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or. work. in stories that shaped the week co-founder julian assange is arrested after spending almost seven years old up in the effort or an embassy in london his arrest grabbed global attention and sparked concern over just possible extradition to the u.s. . also this hour u.s. democratic presidential hopeful says african-americans should receive financial compensation for the suffering of their ancestors under slavery we debated the issue. because somebody. doesn't mean i'm responsible for it you know. you should
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be able to buy they were last the government had literally buried it head it paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america. and the military coup say sudan's president arrested and emergency rule imposed on the span of twenty four hours. welcome to the weekly here on our to international where we bring you the top stories from the past week. first after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he makes co-founder joy in the song a sensational dragged out by police this week it came shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship and revoked his asylum our video agency filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. ah.
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ah . following his arrest the wiki leaks whistle blower was driven to westminster's magistrate's court in london where he was found guilty of failing to hand himself into authorities. in relation to a sexual assault case. dropped more on the case here's artist.
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states. he. needs to make sure. the united states. try to. put.
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an aggressive behavior. the hostile and threatening decorations of his annoyed organization i could roll on especially the transgression of international treaties have led the situation to a point where the asylum of mr assad regime is unsustainable are no longer viable the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said julian assange is interfering in the international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activities through his activities as editor of wiki leaks but also there was this kind of domestic disputes bubbling beneath the surface as well last year julian assange was given a list of conditions that he needed to add here if he wanted to stay on the good side of his the ecuadorian hosts he was told they needed to tidy up after himself clean his bar pay for his own food to pay for their normal three clean up after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did british officials are
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pretty pleased about what's happened we'll welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested judy in a song. mr speaker this goes to show that in the united kingdom no one is above the law but what we've shown today is that no one is above the law julian assange is no hero he is hidden from the truth for years and years but also very courageous decision by president arroyo in ecuador to resolve the situation we missed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange stuff saga and to moving on to perhaps a rather put trumpeted chapter of an illegal extradition battle. julian assange sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and twelve the us was then investigating the publication by wiki leaks of classified military documents relating to the war in afghanistan and also looked into a sonorous release of cyber tools used by the cia and of hillary clinton's. private
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e-mails which it's claimed was part of alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election following his arrest on thursday the u.s. issued a formal request for a songes extradition washington accuses a song of conspiring against the united states the indictment alleges that together with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army cracked a government password and access classified documents and convicted he could face up to five years in prison let's take a look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years. much.
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oh. cut. oh oh you're going to. kill does the n.s.a. work any day to the millions of those for low wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service talks like a hostile takeover of. global
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affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes the songs would never get a fair trial in the u.s. . it has all the sort of indications of the kind of backroom deal that's been done between a three way deal between the government of ecuador the british government and the united states government the danger here is not going to face justice in the united states what he is going to face is a secret grand jury proceeding most likely in northeastern virginia most likely will be ruled on by a judge who has ruled against every single whistleblower. under the obama administration including thomas drake john kerry aku and many others ok so this is from from a legal point of view of justice point of view this is a total stitch up joining sides will not face due process or justice he's going to
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face. a simulacra of it but not the real thing as long as the rest has gained global attention with thousands rolling in support of the australian born whistleblower from quito to budapest protesters have been gathering outside u.s. embassies expressing concern over a songes possible extradition with morales planned to take place later today across australia my colleague mickey aaron discussed the international reaction to a songes arrest with. a lot of these skeletons in the closets of the world's mightiest the most powerful probably will never be pulled out but if it wasn't for julian a song and some people wouldn't even start thinking merely that some of this nasty and gruesome stuff even existed and indeed a very important part of his legacy probably the most important part will always be that he encouraged so many people to think and ask questions about what. most
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powerful people in charge of this world could be hiding and this can truly be felt through the things that are being said by the activists right now in reaction to what's happening with the whistleblower let's take a look at what the american civil liberties union came out with any prosecution by the united states over mr wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and you should know and would open the door to criminal investigations of news organizations moreover prosecuting a foreign publisher for violating u.s. secrecy rules would set i'm especially dangerous precedent for us journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to tip information vital to the public's interest cumin rights watch are now actually saying that every news organization is in danger and this kind of sentiment is being echoed by so many activists and
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activist organizations to those who support here is you know. a hero here is an award winning journalist but there are those who hate him and he's as a whistleblower a villain how is he regarded. well some people don't see a difference between behavior to a list and a whistleblower some people do but you can argue that in any case this julian assange situation and his whole fate well always be intertwined with the notion of freedom of speech and it seems that any kind of attempts by the us political elite to paint him with that brush and to try and convince the world that he is not a journalist will always be challenged by the world's most renowned whistleblowers and investigative journalists as well images of those in buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drug a publisher if like you to know it was within journalism out of the building are
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going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom we queue leaks is a publisher charges now brought in connection with its material or any attempt to extradite assange to united states for prosecution under deeply flawed could you know of the espionage act nine hundred seventeen is an attack on all of us the d.-o. g. cis part of what a science did to just to fight 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 it's hard to make know the political undertones of this case that how have politicians been wayans things songes arrest well i would to raise i'm a said no one is above the law and it looks like the likes of the u.s. the u.k. and the current government of ecuador will continue to team up in saying that these
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suspected criminals should be prosecuted and they will keep on pushing that line but at the same time even in the western world and also in other parts of the world there will be politicians who will keep on saying things like. phony pretext and they will continue to treat this case as pure hypocrisy of the western political elites this whole story with the persecution and hounding with establishing inhumane living conditions is consigning to oblivion the rights of the freedom of speech and disseminating information that is something that it's absolute if you think that i mean that we are talking about that. show on the wards abuses and violation of human and international right we absolutely reject the julian assange just natural ization and the handover of this australian journalist
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to the united kingdom in a shameful act surrendering our sovereignty the extradition of julian a son to the us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be opposed by the british government and any case now whatever the people say it's still all depends on the next steps by us police and u.s. prosecutors so we will be watching out for that. u.s. presidential candidate has sparked debate by proposing a bill to provide reparations to african-americans democrat senator cory booker so this would come to think for the suffering of slaves our recent poll finds only one in five voters back the move if adopted the law will officially acknowledge the legacy of american slavery and financially compensate those affected by discrimination issues getting a lot of attention from fellow democrats. we have to recognize that everybody did not start out on an equal footing in this country and in particular black people
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have not. and so we have got to recognize that and do something about that and give folks a lift up i believe it's time to start the national symbol long conversation about reparations so that we can as a nation do what's right and begin to heal there are massive disparities that must be addressed so we're going to do everything we can to put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery we debated the issue with conservative commentator anthony bryan logan an author who took rather opposing views. you could have identified the former slave master in a former slave or at a moment but we're now winds are at fifty years past a particular point in time who is going to pay people who did not have slaves nobody i left a day in twenty nineteen was a slave back then so what do we gain pay for who is going to pay we're right again
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pay it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now your pay will be al less and that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard they provide economic restitution to those people now if i came into your house mr a.b.l. and i stole a thousand dollars from you and then i died or if i saw a million dollars from you and then i'd die would you say oh well reasoned guy so that money doesn't matter anymore no he would go talk to my children children are still living off the benefits of that million dollars just because somebody has grand days dose of it doesn't mean i'm responsible for it if somebody is granddad was so you know a killer and then they found out one hundred years later you go after the kids and say ok you get to go to jail now or you get to pay back some money because of what your grandfather d. and makes no since you know who did it he should have been able to catch him why they were alive punished him why they were alive we want to focus on is the economic harm that was done to black people if we really break down with slavery
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was people were brought from across the water to work and that was free labor so what we have is here to ration years hundreds of years of systematic distant discrimination and shutting out of x. economic access the black people and that has to be repaid who's going to pay it you're talking about a government that government is funded by the people that i mean to me that means you will pay for it so how does it make any sense like i say it would have been more let me present how many hands you are mostly under paid as slave when were raised in as would have been due which is at the end to slavery not right now it makes no sense to so argue me it is no logic here. americas never even study the effects of slavery on black people they never sat down and said we know that as a government we sanction this this makes this experience but we don't even know how far that experience reaches because no one's ever study it how much do we owe black
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people no one's ever studied and why because the government has literally buried its head it's paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america who he was too long to just driving he did anyway and three hundred and white in tears hopefully my generation will stand up and say that the buck stops here so we don't have to go on with this any longer it weekly continues after the break.
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yes. the rules of the game have to be changed and we are still living with historical legacy sophie decimalization most of the let's say legal frameworks you invest in all of them are decided for industrial base of the stick approach and now we're moving and i think the problem is that our concepts are likely to be. welcome back protesters flooded the sudanese capital on saturday at a rally in front of the military's headquarters they're calling the armors to hand
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over power to a civilian government protesters say they will remain on the streets until a civilian transitional council is formed on thursday after months of public protest the army toppled longtime president m r r bashir the news was met by celebrations but as ron garcia explains the mood soon soured. 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 amal bashir was removed by the military which sided with the people. sort of what the militant must really up to 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
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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.
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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
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past earlier this week we heard the same tired calls from the u.k. u.s. norway calls for regime change. the demand for political change from the creatures 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 not 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
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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 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 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
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mark so don is a traumatized nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never going to happen. some four hundred hopefuls are competing for a place is on the russian space agency is missions to the moon artist documentary channel has been following their intense training. if i didn't start this one of them young you can you know nicole still feels moved to tears i'm stuck there is little kids a note this is yours for the. it was a good flea i'm going to put just your. three distance troops leave a trip to the west is just too much notice of. this is if. you just focus for the. total to put your worst produce commish the will to move. in this one because just.
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the choice you destroy dormice to. the small that it feels like when the place you are. then your should be at all but alice the worst cross the tribe is a dance to one of the bites you buy that they are folks one after. their just a small bit of them a. mission about sloan. the joy at the way the put it in. polish of theirs and has made it a good. target with the. police unions and friends have expressed all arm over a spike in the number of officer suicide adding that in two thousand one thousand officers on average are taking their lives every four days there is undoubtedly real suffering among the police officers who are confronted each day by social
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deprivation hierarchical pressures and consecutive missions without the chance to rest. and worried because the chemo it's higher than this will continue to have an impact on those of us most weakened by the demanding job for years the suicide rate among officers has been thirty six percent higher than among the general population in the war and that a key factor is insufficient access to psychological help unions know that anti-suicide initiative launched by the government last year has been largely ineffective union representative talked to our sister channel r.t. france about the problem to put it all also the police are under represented in society nowadays this is to say to yourself in its own way. that you ring the national why do you think this is a disease it's no surprise the police are just like the rest of us they have been subjected to these negative thanks craig turning to suicides sure there are cases more and more of them and one of the main reasons is depression is the last act of
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suicide the death of an officer whether it is a man or woman is the result from happiness their own happiness isn't properly looked into but in this circumstantial measures won't change anything so that was the weekly thanks for tuning in this hour. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next then the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of know from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you can think i was going to go.
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by the way ways and such like here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.
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the senior palm beach county police officer did not consent to the still a phone conversation being broadcast his side of the dialogue is summarized here. the p.b.s. so deputy claims they do can constantly tells lies. feels . the dugan himself is to blame for having to leave his family because of what he has done. the sheriff's office denies any responsibility for duggan's in full. michael goddard the chief deputy of the palm beach county sheriff's office don't work for the tom county sheriff's office and so i think the ninety seven. really long time gardner is actually very knowledgeable when it comes to police dog or is not some guy he's very well educated you probably should be the sheriff at the end of the day and he's.

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