an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment the reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities file 17 new charges against you in the song each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. a 21 month old venezuelan girl is unable to continue with post liver transplant treatment because u.s. sanctions have blocked

a charity that was paying for its. traditional markets threatening situation she could die. and the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non recyclable rubbish into canadian territorial waters should ottawa fail to take it back. to start shipping by next week with the talent of pleading for more time. 10 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with mina to welcome to the program. media freedom group so raising the alarm over the 17 new charges filed against joining us on 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 some going as far as to claim the u.s.

has declared war on journalism. that's been awesome dykeman took his son's football is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the son is not a journalist i think a lot of reasons why they haven't done this in the past is because assad was democratizing the media he was broadening the people who could report people inside government inside corporations could leak classified documents anonymously they want to frighten the media into not covering u.s. activity around the world the us is often involved in activity that could be characterized as war crimes certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the time i think the wiki leaks was

reporting and they obviously offended wiki leaks i was defended the united states by challenging the military industrial intelligence complex here and they want revenge and they want to send a message to any other journalist who dares tries to expose. mine here with some of the revelations by how much over the years back in 2010 years of documents the classified video related to the ports in iraq and afghanistan one made public that leak it detailed among other things indiscriminate shooting civilians in iraq and later a so-called get close file from failed me to torture i think one time and i can only make the resulting from frequent and in 2016 wiki leaks reveal to into the media bias in the 26th in a presidential campaign and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race. looks at the new challenges is facing. the u.s. justice department announcing on thursday it 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 who have returned that new indictment and it comes after mr science was arrested in the ecuadorian embassy and according to the rules if they want us that is to extradite mr beverley 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 his son 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 center around claims that mr assad has violated u.s. national security he violated the law by taking in soliciting 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 reportedly telling the judge that she would rather starve to death than testify she would argue as would mr signs and others that their journalists merely. acting in the public interest words u.s. government argument is that this was a. 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 result of these indictments the espionage 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 more so it's putting their lives on the line we can leaks the brainchild of assad's 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 assad is facing carries a maximum of 10 years meaning the whistleblower could end up spending decades if not the rest of his life in jail janice cassandra fabulous told us society is 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 if he's won countless awards for his publishing including to this month. to say that he's not a journalist is asinine it's ridiculous he actually put in things that change the world and it's i have not been shown that people thing that he is not a journalist the just 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 was 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 and she will not give him

a fair trial it will 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 the point is to right we're 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 heat a reporter lamond newspaper has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services around a sham in broke this story of president micron's aide beat up a protester at a rally last year the man's editorial director says the development is worrying as she's the 5th journalist who's recently been summoned in this way will delve deeper into the story a child in the bullet. tons of nano recyclable

waste may end up in canadian territorial waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines as the warning of president roger. manila has found to start shipping the trash to water by next week despite canada's plea for more time the spot is part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as they dump in ground as. reports . few of us ever wonder where all our trash go are plastic bottles old t.v.'s baby diapers you put in the bin and it's gone says recycling even feel good about it but it doesn't disappear it isn't all recycled. 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 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. and build. lord it. is then i would advise you and your garbage. on a lovely. ground of this that you don't. need it if you want to can you imagine it war over canadian trash there were other creative threats the philippines threatened to dump rubbish and cab of the territorial waters unless they acted they

did eventually or well promised to we are looking forward to having a solution to present to canadians 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 been happening for decades your old phones sent to 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 burned or dumped toxins and chemicals leaching 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 thinking in european elektra explain 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 use 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 going to get killed and be faster i think because he gets got the message now they're going to pay for it if it were dollars in order to take care of those logistics and financial. needs for the stress behaviors to be taken back to order busy for developing countries like the philippines stay sure that there are not companies or individuals in the government who do these kinds of deals right because what candidate did was essentially either try the can he get constantly violating the base of convention which go very slow movement of tough experience for developing between developing and developed countries in coordination xander with some filipina concert or so there has to be a domestic crackdown and punishment of these kinds of companies and individuals but it isn't out there also possibly more to a lot of your left work so development going to start to come together maybe the us yet has to come together as love each and in our developing countries and make it

very clear that they ignore that you're willing to take this kind of quasi tries. some venezuelan families and washington's efforts to topple the leadership in caracas are happening at dyea personal impact pass along into spanish she's unable to receive the treatment she needs after had a liver transplant because the charity that was funding it is on the u.s. sanctions list.

it's about his parents took her to argentina where her mother became a donor and last november doctors carried out a transplant and then isabella experience post-operative complications requiring treatment is about his father says she's suffering from numerous difficulties. 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 to right now body is rejecting it because recording 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 the country's main all company

which funds a number of charities that help sick children 7000000000 dollars in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says these sanctions are aimed at toppling what it brands the dictatorship of the current president nicolas maduro. isabella's not the only child whose treatment depends on charities venezuela's foreign minister says children's lives are being put in danger by sanctions is about his father thinks it's unfair that is daughter and other children have to suffer. well the blockade is directed against the people my daughter because she is not able to continue with her post transplant treatment and now she is in a life threatening situation she could die her organ could fail it's so sad that due to someone else's whim they are blocking resources for this mission when i meet this mission is the initiative of the venezuelan government to meet the needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country . charms war with democrats might be tracking america into another war in the

middle east that story is next after this break. manufactured. public wealth. when the ruling class is project themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room. we are not to shy to talk about our ambition to turn chinese navy into

a blue water navy actually we have built it clear that it by need a century a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that calls would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy. welcome back to the program leading french journalist who broke the story about president emanuel micron's aid to beating up a protester has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services is the 5th such recent case prompting grave concern for me to freedoms in the country child do bensky picks up the story. the alarm has already sounded here in france about possible infringement on media freedom and now it's ringing

even loudest still with a 5th journalist haven't been summonsed to meet with the country's intelligence services. this is. a seasoned journalist from the french daily more and last year she broke an explosive story concerning a security aide to president and manual knockoff it's centered on this man. who was accused of beating up may day protests is in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet videos also emerged of the incident. was. since then she has continued to write about the banal or

a fair point in the history of the current elisei ministration 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 itself of course. it is in the public interest to be able to investigate aides inside the easy and the matin yong 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 there 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 will be. news 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 matiya said this 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 now been summoned as a witness in this inquiry over whether these journalists compromised 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 arm acceptable threat to press freedom and the protection of journalistic sources 37 media outlets in france i've also voiced support for their quali saying they were just doing their jobs 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. r.t. paris. has power to do anything to escape the possibility of impeachment including starting a war with iran according to one the us democrat. i believe that the president of

the united states is on the cusp of takes nost who will 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 are needed in the middle east adding though that he's ready to send more in to confront iran terms 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 but we're looking for those 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 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 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 not everyone was too happy with how that meeting went 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 goofy arabian's will come to the table and the best thing to happen is for everybody to come down in iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in the escalating 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 us 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. don't you think i'll be back in around 30 minutes time with updates but do stay with us now for so wishes up next more international.

it was only days ago we were told the us was preparing to strike iran for nonspecific reasons to deter nonspecific threats then the narrative simply disappeared into thin air just exactly what is the trumpet ministrations policy regarding iran whereas trump you know. this is a story about what happens austria stray bullets kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this than him and what happens in court be the . shock shock as far as society

we deal. we don't know she'll just brutal. end of this trial unfortunately you 2 will still love no children's phone. welcome to sophie and calm sophie shevardnadze if traits tensions weren't enough china's military after great is causing major concerns in washington so what are. in the in the pacific and across the world we ask scenario colonel gibeau

a director of security cooperation for the military office of china's national defense ministry. the temperature is rising in the pacific where american naval supremacy is being challenged by china's fleet as territorial disputes threaten to escalate into full confrontation off the chinese coast will the great drive was. there into an arms race parallel to the current trade war and might regional militarization endangered decades of peace. and. conflict between beijing and washington be avoided. scenario no as you go well come to the show it's really great to have you with us. so according to. this issue spokesperson for the national people's congress china's growing military spending is necessary to ensure the country's security does this mean that china is for.