an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups u.s. authorities 17 new challenges against each carry a maximum of 10 years in jail. a 21 month old venezuelan girl is able to continue with post and live a transplant treatment because the u.s. sanctions have blocked the charity that was paying for. choosing a life threatening situation she could die for good good for you. and the philippines is threatening to dump tons of. rubbish into canadian territorial waters and should alter what failed to take it. to stall and shipping it by next

week with canada pleading for more time. it's midday here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from a studio with me welcome to the program. may different groups are raising the alarm over the 17 new charges filed against you in the 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 with some going as far as to claim the u.s. has declared war on journalists or. their spinoffs indictment of his sons for bob listening is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad the department of justice just declared war not when we can expose our journalism and so this is no longer julian the songe this case will decide the future of media

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 sun is not a journalist 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 say that he's not a journalist is is asinine it's ridiculous he actually puts in things that change the world and it's. people thing that he is not a journalist it's just me i think it's absolutely a thing. came to a head early in april when the ecuadorian authorities withdrew the whistle those

asylum and evicted him from ecuador's embassy in london letting the british police enter the palaces to track him out he was subsequently sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for attempting ballantine to trial at that time he was going to demonstrate in connection with the socialist told us however he fled to occur during embassy fearing the claims that he'd be extradited to the u.s. . takes a look at the charges he's now facing. 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 rules if they want the u.s. studies to extradite mr science they have only 60 days from the point of his arrest to 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 assign 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 interest sorry to interrupt that report but will she stay or will she go we're going to cross right now to them to 10 downing street where british prime minister is in may is under intense pressure to criticize addressing the media let's take a listen but for everyone and one of the result of the e.u.

referendum. back in 2016 we gave the british people a choice against all predictions the british people voted to leave the european union. i feel a certain today as i did 3 years ago that in a democracy if you give people a choice you have a duty to implement what they decide i have done my best to do that i negotiated the terms of our exit and a new relationship with our closest neighbors protect jobs our security and our union i have done everything i can to convince m.p.'s to back that deal sadly i have not been able to do so i tried 3 times i believe it was right to persevered even when the odds against success seemed high. in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort so i am today announcing that i will

resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june so that a successor can be chosen i've agreed with the party chairman and with the chairman of the 922 committee that the process for electing a new leader should begin in the following week. i have kept her majesty the queen fully informed of my intentions and i will continue to serve as her prime minister until the process has concluded. it is and will always remain a matter of deep regret to me that i have not been able to deliver bricks it. it will be for my successor to seek a way forward to the dawn as the result of the referendum. to succeed he or she would have to find consensus in parliament where i have not. such a consensus can only be reached if those on all sides of the debate are willing to

compromise. for many years the great humanitarian nicholas winton who saved the lives of hundreds of children by arranging their evacuation from nazi occupied czechoslovakia through the kindertransport was my constituent in maidenhead. at another time of political controversy a few years before his death he took me to one side at a local event and gave me a piece of advice he said never forget that compromise is not a dirty word life depends on compromise he was right as we strive to find the compromises we need in our politics whether to deliver breck's it or to restore devolved government in northern ireland we must remember what brought us here. because the referendum was not just a call to leave the e.u. but for profound change in our country a call to make the united kingdom

a country that truly works for everyone. i'm proud of the progress we have made over the last 3 years we have completed the work that david cameron and george osborne started the deficit is almost eliminated our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to all sterile. my focus has been on ensuring that the good jobs of the future will be created in communities across the whole country not just in london and the southeast through our modern industrial strategy. we have helped more people than ever enjoy the security of a job we are building more homes and helping 1st time buyers onto the housing ladder so young people can enjoy the opportunity is their parents did. and we are protecting the environment eliminating plastic waste tackling climate change and improving air quality. this is what a decent moderate and patry arctic conservative government on the common ground of

british politics can achieve even as we tackle the biggest peacetime challenge any government has faced. i know that the conservative party can renew itself in the years ahead that we can deliver bricks it and serve the british people with paul. this is inspired by our values security freedom and opportunity those values have guided me throughout my career. but the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voiceless to fight the burning injustices that still scar our society. that is why i put proper funding for mental health at the heart of our n.h.s. long term plan it's why i am ending the postcode lottery for survivors of domestic abuse which is why the race disparity audit and gender pay reporting are shining a light on inequality so it has nowhere to hide. and it is why i set up the

independent public inquiry into the tragedy of grenfell tower to search for the truth so nothing like it can ever happen again and so the people who lost their lives that night are never forgotten. because this country is a union not just a family of 4 nations but a union of people all of us whatever our backgrounds the color of our skin or who we love we stand together and together we have a great future. our politics may be under strain but there is so much that is good about this country so much to be proud of so much to be optimistic about. i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill

will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. well that was quite dramatic there we just saw to raise that may announce her resignation with a few tears at the end we're going to go live to afshin rattansi home just going on the ground to discuss further that wasn't that i wasn't expecting that we in the few tears at the end. well i think most people in britain arguably will be not thinking about her tears which will be make the front pages of all the newspapers in the next 24 hours they will be thinking that not since tony blair arguably have we had a prime minister in this country who has been who's faced allegations of such seriousness of such human rights abuses of such a legit war crimes let's not forget that as she now weeps behind that door at number 10 we had

a landmark british medical journal you see all report suggesting that 120000 people were killed in this country by the austerity policies that she she implemented in this country. and the people who benefited were people like her husband who is presumably comforting her behind the door of number 10 there because she helped the bank because she helped the the money changes and we must remember this after a city of london that was accused of for deal and interest rate setting meaning the illegality of the city of london was rewarded and she paid for it allegedly in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people she was a home secretary ok you know what i mean let's let's talk about what's just happened because you know there were lots of speculation about when she would do this if she was going to do it and she and she's done it now she's announced that resignation she said that she felt that in

a democracy if you could people the choice you have to implement it she was in a difficult situation she inherited this didn't she almost and it's not a surprise that she's had to go down this route to iraq you said that you know she's made a lot of people unhappy how do you think it will be for the next prime minister. while while other channels will be interested in procedure and the procedural ideas of breck's it and so on it's notable that she used phrases in that speech just now like the voice of the voiceless we've seen only in the past few hours that the united states is bringing charges against someone who tried to bring a voice to the voiceless julian a son who is in britain's guantanamo bay she brought the hostile environment in in this country which led to the deportation of people of color she implemented policies that had pregnant women chained and eventually she she turned that over

ready for deportation the united nations rapporteurs an extreme poverty only this week said her policies are the misery to millions of people the u.n. reporter on torture tried to investigate claims that of the british government were involved in torture and when she talked about justice. we've got to remember that life expectancy in this country for the 1st time slowed down the worst slow down in 100 years leading some to say a 1000000 deaths in odyssey and i'm going to years i've seen i'm going to cut in you've got all for a lot to say about the bad things you know obviously we understand that but i want to stick to what this means for the country now what is the next prime minister going to inherit option in your opinion she obviously has already has no idea you know. we have no idea who the next prime minister is and of course mainstream media here will be involved in endless speculation there is obviously a fight in her party and other procedural elements but what's important here today

as we saw the tears of the british prime minister is a failure in establishment politics a failure of governance if you talk to diplomats in this town they talk about britain's role in the world has been reduced. there is a threat because of her of a renewed violence even in places that you would never expect remember the bricks of the involved the. the border in ireland and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world so she herself and these criticisms don't come from the opposition parties they come from her own benches they accused her own m.p.'s of incompetence of inarticulacy while opposition m.p.'s in parliament accused her of inordinate cruelty i've seen what we have and what we do know the mon we've got boris johnson who's come forward we've got a couple none confirmed jeremy hunt michael go. forward plenty more don't.

some might argue that she was always this was always going to went badly because of what she'd inherited because of the fact that no one seemed to be able to agree that situation hasn't gone away hasn't she no one's agreeing still what is the new prime minister going to do that's going to be different. well as i said we don't know who the next prime minister is and mainstream media will be trying to say who is the runner and rider and is it like a big horse race and so on but i think what's important here is the legacy she leaves for this country and to look back on her record and of course as you mentioned those different characters who are the runners and riders they're all implicated in the same alleged crimes that she stands accused of and no doubt opposition leaders and opposition parties will actually be comfortable with any of the names of a currently being bandied about because they are so implicated in the legacy of tereza may unless a brand new face emerges and we must remember that historically i remember covering

the john major leadership. bid back in the ninety's usually the usually the candidate for the next leader of the conservative party is never the favorite and that is absolutely true afshin and i'm sure i'm going to be looking doesn't stop the country still being in a mess afshin rattansi great to have you want to discuss this host i'm going underground. now if we look at the positions from the other parties which we will mention labor party he said may lost the authority to deliver to deliver brags that they say if they can achieve a deal with the tories it can indorse it wants to force a journal election to take the conservatives out of office the us labor party stance or the liberal democrats they say the party wants to hold a further referendum on bragg's it at which it would to campaign for the u.k. to remain a member of the e.u. the e.u. could party that's the u.k.

independence party it's for former ferrars party it's a hard year a skeptic party far says that there's no difference between the breaks apart in the u.k. up in terms of policy but in terms of personnel there's a vast difference and then of course the braggs that party which for roger is leaving leading at the moment he says he's person facing an investigation for. peas for failing to declare expenses funded by leave the campaigning is exit the united kingdom from the european union so those are all the positions we've just heard the speech given by to raise in may that she's handed in her resignation and i'm sure we'll bring you any more updates about that over the course of the day. now tons of recyclable ways to may end up in canadian territorial waters if a country doesn't take it back from the philippines that's the warning of president what rico detail when a lot has found to start shipping the trash to ottawa by him next week despite

canada's plea for more time sparta's part of a wider trend rich countries using poor ones as their dumping ground as more it reports. few of us ever wonder where all our trash goofs are plastic bottles are all d.v.d.'s baby diapers you put in the bin the booth is gone . recycling you 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 it took the filipino president threatening armed conflict to get canada to take its trash back you know i didn't i don't build it water this guy in one of the. lord it. is then i would go down and you're got a big. lovely big bear is grounded if 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 cattle the territorial waters unless they acted they did eventually all well promise to kennedy's police to announce 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 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 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. the valuable parts and burn do dumped toxins and chemicals leeching into the ground into water and land it isn't pretty cargo ships blitzed alternative destinations vietnam malaysia thailand well over asia and africa.

garners been taking in european elektra dick's waist for decades and i promise you there are very few non polluting 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. what channel that was especially at that privately constantly violating the base of convention which got very movement of toxic materials. between developing and developed countries in coronation in tandem with some filipino culture for so develop we're going to start to come together maybe the r.c.m. has to come together a lot we challenge our goal to countries and make it very clear that they ignore

that you're willing to get it because it tries. to some families in venezuela washington's efforts to topple the leadership in caracas are having a direct personal impact the parents of one young girl are into spanish she's now unable to receive the treatment she needs after a liver transplant because the charity that was funding it is on the u.s. sanctions list.

isabella's parents took her to argentina where her mother became a downer and lost and then the 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 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 her body is rejecting it because 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 the country's main oil 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 current president nicolas maduro. wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help actually ensures they can no longer loot the venezuelan people were taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes world meanwhile isabel is not the only child whose treatment depends on charities and as well as foreign minister says children's lives are being put in danger by u.s. sanctions is about his father thinks it's unfair that his daughter and other children have to suffer. 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 is in a life threatening situation she could die or organ could feel it's so sad to do this someone else is we're blocking resources for this mission this mission is the

initiative of the village where one government to meet the needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country. leading french journalist who broke this story about president emanuel micron's aide beating up 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 due bensky picks up the story. the alarm has already sounded here in france about possible infringement on media freedom and now it's ringing in. even the loudest still with a 5th journalist haven't been summons to meet with the country's intelligence services. this is. a seasoned journalist from the french daily movement last year she broke an explosive story concerning a security aide to president and manual mccord it centered on this man.

who was accused of beating up made a protest is in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet video also emerged of the incident. with you. 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 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 someone's 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 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.