an attack on journalism and they direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction is pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities file 17 new charges against julian assange each carrying a maximum of 10 years in jail. and emotional theresa may call for the day and mounting she will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with enormous gratitude to attach the opportunity to the country. the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non-recyclable rubbish into comedian

territorial water. failed to take it back. to start shipping it back to next week with canada pleading for more time. and the 21 month old venezuelan girl is able to continue with post liver transplant treatment because of u.s. sanctions blocked the charity that was paying for it. to use in a life threatening situation she could die could feel. you're watching r t international bringing you here live news updates from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. media freedom groups are raising the alarm over these 17 new charges filed against julian 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 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 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 this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and a direct assault on the 1st amendment. but not to our to this point boycott for more on the charges against us and probably we've just heard some of the reaction what other concerns are being raised at this point. well look ever since he was drags out of the ecuadorian embassy here in london last month he's had this us extradition request so lapse on him and it had lifted a single count of conspiracy to happen government computer which carries a fairly minor sentence of 5 years behind bars but that has been added out

substantially now by washington the charges against him now list 17 counts of violating the espionage act and press freedom groups journalists whistleblower various organizations from across the ideological spectrum have condemned this escalation of the case against julian assange to take a lesson. that's been awesome dykeman to 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 what we can expect in journalism and so this is no longer by julian this on this case will decide the future of media this is madness it is the end of national security journalism and the 1st amendment. well the additional 17 charges a heap on a songe each carry a maximum of

a 10 year sentence which means that his advent chill's sentence could be 175 years in prison julian assange has been charged under the us espionage act which dates back to 1917 that's 1st world war days and so far it's only ever been used against government officials who disclosed secret information it was never used to charge journalists who publish those secret documents and a song that we can leak steam and of course astonishes loyal supporters who have always argued that he's always only ever acted as a journalist in his activities as the editor former editor of wiki leaks have only ever been in a journalistic capacity which is something that the department of justice in washington refuses to acknowledge and they say that songes revealed the names of military informants in war zones and thus put their lives at risk take

a lesson. the superseding indictment alleges to disarm 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 you heard there all of this is very much linked to chelsea manning and of course chess chelsea manning is the former u.s. marine who leaked astonish the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was then pardoned by then president barack obama back in 2017 but she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a son which she apparently refused to do saying she accepts full responsibility for the leaks herself so she's back in custody for refusing to testify against a son and this whole saga really kind of entered its new very convoluted legal

phase last month when it was dragged out against his will from london's ecuadorian embassy the ecuadorian also it is revoked his claim to political asylum and they allowed british police to go in quite an unprecedented move really and arrest him and he's now serving out the week a sentence in the london prison he's also wanted in sweden stockholm is about to go through the motions of issuing their own extradition request to get him to sweden because they want him to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault dating back to 2010 the very same sexual assault that led him to sought to seek asylum in london's ecuadorian embassy in 2012 so we've kind of gone full circle here of course he went into the ecuadorian embassy in london undef be is that he'd be extradited to the u.s. if he were to go to sweden and here we are with this flu. of. of

charges against him these 17 new counts hanging over him now from washington and i think what's interesting here is that a songes a very mom might characters very divisive there are more there are some people who are more keen to see him as a hacker rather than a hero of sort of epic journalistic proportions and yet even those that don't support him have come out now and said wow this potted out more serious case against assad from the u.s. authorities is very heavy handed. worker bring us joy is from london the. to remind you here are some of the bigger revelations made by a songe over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public that leaked details among other things indiscriminate shooting of civilians in iraq

a year later the so-called files revealed routine torture at the guantanamo bay camp and resulting from harsh treatment in 2016 at wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the presidential campaign and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activists have in these says washington is taking revenge on the sun. i think a lot of reasons why they haven't done this in the past is because songs 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 frighten the media into not covering u.s. activity around the world the u.s. is also involved in that to be that could be characterized as war crimes certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the time i think was reporting and they obviously defended 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. there's more than one case of whistleblowers in the u.s. being punished for immediate leaks a former f.b.i. agent terry leaks 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 when she leaked top secret information on the alleged russian interference she received 63 months behind bars and john kiriakou disclose details of the cia's torture program and was sentenced for 2 and a half years here's what he thinks about julian assange 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 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 at the point is to 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. brags that has now claimed a 2nd prime minister speaking outside 10 downing street theresa may admitted the game was up and that she failed despite her best efforts to get her deal over the line she will step down as tory leader on june 7th and remain prime minister and tell her successor has been chosen and the conservative leadership race which will get under way officially in the week starting the 10th as 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 being the on 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 gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country. with the defining goal 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 4th stab at getting it passed by offering m.p.'s a chance to vote on the 2nd referendum or backs it goes next is hard to tell what

becomes of the official conservative position it will also depend on who becomes leader labor the main opposition party accepts the referendum result it wants a deal but the mazed camp and the party are both advocating a hard form of bracks that the liberal democrats the green party and channel change u.k. all want to reverse practice it and want a 2nd our friend. live now to tom brooks the dean at durham a law school now with may stepping aside who do you think will fill her shoes. well the front runner they tell us is for a strong said no the front runner in these things has as never never won theresa may was not the front runner to succeed he would cameron but managed anyway it's a very crowded field right now amongst the tories they say 1718 possibly more will come forward to throw their hat in the ring seeing being head of the party makes

you automatically prime minister that will be a prize that'll be too too good to not have a try at so i think it's a difficult one to tell certainly in terms of winning over members of parliament the party favorite i think that is more split than the party faithful favorite so amongst grassroots activists boris is seems to be there clear a number one amongst those in parliament i think it could be a range of figures germy on would seem to be the preference amongst most m.p.'s i am guessing but it could be others dominic rob others we will soon find out either way how can her successor whoever it may be break the parliamentary deadlock. they can't i think it's at the moment it's impossible i think the only way they

would be able to do so remember if there is someone who is kind of hard or kind of brecht's it would ever that might mean a new deal scenario or something like it they're going to have to get votes for that and the one thing we know parliament is ins in favor of parliament said no to lots of things but the one thing it's most definitely for is anything but no deal and so somebody who says oh i'm going to put no deal back on the table will parliament has said you can't do that and will resist that think they will struggle given the current composition of parliament to get anything kind of harder through post remember no no one at the moment has put their hat in the ring. you know when he said that they would have fewer red lines patrice in may had for negotiating the brick city and that suggests that any type of different deal they would have to negotiate wouldn't be any favor more favorable terms for trade investment services than trees to may has had in those who don't like the irish backstop as many in the

conservative party that don't still don't have any answer as to how they could have a borderless northern ireland which they claim they want to have so without a general election that changes the balance of power in parliament i can't see anybody having any change in brussels having any change in westminster i think we'll see more paralysis and if anything it will 1st rate bracks it even more typically is even further towards remain do you think that a new pm well go ahead and call for a general election do you think that they would dare to do that in order to legitimize their position. who normally people who become prime minister in this way want to hold a general election fairly soon to legitimize their role but don't want to do it right away they want to give it a few months so they can get their feet under the table to get things started the

problem with who for whoever succeeds threesome a is that they'll be taking over a minority government that does not have a majority in parliament and the only party who is helping to do so may in principle get anything through the do you know in ireland have effectively rescinded their support they have not been supporting the prime minister on water breaks a deal so i think that a general election is normally not a clever idea for a new prime minister because they don't yet have policies they might only have just come in you know get the keys to number 10 just have a team around the very little time to design policies and so on. on but i think the sooner they do it the better if only to change the arithmetic to have more m.p.'s if they are to win to get through some type of plan of course the other side is if they don't take if they don't do something fairly soon if they try to do some to way that will mean that they legitimization of wherever that is with say

a new mandate to cover and that might get somewhere with process they are not going to have much time between end of july august and october 31st when the current extension runs out so if someone wants a better deal or the same deal or want to really threaten walking away the clock is ticking already before the leadership contest has well and truly begun tom brooks dina dharma law school thank you so much for joining us on the program. more news after this short break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you than.

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 read in truth to stand out of the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question. there's a cyclical nature to things there's t. globalization there's globalization there's lowering interest rates there's rising interest rates so when the interest rates rise hit the impact it is said will be instantaneous.

welcome back tons of non-recyclable waste may end up in canadian waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines that's the warning of the president roderick go to terra to manila has vowed 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 their dumping grounds as broadcast live 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 that sort of stuff recyclable obviously this happened harmful a decade ago and it took the filipino president threatening conflict to get canada to take its trash. and build it water of the. lord it will. then i would go down under your garbage. on a 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 ease looking at ways to hold the responsible parties to account how 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 of asia and africa.

garners been taking in european xstrata it's way 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 what challenges especially adequately involved in violating the basic convention digital

birds in the west of us. getting to the. being developed by these importation into something if you may come here for us to develop we got the stuff to come together maybe the us yes we come together as love each and hard both be going through this and make it very clear that they ignore that you're willing to it's going to cost us. for some families and then as well that washington's efforts to topple the leadership in caracas are having a dire personal impact one young girl is now unable to receive the treatment she needs after her liver transplant because the charity that was funding it is on the u.s. sanctions list. isabel's

parents took her to argentina where her mother became a donor and doctors carried out a transplant but then isabelle experienced post-op complications requiring treatment as a polish father says she's suffering from numerous difficulties. with you currently use 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 her body is rejecting it because she quoting 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 bet as well in january and they target the country's main oil company which funds a number of charities $7000000000.00 in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says these sanctions are aimed at toppling what it brand think dictatorship of current president nicolas maduro wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help action ensures they can no longer loued fee assets of the venezuelan people were taking action against a vital source of the material regimes wealth. meanwhile isabel is not the only child whose treatment depends on charities and is also foreign minister says children's lives are being put in danger isabel'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 work and 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 david israel and government to meet the needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country . that's a news wrap up for now thanks for tuning in. we are not to shy to talk about our ambition to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have made it clear that if by mid a century a will be developed hopefully into a world class a military that would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy. this is a story about what happens after a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family daughters in florida

the other daughter is buried in a cement terry 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. shocked shocked as far. as i feel. we don't know shields. just for the. end of this unfortunately you. still not know who killed just. kind of.

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 call and. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king coming up later in the program consumer advocate and former presidential 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. 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 in effect this material to be released and this 1st court district court level very fast decision basically saying there is really no legitimate argument against releasing this information in essence congress has the power to request this accounting.