wiki leaks obtained what it claims is a press strategy agreed upon by apple door and the u.k. to be used in the event its founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. for the fueling rumors the whistleblower is about to be booted out of his embassy refuge in london. the u.n. security council calls on libya's rival factions to avoid bloodshed as a commander from the east of the country advances history towards the capital. limits of archer the current injured i'm not sure but he was from. and as israel prepares for elections with some of those vying for the prime minister posts and sparked controversy with their tough anti palestinian platform.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q well in the russian capital thanks for joining us this hour. wiki leaks claims to have obtained a press strategy agreed on by aqua door in the u.k. in the event its founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. the whistleblower was granted asylum in ecuador us embassy in london almost seven years ago rumors are circulating that he's about to be kicked out and potentially handed by britain to the americans according to wiki leaks ecuador will claim a songe broke the terms of his asylum with the u.k. giving assurances it won't let the u.s. sentence him to death that's precisely what the fate of songe fears 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 tito would hand him over a sonder supporters say the whistleblower is doing important work and must be protected but it was not possible to mistreat someone this way just because he revealed by their beach and powerful people and as a 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 world and they're not defending democracy and. the united states is is. trying to silence people of the good of our revealing what's happening and julian signage is just the person who made it possible for those people to be heard. much has changed and ecuador since i was granted asylum and it's a london embassy i must seven years ago including relations between kyoto and washington go take that thread. thank you for your gracious welcome shown to be

my wife sharon on our first visit to ecuador we are. relationship. what a beautiful video what a beautiful welcome maybe that's the reason the us vice president was pacified enough not to call out names when he brought up the dark times in the u.s. equity or 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 government 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 sunshine. to guarantee that he's not the extra dices to the country which could put his life in danger who life of mr sons is a true is a life sentence which is being dead while alive under lenin maranoa who was 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 is doing. what it is 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 man 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 that led

to nothing but today it's clear he's not a fan of assad yet us bases to get out too many times mr sanchez violates the cream and we keep leaks and gauges and spin arjun how cute. as a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafa 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 chrissy. 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 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 the box 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 believes aslant is being used as a bargaining chip in relations between ecuador and the us 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 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 ecuador bowed 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 to coney 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. just behind me you can see a live feed from the french capital where yellow vests protesters are gathering for a nother march it's the twenty first consecutive weekend of anti-government protests across france ahead of this the country's constitutional council an old government plans to ban certain individuals from protesting saying the measure would grant police excessive powers but other parts of the crackdown on the rioters were approved as parties charlotte difference he explains. a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional council has ruled that named yellow vests protesters column 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 forties 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 them. because. streets destroyed buildings satellite calls a move just like girls torched the damages costs of two hundred million euros to the french economy with business is tearing their hair out even french banks waded into the debate calling and. 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. but while some protesters may see this decision by the constitutional council as

a win it's not all music today is the council of held other controversial elements of the breakers law meaning that more severe penalties for organizers of new thrice demonstrations and for those who cover their faces during violent protests well police now have the right to 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 yellow bus movement began last november driven by rising fuel prices and the decline in living standards. says the protesters aims are too big to succeed lynch mobs fall into this drain of keep going for some we. are going to beat the people of this protest oh. please no didn't do we. need to go to the old one who will. be there we should never

forget the day. oh oh. all the people receive and still perceive this. world 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 deep concern that the military to the call to. the forces to halt all military movements meanwhile a commander from eastern libya khalifa haftar is now close to tripoli and has ordered his forces to take the capital he went back to government based in tripoli carried out several airstrikes targeting have to us positions than cohen has more

on the situation. our forces moved north coming as close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of sukkot homies after some fighting earlier on how tar ordered his forces to not open fire on civilians tripoli is controlled by the un backed government of prime minister five years of the raj the u.n. chief antonio gutierrez says he is leaving libya with quote heavy heart and deep concern i still hope to be possible to avoid love the whole front in and out all tripoli. and united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to uni fight the libyan institutions to briefly explain the situation in libya the country has 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 that's allied to huffed are former u.s. diplomat jim believes the current chaos in libya is an inevitable result of the western intervention from eight years ago. this is what happens when you have violent regime change from the outside in a 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 are the ones that lead this this merry campaign for democracy and democracy for the libyan people and what has 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 vanquish 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 as polling day looms one predominantly arab party is begging voters not to elect those who have blood on their hands something some contenders are boasting about in their campaign videos. well clearly. that's mary their government those are sort of. nothing new but in the shadow government i hope they forgot now because i see. nothing but people. didn't she yes you know the. one of the runners in the race for the premiership is former i.d.f. chief benny gantz he released

a series of short videos under the slogan only the strong when in them he boasts about killing over thirteen hundred terrorists including hamas military chief and beams about returning parts of gaza to the stone ages and the two thousand and fourteen bombing campaign this comes at a time of heightened tensions between israel and palestine last week gaza marked the one year anniversary of the so-called march of return since the protests began in march of two thousand and eighteen one hundred ninety five people have been killed and almost twenty one thousand injured israel maintains that comedies arise because of the actions of hamas or in self-defense. the.

sudden him or a professor of political science at university says the shift to the right in israeli politics is being facilitated by geo political factors. more towards the right. and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around seven hundred thousand two hundred thousand settlers in the west 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 i think know what days with elections or not the elections but with elections it would appear more to gain the support of. 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 quite clearly. about europe they said it 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 report say saudi arabia has almost completed its first nuclear reactor which could go into operation within a year why not after this short break. in the world of political matchmaking the european union has long put values before

wealth as its most desirable attribute. to the time it takes for the e.u. to make a policy decision china can set up a whole new industry values that's attractive to potential. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back 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 a year riyadh is known to have been developing civilian nuclear energy but world powers are concerned a saudi arabia has not signed up to rules that prevent them from producing nuclear weapons rad says that it has no plans to use their 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 abdullah's is center for science and technology the purpose and in terms 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 that strongly criticized 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 they are in full compliance with international law we discuss the issue with peter coors next director of the nuclear studies institute at the american university he says saudi arabia's activities should be closely monitored by international nuclear inspectors. you know and it's complying with the nuclear deal. why not have it 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 monitor. hopefully the world's nuclear fuel suppliers will not provide fuel for 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 and the thing that frightens many observers leading 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 sastre. and investigation into the deadly a spike or shootout in the u.s. has been closed despite hundreds of arrests having been made there have been no convictions over the killings of nine people at a texan restaurant in two thousand and fifteen and it seems the case has turned up more than just tensions between the two biker gangs and volved.

any effort to charge and prosecute these individual charges at this time would only result in further waste of time effort and resigning says the troy district attorney failed to take that action the reason that i do not know to this day. i absolutely disagree with the overall result as one of several statements and

accusations within mr jones as press release however it is so to his decision on how to proceed with any case in the district attorney's office. over two hundred migrants have clashed with the right place now the northern greek city of thessaloniki authorities were attacked with stones as they guarded the border into northern macedonia on thursday refugees had gathered outside a local migrant camp circulated on social media saying the crossing would be opened the interior ministry has since denied these claims urging people not to attempt any illegal entry into the neighboring balkan state meanwhile in athens five hundred people were prevented from getting on trains headed to the border area. that's our headline news break down for this hour but i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest thanks for tuning in.

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business i'll see you then. try to have the courage to back to the night this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents so thank you for joining me while the entire country focuses on trump and his book blue marie very few seem to care they are organized murder machines continue their work around the world that's the term i like to use instead of military organized human murder machine you know that has a nice ring to it just kind of rolls off the tongue got it. doesn't tearing sound so boring and banal right merely terry sounds like

a super lame millipede you met at a party at military over the. as an accountant if i hear one more capital gains tax joe i'm going to kill myself. so let's just go along with organized human murder machine shall i ten months ago i covered how twenty one trillion dollars had gone unaccounted for at the pentagon over the past twenty years don't try to think about the number twenty one trillion because you'll pass out and hit your head on a desk ok if your salary is forty thousand dollars a year in order to earn it twenty one trillion it would take you five hundred and twenty five million years. at which point you can even enjoy the new jet ski you bought because you're a brain in a jar. since i last brought you that report there has been a little more coverage of it the nation magazine did an article for and did another article in just a few weeks ago and that tell you wrote about it in-depth in rolling stone then in

a few a few months ago i brought you another report about the huge number of whistleblowers who have been retaliated against at the pentagon according to the government accountability office the g.a.o. but you already know this i've covered it before so why am i bringing it up again well now the g.a.o. has come out with a new report showing the total number of whistleblower complaints over the past five years at the department of defense sorry organized human murder machine and it's nearly of thousands. oh i'm sorry pearlie the wrong it's ten thousand whistleblowers come what what i'm trying to do what oh. what nearly all hundred thousand come on that's just stupid is that is this robbie robbie you know you got numbers did you do it but man i swear to god show me show me day show me to put up the quote from the government accountability office put it up that if you're so sure robert i know it's not funny and i don't know how do you

put up the cover.