the world reacts as wiki leaks founder julian assange faces charges both in the u.k. and the u.s. but many expressing concern that a dangerous precedent has been set by his arrest weeks editor in chief told us the repercussions. this is a threat to journalism journalists and the freedom of the media world. germany approves arms exports to saudi arabia despite the current band that's according to german media reports. and a military coup seems to dan's present arrest of an emergency rule imposed all in the space of twenty four hours we look at the roots of the northeast african countries internal conflict.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. from human rights organizations to politicians there's been reaction across the globe to the arrest of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange on thursday police officers carried the whistleblower out of his refugee in london's ecuadorian embassy after his asylum was revoked. has more on how the arrest has been perceived internationally. cheating the songes arrest has been received by outrage and that's clear from worldwide reaction that still coming in now at a pace that is global solidarity and global voices are 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 faced any condemned songes arrest any prosecution by the united states of mr 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 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 ten our 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 former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden they say it's a dark moments for press freedom images of those in buses invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like it 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 staes 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 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 is a criminalization of journalism there is also a political sons 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 stance on all of this. this whole

story with the prosecution and hounding with establishing inhumane living conditions is consigning to oblivion rights. the freedom of speech to someone eating and summation of you it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about. the war. abuses and by elation of your money and that a far right. we absolutely reject your no amount of julian assange just naturalization and the handover of this australian journalist to the united kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition of julian the songs to the us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be opposed by the british government one day 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 off to

ecuador abruptly revoked his asylum we know that relations between the ecuadorian president and the son has been to terry 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 though this expulsion and the potential consequences has gone as outcry worldwide guarding the issue of freedom of speech and human rights journalist and wiki leaks supporter casandra fairbanks who was one of the last reporters to visit at the embassy has revealed details about his final days there. well at that point things were really bad visited previously and it was friendly and welcoming and it was slowly like greeting each. and this time it was pretty openly hostile he got into a huge fight with the ecuadorian baster after they locked me in a room a heavily surveilled room and tried to force us to have

a meeting and there they wanted to search him and searches lawyer before they could come meet with me none of these things that ever happened before in to any guest not just me. in almost seven years and he's been there he wanted to meet with me so that he could report on the illegal treatment that he was being you know met with at the embassy at the hands of the embassy and he is the ambassador of working with the u.s. government and said that they were conspiring with the us against him and these are the people who are supposed to be giving him asylum he is released some keys potentially for a dead man's switch and. i think that if he's not treated well there could be more shoes to drop i think he is the biggest hero of freedom of press and i think that everybody needs to get on board. we talked to wiki leaks in chief kristinn hrafnsson and jennifer robinson songes lawyer about the wider implications of the arrest and 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 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. so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media overall he's concerned obviously about the prospect of being extradited to the united states and about the president at that sets for the media everywhere we will of course fight any extradition request needed 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 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. one london people gathered outside the westminster court worst launch was convicted . and speaking of us largest possible extradition to the u.s. is killed often has been looking at the official reaction from washington and the potential charges a song could face. 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 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 wiki leaks it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki leaks wiki leaks the wiki leaks should be leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks 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 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 term say 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 that 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 so. 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 the united states the guy ought to be 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 combo yawned anything i'm aware of 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 lauded 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 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 veteran journalist and documentary filmmaker john pilger thinks the all the leaks what really landed asuncion trouble is the revelation of the true nature of modern

war elder spoke to r.t. is action or attend they are going underground program you can watch the full interview tomorrow but for now here's a quick preview. there were so many leaks that all related to telling us about the true nature of war of course what really got julian into trouble and chelsea manning of course was the video of collateral murder and that expressed most graphically. what i would describe as the whole homeless londell nature. of american colonial wars and especially in iraq the three hundred sixty degree view of just kill them all and anybody watching that video. really has to read very little else of the wiki leaks revelations about the nature of american wars because there it is there is a kind of consensual belief i'm trying to think of

a polite term for brainwashing frankly that. we don't do these kind of things we are perpetually but nine on our side on the americans a part of that these things simply do not happen they only they only happen on their side they only are they done by totalitarian states. done by rogue states when in fact clearly the biggest rogue state of all is the united states. 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. most people have this picture of the i'll take 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. songs formative. picture of. the future and much more the most is often the only european continent on all the possible.

welcome back germany has a lot of arms exports to some countries and the yemeni war including saudi arabia that's according to media who have reportedly obtained documents from a government meeting that are all reports from berlin. 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. base. 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 then on to saudi a similar things been happening with the cobra radar artillery targeting systems they've been sent to the united arab emirates along with software updates

for the 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 killing of jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul prompted berlin to weld council weapons sales to saudi arabia in fact 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 stealing this period when dealing with their contract practice and the federal government will also commit to not using these jointly produced products in

yemen. well there is a lot of pressure on germany from the likes of france and the united kingdom for berlin to start selling arms to saudi arabia again the argument from the british side is that if we stop selling weapons to the kingdom of saudi arabia we would lose. influence over twelve perhaps trying to get them to move away from the conflict in yemen it's interesting that they would try and move away from that conflict by selling them more weapons particularly well what we're hearing from the likes of human rights watch is this ban by germany is the right way to go in trying to help the embattled people of yemen what we have at the moment is a situation where it is thousands perhaps hundreds of thousands of people in dire need of food clean water and aid and not so much in need of billions of dollars worth of weapons being sold to those that are going to use them against them

a member of the german parliament for the left party under hunger thinks part of the reason germany made this decision was pressure from france and the u.k. it's a clear breach of this bans extension is outrageous because it. was written in the coalition treaty that there should be no arms exports to those countries who are involved in the human of or seems that there is. on the one hand that there are a lot of pressure from of france and britain and there's a lot of pressure from from the arms industry from the companies because they gain a lot of money out of these exports the german government is. using the idea of having a close friendship to france for pushing a new arms exports together with france to saudi arabia. the president

of sudan has been ousted by the country's military and the defense minister announced a newly formed military council will be put in charge for the next two years the presence departure falls months of protests which were initially sparked by a rise in the cost of living and grew into a broader anti-government movement when news of the marble shares the rest came people took to the streets to celebrate his ousting the mood of the protesters quickly changed as more and ghazi of explains. the dictates of falls and the people were drawn 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 bashir was removed by the military which sided with the people sort of what

the hamiliton 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 for us 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 read me and well.

you may recognize this picture it's from a different era most of the need is either deposed in exile or dead country's new better off.

the 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 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 desired 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 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 wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can i. on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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