the time is not for watching closely for watching. julie in the sun 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 we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief about the possible repercussions. this is a threat to journalism journalists if we deal with the media world. meanwhile i meant allegedly linked to wiki leaks founder julian assange is arrested in ecuador that just hours after 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 sudan's president arrested and emergency rule imposed only space of

twenty four hours we look at the roots of the north east african countries conflict . you're watching our chief international bringing you live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. from human rights organizations to politicians across the globe people have been reacting to the arrest of wiki leaks whistleblower julian a song on thursday a police officer dragged him out of his refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy after quito cancelled his asylum live now to our teens finish a selfie in london and has his fair share of detractors and supporters how has his arrest been received no. well cheating a songes arrest has been received by outrage and that's clear from wilt right reaction that still coming in now at

a pace that is global solidarity and global voices standing with the song for all his past revelations many people. say that his work encourage people to ask what the most prominent political figures come be hiding and the american civil liberties union that's an organization that defends human rights has basically condemned songes 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 would set i'm 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

and they say that in this might now think twice before publishing news of public importance or government scrutiny but if we tend off thoughts now to the trumpet ministrations open hostility to mainstream media the general counsel of human rights watch say that this behavior and this outlook creates a dangerous environment certain vesa get of genesis all over the world. now some say it's a bit of a stretch to call a function a journalist why is that an issue why is that up for debate. well that's quite a bill a real line really between what constitutes as a journalist a publisher or a whistleblower but it seems that it doesn't matter whichever way you look at it in this particular case because this whole situation will be regarded as questioning the freedom of speech and verifying factual information you know if you're either a journalist or a whistleblower but from his supporters in the jenison world the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden they say it's

a dark moments for press freedom has some reaction now from the generals and world . images of those in buses invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like it's on the award winning journalist 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 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 d.s.p. nine hundred seventeen is an attack on all of us the g.o.g. says part of what is science did to justify 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. there is also a poet school science all of this of course the k. prime minister treason may might find this is

a breather to breakfast at the moment we head to reason may speaking in the house of commons praising the met police force yesterday saying no one's above the law however this was strongly opposed by the opposition party saying a songe should not be extradited to the united states and that this was all about exposing the us military atrocities in iraq and afghanistan let's take a listen now to both the local. and international starts all of this. this whole story with the prosecution and hounding with establishing inhumane living conditions is consigning to ability and rights of the freedom of speech and disseminating information he did is something that it's serious if you think that i mean that we are talking about that. show on the ward. abuses and by all a sion of human and international right we absolutely reject the nomen to julian assange that realization that and the handover of this australian journalist 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. on thursday we saw julian assange being forced out of the ecuadorian embassy looking reeses be stressed and he was essentially being carried into that police van which was waiting for him outside this was offset abruptly revoked his asylum we know that relations between the ecuadorian president and the son being just tearing him for a long time since he came into power now faces an extradition hearing on the second of may that will be via video link so the next challenge for him is this next legal action battle but one thing's for sure they this expulsion and the potential consequences has gone is out cry wolf why it's guarding the issue of freedom of speech and human rights and issues that they live from london thank you for

bringing us that report. supporters of julian assange have been showing their solidarity both in the u.k. and stateside in washington d.c. they gathered outside the british embassy to protest his possible extradition to the u.s. and then people gathered outside the westminster court was convicted on thursday the whistleblower was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy by police. we talked to wiki leaks other christian preference and jennifer robinson us launches lawyer about the wider implications of the arrest and what to expect in the days to come. 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 its that is involved in this. proposed so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media overall what has happened 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. and 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 to move fight 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 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 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. it seems the songes 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 are killed martin has more. 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 assad 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 those 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 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 we 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 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 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 we discussed the whistleblowers arrest with author lou rockwell and political commentator steve malzberg. 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 read so we can weeks we're not supposed to know what our government does spied on 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 worn a uniform sir let's let first what i'd like to see every single thing that was

revealed put in context what was happening i'm not 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 it was not being fed properly yet you had no. telephone personal communication no internet for a very long time this little tiny room you saw him today being pulled out by the british secret police there was quite 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. told won't you have no facts so that he wasn't tortured in the embassy somebody is tortured he's free to leave i would a left long time ago under 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 often 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 no signs of none 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. 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. 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 journalists and journals.

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welcome back the first leg games of the champions league quarter finals have been played with tottenham beating manchester city one nil on tuesday just a marine who gives his post match analysis in the latest installment of on the touchline watch that unfold later today on r.t.e. . that moment is the moment because probably now we will be speaking about a completely different result is the first beat match at that stadium and means some sink in means a lot of the new stadium is a beautiful seeing something that people is waiting for for years the people is waiting for that huge huge bride's herrick in is going to be out of that match but bottom they also have the quality towards there is no pressure in all you look to this competition and. was there too we need to buy and was

there too we need all the english teams are there too we need the real madrid barcelona political madrid they're there too we need. nobody sees they are there too we need. but they can i think united at one player. that was responsible for that in the thought of 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 mistake a human mistake but you also have the very early good morning sings that you don't did even a replay. me a little bit to see because i love the kids and i know you're very poor. i would say city. city but i haven't made it out. i say see i see see you

because you want me to say yeah it was difficult i know and i've started every show i know but really really hard because because saddam can perfectly do it. the president of the north east african country of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violent anti-government protests the sudanese defense minister announced that a newly formed military council will be put in charge for the next two years local journalists haha jk i mean reports. as serious of the ministration and by this statement of the letter meant i want to know if will declare the transition 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 organizations and the medical committees to john. for more than forty

people dead great number more than three million sudanese people gather around the head roger of the military lorraine is to don 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 beetle served wait for the polls on the rigi and asking for a good transition period incident. when news of a marble shares arrest came people incident took to the streets to celebrate his removal however the mood of the protesters quickly changed as artist explains. the dictates of fuld's and the people were joyce happy empowered optimistic it's it's always the same a many times have we seen this happen this decade revolution in africa in the

middle east the dictator bashir was removed by the military which sided with the people. sort of what the militant must really up to 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 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 calls 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 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 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

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 that ten years wrap up at this hour thanks for tuning in. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who are killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this

memo from the secretary defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with dives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for easiness for. it's been identified as the whole reason for the trunk russia investigation form the trunk campaign advisor george pub the doppler song this is. the ultimate politicking on larry king as we await the release of special counsel

robert muller's final report on his investigation into the relationship between trump's campaign and the russian government another investigation has already begun looking into the motivations of an f.b.i. report which ultimately led to muller's investigation at the heart of that initial f.b.i. report is the man who joins me in studio today george fava novelist's former advisor to donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign his ties between russian nationals in the top campaign and snared him an investigation which eventually. led to his arrest and a guilty plea for lying to investigators he says he was a patsy and it ended actual as menards conspiracy and he attempts to explain the now in his new book the state target how i got caught.