into russia right jeanne little sign. men they know is bad wolf. wiki leaks claims door and the u.k. have agreed on a joint media blitz to be deployed if its founder julian assange is extradited to the u.s. as rumors abound about the whistleblowers expulsion from his london embassy refuge . the u.n. security council calls on libya's rival factions to avoid bloodshed as a commander from the east of the country advances his troops towards the capital tripoli. and fill them with drugs or the usual nothing but in the summer. and as israel prepares for elections some of those vying for the prime ministerial post sparked controversy with their tough and i posted new platforms.

you're watching our team international bringing you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. when he leaks claims to have obtained a press strategy agreed on by ecuador and 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 now rumors are circulating that he's about to be kicked out and potentially headed by britain to the americans according to wiki leaks i could or 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 the fate of fears is in store for him if he's 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 kyoto would hand him over just 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 but they're big 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 just bending democracy in. the united states is is. trying to silence people for the good of our revealing what's happening and julian the signage is just that the person who made it possible for those people to be heard much has changed in ecuador since assad was granted asylum and it's london embassy almost seven years ago including relations between cuba and washington are trying to take up that

thread. thank you for your gracious welcome that you have shown to my wife sharon on our very first visit to ecuador we are running. the place. and i just. know 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. equity or friendship while visiting president lead in morocco in quito price your election our nations did experience ten difficult years where our people always felt close 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 raffle korea sheltered julian assange what a slap in washington's face that was imo though with given diplomatic asylum to do

in the sunshine to exhaust an old means to guarantee that he's not extradited to the third countries which. that is launched and dangerous who wants of misters sons is a true is a life sentence which is being lived under lenin maranoa who was praised by outgo and leader chorale at the election the tide has clearly changed mr carette even ended up calling his successor a traitor absolute. 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 moran oh 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 would

lead 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 had keep. as a real us imperialism hating tough guy rafa chorale was known as a staunch ally of it as well as nicolas maduro well for ecuador's current president someone else quite well known as the true leader in caracas. i have spoken with president hu. i've invited him 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 help 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 so it seems it didn't take long since the right man came in human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes 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 handover to the us and 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 the country a political refugee being 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. just behind me you can see a lie feed from the french capital where yellow bus protesters are on the march again it's the twenty first consecutive weekend of anti-government protests across france had 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 artists devinsky explains. a big slap in the face for the french government as the country's constitutional council has ruled that named yellow vests protesters can't be banned from taking part in the continued demonstrations the canceled the last word on this said plans to give the power to authority would give officials excessive latitude the provisions leave therefore it is too much leeway in assessing of the reasons did me justify the ban so called anti breakers' law was

passed through france as part of measures to try and control the weekend protests. it's that have rocked the country protests that often disintegrate into writing and see as clashes with the place so much so that some cities have banned them because . because because. because. i. have. streets destroyed buildings satellite cars and motorcycles torched the damage has cost of two hundred million euros so 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 essential 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 when it's not all music to that is the council about held other controversial

elements of the break as new meaning the. 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 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 first 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 these dreams of seeking. gold. yes they pull this protest. really slow. and you know the old women who will. be there we should never forget that

they will be. opened up. all of these people will just leave and still perceive. the. 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 activity called on the forces to halt all military movement meanwhile a commander from eastern libya khalifa haftar is now close to tripoli and has ordered his forces to take the capital the u.n. backed government based interplay carried out several air strikes targeting have positions cohen has more on the situation. huffed our forces moved north coming as

close as forty kilometers to tripoli by taking the village of silk 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 you will be possible to avoid luvvie also take in and that all tripoli. and united nations remain. available to facilitate any political solution able to uni fight the libyan institution 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 as allied to huffed are russia's foreign minister speaking at a media briefing with his egyptian counterpart said all sides should calm down and start talking. to refrain from pointing the finger regarding the latest escalation in libya but the reason for the kind of crisis in libya is nato intervention in two thousand and eleven and since then it's become a failed state so i think that laying the blame at one side's dools of trying to shield the other is counterproductive we should urge all libyans to lay down their guns and come to the negotiating table former u.s. diplomat jim john trust believes the current chaos in libya isn't a new inevitable result of the western 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 the 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 this where one government or the other thing 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 as polling day looms one predominately arab party is begging voters not to like those who have blood on their hands something some contenders are boasting about in their campaign videos.

you got was like a that's mary and government that are sort of. nothing new but you miss on the whole thing for god now because i see. nothing but this is exactly what she did she will. 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 the end he boasts about killing over thirteen hundred terrorists including a hamas military chief and beams about returning parts of gaza to the stone age in 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 two thousand and eighteen one hundred and ninety five people have been killed and almost twenty one thousand injured israel maintains the casualties arise

because of the actions of hamas or in self-defense. sog nimer professor of political science at the university says the shift to the right in israeli politics is being facilitated by geo political factors. the whole israeli public is standing more towards the right and the right wing. and the other reason which is equally important we are talking about around between seven hundred

thousand and eight hundred thousand settlers in the west bank and those that have a huge influence on the israeli parties and will dissuade you society itself so the tendency towards the right tendency for more violence against the palestinians is a quite natural thing 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. special about europe they said it's quite 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 sparking fears it may be looking to develop military nukes more on that after the break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more somehow i want to. let you go right to be close it's like the full story in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the lives of our. city. 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. reality is known to have been developing civilian nuclear energy but world

powers are concerned saudi arabia has not signed up to rules that prevent them from producing nuclear weapons route says it has no plans to use the power for military purposes we would like to clearly and categorically deny the claims regarding the nuclear facility recently set up at the king abdullah's is center for science and technology the purpose of the in terms of the 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 me and plant and confirmed that they are in full compliance with international law. we discussed the issue with peter cruz new director of nuclear studies institute at the american university he says saudi arabia's nuclear

activities should be closely monitored by international inspectors. you know. why do you feel. why not have the same safeguards in saudi arabia that we have now in iran the same degree of inspections the same degree of surveillance and same degree of. 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 are 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 sastre . that as well as opposition leader one guy joe is vowing what he rather basically

describes as new tactical actions and his bid to oust president nicolas maduro starting though with something we've seen before more nationwide protests on saturday why doe's new master plan has been dubbed operation freedom and will seek to mobilize the country against the government the pretender also intends to tour of venezuela to rouse up support and as he regards as a usurper cordell will set up special entering your circulation committees which will work to spread his message far and wide. open government isn't facing pressure just from within but also from without the us 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 owned by venezuela's main state owned oil cern also banned american businesses from dealing directly with that firm earlier at the us but blacklisted more than one hundred venezuelan officials and organizations journalist paul dobson says the latest sanctions won't actually make much of a difference. be the latest round of sanctions showing what i would not have a great impact here in venezuela venezuela currently export 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 apply the same measure to for example when it's well an oil export to china we are increasing every day and have a serious impact on venezuela 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 or covert is definitely a problem and so would i think have to be taken in a very real threat by all of those who are looking at the venezuela situation. and investigation into the deadly a spike or shootout in the u.s. has been closed despite hundreds of arrests having been made there been no convictions over the killings of nine people at a texan restaurant in two thousand and fifteen and it seems the case has thrown up more than just tensions between the two biker gangs involved.

any effort to charge and prosecute these individual charges at this time would only result in further waste of time effort and resources 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 well as 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. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. young elephants have come to us after. especially brutal pledging incidents because the baby elephants often to see their mothers not only be killed but also be cut off and voters. i do smile i see it.

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