newsagent see here moscow let me see what they've got to say about these different various lines coming out now as more of this is being heard yesterday hearing more of the background on which other to say at the moment he's been arrested because ecuadorian president in marino confirming on thursday that the the country had withdrawn his asylum status so that's the key thing where the police are but allowed to go into these sort of hallowed grounds of the embassy in the first place in the country to draw on the asylum status from a sarge the founder of the wiki leaks were supplying website over his violations of international conventions and daily life protocols you may recall it was not long ago when i was into that we're hearing more and more of a clampdown about him such as the hollow feeling of the well we had in the embassy there initially well. but it got less and less of a welcome as good time went on as the weeks went on as the day when i was the most well known as the knee is went on and this is the end into a police where a son has been residing in that. if you want to put it that way in hiding there more in the ecuadorian embassy in london for the last several years he's currently

in custody in london this is what the sputnik say in the russian news agency and remain there before being brought to court because what i've told you is well in a sovereign decision ecuador withdrew the asylum status to julian list sanchez after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily life protocols i'd love to speak some of those for sure we are going to go back to an expert on list tell me more about what that means it sounds very heavy weighty but you know what is a violation of international convention and daily life protocol they say we do know that he had his internet quote various times to try to stop him publishing getting in touch with people outside the mall and through wiki leaks to it and i was saying her hair what we got here let me read it before read it to you julie's son is did not walk out of the embassy wiki leaks twitter confirming that yes we are an embassy invited the british police into the embassy and he was immediately arrested and there were some cameras trained on this. embassy. for the last few hours in

fact for the last few days there was a hint that something was up. this is fiction follows reports that the stray and of course he is the founder of wiki leaks. could be handed over to british authorities ecuador had denied those reports initially and said it had no intention is tripping with his protected status but apparently there's been a further decision they're made in quito. relationship with the ecuadorian officials appear increasingly strained since that so current president came to power in twenty seventeen his internet connection is a service cut off of march last year officials say the move was to stop her son from interfering in the affairs of other sovereign states or they've had a clothesline and it must have been awkward relationship and they can just imagine it for how many years he's been holed up there knowing that actually you know you're less and less welcome. in december twenty seventh in ecuador gave mr a sign of citizenship and was preparing to apparently appoint into

a diplomatic post in russia but the british government made it clear that if he left the embassy he would not have diplomatic immunity a lot changed this december twenty seventh mean as you can see what's changed in the a year and a half he did strike to sue the ecuadorian government october claiming at the ecuadorian government was violating his rights to background here to remind you you know this guy i don't need to tell you you know we. you know we created wiki leaks is a vehicle to. get people to publish secret materials anonymously and how big that was done here so much of it these days but what headline make it out was in its day it gained enormous attention in twenty ten releasing those tropes of classified united states documents and videos about the wars in afghanistan and iraq and confidential cables that angered so many people. that we sent among diplomats that a lot of people said nope shouldn't have been made public but were then there was the story about the army private bradley manning of course now known as a chelsea manning convicted of law. king that collection of files and sentenced to

thirty five years in prison but barack obama of course famously commuted the sentence of to mismanage several seven years to the twenty six campaign wiki leaks released thousands of e-mails stolen from the computer systems of the d.n.c. here remember that i mean this so much to this story has done so much over the years. it's going to go now. is out of the embassy what is going to happen to julian assange jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign secretary saying julian assange is no hero as u.k. sees it and no one is above the law he's hidden from the truth for years well here's what the ecuadorian president this is all developing thanks for being with us president lemme relative said just before a soldier's arrest. witnesses it is all based in italy were so that he had to elude isn't guilty of not respect also that his principles deliver to international implicitly. considered

a lot of is per person without notice to look at the. killer conduct evil spirit also you can see where this unusual in a sense was a clever seal is this quote this is getting there someplace this would be because you have the other encounter that ecuador is sort of thought a lot closer to seal because committing to my list and the ability to assume. the singular sounds is interested he will be able. to get on that in that. you know seal diplomatic will all together so your sense in the years we lost. he is mrs has . got a little models to give us a sense yet we have to be honest he was he's got us humans to do it and but i long . for that equal you know this young you think that most of the community kids will mean more killing it see here with people because. it was all cultural because humans in the medical equipment that are so that you so you are sent. bulow great

development that is pushing this explicitness can be still is so brasil diplomatic will either correct us. because he will see to it but as we can see in this killer spirit the does not must be looked at the. link that we need to go through to simply lose it was established as we seem to live in people sitting in a row that was merely sea level or that we keep least fifty local mentally ill but he can. look at this as you say you're a saint and to see this person is just public assume this and copy the mother of preachers getting the mood book because secular science see it being political we can lease people tend to be sure this is true because as you in assume your two sisters. recalled as you will actually meet. people's electrode because it is no picnic ito's look at us come out to say what you are quoting the oldest are going to even after the while the is the last of the poem atika abyssinia will seem to me so out of this it will never look back other

mean person who says that incommunicado even the reports of other polling but other people know what we call classical greek acquisitive you mean terrorists will. cook a little less condition is it a seal you say you are since the man doing that is tense because he does it protocol the communities in total scuffles with the other is corresponding to level of some liquid or in the lean a little comparably so also there is little man those illiterate of us without solidity i remember a ten year look at india because the usa is no city into the ghetto it's the least you won't buy used. to us or be that it would be it'll be of nobody. in complete mental this is pro-business total team. slogan has your particular sense i mean the so i will be able to call the. we will have no north america to meddle not to about of innocent. people but it took complete i thought i think that us tonight was he

queda who think that it was a quote that he and he put ice. age of yet another taught us well it was supposed to say i was a blood john kiriakou about the legacy of julie innocent. there's a rumor here in washington of long standing that he will be charged with espionage in the eastern district of virginia a federal court which is known as the espionage court i don't i don't think any other country has the guts to support him you know the united states is so tough so strong and so willing to bully other countries that. excuse me but that i don't i don't think other countries see it in their national interests to stand up for somebody like him you know time wise in the very beginning when he first entered the embassy that perhaps a country like like iceland or cuba or ecuador would come to his aid no more the british have made very clear that as soon as he steps outside that embassy

they'll arrest him now they're going to arrest him on on very very minor charge which is failure to appear in court it's a charge that nobody else would pay any attention to it's enough just to hold him until he can be turned over to the americans that this is one of the biggest disappointments for me personally because many of us had had great hopes that lenin reno would be the one person who could stand up to the to the u.k. and u.s. governments that seem to change a couple of months ago when moreno approached the united states about about enhancing the trade ties and selling more quid or even goods in the united states i think it was probably a quid pro quo that that in exchange for these enhanced trade ties the ecuadorians would have to expel julian once he's expelled that there's there's really nothing that he can do there's nothing he can do to protect himself i think julian has been

a giant of transparency it was julian that called governments to account it was julian that exposed war crimes in iraq it was julian that facilitated the edward snowden revelations which really changed the way we look at electronics and look at electronic privacy not just in the united states but in the world i think he's more than just a prominent figure in this short time period i think that his actions have had been such that they will last throughout history he is certain to inform us of crimes that our governments have committed against us and before her. hearing there was really a new one or at least there were very few people that we could see there about so exclusive pictures to us the seeing julian a sandwich big headlines going to happen some point i guess was in there the question is when a lot of people might have before a lot of people thought he might go on and he's been there what six seven years now in ecuador an embassy there's a law i know that i want to tell you before we get

a had. learned that the russian presidential spokesman dmitri peskov commenting on this now saying quote he was arrested in london so i can't say anything no but goes on to say we certainly hope that his rights will be respected you look at those pictures of him being carried quite forcibly very angry man obviously going against his will they're encouraged by a number of police officers from the met into that met by to go into temporary custody to their place of westminster magistrate's court under an arrest warrant wait about from twenty to twelve i want to get a handle on how long i've lost count actually six years seven years i think twenty twelve. it's twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen no case six seven years long time anyway we'll get a total handle on that i forgot that they've gone in there but let's go to the she's in london in the ship this is such. a long drawn out case there's been so much to it can you confirm but it was it twenty twelve or twenty thirteen he went

is it six or seven years he's been beyond there may be there was a there was a hiatus between all this kicking off and i'm going in there about a year that's where the math is wrong here. yeah that's right he has been holed up that since two thousand and twelve so all in all that's coming up to seven years now go to comments and speculation the coming in and foster regarding this of course the metropolitan police house confirms that julian assange has been arrested or moved from that could ruin embassy in london we've seen the pictures and footage of police found outside the embassy and a song has been holes in the embassy in london since two thousand and twelve that was off to seeking asylum that swedish police wanted to question him allegations of sexual assaults while that's investigation was drops a song still face charges in the case of violating bail conditions and this is what he's being arrested for there also face that he could be extradited to the u.s.

for the publication of u.s. classified information on the wars of iraq and afghanistan i think we showed some of the reservations. but the whistleblower gone the massive international attention in two thousand and ten when we can leaks released they said because if i do u.s. military footage it shows if you remember a helicopter fired on a number of people and killing about twelve civilians and that tensions have been escalating recently ever since last thursday especially when we keep beeks tweeted that julian the songe could be expelled from the ecuadorian embassy within a matter of hours or days and here we are just a few days later and that's exactly what's happened but yesterday a press conference was held with the wiki leaks editor in chief this was regarding a similar kind of separate issue as well saying that there's been an extensive spying operation within the ecuadorian embassy against julian assange and this the

material that was gathered was gigabytes of record is video. of. his every move and every visitor that came. this well and they all say worries that this was a huge breach of confidence so contributing to the escalations as well but since the president took power in that quintal asuncion the president have had quite rocky relations as well particularly after the publication of the corruption scandal and panama these allegations that the ecuadorian president denies and that we keep seeing their press conference just as yesterday as well tonight publishing in any involvement and speaking in a televised interview just now this is something that you mentioned earlier the ecuadorian president said that said that could you were in government has decided to withdraw all the diplomatic asylum left julian assange violation of international convention. but we'll keep you updated as and when well the

information is coming in taken fast but we'll keep you up to date at the scene as we get more on that yeah sure keep your lie that she has no escape at the moment elise do you deny the black growth forest but i was a viewer in in the in the u.k. that i'm just looking at some lines coming through a son could be heard pleading apparently as he went those steps and carried down those steps exclusive pictures these are most moderately newsagency going to keep. a lot of people up this is the looks of it could be heard pleading that quote the u.k. must resist also commenting from the u.k. foreign minister as well and duncan saying. yes saying that the arrest certainly from a minister is right and said the arrest followed extensive between our two countries it looks like there's been a lot of behind the scenes going on going on here for a long time. russian presidential spokesman dmitri peskov commenting saying early days here but confirming he was arrested in london says calm so you can more for now and we certainly hope his rights would be respected that was something that was

acted as world with the russian foreign ministry very quickly charming in on this saying the hand of democracy is strangling freedom. these pictures of her are looping in is a quite extraordinary scene after all these years my own seven years to see julius songs to daylight again what i was trying to remember from my memory of covering this few months ago and researching it it was. huge for want of a brother where there were just offices it was never really accommodation was it it was a real small set up in there and he didn't really have any access to any outside or any exercise area duty of my writing that could you remember. small places than this to access at one point when said tonight ten we had the internet communication cut off completely lost the talk of what you were to say that the side was not on just remind us who did we've been told what you said remind us again what conditions he was living in for what seven years i didn't

catch it. yeah exactly that cramped conditions and he has visitor access to night as well internet access has time completely so he was cut off from the outside wells and last thursday when we keep eeks tweets it that he signed could be expelled within a matter of allison days there were lots of activists outside the embassy as well holding banners saying this is a complete violation against human rights and find a shame against the freedom of speech what jeremy hunt as well the foreign secretary said. that he's no hero no one is above the law he's needin from the truth he is he like to britain or not like to britain generally i mean he spilled so many beans i'm not such going to state what he revealed so many huge controversial. some would say and others would say he was wrong to do it how do you viewed in london after all these years or britain. when again harris well it is

said quite controversial we remember that revelations and like i said before he's most famous full ran. the wiki leaks merely says classified information and the helicopter message which shade troops opening fire on a number of civilians and he'll be well remembered for that at the same time there's a controversy here with a releasing the classified information this is where there's a bit of a battle between freedom of speech and the right to classified information saying he is a controversial character in that respect but like i said last week there's a number of activists really consent as well about his welfare and the conditions they have been held in size and regards to what's happened in this current situation. is the rescuer still on the line with us more in a community which is joining us is starting tonight is kevin i would look here in the studio introduce nick you get in the circle with open mic he's covered as well the main news it was going to happen at some point julius. arrested an

embassy he's immunity float revoked. by get him we've got enough under the new leadership some twenty seven to present that him or a no not a fan obviously there's another line in the united kingdom though has pledged not to extradite him to any country quote where he might face torture or the death penalty ecuador's president saying that earlier in the day if you caption up on this the u.k. police said this had been arrested these the exclusive pictures. video agencies were there first who was arrested at the ecuadorian embassy in london confirmed that his country had withdrawn asylum status from a science of course you normally nick you can't go into these places this is the whole point of it. of a foreign embassy about what capital what country it's in it's hallowed ground if

you like and you can't go in or you shouldn't go in this big trouble if you do unless you've got permission of the country involved you're. so many exceptions with julian. totally extraordinary isn't it i mean has the many fans there and getting as so many people who loved him really despise him as well that but both sides of fantasize about this day for so long for seven years since he went into that embassy i've lost count of the amount of time that the press have gathered including ourselves you know it's kind of the end of the thinking bit today might be the day that he will exit the embassy and we never knew whether he would be walking out a free man on whether it would be like it was today being forcibly dragged out of the embassy by those police officers and it's really extraordinary now it's actually happened it's quite unbelievable a little bit is sort of the what we think of it with this guy or more he looked a broken man he looked different. he said no exercise he said the pressure of

whatever he's. living in a place we will simply welcome the last few years i was surprised to have not really seen him publicly. used to come to the bulk of the didn't he make various press statements. to his followers but i don't really see him for a while when you look very different we heard the reports about his health deteriorating over the years and you can kind of imagine it but can you really being inside one of the room in one building for seven years you know and seeing here in this day outside of the end of the extraordinary as it was it really was a shock to many to see here at the state that he was in really. through these pictures of an. exclusive pictures to r.t. international school full frame on the i just want to let you know the other big story while we look at this here the big story we'll get to a little bit later as well a big concern about what's happening in the sudanese. to. longtime president bashir it looks has been ousted from power to be confirmed in what looks like to be

confirmed a military coup we are going to go to that later we will cover it that was the big story so far this thursday but then what were the. the last hour or so this of course well as well as. one over the top of it especially as we rightly r.t. were there to see this moment i want to confirm this i'm sure the crude obviously are there now but i'm hearing that these are exclusive pictures to our channel to our ruptly news agency and wow what amazing pictures they are i don't know what this day was ever expected to look like mickey. pretty much as you'd expect the worst case scenario. being kicked out what we're going to see this is just me speculating now and then what they're going to see is all of us are just the porters all of those people who are being are camping outside the ecuadorian embassy be a famous celebrities including pamela anderson who has spoken out in support of julius and we're going to see an outpouring in the coming hours from those

supporters because we still don't know nobody knows what's going to be the next step will be extradited to the u.s. and what will happen and will it his supporters be able to garner enough. empathy and amongst the public to make some changes to what was going to happen yap and i'll just look at this at the police scotland yard website again see if you just catch up with us hi this is art international it's only here and we know thank you julian is. the big news is has been arrested by metropolitan police officers forty seven year old of course has been in the ecuadorian embassy what for nigh on seven years now. the official note here from scotland yard is that he was taken at the crucially invitation of the embassy of ecuador he was taken out forcibly by the police on the arrest warrant issued by westminster magistrates

court on the twenty ninth of june twenty twelve for failing to surrender to court it looks like mr assange. remain in custody to central to the police station before as i was saying just now appearing at westminster magistrates court as soon as possible the police statement saying i think neil clark for the mono hello neal thanks for taking the time to be with us over this one and he couldn't resist his such big stories this one what do you think about this is good or bad news as far as you see it. mr sanchez and it is stay in the ecuadorian embassy this way. yesterday saying that you thought it might be the worst case scenario i'm not sure that is the worst case and or in any way was pretty bad for him to be cooped up in this very small space for several years as you base it yourself when he didn't look too well and he looks like well like been going through treasure island or coming out with a long white the eight he's helped hasn't been great this could be a catharsis for julian and i think although it's quite easy to say this is

a terrible event. he obviously didn't feel secure enough to come out of there before now. the big question is will none of us can answer yet anyway or what is going to happen to what is likely to happen to him next and nikki was said he has supporters are going to rally around every could be tuning into this now. this is the sweden side of this is out of it now there's an initial sexual assault allegations they were dropped they kind of run of the time a long time ago the question is can you just recap because it's such a confusing story has gone on for so long what is it that's against him at the moment was still hanging over his head for of use what he's got bail basically he's been arrested today because he's been at sea diplomatic immunity which is asylum which the ecuadorian gave him has been rescinded and the british authorities are going in there to arrest him for jumping bail that's basically what he's here and remind us what the initial was because there were so many charges swirling around this is not the sweden thing this is something else yet. yeah and yes it is is

there a chance that he's going to be through the whole thing is he going to be extradited over to america to face charges we just heard i think you quoted ecuador is saying that they got a promise what it's worth i know in the british that they wouldn't extradite him to a country which uses torture and the death penalty and that would apply to the u.s. of course because if he were to be extradited this is the great found guilty of espionage he could be executed now it would be orange from the report what it would all go to do with it now the thing is he's there they've kind of expelled him if you like that they don't want him so now he's on british streets under the auspices of the british and british law so does not really what ecuador says what they didn't they didn't want him to go and the days of british custody and jeremy hunt and others are saying this man should face justice eccentric center well i suppose wherever that may be britain and america friends what is to stop him being extradited from britain to america to face whatever despite what ecuador says.

i think public opinion i think the united states pressure on britain which let's face it hasn't been very good at resisting pressure from the us down the a particularly recent years but in the book tremendous pressure on britain to extradite him to the us and i think the best way to try to prevent. public opinion public campaigns try to stop this to say look if the guy's been charged with jumping then let's go with that in the u.k. . but as i said you know it may be difficult because states will coroutines will be on the phone if they're not they're already saying look we want this guy this guy. committed espionage against us and examples got to be made to other people so i think the next few days and weeks ago to be very important what happens next the first case though in a song let's hope now he gets proper medical treatment which he needs he hasn't been well. he could actually. not be the worse case scenario and we don't know

whether it's why happens next it's no secret that julian assange has gotten very powerful enemies but he also has a very passionate supporters some of the most passionate we've ever seen and i don't think in my opinion they're going to give up eighty do you think that the power of the people will be enough to sway what happens in the case what happens to what he has got some high profile supporters like john pilger for example the war winning journalist the son of the christian activist i do feel though unfortunately that his name has been there's been a if you like a lot of propaganda against him to betray him as someone who is a misfortune is someone who lent particular political left couldn't be associated with the phrase beyond the pale the allegations of course made it linking up to russia gate that he was working for russia all this kind of stock so there has been a quite

a substantial smear campaign against him and that was basically i think to go. it was a broad swathe of public opinion coming out in favor of him but he has been. but even i still struggle word that he has been. and so it's pretty interesting how many people actually do come out his critics. know his critics are absolutely adamant this man is really bad news and he betrayed the country betrayed people he gave way seekers and shouldn't be given away points or naught well the idea you know he's a traitor he said with fortunately. we have. people saying or personal hygiene and look after he's kept very well you know he had ended everything. forget everything. and what we must forget is the public service that we could exist because. john pilger said this on going on the ground this week that he's actually responsible. for many more students than

most of the so-called award winning journalist have had in their lifetimes he's revealed he's shown as what's behind the curtain and i've heard at least i think saying that he basically liked the cat in the famous story by h.h. one row saki it was a talking cat who basically listened to everybody what they were talking about and reveal their secrets and told them henri frey had a very bad day he was put to death as we learned to worry about the blows that some worry about people do they reveal what's behind the curtain it's not as we look at his legacy at the moment just think in twenty ten twenty eleven as we look at his legacy the man is not dead he's been arrested just make it clear to people who are just joining us but what's the best thing he's done for humankind could you say for good looking if you are a supporter of him what was the biggest secret he revealed the biggest good deed that he did.