these are this is a central plank support. for the common right. after almost seventy years confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london police dragged. safe haven placed him under arrest. not above the law no hero while the british prime minister and officials praise ecuador for ending a. whistle blowing community branded a dark day for journalism. published truthful information about the united states. now faces extradition to the united states where the justice department has revealed he

is wanted for allegedly conspiring to hack a government computer. moscow now friday the twelfth of april and just one story dominating our coverage today in a dramatic turn of events seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london we. rested on thursday morning the whistleblower is now in custody with police and potentially facing extradition to the united states where he's wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer. video agency captured the moment a disheveled and distressed looking assault was dragged out of the diplomatic compound. coke

of. it was the only video agency to film julianna songs being removed from the embassy a number of media outlets initially claimed the whistleblower left on his own accord and was arrested outside were forced to change their reporting off of those images were released now following his arrest julian a song was taken to westminster magistrates courts where he was convicted of breaching bail in twenty twelve with more on the case polly boyko reports from central london. well julian saunders found guilty by a court to be scathing judge inside westminster magistrates court harold cost him his own self interest and a son just told me he would be sentenced to a later date set up by a video link to the u.k. charges to tree in a sauna skipping bail back in twenty twelve they carry

a month maximum sentence of twelve months so relatively speaking it's a pretty small fry compared to the looming threat of contending with his legal team we know that the u.s. justice department has unveiled charges of computer hacking against julian assange and there's a expected to be an extradition hearing in relation to that in may as well now as soon as the court proceedings here what a songes legal team on the wiki leaks were expressing came out take a listen to what they had to say this sets a dangerous precedent for all media organizations and journalists in europe and elsewhere around the world this precision means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states this is what god gave to journalists in our studios jennifer said he said to the president we don't want to this to go forward

this has just has to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for sure and that journalists will never be extradited to united states for publishing activities saatchi to seven years while he's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy had been saying that he most fear this potential threat of extradition to the usa for the diplomatic cables that he released as editor of wiki leaks back in two thousand and ten nine years ago today those fears of a staunch being extradited being. wanted in the u.s. is facing charges they turned into a reality at ten fifteen this morning and he was forcibly removed from the ag the dorrian embassy waiting spent the last seven years the ecuadorian also artie's hides and allowed the metropolitan police to go inside the embassy where

a party joining us on tried to resist arrest and then he was physically bundled up and put in to a police baton and taken into police custody now very soon afterwards we learned that julian assange just political asylum to citizenship had been revoked by the ecuadorian authorities take a listen to what lenin morello the president of ecuador had to say about it told. us that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian are shown to give the hostile and threatening declarations of his annoyed organization. and especially the transgression of international treaties who have led the situation to a point where the stardom of mr assad regime is unsustainable there are no longer the horrible really kind of boils down to two different issues but you sort of came together over the past eighteen months one is that the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said julian assange once was interfering in the

international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activity through his activities as editor of wiki leaks but also there was this kind of domestic dispute bubbling beneath the surface as well last year julian assange was given a list of conditions that he needed to adhered to if he wanted to stay on the good side of his neck for dorrian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up offer him self between his policy and pay for his own food to pay for certain one three cleanup after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did this in the relationship really broke. and that's what led to the culmination of this situation at this boiling point this morning when the ecuadorian authorities allowed the met police to walk in and arrest julian assange on british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened to will welcome the news this

morning that the metropolitan police have arrested judy in a song. mr speaker this goes to show that in the united kingdom no one is above the law. but what we've shown today is that no one is above the law julian assange is no hero he's hidden from the truth for years and years but also a very courageous decision by president around zero in ecuador to resolve the situation even though there had been attempts to resolve this issue in the background for many years it all came to a head with sort of the u.k. ecuador and the u.s. playing this card against julian assange together i think today really we missed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange i'm sorry and we're moving on to perhaps or rather the truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. magistrates court to allow to spoken to the former president of

ecuador who granted to saunter asylum rafael correia thinks the country's current leadership is out for revenge. i think marino deserves the title of the greatest traitor of history that he could compete with. the state of ecuador in accordance with international law and guided by its own national pride was simply a ploy to protect the person to whom it is granted asylum and instead they simply gave him up and allowed the british police to enter our embassy just imagine for a moment if it was the ecuadorian police entering the u.s. embassy and it was a decision. you know he wants revenge for having been accused of corruption or because wiki leaks released documents proving it not to mention other evidence like correspondence bills etc now online so marina is taking revenge on a sandwich and i think the consequences will be even harder because although i don't want to look ahead the possibility that the u.k. will not extradite julian assange to the united states is very unlikely. the united

states has confirmed that it requested the extradition of julian assange he's accused there of conspiring to hack a government computer with whistleblower chelsea manning the justice department says he could face up to five years in prison auntie's kadam open reports. interestingly we have heard from the u.s. president u.s. president donald trump has been asked about the arrest of julian assange and wiki leaks and he gave an interesting answer and that answer is a little bit different than the answer he gave on the campaign trail let's take a listen i know nothing about wiki leaks it's not my thing and i know there is something having to do with julian i've been seeing what happened with a song that will be a determination i would imagine mostly by the attorney general who's doing an excellent job so he'll be making a determination i know nothing really about him it's not my it's not my deal in life wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks. it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki

leaks wiki leaks the wiki leaks ricky leaks wiki leaks. wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks documents wiki leaks i love wiki leaks. it's important to note that essentially you know there is an effort to extradite him now from the u.s. department of justice we have a statement from the eastern district of virginia where they are essentially calling for for the extradition of julian assange for on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion the indictment alleges that a songe coordinated with chelsea manning and together they tried to crack a password in order to get a defense department information that was classified which wiki leaks eventually published chelsea manning is in the hands of u.s. officials at this time being held and it's important to review what this information that chelsea manning was able to provide to wiki leaks actually contained let's review some of that information.

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does the interest. they collect any data a million of those sort of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence or talks like a hostile takeover or. at this point it's important to note that a number of u.s. intelligence officials have declared that wiki leaks is a basically they referring to it as a russian the asset and this comes in response to these accusations came in response to wiki leaks publishing the e-mails from the democratic national committee and from hillary clinton's aide job podesta those e-mails were published now it was widely alleged in the united states that came from hacking those e-mails were acquired through computer hacking however wiki leaks has maintained that they

were provided these e-mails from a leaker a leaker provide these provided these e-mails they did not hack in order to acquire that now in addition to being accused of being a russian asset julian assad has been referred to as being an enemy by a number of u.s. officials the united states do something to stop mr sausage we're looking into that right now and you should be treated as an enemy combatant with you we should be closed down permanently indecisively this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this cumber young anything i'm aware of ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons at this point julia songes not any more in the ecuadorian embassy and london at this point he has been turned over to u.k. officials he is in their custody now the question remains will he be extradited to

the united states when the server speculates that if you come to see ited states he could be facing a lot more than. simply this conspiracy of computer intrusion charge that charge only holds the potential for five years in prison it remains to be seen whether or not julian assad will be extradited to the united states where many speculate he could face much more serious charges than simply the computer hacking charge. of reaction now on r.t. daniel mcadams who's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity welcome back to r.t. or i ask you first about ecuador's actions president moraine who was pretty angry at julian assange but outlining him as an unwelcome house guest so the asylum is revoked and the citizenship is suspended you got the former ecuadorian president saying hang on a minute you've only kicked him out because he was on to something he knew you were up to no good how do you read what i could has done. well i think it is a shameful chapter in ecuador's history to not live up to its obligations when it

comes to someone who has been granted asylum i don't think it's any coincidence norway your viewers that the i.m.f. has announced today a big four point two billion dollar loan granted to ecuador just today ha imagine the day that the songes is taken out from the embassy we do know that mike pence the vice president met with with london marino not long ago and reportedly urged him to kick a songe out in promised and dangle the the possibility of the sloan in front of him so quid pro quo tit for tat it sure sounds that way to me although he long been warned about his behavior and his lifestyle bald staying for more nearly seventy years in the ecuadorian embassy in london on top of that he had been warned about interfering in other nations affairs but carried on doing it anyway did he push it too far. well i think that's a question that can be debated but he's a journalist he's a publisher what he did was to give information out it was necessary for people to

have did he want the public yes did he do the job that most american journalists should do but don't do yes of course he did and that's why of course they demonize him because they're jealous of him he actually broke stories rather than just dining off the dribbles off of the table of the establishment certainly with the twenty ten in afghanistan tapes the other solutions following the press back as it were that was leading the way and shocked the world when we all saw those videos but the later work could be seen as vindictive politically interfering lots of e-mails from the democrats not particularly much on the republicans a lot about the american military not about some others it could be seen as being particularly vindictive or maybe a mistress on his part. well the question is whether the american people and people of the of the world have a right to know what their governments are doing with their money and in their name in that sense he did a great he just did a great service and he has information about the russian government he's leaked

information about other governments that was embarrassing but you know the u.s. is the is the top dog in the empire right now and you bear embarrass the empire he embarrassed the person who believed that she had a right to be president. and this is partly what launched the entire phony russia gate hoax and this is the kernel of it and he provided a good of a good excuse for them to start so given the julian assange is essentially the poster boy for whistle blowing but also got chelsea manning who's behind bars for not testifying to a grand jury of god i was snowden who doesn't feel that he can return home to the united states if when whichever it is a song goes to the united states how do you think the authorities are going to play this. well what they're doing right know and your reporter mention the caliber of mention that the thing with the relatively minor charge in my view of this is to give the british government cover for when they do when they do extradite him you know it's just a minor charge nothing big but of course what does out there particularly in this

in this court in this district court that you're referring to they will add and they will pile on they will pile on charges until he faces a thousand years so this is just to provide cover for the british government to agree to the extradition i think everything's falling in place i think the ducks are are definitely falling in line for what the u.s. wants to do to us on just basically let's face it they want to kill him there's just as much said it themselves pompei one others and so this is what they're about to do we heard from a guest earlier who said some cases maybe the ends don't justify the means that if you want to be a whistleblower fine if you want to reveal wrongdoing that's fine but hacking into sensitive government information is not fine how would you read it. i think the american people have a right and the fourth estate has an obligation to inform us of what our government is doing particularly when what it is doing is illegal immoral and being done in our name in fact is endangering us going over and wantonly killings iraqi citizens

civilians killing afghanis citizens and civilians and then lying in telling us that it's making us safer we have a right to know this we should know this and that's the job of a good journalists and the right more like to. know how this happened maybe nine eight years ago when those videos of what we just saw of what happened in iraq were fresh in people's minds that maybe a different public appetite to help julian the songs but this far down the line do you think there's still that public support. well i think it's far more dangerous and treacherous for a staunch right now because both republicans and democrats hate him and i'm talking about the official washington republicans and democrats are the dog democrats are furious because they have convinced themselves that somehow he and putin got together and hacks and computers and tonight hillary her rightful place in the west wing of the white house the republicans can't stand him because he undermined their war again your mind the justification for the constant permanent warfare state

embarrass the us government by showing what it does in secret and that's why both parties are furious furious with him so he's going to have a difficult time finding allies and certainly the media the mainstream media hates his guts because he does again as i said the job that they should be doing but are not doing and the legal authorities on both sides of the atlantic and the u.k. it's about jumping bail that carries up to twelve months in jail for the united states it's about computer hacking that carries up to five years but there's no denying that there's some visible hand-wringing going on on both sides of the atlantic over this what message is it sending to people who might be considering blowing the whistle on sensitive information either government or corporately. tells him don't you dare do this and when he gets up there on the so trial which we know is coming in it'll be reminiscent of the of the show trials in the soviet union in the darker chapters of us of soviet history when he goes up there it'll be a warning it won't be to punish assad will be

a warning to the others don't you dare do this don't you dare embarrass the national security state because you'll face a similar fate the next day to what has made the second that's the start of the extradition hearings ok danny mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity thanks for your time. with proving to be more polarizing than ever i was joined in the studio by donna for more on the outpouring of reaction to the case. there is a rest i should say has clearly showcased how much of a divisive figure songe has become he's got an army of supporters on one hand he's got an army of haters on the other one but really whether you like him or not he's won multiple awards for his journalism and that's why some of the most the most vocal bunch i should say were journalists activists and the whistleblowers who have stepped forward and voiced his support to julian and one of the loudest voices in this quiet was edward snowden

a fellow whistleblower who is was granted asylum and who is still in russia who doesn't seem to be well moving him anywhere anytime soon but he has been very vocal along with some other journalists and whistleblowers have a listen images of what those ambassador invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like you to know it was waiting john these most of the building are going to end up in the history books it sounds critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom the u.s. did not waste any time putting in extradition requests for a son terrible press than if journalist publisher ends up in u.s. jail for iraq war logs and state department cables we queue leaks is a publisher charges now brought in connection with its material or any attempt to extradite assange to united states for prosecution under to deeply flawed could you know of the espionage act nine hundred seventeen is an attack on all of us the d.-o. g. cis part of what

a science did to just to fight his prosecution be young allegedly helping manning get the documents is that he encouraged manning to get more documents for him to publish journalists do this with sources constantly as you criminalization of journalism this is what jewel in the sands and wiki leaks like guilty of exposing the murderous outcome of the u.s. military assault on iraq states don't have the right to kill willynilly whistleblowers do us all a service we only need to look at child. the man and to see what a way to silence she is indefinitely detained for refusing to expose whistle blower and u.s. officials have already deemed the sound guilty now if you hours ago i spoke with john kiriakou a veteran whistleblower who felt the full impact of the u.s. judicial machine when it comes to treating men like him when i asked him was why he believes julian assange should be granted a for a fair trial in the states is his answer judge be on the brink of mob is

a former federal prosecutor. on national security or herself she hears he's. a judge they don't ask. his want to use. it but i guess as i separate documents that i need to defend myself. all the arguments i suspect you'll get is. you'll just not be allowed. but if you think it's just journalists or whistleblowers who have been supporting his sons will know we one of the store interest and most vocal supporters of a songe throughout the years of his asylum and now to what were the united nations about when he was holed up in the asylum they demanded in the condemned the u.k. for not allowing for not granting a son to the freedom of movement he'd been saying that peace should definitely be should have definitely been allowed that now they've stepped forward and said that extradition could amount to a human rights violation and so if the u.k.

wants to extradite the son to this could constitute a human rights violation italy and bolivia have already also condemned the of the asuncion case the sort of the manhandling of the of the world we can leak of the founder of we can leaks and well maybe on a more personal note i should say pamela anderson who i should i suppose i should describe as his long distance girlfriend of sorts she also went on a massive. what around and she did not mean so when it came to describing a world well what she what she hopes that the faith will bring to everyone responsible for what happened to join in a staunch today now these are the just some of the supporters of julian assange but of course you have them on the one side of the argument and you have all the bureaucratic and you know the government machine or the u.k. of the united states of some other states as well who have children who have children who have praised what happened to songs today but i guess the day to look

out to look forward to is may the second now. journalist and wiki leaks supporter cassandra fairbanks told us she believes it's all just a fiction was planned well in advance. i think that this is. a really really dark day for press freedom. julian assange has done more for sri press and the right to know and free information than any other journalist in history he's nominated for the nobel peace prize this year and the fact that our administration is extraditing him and charging him for doing journalism is shocking and disgusting it's all obviously court made and i think this has been planned for a long time and went to their good rate embassy and there was a car that was sitting outside for twenty hours they had shifts of people rotating through every six or so hours and another car that was sitting with their spot late

on the embassy so i had confronted both of them they said they weren't media and then they wouldn't answer whether or not they were a line fauresmith but they claimed to not do what we even was and they are seen arresting him today and i could ring government was just looking and making excuses to put him into the hands of the united states government where he's definitely not going to get a fair trial. so the story dominating our news coverage today wiki leaks founder julian assange which was arrested on thursday morning and dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he'd been taking refuge for nearly seven years. video agency captured exclusive video of the moment he was led from the building. on. on. or on.

record. or or. on that's it from the moscow news room for now i'll be back with the next update and often i'll have to see that.

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hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle has finally happened julian assange was arrested within the ecuadorian embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial expected charges.