they simply don't disrupt the mobile spider the rest of the world is hardly affected at all. news in this hour washington announces 17 more charges on whistleblower julian assange schiff convicted he faces up to 10 years in prison but each count. hidden dangers a report claims hundreds of household items sold in the e.u. could contain harmful chemicals. 5 more years the world's biggest elections he's the incumbent prime minister handed another in india we'll look at whether the perceived eliteness of his closest rival group get to vote.

for getting thanks for joining us this is our international. breaking news this hour the united states department of justice is announced 17 more charges against julian assange once the new indictment claims that the wiki leaks co-founder revealed the names of individuals who were working with the u.s. government and thereby put their lives at risk each of the 17 charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison with a blow is currently serving a 50 week sentence in the u.k. for skipping bail back in 2012 until now washington has pushed for songes extradition to the u.s. on the charge of conspiring with a government peter. ok patrick henningsen who is the executive editor of 21st century wired dot com joins me on the line now good to speak to patrick and an unexpected development i think for most people this they were already. charges expected against him in the stands from

the u.s. but now it seems like the really ramping things up for potentially what 10 years per charge 17 charges i mean the math pretty simple but the question is why now are these extra charges. yes this is a good question but i think it probably has a lot to do with the events that were set in motion at the beginning of april when the united states clearly along with the british government and the government could or colluded to evict julius on from the ecuadorian embassy and so that put him into custody in the u.k. where he's now and then there is definitely collusion at least this is been a track record of collusion between the swedish officials and the british government that was proven by a 4 for your release of e-mails. last year and that proved that there was an agenda to. create an extradition vehicle and so the reviving of the swedish case

now that is that same extradition vehicle which has been revived a 3rd time now so clearly the united states have their eyes on the prize they've now developed this path ideally from the u.k. to sweden and from sweden to the united states and that's why this is happening now and this is why this hasn't happened at any time over the last 8 years because everything that he's being indicted for the charges that are on the table are old in fact as has to do with almost a decade old activities by wiki leaks by julian chaunge by then bradley manning now chelsea manning and all of this also came out in the trial of chelsea manning as well so i could i could also comment on the specific allegations as well. is that perhaps it elements of the united states is trying to say look you know sweden is way you want to but all charges

a much more serious you know you need to be extra it was not a possibility you certainly they've they've stacked them up to sort of expedite this is a priority but you have to remember being indicted by the department of just. this doesn't necessarily mean that you're guilty of any crimes and it doesn't necessarily mean that the d.o.j. will be able to make those charges stick this is the same department of justice that indicted 13 supposedly russian trolls for allegedly interfering in the us democracy but none of this is actually been proven and on closer inspection it looks like many of this these sort of charges could be bogus so the d.o.j. doesn't have a lot of credibility when it comes to politicized indictments and this is clearly a politicized indictment and based on the comments that been made about the saw and so wouldn't be personal of degrading remarks both by the british judiciary and also

by john demaris the so-called national security head of the d.o.j. who basically said assad is not a journalist and i don't understand where he's able to make that sort of the terminations because all the activities that wiki leaks has carried out the julius on just carried out in this case were journalistic activities in fact he's been given many high profile awards for his journalistic work over the years but all the sudden they're wanting to sort of a yank that title or yank that definition away from a song and wiki leaks and transform their classification in order to prosecute them under a whole new set of charges that they would have been able to do 56789 years ago and i just want to pick up on that because it seems odd this potentially could open up a huge can of worms in terms of just how much freedom the press has to clean the united states you know have some organizations already saying you know this goes against

the 1st amendment the freedom of the press the publish information that's of interest to the public is that going to be a big crux of any potential trial whether or not sway cakes in jena songe all covered by journalism. yeah it would affect every single media outlet not only in the united states mind you but also globally because we also have to remember julie's aunt is not a us citizen wiki leaks is not a us based media organization and yet you have the long arm of the united states of the us extending wherever it wants claiming to have global dominion and jurisdiction over this issue that's perhaps even something more worrying and let's not forget that wiki leaks julian songe bradley net manning then now chelsea manning exposed real war crimes there was a mass murder carried out on film and this was seen by the world at the time and to 2 massive outrage and shock but no one has ever been held to account really for was

effectively a mass murder by members of the u.s. military who were probably acting on direct orders from the c.e.o. in iraq at the time but that is not know it now is not up for discussion for some reason in this what they're talking about is sources and methods the saying that julie sanchez somehow put us people in the field government workers at risk well during the trial of bill bradley manning they the government had multiple opportunities to present evidence that somehow sources and methods were compromised or that agents in the field were put in danger and they did not at no point did they come forward with any evidence to back up that assertion instead they they came up with theoretical scenarios whereby i could have happened but unfortunately that's not good enough in a court of law therefore it really had no bearing on the manning case so 9 years

later they don't have anything new in that department if they had anything it would have been on the table in 2010 with the trial and the sort of discovery process of during the manning trial so now that this is been sort of reengineer. now almost a decade later really is dubious on so many levels patrick appreciate you joining us this evening my guest patrick henningsen executive editor of 21st century wired dot com. now says law in 2006 wiki leaks has published thousands of documents on a whole range of issues from national security to war among them files leaked by former u.s. army private chelsea manning she's currently serving time in jail for contempt of court after refusing to testify in the ongoing wiki leaks case let's take a look back now at the revelations which of led to this moment.

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let's go live to london now and join our correspondent there lisa good evening julie in the sun she seems to be facing a battle of many fronts over in the u.k. where you are he's already been put behind bars by the authorities for 50 weeks for skipping bail want to try him on the right publications now the u.s. pressing more charges seem to be going from bad to worse for julian so much. us adding these new charges we're hearing about just today the justice department announcing that a grand jury a federal grand jury in virginia adding those 17 new charges in already to the single one that mr sanchez was facing and we understand that as a result of mr science being arrested inside the ecuadorian embassy earlier this

year the u.s. had only 60 days in order to get its case for extradition in line and that they wouldn't be allowed to add any more charges to their case before that point so we're still within the 60 day period which is why we're seeing. 17 charges coming forward which of course are sent to the round wiki leaks and are tied to the release of documents as we just heard previously acquired ben bradley manning and now chelsea manning leaked to wiki leaks and since then since that news is broken today we have heard a statement from the u.s. justice department. a federal grand jury returned in 1000 count superseding indictment today charging julian p. songe with offenses that relate to assign a legit role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states if convicted he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each count except for conspiracy to

commit computer intrusion for which he faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison of course manning has since been subpoenaed by the u.s. courts to testify and has refused to do so reportedly telling a judge on one occasion that she would rather starve to death than testify and that perhaps in the case the strength of feeling in this case the particularly miss manning mr while the leaders of wiki leaks assigned one of them would hold that this information was in the public interest however as far as u.s. officials are concerned this is highly sensitive national security information which they claim has put their country's security at risk being is the very latest there live from london r.t. correspondent thank you. another news hundreds of european companies have been flooding the e.u. market for years with items that contain potentially harmful chemicals that's

according to germany's largest environmental charity once released a study that one of the consumers want across the block couldn't wittingly be harming their health by using any of hundreds of popular everyday products the most dangerous item singled out however they fall under the category of industrial substances which can cause genetic defects in cancer more commonly used products noted in the study include furniture toys clothes which is kind of put unborn children at risk of certain cosmetic and personal products are said to cause serious eye dizziness $654.00 companies were named as culpable most of the german british or dutch big names like exxon mobil buyer they are on the list. as more on the story. when it comes to using hazardous chemicals at home we're told to wear gloves and to rinse immediately if your skin comes into contact with the product but according to a new report by environmental lobby group and european consumers and face exposure

on a daily basis and we don't even know about it as consumers we are kept in the dark not knowing if every day products are safe or not range from clothes shoes and makeup even children's toys borne says these potentially harmful chemicals are widely being sold to manufacturers of household goods without having being properly vetted it says some of these chemicals could cause a range of health problems from cancer to bring disorders worse still the european chemical agency we see a.j. is accused of trying to sweep this scandal under the rug. she has said on this problem for years we see the she. moving in the right direction by why all the secrecy the very foundation of e.u. chemical safety rules are being ignored bund revealed the top of the iceberg now

it's on the e.c. ha to tell us the rest of this investigation shows around $650.00 companies many household brands of breaking the law by failing to perform the required safety checks that are mandated by the e.c. ha's main safety regulation this includes some brands which are already making the headlines amidst major health scandals we have done and i'm a lot of work but that work i clearly and totally subscribe to is not sufficient and not enough. but we have looked at $700.00 substances up until now of those $702.00 thirds and up needing further data says that's not enough and is demanding that the e.u. and national authorities raise their game in a bid to ensure the products we use are simply just safe thieves shallots even ski off sea parents. yes some of the companies accused of wrongdoing

to comment on the claims including b a s f said fic and henkel both cephalic and hankel have responded saying while they comply with all safety regulations they are committed still to improving wherever possible your good my head's an environmental n.g.o.s told us he believes that the study is only scratching the surface of the problem. i think there is a big possibility that behalf knocking the coals on the market who have the locks to simply get in we house no clear information which chemicals we have no clear information which ones have been sufficiently checked the only thing to be it can know for sure is that the system doesn't work properly we have to can because. apparently not sufficiently control. that is a potentially dangerous so all in the interim or she recalled. basically. fast and complete. and this is playing with the lives of people. meanwhile

activists to storm the paris headquarters of pharmaceutical giant bio which was mentioned in that study they staged a protest against the health and environmental dangers posed by some of the products of by a subsidiary months now the risks surrounding the monsanto weed killer roundup were brought into the spotlight just recently when a california court ordered the firm to pay a record $2000000000.00 with the damages to a couple suffering from cancer which they successfully argued had been caused by the herbicide back in france a rule become but it was liable for the sickness of a farmer who would use the monsanto weed killer despite the ruling spawn santorum bar insists their products are safe adding health regulators worldwide agree. the world's biggest election in india is drawing to a close with the incumbent prime minister narendra modi securing another p.m.'s been celebrating his victory with supporters india has around 900000000 eligible

voters of a 600000000 of them cast their ballots nobody's main opponent or a whole gandhi conceded defeat trying to look for why gandhi the candidate of the late failed to make inroads. have a look at this simple guy modi as a child the prime minister helped his dad sell tea at a railway station ever heard of the caste system in india well his was officially classed as backwards there was even a t.v. show called the journey of the common man showing his tough life path.

now let's compare that to opposition leader who gandhi's background his father was a prime minister preceded by guess who his grandmother his great grandfather was the founder of modern india and what matter the ukase super the cambridge university how's that for a contrast. not seen as a serious challenge to mr another. because dynasty is not it doesn't appear to the young people in the country anymore if you contrast. the who dondi let's see that the prime minister not in the well actually has risen from the bottom he comes from the very poor section of society he comes from a cost which is known although back would cause. so given the fact that there is a lot of appeal from people who come in from the very bottom and rising i think on

. you know the dynasty of the calmness has pleaded for the last almost 70 years because completely lost use of the. year on year it's becoming clear politicians all around the world should have realised being a part of the elite is now out of fashion shall i remind you of what's been going on with the people's voting habits everywhere lately. i want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we did play or independence from the elites who lead us from one financial and foreign policy disaster. to another. 800 people but. you have heard me talking about the

people who are abusing. are. taking advantage they are going to go and. listen to our animals or any main task is to bring into the politics in our country on a completely new people fresh decent people who actually care. what have sume government hopefuls will begin misplacing their lead bag rounds just like some do with parts of their tax returns and have to say i'm surely a professor and dean at the jindal school of international affairs believes there's no longer a national opposition party in the country i think essentially it shows that the people of india continue to believe and invest their hopes for india's rise and for upward mobility and for economic growth and to become

a great poet in world politics all of this you know what we do mr movies the carrying of the hopes of the people of india just because he won doesn't mean that it's all going to be easy but definitely he has the massive mandate of the public behind him saw i think that would give him strength in the 2nd term as he embarks on what he calls the you know the journey to a new india so that is actually not national opposition party what it's needed anymore and they have to blame themselves for it because they lost sight of the needs of the changing times and of the changing water psyche. u.s. president onil trump says he doesn't think additional troops are needed in the middle east for now he's maintained though that he is ready to boost the u.s. military presence if required to confront iran meanwhile trump's acting defense secretary has confirmed reports more forces could be sent to the region killing

morgan has details. we have now heard from the pentagon's acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that he is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports but he did confirm that yes the idea of increasing the u.s. military presence and sending more forces to the middle east region in order to counter a perceived threat from iran that's true what we're looking at is whether there are things that we can do to enhance force protection in the middle east and the conditional troops we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani he has said that iran is ready to face any pressure and to defend itself even if the usa ends up using bombs against his country they are prepared to stand strong and defend themselves now on wednesday the u.s.

senate foreign relations committee took a vote and the idea of the vote would be to not fund any unauthorized action against iran taken by the white house now the vote did not pass it failed so this motion that would have been you know prevented any funding any federal funding to go through an unauthorized strike against iran didn't pass now in response to the vote not passing we heard from senator chris murphy he's a democrat and he warned that the trumpet ministration could utilize certain loopholes in the existing u.s. law in order to carry out a strike against iran without the authorization of congress this is chris murphy is concerned maybe trump will save the iran these been in c. but that's a loophole that would have any president to claim any number of middle east crisis as an emergency and then congress will never be able to object to the non-sale again secretary of state mike pompei o along with acting pentagon chief patrick

shanahan recently went to capitol hill. for a meeting behind closed doors with members of both the house and senate members of congress now the meeting was you know not public it was behind closed doors but afterwards we heard some interesting comments from the press not everyone was too happy with how that meeting went our biggest focus at this point is to prevent a running a miscalculation or worry very much but intentionally or unintentionally we can create a situation in which a war will take place this is about deterrence not about war that's been our worry from the beginning that this is a blind escalation with the hope that the arabians will come to the table and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate i think when you do that you're talking about a war that will go on and on and on now a recent poll was conducted among the american people to see how they feel about

the danger and possibility of an escalation with the islamic republic of iran now the poll showed that more than half of americans do believe that in the coming years there will be a war between the usa and iran however only 12 percent favored a 1st strike favored the usa launching this war well over 60 percent were adamant that the usa should not launch such a conflict should not take action to spark a conflict between the 2 countries so at this point as many are nervous about the apparent escalation about the talk of u.s. troops on their way to the region many people are keeping their eye not only on the middle east but also on capitol hill and on the white house wondering what will happen next. to a key is refusing to back down over his decision to buy the russian made s. $400.00 missile defense system despite washington threatening its nato ally with sanctions if it follows through with the boat $1000000000.00 deal made back in 2070 . we've sent personnel to russia for 400 training that will begin in the coming

days and will spend the 4 months the news of turkey reaffirming its commitment to the deal comes after the u.s. reportedly issued an ultimatum saying ankara must turn its back on the s 400 by june in favor of a u.s. made alternative that warned that he would otherwise face repercussions from nato and it's not the 1st time washington sort of pressure its ally over the agreement with russia turkey most choose its potential acquisition. of the 100 will result in a reassessment of turkey's participation in the f. $35.00 program those who want to remain a critical partner of the most successful military alliance in the history of the world we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world are potentially purchase that's for hundreds bleed to potential sanctions or doesn't want to risk the security of their partnership. while washington cited the

s 400 in compatibility with nato technology is the reason for its opposition it's also said that there's a risk russia could gather sensitive information about the u.s. made f. 35 fighter jets that turkey has in its effort force now turkey has consistently defended the deal saying that its neighbor greece has an older model of the s 400 in that they haven't faced any blowback from the u.s. so i'm back in december 2017 the price tag on the $4.00 us $400.00 is 2 and a half $1000000000.00 that's around half the price of the u.s. alternative the 1st batch is due to be delivered early this summer both china and india they've also signed up for the s 400 before turkish ambassador to the united states says that washington's rhetoric of ultimatums is simply not conducive to cooperation. i think the propensity. for the u.s. administration and now the congress to impose sanctions on anything that they don't like. is

a very unfortunate to have seen this in the case of iran and now triggering a sanctions. on countries that purchases $400.00. is in my judgment unlawful or unnecessary for i think. america should make its products moesha technology more depressed competition. trying to or that force countries. to make choices. and lashing them to the imposition of tension the sanctions it's wrong it's all lawful it's illegal. you know watching international appreciate you staying with us this evening do you stick around i'll be back in around half an hour's time a live updates on our breaking news story. that made somebody not the states against julian assange more info on our other top stories c.n.n.

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