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i see it in. the home. expression. u.k. prime minister begs europe for yet another delay to briggs at this time until the end of june and some members say they're ready to take a tough line also this. june in a song as his supporters hold a vigil outside the ecuadorian embassy in london after wiki leaks said that its co-founder would be expelled within hours today citing a high level government schools. and a commander from eastern libya advances his troops towards the capital tripoli raising fears of renewed civil war.
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thanks for joining us this is for yet another bragg's it delayed this time june thirtieth. reports on what reason may hopes will be heard bargaining chip. in fact it is june thirtieth that d.t. has asked for is a letter sent to donald tusk however this if you remember is a date that was already rejected by the e.u. in the past and one of the big problems there are the european parliament elections that are set to take place on may twenty third so the idea of the e.u. really was that you either partake in the elections and stay in the european union or you don't partake in the european a parliament elections but you leave by then and now with theresa may asking for that extension she is reaching really for a final straws of what it is she thinks she could potentially offer to try to keep
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this situation going because we know she does not support to the idea of leaving without a deal she wants to have an agreement when the leaves the european union so she has promise now and said in this letter that if by then you can still in the european union with this new extension the government is carrying out preparations for european parliament election campaigns and wasting probably considerable amounts of money especially if this does not end up anywhere and leads to nothing however she said that if agreement if an agreement is reached by then before those elections the u.k. will withdraw from the european union before and then council those participation in that parliament vote however obviously nobody knows what's going to happen basically the position is for any extension they would need to have a clear plan about what it is that the u.k. wants to achieve in that extension and what the common approach is however all be
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asleep throughout this time there has been no common approach. professor of european law francisco to police to reason is just buying time for divorce still. she's trying to buy a little bit more time and i've read her letter to during our new sumption that she's going to basically frighten her own backbenches and particularly the argy hard core and the do you pay with labor labor is the fear factor so back my deal or else that that's what the game is because essentially the labor party and kissed janice today has said well she hasn't budged she's simply clarifying what's already agreed and if you read the letter she insists on her withdrawal deal so i think that many people in the are really quite fed up with this i think many of them are absolutely astonished that the the british political establishment the british
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system has thrown up such and such a mass. i could i was ambassador to the u.k. has played down rumors that julian assange could be expelled from the building but after wiki leaks claimed that it could happen within days or even hours the whistle blowers been holed up inside since being granted asylum there six years ago seth he has been outside the embassy for us with details. wiki leaks dropped a bombshell on pace day nights claiming that julian assange could be expelled from the ecuadorian embassy just behind me in a matter of hours or days we can leak suggested that i am a papers could be used as a pretext now these papers allege that the ecuadorian president benefits from an offshore accounts in panama which the president strongly denies and although wiki leaks also denies any involvement in publishing the paper's murano house responded quite harshly to these allegations. too many times mr sanchez violates the cream
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and we reach with him and his attorney he can freely talk he can freely express himself but he cannot lie or hack private accounts or phone leaks and gauges and espionage and hacking snooping on phones even getting photos of my bedroom where i eat and how my wife and daughters and friends dawns ecuador hasn't issued any official statements on the wiki leaks statement when it was first reported i could dorian foreign minister actually called it a rumor and we're also hearing from a steamy ecuadorian official that said no decision has been made to expel chaining their son from the embassy back in two thousand and twelve a son she asked for asylum in the ecuadorian embassy the sexual assault allegations in sweden and the subsequent arrest warrant issued that now the swedish cases have since been trumped but they're still astounding warrants in the u.k. a bit sanch having to get bail now they're also fears that he could be extradited to the u.s. to face trial if wiki leaks reports of u.s.
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cuts of five documents his fear is that he will be pictured. then face execution. like in prison so extreme it. expects to be. is in trouble for supposing the truth about crimes and wars the strike. involved in. is a journalist and a publisher and is free speech needs to be defended we hope that ecuador doesn't for its sake violate its own asylum and its own asylum it's against the law he is a political i say live under the protection of international law it's against the law to be hunted down by our back to the people who want so what they're trying to do here to change is something illegal in a very underhanded way for now would be keeping you up to date on a feather development that happened right here in london outside the ecuadorian
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embassy. human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes that a song she's being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the united states i would suggest it's highly likely that the u.s. government has been putting pressure on the government of ecuador and we know that president moreno in ecuador himself is under huge pressure his popularity has slumped to about seventeen percent the new york times reported that president moreno had offered to hand over to the u.s. in exchange for debt relief so i think there is something much deeper going on here and it would be a great great shame if i could or bowed to american pressure and gave up the important principle that a citizen of its country a political refugee who'd been granted asylum should be handed over to a foreign power to face draconian charges cooked up by
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a secret grand jury the content of which is not known to anyone that would be a very very grave step to take says there's plenty of evidence implicating the lead in my radio if a songe does leave. so huge case one of the most important serious corruption cases in history proves we have a lot of proof it really really really is we have been secret out there free since you have come to my world and we have this is their current we know really who these are. a lot of. days where the. family for instance departments in major and ghost. are firmly told. really many. fine. things but when least account will be open we will be able to see where does the money go.
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must protect us. there is no joins us now and she's in the audience she described she has seen this and she saw her going into our constitution. will be descended into the next day no order and they go remember most probably most of that is right that we will see what they were making it will do for. conflict in libya is making headlines again the united nations secretary general has paid a visit to the war torn country this forces of the eastern libyan commander cully for half the advance on the capital tripoli has done no to this point militias supportive of the you went back to government in tripoli reportedly took prisoner one hundred to one hundred forty five soldiers from khalifa haftar its forces
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there's also been a battle over the airport in tripoli have tar forces move north coming as close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of silk of means after some fighting earlier on haft are ordered his forces tonight oh. open fire on civilians tripoli is controlled by the un backed government of prime minister fayyad is also raj the un chief antonio gutierrez. the deep going to. and the heavy heart. i still hope you could be possible to avoid a lot of the cold rotations in and out all tripoli. and the united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to uni fight the libyan institutions to briefly explain the situation in libya the countries in stand to rival governments have emerged one backed by the united nations and based in the western city of tripoli and another in the eastern city of
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tobruk as allied to huffed are. saudi arabia has almost completed its first nuclear reactor judging by satellite photographs that have been widely circulated in the media and studied by experts and these images can be seen on google earth and robert kelly former director of the international atomic energy agency said that there is quote very high probability they show the first saudi nuclear reactor riyadh is known to have been developing civilian nuclear energy but has not confirmed the location of the facility among world powers the main concern is that saudi arabia has not signed up to rules that prevent them from developing nuclear weapons. i can speak now it's a feature because the coup sir professor of history director of the nuclear studies institute at american university and he's also just released a new edition of his book the untold history of the united states which he coauthored with all of us started. peter we just mentioned robert kelly saying that
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the pictures which have been distributed on the internet show saudi arabia almost finishing its first nuclear power plant what is your view on that story. when there seems to be a consensus among the experts and saudi arabia is developing this first nuclear power plant you know that the saudis have said that they want to develop sixteen nuclear power plants the problem is that the saudis are not to be trusted the saudis do not have a good track record they have refused to sign the additional protocol that was put into place by the international atomic energy agency in the late one nine hundred ninety s. to make sure at least make it more difficult for countries to use their ability in nuclear energy to actually make nuclear weapons prince muhammad bin solomon is
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really running the show in saudi arabia has said that if iran does which means that . they already are developed in certain behind the scenes capability you know there are many countries that have the technological capability to develop nuclear weapons and things like japan which is just that's screwdrivers twist away from developing nuclear weapons the saudis have some technological capability they're looking to expand their nuclear energy development and the thing that frightens many observers including me is that they would actually use nuclear energy development as a cover for developing nuclear weapons if that happens in the middle east as. well the saudis say they don't intend to develop nuclear weapons but if that's the case why not be more open about what they claim is civilian nuclear energy. why not having the same safeguards in saudi arabia that we have now in iraq the same degree
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of inspections the same degree of surveillance and same degree of monitoring that would make all of us feel a lot more comfortable not that we want to see any of those countries have nuclear weapons but we certainly don't want to see this expand that the united states has still in this despite the fact that there is no bilateral pact between the us and the saudis the trump administration with rick perry as secretary of energy as sign permits seven permits repeal the if to allow american companies to have nuclear arrangements with saudi arabia and trump the ministration is salivating over the prospect of these vast nuclear energy deals with saudi arabia so they're turning a blind eye to all the problems with the saudi regime is just this week that congress the house of representatives voted to cut off funding u.s.
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funding for the saudi war in yemen and you know and we've seen other things that this regime has done in the past this is a regime that can never be trusted with a boat and there are some people who want to let them have nuclear energy right now we need much more stringent sense guards if we're going to even consider going down that road piece appreciate you coming on peter because that my guest star of the nuclear studies institute at american university. ok short break coming up more news on the way in just a moment. most
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people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand listens is just the dance the right questions demand the right answer. question.
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welcome back the president of brazil has caused widespread outrage during a visit to a holocaust museum in jerusalem on an official visit to israel narrow offered up some unconventional views on the political leanings of the nazi party. to do so so there is no doubt it's a socialist policy. it was the national socialist policies. followed you leftwing slovenian philosophy beliefs that comparing modern day socialist to the nazis. these new conservatives claim they're. they're basically now if the version of socialism they save is just replace this class struggle and we'd be green. ok. nonetheless one should get this is
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not the same those who are of not. is that and that's my head there are no there were no trials against groups in nazi germany you don't just to prove anything you are illegal for what you are by. being a jew. being one of the most disgusting strategy of contemporary. east again and to criminalize the modern let's end to rewrite history in the sense of saving. the action of the accusation that essentially just look for example and burn we send a stronger and comparing. what was in your house or simply go. about their normal astound social democracy you will see bernie sanders is not even
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of. the. united states congress has passed a bill against american involvement in saudi arabia's war in yemen both chambers invoked the so-called war powers act to stop the us from supporting riyadh without congressional approval but the motion has had to swerve some rather sneaky efforts to block it it is done of explains. fine print a few then your family and friends ever will and keep the u.s. sponsoring a war that has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis the us has passed a resolution to stop washington support for the saudi led complain in yemen for a very long time many have been desperately calling for this while the war hawks in congress have been equally desperate to prevent it from passing and the means that they've resorted to to derail any such initiative absolutely spectacular. when house democrats which condemned anti semitism this tragedy is merely one part
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of an upset in development that is a merged in recent years a resurgence of anti-semitism now what does anti semitism have to do with the war in yemen you are ask nothing but follow the hands the resolution passed in the house but was eventually reject yemen and that bit was yes the anti semitism amendment which house democrats didn't have the guts to argue to get rid of out of fear as to sounds in a phobic and it's not the only time when humans fate was decided by the small print . last year donald trump signed into law a bill which he described like this through fires floods and freezing weather we will always stand with the american farmers the farm bill doubles the amount of farmers that they can borrow to expand and improve their farms you sure sounded
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pleased in this clip yet i have my suspicion that concerns for american farmers have little to do with it because this bill appeared on his table with an attachment blocking the vote on yemen the house rules committee voted to advance the manage our wolves act that lifted a ban on hunting gray wolves and yes blocked a vote on the u.s. involvement in the yemeni war which is an absolute outrage if you ask me because look in these big sad puppy eyes how on earth can you allow the hunting of a creatures beautiful as this but in all seriousness though congress finally passing the yemen bill without any cabinets is a major milestone indeed but it is said to appear on donald trump's table next and just take a wild guess what's going to happen if you truly care about your many lives you'd support the saudi led effort to prevent yemen from turning into a puppet state of the corrupt british islamic republic of iran so yeah when you fix
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all the farm is misery and manage all your wolves you always have mr president to rely on. intervened in yemen in twenty fifteen after the procyon the president of the time was ousted by who the rebels serve lound as head of the international action center doesn't think it will pass the legislation. are the resolution will very much likely go back again they'll be other votes and other efforts president trump has absolutely tied himself to the feudal monarchy. and to the hollande been done so there is a certain level of international embarrassment the saudi failure to to crush the movement in yemen and that's what's really behind this vote while the vote was important and at least pushing back the total and overwhelming u.s.
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support for saudi arabia's criminal war against yemen it's a war that would not one day of it would be possible without u.s. support naval blockade air refueling for years it's been four years of disaster for the people of. the former u.s. vice president joe biden has confronted growing claims against him of sexual harassment is issued a video to explain his behavior and the knowledge that it could make some people uncomfortable but it seems that everybody has been taking his message seriously. for grown men and women you can do to.
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one hundred million woman. after trump published the so-called doctored version of the video biden was quick to fire back saying the president was on the job as always the model of the woman who's accused biden of misconduct has found her own behavior under scrutiny the journalist for the atlantic highlighted the woman's old posts about russia and vladimir putin quickly provoking theories that she could be a russian agent legal media analyst lionel thinks is some believe above the media use the word doctored for a joke video. i don't think it's doctored i think it's clear because that
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makes as much sense is dr ed said you know it's a medium and it said take off it's photoshop remember those jim jabs and people. back it's not doctored it's a it's a parody my god this is the straw photos less somebody talks about you know up a pat on the back we're talking about standing instead of say hi how are you like boy it's good to see it neal good to see your pal what if i would up and grabbed your face and my hands i mean it's it's it's bizarre. it's coming your way and how often i see that.
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young elephants have come to. myspace and he proved so putting incidents because said meet the baby elephants often do see their mother as being killed but also. i do believe and laugh and smile and i see it in these little ones they hold. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race and is often spirit how's that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. in a partisan speech sets the republican agenda for the twenty's one the zero actions but it's
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a different agenda from what do you know only last week. which agenda will this party go with we'll explore that topic on this edition of. the new politicking on larry king author and this weekend threaten to shut down the us mexico border as part of his tough stance on illegal immigration on tuesday however the president said health care reform will be saved for the twenty twenty g.o.p. agenda and his border shutdown threat went from imminent to uncertain as advisors warn trump of the economic disaster a lockdown would cause so what is the president's and his party's agenda going to be the twenty's when he was begin there with the political power in dallas george c. republican strategist and in chattanooga tennessee brian joyce host the brian joyce
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show on talk radio w g o w f.m. ok george you have to surprising many people last week including his own party with a pledge to immediately replaced the affordable care act the president backed tracks and says wait will the twenty's when the election what happened george. well it was a real head scratcher of first larry and then i came to the conclusion that he's a red meat chatter and i kind of wish he pivot to the ten to twenty percent of the electorate that are open minded and fair and kind of more in the middle and with that with that group he needs to be talking about jobs and the strength of the economy and how he's promoting american interests overseas with strength and vigor whether it's nato not paying for their obligations medically and health care reform was dead on arrival with this congress because the democratic house is going to block anything you tries to do so i think he was more posturing than doing any
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anything serious but obviously we all had a serious caper case of whiplash last week watching the back and forth and very honest answer brian what did you make of this whole thing well i think the problem larry with repeal and replace is the.
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