as news people that use it. in the stories that shaped the week. after spending almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london is the rest grabs global attention and sparked concern over a song just possible extradition to the united states. u.s. republican senator urges military help for venezuela to prevent what he called president maduro claims that invasion is being discussed behind closed doors.

fighting in libya continues us forces from two rival governments to trade blows after an eastern based. drive to take the country's. top stories on r.t. international welcome to the program after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london the wiki leaks founder julian assange was sensationally dragged out by police this week came shortly after the south american country suspended the whistleblower citizenship and revoked his asylum. film exclusive footage of the moment he was arrested. ah. ah .

following his arrest. he was found guilty of failing to hide himself into authorities twenty twelve in relation to a sexual assault case which dropped. his. state's truthful information.

he. needs to make sure that. the united states. tried to. put. an aggressive behavior of mr julian. 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 is. pay for the same food to pay for their own three cleanup after his talents which they threaten term leave and subsequently did british officials are pretty pleased about what's happened to will 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 around zero in ecuador to resolve the situation we miss 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. ensued in a song sort refuge in the ecuadorian embassy that 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 looks into a song jews release of cyber tools used by the cia. of course hillary clinton's private emails which it's claimed was 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 asylum extradition washington accuses the father of conspiring

against the united states indictment alleges that together with chelsea manning another former intelligence satellites than the u.s. army songe cracked the government password and access to classified documents if he's convicted he could face up to five years in prison here's a look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years. i'm. cut.

but you. look. a little. color does the n.s.a. collects any data on the millions of those who are the ultimate wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of like a hostile the colors or. a former british m.p. george galloway believes it's not only julian assange just faint at stake but 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 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. a song his arrest has going global attention with thousands rallying in support of the australian born whistleblower from quito to budapest protesters have been gathering outside u.s. embassies that are expressing their concerns over a song just possible extradition a colleague makiya and discuss the international reaction to a song his arrest with. a lot of these skeletons in the closets of the world's mine he is still most powerful probably will never be pulled down but in. 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 over mr. 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 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 his 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 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 the 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 is thought to acknowledge the political undertones of this case that 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 will keep on saying things like. 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 ward. abuses

and by a lesion of your mind 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 us for exposing evidence of atrocities in iraq and afghanistan should be opposed by the british government and the 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. republican senators called for military action in venezuela would order to prevent what he's calling a genocide by president nicolas maduro this comes amid washington's repeated of hours that it won't exclude any options after claimed the country's opposition leader one going 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 this save the starving people of venezuela they are starving to death i mean this is genocide emma duros doing it meanwhile an american thinks i'm cool the center for strategic and international studies or c.i.s. has reportedly held an off the record meeting to assess the use of military force and one as well as a list of roughly forty attendees of the event includes current and former u.s. officials including those from the state department. spoke to my experimental editor of the gray zone project 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 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 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 just sciri. and they don't seem to be removing the dura the u.s. 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 dennis whalen and he's not rallying the. crowds the u.s. had hoped for and so i see this secret or private meeting it seems. as evidence of

the us is desperation and they're trying to find any means to dislodge material after several months if the u.s. wants to use military force to go in to a sovereign nation do you think the people of america would tolerate that or not i think this would cause an existential crisis for the trumpet ministration many people think trump would be happy to distract from his problems but i think you would see the 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 in. libya there are now at least one hundred forty seven people dead and over six hundred injured in renewed fighting me

a tripoli that's according to the world health organization the simmering civil war flared up again when the eastern libyan national army began to drive west that i will forth. takes a closer look at the developing situation. the un e.u. backed regime in libya the government of national accord g n a is fighting for its very life all but surrounded now by the army of their rival government in red here led by general half disapprobation is aimed to get all groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations are costs for it is terrorist groups where this military escalation game is a complete surprise to us it began with well mongering rhetoric from half star which was a throwback to the days of dictatorship and total to rule general have top and his lip. a national army on

a roll storming toward the capital tripoli in the desperate g.m.a. have ordered their armies meaning the various easily missed and militia groups that supported to counterattack on all fronts they've given this last stand the name the volcano of rage it's chaos worse both sides a pounding each other with air strikes and the u.n. is panicking. if uncertain and heavy heart. i still hope it will be possible before it's bloody all from station in and out tripoli it's entirely possible that things will spiral out of all control the united states for one is already preparing for just that we will continue to monitor conditions on the ground and assess the feasibility for a renewed u.s. military presence i was appropriate it appears they have

a plan and they have the aces u.s. military presence is an ax hanging over libya at the drop of a had to they can intervene again trouble is the last time they had a plan it ended in disaster turned libya into a failed state so here we are one nation two governments and countless fiefdoms gangs militias and sects a grand battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world general have target probably ignored because it's for a negotiated political settlement and you may expect a bloodbath to unfold in tripoli which is quite tragic and quite unfortunate. but i'm afraid to say that ever walked out of the ill advised attack the north atlantic

treaty organization speaking of nato led by the united states as a result of the two thousand and eleven overthrow of mr could go off the tripoli this is led to libya becoming a gateway for migration across the mediterranean from africa generally leading to many people dying in the choppy seas of the mediterranean the current regime in libya is not very popular it is dependent on our militias oftentimes act like gangsters looting and plundering their fellow libyans. and police unions and have expressed alarm over dramatic spike in the number of officers suicides unions' out 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 hierarchy who 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 suicide rate among french police officers has been thirty six percent higher than among the general population unions a warning that a key factor is insufficient access to psychological help along with stress. and unions though and the suicide initiative launched by president micron's government last year has been largely ineffective as union representative talk to us is the shuttle to france about the problem. the police are under-represented in society nowadays it's to save their lives in it's own way we saw that during the national id thing this is a disease it's no surprise the police are just like the rest of us they have been subjected to these negredo thanks treat and concerning the suicide sure there are

cases more and more of one of the main reasons is depression the last act of suicide the death of an officer whether it is a man or woman is the result and happiness or unhappiness isn't properly looked into sort of but in this circumstantial measures won't change anything the. u.s. presidential hopeful has sparked debate by proposing a bill to provide reparations to african-americans democrat 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 would officially acknowledged the legacy of american slavery and financially compensate those still affected by discrimination issues getting a lot of attention from fellow democrats. and 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 i believe it's time to start the national full blown 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 broad logan author resurface and who took opposing views. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave right at the moment but where now winds are at fifty years past a particular point in time who's going to pay people and it did not have slaves nobody i left it 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 the al lists 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 and children are still living off the benefits of that million dollars just because somebody has grand days though 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 you should have been able to catch him why they were alive punish 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 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 means me then me 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 that you are mostly a volunteer paid as slave when were parades in is would have been do 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 sanctioned 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 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 due to want to just drive he damn it anyway and three hundred and one example later out 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 there's there lies this out for the team of myself thanks for staying through it all to you that i shall to join us again in thirty minutes for the latest news updates. from.

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a low in welcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discuss one in one issue only the fate of julia song and the fate of journalism. talking a song as i'm joined by my guests here in moscow is a very moreau he's the founder of the center of political strategic analysis try.