the, the, to the people to have. so it'd be that would be that there was nothing produced by 9 speed of 2024 feet per month. that could you turn the can you impressive? in scrub controversial. i m s my tax build that sparked deadly, protested the east african nation, all to a head on the program. the home of the last julian a sound re unites with his family and texas 1st steps on this really in soil following our ruling 4th year long to rebuild

the last after a judge except to the plea deal struck with the us government, which the with the mix founder had little choice, but to agree to the with the lowest legal team has planned washington for assessing a dangerous precedent in order to when he's free to enjoy and play the guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage for publishing evidence us will crime human rights abuse this is the criminalization of journalism, the bases are to international. my name's you know, neil of 30 minutes of news and starts. now. we begin this hour with breaking news from north western russia. we're a passenger train. has the rails in the co,

me republic emergency services are not working at the scene. officials say at least 70 people of this stage have been injured. the cause of the incident is under investigation. dramatic footage of the immediate aftermath of the crush has been posted on social media by one of the passengers. well enough for both. what's happening here is awful. this is our real car. we managed to get out. several other cars are scattered nearby. yeah, any of those developments with that we will bring it to you but moving on for now, the voice of the canyon and people have been heard. those were the words of the countries president, announcing the scrapping of a tax hike bill that spark days of protest in the country. at least 22 were killed . i'm 160 people injured in the unrest. there's what else, william little toe said about the i m f by bill during his concession speech.

having to click on this 1 of january improve addition, but i wouldn't have gone to the end of that plan has to be 2024. i left that journey for the paper of clint. perhaps that would be that would be that there was nothing to do but these by non speed of 2020 for going feet. and therefore, i wouldn't want to sign the 2020 for finance ability and subsequently been withdrawn so often on president a few days of chaos and divide as president willing to have subject to the test. so while addressing the nation for the 2nd time, since the quote is broke out, the present state to the king is due to has reduced by a tremendous amount of receives it has become quite evident that to members of the

public still insist on the need for him to make more positions. she runs a government, but also these people and the people have spoken. those are some of his words asked me to see if that's a lot to sign in the boat and to move. what do you mean by this city became in part of it, costs to be controversial, fine is full, which would have increased the taxes, and price is a place of goods and as a social items following that protest, i'm brought to the capital up now toby and police open fire on crowds around parliament. some protest is even menaced into parliament. the also involved to keep the demonstrations going until the high schools and i missed those classes with and to ride police in the capital off can yeah,

the medical association even confirm that at least 13 people have been killed in that protest. the move by the president could be seen as an attempt to try and de escalate tensions. but essentially, the presidency is kenya as in paul mason. it states good. we have pete. can those to be here the bit better of the word in front of protein products that are the own government make would pay them not to installment of $500000000.00 last week today found out that by the length of the day number on the d. model comes in front of the discomfort of that, that full really aim to integers, unpopular attached proposals, and that's the reason for so much and uh plus the lease. and the proposal consisted

off with tax reforms and increases on monetize digital content creation. tax increases on digital payments, less then transfers and digital money payments, which i think increases on braid and visible. and those are particularly hard teaching in the country that's quite reliant on the mobile mind. me and this is the reaction from some of those citizens. we are here to the best interests of our children. the problem. we want to be to walk you through this. what is the pause, boost finance bill? there will be demonstrations every day until the government gives us accountability or fall, texas. we just want them to be accountable. we have going on this phase. i'm here, the government, the government, which kind of here to help people are not. we're not close to

the president. the, the constant attacks increases in can you one of the many reasons why the bite and administration the i am if and i, the international financial institutions were quite happy with prisons mutual. at the same time, he has been between the competing demands of, of linda, such as the item april, which have a to the government to kenya to cut if this is to obtain more financing any hard to push the population. so it will be quite interesting to see and hear how deluxe will be if it will react to, to this move. what protests soon spread beyond the capital light will be reaching all across the east african nation. this fundage is from the western city of the crew. were demonstrators tried to enter the state highs. police reportedly use tear gas canisters to this 1st pride as they attempted to lock roads. the process,

several people receive fatal wounds. the protesters could be seen targeting the bonding of a person, reportedly shot by security forces. while we spoke to book remotely, who's the national vice truman of the communist party of can you, you say is the i m f and the world bank which continue to pressure. can you to implement the controversial fiscal reforms or is ultimate responsibility for the final? as we, ma'am, uh, maybe about converts that might say yes to be in the streets. we must make it clear that they have the lot is in their hands. so i am in one thing that continued to impose them for the 6 on the email, sends king and population d. i am historically or we probably want to quote interest not just to qualify you know,

loans and sustainable, but also use the leverage in terms of financial capital to dictates our international, our internal affairs, and even to use them to manipulate this sim. i am, make sure that we do the only point them to the relation 11. our investment to wisconsin q. one is good. one enterprises in this country's one home that i am a fund loveland for this. so this ease of up to the, for the, for the united states and get a new meal. it has to be understood that even though

there is a solution that the item is not biased because the use of file design and telephone lines our lead us to implement unemployed people on the table. apologies. but yesterday, the very low non violence from the assault technique was not exposed to discrete. so i am, you know, all of the forms, it's historical behavior. it's some of the colonial um, approaches that they want to run. most of the african countries, including pena, to be some missions to we must positive on the external that's continued on the net, all political discourse only the only defendants. i'm from there now,

but people do shop on this after a 14 year long, legal bustle and almost 2 solid isn't days behind bars. julian assange has was free and is not home in australia. this is the moment he was met by his family, a camera airport. 6 the what a feeling that must be the with the leaks funded by the way, made a pit stop on a remote pacific island where he appeared in court and fed guilty to a single charge of conspiracy. as per deal struck with washington, the us judge there sentenced him to time sir.

the, the could be seen leaving the courts of fremont after over a decade of vastly expedition to the u. s. unless his good is finally over, his legal team saves the case. how's, how the chilean pie shortened the lads washington will go to n? it's attempts to quote, criminalize journalism unprecedented in the united states to use the espionage act to criminally. prosecute the journalist for a publisher. it's in the more than a 100 year history of that law. it is never been used in this fashion. it is certainly our hope that it will never be again used in this fashion. julian spent years in bill marsh. no one should spend

a day in prison for giving the public news worthy and important information, in this case, information that the united states government had committed war crimes. i think the sense here with the whole a home coming is of course, one of human joy, people are really happy to see judy and assign released. but underneath that, there's an issue of, you know, how he changes for you. what do you have to do? how we have to bend his knee if you like, to accept a criminal conviction. and this goes to the heart of the debate. now, you know, uh, the united states will maintain that julian assign, just noticed as the 7 a criminal. this has huge impact on journalism, on a global scale. the united states, of course, was the engine of the case against the julian assign. so it's understandable that amount with health problems with the young family who would spend, you know, you know, almost 15 years, essentially imprisoned 7 years the ecuadorian. and do you remember, eh, and then

a bell martial you security for isn't there anyone who knows the bill of march or are security prism? this is a very green place, rapists and murderers and terrorist. it's a bit as secure a place you could put anybody have journey into such as a journalist, quite a gentle knob. so this did so the dom, max, the brutality of the whole engine behind this. let's listen to jennifer robinson and his, one of his lawyers at outlining the reality of the deal and the impact that this deal will have going forward on, on global journalism problem with the espionage act is there is no 1st amendment defense in the espionage act. it does by its terms, not matter. the reason why you, you publish the us for years and us government has claimed that these publications do great harm to day in court of the united states. government admitted that there

is not a single person anywhere that they can produce that was actually harmed buddies, publications. in order to when he's freedom, joanne pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage for publishing. evidence of us will crime, human rights abuse, human rights abuse, and us wrongdoing around the world. this is journalism, this is the criminalization of journalism. and while the plato does not set a traditional precedent, that's not a court decision. the prosecution itself fits a president that can be used against the rest of the media for the process in a very dangerous place. it's not, it's not evidence that it will move towards more protections, but rather less that would have been the, the only good outcome for the press in general. if, if the us government had to abandon this case entirely. you know,

i think very quickly the debate will turn from the, the human story, the joy and the celebration around the world for anybody and everybody who stood on the side of science that on the side of justice, the right to report the truth. very important to remember, nobody from the united states a culpable in the crime is that wiki leaks expose the julian assign. she has dedicated his life to expose it. nobody has been charged with anything. you've got well over a 1000000 civilians dead in afghanistan, iraq, syria, libya, the, the list goes on and on and on. so the mind who exposed the crimes is never criminal. the people carried out the crimes which he exposed are completely blame is as it seems. so again, it's going to come back to the mechanism by which the americans of taking their pound of flesh, if you like, you, most things you need to us, you must accept that you're a criminal. and it's very difficult to see how anybody wouldn't have accepted this deal after such a long time in solitary confinement. most the conditions that he had to take the deal due to his health. but the big issue here is,

what does this mean for global journalism? what does it mean for the pursuit of truth? just about to share his pace. julian, a son spent over a dozen years locked in an ethnic legal bible after he released details of u. s. military atrocities in iraq, afghanistan, the majority of the time was spent fighting extradition from the u. k to the united states is what the whistle blower went through before finally stepping felt on homes. the

quotes. mr. sanchez released, sparks celebrations in his native history. and yeah, people outside the us consulate general and sydney held honors on balloons. and also pictures of him. demonstrators gather to toast, the outcome of the court hearing and the 52 year old, long awaited homecoming. that's as overseas. some us politicians slammed the government for attacking those working in investigative drugs, and he was arrested and that's why many people there can be a comparison here in the united states,

new york times for a release government information all the time. but it's only the information that the government secret, the american the bad news is that he had to plead guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense in so which means the us security states succeeded in criminalizing journalism and extending the jurisdiction globally to norm citizens. julian had to take this, he has heart problems and he would have died in prison. but the security state has imposed a horrifying precedent and built a big blow to freedom of the press. well, we also spoke to international human rights, large side of the i'm, we're saying is that julian a sound just tast expose american double standards. when it came to freedom of the press and democracy we could lock louder dollars,

a sort of booty and harass journalism. and journalist it, do you know, a not really using information as it gets quite difficult as we know to come across information do you use when i go over directly with you, especially in this case of war crimes are concerned and this you is basically the hypocrisy that people call should be point out that you don't. if you always go across the well being the policeman and then you doubt that you will, we have freedom and then you go and you harass journalists like this and for work. he explored the truth. he was the reason why they weren't crafted are all going to want us on and go down to move into light. and the whole persona of the united states being this week go that finished basically of the day. and julian finally has reached kendra and, you know, he's now a free citizen. but at what cost?

or i don't want to take, you know, in the program to nigeria where a fire has rubbish to a sprawling petroleum refined renew. this. the play golf on the country, southern coast explosions were reportedly heard in the area earlier in the day. footage from this scene, as you can see, shows huge plains of black smoke rising above the industrial side, which by the way is on track to become the biggest single trained refinery in the world. local officials say the place has not been contains. there's been no recorded injuries so far, just to point out that the refinery is strategically important for nigeria as a whole, which is the largest or likes to export her in africa to estimate the end of the details. as you can see beside me, there, nigerian correspond timothy a base who is in the west african countries capital timothy. well come, what else do we know incredible pictures there about the incident and won't affect it's not yes indeed. um, the company has come up with

a statement around 2 hours ago to say about, you know, it was a minor incident and back, but the fire had been taken out the sites, you know, the pictures that was the sewing. um, you know, uh, sewage brian, so huge, huge um, um, be owns, you know, going out into the air. and, um, this comes, you know, i made allegations stop international or company. companies are, you know, desperately in slate in oil prices in the beach. you know, to deny the down with the refinery, you know, recruits of raw materials for you to operate and all of these are engaged and you know, it's coming from devices, grandstands of orland jobs, down with the industries i'm limited bucks um and when that coup panel and then you make those i guess on some days ago, and he's saying that these tests make the company to rely on, you know, uh uh, in on important uh, sources to get feeds are crude or am,

but bob has todd a significant impact on the you know, cost of production or running parts of operations to coalition. while the nigerian upstream petroleum regulatory commission is trying as best to allocate the crude for us, the international oil companies are deliberately and wilfully frustrating our efforts to buy local crude. it seems that the objective is to ensure that our petroleum refinery fails. it is either that they are deliberately asking for ridiculous humongous premium. or they simply states that crude is not available. at some point. we paid $6.00 over and above the market price or not my jerry out relies heavily on proceeds from crude or not in order for the economy to, you know, still $5.00 or, you know, slow speed you would say. and um,

but then these um proceeds for use, you know, to service i am and well, bank loans and then what's left of it is also the values to import, you know, refined petroleum products. so at the moment this moment, my direct is not um, you know, refine each products on to the down with the, um, refinery came uh, came on board. and the rob, you know, for more than 15 years, seeing, uh, you know, arrange an optional or companies like them or companies have, you know, dominique on my dress oil fields and doctor stuff swap, you know, uh and when the economic says, you know, has um, lead to, you know, being publishing up from all file nigeria and those that lease basically saying that the old prices top left the country you know, strongly to be able to refinance on or, and also left the country in huge depths. listen again. international

oil companies are keen on exporting the raw materials to their home countries, creating employment and wells for their countries adding to their g, d, p, and dumping the expensive refined products into nigeria. and thus making us dependent on imported products. this is exportation pure and simple. unfortunately, the country is also playing into their hands by continuing to issue import licenses at the expense of our economy. and at the cost of the health of the nigerians who are exposed to carcinogenic products is not like jerry as a country the but nigeria for saturday is directly tied. suites ability to, you know, may, june still is upwards, most price down on commodity bucks quarter or but then i'm estimate of $1000000000.00 of that you know, is stolen from the country in every 3 months about a 3rd party to some estimates of the appraisal is of security agents to have

a present to perpetrate us. you know, have groups be with box, you know, it would be better to stop and come fast start the path, you know, for rain of our range, collaborate because it may be in order for them to be able to operate right now around 87000000 by g runs are reported to believe in the business, the below the poverty live and that has a back to, you know, the stand up leaving for us to so many people. and currently the countries in place on extended a almost 34 percent be cited states to not look good for nigeria factory. yeah, big knock on effect us. you've been leading. i 3rd, thank you for that. nigerian during list timothy a base or washington has condemn most goes tit for tat sanctions on some european media. and the restrictions came as a direct response to an e. u bond on russian or let's but a us states department smokes person failed to address outside of the story when

grilled about it. other briefing, of course this is a vast number of european news outlets. so is retaliation for bands on bush sydney that does us so many things? look, i think it's another sign of the russian government cracking down on journalism because they are afraid of their own people. hearing the truth, hearing the truth about russia's actions inside, rest of the actions by the government to repress their own people about russia's actions to invade a neighbor and illegally occupies neighbor. and so we have seen them cracking down on journalism for some time. and unfortunately, that continues. what is it? arrogance stupidity are both united by the concept of liberal democracy. the measures are responsive, introduced in connection with the band and russian meeting the you. but the state department is blaming russia again. just throw back from the officer with ukraine. conflict broke out in february 2022. brussels in washington were quick. the track done on russian media outlets our to was among those found in europe in the us. but

american and european officials same those functions had nothing at all to do with freedom of the press. they insist it was that by shutting down so called propaganda and not guiding journalist up. they disagree with my colleagues, jessica taylor, discuss the latest developments with palestinian american journalists. rumsey bought in the us government has been delusional for many, many years. the sod sewage is the when you law or marginal law is media that presents a different version of it folds. or let's say the actual uh, the, or the 2 or 3 uh open the and see the indiana state is typically social obstacles to either the fame them or to keep them to complete the picture. and as a result with miller makes such ridiculous statements as he did in the case of ukraine as well as others. most americans are not noticing god and i watch you want

to listen to a short little sound. but this is the same. us state departments folks pass and talk to you about is rouse crack down on al jazeera. so we have seen the, the, uh, the announcement from the government is real about closing out to 0. we have made quite clear that we support media freedom all around the world, including in israel, and that we are quite concerned about this action. so that we have not to military making is quite concerned about is route just shutting down a very respected and well known media outlet. so many different rhetoric compared to what washington was saying about rush or of course, despite of diesel concerns. they really haven't done anything. in fact, they haven't done anything to deal with the 150 to police to me and dr. school have been killed since the start of is what 80 world of. so this is just the kind of net we've, that may seem bit more reasonable approval from

a propaganda point of view. but an actual one of these doesn't really trying to speak to any steps. the whole thing is, well, it down to one of my suspicions regarding it would just be that particular. i mean, if the question was let's say to accept tv or any other kind of do me analysis. i don't think you would be concerned between. but because the just the a is affiliated with cuts are an american online. you kind of have to find that tons of the language, the kids will party and i'm talking to you from a country that i actually can't access r t in a tell you at the moment. um, many of the countries, i think it's just the person that we live in an age where someone is telling me what the media are allowed to listen to interact with them. even disagree with and what maybe i'm allowed to uh, to watch. i mean, this is the big brother in the ugly as possible, rumsey, but rude running out the program now on a busy and use day. make sure you don't miss any of the moments about motorbike get .