another division opens up in the united states this time over julian assange with some rights groups and even a twenty twenty presidential contender offering their support while others around the swift extradition and trial of the now arrested will be. going back to united states quickly as possible i hope mr songs which was the message that we're getting that the american people are getting by what's happened here today is you know be quiet toed the line otherwise there will be consequences. germany approves arms exports to saudi arabia despite his current band that's according to german media reports. on the demands of the libyan national army holds its offensive against the

internationally back tripoli government that's amid reports france blogs the first draft of minutes economic interests in the east of the country. good evening and welcome this is art. since the rest of the wiki leaks founder julian assange shut london's ecuadorian embassy thursday the focus is turned to his potential extradition to the united states because for years the silence was at the helm of a website which revealed damaging classified information about washington and its intelligence services what he's going to morgan has more now on how the rest is being perceived on the other side of the atlantic. there have been a number of voices that have spoken up against the possible extradition of julian assad is warning about the impact it could have on civil liberties now among those

voices was a congresswoman from a hole why a name is tossing gabbert and in addition to being a congresswoman she is also a presidential contender in two thousand and twenty she spoke up saying that the possible chill effect and impact on american civil liberties from this case would not be small this is a threat to journalists but it's also something that threatens every american because the message that we're getting that the american people are getting by what's happened here today is you know be quiet toed the line otherwise there will be consequences now the american civil liberties union is one of the oldest civil rights and civic freedom organizations in the united states has taken many cases to the u.s. supreme court it has represented journalists as well as activists and others you know trying to expand the level of freedom of speech and freedom of the press they have also spoken up regarding the wiki leaks case any prosecution by the united states. for week he digs publishing operations would be unprecedented and

unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of news organizations prosecuting a foreign publisher of violating u.s. secrecy tools was sit and especially dangerous president the u.s. journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public's interest now in addition to these voices that have spoken up in support of a songe there has been a large amount of voices speaking up calling for harsh punishment essentially for assad's a number of mainstream political figures have given their two cents essentially saying that they they think sujal in a sonnet should be punished and dealt with harshly this is some of what we have heard it would be really good to get him back on united states soil so now. it's our property do we get the facts and the truth from you but the bottom line is he has a answer for what he. has done he says it's very hard now that last voice that you

just heard was hillary clinton the presidential candidate for the democrats in twenty sixteen now at this point just facing charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion it's alleged that he worked with chelsea manning who is now being detained by u.s. officials that he worked with her in order to try and crack the code to the department of defense in order to get information that was eventually leaked now eventually chelsea manning did hand over information to wiki leaks videos and such showing us atrocities committed in iraq now in addition to that wiki leaks published e-mails from the democratic national committee during the two thousand and sixteen elections they published e-mails from john podesta hillary clinton's aide and it was widely alleged that those e-mails came about and they were received as the result of a hack however at this point wiki leaks has long maintained they received these e-mails as the result of an internal leak or the leaker provided them with these e-mails that was not hacking in order to get these e-mails now many suspect that

even though there is simply been a request to extradite julian a songe on charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion which only holds a penalty of possibly five years many suspect that when he reaches the united states he could be facing a much more serious situation at this point we've seen mike pence the u.s. vice president has come forward and said that wiki leaks and julian assad are working for foreign governments i want to ask you about something bad might when he was the cia the cia director said he called weekly leaks a nine state house intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia do you agree with that characterization yes we strongly agree with that and that's where the justice department is now seeking extradition and we're going to bring julian saw to justice now when asked by reporters u.s. president donald trump he said. seemed to say that he was not familiar with the case he didn't know much about wiki leaks however when people look at what he said on the campaign trail in two thousand and sixteen he seemed quite familiar with the

outlet let's take a listen to what u.s. president donald trump said and compare it with what he said on the campaign trail you know nothing about where he leaks it's not my thing and i know there is something having to do with julie i've been seeing work suffered with a sergeant 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 it's not my deal in life wiki leaks were key leaks wiki leaks but you leaks it's been amazing what's coming out on wiki leaks leaks the wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks and wiki leaks documents wiki leaks i love what you mix. so now at this point all eyes are on britain julian assange just lawyers have said he could be tortured if he's extradited to the united states people are wondering what will happen next but here in the usa we've heard a number of voices speaking up on

a songe we have but also a number of voices calling for his harsh punishment. so listen wiki leaks supporter chris underfed bangs who was one of the last reporters to visit assault at the embassy has revealed details about his final days that. well at that point things were really bad visited previously and it was friendly and welcoming and it was slowly degrading each time i visit 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 in there they wanted to search him and searches lawyer before they could come eat 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 key is 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. fellow whistleblower edward snowden was himself forced to seek asylum after leaking classified information but in twenty fifteen months on a boycott for montes worlds of poss us the songs were that he preferred to switch places with snowden is what he had to say. and like every prisoner. of. visitors to make telephone calls but i want to make them your statement yes of course that monitored. we.

have ways to avoid that want to transfer is. quite unusual. i was able to coordinate it. and it would snowden's asylum. with myself being in this situation of having us corrected. because i was very highly motivated having been in the situation myself i didn't want to see it but snowden go through it as well would you trade places with edward snowden. brought it out yet in a heartbeat yes that is certainly to be free in russia. i don't have some type of frivolous internationally is much preferred all to a person. myself or chelsea manning the many others who are. hip to effectively in confined to. a small space

supporters of the former wiki leaks chief have been showing their solidarity with julian massage both in the u.k. and stateside washington they gathered outside the british embassy to decry his possible extradition to the u.s. or london people gathered outside the court where science has been taken. prisoner said he's been following the international reaction to the arrest resumes on charles more people on this side. well we've seen a flood of global solidarity standing with the sun for all of its past revelations many saying asylum just where can courage those to ask what the most prominent political figures could be hiding on the human rights watch which they say are a voice of justice has been speaking about an investigative journalism worldwide they say that in this now might think twice about publishing news of public importance or government scrutiny now they've also criticized the trumpet

ministrations open hostility to mainstream media which the group say creates a dangerous environment now for fellow journalists and fellow whistleblower as they say that this is a dark moment images that work with those in buses invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drug a publisher of likely to annoy award winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for prostrate them the g.o.g. says 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 here in the u.k. . the prime minister welcomed the songes arrest but the late believe that jeremy corbett strongly opposed this he says that his son should not be extradited to the united states and this was about exposing u.s. military atrocities in iraq and afghanistan these statements as well have been

echoed by international figures across the world wearing strong political condemnation saying that they were the arrest is also a shameful act. linnen miranda has made a u. turn in ecuador spall attacks the foreign politics of ecuador is far from sovereignty and completely deviated from the original focus with a conservative agenda i would even use the strong words sold out but not bearing sovereignty in relations to the u.s. it is something that it if you think i mean that we are talking about. the war. abuses. by elation of your money and that a far right. politician there was a draw of political asylum by ecuador is a gross violation of international law as well as violations of the right for political asylum and their arrest by british police within the compound of the ecuadorian embassy is a disgrace. now

a son faces an extradition hearing on the second of may so the next challenge is the legal extradition battle but one thing's for sure though that this expulsion and the potential consequences have gone is an outcry world wise about what free speech really means. well we had a chance to speak to the current editor of wiki leaks that's kristen halfs and jennifer robinson who is the lawyer for julian assange 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. all. the over it's that. involved in this. case

so this is a threat to journalism journalists freedom of the media overall he's concerned obviously about the prospect of being struck to the united states and about the precision 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 or so 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 he's going underground programs been speaking to long time legal advisor geoffrey robertson explained why he believes a breach of bail was not the real reason behind the arrest you can watch the full interview tomorrow for now here's a preview. the home secretary said to job ahead of the release of further or

further arrest of said he's right be facing justice in the u.k. where he's not facing justice in the u.k. other than for breach of bail which is a very minor offense usually dealt with by a five or a few weeks in prison these politicians so he may be there stirring up the judges to give him a couple of months but the justice that he's facing in is justice or in justice in america which wants him and has charges rid easy for up to forty five years imprisonment the trump argument is this that the first amendment which protects the supreme asli only apprise to american journalists and doesn't apply to any foreign journalist even those working for american papers in fact given goodale who was the hero of the pentagon papers case

he was the lawyer for the new york times he came out of retirement the other day and he said we're songe case however much you dislike because. his case is the most important for media freedom since the pentagon papers case. germany has allowed arms exports the some countries in the yemeni war including saudi arabia that's according to media outlets that have reportedly obtained documents from a government meeting peter oliver 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 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 the war in yemen and reaching saudi arabian military hands now opposition figures here in germany as you would imagine an outrage that 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 well 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 the 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 in 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 number the german parliament to the left party under things that pressure from france and u.k. played a part in germany's decision. it's a clear breach of this extension this 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 is a lot of pressure from of france and britain and that there's a lot of pressure from from the arms industry from the companies

because the 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 the new arms exports together with france to saudi arabia. football now the u.s. champion's league was back in action this week we stayed off josie renia to give us another installment on the touchline which you can watch in full later on friday on r.t. . that moment is the moment because probably now we will be speaking about a completely different result is the first big match 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 you look to these competitions and. he was there too we need byron 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 league norinco sings that you don't did even a replay. it's. me a little bit to say because i love the kids and i know you're very poor. old see city. city but many adults. i say see i see simply because you want to see yeah i always did because i know you start every show i know but really really because because goggle can perfectly do it. the president of sudan has been ousted by the country's military the defense minister announced the newly formed military council would take charge for the next two years residence the policy follows months of protests which were initially sparked by a rise in the cost of living anger into a broader anti-government movement where news of omar bashir is rescue people took

to the streets to celebrate his ousting of the mood soon changed his mind as the explains. a dictator 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. was removed by the military which sided with the people sort of what the militant must really 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 in the stand 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 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 not so much because he's a dictator they have plenty of tyrannical friends know 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 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. he is demanding the libyan national army halt its offensive against the internationally banks chipley government after really reports the draft have been blocked by france. the military attack launched by the enemy on tripoli and the subsequent escalation in and around the capital are in danger in civilians including migrants and refugees and disrupting un led political process with the risk of serious consequences for libya and the wider region including the terrorist threat france hundred forty blocked and earlier e.u. statements which was said to direct the court on the leader of the libyan national army huffed up to stop his troops has oil assets in eastern libya and been providing military assistance to have italy which also did it disagrees with the in his position on libya has criticised france for its actions. it would be very serious of france for economical commercial reasons had blocked an e.u.

initiative to bring peace to libya and would support a party that is fighting as minister of the interior i would not stand by and watch something that the two thousand and eleven nato led military intervention in libya promoted by then french president nicolas sarkozy was triggered konami can commercial interests than what humanitarian concerns. for the speaker of the belgian parliament load of other things to the conflict in the european union over libya is linked to geopolitical interests of members. did about your political opposition of france and italy in the lesson manner brown's was the one country don't start of the war on libya in the first place for the same reason that there were there but they do not supporting the guy that they think will protect their interests ironically enough dismount those leading the libyan national army is a former gadhafi goalie or a tool down and gone disagreed with him and left the country for us in simple years

this man is just as reliable as any older military dictator i mean it just shows that when it really comes down to democracy human rights and so on is just irrelevant. because we're looking back at how the civil war in libya began and how it develops to where it is now cia stooge it can be used in colonial it's a powerless us billions of barrels of that stuff in case you guess they're doing civil war in libya. i thought that me sarah had freedom and prosperity in libya back in the eleventh creating a glorious land of a. slave trade that i was running. through centers that do that the business that i love the revolution to get rid. of all you know this is like a series of just look at them. tick.