after almost seven years confined to the ecuadorian embassy in london the u.k. police dragged. one safe haven and placed him under arrest. of the law and no hero while the british prime minister and officials praised. asylum community brians it's a dark day for journalism. it's preceded means any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states this is

a dark cave. songs now faces extradition to the us where the justice department has revealed he's wanted for allegedly conspiring government computers. for moscow you're watching r.t. international with me. today thanks for joining us on the program. i want a dramatic turn of events after nearly seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london the wiki leaks founder julian assange she was arrested on thursday morning it was a lower is now in police custody and he's potentially facing extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted on charges of conspiring to hack government computers video captured the moment a distress looking was dragged out of the diplomatic compound. look

i. was the only video agency to films you and i saw this being removed from the embassy a number of media outlets had initially claimed the whistleblower left all of his own accord and was arrested outside were forced to change their reporting off of the images were released following his arrest in assad's was taken to westminster magistrates court where he was convicted of breaching bail and twenty twelve more in the case reports from central london. well julian saunders found guilty by a pretty to be scathing judge inside westminster magistrates court here

a little bit earlier on the judge told us on just a narcissist to call him that constitute a self interest and i saw him just told me he would be sentenced to a later date set up by a video link from the u.k. charges to tree in a sauna skipping bail back in twenty twelve they carry a month maximum sentence of about twelve months so relatively speaking it's a pretty small fry compared to the looming threats of potential all the 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 of housing 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 here what a songes legal team on the wiki expects of us and 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 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 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. still 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 and he was forcibly removed from the ag doria the 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 julius on tried to resist arrest and then he was physically bundled up 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 to told. us that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian are shown to give the hostile and freshening declarations of his annoyed organization. on especially the

transgression of international treaties who have led the situation to a point where the a stardom of mr assad regime is unsustainable there 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 all the 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 leg for dorrian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up offer him self between his policy and pay for. so you pay for saying no one three clean up after is to happens which they threaten term leave and subsequently did this relationship

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 on british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened will welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested julian assange. mr speaker this goes to show that in the united kingdom no one is above the law. but what we've seen 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 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 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 truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle just a moment ago their own police report we heard from wiki leaks editor christian hofmann and jennifer robson who's a song just lawyer spoke to them about the wider implications of a song as arrest and what exactly to expect in the days ahead. it might possibly have a chilling effect on journalists all over the world if they have to face the possibility or being persecuted thrown into prison plain to be flown to be. put on trial in a country in the other states the. world. we are already. involved in this. proposed to us

so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media what has happened always is what we expected to happen he will take the fight and fight for victory and we will help him oh well we were prepared after the lake that we received wiki leaks were safe last week from the ecuador high of higher position on the ecuadorian government last week there was an agreement between the u.k. an equitable around his arrest as we've been predicting ecuador has revoked his asylum and the u.k. have arrested him on a u.s. extradition request he's holding up incredibly well given the circumstances he asked me to pass on i thank you to all of his supporters for their ongoing support which will be needed in the months and years that i think they've come ahead as we face is extradition request and will fight it but it is a great concern he's concerned obviously about the prospect of being answered to the united states and about the precision that that sets for the media everywhere we will of course fight any extradition request needed states is

a provisional warrant for his arrest they have the next month also to provide a full request and we will of course fight it this is a massive free speech issue this is a priest and effect will affect all of the media anywhere in the world effectively means that any journalist or media organization anywhere in the world can be extradited and prosecuted for having published truthful information about the united states and that is as a matter of principle wrong and ought to be resisted and we will be fighting a swedish software developer as really close to the wiki leaks father has been arrested at the airport in ecuador he was about to board a flight to japan r.t. spoke to the former president of ecuador who granted assad's asylum. thinks the country's current leadership is out for revenge. yes you know maybe. i think marino deserves the title of the greatest traitor of history there he could compete with judas the state of ecuador cordons with international law and guided by his

own national pride was simply obliged 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 at the head it was a decision made by him or a no no 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 to the possibility that the u.k. will not extradite julian assange to the united states it is very unlikely. the united states has confirmed that it's requested the extradition of songs she'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 artie's kaleb more than 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 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 it's not my deal in life wiki leaks were key leaks wiki leaks put you leaks it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki leaks leaks the wiki leaks should be 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 a songe 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 everybody. does the n.s.a. collect any data a million of those sort of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intel. 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 well 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 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 we should be closed down part. only 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 combo jaan 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 any more 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 on a server speculates that if you copy 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 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 rote u.s.

prosecutors to simplify the x. but guy. is extradition from u.k. to the u.s. i would be surprised the u.s. doesn't the un amir and the indictment wants to use on u.s. soil amend the indictment and tackle an 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 military that will that will come in the u.k. over the song is proving to be more polarizing than ever before you go as donna for looks into the outpouring of reaction to the latest developments in 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 a minority 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 whistle blowers who have stepped forward and 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 days 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 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 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 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 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 will initially whistleblowers do us all a service we only need to look at child. to man and to see what awaits a silence 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. all national security cases for herself she hears my

case so you judge them bastards. has ever wanted. it but i asked was separate documents that i need to defend myself. all. i suspect you'll get is say you'll 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 manipulable so they can manipulate them any way they want these are techniques that have been 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 storm 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 a songe of 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 so if. to extradite the son to this would constitute a human rights violation italy and bolivia have already also condemned the handling of the a sanch case the sort of the man handling of the of the leak of the founder

of we can only send 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 describing a world well what she 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 of the u.k. of the united states of some other states as well who have cheered who have cheered on her praised what happened today but i guess the day to look out to look forward to is may the second. journalist and we can leak supporter cassandra fairbanks told us she believes that a songes of 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

free 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 courtney to 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 spotlight 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 claim to not do what we even was and they are seen arresting him today and i could bring 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 because just from andro the story do anything or news coverage we could expound of judah in a song he was arrested on thursday morning and drug of out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he had been taking refuge for nearly seven years new video agency captured exclusive video of the moment he was taken from the building. going to see it in thirty minutes for the latest developments and interviews. rest

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campaign and the russian government another investigation is already begun looking into the motivations of an f.b.i. report which led to muller's investigation at the heart of that initial report is the man who joins me in studio today george probably double as former advisor to donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign his ties between russian nationals in the campaign and snared him in the investigation which eventually led to his arrest in a guilty plea for lying to investigators he says he was a patsy and it ended actionable as few knowledge to this very c. and he attempts to explain and now in his new book state target how i got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down president trump and joins me in studio how did you get i mean you did quite what did you do oh thanks a lot for having me larry and i do my best with the limited time we have to explain

this incredible story so first of all how did i even join the ben carson and donald trump campaigns because that's actually the origins of how i got caught in this crosshairs i have been working at the hudson institute in washington d.c. for five years leading up to the twenty fifteen presidential campaign season where i was working with personalities like doug feith such crops he scooter libby these were all the bush george h.w. george w. bush reagan officials who are basically the neo conservatives of our country and at that time who are my mentors and colleagues fast forward to the summer of two thousand and fifteen i see an opportunity to leverage those ties to join presidential campaigns.