stories this week wiki leaks co-founder. rested after spending almost seven years in the ecuadorian embassy in london he's a restaurant global attention. possible extradition to the united states. and other news a u.s. republican senator ridges military help for venezuela to prevent what he calls genocide. claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. on a military coup see sudan's president arrested in a state of emergency imposed in the space of twenty four hours.

for joining us this is the weekly. seventy years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. was sensationally dragged down by police this week it came shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower his citizenship revoked his asylum. exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested.

he was found guilty of failing to hundreds of into the authorities and twenty twelve from relation to a sexual assault case which has since being dropped. the case was. saunders told he would be sentenced to a later date. songes legal team in the wiki leaks president came out take a listen to what they had to say this sets a dangerous precedent this precint mainstay any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having published truthful information about the united states. gave journalists in is supposed to be there to the u.k. government needs to make up for sure journalists will never be extradited to united

states for publishing activities the ecuadorian. the metropolitan police are going to go inside the embassy. try to resist arrest and then he was physically bundled up put in to a police baton and taken into police custody the citizenship had been revoked. the hostile and threatening declarations of his annoyed organization. on especially the transgression of international treaties have led the situation to a point where the stardom of mr assad regime is unsustainable are no longer viable the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said julian assange was interfering in the international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activity through his activities his editor of wiki leaks but also there was this kind of domestic dispute bubbling beneath the surface as well. 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 the same pay for said norton three clean up after is the hands which they threaten to 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 julian assange. 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 a very courageous decision by president arroyo no in ecuador to resolve this situation we need the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange timestamps and we're moving on to perhaps

a rather truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. with julian assange sought refuge in the quran embassy in two thousand and twelve new yorks was then investigating the publication by wiki leaks of classified military documents related to the war in afghanistan and also looked into his songes release of cyber tools used by the cia and of hillary clinton's private e-mails which times were part of alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election now following his arrest on thursday the u.s. issued a formal request for extradition washington accuses assad of conspiring with the united states an indictment alleges that together with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army cracked a government password in access classified documents if convicted he could face up to five years in prison is a look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years.

ult. how much. to lose. the touch. to look. like we're going to kill. kill kill does he say collect any data from the millions of those who are multiple he walks

like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile takeover of service. from a british m.p. george galloway. in the song face strike but also journalism as we know it. don't have to like um you don't have to like everything he's ever written or published but if you like the fact that we have the right to speak and to know often uncomfortable truths to our rulers don't want us to know then you should be here in person or at least in spirit because if julian our search is criminalized and incarcerated for revealing the truth then you might as well volunteer for a prison cell yourself because you'll no longer be free and you'll never be free

again there may have been a theft of information involved but if every publisher who publishes material that was stolen from its owners was put on trial and extradited and sent behind bars there would be no publishing i give you just one example i was a member of parliament when the daily telegraph bought stolen information about m.p.'s expenses and they published it and they want to wards for it because it was in the public interest the people should know that hundreds of members of parliament were cheating the taxpayer stealing from the taxpayer by fiddling their expenses that's what journalism is that's all that julian essential has. songes the rest is kind club attention thousands rallying in support of the australian born

whistleblower from peter to budapest protesters have gathered outside u.s. embassies expressing their concerns of responses possible extradition my colleague nic cowan discussed the international reaction to a song is a rest not easily be trying. 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 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 to 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. for wiki leaks publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of news organizations prosecuting a foreign publisher of violating u.s. secrecy tools was set and especially dangerous precedent the u.s. 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 activists organizations and to those who support him he is you know. a hero here is an award winning journalist but there are those who hates him and he's as a whistleblower a villain how is he were god it. 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 joy 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 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 in buses inviting the case secret police into the embassy to drag 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 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 dio jesus part of what a science did to just to fire 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 acknowledge the political undertones of this case that how has politicians been wayans things songes arrest well know what to reason may 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 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 elation of human and international right we absolutely reject the and no amount of julian assange just naturalization 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. senate is calling for military action against venezuela after accusing president maduro of genocide to bring you details after the break. but the number. they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be rich eight percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and we rose to twenty

thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars. but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business you know ford the one and only boom. the u.s. republican senators called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent monty's calling the genocide by president nicolas maduro that comes of in washington's repeated val's that it won't exclude any option after claiming the country's opposition leader as the interim president in january. we've got to

really consider whether we do military. you know help getting us aid in just a save the starving people of venezuela they are starving to death i mean this is genocide emma duros doing it. meanwhile an american think tank called the center for strategic and international studies or 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 in ten current and former u.s. officials including from the state department senior officials from the colombian and brazilian embassies as well as top d.c. representatives from why and why does shadow government are also thoughts of being at the meeting he spoke to my experimental at the top of the greys on dot com and the man behind the report. i confirmed that the meeting took place with a staffer at c.s.i.s. however she refused to give me details grik stream li 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 one of the more interesting elements was the participation of high level staffers from the u.s. aid agency for international development 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 and the u.s. is using economic sanctions as a form of unilateral coercion in place of a military invasion that's according to the un special rapporteur or edris zero. and they don't seem to be removing material the u.s. has called on the military in venezuela to turn on the door on they've stood firm

and honored the constitution and. is kind of on a tour around then it's way lower 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. yes as evidence of the u.s. is desperation and they're trying to find any means to dislodge material after several months. sudan's new military council has removed the country's defense minister and appointed a new intelligence chief it spokesperson said sunday there are also reports emerging the country's ambassadors in washington in geneva have been sacked thousands of protesters flooded the sudanese capital khartoum on saturday voters to say they'll remain on the streets until a civilian transitional council is formed on thursday after months of public protests sions on sudan streets but as artie's rug as the of explains the mood seems soured.

a dictator falls and the people rejoice happy empowered optimistic it's always the same how many times have we seen this happen this decade revolution in africa in the middle east the dictator by sheer was removed by the military which sided with the people sort of what the hamiliton was really 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 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 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 move or time as to why 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. 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 past earlier this week we heard the same tired cool's from the u.k. u.s. norway calls for regime change. the demand for political change from the courageous 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 out 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 arrow counter ease and iran itself neither iran nor the arabs would leave the region i suppose the best 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 someone anyone else on it's tough unfortunately billions upon billions of us

taxpayer dollars have not achieved this are effects 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 hardly helped years of u.s. sanctions of civil war atrocities and the split up of the country have left their mark so don is a traumatized nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never going to happen. ok i'm about with the latest news for you in half an hour.

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 developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. bests drugs were cocaine were for burke for the under fifty it's the everybody used. cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. two this is about

a fifteen people smoke this one figures. you can find these drugs in any city any you know this was. long as you want to get it about the. make money. those are the gate have to be changed and be a still living with historical legacy sophie decimalization most of there was a legal frameworks in invest in all of them are designed for industrial face a stick watch and now we are moving ahead and i think the problem is that our concepts are lagging behind.

but if you live. in many u.s. states capital punishment is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victim's family. they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people that because of what they did have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent off the years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. it just last month and i will. mention that it's one. of those. to the penny. on the show doesn't isn't that. i took it over there.

but i get a more efficient use for the. desert if you are one of the. good distance groups so you took the last just so much notice that. this is your. new addition to the place where the. hold open your eyes for just finished i want to move the juice. but some will push the second half of posters. twenty seventeen the russian space agency launched a new cosmonaut core recruitment campaign the requirements were strict

a degree of piloting engineering or science psychological stability perfect health even height weight bench as measure. and so important the cosmonaut has to be able to fit into the space suit and of course the ship for one hundred twenty operations was shortlisted from the campaign but only eight would be selected we'll focus on three of the would be cosmonauts whose progress we followed for almost two views. are going to shut down through. the post of both us for the news and notes on the bus which is put the wish of one step. up one of the. really rich missed that can even the biotin wheel. as

a business consultant constantine knew that his chances of being a cosmonaut was slim so aged thirty he joined the leading aviation institute and spent five years preparing for this process. of putting a civil suit position in the polls even stupid you. should want to go with the communion you need if you're going to do it. do you need to. know what it was spoke up to. the kids from the first move on to the little booklet which was more. precious so that this is true that there's. a super bowl and you see so there's no way to do it oh look you know. well. as a serious athlete irina is a cross-country ski climber around freediver she also has a ph d.

in medical science and works for the olympic committee's innovation center and across the right. it's in the. book that i stopped because the chain which i record is just.