yes i married one of so many possible that it was. an attack on journalism and i directed on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom as u.s. authorities filed 17 new charges against you each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. a 21 month old venezuelan girl is unable to continue with her liver transplant and because u.s. sanctions have blocked the charity that was painful it's. a life threatening situation she could die could free. and the philippines is threatening to dump tons of knowledge in the recyclable rubbish into canadian territorial waters should also fail to take it back. to start shipping it by next week with

china depleting for more time. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live from a studio with me. welcome to the program media freedom groups all raising the alarm over the 17 new charges filed against you in a song by the u.s. department of justice activists say this sets a dangerous precedent where a journalist can be criminally prosecuted for publishing truthful information so i'm going as far as to claim the u.s. has declared war on journalism. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a dying threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public in . trist irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sons is not

a journalist the u.s. justice department announcing on thursday 17 new charges being leveled against julian assange as a result of his leadership and editorship of wiki leaks and we understand that's come from a federal grand jury in virginia returned that new indictment and it comes after mr science was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy and according to the rules if they want the u.s. studies to extradite mr assad and they have only 60 days from the point of his arrest to add those charges and we are within that period and that's probably why we are seeing this flurry of new accusations flying against the former wiki leaks added and the u.s. justice department releasing a statement as to their reasoning behind this latest development a federal grand jury returned an 18 count superseding indictment today charging

julian p. songe 47 the founder of wiki leaks with offenses that relate to a songes a legit role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states the superseding indictment alleges that a songe was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army in unlawfully obtaining a disclosing classified documents related to the national defense now their accusations centered around claims that mr violated u.s. national security violated the law by taking in celeste's the thing they say classified information from then bradley manning now chelsea manning miss manning was sentenced to jail for 35 years before being pardoned by the former u.s. president barack obama she herself has been subpoenaed again to testify in this case and has refused to do so in the portaloo telling the judge that he would rather starve to death than test. why she would argue. that journalists

merely acting in the public interest were u.s. government argument about. national security and as a result of that resulting decision not to testify she remains in prison and it will remain to be seen exactly what happens to mr a result of these indictments yes bernard act under which i was charged dates back to the days of the 1st world war and so far has been used against government officials who disclose secret information but never before to charge journalists publishing such materials the justice department argues that the songes publications revealed the names of military informants and war zones putting their lives on the line with leaks the brainchild of assad has condemned the filing of additional charges calling it quote the end of reporting on national security whistleblower edward snowden has slammed the move as a war on journalism each of the 17 charges the scientist facing carries

a maximum of 10 years meaning the whistleblower could end up spending decades if not the rest of his life in jail because sondra fair battles told to society as one of the most influential journalists of the decade. i think that julian assange has put out the most important journalism of my entire lifetime i can't think of anyone who has made a bigger impact on the world i mean he's been nominated for a nobel peace prize pretty much every year for the last 10 years i believe he's won countless awards for his publishing including to this month. to see that he's not a journalist is asinine it's ridiculous he actually put in things that change the world and it's. people saying that he is not a journalist disgust me i think it's absolutely anything. i think that they're going to try to make an example of julian he's been charged in the eastern district of virginia and is judge. is also my judge and snowden's judge and jeffrey

sterling's judge who reserves every national security case for herself she's a hanging judge she will not give him a fair trial it would be impossible for julian to receive a fair trial in the eastern district of virginia so i think that they're going to try to extradite him as quickly as possible and they're going to try to give him as many years as they possibly can at the point is too great we everybody to the point where they don't dare compromise something that might even possibly be classified this is meant to create a chilling effect all across the media not just among americans but everybody around the world. meanwhile journalists in france are also feeling the hate a reporter at le monde newspaper has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services ariana sharing and broke the story of president micron's 8 who beat up a protester at a rally last year the month editorial director says the development is worrying as

she's the face janice has recently been summoned in this way will tell into story they talk in this bulletin. for some families in venezuela washington's efforts to topple the leadership in caracas are having a dire personal impact the parents of one young girl are in despair as she's now unable to receive the treatment she needs after her liver transplant because the charity was funding it is on the u.s. sanctions list isabella is a 21 month old baby suffering from a congenital disease her mother became a donor and last november doctors carried out a transplant but then isabella experienced post-operative complications requiring treatment her medical bills were being covered by a charity but u.s. sanctions mean this aid is now deliverable and her treatment has been stopped is about his father says she's suffering from numerous difficulties now. currently she is showing a slight rejection because 1st she didn't continue with her treatment properly as

she should have secondly her body has to accept that little piece of liver that her mother donated right now body is rejecting it because she according to the experts it is something that happens in any case because the organism adapting to the body one possibility is that her body will be able to accept it on its own the other is that it will require medical treatment in very specific care. the u.s. imposed sanctions on venezuela in january the target at the country's main or company which funds a number of charities that help sick children 7000000000 dollars in assets were bought by washington the u.s. says these sanctions are aimed at toppling what it brands the dictatorship of current president nicolas maduro but it's about his dad thinks it's unfair that his daughter and other children suffer from the sanctions. where the blockade is directed against the people my daughter because she is not able to continue with

her post-transplant treatment and now she's in a life threatening situation she could die could feel it so. sadly due to someone else's whim they are blocking resources for this mission this mission is the initiative of david israel and government to meet the needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country. tons of non-net recyclable waste may and they have been territorial waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines after warning of president. to start shipping the trash to water by next week despite canada's play for time the spot is part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as their dumping ground. reports. few of us ever wonder where all our trash goes are plastic bottles old t.v.'s baby diapers you put in the bin and poof it's gone says recycling

even feel good about it but it doesn't disappear it isn't all recycled much of it shipped away for poor people to deal with. obviously canada is not taking this issue nor account you seriously the filipino people are grimly insulted about canada treating this country as a dump site imagine the surprise in the philippines when dozens and dozens of recycling waste containers they got from canada turned out to be packed with just trash household rubbish diapers that sort of stuff recyclable obviously this happened half a decade ago and the filipino president threatening armed conflict to get canada to take its trash back. and build it. lord it will. as you know goes on and

you got a big. be. granted if that you don't. need it if you want that can you imagine it war over canadian trash there were other creative threats the philippines threatened to dump rubbish and cattle the territorial waters unless they acted they did eventually well promised to we are looking forward to having a solution to present to canadian shortly and to and to our filipino partners we're going to continue to work on this because this is a situation that is unacceptable and has gone on for far too long kennedy's police announced that he has awarded a contract to bring the waste back promptly and to ensure its safe and environmentally sound disposal canada has amended its regulations to prevent this from happening again and easily looking at ways to hold the responsible parties to

account in happening for decades your old phones sent to the developing countries and in some cases for kids to deal with for them to smash electronics with hammers and pry out the valuable parts and burn dog gumped toxins and chemicals leeching into the ground into water and land it isn't pretty cargo ships but it's alternative destinations vietnam malaysia thailand one of asia and africa.

garners been taking in european extra expense for decades and i promise you there are very few nonpolluting recycling plants there it used to be that china was the world's recycling capital they got sick of it too much pollution waste band importing certain rubbish and others following in their example malaysia will not be the dumping ground of the world we will send the waste back to their original countries i will take care of my own rubbish you should take care of you there are conventions of the basil convention for example the point of which was to stop the rich countries from dumping all their waste on poor nations but there are no punishments violates the will it's simple economics for most waste recycling

properly is difficult expensive but dumping waste on those desperate enough to go through it by hand manually at cheaper question now is where will north america europe send all their waste when the poor have had enough. when president kennedy gave. us i think we can reconstruct the message they're going to pay for that in more dollars in order to take care of the just stakes and financial . eats pretty stressed again or should be taking a back seat board or developing countries like the philippines to ensure that they are not companies or individuals in the government who do these kinds of deals because what chaminda did was especially the private canadian kompany violating the basal convention which go for the movement of toxic materials from developing

between developing and developed countries in coordination in time that would some filipina counter pour so there has to be a domestic crackdown and punishment of these kinds of companies and individuals but it is sending their also possibly more to lock your left work so development going to stop to come together maybe the laws you have has to come together all along which and are developing countries and make it very clear that they are no longer willing to take this kind of top 6. leading french analyst who broke the story about the present among all my contacts between a protester has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services is the 5th such a recent case prompting grave concern for me to freedoms in the country child and picks up the story. he alone has already sound a tape in front so by possible infringement on media freedom and now it's ringing even loudest still with a face journalist having been summons to meet with the country's intelligence

services. this is. a season in this for the french and daily in the mood. for an explosive story concerning a security aide to president and mind your own luck or it suited only this man. who was accused of being. made a protest is in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet videos also emerged of the incident. when he. was. a bit since then she has continued to write about the banal or a fair point in the history of the current elisei administration it's been accused of covering up the affair by failing to report to the authorities and while banal a

was the latest sacked he remains the subject of a number of ongoing inquiries limone says it's concerned by the summons and it stands by its articles. it is in the public interest to be able to investigate aides inside and the matin yonge and their outside links and associates the new someones is all the more worrying as it follows a similar procedure used very recently gainst other journalists what he's talking about is the fact that the secret service is here have already questioned 3 journalists who publish details how french soldiers saudi arabia and the united arab emirates were being used in the war in yemen their investigation was based on a leaked military intelligence dossier showing that tanks artillery and ships are being used in yemen something the government has repeatedly denied with president

saying he's even received assurances that french weapons are not being used in yemen and that is said to stand from disclose is one of those who was questioned he told r.t. it immense to intimidation and. we were very surprised that we were summoned because it's unusual for journalists to be treated in this way we were summoned yesterday morning disclosing national defense secrets we were told from the beginning that we were not there is journalists and the case would be decoupled from our role as journalists i think the freedom of speech needs to be supported by as many people as possible this is not an isolated case there have been many documented instances of intimidation especially during rallies. a 4th journalist has also been summoned as a witness in this inquiry over whether these journalists compromise national defense secrecy it's provoked outrage from human rights organizations the

undersigned n.g.o.s consider the information unveiled by disclose and its partners to be of essential public interest the threat of prosecution against the 3 journalists constitutes an unacceptable threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources $37.00. media outlets in france have also voiced support for their clearly saying they would just doing that job the fear now is that these actions could constitute pressure on journalists particularly in a bid to reveal their sources something that would break the professions code of ethics so let's. see paris. farms war with democrats might be dragging america into another war in the middle east stories up next after this.

you know world of big partisan mob and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we are not to shy to talk about our vision to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have built it clear that if by need a century p.-l. a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that of course would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy

. welcome back to the program donald trump is proud to do anything to escape the possibility of impeachment including starting a war with iran according to one us democrat. i believe that the president of the united states is on the cusp of taking us to war without the consent of congress because he fears impeachment just think about it now we're at war with iran everybody is afraid of iran the whole middle east is in turmoil and we are impeaching a president in his latest statement the us president has said he doesn't think additional troops and it is in the middle east adding though that he's ready to send more in to confront iran trumps acting defense secretary however has been more

adamant about the matter confirming that the american presence needs to be bolstered. do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq no i don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need what we're looking for there are things that we do force protection steps which. is being said 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 is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports 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 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 secretary of state mike pompei oh 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 not everyone was too happy with how that meeting went on very much but intentionally or unintentionally we can create a situation in which

a war will take place a war that will go on and on and on. and that's been our worry from the beginning that this is a blind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to come down on iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate 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 while 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. russian activists have been battling with what's been dubbed a jail court and it's being held a trial is underway but despite international outrage over the conditions they are the most being kept and he's refusing to release them. which would bring us what does have to do with your resumes have been kept in the will prison for 8 months so big has been suffering lost and that's good to see the will is free and to do it legally to. orcus he just used true torture for them.

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think. i'm going to talk about football not the moral thing to think i was going to do. by the way what is it that's lying here. donald trump loses in a battle to keep his financial records from congress so what happens next legal expert dan abrams is here with his take on this edition of. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king coming up later in the program consumer advocate and former president. candidate ralph nader joins me stick around for that but 1st a setback for donald trump's effort to keep his personal financial information from the hands of congress this week a federal judge sided with democrats in the house oversight committee who've been

trying to access trump's financial information for months so where does the legal fight go from here let's start there with dan abrams chief legal affairs correspondent for a.b.c. news and co-author of the new book theodore roosevelt for the defense the courtroom battle to save his legacy dan joins me now from new york city dan welcome to the program came out there so let's get to your fascinating book shortly right now we've got some crazy developments going on between the law and the trump administration so what's happening yeah this is an interesting case because here you've got the banks sort of stuck in the middle right saying we'll do whatever you tell us to do you subpoena the documents we'll give them to you oh wait a 2nd the trump folks are telling us we can't you guys figure it out and so now there's this battle between the trump folks and congress over whether he asked to allow enough.