the stories that shaped the week wiki leaks founder julian assange after spending almost seven years. in london. global attention and concerns over a possible extradition to the united states. a u.s. republican senator urges military help to prevent what he called genocide by a president that's made claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors.

a military coup the president of sudan's thirty year rule thousands of protesters have massed in the capital demanding an immediate transition to a civilian government. watching a weekly or not international. day thanks for joining us on the program. seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. only dragged out why police this week come shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship and revoked his asylum video agency filmed exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. ah. ah. ah.

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he. needs to make sure. the united states. very see. an aggressive behavior of mr julian assange. 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 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 activity even through his activities is 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 his bar pay for the same food to pay for said norton 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 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's hidden from the truth for years and years but also a very courageous decision by president around zero 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 or rather the truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. julian assange sought refuge in it could or an embassy what was back in twenty twelve the u.s. was then investigating the publication by wiki leaks of classified military documents relating to the war in afghanistan but also looked into a song his release of so i was always used by the. clinton's private e-mails which it's claimed was part of the alleged russian interference in the twenty sixth presidential election following his arrest on thursday the u.s. issued a formal request for

a song extradition and washington accuses songs of conspiring against the united states and the indictment alleges that together with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the u.s. saw me as the government password and access to classified documents now if he's convicted you could face up to five years in prison let's take a look back wiki leaks major publications over the years. i mean i.

cut does he say any millions of. wiki leaks he walks like a hospital told his story and talks like a cop because you're. a former british m.p. george galloway believes it's not only julian assange his fate at stake but the 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 jewel in a certain age 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 that 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 assange has done. arrest has gained global attention with thousands running in support of this trial in bourne whistleblower from quito to budapest protesters have been gathering outside u.s. embassies expressing their concerns over songes possible extradition a colleague here and discuss the international response to saunders arrest we thought he's in a prank. 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 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 over mr. publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional would open the door to criminal investigations of news organizations more of a 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. the hair right here is an award winning journalist but there are those who hate am and he's as a whistle blower 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 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 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 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 acknowledge the political undertones

of this case how have 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. abuses and by all

a shred of human in international right we absolutely reject the no amount of julian assange just natural ization 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 year british government in 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. u.s. republican senator has called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent what he's calling him genocide by president nicolas maduro this comes amid washington's repeated vows that it won't exclude any option after proclaimed the country's opposition leader one globo as interim president back in january. we've got to really consider whether we do military. you know help getting us aid in to stay the same the starving people of venezuela they are starving to death i mean

this is genocide emma duros doing it i mean why don't the 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 and asked them about forty attendees of the event includes current and former u.s. officials including from the state department my colleague neil harvey spoke to my experimental the editor of the gray zone project and the man behind a staffer at c.s.i.s. 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 one of the more interesting elements was the participation of high level staffers from the u.s.

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 dissipating 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 just sciri. and they don't seem to be removing the dura the us has called on the military in venezuela to turn on the door and they've stood firm and honored the constitution and one kind of on a tour around then is 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.s. as evidence of the u.s. is desperation and they're trying to find. any means to dislodge material after several months if the u.s. was to use military force to go in to

a sovereign nation do you think that the people of america would tolerate that or not i think this would cause an existential crisis for the trumpet ministration many people think oh 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 the entire region right in. so-called backyard would be destabilized so many ways this is unworkable but i never underestimate the arrogance of washington coliseum makers. french police unions are raising the alarm over notable rise in suicide writes among officers will have more of a story and others just in a few moments time. you

know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. with more make this manufactured consensus seem to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round to lift the one percent. we can

all middle of the room signal. the real news is really. the u.s. u.k. and norway as well as turkey have all called on saddam's military to hand power to a civilian government following a coup in the country. this comes just several days after several days of protests in a sudanese capital khartoum people are saying they're going to remain in the streets until a civilian transitional council is formed on thursday the army toppled longtime president tomorrow by share with power assumed by a military council the news of all bush's removal was met by widespread celebrations but as word goes the if explains the mood quickly 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 and mark scheerer was removed by the military which sided with the people. sort of what the militant must really have 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 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 readily 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 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 with them 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 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 some 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 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 traumatised nation expecting democracy and magical reforms overnight is well it was never going to happen. police unions in france are expressed a lot more of a dramatic spike in the number of officers suicides unions are that in twenty nineteen 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 deprivation hierarchical pressures and consecutive missions without the chance to rest. and worried because the cumulative tiredness will continue to have an impact on those of us most a weekend with a demanding job for years the source rate among french police officers has been thirty six percent higher than among the general population unions warn that a key factor is insufficient access the psychological help along with stress a union is that an anti suicide initiative launched by president micros government last year has been largely ineffective a union representative talked to our sister channel r.t. france about the problem. to put it all also on the police or under represented in society nowadays it's just say to yourself develops in its own way you saw that during 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 these negative big screen attention concerning this soon. sure

there are occasions more and more of them one of the main reasons is depression the last act of suicide the death of enough of whether it is a man or woman is the result of an happenings there in happiness isn't properly looked into but in this circumstantial measures won't change anything so. i stay with us here in our tears and ask for back in thirty minutes with the latest global news updates either. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then. this is. the first one to the. former from the voters will.

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