york post put this on its cover the video when trump's tweet selectively quotes omar along with images of the world trade center attacks which we are not showing it was designed to suggest that omar was minimizing the effect of nine eleven but a fuller quote shows what he was actually saying is that muslims in the u.s. have been stigmatized since those attacks can was found at after nine eleven because they recognize that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties in fact care was founded in one nine hundred ninety four but its membership increased dramatically after nine eleven she is receiving death threats on a daily basis this is not a joke for the president is not one of his boring jokes this is serious the thrust to do with her safety the safety of every muslim the safety of my own children my own family enough is enough our president has to realize the danger of forces doing

the president's tweet drew a series of retaliatory responses from democrats who called it racist and dangerous congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez said members of congress have a duty to respond to the president's explicit attack today omar's life is in danger presidential candidate senator bernie sanders said no more is a leader with strength and courage she won't back down to trump's racism in hate and neither will we another presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren wrote the president is inciting violence against a sitting congresswoman and an entire group of americans based on their religion it's disgusting it's shameful and any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it for trump the provocative tweet was a twofer needling democrats and drawing an outraged response from his own supporters john hendren al-jazeera. still ahead on al jazeera palestine has a new government but the factions are unhappy we'll tell you why that's the high

cost of health in the u.s. we meet a family struggling to afford lifesaving medicine. it's still raining in most countries around the adriatic it's pretty obvious and satellite pictures of who the circulation is the rains being thrown up across the black sea through remain near two was ukraine as well and west the list just that is on my head is a lovely shaved active frontal system which is slowly pushing its way into our own the wind that is quite strong cold in london still on sunday a good deal of cloud in the sky as well or only just a little bit warmer in germany across permed as well the real want his words wet actually sixteen in rome sixty nine korea although to be honest it is better in madrid and it's largely sunny in most to spain and portugal never only from sunday

to monday the rain he's very going in this general direction and we do see a draw or italy but it is too rainy in for example greece and probably the southwest to turkey which has recently seen fronting for pretty heavy downpours still that circulation is west of on hasn't made much progress but has brought some rain into the west of spain and some parts of portugal. that's right mediterranean apart from the clouds a largely dry picture still held high teens or low twenty's through most of north africa this sea it's pushing up into egypt makes it halts to the sides but cools down current to twenty two. up to.

five. again you're watching al jazeera live from doha top stories this hour a sudan's ruling military council has held talks with protests organizes the country now high's its third leader in as many days and he's promised to hand over power to a civilian government but some protesters remain skeptical algeria's judges have announced they will boycott the supervision of presidential elections due to be

held in july they see the toll it could be rigged since the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the interim administration many have been everest six and forces fighting for control of libya's capital have launched more airstrikes swallow twenty four have to ordered attacks near tripoli a school and refugee center were hits but no casualties were reported to be as un backed government has accused them of committing war crimes. now yemen's parliament has met for the first time since who the rebels seized the capital in twenty fifteen present. day who leads the internationally recognized government flew in from saudi arabia to take part rob matheson has the details. for the first time since the war began president of the ramones who addresses a session of yemen's v. by the bullets at the sons of yemen targeting state institutions and they blew up the homes of yemenis and their

mosques leaving nothing authentic yemeni culture customs and values targeting them with vandalism and destruction. parliament hasn't met since the fight for control of yemen began four years ago between who the rebels backed by iran and a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates which supports the united nations recognized government of president hadi he's been living mainly in saudi arabia since being forced to leave yemen when the war began the priority for this session is to fill parliamentary positions but that may not be easy the posts in this parliament were last occupied in two thousand and nine and its original six year term has long expired and only about half of the three hundred one parliamentary members have turned up for this meeting. in the astral column to favor peace over violence to transform into

a political playing exercising their rights and for filling their obligations in mind which a large constitution let's all embrace the options of peace according to the parliament's facebook page one hundred ninety two parliamentarians support these government forty five are under house arrest by the who feeds thirty three have died and thirty one have refused to take part. a big difference between this parliament being legal and constitutional and or having hope in this parliament so very few are expecting anything from this parliament but again we are hoping that this parliament could at least help and this war no doubt. it won't see any prudes where the only people directly. but the who through say how does government doesn't have the support it claims they're now holding their own elections in areas they control to try to reduce the hardy government's majority two days ago saudi state television reported that coalition forces attacked who three targets in the capital

sana'a president hadi may have a difficult job convincing yemenis that this parliament is a way to peace rob matheson. the new palestinian government has been sore name and where they had a new prime minister mohammad she. brought me home donna who resigned in january but the new government faces problems as need a brain reports now from ramallah in the occupied west bank. this is the first flight to lead the government in more than a decade and has sixteen new ministers out of twenty one but many familiar faces remain in positions of power and the challenges they face are huge the palestinian authority is struggling for cash and the divide between fatah and hamas that i build group that runs gaza is as white as ever culture minister out of a safe was recently transferred to the west bank from gaza for treatment he is a federal official who was beaten up need his home in gaza last month reportedly by have asked loyalists have masses it's investigating how mass has already rejected

the new government calling it unconstitutional. previous deal state the need to form a national consensus government of all palestinian parties the formation of a for talk of when complicates this issue its own hands remain extended for the reconciliation and the agreement of a government or the palestinian people. but it's not just have mass and its supporters that the government needs to win over these demonstrations in the west bank last year were against the proposed social security low and more widely in protest against the government's performance in what is called a designation letter to president mahmoud abbas as new prime minister mohammad stay yet. to reunify the west bank and gaza but it faces more immediate issues inside the west bank contrary to the letter of this ignition by the president i think the main mission of this government is to absorb the growing pressure against for the

authority from the public second to try to bridge the go between the public authority by trying to improve the services to improve the performance of the government public employees have been on half pay for two months now israel is with holding some of the taxes it collects for the palestinian authority and u.s. aid has been cut off. this is a government that is inheriting a deep financial crisis and an empowered right wing leadership in israel so devival is a word we've been hearing from officials and analysts believe that people can handle the pressure but it's not clear for how long did. it among. thousands of opposition supporters have taken to the streets of serbia's capital calling for the resignation of president alexander of which church and alliance of about thirty activists and organizations hauling itself the alliance for serbia has been holding regular demonstrations in belgrade protesters are demanding democratic

reforms. a group of asylum seekers rescued off the coast of libya and kept at sea for ten days has finally disembarked in mater sixty four people including children were rescued by a german humanitarian vessel last week the ship was refused entry to italy and had since been stranded near malta prime minister says the migrants will eventually be relocated to germany france portugal and luxembourg. i've been five years since hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted in northeastern nigeria bible koran fighters but many are still missing. has more. zainab doesn't know if her daughter is alive ever so often she sorts through the books in homework how what took to school on the day she was abducted five years ago over the years her daughter's absence has weighed on the entire family. today

our you know she's the only female of our family my other five children are all boys i hope the government has pity on us. her daughter is among the two hundred seventy six schoolgirls who were kidnapped by boko haram fighters on april twenty fourth team. the military has rescued or found one hundred seven of the kidnapped girls some were freed in exchange for fighters are negotiations between book are wrong and the government others escaped it's estimated that about one hundred girls are still unaccounted for. in nigeria's capital there are renewed calls for the search to continue security and welfare of the people of that time a responsibility of the government has promised to destroy book of her arm but its attacks have continued more than twenty thousand people most of them civilians have been killed since two thousand and nine this family like others in the neighborhood

hopes their missing daughter is not one of those victims. we've heard that some parents have been reunited with their daughters oh it's hasn't come back home yet we are losing hope but we're calling on the government to invest more resources to bring back our girls. despite the pain this mother still hopes she will once again see her daughter alive. with a yawn al-jazeera. indians have marks the one hundredth anniversary of a massacre committed by british soldiers during colonial rule it happened in the northern city of where british troops opened fire on civilians gathered for a pro independence rally the british high commissioner to india was among those who paid their respects to the victims. to pakistan now where he has irish community is calling for better protection after an explosion in a market kills more than twenty people in quite on friday a small community has been targeted by the pakistani taliban and i saw in recent

years. reports. these floods involve the body will play save those killed during the past five years in assaults on cheers and after friday's attack there are fresh graves a new rule knows no violence and killing leaving last and fog mobile long son was killed in a previous attack she says she's still waiting for justice and is here to solidarity with out there who are grieving and it's not solemn my eighteen year old son who is also targeted and killed like many others in our community but there is no justice in this country i wish no mother could go through this pain from which i'm passing through i think these killings should be stopped by now the community have. roared to. their morning from their government that they have to be given

proper guidance. will not happen again. as well as her daughter she friday there also claimed the lives of others including through the muslims the bombings have been linked to isis and a day to get dollar bond pakistan. they're the main target here in the provincial capital of baluchistan province and they say the government isn't doing enough chief of army staff if it did going down and promised to make line order situation better for he has a lot of people but unfortunately peace in sudan has none and why does this struggle what they would measure to see had taken for the people. we are tired of these incidents for the last twenty years this year has. our community has been under constant threat how long are we going to be victims of these attacks bloggers are no longer the attacker they're using. and it's deployed security forces to

guard and fence the border and it's promising to bring those responsible to justice but that gives lifted solace for those who are grieving. prescription drugs in the united states are the highest in the world and members of the u.s. congress are on the increasing pressure to lower the costs al-jazeera as christensen only spoke to one family struggling to pay for lifesaving medication. hunter stego went off to college to study biochemistry and play football but he put all that risk due to his worries about his family's finances a family sacrifice to keep me alive it was costing them fourteen hundred dollars on monster to pay for the insulin he needed to treat his diabetes even with health insurance. to suffer for it so he cut back as treatments and ended up in the hospital. al-jazeera caught up with his mother

a schoolteacher in rural indiana via skype and she talked about the choices her family had to make. sure. i just. rationing medication is increasingly common according to the american diabetes association the price of insulin has nearly tripled uninsured families are facing this families that may have insurance are also facing the high cost of insulin recent congressional hearings have pointed fingers at so-called pharmacy benefit managers middlemen who negotiate discounts on drugs for insurance companies and my experience that kind of negotiation rarely results in an act of charity for consumers but ultimately its promise to tickle companies that set their own prices

a cost that isn't fully covered by many americans health insurance policy if a company raises the price of a product by twenty percent and then another company comes in and says that we're giving you a twenty percent discount you know have they really saved you money lawmakers have indicated that they're working towards legislation that will limit how these middlemen make money and provide more transparency to the process kathy sego tells us something has to be done and quickly. so i know what. i want everything she's become an advocate for reform knowing other families have even the last with which to make ends meet and it won't be long before hunter graduates and we need to find a way to pay for his own health care christian salumi al jazeera.

you know again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the dons ruling military council has held talks with protests organizes the country now high's its a leader in as many days and his promise to hand over power to a civilian government but some protesters remain skeptical. in order to provide an atmosphere for your desire to establish a state. we declare that the curfew be lifted all detained under martial law will immediately be released human rights will be reinforced in line with international laws the provincial rulers will be relieved of duty and an invitation will be given to all the people political parties and organizations to engage in dialogue assumes fire will be enforced across the country and we invite those carrying arms to lay them down at the negotiation table and agree to peaceful coexistence. algeria is judges have announced they will boycott the supervision of presidential election they say the vote could be rigged is expected to be how do demonstrators are

keeping up the pressure on the interim administration many have been arrested since the resignation of president of the lenses but if the forces fighting for control of libya's capital have launched more airstrikes swallow tiny for half tom or did attacks near tripoli a school and refugee center were hit but no casualties were reported maybe as un backed government has accused of committing war crimes palestinian president mahmoud abbas has sworn in a new government it's led by an ally from his party prime minister mohammad replaces rami hamdullah who resigned in january the appointment was rejected by a rival group hamas who controls the gaza strip we constellation deal between the two sides was signed in twenty seventeen but it has repeatedly stalled a group of asylum seekers rescued off the coast of libya and kept at sea for ten days has finally disembarked in malta sixty four people including children were rescued by a german humanitarian vessel last week the ship was refused entry to eighty and had

since been stranded near mt or prime minister says the migrants will eventually be relocated to germany france four to go and luxembourg those are the headlines inside stories next. for russian military advisors in africa they're not officially representing the kremlin but working for a private security company russia claims they're helping bring peace but critics say it's a disguise for the expansion of russia's military influence talk to al jazeera gains exclusive access to a russian military training camp in the central african republic. arrested in the u.k. and wanted in the u.s. the wiki leaks founder julian assange on faces an uncertain future after he was kicked out of the ecuadorian embassy in london but will he be extradited what about the allegations of sexual assault in hacking and is this all about freedom of speech or a man hiding from the charges against him this is inside story. hello

i'm kemal santamaria for two thousand four hundred and eighty seven days he was right there within touching distance of the british police but in the end always untouchable or you of course talking about julian assange the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks who for nearly seven years was an unintended guest of the ecuadorian embassy in london as he tried to avoid both angry governments and accusations of sexual assault well on thursday that all changed as ecuador revoked his political asylum and then allowed police into the embassy where he was arrested on the spot it is a complicated story because there are many allegations across multiple countries some of which have been dropped but on technicalities this first arrest

dramatically played out in front of the media was for breaching bail it could mean twelve months in prison but then later a songe was arrested again at the request of the united states which wants him extradited and then there are other sexual. assault allegations swedish prosecutors dropped a rape investigation into a son twenty seventeen saying as long as he was in the embassy they couldn't formally notify him of the accusation and a second woman's claim of modest station was halted in twenty fifteen due to time limits what you see here the letters from more than seventy british m.p.'s who have written to the home secretary saying the sexual assault allegations should not be forgotten and that assad should be extradited to sweden first if requested asylum just supporters though say his arrest is an attack on freedom of speech and that he's being punished for exposing war crimes. this is a dark day for journalism i was just jennifer's that's president we don't want to this to go forward this has this has to work the i've heard it the u.k.

government used to make up for the jurors that a journalist will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activity this pertains to publishing work ninety years ago publishing of documents of videos of killing of innocent civilians exposure of war drives this is journalism. so you can see there are a lot of angles to the julian assange story and they need some clarity so here we go a songe first sort refuge in that embassy in london to avoid extradition to sweden over those two separate sexual assault allegations which he does deny both those investigations were dropped after prosecutors ran out of time to question him but now swedish prosecutors say they are read salmon in one of those cases he's seven years in the ecuadorian embassy ended over what was called quote discourteous and aggressive behavior and concerns that he was interfering in the country's affairs

and then as we mentioned a son faces extradition to the united states on charges of conspiring to hack into a government computer along with a former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning that dates back to twenty ten and there are also the democratic party e-mails published by wiki leaks and twenty sixteen jury in the u.s. election campaign which have raised some questions over songes links perhaps to russia. lots to talk about and we've got a great panel to do that with starting in london with michael patrick joyce he is a barrister in international and european law in philadelphia clear thankful stein who's a professor of law at the university of pennsylvania law school and rounding out our panel in norfolk in the u.k. vaughan smith who is a freelance journalist and a personal friend of julian assange and so able to give us some interesting insight there in fact why don't i start with you. even as a supporter i suspect mr assad's knew this is why this day had to come didn't it

the ecuadorians after nearly seven years we're probably going to run out of i guess patience might be the word at some stage well i if this came because there was a change of political administration in ecuador there was a new president who had different populaces of the previous one out attempted to get julian to ecuador but we didn't as a country the british didn't allow allow julian to leave the embassy so we you in touch how much were you in touch with with mr us on leading up to this friday before last so eight days ago i had to but because you have to book to go and visit him and so i saw about an hour and a half now he'd be expected to be kicked out he was expecting it from before christmas that any day he would be kicked out i think he was planning to walk out i was quite upset i must say to see the way he was dragged out because i feel that was done really for the television cameras to promote the idea that he was

a sort of fugitive of sorts so i was quite disappointed that he wasn't able to have a bit more dignity than the point i would make just before i go to our other guests is that. he made that choice to go into that embassy nearly seven years ago didn't he i know there's been a lot of talk he sort of almost felt like he was under house arrest that he couldn't move and couldn't go out but he made that decision knowing what could happen maybe not knowing he'd be in there for seven years but certainly knowing what the consequences could be. well yes i mean he kind of he claimed asylum he was given diplomatic asylum and that has been revoked which i understand is against international law and i understand it was tested in the inter-marriage in court of human rights quite recently by the sanders lawyers who found his favor and also i think it's important to observe that julian has won on all of the supranational bodies that are available to him for example you united nations working group probably detention determined that he was detained and i understand that is the hostel for a few to decide such

a thing but but but unfortunately or fortunately whatever these are these judgments aren't you britain and america and ecuador are don't have to apply those judgments and they're advisory is my understanding but nevertheless you know if the highest authority in the world determines who's arbitrary to trains a need to detain and he deserves silence and that is fine the other headlines very important to point out. because i think there's a corrective needed he claimed asylum to avoid being extradited to america which is the thing that appears to be happening now and he's been very consistent about that he said that he feared and even though he knew there was an extradition journalist at the time almost all of them thought that wasn't happening and now it is so you know the swedish thing he said that he would be happy to go to sweden to face those charges he wants you know his day in court just as the women deserve it too and i think is very important very interesting that the that this letter has gone around which i q's the support i think is really good that that he does go to sweden but

it mustn't be misunderstood he said that he would go to sweden if they could be guaranteed that he was going to be extradited the united states that's what he's trying to avoid ok i'll come back to you shortly let's go to michael patrick joyce now in london for some. time is going to say legal advice legal perspective let's put it that way he was arrested where we've outlined there with one the the different issues which mr assad has faced in the end he was arrested for skipping bail twelve months in a u.k. prison is the. likely situation to see that how it how it plays out because there is this pressure to the maximum ok that's the maximum penalty that he could get what has happened is that he was tried in westminster magistrates court on thursday convicted of the charge of breaching his bail of not answering to his bail back in two thousand and twelve and the magistrates court has now remitted the case to the crown court so the crown court which will determine the sentence at

a date to be fixed now twelve months is the maximum there is a judicial discretion as to where the precise term of imprisonment if that is imposed rests but will be a shorter period of time ok will do you think and i know there's a lot of speculation involved in everything we talk about today but do you think the united states will be putting the pressure on and saying actually we want to now we want and sooner rather than later though i think that there is a jew process in relation to extradition and it's quite clear that due process will have to be followed i don't think there's any means of short circuiting this. that would be an infringement of the process of law or the rule of law and i think it's probably going to be rather protracted proceedings and what about the issue michael of sweden already brought that up there the just explain again to our viewers what's happened as i understand time basically ran out can these charges

allegations come back i believe the swedes are already talking about possibly reinvestigating. well there was a series of charges or these allegations that he was facing in sweden and they range they were they were all serious but they range from molestation and coercion to allegations of rape now as i understand it under swedish law and you have to understand i'm an english law specialist from the swedish law specialist so i can't speak with total authority but it's my understanding that within that range of allegations sorry the allegations in relation to the station and coercion had a statute of limitations and therefore the time in relation to investigation of those as i understood it rather and that really is the end of it the more serious charges of rape i don't think there is a statute of limitations in sweden but there is an important distinction between

raising allegations under swedish law and charging someone you have to have access you have to charge in the presence of the accused obviously whilst mr assad was in the ecuadorian embassy that was impossible so the the investigation in relation to the rape allegations really ran into the sand and reached an impasse so that the swedish laura his desisted from continuing now i have no doubt that in sweden there will be a big debate as to whether that disses sitting from continuing means that it simply gone into a balance and now can be revived or whether having desisted then that's an end of the matter that's a matter for swedish law and i'm sure will be hotly debated and contested in swedish courts ok time to bring in clear finkelstein in philadelphia for the u.s. perspective i like what we're doing here actually we're just laying out all the facts without getting into the subject of stuff just yet clear let's talk about the

indictment which the u.s. has got and i note that it is very carefully written. he has not been charged with publishing government secrets which would be usually the big headline he has been charged with committing unlawful computer intrusion explain this one to us please that's correct so it's not quite espionage and it's not asked of lee just receiving stolen government documents and classified documents and disseminating them which would be a problem if he is indeed to be considered a journalist because it would be protected activity under the first amendment is something in between which is basically computer hacking and he's accused of doing this as part of a conspiracy with them bradley manning now chelsea manning who clearly violated the law and she would be the principal and of course he would be an accessory to that crime and part of the conspiracy so is this a way of going after him for something which is more likely to be successful as you

say there is well there is a gray area over journalism over freedom of speech over these sorts of issues so go after him for the thing which quote unquote can be perfect or can more easily be perfect it's turning out to be more controversial in the u.s. than you might have thought so the a.c.l.u. and other journalistic organizations have come out strongly in his favor and said that they are very concerned about the precedent that it sets to process to prosecute him because in their view he has a member of the press and the big worry that first amendment lawyers and activists have had is that members of the press will be prosecuted for espionage or espionage related offenses. if in his case however there's a real question whether or not we should count as a press organization there are many people who feel that in the wake of the role that wiki leaks played in disseminating what appears to be russian hacked

information illegally hacked in from a. on the part of a foreign power that in a sense he forfeits his press data if the sole reason for his existence at this point is to disseminate. information based on a play book that latham you're putin that's a very controversial issue then the second question would be if he is nevertheless a legitimate press organization member of the press. or in the activities that he is accused of in the indictment that was unsealed. protected activities and many people feel that even if you as a member of the of the press is go beyond what the first amendment was designed to protect journalists from because it i'm of the level of activity and not just past receipt of information and dissemination of that information ok claire i want to

come back to a little while to talk a little bit more about russia i think we're now into some really interesting stuff which claire was brought up and it's the more subject to stuff and i'll go back to foreign on this one is julian assange a journalist there are a lot of people out there who say he's not they would say that actually wiki leaks it's a whistle blowing web site it's a it's a it's a conduit it finds the it finds the details and actually wiki leaks is paired up with a number of established me organizations in the past to get that information out there yet mr assad and his lawyers continually say this is about journalism and yes i it's a very good point i think it's quite a crucial one he sent me a publisher i would say and many other journalists have recognized him as a journalist i mean he's won the market go whole comprise an index nonsense it came across a journalism so it's quite a difficult one i think it clearly is the base but whether the genesis i think he's a journalist but he's a publisher i understand legally it's a similar sort of thing anyway so it may be slightly academic could i just go back

to one thing the swedish master just won't. just answer go back or not put the onus on the swedish master the ca crown prosecution service in britain was found to have e-mail correspondence with this we just prosecutor where they were trying to dissuade her from coming to london and actually interviewing julian there's something fishy going on or has been it does seem that politics of intruded somehow on this case because if the prosecutors are actually prosecuting then you have to question what's really behind all this just took one battle and in a sense this was revealed by la repubblica did a freedom of information act request in sweden and got these emails those emails turned out to being destroyed and deleted by our crown prosecution so so you know i don't think it's completely clear cut what's happened as we know i do think it's important that he does go to sweden to clear his name michael i know you said you went to an expert on unzueta so but is there anything you can add to what one was

saying there. i don't think there is very much to be added if we are in a vote rather odd position in that through vorm who has obviously been speaking directly to mistress only very recently if we have the up to date information that mr sawyer warder presumably willingly or possibly voluntarily go to sweden but at the moment there are no charges because they can only be allegations until they're put to him in person and the investigations have been. closed certainly temporarily we don't know whether that's going to be reopened the english press is reporting mr a song which is swedish lawyers as saying that they consider it highly unlikely that he would ever face prosecution in sweden perhaps because of the elapse of time the fading of witnesses memory is

considerations like that it is ten years on to be fair let's go back into this issue of journalism as we were discussing before clear finkelstein to come back to you you raised the point and the concerns that there are in the united states about this who will decide in the end i mean it's becoming next essential question how do we decide if he is a journalist or not and therefore what will happen to him and we how the charges will will develop from here but just very briefly if i may to follow up on the swedish matter. first of all i'm rather puzzled by the suggestion that the swedes would take the position that the statute of limitations had run because usually when someone has a fugitive from justice the statute of limitations has told at least that would be the principle in the u.s. i'm not an expert on swedish law either but it's very strange that you can run out the clock on a charge by simply beating those charges for long enough i think it's very telling

that he himself would rather clear what. and i think it is a link here that the coercion charges have been dropped and that was because of. expiry of them attention it may be i do agree with you that it's surprising that a fugitive for justice can wait. a period of imitation and then not face the music but it does seem that that is the case in criminal law. very puzzling aside to the issue of. you know this hold on one will it clear finish her thought and then i'll come to you with the other issue about the swedish situation is that it's quite interesting to me that he would rather go back and face coercion charges or bar possibly a rape investigation in sweden then face what appears to be a minor computer hacking related charge this again is not

a charge of espionage i think that what he is expecting i can only guess that what he is expecting is that there might be another indictment coming along relating to the twenty sixteen election hacking and that he be extremely concerned about facing that now there's a tricky legal issue here relating to extradition agreements which is that although if you were already in the u.s. it would always be possible to add another charge or to have a superseding indictment the one that he has. to have an additional indictments and so on being the twenty sixteen being is completely unrelated to the manning yeah and i am still going to ask you about that in a moment where vaughn just very quickly. i'm just worried that we're referring to the swedish allegations as charges too often i think that's quite an important thing. now about my having spoken to julian and i think this this does add

something he certainly of the mind charges would somehow be out is not and that actually this is this extradition is designed to get him to america for life to an american jail and also is important point he said before he went you know as he went unclaimed asylum in here he said then that he would happily walk out at any time to go to sweden if there was a guy and he wasn't sent to america just to get ok fair enough right i'm just going to make a note for next time as well that we will get a swedish law expert on because that's what everyone wants to talk about it clear i come back to you can i come back to you on the issue of russia because you've raised a couple of times and we have mentioned it the publishing of stolen democratic party e-mails in the lead up to the twenty sixth election very much not part of this indictment but it hovers over everything doesn't it and donald trump gets drawn into it as well when he previously said he loved wiki leaks and now he says i

don't really care that much about them this will linger won't it. it absolutely will if it the first thing to look at in a fire was lawyer i would be arguing that extradition law itself would freeze these charges so that normally if you get extradited for a certain offense the agreement between the u.k. and the u.s. around the charges that he's being extradited for would prevent the u.s. government from adding additional charges unlike if you were already in the u.s. when any number of additional indictments could happen if that is not the case and maybe that u.s. authorities will try to as either to this indictment or as a new indictment relating to the twenty sixteen hacking before they put in an extradition request so that they're not barred from making that making those extra charges then things get very complicated. and there is

a potential of a very strange alliance here between the white house and folks like the a.c.l.u. who are saying he should be considered a journalist and so be protected under first amendment grounds because he could be quite dangerous to president trump given what he may know if indeed there was a conspiracy. between him roger stone and the trump campaign to i get to and release the e-mails. from the d.n.c. so it may be that the white house is not very eager to see him extradited to the u.s. either final thought then just as we're running on the clock we have spent the past twenty minutes or so talking about the man julian assange is the fact as he found it a web site called wiki leaks and i wonder vaughn maybe i'll start with you regardless of what happens to him then it could be a very drawn out process when he makes and still there isn't it and it will still

keep doing what it does regardless. yes sir julian stopped running wiki leaks nearly a year ago now and he did that because he couldn't from do it from the embassy anymore after an embassy because of the restrictions are applied to him so he's not running it and i'm not sure where it's based it might be iceland or somewhere so in a sense in terms of you know whistle blowing it's sort of you know the gorilla rather than anything else in it operate on almost no money at stall and it's relatively easy to run you know compared with them the forces are arranged against it. the courts based in are some afraid i'd love to keep talking especially about swedish law but we haven't had time so i'd like to thank michael padgett joyce in london also clear finkelstein in philadelphia and vaughan smith joining us from norfolk thank you to all of you and thank you for watching remember this program indeed all our inside story episodes are online for you to see again you just head to al-jazeera dot com look in the shows that section for inside story also of

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hello this is al jazeera live from doha fully backed people also ahead forces loyal to libyan war loading the have todd launch air strikes hitting civilian and government buildings near tripoli plus we are in tunisia to look at the high price refugees and migrants are paying as they seek a better life and venezuela's opposition leader cons for nationwide protests against the president on a visit to the oil rich state of studio. thank you for joining us sudan's ruling military council has begun talks with all guises of the mass protests the country now has its third leader in as many days and he's promised to hand over power to a civilian government within two years in his first address to the nation abdul fatah or hahn promised a series of reforms but they fall short of what protesters are demanding that

military force president omar bashir to step down from power on thursday let's bring in our correspondent in khartoum morgan us so how are things moving for his between the political parties and the military council they've had their first meeting is it going to be another one. well yes indeed fully there will be later meetings between the political parties and the military council they did meet yesterday evening and more talks are expected today the political parties some of the major political parties have announced that they have presented a list of demands to the military council we've already heard from the new leader of the country than for the one hand that he is willing to sit down and have a dialogue with the political parties and that the transitional period would only be two years at the moment there's an agreement to have a joint hybrid transitional government which means military personnel and civilian representatives will be involved but the people who have been staging the sit in

and the protests are not happy with that they're saying that they want a purely civilian government they don't want anybody from the military to present them in the transitional period yeah and what about the mood on the streets. the same anger as they was last week. yes overnight there have been a still people at the sense in expressing their frustration and their anger not just at the military council but at the political parties that have sat down and talked to them they're saying that they feel a little bit betrayed by the fact that for four months they have been the ones out on the streets protesting voicing their demands and that the political parties came now and are basically agreeing with the military council to have representatives from the military and from political parties when they have basically offered no sacrifices over the past four months so that they're saying that they will continue the major player in all of this is the sudanese professional association they've been spearheading the calls of for protest over the past four months and they said

they're willing to talk to the military council but they're also demanding a civilian government so at the moment fully political parties between themselves are divided and that doesn't look good for the future of the country if they want to negotiate with the military council for a transitional period thank you very much for that he morgan live for us in khartoum or the opposition in protest organizers in sudan have released a list of their demands after a meeting with the transitional council they want the arrest of all political and security leaders accused of corruption and murder including for crimes committed in the darfur region a complete overhaul of sudan security and intelligence services and the release of all political prisoners and the cancellation of all laws which restricts freedom let's speak to one lead my db about this has the founder and president of sudan policy forum his here in doha with a say q so much for being with us so the other demands of the protesters also include amending the existing constitution and improving the sudanese economy are

these demands in your view realistic will the military council make any more concessions. i what i'm seeing now is just. a variation to all of the soft landing is that i think which was ordered unity developed by the international community on speed headed by the americans and the it was a strike to get men to stop the war in the periphery oppin routes to bring humanitarian aid to the displaced community. but that fan because that again was called caught up by said price because the pollution it is in december nineteenth they just they just made it is totally irrelevant to game brought in an ideologue who was accused of having committed a genocide of and they brought him as a vice president to do to introduce the second video of the soft landing is through

at the. you know you have been caught off guard sorry to interrupt you this military council now do you see them i mean we've had three lead is the two leaders in three days do you see them making any more concessions because the protesters are keeping up the pressure on. what i'm seeing now is a poorly designed process which will inevitably bring a confrontation between the old guard which is already in place nothing has happened to them none of them is held or brought to. in detention and it's going to be a confrontation between the old guard and their evolution it is that evolution it is now have no option but for their attempts to be abolished by this new president who who is accused of having committed i mean crimes and he is not part of the i.c.c. list. more importantly he is not missed so and he and his vice

is totally an ideology so they don't have much options it's either the the they just. confront all guards by themselves or seeking help of this new cabinet which is capable of doing something but that evolution is have to keep up the pressure because what i see now is is just. that is the that is imbued with total lack of prioritization right conflicting goals and targets inflicting goals that's interesting you spoke earlier about the international community there's a web of international interests and so don and we've had the saudis saudi arabia come out and say they support this military council what do you make of that. i mean i make nothing out of that the sudanese people are now i mean just like the idea they have become very sensitive to any international intervention in their

business and they feel that any any intervention is likely to do just cause a lot of private privatization of their agenda so what what i am seeing now and that is something that is very essential is for the agenda of the periphery to be included what i'm seeing now is just the game trying to stick to and to put some limitation for the dialogue it's putting this whole day loek to was in is strictly minutes which is totally excluding the people of the pitifully i don't see any attempts made to reach up there were one. hundred north or general people so by so doing we are going back to doing the same as any and all parties are not representative of the people who've been demonstrating it's the people who are who have occupied the street i mean who are just running to occupy the state so in other words we are the game is now just trying to feed the dog that is

a barking blow at that but the hungry dog has indeed been reached what i'm saying is that is a structural issue that needs to be addressed it is not it is not a debate between the left and the security and the islamists it's a major debate between the center and the pitifully ok and they need to reach out to those who waited mostly influenced by this war. very interesting to hear your views on this i'm sure we'll get a chance to talk some more about this thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera let's move on to other world news and judges in algeria have announced they will boycott the supervision of upcoming presidential elections they say the vote which is expected in july world. brig demonstrators are keeping up the pressure on the internet ministration president of devices but if he can resign earlier this month after weeks of protests.

we the judges of algeria have on a quickly to thought it took what we called supervising the presidential elections that assured told put the portal to law. libya's u.n. backed government has accused the warlord highly for have to are of war crimes. the. forces fighting for control of libya's capital launch new airstrikes with planes from have to our side attacking the town of i'm doris southeast of tripoli a school in refugee center where heads but no casualties were reported another strike at a government building on the outskirts of tripoli i'm not quoting what that you don't like that because every war crimes have been committed such as targeting civilians and medical teams they've targeted schools in airports and an illegal immigrant center all of this is documented including using minors to fight we will be taking legal procedures nationally and internationally they're still trying to bomb on the civilian targets and our forces are still resisting the will and forces

from the u.n. backed government have targeted positions southeast of the capital in the town of green yon the town is believed to be a base will have ties military operations fighting has been going on for more than a week as have tossed forces advance on tripoli mahmud abdel wahab has more from libya's capital. both warring factions have been using warplanes to target locations in and around tripoli warplanes loyal to the world have to targeted civil locations in site tripoli including a military camp belongs to the government of national called and their school while the government warplanes targeted have to us forces locations near the town of between on the way between the u.n. and tripoli authorities at him eighty get airport the only operational airport in the capital city say that have to as warplanes will flying on saturday over the airport trying to target him eighty get airport but forces in i'm eighty the

airport tried to target the planes with the anti crafts missiles they say that authorities in a may to say that the will probably have to suspend vision again because the military escalation is going on near the airport now concerning the military confrontations on the ground the government forces have been gaining ground especially around forty kilometers to the south from tripoli one of the government forces managed to recapture the headquarters of the fourth infantry brigade which was taken control of by have to forces days ago the military escalation on the outskirts of tripoli on the southern outskirts of tripoli has forces more than nine thousand five hundred civilians to leave their homes tunisia meanwhile is concerned that fighting in neighboring libya will lead to more people trying to cross the mediterranean sea by boat over the past year hundreds of african migrants

and refugees have ended up on tunisian shores nicholas high.