an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities 17 new charges against each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. and emotional theresa may calls it a day and i think she will step down as conservative party leader. i do so with no ill will but with a normal. gratitude. to the opportunity to serve the country i love. the philippines is threatening to dump tons of recyclable rubbish into canadian territorial waters should ought to have failed

to take it back. to start shipping it by next week with canada pleading for more time. 21 month old venezuelan girl is unable to continue with post liver transplant because u.s. sanctions have blocked the charity it was paying for. choosing a life threatening situation she could die. it's 1 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. media freedom groups are raising the alarm over the 17 new charges filed against julius 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 with some 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 dian 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 this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and the direct assault on the 1st amendment. polly boyko for more on the charges against polly we just heard some of the reaction what other concerns are being raised well look when the sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy against his will last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a u.s. extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to hack a computer and it carries a maximum charge of 5 years so

a fairly small fry well not any more the indictment against this guy has been handed out substantially it now lists 17 counts of violating the u.s. espionage act and press freedom groups journalists whistleblowers organizations and people from really across the ideological spectrum from all sides of the political divide have come out condemning this escalation of the u.s. case against that wiki leaks found some going as far as to claim that the u.s. authorities have declared war on journalism take a listen to some of the responses. they're spinoffs indictment of his son's football is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad the department of justice just declared war not true we can explore journalism itself this is no longer birju in the songe this case will decide the future of media this is madness it is the end of national security journalism and the 1st amendment. the

additional charges heaped on a songe each of them carries a maximum of 10 years behind bars which means that a songes and bench prison sentence could amount to $175.00 is in prison also what's interesting is that he's been charged under this u.s. espionage act which dates back to 1917 that's 1st world war time we're talking about and so far it's only ever been used against government officials who have disclosed secret information it's never been used to charge journalists for journalistic activity or for publishing such secret materials and a son in the wiki leaks legal team and his very loyal supporters have always said that he acted nearly as a journalist in these publishing activities as founder of wiki leaks although

that's something that the department of justice obviously disputes and refuses to acknowledge american authorities maintain and their argument is that some just publications revealed the names of military informants in war zones and that put their lives at risk his the statement take a listen. the superseding indictment alleges that a songe was complicit with chelsea manning a former intelligence analyst in the us army unlawfully obtaining a disclosing classified documents related to the national defense well chelsea manning features in these charges to chelsea manning obviously that former u.s. marine who leaked the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years behind bars before being pardoned by then president barack obama back in 2017 and she's now been subpoenaed to testify against

a son which she was. uses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that now just as a quick reminder this is solemn saugus entered its new very convoluted legal phase earlier in april when the ecuadorian authorities evicted dishonors they revoked his political asylum allowed the british authorities to come in and arrest him he's now serving out a 50 week sentence in a london prison the skipping bail back in 2012 when he originally entered the embassy and he's also wanted in sweden to stop homes on the edge of a lodging and official extradition request because they want him there in order to quote on some questions about a potential sexual assault case dating back to 2010 which is why he originally sought asylum in the embassy fearing he'd be extradited over to the u.s. so this this case is kind of gone full circle now i suspect the swedish case is

going to take a legal precedence but there is now this a very serious charges against a songe in washington and i think what's interesting here is that although a songe is a very divisive figure someone more keen to see him as a hacker rather than a hero of epic journalistic proportions but even those people that don't support him have come out and said that the charges from washington now are extremely heavy handed and concerning. ok polly reporting there from london thanks partly for the overview of what's going on in the case thank you. and to remind you here are some of the big revelations made by a sanchez for the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video related to the wars in iraq and if afghanistan were made public that leak detailed among other things indiscriminate shooting of civilians in iraq a year later the so-called get files revealed routine torture at the guantanamo bay

camp and in the deaths resulting from harsh treatment and in 26 thing we can reveal to proclaim to media bias 2016 presidential campaign and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activists kevin zeese says washington is taking revenge on the. i think you are reasons why they haven't done this in the basses because it was democratizing the media he was broadening the people who could report people inside the government inside corporations could leak classified documents anonymously they want to the media into not covering us or activity around the world the u.s. is also involved in it to be there could be characterized as war crimes certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the time. was reporting and they obviously offended wiki leaks i was offended by a charge of 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 as more than one case of whistle blowers in the u.s. being punished for media leaks a former f.b.i. agent terry leaked classified data on how the bureau recruits informants for which he got a 4 year sentence reality when i was working as an n.s.a. contractor and she leaked top secret information on the alleged russian interference she received 63 months behind bars and john kiriakou disclosed details of the sea. guys torture program and was sentenced to 2 and a half his his what he thinks about genocide just future. 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 who 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 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 janice in france are also feeling the heat a reporter lamond newspaper has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence services. broke the story of president micron's aide who beat up a protester at a rally last year in the mountains editorial director of development is wiring as she's the 5th journalist who's recently been summoned in this way and we will delve deeper into that story later on in the bulletin. now brags it has claimed a 2nd prime minister ariel scalp speaking outside 10 downing street stories from

a admitted the game was up and that she'd failed despite her best efforts to get a deal over the line she will step down as tory leader on june 7th and remain prime minister until her successor has been chosen in a concerted conservative leadership race which will get underway officially on the week starting the 10th and she made her announcement she was almost overcome with emotion. so i am today announcing that i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june. i will shortly leave the job that is be the owner 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 during gratitude 2 of hearts the opportunity to serve the country i love.

the defining girl of teresa mayes premiership has been to deliver brags that a task she has found impossible with m.p.'s rejecting her deal 3 times the withdrawal agreement she's negotiated with the e.u. was criticised by both leaders and remain as she was hoping to make a full stop getting it passed by offering m.p.'s a chance to vote on a 2nd referendum where bragg's it goes next is hard to tell labor the main opposition party except. the referendum results but was strongly against a maze break simply a look at the party's leader has said it may many times that the prime minister has lost the authority to deliver you can his pro breaks it but believes that the mayor has betrayed the country with her deal the brags that party governed by a performer you could lead to also ones. for raj has earlier said may is a willfully deceiving people over departure from the liberal democrats stand aside from this departure camp as they want to stop crags it. live now

to kills men who are to political analyst and director of the wire thanks for coming on to the program now the race for 10 downing street it might last for months mind it so in your opinion who looks like the most likely successor at the moment. this news that. was not a surprise a lot of people were expecting a good. expect a good. future alliance what lies ahead now was really ought to be conservative party membership to decide it now. yeah i mean there are no number of names there aren't there on the list of people who put themselves forward who got boris johnson seen as the front runner among the briggs's supporters known confirmed a dom dominick rob and jeremy hunt michael gove the environment secretary and plenty more didn't. those are the options at the moment what do you think about

those who do you think is going to make it. and also in the running for mean job but from what i see i think those names that you just mentioned their opportunity to voice their concerns and their opinions on. them i think their way. big recent moves for being so when they could so many things. as to why their weight didn't go through but being the person in charge of leading this this campaign is going to be very difficult about who gets the power because the identity of briggs it and what's the conscious look into the issue still hasn't been on previous stuff and when i saw the main problem isn't it kills and that isn't my that's the main problem is that in a net nothing's changed the situation in the country and as we've mentioned before that's the 2nd prime minister who's stepped down or how is it ever going to be solved do you think that's

a very difficult question i think you only way to reduce all of this is to go back in time and to really define what groups it meant the 1st place right now we have my full breaks that i was the 31st and here are a few months not to achieve our goals but with an election coming up soon and with the leadership still fractured it's really hard to see what happens going forward but even if you have appropriate it leader that doesn't quell that isn't quenched the the consensus of those who want to remain especially in the conservative party so we really have a gordian knot which i don't see any time because yeah one of the major challenges that the new prime minister is going to face because obviously they've got this brings it to mass at the moment but they've got to run the country as well sean shoeless 2 things that the prime minister needs to really consider that's number one the politics of it in the u.k. and trying to find a consensus within that which is very important those who have been put there needs to work out most of them are programs that. programs the leaders to be so for those

who don't want to be there you that's going to be a challenge the 2nd part of the equation is also looking towards the e.u. and trying to find some circumstances then you have the e.u. for you greet and plan with its reason may be very hard in my opinion to change their mind to come back to the go shooting table and to flesh out the new deal so certainly is a big challenge for the next leader his son is going to be close minority political analyst director of the party. thanks for coming on to the program to discuss this thank you. we'll be back in a couple of minutes after this break. we are not to shy to talk about. chinese navy blue water navy actually we have but it's clear that the by need a century

a will be developed hopefully. the military. would even crude 1st the close the chinese navy. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice or the biggest raid in truth to stand losing business just as the right questions and demand the right answer. question.

welcome back to the program tonnes of non recyclable waste may end up in canadian territorial waters of the country doesn't take it back from the philippines as the warning of president of the tatay miller has found to start shipping the trash to ottawa 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 that dumping ground as mark as to reports. few of us ever wonder where all our trash goes 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 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. lord it. goes on and. well a lovely bear is going to do 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 cattle the territorial waters unless

they acted they did eventually 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 of 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 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 over asia and africa.

garners been taking in european elec shortage waste 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. what channel was especially at that privately constantly violating the base of

convention which the very movement of tough periods. between developing developed countries in correlation in tandem with some filipino culture for us to develop we're going to start to come to get or maybe the r.c.m. has to come together a lot of which and in order to go to congress and make it very clear that they're no longer willing to. trust. some families in venezuela washington's efforts to topple the leadership in caracas are having a diet person impact the parents of one young girl i mean to spend as she is now able to receive the treatment she needs after her 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 donor and asked the family doctors carried out a transplant but then isabella experience post-operative complications requiring meant is about his father so she's suffering from numerous difficulties now. already very serious 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 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 and very specific care. u.s. imposed sanctions on venice while in january the target of the country's main oil company which funds a number of charities that help sick children $7000000000.00 in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says the sanctions are aimed at toppling what it brands the dictatorship of current president nicholas went to. wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help actually ensures they can no longer allude to the venezuelan people were taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes world in while isabella is not the only child whose treatment depends on charities venezuela's foreign minister says children's lives are being put in danger by u.s. sanctions isabella's father thinks it's unfair that his daughter and other children have to suffer. under 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 could feel it's so sad to do to someone else as 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. now a leading french journalist who broke the story about president emmanuel micron's signed 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 media freedoms in the country so do bensky picks up a 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 summons 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 mccord it centered on this man. who was accused of beating up made a protestors in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet video also emerged of the incident. if only. it. was. 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 the elysee 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 of also voiced support for their quali ex 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 schalit deviant ski arty paris. will take over in around 30 minutes time with global updates but do stay with us now for a documentary called make the economy scream which is next on international and r.t. u.k. .