yeah stupidity to work yourself in that. the of the. was. charged in the us with conspiracy to hack government computers the issue of his alleged links to russia once again being raised in washington. french police used tear gas against yellow vests protesters in the twenty second

consecutive weekend of demonstrations against the government. and more than seventy people are reportedly killed in libya in just the week as the international community remains split over how to deal with the country's escalating conflict. so joining us this evening here on r.t. international. following his dramatic arrest wiki leaks front man julian assange is facing a charge of conspiracy to hack a u.s. government computer but it appears that washington has another axe to grind at least judging by the vice president's words on friday. when he was a cia cia director he called we keep leaks in state house intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia we strongly agree with but it's for the

justice department is now seeking extradition. to be just a slip of the tongue of these songs hasn't been charged with anything russia related but his alleged links to the kremlin how been on the minds of the media and political chiefs for quite some time. looks at whether collusion to become part of the case against the wiki leaks. it did 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 as an agent 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 need is 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 took that information from the russians at least 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 if you come you'll get forty years from. russia meddling in what you do by their word he's a covert k.g.b. asset of 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 to 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 of going to stop the the us government asked you. state all the charges they tend to charge mr sashi with extradition stick. the filter do you not mr sergeant's us that lands on us soil about oil states government or their charts just consider this if the us had any of it anything tying as signed to russia or made legal 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 exact charges are herb's out all. the extradition court 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 those charges are sent to us and. we just like it straight to. states and iraq turns on the. balance. going by what lawyers and experts are saying the u.s. doesn't have much of a case and that 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 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. shouldn't be too hopeful but you never know trump is trump wiki leaks i love were killing. on thursday police forcibly removed julian assange from the ecuadorian embassy in london and came back to quito stripped him of his ecuadorian citizenship and revoked his asylum which was granted almost seven years ago and it could all says that assad's violated terms of his asylum in the same. always independent journalist and close friend of. smith says that we can change that is not a man betrayed by the media. students a very robust and strong person physically quite large 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 do 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 ecuadorians were in the last year under the regime of merino were monitoring him inside the embassy to an extraordinary degree there were two cameras in every room except the lavatory even the kitchen one also he was gagged he was speaking german 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 i mean we're just waiting for him to have an eye but i didn'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 after 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 so talk about a cat will talk about silly stuff about him or you know apparently. the 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. meanwhile the greek at kehl alliance has revealed the back in december it sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london asking to transfer it to greece back then the group pledged to push for citizenship that we could expose but to no avail tony the coordinator of that alliance told us why the deal failed. it was a disappointment to. send this letter in. the nearest. months. until after.

listening. to understand. well they had to click option people into a membership of the government. roll up if you want julian assange still lived here but you wanted to keep him here until you nation in history of our communication with you should resource. in order to. reduce. the international criminal court will not probe one of the biggest revelations from leaks published by 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 that 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 being a major international victory for the rule of law or intern 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. 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 allegations that more than ten thousand civilians were killed in atrocities as well as plagues of torture and rape in two thousand and seventeen the i.c.c. prosecutor asked judges to take things further saying that they were reasonable grounds to suspect the us military was implicated human rights watch says 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 arrests the judges logic effectively in the house member countries to opt out of copulating with a quote. and the war activists said you can check and 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 too that would be 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 in beijing just like of ghana 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. police have fired tear gas at yellow vests protesters who were throwing rocks and

bottles on the first weekend following a controversial and vital coming into force new rules banned demonstrators from hiding their faces. i. i i i. i i i. i i i. i i i clashes have erupted in paris where police have used tear gas against the protesters twenty seven people were detained more than thirty thousand protested across the country with around five thousand in the capital alone. the rally turned violent in the southern city where officers moved enough to protesters reportedly tried to build barricades a number of demonstrators were said to be injured more than twenty were detained is

the twenty second consecutive weekend of anti-government rallies in france the all of us movement began in november it was originally a rally against fuel price hikes and a call on president to resign. i'm joined by publisher and writer. rick the new anti-riot laws they've made their debut have they taken the wind out of the sails of the l a vest. oh i think the results the calls to the to the right to to to demonstrate with the presence of arrests and police pressure to the possible demonstrators have had to come into force just the day after the arrest of jury an assailant who risks ending its life in prison or worse because he did his job as a journalist and told the truth in this global context of global rise of wealth or italian ism in our so-called western democracies i think we must remember

the essential principle of the french revolution when the government violates the rights of the people. is for the people the most sacred of their rights and the most necessary of their duties and what we see is not yet an insurrection but it is a complete insubordination of the french and this has been going on for five months . i mean put public opinion presumably the idea of this this. this change in the laws is to try and shame people if they have to show their faces presumably the government think they won't actually turn upand and break the laws if you think it's effective less people turning up for you saying. oh you know who said that if it doesn't work you're at all because the the problems are so serious there's a simple system is this block to france's intend to leave since straitjacket jacket represented by the euro the european union and nato and this blocks and the

possibility of changing the economic policy. one of one of but. i do apologize i think that the signals are breaking up a bit i thought you'd stopped but you haven't but i'll just move on if i may to emanuel macron because he's been surviving through the constant turnout of demonstrators protestors can he survive this and is he as unpopular as he seems to be judging by the numbers on the streets. yes it depends i suppose that though a broader mcroy certainly the laughing stock of other heads of states was it is less the the effect of his personal defects including a arrogance and blindness to understand the lives of the ordinary people. down there. less do snoozes person to take them the cause of the that is the cause of the of the riots the conflict blockage of the of the system and that is

a system is so block that can still play on the decay and until the end of its minutes but the general confederation of of labor that means our major trade union manages to trigger a general and renewable strike as we perceive it when we manage to to know things from the inside of this union the government will be on their knees and this happened already in france in one nine hundred sixty eight and one nine hundred thirty six. european elections coming up of course how big an impact i think the all of us protests are going to have on the result. so in a sense these are your bill elections are trapped because of the accelerated criticize ation especially of the young people that is taking place now ing in france and courage people to to go to a particular party why what was the most profitable strategy is a massive extension to not ratify the rubbing of sovereignty that was imposed on

the french people who had said no to the european constitution in two thousand and five and a massive abstention with digital a much european parliament where the m.p.'s are paid eight thousand euros to do nothing but i don't know insulting as well our local sol recently where the who are against merkel there is no independent french policy in the rigid from work of the european union. pleasure to speak to thanks for coming in r.t. publisher writer emerick among them. violence has fled in libya again more than seventy reported killed hundreds more injured over the last ten days we'll be taking a detailed look at the situation after this short break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected

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thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of the albanian capital chanting throwing flags and clashing with police. no casualties have been reported as of yet protesters are calling for the government to resign the transitional government to replace it before electoral reform and fresh elections your position accuses the authorities of corruption and of having links to organized crime which the government denies is the night of the protest organized by the opposition since mid february. seventy five people have been killed and more than three hundred twenty wounded in libya in just the last ten days of going to the world health organization the country's ongoing civil war has been escalating after general khalifa haftar whose

forces control eastern libya ordered his army to march on the capital and eastern government has just called the international community to lift a ban on weapons exports to the region the u.n. is calling on all parties to the conflict and hostilities. health partners have verified seventeen civilian casualties so far with seven fatalities including three medical stuff 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. thousands of libyans have been gathering in tripoli to protest against renewed fighting in the region libya has been in turmoil since the ouster of walmart gadhafi in two thousand and eleven since then the country has seen the establishment of two rival governments one backed by the united nations in tripoli the other based into brooke. has been looking back at how the civil war began in

her latest edition of in case you missed it. the cia stooges competing colonialist powerless us billions of barrels of the black stuff in case you guys said they were doing civil war in libya. i thought that may sound. very easy in libya. creating a glorious. life saved then i was wrong and the explosion happened. the middle of the revolution to get rid of. the more you know this is not a series of let's just look at them. but. apparently for some kind on want gadhafi then turned against him before going into exile in

the us the twenty years in langley virginia where the cia is based. however is not significant seriously i am trying to recall something. that was. crafters launched a military offensive and pledged to take control of the whole country is often their reassuring promise that security comes politics second. housetop wants to defeat the government of national accord which is really a government or national or in accord with anything but it's got one thing on its side the recognition of the us the service that seems easy enough international condemnation of nato for half dollars bill says everything gets better it works every time the plan has everyone's best whale in a crisis. 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. soldiers from libya. quite a geopolitical. currently all the sides are doing the are losing may sound do when they can't do anything pulling. the strings 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 three back. to you meanwhile is demanding the general stop 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 but the bloc seems to be split over the issue france reportedly rejected an earlier e.u. statement and called on the leader of the libyan national army to pull back his troops all assets in the east of the country and have been providing military help to have to italy has criticized france's stance. it would be very serious of france for economic and 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 load of a news thinks 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 manner 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 when 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 a tool down and gone disagreed with him and left the country for us in several years this man is just a reliable yes and the military dictator i mean it just shows there were only really comes down to democracy human rights and so on he's just irrelevant. ok i'll be back with the latest for you at the top of the hour.

think you should look into. this if you. look at the finished we go forward from the voters. in this who do want to. see if it was. a little. it's a local issue from reporters. who thought of these critics one of the least mythical. because the. machine into life for the smear. job is. the post someone. because of the old style if you will it's easy.

the rules of the game have to be changed still living with historical legacy so. most of the. legal frameworks in. all of them are decided for. face. and now we're moving. our concepts are lagging behind. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only posts really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit

down and talk. everybody time once again for the big guys a reporter lovely place hey max we're going to follow up on that ray dahlias story you mentioned re dahlia is a multimillion billionaire he's i guess he basically who finances all of connecticut and they're bankrupt states he's a connecticut hedge fund a guy he just donated two hundred million dollars the largest donation ever to connecticut for their education so.