proven years on death row but how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. that word. after almost seven years confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london police dragged julian assange from one safe haven and place him in custody. not above the law and no hero while the british prime minister and officials praise that could offer ending a saunders asylum whistle blowing community brands it's a dark day for journalism. it's precision means there 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 of journalism. songs in our faces extradition to the us where the justice department has revealed he's wanted for allegedly conspiring to kill government computer. from moscow you what you want international i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight welcome to the program. now and return dramatic turn of events after nearly seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london we could leaks founder julian assange he was arrested on thursday morning it was followers now in police custody he's potentially facing extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer video captured the moment disheveled and distressed looking for sars was dragged out of the diplomatic compound.

look i. wrote plea was the only video agencies or films you know in a song being removed from the embassy a number of media outlets that initially claimed the whistleblower left on his own accord and was arrested outside were forced to change their reporting off that image was released following his arrest in a song's was taken to westminster magistrates courts he was found he was convicted of breaching bail package twenty twelve more on the case reports from central london. well julian assange just found guilty by

a pretty to be scathing judge inside westminster magistrates court here a little bit earlier on the judge told us saw nj a narcissist to con them constantly to their own self interest and i saw him just told me he would be sentenced at some later date somehow by a video link from the u.k. charges to trina saw interest skipping bail back to 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 potential charges that he's facing in the u.s. that some more concerning to his legal team we know that the u.s. justice department has unveiled charges of computer hacking against julian assange and there's an expected to be an extradition hearing in relation to that in may as well now as soon as the court proceedings hear what astonishes legal team on the wiki leaks to express it 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 there's a good 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 sure 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 ecuadorian embassy had been saying that he most fear this potential threat of extradition to the usa for the diplomatic cables that he really. as editor of wiki leaks back in two thousand and ten nine years ago today those today

is of a staunch being extradited being wanted in the u.s. based charges they turned into a reality at ten fifteen this morning he was forcibly removed from the dorian 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 bunny's 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. on ops that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian are shown to give the whole stalin freshening declarations of his annoyed organization. and especially the transgression of international treaties to have led the situation to

a point where the astronomy of mr assad regime is unsustainable are no longer 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 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 adhered to if he wanted to stay on the good side of his leg for dorian 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 tree clean up after his talents which they threaten. term leave and subsequently did this will a ship really break down 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 british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened 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 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 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 a rather poor truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle and. thinks the country's current leadership is out for revenge. well you know maybe. i think marino deserves the title of the greatest traitor of history there he could compete with judas the state of employees 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 that it was a decision made by him or a note 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 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. the united states has confirmed that it's requested the extradition of a son she's accused of conspiring to hack a government computer along with whistleblower chelsea manning just as the barman says he could face up to five years in prison r.t. is clearly more pain has this report. 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 would accept and with so on 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 wiki leaks it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki leaks the wiki leaks ricky 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 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. i'm. not a doctor but if you're going to. does

the n.s.a. collect any data a million 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 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 were provided these e-mails from a leaker a leaker provide these provided these e-mails they did not hack in order to acquire them now in addition to a being accused of being a russian asset. has been referred to as being an enemy. by a number of u.s. officials the united states do something to stop mr sausage who are looking into that right now he should be treated as an enemy combatant which he would 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 i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this combo yawn anything i'm aware of ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons at this point juliana songes not anymore in the ecuadorian embassy and londa at this point he has been

turned over to the 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 call the cia and 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 but 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 i would suspect that this statute was chosen by that wrote u.s. prosecutors to simplify x. but guy. is extradition from u.k. to the u.s. i would be surprised that the u.s. doesn't the on a minute and the indictment wants us on u.s. soil i'm in 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 that will that will come in the u.k. we're back in just a few moments on the top story of the day do stay tuned at all to international. i remain very much opposed to military intervention i am opposed to it because i fundamentally do not believe it is in u.s. interests there are several issues at play in venezuela one is the terrible terrible humanitarian state into which venezuela has fallen under the regime the first of which i was unknown you called us months ago that alone in my opinion is

not a justification or an american. it is finally how often julian assange was arrested within the dorrian embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial for the expected charges for espionage this is truly a dark day for journalists and journals. pretty. much the program of the songs proving to be more polarizing than ever goes down if looks into 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 his own the other one but we'll see 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 voiced his support to julian and one of the loudest voices in this choir 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 record those ambassador invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like you to know it was waiting john days most of the building are going to end up in the history books and sounders 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 sunday 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 deeply flawed could you know of the espionage act nine hundred seventeen is an attack on all of us the d.-o. g. sis part of what is science did to just to fire his prosecution beyond 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 is a criminalization of journalism this is what jewel in the sands and wiki leaks like guilty of exposing the murderous outcome of the us 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 chelsea man and to see what awaits a songe she's indefinitely detained for refusing to expose. whistle blower and u.s. officials have already deemed the sons guilty judge me on the brink of mob is

a former federal prosecutor. on national security he says for herself she hears my case so you judge they are going to ask. who has ever wanted. it but i asked was i separate documents that i need to defend myself. all seventy arguments i suspect you'll get is going to get saved you're just not be allowed. to the point is that they have if they're talking about and saying they have classified information collected by n.s.a. or cia then they can keep that out of sight of the public and even the defense lawyers and handle it with the judge in secret and convict him in secret that way the real issue is that he's exposing the the crimes that these governments are committing and the real truth about what's what's going on in those governments that they don't want their own populations to know that they need the government

position is the shadow government i would say here in the u.s. . once the population of the united states to be uninformed and used in the intelligence agencies for over one hundred years but if you think it's just journalists or whistle blowers who have been supporting his sons will know one of these storing cheapest 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 and they condemned the u.k. for not allowing for not granting his songes the freedom of movement he'd been saying that he 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 would constitute a human rights violation italy and bolivia have already also condemned the leak of the founder of. we cue leagues and well maybe on a more personal note i should say pamela anderson who i should suppose i should

describe as his long distance girlfriend of sorts she also went on a massive twitter round and she did not mince words when it came to her describing a world well what she what she hopes to defeat will bring to everyone responsible for what happened to julian astonished 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 other states as well who have cheered who have cheered and her praised what happened today but i guess the day to look out to look forward to is made the second. love not a journalist and rodeos david swanson for more on the story of the day thanks for joining us good to have you on today spose if anything this case is really highlighted just what a polarizing figure of songs isn't there a judge today in the u.k. . the court describes him as

a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest what do you make of that claim. if it were a criminal charge the sitting president of the united states would be indicted on it immediately but i agree that to assign is a polarizing figure and the way that he is now being tried and will be tried in the coming months and years in the media is not too different from how he's likely to be tried if he ever makes it to a court in virginia when i watched the trial of whistleblower jeffrey sterling in the next court they brought in top government figures like congolese saw rice and they made the whole trial about patriotism and loyalty and is the work that the cia and the military do good and noble or not very little about the technical details of the case involving jeffrey sterling that's what we're going to see with julian a site that nobody knows where they're at this allegation that it's

a songe attempted unsuccessfully to hack into a computer to help hi the identity of a source is true or not people are cheering or he wants a songe punished as a as a traitor and an enemy or they want him rewarded as a journalist i fall in the latter camp and in fear is punished as you describe as a try it's an enemy if he's tried as for espionage or any of a serious crimes that he's accused of in the u.s. he said should i couldn't jail i suppose the concern is or what sort of message that signs regarding freedom of the press doesn't that. well you have the absurdity of someone being a traitor to a country they are not a citizen of and you have the precedent that risk of being set that us journalists who violate the secrecy laws of of foreign countries not on us countries all the time could be charged with crimes by those countries on the precedent and in

retaliation for the us trying non us citizens for violating u.s. laws and i think you know there's this notion that the espionage charge has to be brought before the extradition but i'm afraid that if if a sign she ends up in the united states they will never let him go they will find some way to bring additional charges even if technically they needed to be brought before so that the danger is immediate he needs to be kept out of the united states and thanked and praised and rewarded for the results of his work of exposing crimes for which the criminals have not yet been charged exposing crimes is not a crime it's a service to to self governance and then against the real enemy which is government secrecy and it only has been rewarded for his work of

multiple awards for germany of course but of course there are side of the story according to washington. charged with hacking computers this conspiracy from their point of view i mean hacking into government systems computers regardless of you know how the motives may be from their point of view that sort of crossing journalistic boundaries isn't. it may be the details need to be seen and it may be quite a week supply of details which may explain why there are a bunch of other charges lumped into the so-called conspiracy in the indictment charges that are pure journalism encouraging a source to give you information committing to protecting our sources identity i mean these are these are standard journalistic practices by thousands of journalists and i expect that if this ever makes its way to a trial before a jury we are going to see

a lot of the conversation be about those basic journalistic practices which is of course an incredibly frightening scenario for the future of journalism yes on an unprecedented case raising a whole host of questions regarding legality and morality as well of this case in question jonathan right how if they miss one some thanks for your time today on the program thank you. just a model to our viewers of that top story on that in a song is going to be back in thirty minutes with the latest updates for you here at all times. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to start an open field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw

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