another division opens up in the united states this time over julian a songs with some rights groups and even a twenty twenty presidential contender offering their support follow this demand the swift extradition trial of the now arrested whistleblower. standing back to united states as quickly as possible so much 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 berlin approves arms exposed to saudi arabia despite having a bomb in place according to german media reports. of an uniformed military council in sudan steps down in the face of huge opposition just the day after the

president was toppled in a coup will be looking at the roots of the northeast african countries internal conflict. going to have your company it's one am here in the russian capital this is a thirty. this is the rest of the wiki leaks co-founder julian a songs that london ited states because for years this was at the helm of the web side the revealed damaging classified information about washington and its intelligence services. there have been a number of voices that have spoken up against the possible extradition of julian assange warning about the impact it could have on civil liberties now among those voices was a congresswoman from a hole why the name is tulsi gabbert and in addition to being a congresswoman she is also a. pressel 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 over a sun as full week he digs publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations more of a prosecuting a foreign publisher of violating u.s. secrecy tools was sent and especially dangerous president the us 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 is saying that they they think this is really an 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 he's our property do we get the facts and the truth from them at the time is. as they answer for what he. has done he says and they are now that last voice that you just heard was hillary clinton the presidential candidate for the democrats in twenty sixteen now at this point julian assad 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 cry. the codes 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 twenty sixteen elections they published e-mails from john podesta hillary clinton's aide and it was widely alleged that those e-mails came about as they were received as the result of a hack however at this point with the leaks as of on maintain they received these e-mails as the result of an internal leaker the leaker provided them with these e-mails that was not king 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 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 why the justice department is now seeking extradition and we're going to bring julian simon to justice now when asked by reporters u.s. president donald trump he 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 i know nothing about where he leaks it's not my thing and i know there is so please having to do with julie joy of being soft and with a song 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 pretty 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 work you like. 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 journalist and wiki leaks supporter cassandra fairbanks who was one of the last reporters to visit a silence at the embassy has revealed details about his final days. 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 room a heavily surveilled room and tried to force us to have our 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 has 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. a fellow whistleblower edward snowden was himself forced to seek asylum after leaking classified information back in twenty fifteen knots on a boy could marty's wills apart program asked the sun whether he preferred 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 yes they're not yes of course they monitored. we. always 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 her 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 certainly to be free in russia. and have some type of freedom of movement internationally is much prefer ball to any person. myself or chelsea manning or many others who are. kept in effectively in confined to one. small space. and supporters of the former we can least chief of the show nestle literacy in the u.k. and stateside mushing tin they gathered outside the british embassy to decry his possible extradition to the states or london people gathered outside the pools were asuncion been taken aback by these initially said 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 asylum just 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 journalism world wide 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 of recorders and 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 president them the d.-o. g. says part of what is 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. though the prime minister welcomed the songes of arrest but the late believe that 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 wearing strong political condemnation saying that they were the arrest is also a shameful act in 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 we're talking about someone that. shown towards abuses and elation of human interaction are right did you look nama does politician on 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 action dition battle but one thing's for sure they that this expulsion and the potential consequences have gone is an outcry worldwide about what free speech really means. no but to both human rights lawyer representing edward snowden believes that assumption has already served his time while being trapped inside ecuador's embassy you're going to the. other trip potentially.

to actually act on that charge. mr sorry in fact you know you are truly ecuador and there's. no one for one key point here is you know with the us government. you know traditionary actually it's been. seven years i've talked to you. you know take that into account. your thing is try to question . which is more than five metres. per charge journalist and documentary filmmaker john pilger thinks that of all the leagues what really landed a soldier in trouble was a revelation of the true nature of modern war those who spoke to our return see on going underground show which you can watch in full tomorrow for now here's

a quick 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 and the americans are 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. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in

the home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from time used to surprising people and i saw. i'm going to talk about football not the or else you can think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back police have used water cannon and tear gas to break up hundreds of people protesting in the algerian capital against the country's entire ruling

system this arrested more than one hundred people in the protest over two dozen officers have been injured as the eighth consecutive friday of antigovernment demonstrations this rally comes ten days after the former president good flick his resignation after the army chief called for him to step down a week later the country's parliament or now it's. been silent as the new interim leader for the next ninety days but many claim it's merely a bid by the same ruling clique to hang on to power. germany has given the green light for arms exports to some countries involved in yemen civil war including saudi arabia this is according to media outlets reportedly obtained documents that came from a government meeting these peter all of a explains 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 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 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 it was it 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 shameless 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 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 steeling this period when dealing with their contract practice and the federal government will also commit to not using these jointly produced products in yemen and that while there is a lot of pressure on germany from the likes of france and the united kingdom for berlin to stop 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 months 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 ate and not so much in need of billions of dollars worth of weapons being sold to those that are going to use them against the. german m.p. a member of the left party under a hooker thinks pressure from france a new kerry played a part in germany's decision it's a clear breach of this band's 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 france and britain and that 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. for pushing new arms exports together with france with saudi arabia. a fresh bout of violence along the gulf israel's border has claimed the life of a palestinian teenager and left more than a dozen other people injured that's according to gaza's health ministry thousands of palestinian demonstrators a gathered as part of the so-called manch of return we sent it into its second year last month they held stones and farm bombs at israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas rubber bullets and in some cases reportedly

live ammunition is really transfers haven't commented on the death of a teenager who said that troops captured an armed palestinian near the fence. the head of a newly formed military council in sudan a step 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 and grew into a broader anti-government movement the news of omar bashir the rest came people to the streets to celebrate his ousting of the moods of the protesters quickly changed because the of expects. 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 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 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 the 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 this week we heard the same tired cools 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 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. we discussed the situation in sudan with african affairs on this lawrence freeman he thinks that unless the country's economy improves it will state mired in instability. but the problem they have right now is there is going there is a transitional military government as a result of a military coup and they put the two years as the outside process moving towards a civilian government the problem they're having is eat economic conditions in

sudan a very poor to population is suffering from massive hardship of economic conditions and therefore the rebellion was in large part fuel by the economic conditions and unless the new government. stewards establishing a new economic policy at the belt moving away from the i.m.f. and the western model just situation is not going to be resolved at any time in the near future and all the calls from the united states in the west point for the mark racine's of the government are really that twenty five thirty years. ok mccully done holkins is here which means i don't need to pay him for you right up to date and often are. finally he. was arrested within the embassy in london is widely expected he will be

extradited to the united states trial expected charges. this is truly a dark day for journalists. is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency any. day. mark was the day that. i noticed something. pretty much. a wink.