wiki leaks obtains what it claims is a press strategy agreed on by ecuador and the u.k. to be used in the event its assault is extradited to the u.s. further fueling rumors the whistleblower is about to be booted out all the embassy rescue and. the u.n. security council called on libya's rival factions to avoid bloodshed as a commander from the east of the country advances his troops towards the capital tripoli. not rule very much trouble. as full elections some of those vying for the prime minister ariel post controversy

with that tough palestinian homes. one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me and i'll come to the program wiki leaks claims to have obtained a press strategy agreed on by a door on the u.k. in the event its founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. the whistleblower was granted asylum in ecuador as embassy in london almost seven years ago and we do have live pictures that you can see behind me right outside the embassy where supporters of banners and they have been groups of supporters going past the embassy intermittently throughout the day and we've been watching not so live pictures from outside the ecuadorian embassy in london room is also creating that is about to be kicked out and potentially. by britain to the americans

according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim a sergeant broke the terms of his asylum with the u.k. giving assurances it won't let the u.s. sentence him to death precisely the fate is in store for him if he is extradited with the u.s. still furious about wiki leaks releasing classified material ecuador's foreign minister meanwhile took to twitter to dismiss rumors that quito would hand him over a song to supporters say the whistleblower is doing important work and must be protected. it's not possible to mistreat someone this way just because he revealed by their breach and powerful people in the publisher he has revealed all kinds of human rights violations war crimes this information needs to get out united states says that they're defending democracy around the. united states is. trying to silence people.

who are revealing what's happening and julian assange is just the person who made it possible for those people to be heard much has changed in ecuador since a songe was granted asylum in its london embassy almost seven years ago including relations between quito and washington. takes up the threat. thank you for the gracious welcome you have shown to be my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are putting. into place trip i just. never knew what a beautiful video what a beautiful welcome maybe that's the reason the u.s. vice president was pacified enough not to call out names when he brought up the dark times in the u.s. ecuador friendship while visiting president lenin moran oh in quito price your election our nations did experience ten difficult years where our people always

folk loose but our governments drifted apart though that was clearly a jab at someone who proudly stood up against america's whip cracking hand while in charge of the small south american nation just think of how rafa korea sheltered julian a songe what a slap in washington's face that was imo though with given diplomatic asylum to do in the sun softly exhausting all means to guarantee that he's not extradited to third countries which could put his life in danger who life of misters sons is a true is a life sentence which is being dead while alive under lenin maranoa who was are radically praised by outgoing leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly changed mr correia even ended up calling his successor a traitor absolutely. to the united states. let's look at what he could have meant by that. the first signal joyous

could soon be shown the door at the embassy in london was when the american media reported president maranoa had once met donald trump's former campaign boss paul van afford it was claimed mr moran no was trying to negotiate concessions from the u.s. like debt relief and exchange for. kicking the whistleblower out back then would lead to nothing but today it's clear he's not a fan of assad yet us business and you know that too many times mr sanchez violates the cream and we keep leaks and gauges an espionage and how cute. as a real us imperialism hating tough guy raffle carette was known as a staunch ally of it as well as nicolas maduro while for ecuador's current president to someone else quite well known as the true leader in caracas i have

spoken with president hu on going i've invited him to ecuador to receive the affection and support of a people he loved more crecy. mr chorale was on a mission to rid his country of uncle sam's folks step by step he first refused to extend the lease of an ecuadorian air base to the americans beyond two thousand and nine and then told all u.s. military attash to leave the country and two thousand and fourteen only a few years later sam is coming back the governments of ecuador and the united states decided to resume bilateral military cooperation training and assistance to contribute to ecuador's ability to combat shared threats. wonder corrals moves were annoying those in charge in d.c. to say the least so starting from two thousand and fourteen millions of us aid cash stopped flowing ketones way under mr moran oh the bucks of freedom are slowly

starting to find their way back today i'm pleased to announce that the united states who support that effort to root out corruption merely want to have million dollars to support your efforts. to end corruption and strengthen civil society in ecuador. it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in. human rights campaigner peter tatchell believe this songe is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the us i would suggest it's highly likely that the us 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 is strong 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 it could all be proud to american pressure and gave up the important principle that a citizen of its country a political refugee would be granted asylum should be handed over to a foreign power to face draconian charges cooked up by a secret grand jury the content of which is not known to anyone that would be a very very grave step to take. france is expected to see the twenty first consecutive recount of antigovernment yellow vest protest on saturday and of this the country's constitutional council and not a government plans to ban certain individuals from protesting saying the measure would it grant to police excessive powers but other parts of the crackdown on the rioters were approved as artie's charlotte do penske explains. a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional council has ruled

that named yellow vests protesters card to be banned from taking part in the continued demonstrations the council the last word on this said plans to give the power to authority would give officials excessive latitude the provisions leave their forty's too much leeway in assessing of the reasons that may justify the bad so called anti breakers' law was passed here in france as part of measures to try and control the week the protests that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and see as clashes with the police so much so that some cities have banned the. streets destroyed buildings set alight cause

a move to cycles torched the damage has cost of two hundred million euros to the french economy with businesses tearing their hair out even french banks waded into the debate calling an end for more than four months hundreds of local branches through central links and local life has been targeted vandalized pillaged and bank offices physically threatened it is time for everyone to condemn acts committed against the bank we must quickly put a stop to this unbridled and unjustified violence and it's not just the destruction of towns and cities that has made the headlines since november seventeenth thousands of people have been injured some suffering life changing injuries. does it feel to to feel to think.

that. while some protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as a when it's not all music to their is the council of held other controversial elements of the break is your meaning more severe penalties for organizers of north royce demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right just search individuals and vehicles in the demonstrations in a bid to prevent objects being brought in that could be used as weapons. arty paris. the other vast movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and a decline in living standards for the office says the protesters aims are too vague

to succeed. lynch mobs fall into these graves of. old ordinary be yes they protest protest i would be pleased to know even if you wished to remain neutral to the old man who will. be there we should never forget that they will be. opened up. all of the people will just leave and deal is this really an old big no good liberal establishment. well powers have called on the warring sides in libya to cease hostilities and deescalate the german ambassador to the un gave a statement after an emergency meeting of the security council. the members of the security council expressed their deep concern that the military activity called on

ellen the forces to halt all military movement meanwhile a commander from eastern libya coming for half an hour close to tripoli and has ordered his forces to take the capital reports say the u.n. backed government based in tripoli carried out several air strikes targeting after his position down cohen has more on the situation. have tar forces move north coming as close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of so after some fighting earlier on how after ordered his forces to not open fire on civilians tripoli is controlled by the un backed government of prime minister five years of. the u.n. chief antonio gutierrez says he is leaving libya with quote heavy heart and deep concern i still hope to be possible for its bloody also in and out all tripoli. and united nations remain. a failure.

to facilitate any political solution able to uni fight the levy an institution to briefly explain the situation in libya the country's been torn apart by warring factions since late libyan leader moammar gadhafi was ousted by nato backed militia men in two thousand and eleven since then two 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 tobruk as allied to huffed are only u.s. diplomat james believes the current chaos in libya is an inevitable result of the blast and intervention eight years ago. this is what happens when you have violent regime change from the outside in the country and happened in libya in two thousand and eleven this is this is squarely on the doorstep of david cameron nicolas sarkozy and of course hillary clinton barack obama they were the ones that led this

this merry campaign for democracy and democracy for the libyan people and once it got them but years of chaos years of killing years of civil war this is simply the latest round in it whether we will see some early resolution to those where one government or the other frank which is its rival stands to be seen but until then i don't see anything good happening in this country unfortunately. israelis are gearing up to elect their next prime minister and his parting dame's one predominantly arab party is banking to his not to elect those who have blood on their hands something some contend is a boasting about in the campaign that he is. he was not going out to marry them government that are sort of her i mean i'm not

going to buy you miss i will govern i hope they invite god not me they can i think about the thing that made me or they suddenly say this is this is not a village but it's an incentive. to school yes you know that. one of the run is in the race for the prime ministership is full of i.d.f. chief benny gantz he released a series of days on the slogan only the strong when and then he boasts about killing of a thirteen hundred terrorists including a hamas military chief and beams about returning parts of gaza to the stone ages in the twenty fourteen bombing campaign this comes at a time of heightened tensions between israel and palestine last week the one year anniversary of the so-called march of return since the protests began in march twenty eighth one hundred ninety five people have been killed and almost twenty nine thousand injured israel maintains that casualties arise because of the actions of hamas or in self-defense. was.

saddam a professor of political science had to bedside to university says the shift to the ranks in israeli politics is being facilitated by geo political factors. the whole israeli general public is standing more towards the right and that i twigs are flourishing and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around between seven hundred thousand two hundred thousand settlers and that was the bank and those they have

a huge influence on the israeli parties and on the israeli society itself so the tendency towards the right tendency for more violence against the palestinians is a quite natural thing you know what is regardless with elections or knuckle elections but with elections it would appear more to gain the support of the right wing votes so they have to show that they are tough on even the government this is part of sometimes the hypocrisy of the international community is quite clear that when we are talking about europe they said that quite clearly a lot of interest as europeans with the americans is far more important to us than the human rights in palestine so it's quite a quite you know a huge message to the army to the israeli public that you can do whatever you like with the person who can violate however you want and no one is going to hold you accountable for that. saudi arabia has almost completed its first nuclear reactor

which could go into operation within a year more on that story after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure. i'll see you then. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about

football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way what is of the. images have emerged online allegedly showing saudi arabia's first nuclear reactor experts say the facility could start operations within a year. i would guess they could have it all done with the roof in place and the electricity turned on within the year riyadh is known to have been developing a civilian nuclear energy but world powers are concerned as saudi arabia has not signed up to rules that prevent them from producing nuclear weapons riyadh says

it's no plans to use nuclear power for military purposes. we would like to clearly and categorically deny the claims regarding the nuclear energy facility recently set up with the king of outdoors this center for science and technology that purpose and intent of this small facility is to engage in strictly peaceful scientific research educational and training activities in full compliance with international agreements in this matter and in coordination with the international nuclear energy agency. saudi arabia is one of the countries advance strongly criticised iran for developing its nuclear energy sector accusing it of intending to produce nuclear weapons but the international atomic energy agency has visited iranian plants and confirmed that they're in full compliance with international law we discussed the issue with nick a director of the nuclear studies institute at the american university he says saudi arabia's nuclear activities should be closely monitored by international

nuclear inspectors. and is complying with the nuclear deal why not have the same safeguards in saudi arabia that we have now in iraq the same degree of inspections the same degree of surveillance and same degree of mind or. hopefully the world's nuclear suppliers group fights you want from saudi arabia until it does come into compliance with the protocols the saudis have some technological capability they're looking to expand their nuclear energy development and that 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 and. venezuela's opposition leader. is vowing what he rather vaguely describes as new

tactical actions in his bid to oust president nicolas want to start though with something we've seen before more nationwide protests on saturday quite as new master plan has been dubbed operation freedom and will seek to mobilize the country against the government the pretend also intends to talk venezuela to ross of support and as he regards i'm a doer as a usurper why don't we'll set up special anti usurpation committees which will work to spread his message far and wide. but maduro's government isn't facing pressure just from within but also from without the u.s. has imposed a new round of sanctions once again targeting the country's oil industry the venezuelan government has labeled the decision cynical. the government of the bolivarian republic categorically rejects the latest us attack on the venezuelan oil industry and its economic sovereignty venezuela believes it's unacceptable

cynical and criminal of donald trump's administration to take measures that violate international law as well as economic and commercial principles the penalties target thirty four oil tankers are owned by venezuela's main state owned or concern they also ban american businesses from dealing directly with that earlier u.s. blacklisted more than one hundred venezuelan officials and organizations journalist paul dobson says the latest sanctions won't actually make much difference. the latest round of sanctions sure what it will not have a great impact here in venezuela venezuela currently exports some of queen twenty thousand to fifty thousand barrels of oil a day to cuba a much more pressing measure from the white house would have been to go by the same measure to for example when it's well an oil exports to china which are increasing every day i have a serious impact on venezuelan books more across the political divide here in venezuela military action it is merely rhetoric and it's not seriously being

considered by the white house however when you look at the history of u.s. pressure in latin america and other areas of the world we can see that military action very overt but definitely prominent so would it have to be taken into a very real threat by all of those who are looking at the venezuela situation. as. it will take over and around thirty minutes with more updates but stay with this documentary called when an elephant smiles which is next you know not international going underground if you're watching us. and you can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to try to be

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