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reported on the skirts of the country's. president nicolas maduro say the government has quashed the coup attempt. was calling a new cold war the u.k. government seeks to make. all business with russia and china saying it's just politics. from moscow to the world this is r.t. international a warm welcome to the program only. breaking news from london for you this hour where wiki leaks founder julian assange china's been sentenced to fifty weeks in prison for jumping bail in twenty twelfth before he sought asylum in the ecuadorian embassy there he also faces. a hearing tomorrow thursday on his possible

extradition to to you this let's go live now to our to skate park rich in london kate it's all unraveling quite quickly for us on this go after those seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy what more can you tell us about today's events. are there you know and yes indeed as we've just been hearing judge deborah taylor pass sentence judy in the silence of the wiki leaks founder to fifty weeks in prison for skipping bail in twenty twelve we were anticipating this particularly severe sentence and she dismissed his claims believe me and say based on the fact he had been as you said in the ecuadorian embassy for seven years we're looking down at some of the notes coming from court and looking at mark summers comments his defense lawyer did in a song and posted a letter saying he apologized undeservedly for not surrendering himself to all sorts of us who did say the circumstances were extraordinary in the fact that he feared for his life people were to go to america hearing that he would end up in

guantanamo bay also that he could end up on death row we also had a doctor's note as well explaining what happened to genocide in what amounted to incarceration in the fact you suffered from moderate to severe depression that you suffered with dental problems and the fact that you also had shoulder problems but also these are gates in circumstances where they didn't have any impact on the judge she said that the cost of the taxpayer the whole julian assange which episode was sixty million pounds and she dismissed his claims believe in c. so they have it as anticipated as predicted on april eleventh when we had the initial hearing where westminster magistrates' court that a maximum sentence could be served julian assange has been sentenced to fifteen weeks in prison for skipping bail in twenty two. year all eyes not a possible extradition hearing tomorrow as well kate kate thanks for now i'd bring this right up to date on the court kate partridge artie's london correspondent.

all right moving on for not calling for a final phase venice will a self declared interim president one going to go is calling for another day of government protests this wednesday after initiating a so-called military uprising in the country's capital the opposition leader has the full support of america once again with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o even suggesting venezuelan president nicolas maduro was ready to flee the country but was stopped by russia literally nicolas maduro getting prepared to go on this airplane and head out of the country before a stop stop really at the direction of the russians he was ready to leave this morning as we understand the russians indicated he should stay he says during his the plane ready to go to cuba. and the russians took him off the plane i'm forbidden to leave the country. please be serious. venezuelans foreign ministry has branding pump

a statement as fake news russian responded as well saying washington has launched a descent from mission campaign well local correspondent norris argonne it's covered the clashes near the capital caracas for us at our word of warning though what you're seeing right at the start of her report coming up is upsetting. i. was i. was i was. like. sick people right that you. can claim to keep. it. real like people. are. today brave soldiers brave patriots brave people who are following our constitution

i'm sure in the cool today the armed forces are standing behind the people and the constitution. and others. park ecolab material on the president has already launched a probe into what he calls an illegal coups attempt seeing several people are being questioned he singled out a ring leader of the uprising we heard mentioned before we saw him as well prominent opposition figure leopoldo lopez it appears he is now. claiming asylum he's in the spanish embassy in caracas that's the last line we have he is we know funder of voluntary popular are the party that go i go leads indeed he's seen as

one of the key figures behind why it was moved to claim the presidency lopez was sentenced to thirteen years in prison back in twenty fifteen for inciting public on rest but on tuesday was reportedly freed from horse arrest by his guards. meantime the united states has bombed its companies from flying over venezuela to political instability it's part of a string of sanctions imposed on the latin american country recently their senior correspondent rutger's the of looks at wot washington really means when it sees it stands with the venezuelan people what a day why do so brazen attempted coup the violence on both sides the people even why do hanging and this specially strange was what the united states had to say about it we need venezuela ruled by the people of venezuela not

by extra little forces do you think he may have missed the irony this the bolton who's done his damnedest to ensure regime change in venezuela whose country has championed regime change sanctioned venezuela frozen billions in state funds threatened it with invasion now he's saying no one should meddle that it's up to the days wayland's to decide course not what he meant is no one but america all options remain on the table we said it would be a big mistake for me dora and those supporting him to use force against innocent civilians mr bolton's deficient of innocent i think defers from the classic meaning look at these demonstrators with guns shooting at troops and police i suppose the bullets of full of love to if you dare hold these innocents accountable says mr

bolton we might invade between the lines as thomas called the status where with you america will stand with you until freedom and democracy are restored by and can do yes. today interim president who i'm going to announce starts of a person that the u.s. government foolish supports the venezuelan people who in the quest for freedom and democracy democracy cannot be defeated what do you know they stand with the people never mind the sanctions and the misery for millions that they've caused i question is which people exactly did you say you stand with a few hundred machete gun wielding fellows that tried to stage a violent coup or the thousands upon thousands who concurrently marched in support of the venezuelan president maduro against this coup this is clearly not

a coup we recognize one goh i don't know as the legitimate interim president of venezuela and just as it's not a coup one the president of the united states gives an order to the department of defense it's not a coup for wind why don't you try and take command of the venezuelan military your own father mr bolton one by due who was never elected doesn't control the military or ministries or anything he is the president but nicolas maduro the actual president supported by millions the military the ministries he's not the president see what i mean by strange it's almost like the bitter and banal things didn't go according to plan roc us the of with the reporter we discussed the role of the united states in the venice will and conflict in more detail with our guest. i think other one american militias are probably quite nervous about the whole situation nervous as well with their own populations would see this as

american even if it's under the euro but it's not the americans directly intervene did see the americans being behind this and the legacy of what america has done across latin america what this shows the. same service of cold called good revolution where the united states and the west has succeeded you know he's popular worldwide zeeshan has come and it seems to have gone and he seems to have let the dynamics slip a little i'm here is very important if you want to go for an overthrow of the existing president you know the momentum and he's lost momentum american are working on a very much on the front foot here they've got. bolton trump a lot of very hawkish neo conservatives out playing front and center and talking the talk of a smooth transition of power now we hope that this does not result in the loss of lives but there were some footage earlier on social media showing some armored

vehicles running running over the horrific pictures running over protesters in the streets now we don't know whether these are. i don't foresee if we don't know which side those. those protesters are demonstrators around so we have to handle stuff very carefully but there is already bloodshed there's already violence in the streets and i think this is going to be a really really difficult time where anti-american sentiment has spread to america protesters are surrounding the venice will an embassy in. the u.s. for the ongoing crisis. embassy staff you know left the building last week complying with the state department imposed deadline the activists say they are blocking the consulate to prevent new program stuff from entering we heard from one of the protesters. we are here twenty four set in leaving here. we're sleeping here working here from the day during the day in order to maintain our presence

here in the building and as a interim protective president intil they believe government to venezuela can find another protector for this building or intel the trying to be a station stops trying to orchestrate this could do so i want this is about the us government this is about saying known to us imperialism saying no to us intervention in the affairs of other countries saying that the us has no right to overthrow the government of another country we've seen it before and we are not going to tolerate it again. it seems the u.k. is becoming increasingly picky about what foreign business is good business the government is pushing for a change in the house of lords which would force peers to the clear whether they have dealings with russia or china dunning st ses as part of a bid to make the political system more transparent is probably boyko. what's more

dangerous than dirty money red money from russia there are fears it could be flooding britain's upper house of parliament the house of lords the sunday times newspaper has done some digging it's published a list of what it calls loss goes men the lords benefiting from russian rubles. just like employees the lords half there's a clear their business interests in an official register but unlike their colleagues in the lower house they don't have to say how much those business interests have them although the government is said to be thinking about changing that security minister ben wallace has warned that parliamentary rules need to be changed for the sake of greater transparency countries this seek to undermine the west target vulnerabilities in the politics and media the u.k.

has a strong mainstream media that gives us better resilience the most but i'm certain that one of our we points is where we like transparency in our political system now a group of british politicians is pushing for a new lord said count of foreign influence. britain needs a foreign agents registration act we need to know the individuals and companies that lobby or are politically on behalf of other countries and their proxies including those from international sanctions lists we need a publicly available list of p.r. agencies reputation management firms and others who do this work nice to include m.p.'s members of the house of lords some of whom have links to russian businesses the house of lords is an ancient and uniquely british institution the peers in there are an elected they've been selected by their political parties sometimes they block controversial or unpopular bills due. off did and signed off on by the

government and m.p.'s many have had a loss serious careers and they turned to say what they think r.t. contacted the lords singled out by the sunday times for their response to allegations that the moscow's men. if you say someone is moscow you're really insinuating that they're almost a paid. paid. lobbyist for fall for the russian government which is. completely untrue and deeply offensive lord truscott was similarly unimpressed i do not intend on wasting my time doing interviews on stories i regard as total rubbish by the tarnished murdoch press which if it can't find a story makes it up the times and the sunday times never let facts get in the way

of trying somewhat desperately to push their respective circulations with a dose of hysterical russian phobia but it looks like the government is determined to root out the bad or should it be read seeds from the british political field we crackle after this. what is it calling the coin is magic the new type of digital currency the centralized digital scarcity chancellor. of second or bank that's called the genesis blog for reason to coin a civil disobedience a source of optimism because i can control my own financial tiffani it's just a new way of coming to consensus it's

a game changer in the human history of. columbus discovering a new world this paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo eleven landing on to the max and stacey. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello again cambridge university in the u.k. has launched an inquiry into how the eight hundred year old institution benefited from slavery during the colonial era. it is only right that can bridge should look

into its own exposure to the profits of course the way but during the colonial period we cannot change the cost but nor should you seek to hide from it. well cambridge university is not the only institution looking into its imperial past other prestigious universities across the u.k. and us have been doing the same for years facing up to their history and the potential gains they made it cambridge is main rival oxford faced a long dispute over a controversial stunt you have a nineteenth century colonialist claimed it would have faced severe financial cuts how to remove the monument the university of east london try to set up a one million one hundred million pound fund for reparations over slavery saying the money should be put aside to support ethnic minority students harvard in the u.s. has removed the word master from its socket demick titles on georgetown students voted in favor of reparations for they descendants of nearly three hundred slaves sold by the university almost two centuries ago we heard some opposing views and

actions in the distant past should be tackled today. these decisions are very much long overdue and one would have thought that a country such as britain coming to terms with his colonial past would have made this these sorts of efforts much earlier but nevertheless i do applaud. cambridge. go for taking this initiative and i think other institutions like the british museum the british library all of the colonial ata flocks that there are. in britain as a consequence of colonial plunder should now be in an act of reparation return today countries of origins look no one can argue that slavery was a good thing it was an horrendous thing. course we should learn and teach our kids and educate ourselves indeed about the horrors of slavery let's just remind

ourselves though there we were the first to abolish it i don't think there's any nation in the world that has knowledge of being enslaved or being involved in the slavery trade including the continent of course of africa itself but i think this idea of pay reparations is ludicrous please spare me the horse a shirt this wasn't me or my generation or did it did this we do need education people need to be aware of it but who would you give the money to africans living in this country africans in africa we're talking about four hundred years of slavery we're talking about people robbed of their religion their language their culture and their familial resources taken up dropped in another island surrender treated what he was horrendous four hundred for four hundred years he saw what i said in prisons he saw president in history is impressive in modern times so if you say that europeans were involved so president has

a lifeline of nations like ghana of already sell their. peroration schemes gambia the same way sierra leone all of those of had reparation an apology schemes for last twenty five thirty years so britain is really just catching up i understand what slavery was and it was horrendous what i'm saying is we're now yes lot but yeah make sure we educate make sure nothing like that can ever happen again but for you to come out with a scale of slavery. slavery was bad that bracelet it's kind of stupid it's silly cambridge university the asli looking into their history and if they want to necessarily having gone and not being very polite well making yourself look absolutely silly cambridge university should be congratulated for looking back at what they do but there's no need for the whole says should there's no need for us to be paying money to some black people which black people would be would it be

please don't do me the dishonor of coming on here and speaking from some morally elevated position that doesn't exist. the washington post is warning american journalists to act responsibly with information leaks after notoriously using that kind of source itself artie's killer and explains why so-called weaponized gossip and anonymous sources are freely in use nowadays. with the twenty twenty presidential elections set to start dominating our headlines pretty soon the media is running crisis protocols in case wiki leaks gets back up to its old tricks so should sensitive or insider information be published what if it has an impact on the vote well the washington post has you covered ensure you don't publish weaponized gossip there if i remember this nie them for some was the source of the hack and it's not to mention and be transparent with news consumers don't publish things before verifying them double check your sources that sounds like pretty

standard journalism but apparently in the age of trump that is not common sense among the press corps anonymous sources seem to be a big trend when it comes to inside scoops about the white house anonymous sources reportedly from the mother team an anonymous source telling n.b.c. sports the new york times citing anonymous sources the again these are all anonymous sources it's important to note that n.b.c. news has not confirmed this the washington post report cites anonymous sources and some of this information has been almost the definition of weaponized gossip let's review some of the reporting about u.s. president donald trump that president trump called attorney general jeff sessions mentally retarded ape was a trump using the n. word and a much lighter note this even though some white trump demands two scoops of ice cream while everyone else at the table only gets one now some of this information actually turned out to be blatantly false so why was it ok to publish it without verifying it well apparently the source was someone inside the u.s.

government not wiki leaks so fact check your independent sources but not anonymous figures within the u.s. government. maybe there's another idea out there remember it's illegal to possess these stolen documents it's different for the media server that you learn about this you're learning from us it may be time to start thinking you know sort of the books about how we can prevent russia from meddling in our elections in that vein consider this radical idea. american journalists should take a pledge to not report on the contents of a hock and social media site should remove from the networks any news stories discussing hack material now the job of the journalist is to dig into facts ask bold questions and try to determine the truth them in a sea of falso it however for some in the american press the rule seems to be don't dig into facts that are inconvenient of course journalists should be careful and check their sources but that's not what the washington post is talking about what many journalists confiding to the post are considering doing what they're doing is

talking about the examining the motivations behind the source and then considering maybe not even publishing factual information if the source and their motivation are considered not just shady but contravening. american national security imperative in the washington post relies routinely on unnamed sources and specifically unnamed u.s. officials when it's all unnamed sources and their us officials we as the readers of the news consumers or as citizens are supposed to put our blind faith in us officialdom in the u.s. government in order to believe that those sources are correct and i think most of the public does not trust their government. before we go this hour just a reminder of her top story this hour wiki leaks co-founder julian a song has been sentenced by a court in london to fifty weeks in prison is for skipping bail and twenty twelve

before he sought was granted asylum in the ecuadorian embassy some live pictures right now from the british capital his supporters side the court making their feelings heard you also may recall the images of him being dragged out of the building on april eleventh some weeks ago after seven years of being holed up there a son also faces a hearing on thursday on his possible extradition from the u.s. will. this is a story needless to say will be closely following right they day and week here on twenty four seven our chief international. this is a period of sort of little scandal it's just bush bloody. he'll be well to remind you of that it wasn't i go to the. losing is its ability.

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ratings and salutations well hawk watchers it appears the regime change vultures are circling venezuela once again yes on tuesday morning the u.s. backed self-proclaimed venezuelan president one wideout took a break from all over the g q photo shoots to announce to the world that the final phase of operation liberty is now underway after he claimed members of the better israel a military of now jumped ship to his side this announcement led to much rejoicing in the mainstream political circles here in washington d.c. most notably from chief why don't your leader senator marco rubio took to twitter to explain that this half hearted coup kind of.