for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for. the time is now watching closely for watching. a man allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in there that just hours after police drank the whistleblower himself out of the south american countries embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years. as long as faces charges both in the u.k. and in the u.s. with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest. a military to seize sit downs president arrested and emergency rule imposed all in the space

of twenty four hours to look at the roots of the northeast african countries calling. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me nicky ara our top story this hour an alleged collaborator of the wiki leaks founder julian assange was arrested on thursday in ecuador the south american countries interior minister confirms that a person who is quote very close to the wiki leaks organization was detained as he boarded a flight to japan but this comes after british police dragged a distressed looking us sons out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years.

as for the arrested ecuador officials say it's related to alleged attempt to destabilize the government of president morello well no personal information concerning the individual has been given there are reports he is a swedish software developer meanwhile the international community is reacting to the sensational arrest of julian and songe protesters in london and washington expressed concern over his possible extradition to the us where he is wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer or directly following his arrest the wiki leaks whistleblower was driven to westminster magistrates court in london where he was found guilty of failing to hand him self into or thora tees in two thousand and twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which has since been drop's artie's police reports. someone just told me he would be sentenced not to the later date to have fire at video link the songes legal team on the wiki leaks but surprisingly 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 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 assurance that a journalist will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activities the ecuadorian also artie's thomson allowed the metropolitan police want to go inside the embassy where the party julian is on to try 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 after as we learned that

julian assange just electical asylum and to citizenship had been revoked by the ecuadorian authorities take a listen to what len miller and the president of ecuador had to say about it till. i announce that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian assange on should give the hostile and threatening declarations of his annoyed organization. on especially the transgression of international treaties who have led the situation to a point where the asylum of mr assad regime is unsustainable there are no longer viable 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 and was interfering in the international affairs in the affair. of all the countries through his online activity even through his activities as editor of wiki leaks but also there was this kind of domestic disputes bubbling beneath the surface as well last year

julian assange was given a list of conditions that he needed to add here to if he wanted to stay tidy up after himself clean his bar pay for his own food to pay for said norton three clean up after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened we'll welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested judy in a sorry. mr speaker this goes to show that in the united kingdom no one is above the law. but what was shown today is that no one is above the law julian assange is no hero he is hidden from the truth for to resolve the situation we miss the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange stuff saga and to moving on to perhaps a rather put truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. was just

a moment ago in polly's report we heard from wiki leaks that it's kristinn hrafnsson and jennifer robinson the thought his lawyer will also talk to them about the wider implications of a song his arrest and what to expect in the days ahead. it might possibly have a chilling effect on your list all over the world if they have to face the possibility of being persecuted thrown into a prison plane to be flown to be. put on trial in a country in the early states. all. the over it's that. involved in this. so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media overall what has happened always is what we expected to happen he will take on the fight and fight for

victory and we will help him oh well we were prepared after the lake that we were safe last week from the ecuador high of high up official in the ecuadorian government last week there was an agreement between the u.k. in ecuador around his arrest as we've been predicting ecuador has revoked his asylum and you could 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 a modified it but it is a great concern he's concerned obviously about the prospect of being asked right to the united states and about the president at that sets for the media everywhere we will of course fight any extradition requests made ited 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 ineffectively manes 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 it. and it seems to sanjay's biggest fear may now come true. as the united states has confirmed that is requested his extradition he's been charged with conspiring to hack a classified u.s. government computer with a whistleblower chelsea manning the justice department says he could face up to five years in prison artie's kellett more in 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 julie who saw as i have been seeing would accept and

was so on edge and 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 we keep leaks wiki leaks leaks it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki leaks leaks the wiki leaks ricky leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks the 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 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 u.s. officials at this time being held and it's important to reveal 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 millions of new 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 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. 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 ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death and want to do it illegally shoot the son of a this is a man of this comb beyond anything i am aware on ignorance or misplaced idealism is

no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons at this point julia songes not anymore in the ecuadorian embassy and london 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 you 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. as long as the rest cry from human rights organizations politicians across the globe want to discuss the reaction. in the studio now. we know that it has so many passionate supporters but what has been the reaction from the human rights

community nikki hi well of course a lot of the skeletons in the closets of the world's mine and powerful probably will never be revealed but if it wasn't for julian assange some people wouldn't even start to dared to really think that some of these things some of these gruesome things existed and indeed a very important part of his legacy will always be the fact that he started encouraging people to think you can ask questions about what the most powerful and influential people in charge of this world are hiding and this can truly be felt by how activists all around the world are reacting to this there's been a lot of things said by some of the most important human rights organizations let's look at what was said by human rights watch they saying that prosecuting julian assange for acts often associated with publishing news of public importance

including sensitive or classified information has potential to open a dangerous precedent for every news organization the american civil liberties union also published a statement on what's going on with julian is songe they are saying that any prosecution by the united states of mr leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations moreover prosecuting a foreign publisher for violating u.s. secrecy laws would said and it's especially dangerous precedent for us journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the. publics interests so yeah this is being echoed by what many activists are saying because they are afraid a whole new era is going to start with this and that could be very very dangerous for journalists around the whole world opinion which is why the splits on

a son's isn't that there are those who see him as a whistleblower and a villain and those who see him as a journalist you're right niki some do see a difference other others don't but in any case his speech will always be closely associated with the whole notion of freedom of speech and as we know the u.s. elite keeps trying to tell the whole world that he's not a journalists pretty much implying that he's a villain but if we look at what the world's most renowned journalists and wesel blowers are saying really we understand that they have a completely different idea images of those in buses invoicing the k. secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like you to know it was waiting journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom week you 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 g.o.g. sis part of what is science did to just before 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. the whole case has political undertones doesn't it how has politicians been weighing instances of arrest. no one is above the law and that's what we heard from you case prime minister to resume a so apparently it looks like politicians in the ng to team up in their efforts to portray the whistleblower joy in a songe someone who isn't doing this world any good but even in the political

community around the world there are voices of course that again have a completely different idea and that will be trying to explain to everyone that what joining us has been doing is vital and very important for humanity. this whole story with the prosecution and hounding with establishing inhumane living conditions is consignee to pity and rights to freedom of speech to someone eating and. it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about that. shown towards abuses and violation of human and international right. we absolutely reject the julian assange just naturalization and the handover of this australian journalist to the united kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition of julian the sons to the us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be

opposed by the british government. yes it is already almost twenty four hours since the arrest of join us and as you see so much reaction has come out and there is more to come of course especially after the prosecutors take further steps we are still awaiting that and we will tell you all about it when these things happen thanks for breaking down things for. now the president of the northeast african country of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violent antigovernment protests the sudanese defense minister announced that a newly forms military council will be put in charge for the next two years local journalists our men reports from sudan. as serious of the ministration and by this statement of the letter on and. on declared the tradition of sudanese government

for two years that his statement came as a result for the demonstration started and december encouraged. by the security forces dealt with that demonstration by violence which goes according to the human rights organizations and the medical committees for john. for more than forty people dead the great number was then three million sudanese people gather around the head of the military marine is sudan asking for the fall down all the sheer redeemed which controls more than thirty years. now in cartoonist create a great number maybe reach for five million beetles first wait for the fall down. and asking for a good transition period. when news of her mother she is arrest came people in sudan took to the streets to celebrate his removal however the mood of the protesters quickly changed as i see is more i have explained.

the dictates of and the people. happy empowered optimistic it's always the same and many times have we seen this happen this decade revolution in africa in the middle east the dictator amal bashir was removed by the military which sided with the people. sort of what the how militant must really have to be the military takes full responsibility for changing the entire regime for a transitional period of two years in which the government will be handled by the armed forces. now you could understand why people are a bit miffed they rebelled risked everything to get rid of a dictator for freedom for democracy and what they go to the end is

a military regime what has been just taught it is for us and it's not acceptable there is sickening the faces and this will return us to where we have been on the other hand consider how much worse it could have been temporary military rule may just have been the lesser of two evils but these revolutions rarely and well. you may recognize this picture it's from a different era most of the need is either deposed in exile or dead countries no better off.

a grim even depressing picture yet it seems people just don't learn from the past this week we heard the same tired cools from the u.k. u.s. norway calls for regime change. the demand for political change from the courageous and resilient people of sudan is becoming ever clear and more powerful the sudanese people are demanding a transition to a political system that is inclusive and has greater legitimacy there is a reason they wanted him gone not so much because he's a dictator they have plenty of tyrannical friends no because mr bashir like solly

and gadhafi before him made inroads with the west's rivals boosted relations trade military and economic cooperation with china with russia iran with them if you get any air of iranian conflict will harm the whole region iraq counter ease and iran itself neither iran nor the arabs would leave the region i suppose the burst option is to kill exist and deal with the problems that we have through dialogue and negotiations it is better than using guns and that it would appear was an unforgivable sin the united states considers africa its own and some want anyone else on its tough unfortunately billions upon billions of us taxpayer dollars have not achieved this are effects they have not prevented other

powers such as china and russia from taking advantage of african states increase their own power and influence from now on the united states will not tolerate this longstanding pattern of it without effect to be fair mr bolton you hardly helped years of u.s. sanctions of civil war atrocities and the split up of the country have left their mark so don is a traumatised nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never going to happen. the first like games in the way that champions league quarter finals have been played with tottenham beating manchester city one nil on tuesday as a marine it as a marine gives his post not analysts in the latest installment of on the touchline the full edition is on in an hour.

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