another division opens up in the u.s. this time over julian assange is with some rights groups even a twenty twenty presidential contender offering support his demand the swift extradition and trial of the now arrested whistleblower. going back to united states as quickly as possible hope response 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. linda prue's arms exports to saudi arabia despite having a ban in place according to german media reports. on the day after the

president was toppled in a coup we look at the roots of the north east african couple then we look at the roots of the north east african countries internal conflict. it is midnight here in moscow great to have your company this is our take. since the rest of the wiki leaks co-founder julian assange shirt's london's ecuadorian embassy on thursday the focus is turned to his potential extradition to the united states because for years the sons was at the helm of website that revealed damaging classified information about washington and its intelligence service is. more 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 tulsi gabber and in addition to being a congresswoman she is also

a presidential contender in twenty 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 who are 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 wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of other news

organizations prosecuting a foreign publisher of violating u.s. secrecy tools was it an especially dangerous precedent 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 son 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 the civilian assan 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 leaker that a 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's 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 a sonder working for foreign governments i want to ask you about something bad might pay 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 but so far the justice department is now seeking extradition and we're going to bring julian assad to justice now when asked by reporters u.s. president donald trump he says. 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 wiki leaks it's not my thing and i know there is so playing having to do with julian i've been seeing what happened with so r.j. 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 the wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks years 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. journalist and wiki leaks supporter banks who was one of the last reporters to visit the sons of 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. a fellow whistleblower edward snowden was forced to seek asylum after leaking classified information back in twenty fifteen bucks on a boat could from paul show us the songs where they had to switch places with snowden is what he had to say. like every prisoner. and have. visitors to make telephone calls but i want to make them you know simple yes of course that monitored. we. have ways to avoid that moratorium. quite unusual. i was able to coordinate. it would snowden's asylum. with

myself being in this situation of having your thwarted asylum because i was very highly motivated having being in the situation myself i didn't want to see it as well would you trade places with edward snowden. right now and yet in a heartbeat yes that is certainly to be free in russia. and have some type of freedom of movement internationally is much preferred all to any person. myself or chelsea manning or many others who are . kept in effectively in confined to one. small space. supporters of the former we can least chief of the showing that solidarity both in the u.k. and stateside in washington they gathered outside the british embassy to decry his

possible extradition to the u.s. or london people gathered outside the court were son she'd been taken by. nine of these and he says he's been following the international reaction to the arrest. well we've seen the floods of global solidarity standing with the sun for all of its past revelations many saying scientists where can courage those to ask what the most prominent political figures could be hiding the human rights watch which they say a voice of justice has been speaking about an investigative jail 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 moments images of recorders and buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher off like it on the award winning jon days most of the building are

going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for president them the d.-o. g. cis part of what is science did to just defy his prosecution beyond the allegedly helping man and 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. they the prime minister welcomed the songes of arrest but the labor leader jeremy corbett strongly opposed it 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 we're hearing strong political condemnation saying that they were the arrest is also a shameful act limiting what you want us into living in iran or has made a u. turn in ecuador spall attacks the foreign politics of ecuador is far from

sovereignty and completely deviated from the regional focus with a conservative agenda i would even use the strong words sold out but not bearing sovereignty in relations to the us it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about. shown towards abuses and by a lesion of your mind in international right did you look now modest politician as the drool 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 dorian 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 they this expulsion and the potential consequences have gone is an outcry world wide about what free speech really means. a human rights lawyer representing edward snowden believes

a son she has already served his time while being trapped in ecuador's embassy. you on the. other trip potentially. actually. charged. mr sawiris in fact you know you are truly ecuador and this. you know while one key point here is you know why would the u.s. government. to sherry actually it's been. seven years i think for you to take. you know take that into account. your is trying. to perch are. a journalist a documentary maker. documentary filmmaker john pilger thinks that of all the links that really landed in trouble was the revelation of the true nature of modern war he was speaking to r.t. session with tons of the going underground show here on r t you can watch that full

interview tomorrow for now here's a preview there are so many leaks that are 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 homicidal 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. they're done by rogue states when in fact clearly the biggest rogue state of all is the united states.

now in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out on the lose business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question.

welcome back germany's given the green light to arms exports to some countries involved in yemen civil war including saudi arabia this is according to media outlets that have reported obtained documents from a government meeting 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 confronts france doesn't have a ban on sending weapons to saudi arabia they've been going from france. to saudi 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 they're reaching. the war in yemen and reaching some outrage that this seems like the government can't wait when it comes to

producing weapons for the yemen where alliance in light of the latest attacks on the yemeni school children this is simply a shameless killing of jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul prompted to well cancel 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 in the time listening to news 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 partner us 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 the world 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 there's 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. jim an m.p. a member of the left party on that one thinks pressure from france and the u.k. played a part in germany's decision. it's a clear breach of this band's extension it's 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 france and britain and that there's a lot of pressure from from the arms industry from the companies because they they gain a lot of money out of these exports and the german government is. using the idea of having a close friendship. for pushing new arms exports together with france with saudi arabia. the head of a newly formed military council in sudan has stepped down in the face of huge opposition just a day after the president was toppled in a coup the president's departure follows months of protests which were initially sparked by a rise in the cost of living but then grew into

a broader anti-government movement and use of omar bashir the rest came into the streets to celebrate disaster however the protests quickly changed because the experience. a dictator fuld's and the people rejoice 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 hamiliton 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 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 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 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 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. ok with the days for you in just over half an hour's

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politicking on larry king as we await the release of special counsel robert muller his final report on his investigation into the relationship between trump's campaign and the russian government another investigation is already begun looking into the motivations of an f.b.i. report which led to muller's investigation at the heart of that initial report is the man who joins me in studio today george probably former advisor to donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign his ties between russian nationals in the campaign and snared him an investigation which eventually led to his arrest in a guilty plea for lying to investigators he says he was a patsy and it ended actionable as for knowledge to this very city and the attempts to explain and now in his new book state target how i got caught in the

crosshairs of the plot to bring down president trump and joins me in studio how did you get for sex are you did quite what did you do oh thanks a lot for having me larry and i do my best with the limited time we have to explain this incredible story so first of all how did i even join the ben carson and donald trump campaigns because that's actually the origins of how i got caught in this crosshairs i had been working whole campaign season where i was working with personalities like doug feith such crops he scooter libby these were all the bush george h.w. george w. bush reagan officials who were basically the neo conservatives of our country and at that time who were my mentors and colleagues fast forward to the summer of two thousand and fifteen i see an opportunity to leverage those ties to join presidential campaigns i had been working on very sensitive projects with these individuals regarding energy discoveries in the mediterranean offshore israel and how that would affect both u.s. policy towards israel and the middle east in general and obviously security

partnerships so we were promoting an agenda at the time that was.