U. Has condemned israels plans to expand settlements in occupied East JerusalemForeign Policy chief Joseph Burrell said the steps would be a deeply detrimental to a 2 state solution a growing comments from france and germany of the move was announced by Prime Minister netanyahu ahead of israels 3rd National Election in less than a year where connecting jerusalem connecting all parts of the united jerusalem the rebuilt jerusalem it is a source of great pride and is great news for the people of israel but israel claims the whole of jerusalem as its capital and argues that it has the right to build settlements wherever it likes it has received a strong support from the Trump Administration which recently unveiled a peace plan that was widely described as an insult to the palestinians Prime Minister netanyahu said that the 1st of the 5000. 00 new Housing Units in occupied East Jerusalem will be put up for sale in the coming days palestinian officials have also reached reacted furiously to the move and called for International Pressure on Israel Defense and political commentator amir or and believes that israel has no intention of easing the standoff. Both the israelis and palestinians have a grown accustomed to such that deliberations being really not serious enough to marry such attention the trump peace plan its simply off the radar it just was announced and nothing was heard about the proceedings and so was another declaration by netanyahu that he was going to annex the Jordan Valley and the same fate is probably going. To await this particular announcement. Another news from around the world this hour clashes broke out between police and students in the colombian capital bogota on friday. Officers fired Water Cannons and tear gas at the protesters who fired back by rolling rocks several demonstrators were detained the incident comes as the countrys Largest Teachers Union continues a mass strike disrupting classes for millions of students. 2 people have been killed and one injured in a gas explosion in a residential building in southern russia the blast is believed to have happened in a 3rd floor apartment on saturday morning causing several floors to Collapse Police are investigating the incident. 2000 people in the german city of homs now have rallied against far right extremism in the wake of wednesdays terrorist attack 9 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on 2 shisha bars targeting people from immigrant backgrounds demonstrators carried placards denouncing the party which politicians have accused of stoking racial hatred a party denies. Pakistan is suffering its worst locust infestation in 20 years destroying farmland and causing a spike in food prices the outbreak has sparked concerns in neighboring china which has come up with a plan to fight off the invaders. All right that does it for me this hour i guess you can say the chinese are not ducking the problem right international season. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is truth what is right. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. What politicians do. To put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or somehow want to. Have to go right to be close to survival before 3 of them or cant be good. Im interested in the waters in the. Nuclear so become a battleground in the us in vermont people have demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no prayer power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are our lie with the people this can. Demonstrates that struggle in very real ways a struggle on. The Russian State TelevisionPropaganda Machine propaganda outlet propaganda tools we are in an information war. We can change the world tomorrow. We use an old you tube videos the sleepless mushy today its the longest network. Pusher brushwood russia russia russia today. But i was. Relieved to hear that they were actually russia to go and i really have to join that to you to see you then on our t. V. For are so proud and still. Are just getting through a number. Why have you not shut down our t. V. On you tube its a Propaganda Machine mr walker. A lot of young people know nothing about julian and joel we. Do know julian it sounds you do you know anything about this man and what happened to him do you want to know about your bad 10 years ago. Wiki leaks with a stockholm lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by place to play war crimes but mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent civilians. Are going to turn to you just pretend and this is the 1st and they didnt think about the economics it kind of forced us to acknowledge its you know we couldnt ignore it. Hes an idealist hes on a mission hes on a mission to harm. People and the information. We speak. But this comes with the prime. Loan isnt being charitable hes made while he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy for 8 years 7 or 8 in. A long time hes spending in prisons basically and that now hes being fair many months in the present. There are a lot of people who dont want him in prison a lot of the very powerful this department is conducting a thorough aggressive investigation to determine how this leak occurred to identify the person or persons responsible