often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulated branch offices we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for. julian assange charged in the us with conspiracy to have government computers the

issue of his alleged links to russia are once again being raised in washington. which police used tear gas against yellow vest protesters in the twenty second consecutive weekend of demonstrations against the government. and more than seventy people are reportedly killed in libya in a week as the international community remains split over how to deal with the country's escalating conflict. plus the german justice minister is roundly criticized after giving an interview to artie's german sister channel in which she mentions close ties between berlin and moscow. and maintain close ties with russia russia was and always will be our partner.

great to have you with us this saturday evening this is r.t. international. after his dramatic arrest wiki leaks front man julian assange she's 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 the vice president's words on friday. m j when he was the cia cia director he called weekly leaks and non-state house intelligence services often abetted by state actors like russia we strongly agree with that that's why the justice department is now seeking extradition. to be just a slip of the tongue us currently assigned hasn't been charged with anything russia related but his alleged links to the kremlin have been on the minds of the media and political chase for quite some time. looks at whether alleged collusion may become part of the case against the wiki leaks. it did say it years ago 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 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 putin 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 acted in concert with the russians to interfere on our elections to help you pack into what took information from the russians and we stood in a way to disrupt our campaigns and twenty sixteen i don't think that's it's not right to legal and i hope mr as much as possible just because you. anderson for his role in russian meddling in what you do by their word he's 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 no mention of russia not to 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 u.s. government house to. state all the charges. tend to charge mr socks with extraditions. fail to you not mr sargent's us that lands on us on. our states government or their charts just consider this if the us had any of it anything tying as signs to russia or meddling will 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 know at that stage what except charges are for example . the extradition or u.k. not extradite somebody to wes the charges that are probably going to. not

exist there's no charge. so the extradition court makes very clear we're only going to extradite what those charges are sent to us and. we just like it straight to. states and iraq turns are on now saying well it's. going by what lawyers and experts are saying the u.s. doesn't have much of a case and if 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.

this 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 really serious than the abuses and murder themselves chelsea formally bradley manning was freed by a bomber but judging by the toxicity on t.v. in washington. shouldn't be too hopeful the. you never know trump is trump wiki leaks i love wiki leaks. thursday police forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy in london came after kato stripped him of his

ecuadorian citizenship and revoked his asylum which was granted almost seven years ago. violated the terms of his asylum in numerous ways independent journalist and close friend regina smith says he knows. trade by the media. is very robust and strong person physically quite large and mentally but he has been on the most of her overstrained i mean physically he lost a lot of weight mentally he was still the same to you know of course but you could see that here he's a man who'd suffered oh no we can't 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 door in the last yeah under the regime of merino were monitoring him inside the embassy turn extraordinary degree there were two cameras in every room except a lot of three even the kitchen one also he was gagged he was a housekeeper journalist and the other thing is his visitation rights work

a tale this is quite difficult to see and julian has expected to be thrown out of the embassy since before christmas he was just waiting for him to have been but i don't think he expected to be dragged out in this way 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 people consider much more of a threat than you really is you know the district judge and the magistrate court that he went into off straight after being taken by the police and described him as a narcissist i mean the judge met him once in the courtroom but day i mean that's a savage thing to say about somebody you know today what we've been talking about the talking about the welfare of the cows i mean you couldn't make it out i was so hungry for news talk about a. they'll talk about silly stuff about him you know apparently. unclean or something like that i mean it's extraordinary how journalists are able to distract themselves was really important and really important to the future of journalism.

international criminal court will not probe one of the biggest revelations coming from the spy the whistleblower julian assange the i.c.c. claims that looking into alleged u.s. war crimes in afghanistan would now 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 ailed the decision as 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 we 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. planes 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 i'm just prosecution by this illegitimate court. the i.c.c. opened a preliminary investigation into the back in two thousand and six said look to the allegations that more than ten thousand civilians were killed in atrocities as well as claims of torture and rape in two thousand and seventeen the i.c.c. prosecutor asked her just to take things further saying that there were reasonable grounds to suspect that the us military was implicated human rights watch says that the court's decision to reject 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 friends dress the judge's logic effectively in the house member countries to opt out of copulating with the quote and the war activists said so that your kids had a good says that the i.c.c. has 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 you take on 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 you i guess the president do that with the case with the signs right now this is this is not only up janet stan but we have to look at did they did they do anything about iraq no that was a legal occupational legal invasion just like

a janet stan 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. as police have fired tear gas and yellow vests protesters throwing rocks and bottles on the first weekend after a controversial and riot law came into force you know rules ban demonstrators from hiding their faces. i i. i i. i.

i have erupted in paris where police have used tear gas against the protesters fifteen people were detained for the seven thousand protesting across the country with around three thousand of those in the capital alone i. turned violent as a certain city of toulouse where officers moved in after protesters reportedly tried to build barricades a number of demonstrators were said to be injured more than twenty were detained it's the twenty second consecutive weekend of anti-government rallies in the country the other best movement started in november then it was a rally against fuel price hikes and a call on president markram to resign. meanwhile religious violence in france is on the rice with a spike in attacks against minorities but the majority of incidents in the country target christians something much of the media seems to overlook. explains. anti

religious attacks are taking place on an almost daily basis in france but while some incidents seem to attract a lot of attention others are largely being ignored according to the french observer. for be so nearly twenty nineteen was the worst month for churches in france and stay began collecting data in twenty fifteen but in addition to churches other public christian symbols have also been targeted for example some across as a mountain tops public crucifixes has been destroyed or vandalized and public statues of jesus and the virgin mary have been decapitated or destroyed and according to the observatory in france anti christian attacks have sharply risen since the beginning of twenty nineteen this is paris is historic seoul suit peace last month a fire here briefly caught the attention of the media. it

didn't take long for an investigation to say the attack was deliberate and cause nearly a million damage but take a closer look at how it was reported by some news wires the headline reads the church briefly catches fire. almost a month later the story doesn't appear to have been updated suggesting that a deliberate attack on one of paris is largest churches just wasn't backed newsworthy at the same time other anti religious attacks not only make the headlines they stay. the latest official figures from the french government to give us a better insight into what's happening in twenty eighteen there was a shop brian. in the number of anti sematic incidents five hundred forty one that's

up seventy four percent compared with twenty seventeen the incidents were broken down showing what they were related to including murder violence and threats anti muslim x. one hundred alone since twenty ten meanwhile the number of anti christian acts reached one thousand and sixty three a slight increase compared with the previous year no further detail was. what was shocking to me was the almost casual way that the ministry described it saying quote the number of anti-christian acts is stable over the year when the interior minister downplays or. seems to sideline the acts against christians it fuels the assumption that only minority religions deserve protection unquestionably the increase in anti-semitic attacks is of

serious concern but by ministers minimizing the number of anti-christian incidents and providing no details the government signals in a not so subtle way that this is less important it's unclear who is carrying out these attacks or why they are taking place but there's real concern that the way that the french government and the media generally underplay them means that they could be being significantly underreported meaning the true scale is still unknown so what do you can ski r.t. paris. she said.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be. to the right to due process this is like the three of them or people. interested always in the waters and the how. they sit.

welcome back seventy five people are being killed more than three hundred twenty wounded in libya in just the last ten days according to the world health organization the country's ongoing civil war has been escalating after general khalifa haftar whose forces control in eastern libya ordered his army to march on the camp of the the un is calling on all parties to the conflict and the 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 evacuate 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's been in turmoil since the ousting of moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven since then the country has seen the establishment of two rival governments one backed by the u.n. in tripoli the other based into broke. looking back at how the civil war that began in her latest edition of in case you missed it. cia stooges competing colonialists a powerless u.s. and billions of barrels of the black stuff in case you missed it the looming civil war in libya has this will. help us in the early i thought that. freedom and prosperity in libya twenty eleven creating a glorious last civil. like this and slave trade turns out i was wrong.

not the business and i'm of the revolution to get rid of this guy and the more you know this one shows up i just look at them like a little despotic because they're in the. general. and his self-proclaimed libyan national. apparently useful for colonel moammar gadhafi then turned against him before going into exile in the u.s. for twenty years in langley virginia where the cia is based. how is that significant seriously i am trying to record something here where was i after is launching a military offensive and a pledge to take control of the whole country is often their reassuring promise that security comes politics second. housetop to defeat the government of national accord which is really a sublist or national or an accord with anything but it's called one thing on its

side the recognition of the un and the service that seems easy enough international condemnation of nato for half dollars bill says everything gets better it was every time the plan has everyone's best the oil interests up top. so while the u.n. officially recognizes the tripoli government the french egypt and the saudis have been funding and backing general ham who also got a personalized guided tour of a russian aircraft carrier by going to seventeen italy is backing the other side and the u.s. just pulled out of its soldiers from libya. quite a geopolitical. currently all the sides are doing the are losing may sound do when they can't do anything calling for a strange kind of dialogue my advice to anyone who lives in

a corrupt sandy country with a serious amount of oil is to leave here just very back. demanding the general staff stop his military offensive 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 to block seems to be split over the issue france reportedly rejected an earlier e.u. statements the called on the leader of the libyan national army to pull back his troops paris has oil assets in the east of the country and have been providing military assistance to after italy has criticized france's stance. 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 by a konami can commercial interests than what humanitarian concerns. former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament a lot of honest sense that the split in the e.u. over libya is linked to the geopolitical interests of its members. about your political a position of france and italy in a lesson manager 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 were 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 eight who'll down and gone disagreed with him and

left the country for us in central years this man is just as the reliable as any of the military dictators i mean it just shows that when it goes really comes down to democracy human rights and so on he's just irrelevant. german media politicians have rounded on the country's justice minister after she gave an interview to artie's german sister channel in a seven minute appearance scattered in a bar littered ston a number of issues concerning europe including germany's relations with russia what is peter oliver reports from berlin. or the german justice minister catherine of bali is found herself in hot water according to some and lost on the political sea according to others it's curious to see how you can completely lose your political compass 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. german language sister service. and 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 too 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 from. europe as 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's security the s.p.d. european candidate or the rino barly gives interviews the russian state propaganda that is twenty four seven to weaken europe. katherina barely of the european the un through body verse in unfriendly to those who want to send you are plummeting into chaos with their education freedom of the press sorry make that freedom to talk to the press as long as it's the ones the chairman tabloids approval for. thanks thing with internationalists evening i'll be back with updates for you hope to see in

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