the stories that shaped the week wiki leaks founder julian assange rested after spending almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london his arrest grabbed the global attention and sparked concerns over a possible extradition to the united states. this hour u.s. republican senator roger is military help for venezuela to prevent what he called genocide while president maduro claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. fighting in libya continues as forces from two rival governments trade

blows after an eastern based drive to take the country's capital. from moscow watching the weekly roundup of top stories here not internationally. thanks for joining us this hour now after almost seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london wiki leaks founder julian assange he was sensationally dragged out by police earlier this week came 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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the. united states. very. 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 viable the ecuadorian authorities didn't like the fact that they said to the

innocent is that interfering in the international affairs in the affairs of other countries through his online activity through his activities is 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 their own three clean up after is 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 around zero in ecuador to resolve the situation we missed the end at the very least of the embassy chapter of the julian assange one step saga and we're moving on to perhaps a rather poor truncated chapter of an illegal extradition battle. songs soon sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in twenty twelve for the us was that investigating the publication of wiki leaks the classified military documents that's related to the war in afghanistan but also looked into a song release of cyber tools used by the cia i. and of course it replayed intern's private e-mails which its claim was part of alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election following his arrest on thursday the u.s. issued a formal request for extradition washington accuses a sarge of conspiring against the united states the indictment alleges that

together with chelsea manning a former army intelligence analyst cracked the government password and access to classified documents but if he's convicted he could face up to five years in jail is a quick look back at wiki leaks major publications over the years. i .

think. does he say anything the millions of. wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of like a hostile takeover the search. for british m.p. george galloway believes it's not only julian assange just fight at stake but journalism as we know it. don't have to like him 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 the rulers don't want us to know then you should be in carson or at least in spirit because if julian. 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 essential has done a song arrest has gained global attention with thousands running in support of australian born whistleblower from quito to budapest protesters have been gathering outside u.s. embassies expressing concerns over a song just possible extradition my colleague mccarron discussed the international response to assad is a rest with easy to for 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 over. 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 hair right he's 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 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 us political the lead 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 award winning journalism out of the building are going to end up in the history books critics may cheer but this is a dark moment for press freedom week you 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 d.-o. g. cis 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 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 that the persecution and hounding 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 julian assange 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 in the 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 senators called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent what he's calling in genocide by president nicolas maduro this comes amid washington's repeated is that it won't exclude any option after proclaiming the country's opposition leader won globo as interim president back 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 imma duros doing it i mean what an american think tank called the center for strategic and international studies or c.i.s. has reportedly held off the record meeting to assess the use of military force in venezuela a list of roughly forty attendees of the event including current and former u.s. officials include those from the state department my colleague neil obvious spoke to my experimental the editor of the. graze on projects on 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 staffer history in the u.s. a direct just over international development limited 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 siri. and they don't seem to be removing the dural 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 one white those 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 material after several months if the u.s. will seize military force to go in to a sovereign nation do you think that the people of america would tolerate that and on 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 the anti-war movement similar to the kind that we had there. 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 stabilized so many ways this is unworkable but i never underestimate the arrogance of washington coliseum makers. in libya there are now at least one hundred forty seven people dead and over six hundred injured in renewed fighting a tripoli that according to the world health organization the simmering civil war

flared up again when the eastern based libyan national all he began to drive west on april fourth broadcast the of 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 hafta disapprobation is aimed against all groups considered by the international community to be terrorists we have security council resolutions according to which these organizations are classified as terrorist groups where this military escalation came as a complete surprise to us it began with warmongering rhetoric from hafter which were the throwback to the days of dictatorship and told to a terrible rule general have to up and his libyan national army on a roll storming toward the capital tripoli in the desperate g.m.a.

have ordered their armies meaning the various islamist and militia groups that supported the 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 airstrikes and the u.n. is panicking. if. and if we are. to be possible it's bloody station in and out on 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 x.

hanging over libya at the drop of a had 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 gatherings militias and sects a ground battle royale with a prize worth fighting for the winner gets one of the biggest oil reserves in the world general have probably ignore the call for a negotiated political settlement and you may well expect a bloodbath to unfold in tripoli which is quite tragic and quite unfortunate but i'm afraid to say is the inevitable outcome of the ill advised attack of 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 in 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. police unions in france have expressed alarm over dramatic spike in the number of officers suicides unions that in twenty nineteen offices 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 weakened by the demanding job for years the suicide rate among the 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 and unions also note that the suicide initiative launched by president micron's government last year has been largely ineffective if union representative spoke to us is the shuttle all the friends about the problem. put it. under represented in society nowadays it's just say to develop in its own way we saw that during the national i do think this is a disease it's no surprise the police are just like the rest of us they have been subjected to these negative media big screen tantrum concerning these suicides sure there are more and more of them 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 of an happiness their own happiness isn't properly looked into but in this circumstantial measures won't change anything. but. u.s. presidential hopeful has sparked a debate by proposing a bill to provide reparations to african-americans democrat senator cory booker says this would compensate for the suffering of slaves the recent poll finds only one in five voters back the move if adopted though the law will officially acknowledge the legacy of american slavery and financially compensate those 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 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 distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery and we put the issue up for debate to have conservative commentator that he brought in logan and author receptus and i took rather opposing views. you could have identified the former slave master and a former slave right act in a moment but we're now winds are every two years past a particular point in time who's going to pay people 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 paid a.b.l. listen that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard they provide economic restitution to the 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 money doesn't matter anymore no he would go talk to my children 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 are you a killer and 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 the money because of what your grandfather did it makes no sense you know who did it if 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. 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 generations and 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 the government is funded by the people that means to 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 certainly a slave when work for raises would have been too which is at the end to slavery not 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 with this fix 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 anyone i do too long to just drive in eighty eight and they handed three hundred 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 the weekly roundup of the week's top stories times things you know the things that ashleigh do it to you to be within thirty minutes to begin this one day's top news headlines. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business. see that.

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