the world braxton's wiki leaks founder julian assange faces charges both in the u.k. and the u.s. many expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest editor in chief told us that the repercussions. this is a threat to journalists and journalists and the freedom of the media world. a man 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 had been holed up for almost seven years. and a military coup a few sudan's president arrested and emergency rule imposed all in the space of twenty four hours we look at the roots of the northeast african countries internal conflict. you're watching arch international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program. from human rights organizations to politicians there's been reaction across the globe to the arrest of wiki leaks co-founder julian a song on thursday police officers carried the whistleblower out of his refuge in

london's ecuadorian embassy after his asylum was revoked. yes. the worst. muslim. earlier we discussed the global reaction with r.t. is hisham. giving a songes a rest has been received by outrage and that's clear from worldwide reaction that still coming in now at a pace that has global solidarity and global voices standing with a 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 faced me condemned songes arrest and a prosecution by the united states of. publishing operations would

be unprecedented 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 this is also being reiterated by human rights watch and they say that gymnast might now think twice before publishing news of public importance or government scrutiny but if we tend or 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 and best bit of gin this all over the world 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 journalism world the film and the. they contracts edward snowden they say it's a dark moment for press freedom images of those on buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher off like it on the award winning journalist most of the building are going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom week you league says a publisher charges now brought in connection with its material or any attempt to extradite assange to united states for prosecution under the deeply flawed could you know of the espionage act nine hundred seventeen is an attack on all of us the dio jesus part of what

a science did to just defy 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 pet school science all of this of course the k. prime minister treason may might find this is a breather to bret's it 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. position 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 oblivion the rights of the freedom of speech and disseminating information that is something that it's absolute if you think that i

mean that we are talking about. the war. abuses and by all a sion of your mind i mean that a far right. we absolutely reject the and no amount of julian assange just naturalisation that and the handover of this australian journalist to the unite. kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition those julian the sons to the u.s. 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 recently 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 has been the territory for a long time since he came into power a song she 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 though this expulsion and the potential consequences has gone as outcry worldwide guarding the freedom speech and human rights fellow whistleblower edward snowden was himself forced to seek asylum after we can classified information back in two thousand and fifteen oksana boyko from the world apart program asked the song whether he preferred to switch places with snowden here's what he had to say back then. i'm like a prisoner. and were able to have. visitors to make telephone calls but i want to make them yes they want yes of course they are monitored but we can develop ways have developed ways to avoid that want to transfer cases. and i find it quite unusual.

i was able to coordinate. it would snowden's asylum. with myself being in this situation of having us corrected asylum because i was very highly motivated having been in this situation myself i didn't want to see it but snowden go through it as well would you trade places with edward snowden. right now and yet in a heartbeat yes suddenly to be free in russia. and have some type of freedom of movement internationally is much preferred will to any person. myself for chelsea manning or many others who are. kept in effectively in confined to one. small space. supporters of the former wiki leaks chief have been showing their

solidarity with julian assange both in the u.k. and stateside in washington d.c. they gathered outside the british embassy to decry his possible extradition to the u.s. on one limb people gathered outside the westminster court was convicted and we talk to wiki leaks editor kristinn hrafnsson and jennifer robinson is on just more about the wider 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. world will read. the overreach that is involved in this. proposed so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media overall he's concerned

obviously about the prospect of being answered 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 speaking of a possible extradition to the u.s. are to scale up and has been looking at the official reaction from washington and the potential charges could face. 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 so clean having to do with julie 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 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 ricky leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks and wiki leaks documents wiki leaks i love what you mix by 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 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 mean. i think i.

love my daughter but if you're going to. does the n.s.a. collect any data from the millions of new sort of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of 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 for. these provided these e-mails they did not hack in order to acquire that now in addition to being accused of being a russian asset julian 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 which he 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 combo yawned anything i'm 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 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 so 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.

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songs form of the picture. of texts much more than most of them on the european continent on all the possible. welcome back germany has allowed arms exports to some countries in the yemeni war and quitting saudi arabia that's according to media who have reportedly obtained documents from a government meeting live now to peter all over in berlin with the details so peter what do we know about these allegations. well germany has a ban on selling weapons to saudi arabia but what we are hearing is that a number of companies have been able to circumvent that ban to various different

means if we look at the the based. transport equipment company they specialize in trailer technology and equipment they've been sending their stuff to france france doesn't have a ban on sending weapons to saudi arabia they've been going from france on to saudi a similar things been happening with the cobra radar hillary targeting systems they've been sent to the united arab emirates along with a software update for pay for that system as well eventually then reaching. the war in yemen and reaching saudi arabian military hands now opposition figures here in germany as you would imagine outraged at this. seems like the government can't wait when it comes to producing weapons for the human who were alliance in light of the latest attacks and yemeni schoolchildren this is simply a shameless. the killing of jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in

istanbul prompted berlin to well council weapons sales to saudi arabia in fact the the deal making sure that there would be no more deal was extended at the end of last month by the german government. and it's our flag and we demand that the participating company since this time the export ban to saudi arabia and the united everett and a very serious this period when dealing with their contract practice and the federal government will also commit to not using these jointly produced products in yemen. but there's a lot of pressure on berlin to loosen that ban somewhat particularly coming from france and the united kingdom in fact jeremy hunt the british foreign secretary he was out here in berlin not so long ago trying to convince his counterpart tyco mass that germany should be able to sell weapons to saudi arabia the argument put

forward by the british side was this well if we don't sell them weapons we lose our influence over the kingdom he of course glossed over the fact that there's billions of pounds worth of trade in arms between the united kingdom and saudi arabia and in particular the fact that the fleet of typhoon aircraft that was sold by the united kingdom to saudi won't be able to fly if they don't have parts that could only provided by germany you know if those parts are provided those typhoon aircraft don't fly we're talking about millions perhaps hundreds of millions of pounds millions of dollars whatever you want to put in it ends up as a lot of money worth of fines that will end up having to be paid by the british government because they've gone back on their deal with the saudis now human rights watch have backed up the germans a decision to continue their ban on selling weapons directly to saudi arabia they

point out that. at least somebody isn't selling weapons that can be used against the embattled yemeni people what we're seeing is thousands but hundreds of thousands of people desperately in need of food clean water and aid in that part of the world and probably the last thing they need is countries like germany britain or france selling them any more weapons that can be used against them peter are reporting live from berlin that. the president of sudan has been ousted by the country's military following months of violent anti-government protests the defense minister announced a newly formed military council will be put in charge for the next two years local journalists a haha jk i mean reports from the north east african country. as serious of the ministration and by the statement of the letter meant. declared the tradition 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 roger of the military marine is said on asking pull the phone 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 third wait for the full dawn of the redeemed and asking for a good transition period instead of. when news of them are bashir arrest kane people took to the streets to celebrate his ousting over the protestors quickly changed as explains.

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 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 what they go to the air to and it's 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 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 these are facts they have not prevented other powers such as china and russia from taking advantage of african states increase their own power and influence from now on the united states will not tolerate this longstanding pattern of it without effect to be fair mr bolton you hardly helped years of u.s. sanctions of civil war atrocities and the split up of the country have left their mark so don is a traumatized nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never going to happen. that's a news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

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