division opens up in the united states over julian songs with some rights groups and even twenty twenty presidential contenders offering their support while others the mob the swift extradition and trial of the now. going back to united states quick response of. 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. to the saudi arabia that having a bad in place according to german media reports. the head of a newly formed military council in saddam steps down in the face of huge opposition

that's just a day after the president was toppled in a coup look at the roots of the north east africa african countries internal conflict. the international and daniel hawkins review thanks for joining us this hour. since the arrest of the wiki leaks founder julian assange at london's ecuadorian embassy on thursday the focus has turned to his potential extradition to the u.s. that's because for years a songs was at the helm of website which revealed damaging classified information about washington and its intelligence services and 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 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. full wiki leaks 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 a number of mainstream political figures have given their two sads essentially saying that they they think this is willing to sign on 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. to our property do we get the facts and the truth from them 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 they were received as the result of a hack however at this point wiki leaks has of on 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 come 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 saw to justice now when asked by reporters u.s. president donald trump. 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 the u.s. president 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 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 ricky leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks and wiki leaks documents wiki leaks i love work 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 journalist and we couldn't support a banks who was one of the last reporters to visit the songs at the embassy has revealed some more 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 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 u.s. against him in 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. for whistleblower edward snowden was himself forced to seek you saw him off the leaking classified information back in twenty fifteen x. on a book from all of these worlds apart program last songs whether you prefer to switch places with slogan here's what he had to say but. unlike every prisoner. and have. visitors to make telephone calls when i want to make them yes yes of course they monitored. we.

have ways to avoid that moratorium. quite unusual. i was able to coordinate how it would snowden's asylum. with myself being in this situation of having us work to asylum cause i was very highly motivated having been in this situation myself i didn't want to see it with snowden go through 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 will to any person. myself or chelsea manning or many others who are . kept in effectively in confined to one.

small space. supporters of the formal because it's chief have been showing their 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. in london where people gathered outside the court where a saw has been taken. and he says he's been following the international reaction to his arrest. this 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 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 whistle blower as they say that this is a dark moments images of record those in buses invoicing the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like it on the ward with in journalism out 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 g.o.g. says part of what is science did to just defy his prosecution beyond the largely 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 we're hearing strong political

condemnation saying that they were the arrest is also a shameful act limited. no you want you to listen to it linen miranda has made a u. turn in ecuador spall it takes 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 of not knowing sovereignty in relations to the us it is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about someone that. shown towards abuses and elation of human interaction are right look nama does politicians 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 that this expulsion and

the potential consequences have gone is an outcry world wise about what free speech really means. a human rights lawyer representing edward snowden believes a song has already served his time while being trapped in ecuador's embassy. under the group of our true potential. to actually act on that charge. mr starr in fact you know are truly ecuador and this. you know why one key point here is you know why the u.s. government. has to sherry actually expel the. seven years i've talked to you. you know take that into account. york is trying to question. which is more than five meters. per hour. journalist

and documentary filmmaker john pilger thinks that of all the leaks what really the sergeant trouble was the revelations of the true nature of modern warfare well just spoke to our city's afshin rattansi on our going underground programme you can watch the full interview tomorrow for now though 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 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.

i didn't think the number. they've met of us is over one trillion dollars. more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of you long to be old rich we are still. china's building two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers will be. the only number you need remember one one. for one and only boom but. it is finally how often julian assange was arrested within the dorrian embassy in london is widely expected he will be extradited to the united states to stand trial the expected charges are espionage this is truly

a dark day for journalists and journals. in the central russian city of two men the men were said to be linked to islamic states auntie's video agency ruptly obtained this footage of the firefight. russia's national anti terror committee says the men started shooting at special forces officers who then returned fire killing the attackers no civilian casualties or injured officers are reported residents of nearby houses have been evacuated for their safety and it's our forces are currently searching the area for any remaining threats. germany's given the green light for arms exports to some countries involved in civil war including saudi arabia that's according to media outlets which have reportedly obtained documents from

a government meeting piece all of the 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 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 weld council weapons sales to saudi arabia in fact the the deal making sure that there would be no more deal was extended at the end of last month by the german government. and it's our flag and we demand that the participating company since this time the export ban to saudi arabia and the united every am 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. or 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 influence over twelve perhaps trying to get them to move away from the

conflict. 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 them german m.p. and member of the left party andrey whom coast 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 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 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 and the german government is. using the idea of having a close friendship. for pushing new arms exports together with france with saudi arabia. place of used water cannon and tear gas to break up hundreds of people protesting in the algerian capital against the country's entire ruling system police have arrested over one hundred people at the protest while over two dozen officers have been injured it's the eighth consecutive friday of anti-government demonstrations the rally comes ten days following former president because resignation after the army chief cool thing to step down week later the

country's parliament announced. as the new interim leader for the next ninety days however many claim it's merely a bid by the same ruling clique to hold on to power. a part of saddam's military has called for a transitional period following the ousting of the country's president earlier the head of a newly formed military council in sudan stepped down in the face of huge opposition and president of the parts of follows months of protests which were initially sparked by a rise in the cost of living and grew into a broader government movement when news of a mob boss years arrest came people took to the streets to celebrate. over the mood of the protesters quickly changed as war against the f. explains. a dictator falls 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 humility 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 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.

the grid boot from the past earlier 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 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 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 as the headlines for this hour just come up to two thirty here in moscow thanks for staying tuned join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global headlines. then you'll smell like it's a malt if you do. you wish the first one to look upon your asperger's conformal

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