someone believe me if we. told you we'd be. astonished faces charges both of you k. and the u.s. with politicians and human rights groups expressing concern that a 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 journalists and journalists and if we don't have a media world. man allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador that just sounds off the police dragged the whistleblower himself out of the south american countries embassy in london where he'd been holed up for almost seven years.

and a military coup seized the downs president arrested around them urgency really imposed on in the space of twenty four hours we look at the roots of the northeast african countries conflict. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with minichiello and now our top story from human rights organizations to politicians across the globe people have been reacting to the arrest of wiki leaks whistleblower julian songs on thursday police officers dragged him out of his refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy of the quito canceled his asylum we can go live now to r.t.f.m. issues sethian non-definition good to see you and this song has his detractors and to supporters how the arrest being received. well judging from the reaction coming

in from across the globe given the sunshine the expulsion is taking a new ten now debate's been imagining online regarding press freedom with many people saying that their solidarity is with the saw and for revealing the u.s. government human rights violations and diplomatic espionage now many people say they his way encourage people to ask what the most prominent political figures can be hiding including the american civil liberty union who has fiercely condemned songes expulsion an arrest. 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 was searched am especially dangerous precedent for u.s.

journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public's interest now this is also being reiterated by human rights watch they've called the songes arrest a dangerous precedence for any news organization saying jim less might now have to think twice before publishing news of public importance or government scrutiny as well now the general counsel of the organization said that the trumps administration's open hostility to mainstream media has also contributed to an increasingly dangerous environment really for investigative journalism all over the world now there are all those who would say that it's a bit rich calling us saw a journalist why is this an issue. well isn't just critics like he said for example wouldn't maybe regard him as a journalist but we can argue that this whole situation will be regarded as questioning the freedom of speech. verifying factual information if you're in the

region less to or a whistleblower but for his supporters in the journalism world such as the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden he saying it's a dark moment for press freedom has some reaction from the jenison world. images of recorders and buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like it's on the award winning of the building are going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for president them weekly league says 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 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 there's

a criminalization of journalism there's also a political slant to all of this of course and to reason maybe u.k. prime minister might find this as some sort of breather to the breakfast or we've had to resign my speaking in the house of commons praising the met police full force for the arrest saying no one is above the law and also the foreign secretary jeremy hunt saying his not a hey right however this was strongly opposed by the labor governments in the u.k. opposition party saying a songe should not be extradited to the united states and this was all about embarrassing information of the u.s. military that was made public let's take a listen to both a local and international stance on this. this whole story with the prosecution and hounding with establishing inhumane living conditions is consigning to oblivion the rights of the freedom of speech and the disseminating and summation of you it is something that it's

a few. if you think that i mean we're talking about that. word. abusive and elation of your money an international right. we absolutely reject the no amount of julian assange just naturalization and the handover of this australian journalist to be 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 on thursday we saw julian assange being forced out of the ecuadorian embassy in london the king extremely stressed and being essentially carried and the police found that was waiting outside the embassy saying the u.k. must resist attempts by the us administration now this was all off to ecuador krups lee revoked his asylum we know relations between songs and the ecuadorian prime

minister have been to tary ever since president moran took power shortly after though he was taken into the westminster magistrates courts where staunch now faces extra did an extradition hearing on the second of may it's been a while and been around so they'd been up to seven years since t.v. in the song which was hold in the ecuadorian embassy and now the next challenge is illegal acts edition that's all. and thanks for breaking down all the latest for assassin issues that he's speaking to us live from london thank you. all supporters of julian assange as have been showing their solidarity both in the u.k. and stateside in washington they gathered outside the british embassy say protest his host of all the extradition to the u.s. while in london people gathered outside the westminster court home was convicted in london the whistleblower was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy by police .

we talked to wiki leaks that i take kristinn hrafnsson and jennifer robinson a function's lawyer about the why did implications of the arrest and what to expect in the days ahead. it might possibly have a chilling effect on journalist 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 the. whole reason. we we're all worried. is involved in this. proposed to us so this is a threat to journalism journalists the 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 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 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 xstrata the united states and about the president that 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 songes biggest fear may now come true as the united states has confirmed its 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 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

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 wiki 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 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. no i'm.

not a doctor but if you're going to be. does the n.s.a. collect any data on 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'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 and he should be treated as an enemy combatant we 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 grown beyond anything i am aware of 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 in london 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. the life not to be key to young stars of founder and former m.p. fisons pirate policy welcome to the program it's great to have you with us now one of the songs as the lead collaborators was arrested in ecuador day could this be the start of a wider crackdown do you think. i honestly i'm really concerned i

mean i also know all of the. formidable programmer who has really led the way to develop encrypted programming so that we can communicate safely. and i design the way he is being held the most disturbing but i don't think that is necessarily requests from the u.s. that the that is some sort of end from the open door in authorities. we also have to also many. kept her in solitary confinement just out of a vendetta for twenty eight days. and is still in think it's the thirty fifth day. and i am sort of like i'm actually quite surprised that they're not approximately and i don't know if that means that they'll be coming after you since

a lot longer have parliamentary protections or not but the thing is if you are an activist for the rights of press freedom freedom of information and the right to privacy you're always at risk that's just comes with the territory so you know i don't want to give any of these authority that was faxed in that they are frightening people like those that have been put in prison and those that are still doing these things into some sort of paranoia or fear that's the last thing that they're going to get at so you know it does i said he was arrested in ecuador i want more can you tell us about him was he was too closely with wiki leaks like it's alleged. i honestly don't know why i met him a few years ago and we stayed in turks. but i haven't really been in touch with him for a while so it just seems to me that i mean he was doing

a lot of work in africa ecuador. was leading the way and and so did brazil when he came to a lot of these sort of digital rights for human rights back in the day and he was involved with but more than anything i don't know how close he was with wiki leaks i don't think it was any closer than i thought simple. so i think. i think a lot of people who have worked at least back in the day and recent years i don't think we should be too worried because like all this stuff that's. going on in. the united states is because of the leaks that came from chelsea manning that's the indictment and that's the grand jury that are still sealed and i know for a fact you know are i obviously took the department of justice to the poor got. when

the u.s. department demanded to have my digital shadow my medals that are. handed over to them. as a massive fishing expedition i was a member of parliament. considered really see it was a foreign government was going after. very private data from a member of parliament in a sovereign country. and but during the time the discovery my lawyer is still you have the first discovered that there was three other companies that were forced to hand over my data and they could not answer to what companies are these american companies because of national security and. the last occasion so that's probably a part of the big grand jury case and i meant that they're going to try to get a son's a life time for if he is going to be extradited to the u.s.

and i really think and i have to say i mean i've been critical of a science. though many different occasions and he's a very. controversial figure. and i have been quite disturbed since his arrest that a lot of people are the two top about his persona i think it is very important and we push that aside and deuced everyone who cares about these rights will find the actual addition to the united states this is bigger than him and this is really about press freedom not only in regard to the united states but everywhere and there's been a lot of drawbacks enviroment it is when it comes to these facts and we get a thank you for sharing your thoughts with us i have a thousand more questions but i'm afraid we're out of time and that was the foundation form any piece of a pirate party and i said they're getting on. 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 are espionage this is truly a dark day for journalists and journals. most people have this picture of the arctic each day people change rather remote part of the world it is probably the part of the planet where we have seen in geo political terms in economic terms in scientific terms the more she. talks formative. picture. texts the future much more than what has happened on

the european continent on the post of. welcome back now europe's biggest club football competition is into its quarter final stages and keeping a keen eye on all of the champions they got action is on tuesday as a new renia and the latest edition also a show on the touchline he discusses what it's like managing a team in the tournament you can watch that in full and a few minutes. when you're managing a club does it take up every minute of every day if you were. my case.

i would say. if you ask other there's probably been 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. leave. their view of the beach to go to the dressing room and ten minutes later they disappear unless you you stop them with something that you have organized for them i have globes with only just like mr what are the problem of huge glazer family on those that was thinking about the club twenty four hours but the. owners that don't think about the club more than one minute but the guy had clubs where i had to be everything sometimes you got to go home people which is that you

know you have three matches but week 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 allies in that match and preparing for the next one for the next morning you will do the training role you go through the training roles because you've ever met on the on the jews and on the ones they don't have a bedouin trouble yes we have. in other news now the president of the northeast african country of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violent and government protests a sudanese defense minister announced that a newly formed military council will be put in charge for the next two years local journalists are hard hard i'm in reports from sudan. as serious of the ministration and by this statement of the letter meant i would have no will 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 i corroding to the human rights organisation and the medical committee you sit on. for more than forty people dead great number more than three million sudanese people gather around the head trotter of the military marine is said on asking for the full down although bashir ridging which controls more than thirty years now in khartoum is treat a great number maybe reach for five million be able sort of wait for the fall down the regina and asking for a good transition period instead of. the news of omar bashir is addressed came people in sit down to the streets to celebrate his removal however the mood of the protest is quickly changed as aunties more gas have explained.

the dictates of fuld's and the people were joyce 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 rid of a dictator for freedom for democracy what they go to the end is a military regime what has been just stated is frost's a coup and it is not acceptable they are recycling 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 solly and gadhafi before him made inroads with the west's rivals boosted relations trade military and economic cooperation with china 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 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 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 thanks for joining us tonight international my colleague jacqueline vehicle will be with you at the top of the output over night and.