as a society realized that this is not working and we actually do something about. it with julian assange charged in the us with conspiracy to hack government computers washington is now again raising the issue of his alleged links to russia. over seventy people are reportedly killed in libya in a week as the international community remains flipped over how to deal with the escalating conflict in the country. and the german justice minister is rounded on after giving an interview to r.t. deutsche and which she mentions close ties between burger in moscow. and the maintaining close ties with russia russia was and always will be our partner.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me carrying on our top story off the his dramatic arrest wiki leaks frontman julian assange is facing a charge of conspiracy to hack a u.s. government computer but it appears washington has another axe to grind at least judging by vice president mike pence his words on friday. i'm pale when he was the cia cia director he called weekly leaks nonstate house intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia we strongly agree with that that's why the justice department is now seeking extradition is not the first time russia has been mentioned in connection with the songs although currently he's not been charged with anything russian related auntie's more doubt they have looked at whether alleged collusion may nevertheless become part of the case against him. it is say it years ago a son that the united states wanted him that's why he was in the ecuadorian embassy and he was right america is seeking extradition and if you watch enough t.v.

you surely know why his russian connections can we address the question at hand and that is whether or not you can say definitively that russia had no part in this. was trying to sabotage the twenty six thousand election and have these facts in front of them saw assad has an agent the agent or at least a provocateur or a collaborator with the russian government tonight there is growing evidence that russia is using wiki leaks as a delivery vehicle for hacked e-mails and other information it was everywhere on every pundit slips for years assad's weekly spew to russia meddling echoed and echoed by everyone important enough to be on camera like us leaders it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia they've acted in concert with the russians to interfere on our elections to help

you pack into a look at information from the washington at least in a way to disrupt our campaigns and twenty sixteen i don't think that's that's not right that's illegal and i hope mr as much as possible just because you get forty years from yeah right. meddling in what you do by their word is a covert k.g.b. asset on a secret mission to topple the united states that is if you watch enough t.v. if you don't if you actually read the indictment against in the charges not a mention of russia not a mention of elections of meddling e-mails or grand plots to topple the united states his crime allegedly was that he worked with chelsea manning to obtain classified documents that showed us human rights abuses in iraq and afghanistan the us government house to. state all the chargers.

can't charge mr scotch with. extraditions. mr sargent's us that lands on us or on. our states government or their charts just consider this if the us had anything anything tying assigned to russia or meddling or conspiracy do you think they would have shown it to mentioned it this is it this is the unique charge he faces and because of how extradition works they can't add any more charges if they get him. the extradition order. needs to go at that stage but except church aside for example. the extradition court u.k. or not extradite somebody to wes you know the charges that are probably going to.

now exist there's no charge. so the extradition court makes very clear we're only going to extradite on those charges are sent to us and. we just like it straight to. the early states of iraq. are are now saying balance six are going by what lawyers and experts are saying the u.s. doesn't have much of a case and that ass and is found guilty it sets a nasty precedent where journalists can be jailed for posting classified material no matter how vital like the manning files.

is remarkable as it may be the u.s. is now saying that exposing us human rights abuses wanted murder committed by the u.s. military exposing that is more serious than the abuses and murder themselves chelsea formally bradley manning was freed by a bomb but judging by the toxicity on t.v. in washington as shouldn't be too hopeful the. you never know trump is trump wiki leaks i love what you like. on thursday police forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy in london came out to quito stripped him of his ecuadorian citizenship and revoked his asylum which was granted almost seven years

ago ecuador stays a song violated the terms that if i live in multiple ways the country's former foreign minister ricardo patino claims the current ecuadorian government was has struck a deal with washington. what is clear here is that moreno who is currently the president of ecuador has reached an agreement with the u.s. they agreed to loans from the international monetary fund and then exchange the agreed two things they hand over julian assange and the process of the latin american integration moreno has betrayed his homeland you loud british police to enter our embassy the embassy which we've been defending since two thousand and twelve it's clear that the death penalty still exists in the us i repeat in its public information they commit barbaric acts of torture against those they consider an enemy clearly julian assange is an enemy to them that's exactly why we gave him

political asylum. we cannot cross live to independent journalist and close friend of julian assange vaughan smith mr smith thank you for joining us on the program now we understand that you thora songe inside the embassy just before he was arrested did he have any inkling of what was about to happen. oh yes i mean he julian has expected to be thrown out of the embassy since before christmas he was just waiting for it to happen but i didn't think he expected to be dragged out in this way i was very disappointed to see that i think the way it happened was to patrol him to help portray him as a fugitive rather than allowing him to walk out himself with dignity because what mental state was he in genuinely june is a very robust and strong person physically quite large and mentally but he has been under mostly strain i mean physically he lost a lot of weight mentally he was still the same julian of course but you could see

that he's a man who had suffered he on the weekends for example the embassy used to close down and you could see that he didn't like being alone rattling around the place he hasn't been outside the ecuadorans were in the last year under the regime of moran who were monitoring him inside the embassy to an extraordinary degree there were two cameras in every room except a lot of tree even the kitchen had one also he was gagged he was allowed speak to journalists and the other thing is his visitation rights were cattail this was quite difficult to see him i was able to though in fairness i did get to see him every two weeks will say i have long said that this was going to happen in the end what made you so sure that it would play out like this well i'm afraid the reality about power great powers like america like you'd like russia to like my country britain i mean we had something called gunboat diplomacy when we were powerful and if anybody offended a british person would send a gunboat to attack that country you know on the palms of them you know russia has

a habit of you know trying to make sure that people don't betray it and so they take revenge but america's doing something similar here they want to get to songs to dissuade other people from offending them so i think we need to understand that's how power works it's just realistic but i think we should all fight is i think ultimately the people should try to resist these things. as far as being charged with conspiring to hack a u.s. government compared to do you think that'll be the end of the story as far as u.s. justice is concerned no not even remotely i understand charges can be added to this though i'm not a lawyer so i must be careful because but what i think what is very important to understand as well is the charge that the americans have used they call hacking but equally if you look at it very carefully you could see that what was happening was julian was attempting to ensure if indeed this any of this happened his alleged was intending to ensure that manning could do what manning could do securely and not

get caught rather than actually breaking something into something manning was himself but julian apparently was able was trying to protect his source which is a fundamental journalistic tenet and that i thought is now being held in belmarsh high security prison sometimes referred to as britons at guantanamo bay how confident are you that he's being treated ok in the. look i don't know i mean our but i have so i have no information that he's been treated k. i so i think it's a curious story to send development and it reflects the way that our government i think is also behaving in so far as when when the law has been applied to julian it's always been the west level the worst punishments for example but the talks about people consider much more of a threat than he really is i think people always have done this for example the judge and having you know the district judge in the magistrate court that he went into after straight after being taken by the police and described him as

a narcissist i mean the judge had met him once in the courtroom that day i mean that's a savage thing to say about somebody and of course it's not true it's i'm afraid people are you know today what people are talking about the talking about the welfare of the cat i mean you couldn't make it up you couldn't make up the fact that. it's so hungry for news they'll talk about a cat they'll talk about silly stuff about him you know apparently. being unclean or something like that i mean it's an extraordinary how journalists are able to strike themselves was really important and really important to the future of journalism this case will will determine the you know in force what will inform the freedom of the press in america and in europe for the foreseeable future for smith independent journalist and a close friend of judah song to thank you a time we appreciate it thank you thank you for having me well one of the biggest revelations of the leaks published by a concern alleged to us war crimes in afghanistan the international criminal court

has been looking into similar accusations for a while now but is just decided not to open an investigation into the matter the i.c.c. claims that doing so now would be counterproductive. the judges decided that investigation into the situation in afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice the i.c.c. noted the lack of cooperation the prosecutor has received which is likely to go scarcer should an investigation be authorized hampering the chances of successful investigation and prosecution u.s. president donald trump held the decision is quote a major international victory for the rule of law washington recently revoked an entry visa for the prosecutor responsible for the probe citing the need to protect the country's sovereignty the us has refused to sign up to the i.c.c. with officials lashing out at the court. we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c.

and li certainly will not join the i.c.c. as far as america is concerned the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction no legitimacy and no authority we will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the united states the i.c.c. plains near universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court the i.c.c. opened a preliminary investigation into the issue in two thousand and six this looked at the allegation is that over ten thousand civilians were killed in atrocity he says one of the claims of torture and rape and twenty seventeen the i.c.c. prosecutor also judges to take things further think that were reasonable grounds to just two suspects the u.s. military was implicated human rights watch theys the court's decisions he rejects a proper investigation sets a bad precedent. the i.c.c.

judges rejection of an afghanistan investigation is a devastating blow for victims who have suffered grievous crimes without red dress the judge's logic effectively in the house member countries to opt out of copulating with a quote. antiwar activist again says the i.c.c. have no power against the us. i don't think that an entity like an i.c.c. would be able to. bring those charges to the front and i think if we look back i mean you take on yugoslavia taking small countries in africa maybe countries in latin america or maybe countries in south asia but taking on the united states i mean i i mean i guess the president do that with the case with the song right now this is this is not only a stunt but we have. did they do they do anything about iraq no that was illegal occupation legal invasion just like a pianist on this case is not the first case that points that out i think there are

a few cases that point going back to even the crimes in yugoslavia that the nato committed i think there's quite a few cases and there's quite a few precedents to show that i.c.c. is actually not capable of. bringing the real actors so the western countries the hedge amman's to the table and actually charging them with crimes. seventy five people have been killed and over three hundred twenty wounded in libya in the last ten days according to the world health organization the country's ongoing civil war has been escalating off the general how khalifa haftar who's forces control eastern libya ordered his army to march on towards the capital the un is calling on all parties to the conflict to end hostilities health partners have verified seventeen civilian casualties so far with seven fatalities including three medical staff at least five ambulances have been hit since the onset of the

conflict we continue to call for a humanitarian pause to allow people to safely evacuated and emergency services to get through and for all parties to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law meanwhile thousands of libyans have been gathering in tripoli to protest against renewed fighting in the region libya has been in turmoil since the ousting of moammar gadhafi in twenty eleven since then the country is the in the setting up of two rival governments one backed by the un in tripoli and the other based in top broke. his party boyko looks back now at how the civil war in libya began in her latest edition of in case you missed it. the cia stooges competing colonialists a powerless us billions of barrels of the black stuff in case you missed it the looming civil war in libya has this role. because of the leak i saw that. freedom and prosperity in libya back in twenty eleven creating

a glorious last civil. like this and slave trade that i was wrong. not the business of another revolution to get rid of this guy on the floor you know in this one shows up but just look at them. just to put the carrot there in. general. and his self-proclaimed libyan national army. apparently fall for colonel moammar gadhafi then turned against him before going into exile in the u.s. but twenty years in langley virginia where the cia is based. however is not significant seriously i am trying to record something here where was i cost has launched a military offensive and a place to take control of the whole country is a put there reassuring promise but security comes politics second. housetop

wants to defeat the government of national accord which isn't really a selfless or national or in accord with anything but it's called one thing on its side the recognition of the us the service that seems easy enough international condemnation nato. half dollar bill says everything gets better it works every time the plan has everyone's best interests. so while the un officially recognizes the tripoli government the french egypt and the saudis have been funding and backing general. who also got a personalized guided tour of a russian aircraft carrier in trying to seventeen italy is backing the other side out of the u.s. just pulled out of it soldiers from libya. oh. quite a geopolitical because currently all the sides are doing the only thing me when

they can't do anything for. restraint and dialogue my advice to anyone who lives in a corrupt sandy country with a serious amount of oil is to tell it you don't get it here and there now just very back. the e.u. meanwhile is demanding that general qatar stop his military operation against the tripoli government. the military attack launched by the enemy on tripoli and the subsequent escalation in and around the capital are in danger of 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 but the block seems to be split over the issue france reportedly rejected an earlier statement calling on the leader of the libyan national army to pull back his troops paris has the oil assets in eastern libya and had been providing

military help the calf italy has criticized france's stance. it would be very serious affronts for economical commercial reasons had blocked an e.u. initiative to bring peace to libya and would support a policy 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 the then french president nicolas sarkozy was triggered can commercial interests the most humanitarian concerns former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament a load of unused thinks the split in the e.u. whether libya is linked to the geopolitical interests of its members. about zero political a position of france and italy in a lesson manager brown's was the one country does 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 this man is

leading the libyan national army is a former gadhafi goalie or atonal down and go decision medium and left the country for several years this man is is just as reliable as any other military dictator i mean it just shows that when it goes really comes down to democracy human rights and so on he's just irrelevant. still to come the german justice minister is under fire after giving an interview to r.t. deutsche welle she says so after this break.

what politicians do sometimes. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express interest. some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close this is what the. real people are. interested in the why. they sit.

back german media outlets and politicians have rounded on the country's justice minister after she gave an interview to r.t. deutsch and her seven minutes a parent's catarina body touched on a number of issues concerning europe including germany's ties with russia artie's peace all the far reports. of the german justice minister caterina bawly is found to sell. in hot water according to some lost on the political sea according to others it's scary to see how you can completely lose your political compas in no time well what heinous act did she commit she spoke to the media or as some would have you believe the wrong type of media this is all come about after ms barley gave an interview to r.t. deutsch our german language sister service. member has learned

that we maintain close ties with russia russia was and always will be our partner however that doesn't mean we don't take issue with certain things but then that's a natural part of any relationship. nordstrom to is a private enterprise and we as a government do not interfere i also do not consider it appropriate to comment on u.s. plans in any way. europe has external and internal enemies these include all who seek to weaken at first of all of course these are the e.u. countries that want to become nation states again and stop their usual cooperation with us in order to pursue their selfish national interests heaven forfend a german politician give an interview to a russian news outlet about issues that affect both nations that minister must be out of her mind according to the german tabloid press justice minister caterina

barely wants to join the european parliament for the s.p.d. and has given many interviews so far so good but why she took questions from the kremlin propaganda portal russia today is not comprehensible to many in political circles while the c.d.u. is fighting for every euro to strengthen europe security the s.p.d. european candidate. gives interviews the russian state propaganda that is twenty four seven to weaken europe. because the arena barely of the europe in the. old smog in unfriendly to those who want to send you are plummeting with their education freedom of the press sorry make that freedom to talk to the press as long as it's the ones that you have been tabloids approval for. more than one hundred war crimes and counting fantasy t.v. series game of thrones is being taken to task by australia's red cross the

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