live from our studios in moscow this is an international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us let's start with some news with that we're just getting in from seattle in the united states at least one person has been killed in a shooting in the city center 5 more are injured including a 9 year old boy who is currently in a serious condition this according to local authorities shots were fired just after 5 pm local time about 2 hours ago outside a branch of mcdonald's at least one male suspect is still at large and a manhunt is ongoing so far the motive of the shooting is unclear our newsroom is keeping track of the situation and if more information becomes available we of course will get it to you. years now prosecutors in brazil have charged pulitzer prize winning journalist glenn greenwald with cyber crimes authorities say he needed the hacking of top officials phones to get information on a high profile corruption case last year intercept a news site in brazil co-founded by greenwald was behind the release of damaging conversations between top figures in the probe or he's done quarter picks up the story for us brazil's president has never been a big fan of journalists if you don't go there was exposed to the money this if you will go off by people that put the money it will provide still a difficult but whatever it was that made you you know you are usually you know very motivated to do everything in order to deliver a bit of both of us on thank. you but asked if i wasn't going on this so it's no surprise freedom of the press is once again under attack in the country american journalist glenn greenwald is facing cybercrime charges for leaking text messages of government officials glenn greenwald in the free conscious involuntary way directly assisted encourage and guided to criminal group of hackers criminal practice acting as a guarantor of sat group and also naro is more than a little defensive he should not be here he says to him brazil where is he he was denounced by the justice system don't you believe in the system at the same time the president's son who is also an m.p. cannot contain his glee. glenn greenwald always said he loved brazil and wanted to get to move the country in depth maybe he will even get to know the inside of a jail the charges come after greenwald's news outlet exposed a possible conspiracy within the judicial system based on the leaked private text messages they purported to show the then federal judge colluding with the prosecution in a high profile corruption case the same one that landed both scenarios main rival lula da silva in jail preventing him from running for another presidential term the federal judge denied everything and even went on to head the justice ministry as for the journalist to shed light on the scandal he found himself under investigation even though the federal police and the supreme court told the administration to drop the case in our government president bush in our own multiple members of his government simply don't believe in a free press we don't believe in prosper they don't even believe in democracy they've repeatedly and explicitly praised the military dictatorship that ruled the country until they needed 5 years disappear your form of government and this is all about ushering in that level of repression whistleblowers and watchdog organizations are calling the situation a blatant attack on journalistic freedom absolute resolute this is unbelievably could retaliation for revealing the extreme corruption at the highest levels of both scenarios administration and the next who still ensure threat to investigative journalism in brazil in an outrageous violation of press freedom the brazilian government has ignored a supreme court order in charge journalist glenn greenwald with cyber crimes for the intercepts investigative series on widespread corruption in brazil. how government must immediately condemned this outrageous assault on the freedom of the press and recognize that it's a tax on press freedoms at home have consequences for american journalists doing their jobs abroad leg length going wild the prosecution of glenn greenwald is once again putting the spotlight on the current administration's a legit corrupt dealings it's no wonder balsa naro has no love for journalists this is just what's happening to journalism around the world those who attempt to shine a light on the inner workings of power are being. if at best pushed to the margins and often prosecuted under the full extent of the law does it make a difference yes i think it is important to journalists it's vital it's essential to what we do unfortunately the power of journalism to. not only expose abuses of power and crimes fraud and wives of the powerful but to then push away then a system so that people are held accountable has been severely weakened and this is just true everywhere including of course in brazil they have old e-mail exchanges a stand simply between julian a son and. then private bradley manning to argue exactly the same thing and it's it's fictitious it's untrue but it's clear that that is the mechanism they want to use to go after greenwald just like the united states is using that mechanism to go after julian assange. un human rights experts have called for an immediate probe into allegations that the saudi crown prince hacked the phone of billionaire jeff bezos the amazon founder also owns the washington post newspaper where dissident journalist jamal khashoggi worked before being assassinated by a saudi hit squad in 2018. the alleged hacking of mr basis is food i'm those of others demands immediate investigation by the u.s. and of the relevant authorities including investigation of the continuous munty a direct and personal involvement of the crown prince in efforts to target perceived opponents well it appears according to the information that has been presented that the phone of jeff bezos was hacked via the messenger application known as whatsapp now saudi arabia denies that that's the case now it's important to note that not only is jeff bezos very wealthy a billionaire in the united states but he's also the owner of the washington post and the washington post was the employer of jamal khashoggi folks will recall jamal khashoggi was brutal killing so at this point that raises some interesting concerns this is what has been presented about the possible hacking the information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the crown prince in surveillance of mr bezos in an effort to influence if not sign it's the washington post reporting on saudi arabia these allegations around of and as well to own growing evaluation of claims about the chrome prince's involvement in the 2900 muddle of saudi and washington post showing this. now in october of 28 teen jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in istanbul and he never came out of the of the embassy he was dismantled within it cut into pieces and at that point there was a lot of international outrage about the incident now a sense then they came of saudi arabia has declared this was simply a rogue operation 5 individuals have actually been sentenced to death for their involvement in it however 3 top officials were cleared of any wrong doing and many observers noted that it took a long time for the trumpet ministration to criticize the actions of saudi arabia or to even give any response to the answer let's review what the response from the trump administration what if i. only came was this is how they responded to the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi employed by the washington post i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending 110000000000 dollars on military equipment and on things that create. others for this country we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other saudi ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr coo show us death now the possible hacking of the phone of jeff bezos the billionaire and owner of the washington post adds a new chapter to this case however many observers have noted that the ties between the united states and the king of saudi arabia are not small and the trumpet administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trump's 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. a diplomat jim johnson says it will take more than a killing and a phone hack to spoil u.s. and saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't make any difference for 2016 ran against the kind of foreign policy we've had for the last 3 decades but has done nothing with. c. stand your ground and all up and said that means not putting america's interests 1st but putting israel's in saudi's saudi arabia and it gets worse in the middle east and so we have the steam power and states and i think it's just business as usual. reminds me of when. obama was caught hacking angela merkel's cell phone after 2 years. a psychologist dubbed the architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques is unapologetic about his role in any torture program that admission came in during the trial of 5 guantanamo bay detainees on their alleged roles in the 911 terrorist attacks what's of a personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outweighed temporary discomforts of terrorists i get 6 a day and do it again james mitchell was contracted by the cia in the wake of 911 to create an interrogation program for al qaeda suspects he personally used waterboarding a torture technique that simulates drowning on several prisoners later he and another psychologist set up a company that provided support for the interrogations the cia's program included now illegal coercive measures. in the immediate aftermath of 911 we tortured some folks. lawyers for the 5 detainees are now asking for any statements made under interrogation to be disqualified from the trial on grounds of torture anti-war activists are flounders believes guantanamo bay court proceedings are deeply flawed. well none of this could possibly be a fair trial i mean how can you have a fair trial with people who've been held in total secrecy whose testimony is based on torture. the media isn't allowed in except for conditions so strict that they can't even have a picture of the court room all the testimony is restricted. that none of this none of this layers and layers of secrecy is about providing any kind of justice or accountability or even of information it is going through a theater in order to once again exert their power their power over people's lives and we should just note that there were juveniles who were youth who were held for years at guantanamo there were people who had nothing to do who were simply sold for bounty who were kuantan m o $780.00 prisoners and then the thousands who were held in secret rendition or around the world no accounting for them so this was a huge program and its ramifications were still feeling today the 1st to detainee mr mitchell waterboard was a palestinian man known as abu zubaida you has never been charged with a crime but remains indefinitely in guantanamo he was the 1st known cia prisoner to undergo enhanced interrogation and even lost an eye while being tortured during his time there zubin has attempted to illustrate his experiences a warning you may find some of the following images distressing. as soon as they locked me up inside the box i tried my best to sit up but in vain for the box was too short i tried to take a curled position but to no avail for it was too tight the very strong pain made me scream unconsciously. they kept pouring water and concentrating on my nose and my mouth until i really felt i was drowning and my chest was just about to explode from the lack of oxygen . the. long hours went by while i was standing in that position my hands were tight to the upper bars. it felt like an eternity to the point that i found myself falling asleep despite the water being thrown at me by the guard. there is absolutely no justification that can ever be given or accepted for the horrendous and systematic torture that was used and it was used and authorized from the highest levels from the presidency f.b.i. the cia the top levels of the military the studies were known the conditions were no. and this isn't just one or 2 people michel and jennings this was an entire unit set up in order to use torture and to study how to apply the most excruciating forms of torture of pain of waterboarding how slamming of of packing into tight boxes of stress positions and on and on so how could you justify any of this and none of this torture provided any real information of course not that that that would even be an excuse it was done to hundreds of prisoners there were also hundreds of secret prisons secret rendition and a geisha in centers all of this really has to be exposed and there are accounting demanded not only of those who designed the torture but of those who set up these torture. greek islanders who went on strike wednesday in protest against an influx of migrants and thousands of locals took to the streets businesses were shut down for 24 hours on 3 greek islands lesbos some us and kilos which are all popular tourist resorts the local authorities will later be having to athens to present their demands to the government some refugee camps on the islands have more than 10 times the number of people they were originally built for. we try to give a message around to the whole world that this can go on it can't go on anymore lance bass has had the load on their shoulders for 5 years because these ladies were we have nothing against the refugees and migrants have shown this solidarity all this time but we are asking for a change to government policy that should lead to the equal distribution of refugees and migrants you. is this the migrants should go with the racists simply the situation on the island designs of control 100 percent you can see for yourselves what's happening coming and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to salute bulgaria germany. for the past 5 years the greek islands have become key entry points to the e.u. for migrants and refugees many fleeing war or poverty in sub-saharan africa and the middle east the greek government has promised to toughen asylum laws and to deport all illegal migrants who are not entitled to protection. german chancellor angela merkel is calling on the western powers to include china in the pursuit of common goals and not return to a cold war era exclusion of course we also have to build up fairness of course we have to practice multilateralism so the rules apply to everyone but i believe for us not to fall into an e.u. bipolarity but rather that we try was the result an experience we have to include a country like china multilateralism and treated at least equally. it comes as the u.s. and china managed to reach a truce in their trade war german manufacturers suffered collateral damage from tensions between washington and beijing that mostly hit its car industry another flashpoint was chinese czech giant wall way the u.s. is continuing to pressure the european union to ban wall way 5 g. equipment over fears it could spy for beijing and steal intellectual properties the company denies all accusations in germany the question of 5 g. has long been debated by lawmakers with beijing promising a backlash if wall way is banned in order to appease washington. if germany were to make a decision that led to war weighs exclusion from the german market there will be consequences the chinese government will not stand by. our guest to give us their views on the long running dispute over what way for germany and for e.u. to mount paying its independence to maintain its own judgment on major issues in the world rather than purely passively just to follow the leadership of another major country makes a lot of sense china after all is a permanent member of the security council of the united nations and it is the 2nd largest economy in the world and to marginalize china will not succeed on the one hand and also will bring a lot of economic affairs advantage to whichever country which tries to push china down on the ground the e.u. in general is one of the poles down in a global order and china doubtless needs another one so were there would be more collaboration with and had been a continuous agenda and also because of the bad but our ship is the means dong very soon and them there be a new as a sector so maybe it is a plan to install a new policy to create a new consensus among the country and for china of course right now is for its own critical and for the period of a sign us trade war on china's government always will engage the european countries as a remote ally to kind of kind of balance. automotive and electrical energy giant tesla has divided the residents of a town near the german capital over plans to create its 1st major european factory where dozens of demonstrators have been denouncing possible environmental damage with plans to cut down $300.00 hectares of forest for the factory but they were also met by counter protesters as well who appeared to be enthusiastic over the promise of thousands of jobs. exhibited many people are absolutely not aware of those decisions great fall out our water management agency it has already admitted that there is no guarantee the locals will be supplied with enough water after the launch of the factory they have to think about it because they've got not sure whether it's good or not i'm worried about the environment having advanced there will be new jobs and new transpired it's hard to imagine anything about her that's got this nickel it's a good opportunity for our region but electric cause once over everything and then manufacture causes environmental damage as it's a money off but i'm in favor of job creation and special as a company but wasn't there any other place for this fracturing. you know what do we get the young graduates haven't been able to find work that fits their skill was hearing growing high the so a lot of them had to move to other cities and i hope this project will provide a boost for the whole region the equivalent of pounds of course are concerned about it on the one hand we're glad that investors are interested in brandenburg on the other hand we're talking about serious interviewer ince natural processes we should be carefully considered we should do everything to me to get damage based on the deforestation area the implications will be very grave we're talking about total deforestation and the extinction of all the. animal and plant species which once inhabited this rude. british government has announced plans to introduce lie detector tests to assess whether prisoners convicted on terrorism charges are safe enough to be released the move comes in light of a terror attack on the london bridge late last year by a former terrorist in may the proposal comes as part of the government's plans for a quote major overhaul of the system other measures include a minimum 14 year sentence for those convicted of serious offenses like directing terrorist groups also the removal of an early release for those categorized as dangerous and more specially trained psychologists and the moms who will also assess the risk of the releasing offenders in 2012 khan was sentenced to a minimum of 8 years in jail after pleading guilty to multiple high profile terror plots and even after that the requirement given for his release was that a parole board would assess how dangerous he would be to the public he was released however in 2018 after completing a terrorist rehabilitation program less than a year later after attending a conference for former offenders he killed 2 and injured 3 in a stabbing attack you can get people who are in effect sleepers for many years and then suddenly back come the hatreds and prejudices and we see atrocities like the one we did at fishmongers home which is why i think the introduction of polygraphs the lie testing devices which are already being used in sex offenders improve the tools that we have in terms of trying to assess that risk to minimize that risk. the question of when to release radicalized prisoners isn't of the only issue facing the british criminal justice system in 2017 the prison service established a special section in one jail to house hundreds of radicals which the media dubbed the jihadi jail report last year found that extremism within prisoners was so out of control that they were at risk of becoming a fertile breeding ground for potential jihad ists another report found that a gang of extremist muslims calling itself the brotherhood dominates britain's jails we discussed the issue with stephen morris of the english democrats and mohammed shafique of the ramadan foundation. if you would evolve 'd in preparing for terrorism acts then they usually get long sentences that many people in britain whatever your background whatever your diversity would support. how is it possible for somebody who was convicted of a terror plot like this and for him to be released 6 years into his sentence and then go on you know undetected to the point where he carries out the terrorist attack on innocent civilians at the london bridge so yes we need to look for sentences but we need to government to take control and i think over the past few years we've seen the government there's been obsessively about breaks in another issues and the last 3 years we haven't been able to address any of these issues why there is the n.h.s. why there is education why there is county terrorism when when we had people after the 77 and 911 and a lot of people put in prison for various offenses they'll become an. views of the law because we're now so we've got to deal with it and we have to make sure that to deal with extremism and sometimes you need an extreme. way of dealing with it and that means separate prisons. to try and address the issues and. pull people away who you may know isolate extremists from the moderate muslims all the ones who are more vulnerable. so let's go to an update on the shooting in seattle in the united states a story we brought you at the top of the hour at least one person has been killed in the gunfire in the city center at least 6 more are injured including a 9 year old boy who is in a serious condition according to local authorities their shots were fired just after 5 pm local time about 2 hours ago outside a branch of mcdonald's at least one male suspect is still at large and a manhunt is still ongoing so far the motive of the shooting is unclear our newsroom is staying on top of the situation if we get more information we'll bring it to you. international headlines top here stay with us. through. understand that a cost of doing business is buying and 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