with julian assange now in prison waiting for his fate to be decided we looked at the media's dramatic u. turn regarding the whistleblower with alan telling him first as a hero of journalism then as a colluding villain. human rights organizations cry foul after a palestinian activist is denied entry to the united states we spoke to omar barghouti about his experience. with the u.s. administration has been mobilized know to do israel's bidding and trying to silence the stadium international to what i see fender's. and as euro skeptic parties thrive i had elections russian meddling is blamed for the rise.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. wiki leaks founder julian assange is now in prison awaiting for his fate to be decided on an extradition hearing in may once held as a hero by much of the media outlets near appear largely to have turned on him painting him as a villain margot looks at what's behind his fall from grace. you want to see just how radically the media you turned on a songe from champion of the press to a leper an outcast all you need to do is watch saturday night live it's comedy 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 in the city character you are i've attempted u.s. military. because i'm an actor james bond supervillain and i'm one step away from destroying the god. because reality is entirely less funny what i songes 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 actually need 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 websites 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 this 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 after on or including the economist's 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 and 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 promiscuity 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. and according to hillary clinton a son should answer for what he has done however newly released f.b.i. documents obtained by conservative activist group judicial watch suggest she and her team also have things to answer for the watchdog site over four hundred pages of f.b.i. documents revealing evidence of an operation to wipe compromising e-mails sent by clinton it also says the u.s. intelligence community had concerns over classified information in some of the messages are down of takes a closer look. 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 in some documents actually stood for 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 sort

of. the cloth or something there oh well no actually. i don't know how it works digitally at all. it's because you know wipe has two meanings delete or cleaning or wine stain from last week and it's funny big. as it's called 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 up over a sion i'll have to tell you about it of the party. thanks for the heads up but even with only half of the e-mails available the new have b 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 and handled by this 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 omar barghouti is the 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 about his story. i was. prevented from boarding a flight to tel aviv airport because under instructions from the u.s. consulate u.s. immigration have been to me from entering the us despite having a valid visa and valid travel documents we see this as outsourcing its my car to democratic pressure 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 palestinian 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 politicization of borders so far american authorities have refused to give any comment saying all information relating to the case is confidential now barghouti it was traveling to the united states to take part in a speaking tour at several prominent universities including panel discussions with policymakers and journalists barghouti co-founded the boycott divestment and sanctions movement known as b.d.s. and 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 tel aviv accuses the movement of being anti-semitic dyker director of the jerusalem center for public affairs says that the decision to deny barghouti 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. 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. to date over half of all u.s. states have introduced laws penalizing boycotts against israel earlier this year at the senate passed a bill allowing states to terminate contracts with entities which support the boycott movement and martin barghouti again this legislation comes from fear of the movement growing in popularity. the u.s. supreme court took ruled that boycotts for political social and economic change are considered free speech protected by the first amendment of the u.s.

constitution so all those twenty seven states are following 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 on their 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 trade unions churches women's groups energy beauty groups and so on and so forth. the european elections are looming out with support for anti e.u. parties on the rise it comes amid fresh allegations of russian backing reports. anti establishment parties already set records in the twenty fourteen election winning one 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 was 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 material soviet needs the league has announced a joint venture with parties for at least five of the countries well his alliance has hopes of winning big by taking one 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 thought he'd

already hung up his racing shoes is dipping his terrorist 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 european elections 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 and voting present day night the twenty third of may. is the first step of the back seat art house and mission is to change politics pretty good to change thank you. that's a straight to the problem for the euro and there's nothing to do with the versions that the left and the democratic the democratic hide them in their own the people are not on the so-called further you 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 need 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 the collapse 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 can be seen effective with the agent of it's in the pocket book at the the country which is totally for one of these mean cleanest collapsed the reason is why should we believe the other claims. u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders takes a swipe at a democratic think tank for inciting divisions he thinks might cost the party the white house that after the break.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to signal from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people. you think. i'm going to talk about football not the or else i just think i was going to do. by the way ways of the. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see

you then. welcome back twenty twenty u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders has lashed out at a democratic think tank the center accuses the center of american progress of stirring up infighting examining the party's run at the white house. other democratic candidates are running campaigns based on principles and ideas and nursing gauging in mudslinging or personal attacks on each other meanwhile the center for american progress is using its resources to smear the senate's a book since the warren and myself among others this is hardly the way to build unity or to win the general election the center for american progress promotes non

left candidates within the democratic party in two thousand and sixteen and through its weight behind hillary clinton presidential hopeful arbonne burra from the libertarian party thinks the center is a stablish went through and through. in all parties you're going to see something tanks there are basically designed to promote the establishment values center for american progress certainly does that they're very cautious about pushing the agendas that are going to be frightening to powerful lobbyist to moneyed interests because that damages their own funding and they're going to keep on trying to do everything and they carry on to push the establishment interest and so it's not necessarily about hillary clinton specifically but rather promoting establishment candidates generally party centers has complained about the way the democratic party nominates its presidential candidate before his criticisms of so-called superdelegates led to reforms last year ones though that may have little impact as

and explains. it's campaign season once again in the united states and with trump as the presumptive nominee for reelection on the republican ticket it's the democratic primary that is the focus so far there are eighteen different candidates running for president as a democrat and at this point it's expected that the number may increase. is i'm running for president and i'm running to serve you as the next president of the united states of america i am a candidate i announce my candidacy i now it's my candidacy same i'm running for president i'm filing an exploratory committee for a city i stayed. last time the democratic primary was a bit of a circus with bernie sanders supporters declaring that the process was rigged against them there will be threatened bernie sanders supporters clashing in nevada angry bernie sanders supporters fighting over delegates in nevada tonight coming to represent a nasty few shaking up the democratic party now not every vote counts the same when

it comes to nominating the democratic party's candidate the infamous super delegates appointed by party bigwigs have the ability to overturn the popular vote over four hundred of these superdelegates indicated their support for secretary clinton before everyone else was in the race but now the democratic party has changed the rules to make everything fair well sort of we passed major reforms that will not only put our next presidential nominee in the strongest position possible but will help us elect democrats up and down the ballots across the country these reforms will help grow our policy unite democrats and restore voters trust by making our twenty twenty nominating process the most inclusive and transparent in our history now this time around the superdelegates won't get to vote at the convention unless there is no clear majority in the first ballot

however at this point with eighteen different candidates in the race none of which are polling about. thirty two percent it's pretty likely that will happen and that might actually be part of the plan for twenty twenty democrats jampacked field is already on track to surpass the republican seventeen way rumble of twenty sixteen and lacks an obvious front runner at the dizzying pace small and large dollar donors are bankrolling their favorite hopefuls many democrats could have the financial wherewithal and even pressure from their backers to campaign deep into the primary calendar dramatically increasing the odds no candidate will capture a majority by the convention if the superdelegates do end up voting it's not clear who they would support however it's pretty clear who they would not support at this point bernie sanders is favored and leading in many polls among rank and file democrats however he's pretty hated by the party elite a socialist candidate is more dangerous to this company country as far as the strength and well being of our country the donald trump i would vote for donald

trump a despicable human being twenty sixteen was not the first time that things got messy at the democratic national convention back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when the democratic party selected a candidate who supported the vietnam war things got ugly outside the convention on the streets of chicago was so but the democratic party still stinging from tribes upset victory and with a lot of internal strife and divisions it's starting to look like primary season might become a little bit chaotic for the oldest party in america the changes that we're seeing in the democratic primary are basically joke changes it this is purely an empty p.r. move in two thousand and sixteen the democratic party had to resort to pretty extreme maneuvers take to hand the election to the establishment candidate but note the way that they did that was not just about superdelegates they also gave for example clinton the debate questions beforehand the democratic party will be able to do

this just as long as democratic voters let them. get away with it. the popular american fast food chain chick fil a has been banned from a number of u.s. airports after its owner expressed support for the quote biblical definition of a family unit something that didn't fly with the l g b t 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 therefore discrimination have no place operating in taxpayer funded public facilities.

we know that this is a strong an inclusive community we need to make sure that business is that 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 gate. it's good chicken if they aren't willing to give up a burger they aren't going to give their tickets to gays who go they probably already know so why do you think you can change their mind this is childish. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook up to the minute reports.

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