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 expected charges for espionage this is truly a dark day for journalist and journals. a man allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador just hours after police tried to whistleblower him out of the south american countries embassy in london where he's been holed up almost seven years. i'm. a staunch faces charges both in the u.k. and in the u.s. with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern for the dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief about the possible repercussions. this is

a threat to journalism and journalists and the freedom of the media world. and a military coup sees sit downs president arrested and imagines the rule imposed all in the space of twenty four hours as we look at the roots of the northeast african countries conference. a warm welcome you want to wiki leaks founder julian assange knowledge 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 dragged a distressed looking a songs out of the ecuadorian embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years.

oh international community is reacting to the sensational arrest of julian a song protesters in london and washington expressed concern over his possible extradition to be due west where he is wanted on charges of conspiring to hack a government computer. directly following his arrest the wiki leaks whistleblower was driven to westminster magistrates court in london that he was found guilty of failing to hand him self it was dorothy's in two thousand and twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which is since been dropped on ts pony boy was their fourth. someone just told me he would be sentenced not to the later date to have by 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 precint 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 journalists in our studios jennifer said he said so the president we don't want to this to go forward this has just it has to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for assurances that the journalists will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activities the ecuadorian all-star team has allowed the metropolitan police going 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 after as 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.

us 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 is interfering in the international affairs in the affair. of other countries through his online activity through his activities is the 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 if he wanted to stay on the good side of his neck for dorrian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up after himself

clean his bar pay for his own food to pay for his own no one three clean up after is to hand 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 song. 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 years and years but also very courageous decision by president around zero in ecuador to resolve the situation we witnessed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange stuff saga and we're moving on to perhaps or rather the truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. just a moment ago in polly's report we heard from wiki leaks editor kristinn hrafnsson

as jennifer robinson assigns is lawyer we also talk to them about the wider implications of a song as the rest on what to expect in the days ahead. it might possibly have a chilling effect on duelist all over the world if they have to face the possibility or being persecuted and thrown into a prison plane to be flown to be. put on trial in a third country in the other states the. world will release the the overreach that. involved in this. so this is a threat to journalism journalists the freedom of the media what has happened always is what he expected to happen he will take the fight and fight for victory and we will help him oh well we were prepared after the leak that we received wiki

leaks received last week from the ecuador high of high up official in the ecuadorian government last week there was an agreement between ukraine 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 to 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 extradited 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 as 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 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 his extradition he's been charged with conspiring to hack a classified u.s. government computer with whistleblower chelsea manning the justice department says he could face up to five years in prison 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 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 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 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 the millions of new sort of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence or talks like a hostile takeover search. 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 we're looking into that right now he should be treated as an enemy combatant which he really should be closed down permanently and decisively 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 grown 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 any more 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 he comes to the items and 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. i found the rest for that to not cry from human rights organizations on politicians across the globe to discuss the reaction to trying to joins me in studio good morning. so how much of an inspiration do you think a song his legacy has been to the human rights community he really is an icon isn't a massive inspiration indeed and you know what a lot of these skeletons in the closets of the world's mightiest the most powerful

probably will never be pulled out but if it wasn't for julian assange some people wouldn't even start thinking merely that some of this nasty and gruesome stuff even existed and indeed a very important part of his legacy probably the most important part will always be that he encouraged so many people to think and ask questions about what most powerful people in charge of this world could be hiding and this can truly be felt through the things that are being said by the activists right now in reaction to what's happening with the whistleblower let's take a look at what the american civil liberties union came out with. any prosecution by the united states of. wiki 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 set i'm especially dangerous precedents for us journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public's interest. human rights watch are now actually saying that every news organization is in danger and this kind of. sentiment is being echoed by so many activists and activists organizations right now they are worried that we are now potentially in a new era where the key word is danger for journalists or whistleblowers to those who support him he is you know. a hero here is an award winning journalist but there are those who hate him and see a difference between bigotry a list and a whistleblower some people do but you can argue that in any case this joy in

a solid situation and his whole fate well always be intertwined with the notion of freedom of speech and it seems that any kind of attempts by the us political elite to paint him with that brush and to try and convince the world that he is not a journalist will always be challenged by the world's most renowned whistleblowers and investigative journalists as well. images of the quote those ambassador invites in the case secret police into the embassy to drug a publisher if like you to know award winning journalism out of the building. up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom weekly 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 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 it's all. rick know the political undertones of this case how have politicians been weighing in since his arrest well over to reason may said no one is above the law and it looks like the likes of the u.s. the u.k. and the current government of ecuador will continue to team up in saying that these suspected criminals should be prosecuted and they will keep on pushing that line but at the same time even in the western world and also in other parts of the world there will be politicians who will keep on saying things like phony pretext and they will continue to treat this case as pure hypocrisy of the western

political elites. this whole story with the persecution and hounding with establishing infamy living conditions is consignee to ability and rights of the freedom of speech and to someone eating and summation it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about that. shown towards abuses and by elation of human international right we absolutely reject julian assange just natural ization and the handover of this australian journalist to the united kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition of julian a son to the us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be opposed by the british government. and in any case now whatever the people say it still all depends on the next steps by u.s. police and u.s.

prosecutors so we will be watching out for that thanks we appreciate that and thanks for coming in this morning a break things down for us if. oh . it is finally how often julian assange was arrested within the at the dorian 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. there are millions of people in america and around the world who are better educated than ray dahlia but in order to succeed on wall street you need after

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a completely different result is the first beat match at that stadium and means some sink means a lot the new stadium is a beautiful seeing something that people is waiting for for years the people is waiting for that huge huge brides herrick in is going to be out of that match but bottom they also have the quality towards there is no pressure you look to this competition and. he was there too we need biden was there too we need all the english teams there too we need the real madrid barcelona the camaraderie there that we need. nobody sees they are there too we need what they can i think united at one player that was responsible for that in the total positive sense of of the world he was a mad dog afraid of nobody i saw immediately even before the replay that was

that was all the view was great. because the linesman made them a mistake a human mistake but you also have the view are ignoring sings that you don't did even a replay. it's. merely would be to say because i love the kids and i know you're very poor. old say city. city but yeah it was difficult i know that i would start every show i know but really really hard because because god one can perfectly do it. in other news now the president of the north east african country of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violent antigovernment protests a sudanese defense minister announced that a new life forms on the reports from sudan. as serious of the ministration and by

this statement of the letter meant i would have now declared the transition period 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 i corroding to the human rights organisation and the medical committee you sit on. for more than forty people dead the great number more than three million sudanese people gather around the head roger of the military lowering is said on asking pull the phone down all the sheer reading which controls more than thirty years now in cartoonist create a great number maybe reach for five million beetles through the wait for the fall down on the weekend and asking for a good transition period instead of. when you said i'm off for she is a rest came people in sudan took to the streets to celebrate his ruble at

a new job the protesters quickly changed as mark gasnier explains. the dictates of fuld's and the people were draw it's 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. 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 real. 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 earlier this week we heard the same tired cool's 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 sally 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 have any air of iranian conflict with 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 someone anyone else on it's tough unfortunately billions upon billions of us

taxpayer dollars have not achieved desired 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 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 going to happen and i think and in fact even as for all the negative.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in. to stand out of those business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. questions.