i make money. and that's what i hear the day. of the week wiki leaks co-founder julian assange is a rested after spending almost seven he is holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. as the rest grabs global attention and. possible extradition to the united states. and other news the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful says that african american should receive financial compensation for the suffering of their ancestors on the slavery we pay. somebody. doesn't mean i'm responsible for you know who should have been able to why they

were allowed if the government had literally buried it paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america. so u.s. republican senator reggie's military how venezuela to provide what he calls genocide by presuming to durham and claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. and. joining us this evening you're watching the weekly. after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london with founder julian assange was sensationally dragged down by police this week after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship revoked his asylum. filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested.

arrest the wiki leaks whistle blower was driven to the west the magistrate's court in london he was found guilty of failing to hundreds of into the authorities in two thousand and twelve relation to a sexual assault case that since been dropped in the cases. saunders told he would be sentenced in a later date. songes legal team in the wiki leaks which presently 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 a dark day for journalists in italy has to be. the u.k. government needs to make up for assuring that journalists will never be extradited to the united states for publishing activities ecuadorian off. the metropolitan police to go inside the embassy where. try to resist arrest and then he was bundled up put in a police baton and taken into police custody now very soon afterwards. electical asylum and to citizenship had been. dorrian authorities. announce that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of mr julian the hostile and threatening declarations of his annoyed organization. and especially the

transgression of international treaties have led the situation to a point where the asylum of mr assad regime is unsustainable there are no longer. the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said julian assigned was interfering in the international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activity through his activities of the 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 is. pay for the same food to pay for their normal three clean up after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened we'll welcome the news this morning that the

metropolitan police have arrested judy in a sorry. 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 this situation we need the end but at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange one stop the saga and we're moving on to perhaps a rather poor truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. julian assange sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in two thousand and twelve the u.s. was then investigating the publication by wiki leaks of classified military documents relating to the war in afghanistan but also looks into a songes release of cyber tools used by the cia and of hillary clinton's private e-mails which is claimed was parts of alleged russian interference in the twenty

sixteen presidential election. following his arrest on thursday the u.s. issued a formal request for us on his extradition washington accuses a staunch of conspiring with the united states the indictment alleges together which elsie manning a former intelligence analyst in the u.s. army the songs cracked the government password and access classified documents if convicted he could face up to five years in prison there's a look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years. i mean i. look. up oh.

shut. up you get a. little. cold does the house a collect any data from the millions of those who are told to look to wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of talks like a hostile takeover the server. banks who visited joining the songs in the embassy two weeks ago told us about the atmosphere in this refuge prior to the arrests. well he wasn't permitted to talk to

me privately without surveillance what happened was he was shouting that he wanted to meet with me so that he could report on the illegal treatment that he was being you know met with at the embassy at the hands of the embassy and he is the ambassador of working with the u.s. government and said that they were conspiring with the us against him and these are the people who are supposed to be giving him asylum they spent twenty five million dollars at least on surveillance at the ecuadorian embassy if they're not spending that kind of money for a five year sentence i'm worried that if they get him here i think that they're beating him with a light sentence so that the court the u.k. court will and his lawyers potentially will agree to easy agree more easily it extradition but then once he gets here they're going to pile on the charges and do what they did to chelsea manning. songes arrest is going global attention with thousands rallying in support of the australian born whistleblower from quito it's

a bit of post protesters gathered outside the u.s. embassies expressing their concern over the strongest possible extradition. later today across australia. mccarran discussed the international reaction to a soldier's arrest with. a lot of these skeletons in the closets of the world's money to use the most powerful probably will never be pulled out but if it wasn't for julian a song so 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 encourage so many people to think and ask questions about what the most 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. into what's

happening with the whistleblower let's take a look at what the american civil liberties union came out with any persecution by the united states of mr songe for wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations moreover prosecuting a foreign publisher of violating u.s. secrecy tools was set and especially dangerous precedent for us journalists who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver 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 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 well some people don't see a difference between 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 u.s. 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 ambassador inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drag a publisher of like you to know award winning journalism out of the building. up in the history books isn't just 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. two 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. sis part of what a science did to just before 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 reason no one is above the law and it looks like the likes of the u.s. the u.k. and to 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 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. shown towards abuses and violation of human and international rights. we absolutely reject the no amount of julian assange just naturalisation and the handover of this australian 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 and any case now whatever the people. say it

still all depends on the next steps by u.s. police and u.s. prosecutors so we will be watching out for that. the u.s. republican senator has called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent what he's calling the genocide by president nicolas maduro comes amid washington's repeated val's that it won't exclude any option after it became the country's opposition leader one as the interim president in january we've got to really consider whether we do military. you know help getting this aid in disdain this save the starving people of venezuela they are starving to death i mean this is genocide imma duros doing it. meanwhile an american think tank called the center for strategic and international studies of c.s.i.s. has reportedly held an off the record meeting to assess the use of military force in venezuela a list of roughly forty attendees of the event contains current and former u.s.

officials including from the state department senior officials from the colombian brazilian embassies as well as top d.c. representatives from one gotos shadow government also thought to be at the meeting . i speak now to max blumenthal's an investigative journalist and is also the editor of the great zone dot com good to have your max you've been closely following events in this part of the world do we have any information at this point about what exactly was going on at this meeting of the c.s.i.s. . well this story is an exclusive at the gray zone dot com i obtained the check in list of this off the record meeting on april tenth when an update apparently took place in the check in list was missed dated april twentieth i confirmed that the meeting took place with a staffer at c.s.i.s. the think tank a weapons industry funded think tank that hosted it however she refused to give me details grik stream lee nervous on the phone in

a second source who participated in the meeting who confirmed it also refused to give details they were extremely nervous that somebody in the media knew about the existence of this event it was a very high level meeting with basically the main people in washington involved in making the sausage of trump's venezuela policy and they wanted to keep it as private as possible and it really does show that military options are being seriously considered at this point after all other mechanisms that trump has put into play seem to have failed of the people who were in attendance at this meeting just how influential could they be for u.s. foreign policy. you know you have people in the state department you had a national intelligence council staff or you had the former head of u.s. com which is the naval command center in charge of latin america and central america even had a colombian general who is constantly in consultation with south com one of the

more interesting elements was the participation of high level staffers from the u.s. aid agency for international development which helped oversee the february twenty third attempt to ram usaid across the colombian border and usa id is now talking about military options so this could be done under the auspices of some kind of humanitarian intervention to save venezuelans but it's really interesting that an aid agency is participating in this discussion another really remarkable figure was david small and ski a close ally of one wydow from venezuela who is now the head of the oas is migration department on venezuela and we know there's a consensus in washington that any invasion or attack on venezuela would be in exactly the migration crisis massively so someone who's in charge of migration to discuss military options seems pretty bizarre in counterproductive what other

options no military options are still available to the us before they go down what most people would think is that you know the right of last resort using a military option. well that's an important question the u.s. is using economic sanctions as a form of unilateral coercion in place of the military invasion that's according to the un special rapporteur or edris just sciri. and they don't seem to be removing the dural the us has called on the military in venezuela to turn on the derwin they have stood firm and honored the constitution and one white is kind of on a tour around venezuela and he's not rallying the crowds the u.s. had hoped for and so i see this secret or a private meeting at c s i s as evidence of the u.s. is desperation and they're trying to find any means to dislodge the dural after several months you also reported that representatives of colombia and brazil were present at this meeting does this suggest this is going to be the squeeze from both

sides from latin america and north america well it any u.s. invasion of venezuela would be contingent on consent from the colombian and brazilian governments and it's very unclear that they will get consent because both governments are extremely worried about increasing the migration crisis there are deeply worried about destabilizing the entire region and that's absolutely what this would entails they're also worried about a counterattack from the venezuelan military which is a very competent military and in fact we've seen friction between the brazilian military and president you know your boss a narrow who has said basically at least publicly ruled out an invasion so it may be that people are pushing but they're running into interference and obstruction from the regional partners of the u.s. . if the u.s. wants to use military force to go in to

a sovereign nation do you think that the people of america would tolerate that or not. you know i was in when i was in caracas talking to members of the opposition just common people who want me gone and support why to go they considered it unfathomable that the u.s. would invent it because they are afraid that they themselves would get bombed and they would be collateral damage however it's the figures on the outside the real extremists around wydow who are in washington holding meetings with abrams who appear willing to entertain this and who want this and i think this would cause an existential crisis for the trump administration many people think trump would be happy to distract from his problems but i think you would see an anti-war movement similar to the kind that we had during the invasion of iraq with hundreds of thousands of people in the streets and you'd have a catastrophe across south america that entire region right in the us is so-called backyard would be destabilized so in many ways this is unworkable but i never

underestimate the arrogance of washington's elite policymakers max really fascinating to get your report almost happening over there my guest max blumenthal who's an investigative journalist and the editor of the gray zone dot com thanks for your presidential hopefuls back reparations for african-americans that despite massive public opposition details after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. the business model of facebook is to pressure people to continue communicating through facebook and giving facebook personal information this is what makes facebook a surveillance monster show facebook does not have users facebook has used its people that facebook use it's. the u.s. presidential hopeful has sparked debate sponsored posing a bill to provide reparations to african-americans democrats and it's accorded book

says that this would compensate for the suffering of slaves. a recent poll finds only one in five voters back the if adopted the law would officially acknowledge the legacy of american slavery financially compensate those still affected by discrimination the 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 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 some 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 brown logan and author reese ever since it took opposing views. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave 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 that day in twenty name was a slave back then so what do we gain pay for who is going to pay were it again a it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now you're paid a.b.l. well isn't that 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 die or if i fall a million dollars from you and then i die would you say oh well reason died so that money doesn't matter anymore no you would go talk to my children and children are

still living off the benefits of that million. dollars just because somebody is green day's dose of it doesn't mean i'm responsible for it if somebody is granddad was so you know 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 makes no see you know who did it you 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 was people were brought from across the water to work and that was free labor that 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 you're talking about a government that government is funded by the people that means me that means you 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 mostly a slave to argue me displays no logic here america's never even study the effects of slavery on black people they never said down and said we know that as a government we thank him with this thanks 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 paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america who hate it anywhere and i do too long to just drive eighty eight aren't very handy 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 to wait for the latest news headlines and updates on our top stories in half an hour.

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