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watching closely watching the hawks. after almost seven years confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london u.k. police dragged wiki leaks editor julian a song from his once safe haven and place him under arrest. not above the law and no hero while the british prime minister and officials praise ecuador for ending a song his asylum whistle blowing community brands it a dark day for journalism. its precision. guided for prosecution i mean ited states for having published truthful information about the united states. gave. the songs now faces extradition to the united
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states where the justice department has revealed he's wanted for allegedly conspiring to hack a government computer. there around the world live from russia this is r.t. international call him brian just one story dominating our coverage tonight in a dramatic turn of events after nearly seven years old up in the ecuadorian embassy in london wiki leaks founder julian assange was arrested on thursday morning the whistleblower is now in police custody and potentially facing extradition to the united states where he is wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer. video agency kept at the moment to hold and distressed looking a song that was dragged out of the diplomatic compound. ah
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analysts 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 a dark day for the journalists in our studios jennifer said he said so the president we don't want to this to go forward this has to sleep it has to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for assurances that journalists will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activities saatchi to seven years while he's been holed up in the edward dorian 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 us based charges they turned into
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a reality at ten to fifteen this morning he was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy waiting spread 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 electical 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 should give the hostile and threatening declarations of his annoyed organization. on especially the transgression of international treaties who have led the situation to appear.
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point where the astronomy of mr assad regime is unsustainable are no longer viable really kind of boils down to two different issues but it 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 two is interfering in the international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activities 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 add here to you know if he wanted to stay on the good side of his the ecuadorian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up after himself clean his policy and pay for his own food to pay for his own one tree cleanup after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did this will ation ship really break down and that's what led to the culmination
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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 studio no sorry. 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 arroyo 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 witnessed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange saga. and
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we're moving on to perhaps around the front chapter of an. extradition battle. polyvore council westminster magistrate's court let's get a legal mind across this then douglas mcnabb who is an international criminal defense lawyer who specializes in extradition proceedings mr mcnabb welcome to r.t. what about the immediate future for mr a songs then do you see him carrying out his bail jumping sentence or is he going to be fast tracked for extradition. well they're only going to play a story is a story where they were. ever gave the sentence and the place an extradition proceedings and after a hearing if the court were to determine that he should be extradited then he certainly has appellate rights that are available a my guess gaseous is that they may very well parallel the extradition hearing and that process with the terms that he received as a result of the bail jumping. if i make say i heard. one of
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the attorneys for ms for so i'm sure after the her savings that this is punishment of journalists journalists who are publishing the truth. if i may say this case is not and i'm speaking as a defense attorney but this case is not about journalists publishing the truth this case is about and the lads breaking out of a protracted computer now whether it's a journalist or a non journalist one is not allowed to break into the hack. a protected computer a mr assad and coconspirator ors are alleged to after a breaking into the computer accessing classified information the information that is vital to the national security of the united states and publishing that
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information that is a completely different scenario than just a publisher for the times of london publishing an article about x.y.z. and now mistress on and she is charged with a new fancy carries up to five years in prison i would suspect that that this statute was chosen by federal with u.s. prosecutors to simplify the ex but die. is extradition from u.k. to the u.s. i. be surprised that the u.s. doesn't leon a man of the indictment once he is on u.s. soil amend the indictment and tack on additional charges one of which may very well be espionage. if the u.s. gives assurances to u.k. that the u.s. will not seek the death penalty i doubt will that will come in the u.k.
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. because they certainly don't want to extradite an individual if it's they're going to be given assurances were doors are interesting to that they wouldn't do but certainly they can legally the u.k. as an e.u. member context or advice anyone to a country where they could face the death penalty but that's long been the fair among junee in a song his legal team that as you've just said the one sees on u.s. soil the further charges will be brought the carry stepha penalties than just hacking a government computer any kind of legal guarantee that thinking kate can get from the united states to make sure that that doesn't happen. well you raise two issues ones the death penalty and one is whether there would be additional charges. is frequent late that the u.s. seeking extradition from countries that are are against the got going to be whether european or latin countries that in this state department state department will give right now sure and says to the requested study that if the individual is
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extradited to the u.s. that that the u.s. government will not seek the death penalty i think that can be done that can be applied in terms of additional charges now. i would i would be shot and i've been shot before but i would be shot if the u.s. government gives sure i insist to u.k. that if mr assizes extradited to the u.s. and he will not face additional charges that that that would be completely uncalled for the u.s. government just as any other state has the right to charge individuals to prosecute individuals for wrongful conduct and if that they charge mr assigns with a five year statutory max and they elect once he gets here to a man and that indictment to supersede it and to charge him with additional matters the u.s. government certainly has the right to do that just as if the situation were reversed
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the u.k. would certainly have the right to do that as well if report compliant with u.k. law. will now i'm all come the extradition hearing starting may the second i really appreciate your expertise on this time doesn't have thank you very much. my pleasure welty spoken to the former president of ecuador who granted asylum to asylum. 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 judas the state of ecuador in accordance with international law and guided by his own national pride was simply applies 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 us embassy and that it was a decision made by him or a no if you want revenge for having been accused of corruption or because wiki leaks released documents proving it not to mention other evidence like
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correspondence bills etc all 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. this is r.t. from moscow more on the scientists arrested a couple of minutes we'll assess the united states next moves and the spectrum of support that's come out during the day. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be close this is what the three of them all the people that. i'm interested always in the waters of. the city.
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you know world of big partisan lot 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 smarter 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 truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. back to the united states has confirmed that it requested the extradition all the
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cuban assault he's accused of conspiring to hack a government computer with whistleblower chelsea manning the justice department says he could face up to five years in prison. and reports. interestingly we have heard from the u.s. president u.s. president donald trump has been asked about the arrest of julian assange 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 who saw as i have been seeing would accept and 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 son my deal in life wiki leaks were key leaks wiki leaks pretty leaks it's been amazing what's coming
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out on wiki leaks the wiki leaks tricky leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks and wiki leaks documents wiki leaks i love wiki leaks. it's important to note that essentially you know assad 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 in 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 the 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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the n.s.a. collect any data millions of those sort of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence or talks like a hot or cold turkey. 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're 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 john 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
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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 a being accused of being a russian asset 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 he should be treated as an enemy combatant which he really should be closed down permanently indecisively this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy on. to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this comber yun anything i'm aware on ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons at this point julius songes not anymore in the ecuadorian embassy and lauded at this point he has been turned over to you kay officials he is in their custody now the question remains will he be extradited to the united states many observers speculate that if it
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comes to the united 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 journalist and we can leak supporter song to fed banks told us she believes the song is a fiction was planned well in advance. i think that this is. a really really dark day for press freedom. julian the sun has done more for sri press and the right to know in sri 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 in charging him for doing journalism is shocking and disgusting it's obviously courtney to and i think this has been planned for
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a long time and went to their good rate embassy and there was a car that was sitting outside prayer twenty hours they had shifts of people rotating through every six or so hours and another card. with sitting with their spot lay 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 force meant that they claim to not know. what he did was and they were seen arresting him today and i could dream 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 and so a reminder of the story dominating our news coverage today wiki leaks founder julian assange 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.
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to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective from i'm used to surprising us all why not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is it that slide in here. this drug where her cocaine were four bucks for the under fifty to everybody use cocaine. cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifteen thirty. twenty. it's called kate this is about
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would at all welcome to the alex salmond show where the great game a brick that is now well into overtime alex is back in belfast climaxing r.c.t.'s on the impact of the brits a debate on northern irish politics and indeed ireland has determined the endgame all pricks it. this week he speaks of a drawing of ulster political commentators him and molly who has some vigorous criticism of the political leadership of the province d p sion fein i know the island's toward their sense of view unison their sense of the union ahead of
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the economic well being of the people and all the non mayumi done was taken over the ocean fin party recently as president she's made several major mystics we have a separate state who is deemed right across the community in terms of current broadly by nationalists and by union as to be seen to be a limb dockside kristie it really unfamiliar with the workings of this place here at westminster the prime minister is also under heavy fire from commentators and just about everybody else on issue one of our previously strongest defenders caused a stir this week when he counted on his support for breck's it i think it's important just to use the fact that two and a half years of us to assess it and you can see that there are real problems of the idea and things which are really kind of worrying and i say this is a breakfast here i went through a real dark night of the sort of about to resume a told us hard government would deliver on breaks it on march twenty ninth she told
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us that there was only one deal on the table she told us there would be no you to peano actions and yet over the last week she's a maze ministers have been closer to way with her majesty's opposition deciding which of her demeaning red lines to every now she's back in brussels begging for their further stay of execution from europe that have peeve is on offer but everything has its price we would not discuss an issue with the u.k. until there is an agreement for i'm on the one island as well as for citizens' rights and the financial sector. will stand fully beyond. that all of this is left even the most faithful of tortie somewhat nonplussed i spoke to called miss peter oborne he says it's time for fellow big cities to wake up smell left amash and think again. welcome to the show peter oborne you've caused quite a stir of the past few days by the counting on your support for beck that is the
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idea of rex's its largest prime minister came at a time if it happened at that issue well i think the prime minister has done her best actually i really admire the way mrs may has really struggled in face of all kinds of humiliations and setbacks to make breaks it happen according to her vision of it but she her vision has been defeated and in the light of that i think it's important just to use the fact that two and a half years of class to assess it and you can see that there are real problems with the idea and things which are really kind of worrying and i say this is a break see i went to a real dark nights of the soul about it but you can see the economic consequences in this country as being i think the economic model has collapsed is important to say that with any particular you talk about you went to a dark night with any particular thing that happened one issue was that it makes you realize i need to rethink my ninety's on that there were several issues the
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first one i think was the was the economics went and there's one particular symbolic moment when the james dyson is a great just really. be the great campaigner for brakes isn't he. and he made he said it would work but it would work economically when he took his businesses his h.q. and took them to singapore on the you know he was the poster boy of bricks and suddenly he's going abroad and the same thing happened didn't matter so much jim ratcliffe the great chemicals manufacturer and when you see these manufacturers he said britain is going to be ok i cited the european union and when they take their businesses overseas before that i thought that for me that hit me in the stomach and the other one is i like alec.
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