Does coronavirus cases spike outside china moscow on the sidelines of all this in fact thickly rejects accusations its been waging an online dissin from ation campaign about it and undermining the Global Response to the epidemic. For me kevin 0 in this is r. T. International live from our world news h. Q. Here in moscow going to take you through the top stories this monday as reported by us to you over the next hour stick around for the whole thing too so 1st than this monday marks the start of a storage 4 week extradition hearing in london which will decide whether or not the founder of wiki leaks in the sanj is handed over to the United States trial is said to be divided into 2 parts the 1st will determine whether the u. S. Request is politically motivated or not before a 2nd session begins in may it could then be months before the judge makes a final decision a scientist father said he believes the case is of major significance for journalists everywhere. The torture of julian as witnessed by the nose mills of you know the nations ready to the world to all of those who hold survivable that is what will happen to journalists publishers and public. If this extradition this political expedition julian the sons of his successor hundreds of supporters have gathered this monday to protest against the sun just attention extradition rallies being held at a court in london its a great day there with the hearings taking place and also in Sydney Australia michael demick said best to get a journalist and human rights activist attend a demonstration that could turn the next of the lives of our sons has found himself closer than ever to extradition. Kero or enemy number one you decide either way today in the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wilds and not for the Death Penalty so if im not for the deaf i dont want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. Bitch. Terrorist he should be treated as an enemy combatant. Her 6. Leaks walks like a Hostile Intelligence Service and talks like a Hostile Intelligence Service by defeating the Julian Assange. We just feed them or see for rights the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked a truckload of classified u. S. Documents langue bad uses of power at the very highest levels with the u. S. Justice department hot on his heels as some sort of saddam in londons Ecuadorian Embassy the 7 long years but full suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. Records. A stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal is bank account had just been credited with a 4200000000 dollar learn from the i. M. F. The u. S. Has huge sway so from the 4 walls of the embassy to the 4 walls of a jail cell as someone who was taken to Londons Belmarsh prison and handed an exceptional sentence in britain by a violation seldom need to prison sentences theyre generally subject only to fines. By contrast was sentenced in summary proceedings to 50 weeks in a Marksman Security prison clearly a disproportionate penalty that had only a single Purpose Holding asuncion long enough for the us to prepare the espionage case against him his lawyer had just 15 minutes to prepare for the trial which itself also just lost it 15 minutes betrayed by ecuador feeling let down by the legal system a songe now claimed his fundamental human rights were under attack he was put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day at the u. N. And Rights Groups were in disbelief and some feared for more than just his freedom we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr a staunch could die in prison the medical situation is there by urgent there is no time to lose against this backdrop is it surprising those suspicions swallowing around the extradition trial especially given the u. S. U. K. Treaty clearly states no citizen can be extradited the political purposes which many tame at the says and while washington says this case is strictly about National Security it seems Queen Elizabeth the 2nd didnt get the memo. I must tell you however that theres a constitutional sovereign majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain strictly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a message you wish the queen would intervene if the u. K. Kowtows to its allies request as might be doubt not just a life sentence without parole but even the Death Penalty if washington to side step out on thought the charges in the future that if it finds a willing jury which apparently wont be a problem is then you will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the natori is Espionage Court where the u. S. Tries all National Security cases the choice of location is not by coincidence the cases are always tried in front of the same judge behind closed doors and on the strength of classified evidence nobody has ever been acquitted in a case like that that is a prearranged of a show trial to make an example of Julian Assange and the point is to intimidate other journalists global outcry human rights the law the right to a fat trial turns out there all week adversaries in the face of a government who will fight tooth and nail to keep a lid on its dirty secrets. The Israeli Defense forces have said the country so has been attacked by 6 missiles launched from gaza that comes after the defense minister said television plans to rather clear resolve the longstanding crisis that. Were preparing a plan to fundamentally change the situation in the gaza strip i really understand the situation of the people in the south they deserve peace and security well it certainly seems as if as on the cards we have heard from the israel Defense Forces home front come on that all roads all schools and the train line along the israel gaza border are closed until further notice now this follows a deadly night of the tell a tree airstrikes conducted by the israeli army on several locations in northern gaza and on the syrian capital damascus now the Israeli Army Says that these included sites belonging to the Palestinian Islamic jihad group and amongst them were weapons facilities and training sites it also says that 4 people were injured however we hearing from Islamic Jihad that 2 people have been killed and it has vowed to avenge those deaths the zionist aggression against damascus and the murder of 2 of our members as a result of the bombing is something that must be stopped and will not go unnoticed well this is glacial comes after the american president Donald Trumps socalled deal of the century which was supposed to see a long lasting peace between israelis and palestinians but has been slammed as the slap of the same tree by the palestinians one of this coming just a week before israel holds its 3rd parliamentary election in a year the country is in a political deadlock now at the same time the americans have to recognize israeli sovereignty of the Golan Heights and also put in place plans for israeli enix ation on the west bank all of this is being seen here by many as attempts by the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to win political points the facilities came up for Israeli Forces shot and killed of Public Opinion from the Islamic Jihad group near the gaza perimeter fence on sunday the idea very sent an armored bulldozer across to retrieve his body this is video all of it you will find it upsetting. Oh. Yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. According to local media reports 2 other palestinians were wounded by israeli live fire as they attempted to recover the body the i. D. F. Said the man along with another alleged terrorist have been planting an explosive device near the separation barrier a mass though which governs in the besieged gaza strip said he was unarmed Israeli Defense minister praised his soldiers handling the situation all that said palestinian rights advocate is some eunice told us the incident showed callous disregard for palestinian life. But what we have seen is very very degrading cruel and inhuman i think nothing can justify this regardless of the kind of people or what they have done and those who all do it all but if it treats it such as should be brought to court the army on the one hand feel that greenlight put this as provide. Critical cover. Just praise such incidents which amount to war crimes because if you feel that you are above the law all. Those many would provide you. Cover with their legal or political then soldiers will continue to do we expect the israeli army to investigate this incident truck in the coronavirus next the number of patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has spiked suddenly we can report italy knows put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 4 deaths this far its europes 1st major outbreak over in iran that country seen the highest number of deaths outside. With china with officials there raising the number now to 12 earlier this monday back to italy the authorities there canceling a carnival in venice over it big popular thing major sporting events for spoke to as entire towns and communities have been put into lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday with another 161. 00 people confirmed ill taking the total its almost 800. 00 now the governments also temporarily shut down religious movements and a cult whose members make up a sizable number of the no new factions meantime side from all this the u. S. Is accusing russia of spreading alarm and coronavirus conspiracy theories by spreading disinformation about coronavirus russian malign actors are once again choosing to threaten Public Safety by distract you from the Global Health response. The u. S. State department claims thousands of fake social media accounts are advancing socalled russian talking points the messages apparently label it an american biological weapon being used to wage economic war on china accounts linked back to russian proxies are also being accused of undermining the Global Response with moral this side of it coming out now that Daniel Hawkins this afternoon. Its hard to find almost any modern day referendum election or protest movement that hasnt been tied in some way by government officials intelligence reports all Media Outlets to russian meddling it seems virus pandemics are no exception to the rule russias intent is to sow discord and undermine u. S. Institutions and alliances from within including through coercive mind influence campaigns this miss the allegations as a deliberate Smear Campaign it will be hard for most of us to find out what exactly russia is accused of the answer apparently lies in the report prepared for the state Departments Global Engagement Center strictly not for public viewing which details evidence of russias alleged bad behavior and if one compares the charges against russia in the secretive report to what moscow has actually done you get 2 very different pictures. Of. Well if its conspiracy theories u. S. Officials are looking to find looking closer to home could do the job u. S. Officials publicly cast doubt on official information coming out of china though some later retracted allegations that the corona Virus Outbreak actually came from a chinese Bioweapon Lab were quick to emerge stateside just a few miles away from the 3rd market is chinas only biosafety level 4 Super Laboratory research of human Infectious Diseases why its this way about this virus to me Senior Administration official told me that the United States does not have quote high confidence in the information coming out of china at this point the show has called for all sides that take extra care with trading barbs and the chinese envoy to the u. S. Has warned of the damage inaccurate information can cause. The 2900. Responses being accompanied by a massive info demick an overabundance of information some accurate and some not that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it. Or harmful its very dangerous to stir up suspicion rumors and spread them among the people forwarded this to a crowd panicked fan of Racial Discrimination as you know phobia well despite the warnings at least the u. S. Officials can in their own way look on the bright side of the situation and take the positives from the global panic the fact is that does give businesses there yet another thing to consider when they go through their review of their supply chain so i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america this is a wake up call for an issue that has been latent for many years but is critical to u. S. Economic and National Security we cannot necessarily depend on other countries even close elyse to supply us with needed items from facemasks to vaccines some would say u. S. Officials are doing a good job of undermining their own institutions without russias help. Russia serves a very important purpose in and american politics these days rather than analyzing its own problems and trying to figure out how they can know how they arose and how to fix them americans find it much easier to blame someone else and that target is usually russia the us i just the Us Intelligence agencies feel that they are they can only benefit if they attack russian accused russia of various malign activities but i believe i dont believe russia has any any desire any interest in spreading this information about the coronavirus because. If you spread this information that causes that that allows the the disease to spread all the more rapidly and russia is vulnerable as well so why would russia want to burn down its own house bring you the story supported from russia this money also this is out International High that coming up the story of a woman whos fled to russia claiming her children are refused by the father. What politicians do to. Put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. So if you want to be president. Or somehow want to be honest. Its a going to be cross its like a group of people. Im interested always in the last. Place should. Seem wrong. Just dont call. Me. To say power is the. Answer. And indeed it was the trail. Went on to find themselves worlds apart we just of the common ground. Again you in the south today and the german chancellor christie democrats have suffered a devastating blow in state elections in hamburg with support for the party plunging to a meager 11. 2 percent the c. D. U. Finished in a distant 3rd place in the end behind the social democrats of the greens leaving its leaders in disarray. I will get straight to the board and not beat around the bush it is a better day for the german c. D. U. Its a historically bad election result for the c. D. U. In hamburg. With Popular Support for the c. D. U. Slipping when german media of mockingly dubbed the party the Chaotic Demoralized Union doing it suffering is deepest crisis in 2 decades the unions woes have been compounded further by this months announcement big announcement to this leader and a great cramp carol was set to resign once replacements for she wants out once seen as a glimmer calls handpicked successor for the chance to ship the moves raise doubts about the political course being charted by both the party and the country was going to try and get and lower its going to go than for the little commentators Steven Meisel is joining us now stephen face time today just how bleak is the outlook for the c. D. U. Right now and how much weight can we put on this vote in hamburg anyway. I would say its looking pitch black for the c. D. U. Is basically seems to have missed out on her exit time and the whole game is starting to fall apart right before our very eyes shes in the process of destroying the c. D. U. Here its i would place this whole disaster basically firmly on her shoulders. You could say that shed been very popular and done very well for a number of years what you say you know she shouldve gone sooner shes an offer to long year. Yes i mean in the last election she did relatively poorly and at that time i said that she should have about 2 years in the office and that she should be backing out and letting somebody else take over that 2 years was over by about fall of last year and ever since then things have really been deteriorating rapidly and shes not left enough time for a successor to really move in and fill her boots and take over a place themselves in gain some experience and place and sells in a position to be able to fight and win an election in 2021 so shes just not left enough room for people and shes missed her exit point how much a candidate is because the. Shes off. She was probably a bad choice to start with and what i hear. People say that she was had picked successor and such. Since when is that a good idea of to have a handpicked successor anyway i mean this should have been a competition within the party and. Was a really anybody at the 2nd level in this city that was a Good Alternative because america has been very good at basically killing off not killing off literally but basically keeping. Any potential successors anybody that was ever able to. Threaten her power base she managed to get rid of over the years many times. Used to 10 yes theres nobody there. To the bosses in charge the people the you know right at the top or is there more to it the grassroots. Whether the grassroots should be picked the successor or not the leader whos leaving i mean this is shes dealing with this office as if it was some kind of little kingdom of hers and she could pick out her own successor its just shes very undemocratic if you look at it this question of heard whats really blatant undemocratic was when she got involved in the in what has. And then tearing in from south africa while she was outside of the country and said the the election of the f. T. P. Candidate for the minister president had to be reversed and i thought oh i have to be reversed this is a federal state she has no power. Level at all anyway and i mean she could say oh i didnt like that but to say it has to be reversed as i go oh my gosh she doesnt seem to have read the constitution only got 20 seconds left. The party says you decide with the. D. Party that those elections. Are probably fairly damaging although d i personally think maybe the way that she handled it was really really bad if she wanted to be against it she should have done it sort of like below the radar without everybody picks it up it just looked very bad on her and it looked bad on the c. D. U. And the only people that were really laughing about it was the f. T. They basically. Basically made miracle look like a fool and thats whats basically playing out now in hamburg is that she looks like a fool the party that looks foolish there supporting the. Hard left party the. And its just a mess the city was in the process of collapsing the way the s. P. D. Collapsed in the past few years theres not going to be a big Peoples Party left in germany any more steve in terms of it thanks ever so much for your input today live in the program Stephen Morrison a political observer on the line there from berlin much appreciated. Story next but still the woman who says shes had to flee to russia to protect her daughters shes clearly asylum after her husband was acquitted of sexually abusing the children is a story. To belittle my older daughter started scratching her face i would ask her why do you scratching yourself you should hurt yourself and she would reply oh mom i feel guilty about my day. Did to us then we went to psychologist after several sessions she told me the girls are telling the truth about what they want to its a classic reaction on a fin surface and has taken her 2 daughters to russia to keep them away from the norwegian father she accuses him of molesting the girls something he strongly denies according to her it started back in 2012 in norway when the girls were aged one and 2 but the us was when our younger daughter was born he offered to be their older daughter i need something from the bathroom so iraq turn without knocking i opened the door they were not washing they were not even in the bath they were just standing there naked and i went on to describe the horrific details of that incident who is from a star india obtained a story in passports for the girls and took them to her homeland but the husband hired a lawyer filed for custody and won the right to see the children for a week every 2 months and it was legally unable to prevent him from taking the children to norway the other way or by years after the 1st trips the children would come back and tell me would be naked with dad or where we slept naked with dad in the same bed sometimes the older one would wake up screaming but for a long time i couldnt the to myself what was happening and make 2016 he once again brought the children back from a weeklong stay there i saw a very strange scene when we were saying good bye i asked my daughter whether they played like that when they are in norway and my youngest one said yes. After that on a went to the store and police and the criminal case was opened she says a gynecologist examined the girls and found evidence suggested will abuse the father was then arrested and charged on a visit to the psychologist who gave some advice on how to get the truth from her own daughter although that was a survey of all the psychologists said i needed to talk to her in the home environment and when she started talking it was a nightmare she told me that her dad tickled there that it was painful but later at the trial they cuse me of teaching my children what to tell the investigators and social workers despite the girls testimony the star new court said the risk. Insufficient evidence to convict your stain fencer us so he was acquitted he then sued his wife and in 2018 managed to win custody of the children mr finster us and denies all the allegations against him my father was accused of doing something to a 1314 year old started using it thats leverage that my father was like that then i have to be like that im a loser to legal appeal and turned to human Rights Groups for help but she was unable to overturn the ruling in january this year your son fencer austin was due to take the girls to norway. So ana decides to flee to russia taking the girls with them now being looked after while on its asylum claim is being processed. And go for so much of a world thats so reporting on all weve got time for a report on so far this always much more on a social media naughty dot com which kevin owen handing over to an ex programs in your part of the world. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was that the r. U. C. The Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the pollution was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named. Gag i think it went to the very very top i think it is. The. Call the patients. And give the go ahead. The world is driven by shaped by. The day or thinks. They are to ask. A low in welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle russia gate lives on the sequel has just been released starring of course donald trump but also now Bernie Sanders indeed russia gate has achieved cult like status also turkey on the ropes in syria. Cross talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri baba shes a political analyst and editor it interests me internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos hes the editor of politics 1st magazine all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london 1st marcus we. We have all of this going on in the United States with the president ial election and Mike Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders and russia gate but meanwhile in syria a lot is happening its very very dangerous it could internationalize the war again so what my question is to you and it centers on what in the world is turkey trying to pull off there it is breaking its all of its agreements and its making the situation worse when the when the war is finally coming to an end marcus in london let me say seeing. That. Tradition