This is our International Thomas certainly with us. Supporters of Julian Assange have been protesting in london in solidarity with the imprisoned wiki leaks founder hearing on his possible extradition to the u. S. Gets underway on monday. Comments. Im here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assad to the u. S. We watch from australia house is australian of course to Parliament Square and you can see behind me theres a lot of talks going on and some entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of british democracy and supporters theyve gathered here ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. Serious this. Is a crazy. Its more freedom of the future of. Journalism. Of. Journalists. Have to be able to scrutinize the wrong to be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u. S. He could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. Accusing him of hacking a u. S. Government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporters worried about. Showing everybody how totalitarian they really are by saying your crime is that you publish crimes american war crimes that you published america more crimes now that its not a crime its in the Public Interest this is what im saying america is not democracy a tall told will share what governments want to know is total control of information and that means they dont want dissidents they want what looks like a free press so it can sort of tell nasty stories about footballers wives and that kind of thing but its not free at all when it comes to talking about things that matter is i think always done is provided. A safe place for information to go on i dont think hes committed a crime at all to people here its a question all the freedom of speech journalists have spoken out and said that hes doing hes doing what other journalists do they can understand why hes in prison at the moment in belmarsh prison they seem as a hero hes already spent 70 years at the Ecuadorian Embassy and he also asylum wanted to avoid going to jail but now he has been arrested by the British Police breaching bail conditions his house his physical and Mental Health is apparently deteriorated quite badly that experts from around the world theyve been condemning the u. K. Handling of him mourning that song being a subject of psychological torture in jail more than 100 medics have signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action as i said many high profile supporters and they are very proud of his. Courage by the people that come out and. Maybe it may just be the tide is turning with you that you could. You know you say what worries everybody here today because they dont believe. They dont believe. The street level. Just days after accusing russia of trying to help trying to get reelected u. S. Media is now saying the kremlin it could be helping Bernie Sanders the democratic candidate says his team received a tip off from unnamed sources. It was not clear what role theyre going to play we were told that russia maybe other countries are going to get involved in this campaign and look heres the message to russia stay out of american elections one democratic rival billionaire Michael Bloomberg was quick to make a light of those claims his team posted a video with the slogan feel the burn in russian and last week the u. S. House Intelligence Committee was reportedly told that russia was trying to help donald trump that information also came from anonymoUs Intelligence sources donald trump flatly dismissed of those allegations did you see that i see these phoneys these the do nothing democrats they said today that wants to be sure that trump gets elected here we go these people are crazy. Meanwhile has the ridicule the latest reports of meddling of the kremlin spokesman said he expects to see many more such claims in the run up to the election r. T. Saskia taylor has a very unique opinion about the latest meddling ikeas actions dear diary i know i can be a bit of a warrior you know better than anyone but this time i really think we might have a fear e s. Situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple Us Intelligence agencies that the Russian Federation is once again trying to interfere in our 2020 alexion our president ial election again to try to elect donald trump the russians off to american democracy again and theres just so much evidence to back it up this time in a closed meeting undisclosed intelligence officials told congress that most who wants to keep orange one in the white house for another flu year is and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so its a sure thing i turned on the t. V. And everyones quoting it a bombshell revelation just makes me panic more than americas democracy once again under attack by a foreign adversary new revelations about russian efforts to interfere in the 2020 election with the hope of getting the president president reelected and also to make americans doubt the integrity of the election process this is not a 4 year ago flashback folks this is 2020 and the media would so panic would jump on the bandwagon just to boost their ratings that would be unconscionable wouldnt it i know youll say im im spiraling but can you see how burn up proof this latest report is i mean i agree i did read the article which published the info for us and there isnt a single concrete fact a piece of evidence provided but they promise it will all come to light soon both republicans and democrats the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted the conclusion that rush is again favoring mr trump selection how soon the House Committee might get that information is not clear and if that wasnt convincing enough trying fod the director of National Intelligence and replaced him with a man who supports him that cant be a coincidence can it i mean thats basically trump admitting that hes a kremlin stooge and the president of the United States is now helping the president of russia help the president of the united. To get reelected now i dont want to exaggerate or anything but this is a National Emergency we are now in a full blown National Security crisis by trying to prevent the flow of intelligence to Congress Trump is abetting a russian covert operation to keep him in office from moscows interests not americas and politicians are panicking to it so seriously even tweeted about it poor hillarys also chimed in still a bit saw over the whole 26 didnt testify i suppose putins pop is at it again taken russian help for himself he knows he can win without it and we cant let it happen i mean it is so unfair the democrats are just being unlucky the mourner report was a boston pietschmann fell flat on its face but still how could anyone pick trump over that and just tick inspiring democrat candidates on offer take joe biden for example sure hes got a on approach but hes clearly a good parent and thats got to count for something right then does Michael Bloomberg sure he made a few crude comments apparently about women back in the eightys but these were different times now hes just a good old clean billionaire and Bernie Sanders are good old bunny mo was giving his honest opinion when he allegedly said a woman couldnt become a president no no the more i think about it the clearer it is a trump 2020 victory could only have the kremlins fingerprints all over it. Diary what a disaster. An emergency budget summit has seen the blocks leaders fail to agree on how to make up the 75000000000 euro shortfall left by briggs. Or what has come out of the differences are still too large to come to an agreement unfortunately we have to suspend this summit. These divisions of we dont need britain for that they were playing out during the financial crisis a decade ago during the migration crisis were now seeing them on budget issues. Despite calls for compromise and fridays negotiations Member States were not able to overcome 2 key areas of disagreement the 1st Sticking Point is that the blocks so called frugal 4 do not want to the e. U. Budget to be higher than one percent of its Gross National income those countries denmark austria sweden and of the netherlands also want to keep receiving rebates on the contributions they pay to the e. U. In addition there is no consensus as to how the 70 year budget for the 7 year budget should be allocated political commentator ica hammer gave us his thoughts on the dispute. On the one hand it shows clearly now the division that has been only britain germany and only have one or 2 other countries that were a net payers into the system were on the on the brakes when it came to inflating the budget and so on and this and the rest was taking and the rest was the majority but germany used to have together with britain. At the top hour and this has been lost so now is there is no no limit anymore to germany and i think this is this has been secretly all over the time already but now with it really it goes away into the open and its for everybody. Rights groups are urging a British University to suspend a Police Training programme it runs in bahrain staff from huddles Field University who regularly travels to the country to teach a masters course in security style science to Police Recruits this is despite a long running allegations of torture in the gulf kingdom the director of the Bahrain Institute for rights and democracy says it has testimonies from 10 prisoners who say they were tortured. We opened those testimonies which came to us that from the center prism behind your prison and somebody called us to give us the details of how those individuals or thought this is im talking about the 1st hand testimony from the victims that are detailing how they were abused to me there is a consistent account on many of them where subjected to physical and psychological torture some of them were subjected to electric shocks some of a lot of them were naked that during the interrogation they were blindfolded some of them as they were raped and sexually assaulted at the radical enemy they make threats against their families and just last weekend i happened to know that my own family including my brother in law was subjected to torture at the Royal Academy this is what i got from his last chord. In 2017 the un committee against torture filed a report on bahrain it highlighted rampant a prisoner abuse and the authorities failure to investigate claims meanwhile hundreds Field University has refused to disclose how much it is being paid by bahrain calling it commercially Sensitive Information but it will give consideration to the request and respond in the coming days weve also asked the bahraini government and university to comment the Rights Group Says it is repeatedly called called for the course to be dropped. The British Government got to stop their own go and get training with Security Forces because if it did any think it did the in a state of improving the situation they just simply have them to cover up abuses the place where they teach the course is the place where the president of get tortured so its extremely serious i think geishas we have extremely strong evidence and can be even but if i had within Asylum Seekers in britain. U. S. Defense secretary marc asper has taken part in an exercise to determine how washington would respond to a Russian Nuclear attack in europe this according to officials the scenario included a european contingency where you were conducting a war with russia we simulated responding with a Nuclear Weapon. The war comes as the United States looks to upgrade its Nuclear Capabilities earlier this month the department of defense requested a military budget of more than 740000000000. 00 for 2021 and it wants an additional 4000000000. 00 for Nuclear Weapons a 1000 percent increase on the current level russia has responded by warning that the u. S. Is undermining global stability. We condemn such actions because firstly they clearly demonstrate washingtons readiness to follow the path of confrontation and further lower the trash for using Nuclear Weapons. Instead of focusing on efforts to strengthen the arms control system including the Nuclear System the United States is playing an extremely dangerous game. Peter is a historian and the director of the Nuclear Studies institute at American University in washington d. C. He told us that while the exercises themselves are fairly routine the find the current tensions between the u. S. And russia concerning. These kinds of war games are actually pretty common they conduct them on a regular basis. But whats different now is the climate the relation between the United States and russia are very very shaky right now over the years theyve simulated this kind of nuclear war limited nuclear war many times what usually happens is that it escalates out of control there is almost no scenario in which a limited nuclear war and this after each side sheets off one Nuclear Weapon the much more likely scenario is that it continues to escalate and then were all finished. Police in italy have raided the room of a top russian athlete thats very much more after a short break this is international. The world is driven by shaped by. The day or thinks. Week to ask. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race in. Spearing Dramatic Development only. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. This is Art International now Italian Police have raided a Hotel Housing a team of russian athletes competing at the biograph along a World Championships the search targeted Alexander Logan off a champion by athlete who was previously hit with a doping ban on his car was also reportedly searched the Russian Embassy in rome said the preliminary results of the search found no evidence of banned Substance UseInternational Biathlon union has denied the raid was made at its request arties goes on off has details. All the scandal stems from the accusations of the personal coach of the russian biathlete del xander logan of that he used a fake or somebody elses accreditation to move around the competition site now he and Alexander Logan of himself have their hotel rooms searched by the police and their personal Electronic Devices were confiscated by the officers that includes the notebooks and mobile phones heres how to log in a room may describe the situation as he witnessed it they didnt allow us to leave the room but they had no questions for me they took all of our devices put them on the table but they confiscated our exams devices to copy all the data from his phone and computer we asked them when they would return the devices they answered they didnt know and experts would analyze them and copy the files i had a matter of seconds to message my teammates and coach now apparently the measures were taken out of suspicion that kasparov reach the coach that he used a fake accreditation to bring doping to bring Illegal Drugs to to his athlete but when it comes to Alexander Logan of he does have a history of Substance Abuse he was banned from participating in competitions but then was reinstated the ban was lifted and he was back in the he was back i should say in the big sports but here this whole thing is turning into a bit of a diplomatic scandal because russia is saying that in this particular case the presumption of innocence has to be maintained and that no allegations no accuse ations or should be taken at face value and Alexander Logan for instance of that whole thing happened literally hours before he was shuttled to participate in a biathlon relay which he is still doing by the way he wasnt pulled from the team also russia has sent all sorts of less says the ministry to the Sports Ministry is involved they are demanding an explanation. As to why such measures are being taken and apply to the russian team but one its another nations team in question and then a completely different set of measures i