Transcripts For RT News 20240713

Being able to. Go recapping the week with our weeks top stories. 4 employees of russias Sputnik News Agency in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday this follows nationalists trying to break into the homes of 3 sputnik employees an opera we spoke to my team who is the head of the sport in Turkey Office and he stumbled. A group of about 20 people who came directly to each of our employees at their residential addresses they shouted threats and accusations against them after our colleagues went to the Police Station to report the incident we could not then reach them for many hours however according to the place their phones had not been taken from them right now we want to know how this crowd of nationalists found out the addresses of all our employees their names and surnames and the story did not end there today a group of Police Officers arrived at the Istanbul Office as well as to the editor in chief of sputnik turkey now the police are making copies very employees hard drives as i understand it our article on the turkish province of have time i served as the basis for the searches given the recent events i want to say that we will now take measures to maximize the securities of the employees working in our office or to sofitel has been across the story she spoke earlier with my colleague neil harvey. Has been grabbing headlines in recent days weve all seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from that its been slightly over a note saying 3 journalists who work for russias Sputnik News Agency in ankara have been released now after several hours in Police Custody and thats because after questioning no reason was found to hold them. Which it actually went to the police of their own free will because they wanted to file a complaint about an alleged attack that theyd been victims to in that own homes on saturday and after that nothing was heard from them until now of course which understandably sparked concern from. We call on the turkish authorities to intervene provide safety to employees of the Russian Media and ensure that all circumstances are clarified its also said that the editor in chief of the Istanbul Bureau was also detained by police and what some are calling a flagrant violation of Media Freedom its now being confirmed that he too has been released and that happened is also thought to have searched the offices of the bureau you mentioned some of the attacks in their own homes i think it was the sounds quite sinister what details do we know about those well its alleged that they were not spontaneous attacks but rather a coordinated a fact that they were instigated by turkish nationalists there are some reports saying that these nationalists gathered outside the private homes of these 3 journalists some of them even allegedly broke into them and they were chanting nationalist slogans and they also according to some stories versions they allegedly accuse these employees of betraying that country because they walk for the russian news outlet but why would that be such a still a t towards these 3 while unfortunate some in tukey are blaming russia for the deaths of dozens of tucker soldiers and in a syrian recently thats despite the fact that im come out very clearly said that we know that the russian ethels was in no way involved its also worth mentioning lets quickly listen in to another motive that was suggested i condemn last nights threats and attempted attack against 3 turkey the sputnik journalists outside their homes in ankara also concerned that they were reportedly detained today. As you through g. s to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents. Now the article in question is one in which and 909 disputed referendum in the now tucker province of a tie is discussed with some suggestion that potentially it was waged by the tux but i do want to say that that has not been confirmed or stop just as a motive for these attacks but it is briefly was just saying that this is unfortunate not the 1st time that sport has faced problems in a touch back in 2016 for example the news website was temporarily blocked by the countrys Telecom Regulator as this latest turn of events would of course be keeping an eye on it and see how it all plays out well turkeys not a model country regarding the treatment of its own journalists thousands have been thrown in jail. Others dozens remained in exile because they know that they too will be imprisoned if they do go back so the fact that they also do it to foreign media is not surprising the reason Vienna Convention regarding the attitude towards diplomats and most countries respect. And boys and better goes but for journalists. Not so clear and reporters are usually working democracy of the host governments and if the media cannot operate just because their country of origin is no. Friction with the other country thats very worrisome and perhaps turkey has something to hide. Offenses deploying extra soldiers to its border with turkey in a bid to prevent refugees from crossing into greece that is as thousands continue to mass on the frontier tensions have escalated over the weekend with clashes erupting between police and migrants following turkeys decision on saturday to open its doors to your. Oh. 7 god i. Am in my mind this is me go away during one country. Turkey has seen a growing sea of migrants crossing its borders after decision to step up its intervention in the northern part of syria despite a deal reached with the e. U. In 2016 turkey now says it will no longer restrain hundreds of thousands of Asylum Seekers on its territory from reaching the e. U. Meanwhile greece says it has blocked some 10000. 00 migrants from illegally crossing the border but thousands more remain massed along it the greek government has accused turkey of using the migrant surge to pressure europe over the syrian conflict exposed person for athens called the development quote a threat to the National Security of the country. The toughest test for greece since the 2015 financial crisis middle east analyst. Believes the refugee problem will not end as long as fighting continues in syria. Earlier than once so the turkish authorities want some cover for their own. They want europe to become a stakeholder forth their operation in europe say apparently that they want to make sure that no more refugees would cross the border between syria and turkey and that in a sense just defies for them arming the likes of us. Against the syrian army profile and getting the problem rather than solving the problem because the only way this problem is going to be solved by sea rather storing its you know territorial integrity and people going back to their homes as long as there is fighting and they will always be fighting as long as there is a bit of syrian land outside Syrian Government control as long as there is fighting there will always be a few g. s. The 1st phase of join us as u. S. Extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether he will be handed over or not may be reached in may when for their hearings are scheduled the prosecution argued that assads knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u. S. Military files without redacting names and other Sensitive Information washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and iran we keep leaks founder is also accused of encouraging the whistleblower and Army Intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to hack the pentagons Computer Network now for a soldier side his defense team has sought however to counter those allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim the publisher actually warned then secretary of state Hillary Clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names appeared in the documents may have also stressed that activities are protected by the principles of press freedom and his lawyers have strongly rejected. That he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon furthermore they say extradition would undermine their Clients Health during the hearing was held in a glass cage hes also prevented from talking to his lawyers we heard from one of them. A songe was in a grave condition before court but during the extradition proceedings that got even worse he was being held in a see through room without any access to his lawyers while he was being delivered to this room he was handcuffed 11 times he underwent a full body search twice and went through 5 different rooms before he finally entered the court house moreover a songe couldnt take part in the Court Process he was deprived of any kind of interaction with his lawyers he tried to reach out to be by passing a piece of paper through a gap in the glass box he was being held in and he was told off by the guard because of that i mean this is inconceivable how can a person be in Court Without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests throughout the week joining us anja supporters have been protesting outside the court claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms and called on london and washington not to quote shoot the messenger. To the admitted and in chose the many straws the body had being. The release why arent we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which is in 20102011 why arent we here talking in court about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists that is what we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what why is everybody here today they hear because they dont believe mainstream narrative we spoke to politician broadcaster and former british m. P. George galloway about concerns surrounding the freedom of the press. Do then our sons is a friend of mine and thats not the Julian Assange sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian a son who will receive evidence which checks out as being true of high crimes and misdemeanors by the Us Government or any government for that matter including our own and then report it to the public there will be had there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in a bullet proof box in Woolwich Crown for facing extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the United States trust me that wont have a Chilling Effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. Tons of garbage from belgium is it being illegally dumped across the border into france and the mountains of trash have left locals fearing for their health and hes trying to pinsky picks up the story for. This may look like part of a landfill site but it snot all of this waste has been dumped here illegally were just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with the war you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby its a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. At 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. There for when everything away should. Yes but here we see its far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste its enormous as far as the pollution we dont know whats inside it could be tons of who knows what type of products chemicals. We dont know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didnt take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from what if we did i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from pond term. And that if so heres an invoice is it and. Im very near it says center of some of s. When the company was contacted it denied any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued its been described as a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in redone the low. Fishermans association is also concerned. On the water source or close to this pollution so there could be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on its an acceptable people are doing this and regulate the Mayors Office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means new and youve yourself on a financial level for us this is impossible to solve we have a Small Community of 1000. 00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. A criminal investigation into this problem with cross border dumping has we know you didnt and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric tons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for of the peoples waste they want more regulation and a calling on the e. U. To step in to solve a problem that some believe europes open borders are helping to facilitate. Ski for r. T. Germany has lifted a ban on the commercial practice of euthanasia but critics fear the right to die will now be exploited for profit parties bitter over takes a look. Almost 5 years after it was banned the highest court in germany has ruled that blocking assisted suicide is unconstitutional and making its ruling on wednesday the Constitutional Court in culture is said everyone has a right to live and a right to die article 217 of the german criminal code outlawed euthanasia as well as the advertising of the services what this ruling from the Constitutional Court means is that that being overturned and not only could Companies Offer euthanasia but that advertising for the deaf could also stop being seeing the thinking behind wednesdays court ruling is that this will allow those in extreme paying and suffering from terminal illnesses to end their lives on their terms however senior voices within Palliative Care are warning that this could perhaps only to the normalization and indeed the commodification of suicide in society now the facilitation of suicide for the sick and tired of life is turning into a normal Service Anyone who allows you to nature will sooner or later make it compulsory to die especially in this society is economize designers knowledge of experience across all other countries shows that supply creates demand immediately following the ruling politicians are asking what situations this will be allowed in also what the commercial implications will be for Companies Wanting to get involved in the euthanasia business i want clear rules about when medical assistance in particular is allowed and when commercial offerings are excluded it is perfectly normal for people who have a terminal diagnosis to feel suicide in fact some of the studies show that i have 80 percent go through a period of depression with some sort of sidle thoughts and so what we should be doing is trying to find ways to assist those people in getting through that period and actually. Living their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide newton says so we would be extremely worried about any commercialization all round of the process or indeed promotion that would lead to many fine reports people feeling that their lives were not worth living and actually ending them prematurely highest people here in berlin what their thoughts are on the ruling aware that this is right for germany its not a commercial thing dying it its something that needs care security he needs. Yet professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put to sale to people like its not a business you before yes i know want to commit suicide but im suffering i want to end my life you cannot do that to pay for it seems to me there was very bad incentives there if for example that advertising was actually targets people who were already having a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i dont disagree with the physician assisted suicide just because like there are certain aspects that are beneficial for it but in terms of the advertising i could go either way like a really it depends on who is in control of that promoting this kind of fings for me is that a progress currently within a year of belgium the netherlands looks a book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany said to joy in the concerns are about that what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to become a Business Opportunity teacher all over. 4 years after they lost the white house to donald trump the democrats are still paranoid about russian collusion and even suspect their own Bernie Sanders is now being targeted by a coleman martis don quarter has his own unique commentary. Good news comrades our agent Bernie Sanders is doing better than we expected in the primaries are planned to have 2 agents fight over the presidency Operation Hammer and sickle is a go but we have one problem some in the Democratic Party establishment are becoming savvy to our strategy Vladimir Putin thinks donald trump should be president of the United States and thats why russia is helping Bernie Sanders get elected so hell lose to trump it doesnt help that just last week western media published information about our top secret operation exposing the connection between agents trump and sanders with our center in moscow as you learned tonight and today yesterday the day before is going to have were going to war help coming from learn to be prudent. Through. Your Health Provider to do want somebody who didnt think can be from at least age and trump was able to follow orders admit nothing deny everything and make counter accusations it was highly exaggerated. And frankly i think its disgraceful and i think it was a leak from the Intelligence Committee our house version and i think that they leaked it i think probably shipley good agent sanders on the other hand really dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest thing theyre doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause hatred in america its an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry youre not going to do this in the selection and again is present in the United States. You will not interfere in our elections the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i design these people they are not part of our movement all of us remember 2016 and what we meant what we remember is efforts by russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up. Im not saying thats happening but it would not shock me the center has good reason to believe agent sanders has been compromised were losing control over his actions and hes praising our strategic allies too openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a Massive Literacy Program its not a bad thing its only a matter of time before they discover the interview agent sanders gave to profit i mean r t what effect do you think you can have on your voters it was so close here in iowa well i just hope that people take a hard look at the real issues impacting their lives to make matters worse we may have a mole in our midst how else could the footage have been leaked remember when the comrades recruited sanders at the new years party of 1980 bernie spent his honeymoon in there in soviet russia i mean i think if were going to go back and forth about whos more in the tank with russia its a really hard one between barney and rob we have made too many tactical blunders as it is and western pundits are already undergoing a campaign to discredit our agent obviously we know the russians are continuing to try to choose our next president like they chose our last president the russians dont want me to be the nominee who spent a lot of money on bots on facebook and theyve been taken down say biden is a bad guy the no one biden rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now its about one in 3 if. This thing is going very well for blood to be approved i promise you. Probably stay up watching us right now how you doing well have our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think its time to extract our agents. Well that does it for me and of the weekly my colleague you know neil will be in about 34 and a half minutes with a fresh and full look at your news glad to have you with us this is r. J. Trash. Time after time called parishioners repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important its accelerating transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable world. They claim their production is completely hamas hollow dissolute the. Number. It does on the books on Companies Want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something ill just want any minute i need money. And you missed me doing the Neiman Einstein seemed to be based on disconnect with who superman and. Im not sure that they were going underground as the u. K. E. U. Trade talks begin today to determine a post brics it future while they do nation media continues to look away from the case of arbitrarily detained julia songe which may determine the end of free speech in britain coming up on the show deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 document calls on labor leadership candidate gets accused of persecution of jews to see for himself in court what the u. N. Calls torture and arbitrary detention of the founder of wiki leaks plus forget the coronavirus will breaks it all doubts on multinational Chemical Companies catalyze mass insect extinction all this more coming up in todays going underground but 1st what was it actually like to sit in a london Court Last Week watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder Julian Assange fought for his freedom one International Observer was the deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 dag dillon who along with 32 other m. P. s from 12 different e. U. Countries witnessed arguably the most important trial of the century so far thanks so much for coming to australia in london rather live in. Even before the trial doctors were saying he may die at any moment what was it like in court. Terrible in many ways its just you know i am really appalled about the situation and the conditions even for us International Observers i have seen so many trials worldwide and im really outrageous about the conditions for us International Observers in the Public Gallery for observers they are just 24. 00 seats 6 for the family members and 18 for International Observers and we always have to queue there and wait for about 2 hours just to make sure that we can really go and follow the case in the court room and not in a media and next room where you cannot listen we cannot hear something from the courtroom and in our other way its terrible too because to see how the conditions are which julian is facing i mean he is a really gentle human journalist who havent had to done a crime and hes treated like a top terrorist behind behind a bulletproof glasses. In the back of the court of the court which is just because of him and he cannot follow the court and he cannot hear the court even just hardly he can hear and listen whats going on and i think these conditions are not adequate for a state which is saying the rule of law is totally accepted well he did commit a crime a minor bail violation and the person who is about to perhaps lead the new labor party after Jeremy Corbin said he has absolute trust and faith he took time. In this Court Process that you were hatch well i thought i would. Invite him to be in the court with us with part of interiors from Different Countries of the European Union its not just me as a german member of the parliament with some other germans we are from ireland we are from italy well from spain we are from puerto girl from france and some other countries i would really be happy to have british colleagues from the British Parliament here i was wondering where are they because its so