well. we just prosecutors say they will reopen an investigation into a rape allegation made against wiki leaks co-founder join the sun and will seek his extradition from the u.k. . and a sudden change of plans secretary of state heads to brussels and sort of moscow to discuss iran's threat to renege on its nuclear deal commitments that's of the e.u. desperately tries to keep the deal on life and come up with ways to protect iran from crippling u.s. sanctions. i mean growing concerns over civilian deaths from u.s.

drone strikes the pentagon develops what's been dubbed the ninja missile their weapon was spinning blades and more accurate than existing technology. you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. prosecutors in sweden have break open an investigation into sexual assault allegations against wiki leaks co-founder julian song swedish authorities have dropped the case in 2017 but they now say they're seeking an extradition warrant against a song once he served his current 15 week prison term in the u.k. politico reports. well these allegations date back to 2010 and the investigation into them was dropped in 2017 swedish prosecutors were unable to go

ahead with the investigation while a songe was essentially stuck inside london's ecuadorian embassy but when swedish prosecutors dropped the investigation they said that it could be reopened if the situation allowed so when a songe was dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month the woman had made the allegations against him said that she would like the case to be reopened and that's precisely what has happened stockholm has requested julian a songes extradition to sweden take a listen to what the prosecutor had to say at a press conference a little bit earlier on. new circumstances have brought about the need to revise their previous decision after reviewing the current state of diploma near investigation my assessment is that there are still grounds to suspend the mysterious songe committed rape now the statute of limitations on this case expires in august 2020 so there isn't much time for the swedish authorities to act of

course a songe also has a u.s. extradition request hanging over his head at the moment so there is kind of a legal model in place here and a pity is that only the home secretary is able to decide which of these cases should take precedence and sort of potentially allow the more pressing swedish case to be prioritized and it looks now that it's going to be a political decision as to where a song potentially is extradited to fast technically he can be sent to sweden and the u.s. can then sort of update its extradition request and request that he be extradited over to the u.s. from sweden but. the u.k. would have to give sweden permission to extradite a songe to the u.s. as songes legal team would be able to challenge every one of those moves so we're looking once again down the barrel of

a very lengthy legal battle with 3 different jurisdictions in place now as songe has always rejected all the allegations the swedish allegations against him he's always said that he sought refuge in london's ecuadorian embassy not because he was afraid of being questioned in sweden but because he was always concerned that the swedish case was simply a pretext for a more serious u.s. extradition request where he could face serious charges for his publishing activities and we publish the iraq war logs which there is no government sort of diplomatic and military files they would deeply embarrassing to washington says now that the tourist video. collateral damage which shows appears to show u.s. soldiers killing iraqi civilians the news today now means that we have 3 different jurisdictions 3 different countries involved in this

a songe legal saga he's wanted in washington he's wanted in stockholm and in the meantime he's in prison here in the u.k. serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping bail back in 2012. in the last hour the lawyer for the swedish woman who reported being sexually assaulted by doing the phone in 2010 welcome the decision to reopen the case she said it signaled no one was above the law and that the swedish legal system doesn't give special treatment to anyone. we spoke to wiki leaks editor in chief kristinn hrafnsson he believes sweden was pressured into pursuing this case against islam. julian assange has always been ready and willing to cooperate with the swedish investigation through out the years and i assume that he will welcome this opportunity to ready clear his name and and get this matter over ready and done with there are many of the normal ptes in this highly critical politicized crosas

with the change of julian's. world ready alight. the crown prosecution service in the u.k. was in the driver's seat in this case it seems according to the e-mails that were obtained sort of free to information requests everything that pertains to julian fellowes these days is politicized it is very hard to see that that he has an opportunity to install to a fair trial in sweden in the u.k. or in the united states especially because that is exactly what these are all pertains to and almost executions those days to face trial for publishing the truth . u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is on an unexpected visit to brussels to talk with a new minister is on the agenda is iran's threat to stop implementing parts of the 2015 nuclear deal last year washington backed out of the agreement and reimpose biting sanctions on tehran before setting off to the belgian capital pump out gave

an interview in which he outlined the u.s. position towards the country. iran is the major destabilizing in influence in the middle east and we aim to fix that our aim is not war our aim is a change in the behavior of the iranian leadership we hope the iranian people will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserved it wasn't expected both picked the right day to change these plans at the last minute because in brussels the foreign affairs council of the european union a meeting that means that all 28 member states foreign ministers are going to be in one place in one room as well as federica mockery need a high representative for foreign affairs of the e.u. basically the e.u. foreign minister all going to be in the same place at the same time we will be here all day with a busy agenda so we'll see julia day and if we manage to arrange a meeting he's always welcome obviously but that i'm not precise planted at the moment as we continue to fully support the nuclear deal with iran as full

implementation. we agree with other e.u. states the nuclear deal is necessary for our security and it's gong to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons well last week iran announced that it would not honor all of the aspects of the $2015.00 nuclear deal it came a year after the united states unilaterally pulled itself out of the deal well wholeheartedly now following the u.s. is pull out of the agreement well the european union castigated them absolutely slammed washington for doing this saying that put at risk all of these months and months of work that went into getting the deal over the line back in 2015 of course when iran announced last week that they were intending to pull out of some parts of the deal that also prompted well some discord within parts of the european union with some members then turning on iran and launching criticism at them iran has

agreed to vital compliance measures if they break that deal then there will be consequence. this in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. today nothing could be worse than iran leave in the agreement there are new sanctions to do from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken is this commitment or not respected the question of do we consider it the decision last week by to iran puts the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united states pulled out but what we've been hearing since that decision was made by iran what we've been hearing from the iranian president hassan rouhani is that they don't want to pull out of the deal in total because that would essentially play into washington's hands the united states wanted to pull out of

the way in order to make iran withdraw from the deal the day after so the u.s. would be able to refer the case to the u.n. security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the u.s. to redouble and ratcheting up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap spare a thought though for those journalists that do travel with mr pompei or this is the 2nd last minute change of destination they face that is many weeks last week he was supposed to be heading here to berlin for a talk with angela merkel they took off from helsinki and at the last minute well the journalists were told you not going to live and they ended up in baghdad to talk about iran last week this week he's heading to brussels for more talks on iran on tuesday though he will head to russia he'll be meeting president vladimir putin and foreign minister sergey lavrov in sochi and i think we can just about expect that iran will be on the schedule for talks there he's in brussels on monday though we're expecting some information to come out throughout the day we'll be keeping

you updated as information comes out of brussels of course here at r.t. . for more on this we're joined live by political analyst say it must africa now what could pump air want from these tasks. hello and thanks for having me well you know when the u.s. dropped out of the deal last year the europeans made promises to iran to make up for you know lost share of the united states and launch cooperation with iran in 11 areas economic area inspections the mccann ism to support trade with iran is only one of those $81.00 of those 11 areas that they promise and apparently as it's clear they are not going to you know work on the other promises they made to tehran that's exactly what they're all ones although they have thought come to realize that iran is serious still they are just thinking about you know putting into force

that in states mccann is them and an advisor to mcgarry nie said yesterday that they need 4 months rather than 2 months ultimatum iran has given to them to operationalize this instance me mechanics them so of the situation seems to be you know heading towards fair to modifications by iran now as macquarie nisa statements include it one very important and vital fact that they have not invited mr pompeo pompeo is going busy there according to his own engine that this means that will give any and europeans do not plan to ask the u.s. to step back and to reduce all pressures and economic sanctions on iran in order to provide them with some space to put into florus those other promises that they made to tehran last year therefore it's pretty much clear that pump a always going there in order to tell them that there is no way trump and his administration would

reduce the pressures and therefore they need to join the united states in confronting to iran to be honest with you if they just think of putting into force this instead mccown is in their own would definitely would go after further modifications in its nuclear deal on the thinking south of these 2 month period. so if the u.s. is not going to play ball what can me you do to save the nuclear deal well as i mentioned earlier they need to you know they have come to realize that iran is serious and would do for their modifications so they need to move in order to you know do their promises for cooperation in 11 other areas. that they made to iran these promises actually last year otherwise you're on with 3rd to go for more modifications to the last obligations that it has under the

nuclear deal and they would reciprocate any further modifications apparently by reimposing the u.n. security council sanctions then tell ron would definitely as it has already threatened would retreat from the n.p.t. and that would you know aquavit the situation further the europeans do not seem to be very much serious about making up for their lost share on the nuclear deal and bill i believe an assessment of the situation shows that though they have understood iran is serious still they are not ready and they do not feel strong enough to stand against the united states sanctions and breach of the nuclear deal in order to keep the nuclear deal alive the only thing that could change the present course of action and policy by iran is that they put into force and do the promises they made last year in all those 11 areas of cooperation if the $2015.00

pact does crumble what will that mean for peace and stability in the middle east and frankly globally. well you know if it fails and if it collapses then you know tell ron would go for in carrying costs on the west especially the u.s. in various areas beginning with the nuclear capabilities that iran has iran would retreat from the n.p.t. it has the option of bringing new generations of centrifuge machines in line and producing enriched uranium a bomb to any person levels to 60 or even 90 percent levels then also iran has the power to in care costs and the united states through a number of fall instruments that it already has one is using its allies in the region everywhere they could make life harder for the united states also iran seems

to have a very to have a very good and serious option for exercising strict check and inspection measures in the strait of foremost before. shuts down this trade actually and through this way iran could you know direct this punishment tour's the saudis the u.a.e. the united states the ones that are doing their best in order to bring tehran to its knees iran also has upped the option of the glaring at this season for increasing the range of its ballastic misses iran has the option of working and starting to work on manufacturing i.c.b.m. the intercontinental ballistic missiles iran also has the option of ending its measures under such strict economic pressures its measures against the flow of the refugees and displaced people who are moving from the eastern borders to go

to through iran to the western borders to get to europe iran is spending lots of money in order to stop this flow of refugees and this place coming. population it could drop these efforts and allow them to move to europe then you would see at least 3 and a half 1000000 people yet so europe and that's a catastrophe for europe that's why the europeans should realize that they will pay the costs if this nuclear deal collapses and falls apart so it must offer across chesham political analyst thank you so much for joining us on the program. the pentagon is said to have developed a secret weapon it's a missile with spinning blades nickname the ninja bomb inside to be more accurate than explosives and thus reduce a 1000000000 casualties and drone strikes and has the details

drone warfare has long been part of the u.s. government's war on terror and it's gotten ugly on more than one occasion. killing people by. drones basically sitting on a screen and eliminating people. dehumanizing them treating them. as if you know from some other planet not giving them a basic right of proving their innocence i mean it but. norms of justice on top of that it's all classified so leaking the methodology behind what human rights groups have called a method for extrajudicial executions can get you in

a lot of trouble for daniel hale an n.s.a. officer and now suspected whistleblower that could mean up to 15 years in jail that echoes chelsea manning she's just recently been released from jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury but she could return soon as she's already got another subpoena now to be fair u.s. leaders have long talked about their deep conviction over civilian deaths the architecture of the legal texture around to the use of drone strikes or other committed strikes wasn't as precise as it should have been and there's no doubt that civilians were killed but shouldn't have but apparently it was u.s. president barack obama who ordered the creation of a new missile device that would increase the percentage in accuracy of these predator drone strikes and minimize civilian casualties it's apparently called the ninja bomb now it may be the pentagon's worst kept secret they have not officially confirmed it but so far several military officials have said that it's being used

it's argued that the new missile might enhance the image of the united states in the countries that are already subject to u.s. military drone strike operations unlike a regular missile it doesn't explode instead it deploys 6 blades that fan out of its casing moments before impact blades are so sharp they can cut through vehicles and slice their target into pieces so we've got blades flinging through the air in order to reduce civilian casualties sounds. laws a bill enough apparently the new ninja bomb has already been used in iraq libya syria somalia and yemen so is this new missile the answer will it improve the image of the drone strike program in the eyes of the american public what do you think of the drone strike program. ok with it i know nothing about it it's pretty awful actually we have this thing now called the bomb right and what it is is it and when it detonates it sends blades through the air and the idea is this will minimize civilian casualties we can pick the terrorist we want to kill so in the ninja bomb

and fewer civilians will be killed you know that the blades kill the. terrorists and not the civilians it doesn't seem like that you can target maybe specific people with that seems like you'll just. spread out a lot of. a lot of damage i think that's also did a pretty good program number limit civilian casualties are going to do not that's not happening i think if somebody suggested that that. i had i don't think that is even real i don't think it really. room reducible you know actually so i think this is a. propaganda whatever you want to call it that way to make people look there's a kinder gentler way of killing people want to. throw assassination where. you my declaration of human rights kind of person that you're talking about. this is social you know possible and the notion of assassination whether precise or

generalized is so totally unacceptable we've asked the pentagon for comment and we'll let you know when we get a reply. the british conservative party would suffer a crushing defeat if a general election were held today that's according to a new poll and a further humiliation the survey also found the new bracks at party would beat the tories with the current main opposition labor coming out on top the party's leader says the frustration of british voters has reached a boiling point we've got a 2 party system that now serves nothing but itself there is a complete breakdown of trust between the people in this country and all politicians and frankly they reveal themselves to be grossly incompetent the poll found for office party went on as well number of seats in the house of commons while the tories would lose a record number of m.p.'s it also suggests the labor party would emerge victorious from an election but fall short of reaching

a majority and with european elections looming large the brics that party is also on track for big wins and brussels the u.k.'s 2 main parties have already been punished by voters and local actions held earlier this month teresa mayes conservatives lost a 3rd of their seats in the local councils while the opposition failed to capitalise on this we asked people in london why voters are turning their backs on traditional parties. really but parties are tied to each other labor and conservatism in terms of delivery of bricks in the general public is so fed up with the situation we go to break i think people uneasy trusting he said he had disappeared in poland and the info it did leo cubans dreams of my own government who promised to deliver breakfast but they promised delivery over a month ago and it wasn't delivered she's failed to deliver on the referendum in 16 and there is no sign of it being delivered and it seems the politics he's come up completely because of this last strike so much i mean the stuff sees what she's

trying to do she's trying to wind up with out take on this but she's not up to the it doesn't surprise me that knowledge of wrote the book she spoke to the outside so . despite people seemingly swarming towards roger's party top british politicians aren't ready to recognize him as a political power nodules rogers bret said is a brecht sic for conspiracy theorists not to frys it and the people associated with them they don't the people to drain the swamp of british politics and the people who created this will only labor can see off the snake oil in this election. we're joined by john gallant talk radio host and columnist for more on this now are you at all surprised by this poll. not all the mainstream politicians have let down the people there's

a massive chasm between the people and the politicians in westminster he was a majority vote to leave that's what they should have done they've taken 3 years they've taken back the power from the people and they're now ignoring the people and we don't really need any lessons from tony blair do we who many people regard as a war criminal this is what for our job and the brics a party latching on to and i'm sure they're going to absolutely hammer the main parties in the euro elections and we come thursday how concerned will the conservative leadership be by this. where is the conservative conservative leadership as rumors today that they're going to push trees or may out but i think it may be too little too late they should be very concerned about it the last thing that most m.p.'s will want to the moment whether the labor or conservative is another election say no they're going to lose seats now let's not overplay the breaks

a party they didn't stand in the council elections and euro elections are often used as a protest but not all for our jeweled do very well he now says he wants to put people up for the general election and i think an awful lot of people in leave constituencies will be extremely worried about it so i think he's going to do very well the best in the conservatives could do now is get rid of trees or may put boris johnson in there that may give them a chance of surviving but it will be too late for the european elections in my opinion knowledge of for our job is going to be victorious we have very little time left but i did want to ask you do you think that bracks that is in a way destroying traditional british politics. greg no what's destroying traditional british politics is that the self service in westminster have forgot that there are servants not our masters none of this would have happened if they delivered on the will of the people 625 people are trying to

stop what 17400000 wanted that's what's happened all for our genes doing just like donald trump did in america is join to attract those people who are so angry about this and make no mistake about it people are very very angry john go on talk radio hearth and home nest thank you so much. that's a news wrap up for now banks for joining us this hour. and $24.00 to you know bloody revolution here to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer here i mean you are liz put video in the new bill is that i mean you explain you know to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. of

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