this hour's headlines story prosecutors. are reopening a rape investigation. continues. from the wiki leaks founder. all his possessions. to u.s. prosecutors also coming up on the program a leaked document appears to contradict global chemical weapons watchdog. in the syrian city of duma. wanted me. to. suggest that there is a higher probability. placed to locations rather than being delivered from.

his coalition government. corruption politicians across the european union gain momentum to. party. 247 news live from moscow this is your r.t. international line and you know neal you're welcome to the program our top story. prosecutors in sweden have requested a wrist warrant for wiki leaks founder julian this orange it comes just a week after they decided to reopen a rape case against him everything from his new 7 years in the ecuadorian embassy in london is to be hounded to u.s. prosecutors later is where we crossed.

a lot of factors at play today what's happening where you are. look i'm standing outside london's ecuadorian embassy i didn't think i'd be back here so soon because you know songe isn't here he's serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping bail back in 2012 when he 1st came in here in prison but to his things that are still here in his legal team say that they haven't had access to any of them ever since julian assange was dragged out of the embassy against his will last month when ecuadorian authorities allowed british police to come in and arrest a song and today is the start of these sort of formal proceedings whereby ecuador hands over someone just personal possessions in order for u.s. prosecutors to get their hands on them it's expected that there's 2 police officers and a prosecutor from that i can then be going through his things presumably is accumulated quite a few possessions and 70 is holed up inside and according to wiki leaks julian assange

and his legal team nor u.n. representatives have been allowed to be for this process in the wiki leaks that it . has said that what's happening today is illegal take a listen to what he had to say. on monday before. the. in london for the masters in washington the transport minister ration. to behave like it's the wild west. so u.s. authorities have until june to potentially expand the charges against a songe at the moment his extradition request from the u.s. says that he's wanted for conspiracy to hack and government computer but there's concern from wiki leaks that once the u.s. prosecutors that you get their hands on someone just computer hard drives that charge could be handed out and made much more serious now julian assange just of

course as i have been head you can see that still outside the embassy they've been heckling people that go in and out there's been a few police offices they are very unhappy with what's happening and we spoke to a few of them just a while ago take a listen to what they had to say well. it's just great that the british government should be attending to the beauty of this. thing but. particularly about the crimes of the usa. he had to be nice. to have justice. with one small. piece to be trying. to truly say you know the mission. lou just wondering if he has reached that intent to commit a crime. you can take

a look as police officers coming and going all day as we're watching both the entrance is the main entrance to the embassy but there's also a back exit which there's no traffic now so i can show you but there's a police van there and a police officer walking past a side exit i also spoke that we're all getting honked by the taxis coming by i spoke to the full month old the ecuadorian consul here in london who said he was actually dismissed by the new leadership. lennon miranda came to power because of his support for julian a son take a listen to what he had to say to me. illegally these abuses what is happening is basically stealing things from a person who cannot defend himself. today.

not obliged to. take the things straight away today. you do today. by the front door. basically way to come in. now today marks the start of this formal process of handing a verizon just things as for the money shot that picture potentially about salinger's computer being taken out and handed over to u.s. processed prosecutors are just taken out well according to the former console that i spoke to that he says that after video agency courts astonished being dragged out of here against his will last month the authorities the ecuadorian officials inside that are going to make it their priority to try in a raid the cameras this time around. with all exits covered in west london this.

she's a long time supporter of julius and your friend as well and sees the search may come as a blow to the whistle blowers. disgraceful way for an independent sovereign nation to behave but that's what they're doing i don't know exactly what they want to find but they're going to get an awful lot they're going to get. judy and legal notes from the legal meetings what should have been private legal meetings that he's had in the embassy obviously i think that's of great concern to those who are preparing to fight his actual case here i think that the 7 years that julian spent in the embassy war very hard on him he's an incredibly resilient person by i did see the cost exerted on him i don't think that you should have served any time at all for his enormous achievements in reinventing journalism. inspiring not just chelsea manning but all of the whistleblowers we've so show

since you've been in a measurable benefit to the world we should be extremely grateful to julian and what has happened to him is a travesty just to recap as mentioned prosecutors in sweden have requested other arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder if granted it would be the 1st step to extradited from the u.k. where he's currently serving a 50 week prison sentence for skipping the bill back in 2012 last week stockholm decided to reopen the rape case against him after it had been previously dropped in 27. ecuador continues to divorce itself from julian assange the country appears keen at least to rekindle its friendship with the united states across the board take a look. this memorandum is an additional demonstration of the activation of acquittals relations

with the united states which last year reached its highest and most important point . they used to be enemies but became be a fair face in just one year ecuador and the united states from kicking out military personnel and even a us ambassador to new partnership and funding how can this be at least part of the art judean assad's you see the whistleblower was granted asylum at the ecuadorian embassy in london under former president rafael career but the new president doesn't share that love for leaks but the patience of ecuador has its limits we are a tolerant and calm people but not stupid we've revoked the asylum this spoiled brat and got rid of a thorn in our side. and now a new era of friendship between ecuador and the us has been an else there's no more you being. the new iraq. between. your new chapter new benefits help with social development and education with natural

disaster response and the environment with no costs attached all on the u.s. tab so how did this amazing turnaround happen it all began back in 2017 with a visit from trump's advisor when mr munder fought met with president hu door to discuss the china development fund the president rose with most of the money for his desire to remove. from ecuador's embassy it's unclear if those talks on assad's came to any conclusion but later that year they could all kicked off a whole raft of other negotiations including an i.m.f. bailout then in march last year ecuador cut the whistleblower's internet access citing his posting of messages which interfered with other states or risk that could always relationship with other countries thankfully assad has messages didn't jeopardize relations with the united states and a few months later u.s. vice president mike pence arrived in quito to discuss

a jackpot of funding that was heading ecuador's way today i'm pleased to announce that the. support. to root out corruption we want to $1000000.00 to support your efforts. to end corruption insurance. and that was only the start of the cash but ecuador finally had a $4000000000.00 loan from the i.m.f. approved and later militarize with the us work restored a correlation isn't causation but a patent does seem to present good in rome with loan states a proof of your conclusion is that it's a little traded it's in julian assange and here's. it seems there can be a fine line between love and hate maybe that line was drawn in could all in embassy in london. in moving on to another headline story be syrian government is denying

rebel reports that chemical weapons were used in a recent attack in the western coastal la tuckey a province the reports come as the syrian army and bounces retaking main highways some trade routes around the rebel held province of a lib the government branded the reports media fabrication insisting that syria has never used chemical weapons before and will not use them. with off stall in this battle against terrorism. only a few days ago a leaked document raised questions about the global chemical weapons watchdogs report on last year's chemical attack in the city of duma just 10 kilometers or so away from the capital if you cast your mind bach then you may remember the us britain france launched more than 100 missiles against syrian government facilities down off the comprehensive park road. we saw petrified children.

listened to the righteous indignation very terrible regime we read a scrupulous investigation into what happened by the un chemical weapons watchdog the u.p.c. w. report was meant to poison indisputable and to speculations over what happened in duma in syria in spring 2018 except did it really. last week a group of activists published and experts findings which were apparently sent to the you'll be. c w but for one reason or another were not included in that report the 60 newly revealed pages challenge of the bag bone of the official conclusions.

after passing through the ceiling in impacting the floor at lower speed the cylinder continued in altered trajectory until reaching the position in which you do is found. observations of the scene of the 2 locations suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were money placed at those $2.00 locations rather than being delivered from aircraft the engineering teams account is well structured it includes pictures from the side of the incident blueprints and images of the test cases studied to deliver their verdict it's unlikely the project tile fell from above which would in that case mean one thing the assad controlled air force had nothing to do with it and while the sky was dominated by the government of the ground at that time was in control of the insurgents so the question is now who else could have placed the cylinder on that bed now the revelation at the o p c

w concerned except not the substance of it but the fact that someone in their ranks when grow and exposed something they tried to bury as deep and far away from the public eye as possible now we talked to peter robinson who was among those activists who published the assessment the bottom line and it is that the documents has been passed to us as i said before we've had we have confirmation from multiple sources which clearly shows that they are being investigated and carried out from within your. own investigation which is not found. oh to move leap into the fire and do my. best to give you the c.w. and how it has been operating because it is the case that this organization has been subjected to political pressure and that have led to distortion their

investigations and that is an incredibly serious matter. but this engineering analysis is not the 1st blow to the official version of what happened in duma now this video purported to show the harrowing aftermath of the chemical attack resonated across the airwaves and was hyped by many channels 100 think images of syrian children fighting for brownfield and suffocating in their homes the editor of urgency shelter many with foam in their mouths disturbing reports of a chemical weapons attack chemical attack carried out by the acid regime except later people in the video said they had no recollection of a chemical attack some people barged into the hospital hosed people with water instigated panic and vanished even a producer with the b.b.c. a broadcaster that gave major time to the clip said he believed the hospital video

was staged. after almost 6 months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital. in 28 seen the allowed us to voices on the world stage were quick to deliver their verdict and punishment these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead the nations of britain france and the united states of america have martial their righteous power against barbarism and brutality. but with this new information it's not that obvious anymore and although it speak the interest of the politically engaged classes in lots of the new evidence from our no p.c. w.

engineers report i hope the guardian newspaper will have the good grace to print an unreserved apology for their scurrilous ad hominem attack on me after i denounce the white house potently can cook 2 story for what it was we may have just discovered to major piece of the puzzle explaining how seemingly independent international organizations how deceive us into consent into wars and regime change interventionism around the world there's a deafening silence from the great and good the entire body of evidence for that particular attack is questionable the o.p.c. w. he's geared or is designed to lay blame on this particular party or that particular party obviously they are going to be abused by elements on the ground because they know that with russian syrian air. planes in the air and there they have nowhere to go they would desperately need some help by american planes were british

planes. so they could fabricate everything or anything and you know the interesting part is that the united states and and its allies weren't even wait for the investigation to take place whenever there is a hint of something they would just immediately go and bomb movie changed if we don't you know it really depends if you ask me the question on what the if you c.w. would make open a report but is that really a high possibility i really doubt it we're back in moments. i am.

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alone again with the european elections just days away politicians across the block out been voicing concern over the dramatic resurgence of populist forces the fresh wave of condemnation of the nationalist right comes following the collapse of the austrian government over a corruption scandal peter all over reports on a weekend. being quite the weekend for austrian politics the government in austria has collapsed over the weekend following on for what's being called the beath of video or gate what we have seen is angle america and others come out and say that what this shows what the sting operation shows is that well you can't trust the populist the far right there's a lot of scandal involved in this and it's certainly being used by those that would like to see those parties suffer frankly when it comes to the european elections we

haven't to deal with populist movements that in many areas a contemptuous of this values who want to destroy the europe it has long been known to try to win populist destabilize our press freedom and democracy far right populists are the enemies of freedom strikers is only the 1st domino to fall getting ready for savini le pen or brown and other extreme right wing puppets of moscow's leash but this doesn't look good for those on the right and particularly when you're looking at the likes of. italy who on saturday the same day the. resigned as vice chancellor held a joint rally in milan in which the idea was supposed to be getting together all of the anti establishment organizations and political parties across europe under one banner if we look at the projected results for the european elections that are coming up $250.00 out of $751.00 seats are expected to go to those that would be

described as either populist or far right it doesn't look good though what's happened in austria the vice chancellor the another senior member of his party being caught on camera back in 2017 speaking to a woman who purports to be the niece of a wealthy russian investor it doesn't bode well and looks like the worst type of scandal ridden scandal videos. we're going to. meet he's a liar. and he's. on camera there he stepped down on saturday and said that he was the victim of political assassination. yes it was stupid yes it was responsible yes it was a mistake but at the same time it was a victim of a targeted political attack that he used illegal means but the timing of this sting

of this hit piece however you want to call it well it coincides in the lead up to the 0 pm elections in which the mainstream parties were set to lose quite scant siddur a plea i still say really to lose quite considerably to those parties that have been termed populist or right wing in the past. a saudi cargo ship believed to be carrying 2 consignments of military equipment which right scripts for your could be used in yemen has docked at the italian port of genoa it's been met by protests undock workers there have reportedly refused to load any more materials onto the vessel. but you know this she will be seen there in p.r. general or he's taking to the streets because of the c.d.c. pacifist tradition and should the docks in our port to load equipment that could be used during a war like the one being fought in yemen where many have died and on the civilian population can be a part of this. this morning unfortunately we had confirmation that even here in

genoa they plan to load military equipment we call for a strike because we don't want to be accomplices of the war in yemen well the saudi ship has been making the rounds of ports across europe it was reportedly loaded with arms and belgium if n.c.l. to from its where it was prevented from collecting any more cargo following 2 legal challenges after the vessel headed to. spain picking up military hardware that officials have said comply with all the norms will the saudi flying to. $50000.00 ton ship its european trip calls the long among antiwar activists and rights groups who allege there is a real possibility that weapons could be used against you and they said billions riyadh for its part denies ever intentionally targeting noncombatants in the conflict and claims arms are used for defensive purposes only. just a selection of monday's news stories r.t. dot com has you covered for the rest this money is always definitely worth some

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