one foot out of that door he could easily be extradited there's no doubt that the bottom line in your son's case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can in theory carry the death penalty and at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that as a rational human being journalists aren't would not wish to step outside the ecuadorian embassy when that risk of arrest and extradition to the u.s. hangs over his head on tuesday took to twitter over a minor scare at the ecuadorian embassy in london apparently a package was delivered to him containing a written threat and identified white powder a police inspector the package it turned out not to be dangerous. but it's not all

being threats five years inside that small embassy means sanchez had plenty of time on his hands to entertain visiting friends and supporters.

a new. party is about to be launched in the u.k. with support from across the channel french m.p.'s belonging to a manual march movement not only back to the idea but have reportedly been giving advice to the founders of the new british party charlotte who pinsky investigates. this is really a brand new political party that's about to launch in the k. its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the brave people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although get is a sore head for the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice for of course they can all hear it from the helping hand coming

from a manual michael's party the republic of march with advisers said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its norms one of your girl friends was glad you came here like us and like many other countries looking for who because it was feeling despair i think the danger increasing you can look at the future musical and i think the movement of christian authors i mean with when you use the future you can embrace. during the ideas of mark. which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics were new also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope it'll work for them to. we don't have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael

the u.k. electoral commission says there is no issue with the british party receiving advice from a foreign political party providing it receives no funding from it so it's fair enough but what the reaction be if the advice was coming from a russian party will there be a great outcry as there would be if politicians from any political or from any other country were trying to advise politicians or tell them what to do but i mean what we should all be doing of course is talking to politicians from other countries not to get advice from them not to be told what to do but simply to find out what's going on in those countries we are streaming for an interview to discuss the party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that r.t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer just said that russia had interfered in the brig's boat

dividing the u.k. for europe this void a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing brigs it a referendum in which the majority overt is pleased to leave you so it seems that through you meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even ski r.t. paris. a recent poll has found that the majority of americans believe their media is biased and comes at a time when ever more former senior government employees are moving into t.v. punditry with the controversy surrounding the recent new nose memo giving them lots to talk about r.t. you can explore see if there might be grounds for the presumption of bias. many

people seeking expertise on the nunez memo must be switching through channels these days so is it a big deal or is it underwhelming was the right to release it well here's a familiar face to answer all of your questions the fact that the newness and republicans deny the ability of the minority the democratic members of that committee to put out its report is just appalling he has abused the office of the chairmanship yes that was john brennan former cia director and now a member of the m s n b c family as a contributor brennan was a prominent figure in the intelligence community appointed by barack obama but that background doesn't necessarily mean he's biased right but bret is not the only intelligence official who's joined the ranks of mainstream media we also have josh campbell who resigned from the f.b.i. and joined c.n.n. as a law enforcement analyst he's yet to make his first appearance on the network but before he does here's an excerpt from his latest new york times op ed defending his former employee these political attacks on the bureau must stop these critics of

agency persuade the public that the f.b.i. cannot be trusted they will also have succeeded in making our nation less safe not hard to guess what campbell will say on c.n.n. regarding the nunez memo which accuse the f.b.i. of bias and just a little reminder he was also james komi special assistant the same komi who is accused of wrongdoing in the memo but of course campbell and brennan are the first to make the switch there is an absolute leftist bias in the country most of the networks if you just add up for example the time that they speak negatively about the president is about ninety percent of the time and there are numerous studies that show this where for example president obama he would do things say things and there would be no media coverage of it whatsoever and case in point are the recent memos that we're all seeing come out of course the republican memo released the new memo great scrutiny over most of the american media. a little coverage when what

should happen based on that memo for example would be that that molar is investigation should be expanded but that's not what the media has called for now it said that you can never teach an old dog new tricks so how can we expect these ex government officials to magically shed their previous political associations. of this sort by joining us so far here on r.t.

international and in the mix of stories still coming your way today at the former headquarters of the nazi party's secret police in the city of hamburg is undergoing a big make over some locals are none too pleased about it details in about. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night was actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to i'm going to leave it just really packed a punch. yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than nothing. i see people you've never heard of love redacted the night my president of the world bank take your money that's what i mean seriously send us an e-mail. with politicians to. put themselves on the

line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go right to the press was like before three of the more people. i'm interested in the waters in the house. first. thanks for joining us u.s. military chief james mattis says urge congress to increase the country's defense spending this is necessary according to the defense secretary owing to the growing nuclear threat from china and russia. moscow advocate the theory of nuclear escalation for military. committee both an increase and just aimed

investment in our capability been modernized weapons as well as other new peers just trying to modernize and needed for already considerable nuclear forces we need congress to lift the defense spending cap to support the budget for military. several days ago the pentagon issued a nuclear policy review in which it names north korea china and russia among its main security threats the defense department claims that it's not possible to delay the modernization of nuclear forces their view also says that the u.s. reserves the right to use a nuclear response against a known nuclear threat the trump administration is pushing for a seven hundred billion dollars defense budget for this year which is ninety

billion more than last year as a political commentator lou rockwell things any such increase could have dangerous consequences well they want more money because they just want more money i mean that's the what the government lives to do it lives to spend. when you start using these weapons it's all too easy to escalate it's a horrendous thing the u.s. has got its bases out of. bases in this world all around these other countries it's threatening their destruction and i don't know what's going to happen but it's very very disturbing that these guys are talking openly about this kind of military escalation it's an outrage that the american people should be letting this go on and maybe they don't even realize what's going on but it's important that all of us understand what's going on learn something about what they're doing it's it's it's it's threatening to everybody in the world and anybody who's got children or grandchildren would like to see their families continue into the future not to be

worried about this desperately worried. the war in yemen is over a thousand days old and the humanitarian crisis in the country is only getting worse according to the u.n. almost forty seven thousand yemenis have been displaced since december reports of children being killed or injured in saudi ledes trikes well the reports just keep on coming in we did speak to some of those affected i should warn you though in advance you may find some of the following images disturbing. you know what do you. know what about side of.

the jewish. so have you got with me michel. has it and i could have. had a ghetto. but they should have known that. a second running in the blood. before my headquarters of the nazi party secret police in the city of hamburg is one of the last reminders in the city of the whole rows of walled water but city developers decided to give the building a new life with just not going down too well with locals.

really annoyed as many people died off the torch which is on mention that's why there must be a commemorative place here it is a social obligation for the victims we've come. to this i believe this place you're more appreciated than it currently is. the miles i miss it so much to my life in a place where is it the fur elise tasteless and what was printed by many newspapers hello hello all which is phrased in a way that's reminiscent of the words at the concentration conference recess work sets you free the.

doctor that hooker is the foreman could stop at headquarters on time for torture took place then. one must feel sorry for the future tenants they did not even know that if it's a hotel for example it's a hotel if you torture. the program for this hour here on r t international but more of your wednesday world headlines in about thirty minutes.

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courts prevented the extradition of british finnish freedom activist larry love to the united states that learned the u.k. arrest warrant decision in the past twenty four hours concerning wiki leaks founder julian assange coming out of the show why did washington post boss katharine graham praised in the new spielberg film the post cold war perry the watered down his journalism we pay tribute to the reporter whose work was archived by the cia after he exposed defacto british backed us government smuggling of drugs into weapons around the world. and forget fake news here on earth what about fake news in outer space astrophysics and founder the storm is best of all israeli and argues for international cooperation instead of neo liberal collusion in the headlines we are pretty stones are killing who in syria and who's fighting in yemen all the civil coming up in today's going on the ground but first where around ten days from britain's answer to the academy awards and arguably reflecting the state of british

journalism no award this year will go to a film purportedly about the pentagon papers steven spielberg's the post this even after recent years a reveal that britain's pride in not joining the us a war which killed around four million vietnamese may be misplaced that in fact there was indeed covert support for the kennedy johnson nixon carnage in the spielberg film meryl streep backed and supposed heroine katharine graham of the washington post newspaper now a subsidiary of the online retailer amazon but. if you publish the supreme court next. week we could all go to prison to make this decision. to get her fortune in the company that's been. spared but was katherine graham really so heroic because that's not the way she's seen by many of the journalists

filmmakers and whistleblowers around the globe who paid tribute to journalist and founder of consortium news robert perry who passed away last week seymour hersh described perry as not even so much as a critic of us mainstream media as a critic of lousy reporting and from the iran contra scandal the mainstream coverage of russia and ukraine his work cut through propaganda and skewered lazy neo liberal journalism joining me now via skype from san francisco in the usa is norman solomon the founder of the institute for public. accuracy and longtime friend of bob perry norman welcome back to going underground so for those who haven't heard of robert perry why was his journalism so relevant to the lives of people fail living in nato countries like britain well here's a guy who came out of the mainstream what i called mainline media with associated press then on to newsweek and the p.b.s. frontline show and his year was always very international he became well known in

the mid 1980's by breaking stories the first story is really about the iran contra scandal the arms for hostages deal and i think most importantly the us against american law was arming the contras in nicaragua the cia backed army against the well liked it sent at least a government pairing with somebody who was. committed to be independent journalism and that increasingly i think put him at odds with not only the conservative part of the us power structure but also of the liberal part as well ok well that take us back a little what was the scale of u.s. backing for de facto drug smuggling that ball perry exposed. yeah there was one of the big stories i mean not only the weapons flying in from u.s. sources to the contras in nicaragua and then i'd seen eighty's but the planes would come back not empty but with drugs to supply. in the united states some of

the drug. conveyance ally and of course money coming from that as well so they were called off the shelf deals we are if the cia the u.s. government couldn't through legal channels fund the contras with the weapons and the so-called non-lethal way the drug trade could help. free up a whole lot of money and so perry really exposed that the reagan administration from the top down wasn't just oliver north contrary to medium it but the reagan administration from the very top or was involved in that illicit and deadly warfare against u.s. law and then gives whited out perry went to guatemala and el salvador just the slaughter house that was being funded by the u.s. government in the reagan administration at that time and i think if we look you know the last several decades since then but kerry didn't really change in that he

was always a very tough investigative journalist he believed as the great reporter i of stone said many decades ago all governments a lie and nothing they say should be taken on faith and it's because of that commitment that robert perry continued to be a very important reporter after he was a.p. a newsweek in recent quarter century really he was crucial and remains even having passed away a crucial the important journalist as the independent reporter who exposed crimes going on from the top of the u.s. government reagan of course a great ally of mrs that has here in britain he went he went on to win the i have stone medal but hill through expose their own reagan deliberately delayed the return of the u.s. hostages from iran. yeah reagan campaigned cicle october surprise. four hundred forty days the u.s.

hostages being held in the embassy former embassy in tehran and bumper he made a convincing case just shoe leather journalism that in fact the reagan administration ahead you know vien with iran saying you know you can get a better deal from us if you don't give jimmy carter the release of those hostages until after the election and in fact symbolically and notably those hostages were elected or rather released on you know gratian day for on the break and these are the kind of stories that bob insisted on doing meticulously going through documents and really granular level of research there earned him a lot of disrepute among the mainstream media he simply became a pariah and that was more and more the case not only for the right wingers in the media and government to adore ronald reagan quote it also became true of those who adored barack obama yeah i'll get on to the liberal thing in

a second if you want to be that i'm not sure if you see this steven spielberg film hanks film the post but it's certainly extols the virtues of one of the great journalists so r.h. katharine graham. yeah i don't know how you have this thing to share the same ideas about her tom hanks and steven spielberg. well perry actually worked for what was then called the post newsweek company the washington post being the owner of newsweek and as he told me later on. bob was working on a story about u.s. foreign policy and he was told it would have to be watered down because katharine graham henry kissinger as a weekend house guest and this is an example of what bob was willing to say in public that was routinely kept private you know inside the sanctum of

the media and because he was willing to disclose that kind of sum on a scale of what's supposed to be objective journalism. he really became somebody in disrepute for someone like katharine graham i have to say you know i have not gone and seen the film yet opposed but i did perhaps one of the very few know if only negative reviews katharine graham's quotes are winning one of our graffiti personal history when it came out a couple of decades ago it was very self-serving it was exactly the kind of slop and india logically driven material that bob kerrey rejected fundamentally his work ok that get through how he then in later life before he died annoyed the liberals because eat eat try to debunk the idea that russia was responsible for basically

all the ills of the united states that these to be going on in your country right now. well i should say in context it was always finely attuned as a washington reporter to the way that the intelligence agencies of the united states and the news media tended to work in lockstep certainly in tandem and so it was the same sensibilities that caused him to go against the grain on the reagan administration's line on central america it also caused him to go against the careen in terms of the received wisdom what everybody was supposed to believe in us media and politics about russia and as is the case with me bob kerrey was no fan of the russian government what he was an enthusiastic that was to look at history past and current and to look at facts rather than spin and that led him to fundamentally dispute on the basis not of idiology but of facts the claims that

russia had engaged in some kind of nefarious and effective plot to sway that twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and that further you know he needed neutrally i think him from the big power brokers u.s. media i mean he just in consortium news dot com the website that he founded almost a quarter century ago he was daily ripping into the latest. launched propaganda from the new york times in the washington post of russia and it simply made by a not only a pariah as i said but also a trailblazer he burned a lot of bridges in the process but that's what independent journalists should do and some people even try just where i'm going him so i'm going to putin useful idiot because he also different about ukraine didn't know he fundamentally had a very different narrative about ukraine a different narrative about nato in general in terms of its expansive efforts he

like anybody paying attention really saw. there was a pledge made and broken from the u.s. government after. not moving nato eastward in put current events in that context and he frankly would not do well in other countries either in terms of power structures he would be under tremendous pressure if you were a journalist in russia you would be in prison if you were journalist in china he simply had an independent mentality that said that journalists should not be functionaries for any political party or any government and in the current context that made him someone who to my mind was a truth teller about the conflicts now between russia and the united states because he saw a very clearly that it's the united states with eight hundred military bases overseas it's the united states that has encroached upon and moved upon the.