feels both you. feel. now in prison waiting for his fate to be decided if we look at the media's dramatic u. turn regarding the art without killing him first as a hero of journalism then as a. human rights organizations cry foul after a palestinian activist is denied entry to the u.s. we spoke. about his experience. with the u.s. administration has been mobilized to begin trying to silence. and a popular fast food chain in the u.s. is banned from two airports after its owners emerges the. community.

is ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international line. with me welcome to the program we could leaks founder julian assange is now in prison waiting for his fate to be decided at an extradition hearing in may one is touted as a hero by much of the media that's now appeared largely to have turned on him painting him as a villain looks at what's behind his fall from grace. you want to see just how radically the media you turned on our songe from champion of the press to. an outcast you need to do is watch saturday night live it's called. but boy

does it hit home. thanks to wiki leaks you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows and then lie to those who elect them thanks to facebook you can finally figure out which sex and the city character you are i detect the u.s. military. because i'm an actual james bond supervillain and i'm one step away from destroying the god. because reality is entirely less funny but as sanchez faced a tidal wave of smear really ugly stuff a little over a decade ago the us military declared war on wiki leaks drop a plan which was radically neagh a plan to discredit it and terrorize whistleblowers and it looks like they're winning. wiki leaks uses trust as a center of gravity by showing insiders leakers and whistleblowers who pass information to wiki leaks personnel or who post information to the website that

they will remain anonymous the identification exposure terminations employment criminal prosecution legal action against current or former insider is leakers or whistleblowers could potentially damage or destroy the center of gravity and deter others from considering similar actions from using the wiki leaks website back then at the turn of the decade as sanj was a hero of the pundits cheered his leaks exposing bush era war crimes exposing the elites corporations politicians how they loved him for it was outstanding journalism their words he was given on or off the on or including the economists new media award back then we can mix was news wiki leaks is an online news organization that specializes in publishing documents alleging government and corporate misconduct we invited judy in

a song editor in chief of wiki leaks in pity. how times have changed what was news in two thousand and ten is enemy propaganda now journalistic hero or enemy agent asks the same economist neither reads the subtitle just a useful idiot who the economist awarded for his stellar journalism or take time magazine who gave their front cover to a songe in two thousand and ten now they run virtual hit pieces quoting and headlining anyone that doesn't like a songe it seems be it hillary clinton or a judge that met him once and labeled him a narcissist gets much dirtier uglier out. outlets that have historically supported and she did america's wars such as the atlantic put out cc's pact hate mails or the equivalent of musingly enough the hack behind this

story first calls out assad has premiss cutesy with facts and almost immediately after says this artist angle on his question more and indeed one might inquire how it came to pass that the spin off of a kremlin propaganda organ and now registered for an agent in the united states first arrived on the scene i stand ready to see your inquiry unlike other networks and publications who or learned at the same time that might be leaving the embassy we could leaks told everyone unlike them we took it seriously we went and documented what happened this is called journalism journalism like what i did when he exposed various war crimes at the end of the day come on we all know the exact moment these people turned against their former hero.

maybe you're kind of picking up where julian a songe was before he went bad because we used to like a bit of we used to really be doing a good service and then something happened i guess his hatred for hillary clinton maybe is would turn him basically into someone who was a russian. aid really yes yes of course as i'm jaded hillary never did anything wrong she was perfect wasn't she. should answer for what he has done according to hillary clinton however nearly released f.b.i. documents suggest she and her team also have things to answer for as are thousands of explains. e-mails the reason why you freddy krueger is dressed up as an i.t. guy in hillary clinton's nightmares the f.b.i. found almost fifteen thousand and released e-mails in two year long investigation of her private server the head of the f.b.i.

called you out for careless handling of classified documents said she believed the seaver confidential and some documents actually stood put the order of paragraphs some three years on when everyone thought it was all over and gone new f.b.i. documents reveal more juicy details like what happened to our half of the e-mails that were raised clean by the clinton team we're not talking just a few dozen or hundred or even a thousand e-mails here we're talking some thirty thousand all private according to clinton she did provide a detailed and meticulous explanation of how she picked which e-mails to delete how and who exactly wiped her server that potentially stored top state secrets except clinton did none of that instead she felt like joking about it. to do what the service well like with a cloth or something that no you do i don't know how it works digitally at all ah

it's because you know wipe has two meanings delete or cleaning off that wine stain from last week and it's funny because it's cold up but ok now that you're all done laughing hundreds of newly revealed f.b.i. documents shed light on how the was white a company called plot river networks did all the dirty works and these conversations between two of its employees leave no questions as to why they think they did it it's all part of the hill recover our pope aeration will have to tell you about it of the party. thanks for the heads up but even with only half of the emails available the new have be i papers reveal that from the get go key people had no doubt the server compromised classified material i have personally reviewed

hundreds of documents in the h r c collection i can now say without reservation that there are literally hundreds of classified emails in this collection maybe more when this collection is released in its entirety the potential damage to the foreign relations of the united states could be significant one of the reviewers of the clinton then intelligence community inspector general charles mccullough testified in the senate that documents beyond top secret were stored on the north the right server here is what happened next it was personal go back to me to my family to my office i was told by members of congress be careful you're losing your credibility are people at the get to there was an effort on the certainly on the part of the campaign to mislead people in the sense there was nothing to see here. the clinton campaign released a statement in two thousand and fifteen claiming that none of the e-mails had been classified at the time and were only assigned levels of secrecy as

a result of the investigation yet the f.b.i. knew everything from the panic signs setting in over the secrecy of the information handled by the to the clean up crew admitting a cover up but eventually james komi sided with clinton although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case although the department of justice makes final decisions on matters like this we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case well this is been the problem all along i mean we had james komi who was practically a criminal accomplice in helping hillary evade prosecution or conviction or even charges for what she did and this is this is not even a minute factor this is the main factors that the f.b.i. is no longer an objective and i guess you could say ethical law enforcement agency

. a prominent palestinian activist has been prevented from flying to the u.s. from israel despite having a valid visa barghouti is co-founder of a movement to boycott israel which seeks to end what it considers the jewish state's oppression of palestine we spoke to him to hear his story. i was. prevented from boarding a flight of the airport because under instructions from the u.s. consulate u.s. immigration have burned me from entering the u.s. despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsourcing it's my current democratic repression against the b.d.s. movement for human rights in palestine to the united states the us administration has been mobilized now to do israel's bidding in trying to silence the listing near

an israeli and international human rights defenders who are active in this extremely important and very effective nonviolent b.d.'s movement human rights groups have expressed outrage at washington's decision calling it the politicized nation of borders so far american authorities have refused to give any comment saying all information relating to the case is confidential barghouti was traveling to the u.s. to take part in a speaking tour and several prominent universities including panel discussions with policy makers and journalists barghouti co-founded the boycott divestment and sanctions movement known as b.d.s. in two thousand and five it calls on the international community to stop supporting israel and its companies it also seeks to return the territory in the west bank to palestinians in turn tell of eve accuses the movement of being anti semitic vandyke a director of the jerusalem center for public affairs says the decision to deny barghouti entry was not arbitrary. i think that is the that's the argument that

we're hearing all over the place is that this is what they call the shutting of mouse in the and the closing of free and the prohibition of free speech but this is not the issue of omar barghouti omar barghouti from the united states' point of view is a foreign agent with terror links to the islamic jihad p f l p hamas and other designated terror get as asians by the united states and europe so they don't like to have those types of terror linked individuals coming into the united states today over half of all u.s. states have introduced and always penalizing boycotts against israel and this year the senate passed a bill allowing states to terminate contracts with entities which support the boycott movement oh mom says this legislation comes from fear of the movement growing in popularity the u.s. supreme court ruled that boycotts for political social and economic change are

considered free speech protected by the first amendment of the us constitution so all those twenty seven states are following israel's orders basically but they're violating their own u.s. constitution we will challenge that we are challenging that in u.s. courts a.c.l.u. is challenging at least three states under antidemocratic. laws and we think we will prevail and struggle israel is trying to suppress b.d.s. from above by passing laws because it has miserably failed to stop the immense growth of the movement at the grassroots level among the unions churches women's groups energy beauty groups and so on and so forth. the european elections are looming with support for anti e.u. parties on the rise that comes amid fresh allegations of russian backing charlotte bensky reports. anti establishment parties already set records in the twenty

fourteen election winning a hundred and sixty seats more than twenty percent of the parliament if the current polls are anything to go by and they'll smersh these figures at the expense of the traditional big block alliances with new comers from both the left and the right embracing social media they're out pacing their established mainstream rivals but that's caught some questioning whether there is a secret driving force behind it all it's russian meddling of course what else are you thinking there is no doubt that russia will be a major malign actor we have twenty seven countries participating in that election and they are not equally well prepared to avoid and prevent foreign meddling russia is very likely to try to intervene in the european parliament elections to secure as many seats as possible for the pro russian or euro skeptical political forces the media are lapping it up with just over

a month before the european elections the starting guns have been fired a new tag teams are forming particularly amongst anti establishment parties in italy meant to use ovine as the league has announced a joint venture with parties from at least five other countries well his alliance has hopes of winning big by taking a hundred and fifty seats in the parliament but he has competition from his own new coalition government partner five star its leader luigi to my o.e. is also looking to make new alliances with four other parties outside italy and let's not forget that unexpected twist to the course the u.k. . a witch wasn't even supposed to be a member of the e.u. by now is also looking to field candidates no i joe for all she's thought it

already hung up his racing shoes is dipping his toes back again this time with a brand new party actually named breaks it i can't imagine what it's cons but this party is not here just to fight the repeal actions and the twenty third of may this year this party is not here to ask people simply to express their anger by going to the ballot box i'm voting present day night the twenty third of may. is the first step of the backs of our task and mission is to change politics pretty good to change us thank you. that's straight to the problem for the euro and there's nothing to do with the haitians that the left and the democratic the democratic hide them in their own the people are not on the so-called have been committed to that project because the political project that

their fantasies now they're going to make the people of you have disappeared and become one great people you know. the utopian people will meet your claim of the other investigation is that they were going to prove a collusion between the time campaign and a conclusion from which means a neck and active behavior on the part of the time campaign and then that case as to that it collapsed it's been refuted by the media hopeful for months and years the mainstream media the liberal media the so-called democratic media in the united states but also in europe also in france at least has been repeating things business that is ineffective. in the pocketbook at the the country which is totally for one of these mean cleanest collapsed the reason is why should we believe the other claims. a u.s. republican senator calls full military action to prevent what he calls a genocide by venezuelan president nicolas maduro story after this break.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next. different clubs in one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. you.

i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is the flooding here. welcome back to the program the u.s. republican senator has called for military action in venezuela in order to prevent what he's calling a genocide by president nicholas materia washington recognize the venice when an opposition. interim president in january and has repeatedly stated that all options are on the table with material. 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 meanwhile an american a think tank called the center for strategic and international studies and was saying as i as has reportedly held an off the record meeting to assess the use of military force in venezuela a list of roughly forty attendants of the event in case current and former u.s. officials including from the state department my colleague spoke to max bloom and tala the editor of grace and calm 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 group 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. 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 is kind of on a tour around then a swale or. and he's not rallying the crowds the u.s. had hoped for and so i see this secret or private meeting at c.s.i.s.

as evidence of the us is desperation and they're trying to find any means to dislodge after several months 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 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 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 the us is so region right in the u.s. and so-called backyard would be destabilized so many ways this is unworkable but i never underestimate the arrogance of washington policymakers. merican of phosphate chain it chick has been banned from a number of u.s.

airports office and express support for the typical definition of the family unit something that didn't file with the community. everyone has a place here and everyone should feel welcome when they walk through our airport. the views of chick fil a number present our state and business is the for discrimination have no place operating in taxpayer funded public facilities. we know that this is a straw man inclusive community we need to make sure that business is the respect these values. sure i'm aware

of their beliefs but i personally get a kick out of thinking how each time i walk in there they've served my. plus it's good chicken if they aren't willing to give up a burger they aren't going to give their tickets to go they probably already know so why do you think you can change their mind this is childish. thirty minutes time but do stay with us for cross talk which is all next.

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following welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of the program we discuss one in one issue only the fate of julian a song and the fate of journalism itself. cross talking us on it i'm joined by my guests here in moscow exhibit a mirage. he's the founder of the center of political strategic analysis trap well and in france we cross with john locke like he is a lecturer in political philosophy at isis the catholic university are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go first to france a job and i was reading an excellent article by chris hedges which was a republican consortium news title chris hedges the moderate marja room of julian assange is julian assange a martyr a martyr for journalism a martyr for the law maybe a martyr for justice go ahead. i think there's absolutely no doubt about that i

mean we know from the moment that he left the ecuadorian embassy in london that his original claim made seven years ago that he was trying to escape extradition to the united states was true even though all his enemies denied this the extradition demand was produced immediately he was released from ecuadorian asylum and the as you also know peter better than anyone the video of that moment when he came out of the embassy door came of course from rockley from r.t. because they put a life feed on watching i think for about a week and they made a lot of money from being able to sell this this short video clip the fact that r.t. got that scoop if you like got those images is itself deeply symbolic because i hard to say that not only was it profitable for r.t.

but it was such an immense propaganda coup for russia or counter propaganda coup to see someone who is a journalist who has published true information not fake news it was published information about war crimes about political shit ghana begins being a bundled into a police car and effectively bundled on the way to the united states of america exercising extra torah terril extraterritorial jurisdiction in another country is so deeply shocking i think to anyone has any sense of. media freedom that it only.