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or. that works. in stories that shaped the week wiki leaks co-founder julian assange is arrested after spending almost seven years holed up in the dorrian embassy in london his arrest grabbed global attention and sparked concern just possible extradition to the u.s. . also a u.s. democratic presidential hopeful has african-americans should receive financial compensation for the suffering of their ancestors under slavery we debate the issue
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. because somebody. doesn't mean i'm responsible for it you know you should have been able to buy they were alive the government had literally buried it head paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america. and russian historians appeal to intervene after war so refuses to allow them to participate in a memorial project at a former nothing death camp in poland. welcome to the weekly here on our t.v. where we bring you the latest headline news and top stories from the past week. after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london wiki leaks founder julian assange was set sensationally dragged out by police this week came shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship
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and revoked his asylum our video agency filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. but . i like that word. are. calling his arrest the wiki leaks whistleblower mr going to westminster is my guest in london where he was found guilty of failing to hand himself into authorities in two thousand and twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which has since been dropped with more here's our. so it was told they would be sentenced to a later date and somehow by
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a video link to the songes legal team on the wiki leaks protests and came out take a listen to what they had to say this sets a dangerous precedent this precision means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states this is what god gave to journalists and supposed to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for assurances that journalists will never be extradited to united states for publishing activities the ecuadorian all-star team has allowed the metropolitan police to go inside the embassy where the party julius onj tried to resist arrest and then he was physically bundled up and put in to a police baton and taken into police custody now very soon afterwards we learned that julian assange just political asylum to citizenship had been revoked by the
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ecuadorian authorities. announced that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian are shown to the hostile and threatening decorations of his annoyed organization i could all on especially the transgression of international treaties have led the situation to a point where the asylum of mr assad is unsustainable are no longer viable the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said julian assange and was 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 is going to domestic disputes bubbling beneath the surface as well last year julian assange was given a list of conditions that he needed to add here to 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 ball. hey freezing pay for the one tree. which they
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threaten term leave and subsequently british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened we'll welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested the 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's hidden from the truth for years and years but also a very courageous decision by president arroyo in ecuador to resolve the situation we need. at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange on stopping the saga and to moving on to perhaps a rather truncated 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 us on his release
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of cyber tools used by the cia and of hillary clinton's private 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 us launches 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 accessed classified documents if convicted he could face up to five years in prison here's a look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years. i know i.
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affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes the song would never get a fair trial in the u.s. . it has all the sort of indications of the kind of a 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 it 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 a justice by. interview this is a total stitch up julie saw it will not face due process or justice she's going to
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face. a simulacrum of it but not the real thing songes arrest 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 some just possible extradition with more on this plan to take place later today across australia my colleague erin discuss 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 assad 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 of. wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and you should 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 u.s. 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
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activists and activist organizations to those who support him he 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 while 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. in a solid 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 drag
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a publisher of like you to know it was when in journalism out of the building. up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom we care 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 dio jesus 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 how has politicians been wayans things songes arrest well i would to raise them a said no one is above the law and it looks like the likes of the u.s. the u.k.
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and the current government of ecuador will continue to team up in saying that these 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 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. 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 no amount of julian assange just natural ization and the handover of this australian
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journalist 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 in 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. russian historians are outraged as point continues to block moscow from taking part in the construction of a memorial museum at a former nothing death camp artist but in a question about reports. sabi bore was a nazi run killing center and an intense secret very few survive to advert tallis and scream course.
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another unit arrived once they were already undressed they apparently understood where they were being taken naked and all in fear they ran away but where could they run everyone rushed to the barbed wire fences and there they were met with the fire of machine guns and rifles many people died from the bullets the rest were driven into the gas chambers the fires were burning into late at night that's all flames illuminated the evening black sky with its terrifying lights the whole camp and the surrounding territory. like thunder the screams of people rode over the death camp six hundred people
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exhausted yearning for freedom rushed forward shouting here a in this single impulse the jews of russia are in poland the netherlands and from the czech it's a vacuum in germany united it was only then that the tower gods realized that something was wrong in the camp and opened fire. unlike auschwitz there is nothing left of sabi bore the extermination camp was destroyed by the nazis after the uprising and trees planted to conceal evidence ever existed but there is concern that key parts of. as history are now being over look. this is a matter for the whole of europe through in the so people come. russians dutch french and also people from other countries and that's what you know this pain and loss of people who were tortured or died so that we never repeated the polish
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government started construction plans back in two thousand and fourteen for a new visitor center at the site of the former death camp russia says that it was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the here roy grew fault and escaped for sabi war the committee behind the project includes representatives from slovakia the netherlands poland and israel as the construction of the museum moved forward paul and opened the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three applications sounded by russian museums all private entities were not approved by war sell polish russian relations are complicated and certainly when it comes to world war two they were complicated so i think the poles rather take control themselves of the narrative they're afraid of the russian narrative and they also don't want to give russia too much credit for liberating poland you can use history as a weapon and the poles haven't weaponize in history as
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a as many people have been doing some may call it historical amnesia some like paul ince ministry of culture and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee made a anatomist decision about continuing cooperation between its current members who have already worked together for ten years in order to smoothly complete advance works on the new memorial site the cultural standoff aside as high time average one as remembered for their suffering and bravery let me remind you of something where seventy thousand verses of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp out. has broken out death camp was observed in poland latin reputing was not invited and given the fact that our first was liberated by the red army i mean this is quite quite outrageous i would say so what we're seeing now is a continuation of this policy which is trying to. keep the russians out of
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participating in any. effort to present the history of sobibor and the suffering of the of the inmates there and the horrible mass murders that took place there still to come u.s. presidential hopefuls back reparations for african-americans the details after this short break. 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 only loosely and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and.
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those are the gate have to be changed and we are still living with this sort of the legacy sophie decimalization most of the. legal frameworks in investing well all of them are decided for industrial base of the stick watch and now we are moving and i think the problem is that our concepts are behind. welcome back us presidential hopeful has sparked debate by proposing
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a bill to provide reparations to african-americans democratic senator cory booker says this would compensate for the suffering of slaves a 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 both still affected by discrimination issues getting a lot of to 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 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 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
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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 and author reese iverson who took rather opposing views. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave or act in a moment but we're now winds are every two years pass a particular point in time who's 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 pay it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now you're ok with a.b.l. listen 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 fall a million dollars from you and then i die would you say oh well reason died so that
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money doesn't matter anymore no he would go talk to my children and 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 did makes no sense you know who. he should have been able to catch him why they were alive to punish him while 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 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 economic access the black people and that has to be repaid who's going to pay you're talking about a government that government is funded by the people that means me that means you
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will pay for it so how does it make any sense like i see it would have been more let me know how many times that you are certainly a slave when were raised as would have been do which is at the end to slavery now right now it makes no sense to so argue me it is space no logic here america's 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 thinks 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 people no one's ever studied and why because the government has literally buried it had it's paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america who hate it anywhere i would do too long to just drive eighty eight hours any day and every night and i'm going to write 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 that's a recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last seven
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ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who are killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the secretary defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money those 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 or uneasiness
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for peace. cause. there. welcome to worlds apart when they. started to take root it's proponents claim that it's going to be a panacea to almost all the world's ills lifting millions out of poverty peace through trade and yet as an old saying goes the only free cheese is in the mousetrap. trade commerce similar complications to discuss that i'm now joined by a former prime minister of finland. prime minister it's good to talk to you thank
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you very much more personal i'm a person we're recording this conversation on the sidelines of the harasses forum which this year is that it catered to discussing a morally decent form of globalization that formulation in and of itself suggest that there is something off with the current system what is it it's a fact i. mean seeing star using you know. globalization trend. transformation or. maybe even the more fundamental things but they go hand in hand they. require stick and watches and. now when globalization is discussed it's usually discussed in economic terms of efficiency labor costs production cheats etc and there is a legitimate benchmarks for business but not for government because the government
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has to consider a much broader impact what happens to society as factories move about what happens to the public health sector whether there is an opioid crisis do you think industrial democracies have managed globalization in there. rather than corporate ways. they have not understood that the rules of the game have to be changed and we are still. living with historical legacy self industrialization because if you look at the social security systems education systems most of the let's say legal frameworks in the investment world all of them are designed for industrial face of watching and now we are moving ahead and i think the problem is that our concepts are lacking behind what you're saying is that the government didn't do enough to create new jobs to compensate the
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schools to make sure that people are not taking drugs rather than you know taking measures to make sure that industrial capacity is kept where those goods are consumed typically explanation is that market is going to be a liberal democracies have failed to solve problems that they created i think it's only half true and the problem is that they still believe that the methods they used after the second world war which were very successful that the same methods are still applicable and producing on the applicable i mean no what's a scandalous one for example donald trump and many others say that we want to preserve certain jobs certain factories here even if it means that the the price of goods is higher we just want to people employed and that has every pull a factor in the society why is that not a legitimate point of view i think the point is that if you look at.
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