A new oversight body for whats dubbed the worlds most free social media paul. Good evening just 10 oclock here in moscow you watching r. T. International doctors from around the world have condemned the British Government over his handling of the Julian Assange case and claim wiki leaks founder is under constant psychological torture while being held in prison more than 100. 00 doctors have signed a joint letter urging the u. K. Authorities to take action but he also called on the Australian Government to intervene to protect its citizen its the 4th doctors less since the stange made his 1st Court Appearance when they noticed his bad condition. And documented a history of denial of access to health care and prolonged psychological torture it requested that the songs big. Unscrewed from beaumont springs into the University Teaching hospital for medical assessment and treatment faced with evidence of untreated im only going to or should we also raise the question as to the sons fitness to participate in the u. S. Extradition proceedings well next week a sanchez facing extradition hearing to the us where he has been charged with hacking into Pentagon Computers and also espionage ahead of it the current wiki leaks editor in chief along with seeing a striding and pace to come together to discuss what they believe is the inaction of the u. K. And australia authorities theres a political. Whats at stake its not just. Blow through lots of praise hundreds only 5 years in prison if you go to those to the future curators thats how Important News this is the greatest on the news and. It is beyond belief that someone who is a show trial with an organizational show bravely should be reordered whats racy extradition incidentally council based in one county called computer had to try to get this feeling that this situation exists in the will come on developed countries at this point in toff. Meanwhile the Guardian Newspaper has published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression by the British Special envoy on press freedom clooney however one key detail that has been admitted is clooney is links to g. D. In the sand and his case in particular despite the fact it is one of the highest profile cases of a journalist being persecuted in the country the guardians article focused on clooney plans she proposed to sanction all those who participate in jailing journalists for their work including ministers and prosecutors something that hasnt happened in a case the article didnt even mention clooney was actually sound his lawyer during the swedish extradition proceedings against him back in 2015 the mission has directed plenty of anger towards the guardian. Congratulations are in order to the guardians Patrick Wintour whos managed to write a whole article on global media suppression without mentioning the phrase julia songe the Foreign Office will no doubt continue to be delighted the u. K. Government leakers Julian Assange looked up because toby years because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes an article on prose froome failing to mention this unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian a science journalist broadcaster Newell Clarke believes that the government doesnt want to talk about the case because its too shameful. When to the journalist apparently apparently we are not 100 percent sure but apparently didnt see the need to actually brace the rest is the case of the most famous persecuted journalist in this interview about the persecution of this massive elephant in the room its quite extraordinary how anybody could write an article about the persecution of journalists without mentioning Julian Assange for the establishment this whole case now is a big embarrassment. And a staunch its either someone who could be attacked or to be ignored hes right to be ignored away good talking about it in this context press that persecuted journalists hes another person hes a nonperson you know good journalist being persecuted oh lets talk about other cultures official enemy countries and thats fine but not what weve actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road from us back at the jail for doing journalism. Remind him what it cool to blow for democracy a strike is National Broadcaster has lost its legal challenge over a Controversial Police raid on its sydneys ring a. B. C. Claimed the police move was illegal. Fundamentally the court rules of the ivory you have the right to enter into israel a possible round confidential files take information about the out on strike journalism we did sources and this should send a chill down all of our citizens you know spies when in june last year police did carry at their rate seizing thousands of documents sneaking in response an investigative report called the afghan files which exposed alleged war crimes of the striking armed forces in afghanistan the report was based on secret defense documents obtained by whistle blows your lawyer greg bonds face that freedom of speech isnt property protected by law in australia. There is a fundamental problem of the straight imprest freedom and its because we dont have proper constitutional protections and human rights protections for journalists and every other strategy when it comes to freedom of speech and because we dont have that it means that the Security State has a lot more power than it should have and what its meaning of course is that its putting journalists on the pressure its putting good people who leak information and rightly so about wrongdoing of government its putting them under pressure i think theres no doubt that this decision willing baldwin the Australian Federal police and eyes you know and other agencies in the strategy to continue journalists that they dont like to continue rights of. Media organizations that embarrass government it is frightening and its because in australia we dont have proper human rights protections. A british woman whod been repeatedly sex trafficked by drug gangs was denied support from the British Government until compelled by the high court the shocking revelation comes to spite the u. K. Claiming it does the the way in the fight against forced labor there today as the story. The cake claims to be a world leader when it comes to fighting modern slavery and people trafficking yet if you take the story of this 22 year old woman that seems fall from the case. She was 1st registered as a victim of sex trafficking in 2019 and a professional should have been provided with safe refuge yet the home office failed to find any its shocking really its completely unacceptable that someone so vulnerable and someone so at risk every trafficking was not provided with the support of the accommodation that they said desperately needed and with no support from the government this young woman was drawn into a vicious circle once again it was in june 2019 that i was made a decision not a crime as a potential victim of shocking. When the legal obligation to provide her with adequate support and assistance 1st a very. Home office was underage to protect her. This is in spite of the fact that she has contacts Mental HealthHealth Problems people who are. Often do it because because of their experience its so you respect of the fact yes they were. Support but when the woman was ready to be just charge from the mental facility the home office claimed her mental state meant there was absolutely no west suitable to house her from the time wendy. Decision was made that she was a potential victim of trafficking up until january 2020 on the highways where where there is at least 3 instances agree trafficking for the patterns of Sexual Exploitation i made that case. The hike or the time after it was being released to homelessness been discharged from hospital and the judge ordered that they must report it would come to a shoot until further order officials have been vague to say the least in their comments on the case i was too difficult reforms of the National Referral mechanism for victims of modern slavery such as the introduction of new single component or thorazine are the launch of a digital referral form as sure victims get the support they need more quickly theres been constant criticism that all the government talk on ending modern day slavery does not match in practice accusations that funding and support for victims are clearly inadequate figures from 2019 confirmed that more than 2000 survivors of modern day slavery were given housing and specialist support but its not enough according to campaigners who claim that a lack of safe and specialist accommodation is in fact leaving many of the victims traumatized isolated and vulnerable to read trafficking their dear a tutor r. T. Other news tonight facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has once again stated that Big Tech Companies need more state regulation his latest comments came in an article in the Financial Times and they come to you shortly after the social media giant announced its new independent oversight body however its already raising questions about impartiality on quarter as more for years political scandals and government pressure to regulate content have been a thorn in facebooks side does not just about innovation you need regulation we could feasibly can and then again what do we tell our constituents given whats happened here while we should let you self regulate i dont want to vote to have to regulate facebook. But i got i will as the social media giant strayed away from its roots of connecting friends and family over the internet and began playing politics to grow its influence things started to get a bit hairy for the company facebooks fight against socalled russian bots and up targeting many accounts that had nothing to do with russia its campaign to flag political ads treat some organizations better than others and the army of Fact Checkers often seems more like a censor for certain political opinions facebooks critics are far from satisfied facebooks not just going to relax but intends to reelect trump this is a Global Company that has huge influence in ways that were only beginning to understand and theres george soros who even called for Mark Zuckerberg to be removed it seems facebook c. E. O. Has dug a deep hole for himself we didnt take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a mistake and im sorry for it it was my mistake and im sorry this was a major breach of trust and im really sorry that this happened now hes calling for more serious regulation of social media content as for who should step up to the plate well zuckerberg wants to pass that buck on to someone else. Companies like mine also need but its all over the sides when we make decisions which is why we creating an independent Oversight Board so people can appeal for decisions the director proposed for the socalled independent board goes by the name of Thomas Hughes and he says he is fully on board with the human rights and diversity agenda the Oversight Board is committed to protecting Free Expression and human rights its composition will be global and diverse and whilst there will be disagreement at times this diversity lies at the core of this important innovation that sure sounds nice but you have to wonder how hughes actually defines those ideas especially since he was the leader of a british angio called article 19 its directly funded by the state department and the National Endowment for democracy think tank which promotes regime change in countries washington is very happy with can we really expect a judge jury and executioner of social media with that background to be independent im kind of shocked i have to admit to see that Mark Zuckerberg is looking for the government to go ahead and interfere now for so many years web sites like facebook were under the protection of the Communications Decency act section 230. 00 which did not hold it to the accountability that it technically should or should be held to as a publisher because they do moderate and kind of control the content thats on there so its not really an online free for all where theyre free of liability these guys are in you know sitting the high and mighty in Silicon Valley where 99 percent of the people are liberals and on large percentage of the staff of facebook are liberals and on facebook board i think only one conservative which have been kind of knocked in the in the media previously as kind of a token individual just there to provide some semblance of diversity we know what the political ideologies are of the people who are running the website thats why im a little. Surprise those are neglected bureaucrats that may sit on their board can change from time to time depending on who the president is and you never really know how in Practical Application the execution is going to work out. Canadas Prime Minister summoned an emergency meeting with his ministers after protesters shut down key rail routes across the country the rapidly escalating rallies hope to stop a vast proposed gas pipeline in British Columbia about 30 percent of which will cross territories that belong to indigenous communities protests spread further after police raided an activist camp and arrested several people but the move sparked public outcry. The company that if that is building the pipeline says it had received permission from indigenous elected councils but tribal chiefs are against the construction we discuss the conflict with a journalist a major scotus and also mohawk nation member russell. The which shouldnt have never signed a treaty with canada. They have the aboriginal tell you no edition title to their land and they dont operate under the indian act there are there are already a terry traditional government system there salmon bearing stream or some other pristine force and this pipeline would go through that theyre objecting to it which is why they proposed an alternative route but really it is. An issue about corporate interests trumping indigenous rights in canada i mean coastal gas link the west so it and as i understand it had proposed an alternative route for the pipeline the company said no because of the Economic Issues associated with changing the route but i think its going to cost them more money if they continue the conflict and dont do these protests this is actually quite unusual by canadian standards when they begin to have an impact on the economic interests of Large Businesses in this country then thats an escalation of the fire that the Prime Minister is forced to deal with its very hard to see where theres a resolution here because frankly the only resolution that respects truly respects the rights of Indigenous People is to put a stop to that pipeline project this is unseated territory the hereditary chiefs of the whats working people have not consented to this project and that is rightly given the historical abuses that have been horrible abuses that have been visited upon Indigenous Peoples in this country i think you know were hearing a lot of lip service as we have for many years from the Corporate Community in this country about their commitment to human rights and environment but the reality is radically inconsistent with their rhetoric and its time for us to recognise that at the governmental level. Its not just fossil fuel companies that are facing increased scrutiny over their social impact because a german court has now i would attest to stop claiming trees for its 1st year of pain fear coproduction site that is despite the electorate promising to quote replant an area 3 times the size of the factory put neighborly in. It is a victory for protesters who will now supposedly Green Companies so far from what they can today. I appeal to anyone who is considering a lawsuit to go back inside do not paralyze germany as an industrial location. Youre not allowed to cut trees you know that scale until you have permission to this forest lands to industrial factory use and that seems to be whats whats you know whats happened here that these trees will come Big Companies love to talk about being environmentally friendly because its very good p. R. Because they know thats what ordinary people and their customers like to hear and its instances like this where you can find out whats behind those great. You know when the deeds are quite different that it turns out that oh that company that is not really sort of friendly steps not really interested in these issues. The mother of the russian side the 3. Suspect alexander vinick has asked the french president to ensure her son has the right to an impartial and objective hearing as half an Appeals Court in paris ruled to keep her son in custody the next Lawyers Lodge their appeal last month when alexander was transferred to france from greece he was detained 3 years earlier on charges of cybercrime and illegal Business Operations since then russia france and the us all fought for sex tradition we talked of an exam over who described the situation her son finds himself in. Just what should what if the beast its a complete mess what is going on here its not a trial i think its a bit of crass a day before yesterday the older kid had a birthday alexander didnt call because hes not allowed to talk with his family they say it is in the interest of his security he cant communicate with his family with his mother his wife who is ill who is living her last days with his children when i was leaving the kids beg me granny tell dad everything show him how we are when will our father be back you know we are lying i lied to my daughter in law she doesnt know that she was transferred to france she doesnt remember dates months thats why im lying i keep saying we have no connection with him at the moment but we will have soon. This defense team is vowing to fight on and try to make our future hearings public they claim that his basic rights are being violated the next lawyer believes theres no basis to keep his client under arrest. You know so there is no reason for him to remain in custody the prosecutor have already you can always do that no evidence exists against him this why he asked for adjournment so the investigation can continue is completely unreasonable to keep and then in custody for 31 months without evidence without concrete accusations without Legal Proceedings and without sentence were asking to free alexander and moreover to respect his rights as french authorities of oil eating his freedom just as greek authorities do it. U. S. Secretary of state is in africa at the moment in a bid to win back the sense from China Companies dominate the continent. Speech is to stand in stark contrast to washingtons recent actions in the region. Reports. Like pompei 0 is on a goodwill tour of the african continent trying to convince nations that they have no better friend than the good old us of a. That america just do we will be by your side get a Good Relationship to believe those of us with your guess right. Down to the benefit of the american businesses for sure for the sure as well meaning i congratulated both the president and the foreign minister on the newly discovered Energy Reserves off the coast american firms like Cosmos EnergyHealth Britain baker hughes are all helping to develop these resources so that they benefit the senate good senegalese people not foreign actors peo has been the us secretary of state for some time however his interest in africa seems to be quite new but perhaps thats because his trip to africa isnt really about africa its about competing with china its tempting to accept easy money from places like china. But what good is it if it feeds corruption and undermines your rule of law but that ship has sailed china is already very well in bedded in africa its the continents largest trading partner not to mention the fact that beijing has been splashing cash on to development. Furthermore might pompei it was timing seems to be a little bit off the travel ban has just been expanded to include several african countries so youre not welcome in america but me sure to give u. S. Officials a hearty welcome not the most winning message. The government expresses its dismay at this unfriendly acts which runs counter to the administrations pronounced policy of constructive engagement to address past wrongs with west africa struggling to protect itself from terrorist groups the usa may have sealed its alliance with military aid however that military aid is being scaled back the usa is also reducing other support in the region. We have spoken with the us about the need for their presence in the area we hope that the americans will continue to help us in Security Training and intelligence. Also do you remember a certain leader who referred to african countries with some rather profane words well theres still no apology on that there are 54 countries that make up the continent of africa 54 places president from considers to be countries as opposed to describe some immigrants coming from africa and he is coming from countries tom denies using such derogatory language and democratic senator who sat next to mr trump in the meetings insists that the president repeatedly used the word to describe the countries now behind all the lights cameras handshakes and photo ops mike pompei oh really wants africans to believe that america is their best friend especially if theyre trying to get close to china but i think. Clearly quite concerned just like the United States are concerned that the chinese have taken a massive lead across the uk and for now as far as i know the chinese have already got hold in africa i think of mistrust the chinese worked with the chinese if you read the chinese and told access these access levels it was not because i because were fearful of the chinese or of the they didnt trust them its because not because believe that they wanted to choose their own destiny and chose. Which was not the United States for once the us was the you. Is trying to counter that for the us to want to compete with that right now im afraid their 10 years too late. Palestinians have dismissed an invitation to attend an art avenged held on israeli settlements as insulting. So they come to occupy territory 2 in the rear with your cue brace negates Palestinian Development through a network of checkpoints roadblocks and closed military zone. And then the terminus you can attend in igloos the military rear the military has given approval for up to 15000 people to attend the gathering in disputed parts of the west bank organizers say politics have nothing to do with it it is in the unofficial version of the burning man event in the us which prioritises quote radical inclusion among its Guiding Principles meaning that anybody can attend however palestinians who want to go to the west bank version will need to get approval from the israeli Army Although it seems not many are willing to attend the event to talk. As palestinian citizens we are all against this except those who cooperate with your completion i dont agree with or support this this normalise is the occupation and we want these released to leave our lands just like i said i will never take part because im not a traitor to my country of course im against it they made this festival to provoke us it will be a dishonor for me to persist a place alongside such people this is an occupied holy land i reject this 1st of all i cannot participate in the generation the occupation trumps socalled deal of the century which literally i will never go and i dont advise anyone to go. But we have asked event organizers as well as the israeli army to come on to comment on why west Bank Palestinians do need permission to attend so far though they havent replied. Victory mail is a new project launched by r. T. Uniting those who went through the horrors of world war 2 with modern day generations and through it you can send a letter to veterans of that war and tell them about how you feel about what they did one of them served in the arctic convoys transporting vital supplies to soviet russia and why he put his own life on the line. I still feel that anybody would have done something. There isnt this side as sung really goes out to them churchill said it was one of the worst journeys in the world and. The most respect for them. It follows that for. Good luck and i hope began like that and. So was well received some places i was starving to death. And. Been to a site or a cemetery where days just mans of birth where the local was dull eyed and i buried him then no names they just numbers. There was 27000000 russians killed during the war. And where their sacrifice and the sacrifice of these russian convoys. Would never be one the only regret