capital punishment is still practiced. execution of the time to. favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us. and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize this is not working and we actually do something about. a man allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador that just sounds off the police trying to whistle blow himself out of the south american countries embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years. it was a staunch faces charges both in the u.k. and in the u.s.

with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern that's a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest. a military coup seized the downs president arrested and imagines the rule imposed order in a space of twenty four hours we'll look at the roots of the northeast african countries conflicts. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky air and our top story this hour and the ledge 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 where this comes after british police tried to distressed looking out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven

years. the station of the rest of julie no stange protesters in london and washington expressed concern over his possible extradition to the u.s. he's wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer. directly following his arrest the wiki leaks whistle blower was driven to westminster magistrates court in london but he was found guilty of failing to hand him self into authorities in twenty twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which has since been dropped off his polly boyko reports saunders told he would be sentenced not to the later date somehow by a video link to 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 bad day for the journalists in our studios jennifer said he said so there's again we don't want to this to go forward this has to see has to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for sure and that journalists will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activities the ecuadorian all-star team has allowed the metropolitan police to go inside the embassy where a party joining us 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 afterwards we learned that julian assange just electical asylum and to citizenship had been revoked by the ecuadorian offshore it's easy to listen to what len miller and the president of ecuador had to say about it all. on announce that the discourteous and aggressive

behavior of mr julian i saw on 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 astronomers mr assad regime is unsustainable there are no longer more. 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 wanted to 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 disputes bubbling beneath the surface as well last year julian assange was given a list of conditions light of his the ecuadorian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up after himself clean his bar free and pay for his own food to pay for the

normal three cleanup after his talent which they threatened 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 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 we missed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange stuff saga and to women living on to perhaps a rather poor truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. just a moment ago in polly's report we heard from wiki leaks that it's kristinn hrafnsson and jennifer robinson assad his lawyer will also talk to them about the

wider implications of a songes arrest and what to expect in the days ahead. it might possibly have a chilling effect on jewelers all over the world if they have to freeze 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 the. way. we view overeats that. involved in this. proposed to us so this is a threat to journalism journalists the freedom of the media world what is happening now always is what we expected to happen we will take on the fight and fight for victory and we will help him out while 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 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 a frank 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 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 it. and it seems the saudis biggest fear may now come true. as the united states has confirmed that it's requested its extradition his extradition what is being 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 jail artie's kid of more pain 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 were key 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 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 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 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 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 them 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 he should be treated as an enemy combatant should be closed down permanently indecisively this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be shot 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 grown beyond anything i am aware 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 u.k. officials he is in their custody now the question remains will he be extradited to the united states many observers speculate that if he 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 as long as the rest provoked an outcry from human rights organizations and politicians across the globe to discuss the reaction not easy to put trying to joins me in the studio morning now love him or hate him there's no denying that pus become an iconic figure hasn't he how much of an inspiration do you think he's his legacy has been to the human rights community there's definitely a lot of inspiration and as you know

a whole lot of skeletons in the closets of the world's mightiest and most powerful perhaps will never be revealed but as you've said if it wasn't for julian this. some people would never even start thinking that some of this gruesome stuff existed and indeed and always perhaps a very important part of his legacy will be that what he did i. the fact that he was trying to encourage people to start thinking and start asking questions about what the powerful people in the world are hiding and this kind of legacy and this how kind of is this ration can be truly felt through what the activists are saying about what's going on with mr assad let's have a look at what the american civil to civil liberties our union said about what's going on with him. any prosecution by the united states. for

leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and you should know and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations were prosecuting a foreign publisher for violating u.s. secrecy rules would sit am especially dangerous precedent for us journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to tip information vital to the public's interest. human rights watch have said that this puts every news organization in danger and these kind of things have been echoed by what a whole lot of activists and activist organizations are saying as well they are worried that this opens up a whole new era and the key word here is danger for all journalists and whistleblowers there's then there's that enduring question mark over us songs and

his legacy when it comes to whether he's going to be remembered as a journalist or a whistleblower isn't well you see some people see a difference others don't but you cannot argue that his case will always be connected to the essence the notion of freedom of speech in any case and it seems that all kinds of attempts by the american elite for example to paint him with that brush to really try and convince the world that. mr sawyer is not a journalist will always be challenged by the most were now and whistleblowers and investigative journalists. would use the frequent those in buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drug a publisher if like you to know it was winning journalism out of the building. up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom 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 g.o.g. sis part of what is science did to just define 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 we know that a song has massive support among the people but this is a case that has political undertones is there how have politicians been weighing in while tourism a as we know has said that no one is above the law so it looks like the u.s. the u.k. ecuador with its current government they're going to continue team up to push that line saying that suspected criminals should be prosecuted although there are politicians in the western world and definitely and other parts of the world that

will continue to say that this is just a pretext and they will still support no matter what because they believe that what's happening with the world's number one whistleblower probably is pure hypocrisy. this whole story with that sign into oblivion the rights of the freedom of speech and disseminating and nation it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about that. show on the ward. abuses and elation of human and international right now we absolutely reject the julian assange just naturalisation that and the handover of this whole straightly and journalists to the united kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition of julian assange is to the us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be opposed by the british government. so in these almost twenty four hours after the

arrest of mr saw as you can see so much reaction house come out which is no surprise and more is still coming up we'll tell you all about it and of course we're waiting for the next steps of the u.k. police as well as the lady at thanks for breaking things down far as if. and we discussed it was simple i was impressed with a new political commentator steve months back we have a country here called the united states of america he compromise sources and methods and diplomats put people at risk you can accept this as a nation you must prosecute these people and subject them to the fullest penalties the law allows the store to see that mr trump who praised him so many times during the two thousand and sixteen election is now claims he never heard of him never reads what can we say we're not supposed to know what our government does despite all the unbelievably evil things that the u.s. government does i'm sorry to say that that's true but the u.s.

government is by the way a force not a force for good in the world anymore if it ever was have you ever want to you in context what was happening over here to debate what was revealed we're here to debate did this man commit a crime is a terrible thing julian a son who was tortured also when they in the ecuadorian embassy he was not being fed properly he had no. telephone personal communication no internet for a very long time this little tiny room who you saw him today being told by the british secret police there was something terrible to say i love the fact that my counterpart sits here and just you know says whatever he wants without any facts the m.f.f. still won't you have no facts so that he wasn't tortured in the embassy somebody is tortured he is free to waive i would a left won't try to go into the conditions you're putting forth he's never claimed he was tortured or that embassy where do you get that from i love this everybody is evil except the bad. guys in your world if in fact julian assad did what the united

states government said he did to now no one's talking about the death penalty i know it's talking even about life in prison that right now the indictment under the charges he faces it would be five years in prison the u.s. plans to step on him and to make sure that try to make sure that nobody else ever does with wiki leaks and julian assange and he's going to be punished it's not going to be five years it's going to be the rest of his life if in fact julian massage did what the united states government said he did he to now no one's talking about the death penalty and no one's talking even about life imprisonment right now the indictment under the charges he faces that would be five years in prison but they're especially upset about is the you tube of the of the people. the groaners killing people laughing about it yucking it up so much fun and then doing what they did with the mafia calls a double tap where they would kill some people then wait till the rescue was came

and then they all yanked it up about killing the rescuers so this is we're not supposed to see that kind of thing of course we're not supposed to know what our government does if someone from the new york times or the washington post or any media outlet here in this country helped someone break in. somewhere to get information or act into a computer they'd be prosecuted you can't do that that's not being a journalist that's being a criminal and if you're doing your you run the you run the risk of being prosecuted. to the lot of from people now you are his biggest club football competition is into his quarter final state isn't keeping a keen eye on all the champions league action is on teams to the same renia and the latest additional fish eye on the touchline he discusses what it's like managing a team in the tournament starting full and if.

when you're managing a club does it take up every minute of every day if you was. my case. i would say. if you ask other guys probably yes there are players that are still. in the training session and they are already thinking about what next and some of them believe the. believe. of the peach to go to the dressing room and ten minutes later they disappear unless you stop them with something that you have organized for them i've heard globes we all know is like mr what are the mr abramovich the glazers family on those tours thinking about the club twenty four hours per day. the owners that. more than one minute but the guy had clubs where i had to be

everything sometimes you got to go home people were just you know you have three matches but weeks sometimes you play on a sunday and then you have champions you don't know where they. are on you finish the game on the sunday you are already. preparing for the next ones or the next morning you will do the training role you will do the turn of roles because you've ever met on the on the jews and on the ones that have a bedouin or a trouble yes we have. a president of the north east african country of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violence anti-government protests a sudanese defense minister an ounce the newly formed military council will be put in charge for the next two years local journalists. reports from. as serious of the ministration and by this statement of the letter meant i want to declare the

transition period of sudanese government for two years that his statement came as a result for the demonstration started and december encouraged to by the security forces dealt with that demonstration by violence which goes according to the human rights organization and the medical committee is said on. for more than forty people dead the great number was then three million sudanese people gather around the head roger of the military marine is to don asking for the phone down although bashir ridging which controls for more than thirty years now in khartoum is treat a great number maybe reach for five million be able through the wait for the fall down. and asking for a good transition period instead of the news a very much shares arrests came people in sudan took to the streets to celebrate his removal however the mood of the protestors quickly changed his oxys more

downstream explains. the dictates of fuld's and the people were drawing happy empowered optimistic it's it's always the same how 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 militant was really the military takes full responsibility for changing the entire regime for a transitional period of two years in which the government would be handled by the armed forces. now you could understand why people are a bit miffed they rebelled risked everything to get rid. a dictator for freedom for democracy 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 out 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. which i think if you get any air of iranian conflict will harm the whole region arrow counter ease and iran itself neither iran nor the arabs would leave the region i suppose the best 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 doesn't 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 to 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 traumatized nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never go.