it's. an attack on journalism and they direct assault on the 1st amendment rection pours in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities file 17 new charges against julian assange each carrying up to 10 years in jail. and emotional theresa may call for the day announcing she will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with enormous gratitude to touch the opportunity to serve the country. also this hour the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non-recyclable rubbish into canadian waters just off failed to take it back. to start shipping it

by next week with canada up pleading for more time. and a 20 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. choosing a life threatening situation she could die could feel. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian assange with 17 new charges is raising the alarm of media freedom groups. 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 the direct assault on the 1st amendment when the sundress dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a us extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to have a computer and it carries a maximum charge of 5 years a fairly small fry but that has been padded out substantially now by washington the charges against him now list 17 counts of violating the espionage act and press freedom groups journalists whistleblower have condemned this escalation of the case that's been us 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 what we can expect in journalism and so 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 all the additional 17 charges he kept on a song each carry a maximum of a 10 year sentence which means that his adventure will sentence could be a 175 years in prison julian assange has been charged under the us espionage act which dates back to 1917 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 seat. and a songe the weekly team and of course the sponsors of the oil supported as i have always are always only ever acted as a journalist which is something that the department of justice in washington it

refuses to acknowledge and they say that songes revealed the names of military informants in war zones and thus put their lives at risk the superseding indictment alleges to disarm which 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 all of this is very much linked to chelsea manning who leaked astonish the now notorious iraq war logs and manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison but was then heartened by then president barack obama back in 2017 she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a son's which she refuses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that and this whole saga we heard that included new eagle say last month when

a songe was dragged out against his will from london's ecuadorian embassy the ecuadorian authorities revoked his claim to political asylum he's now serving out a 50 week sentence in a london prison for skipping bail back in 2012 when he originally entered the embassy he's also wanted in sweden stockholm is about to go through the motions of issuing their own extradition request because they want him to answer questions about an alleged sexual assault dating back to 2010 which is why here originally sought asylum in the embassy fearing he'd be extradited over to the u.s. and i think what's interesting here is that a stange is a very mom might characters very divisive there are more there are some people who are more keen to see him as. a hack a rather than a hero a sort of epic journalistic proportions and yet even those that don't support him have come out now and said wow this padded out more serious case against

assad from the u.s. authorities is very heavy handed he just revealed some information's out so concerning everyone. and they make it public. i think which may be for the good. i do not deserve that oh yes i've heard of such but i don't remember who. i'm from los angeles i have no idea he is in trouble but i have no idea why this wiki leaks secret with me yeah you'll see us a neighbor they are. right to. stroll a lot of secrets for a lot of information which is upset a lot of people well he's revealed an awful lot of secrets all different governments around the world and so it's so long ago now that i can actually i called remember the 1st talk he has done what he's done i'm sure he's paid for it

and. the one year is about suitable probably and it should be protected for that's the american system idea like you know. there's no there's probably no perfect legal system in the world you know americans. really know i mean i think i heard 75 years you know it's all about yes a little much the question is whether he faces the north or not in the united states personally i think the man's a weak. lunatic to do what is an absolute travesty speedplay skew should this government is going off the reservation time that people realize that a mosque that's moving most information with new people would need to be aware before him for. anybody says otherwise i'm going. to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by assad 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 the indiscriminate shooting of civilians in iraq a year later at the so-called get mo files revealed from team torture at the guantanamo bay camp and the deaths of inmates to harsh treatment and in 2016 at wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the 2016 presidential campaign and i plot to push bernie sanders out of the race. for the more we go live now to an international affairs commentator jonathan steele welcome to the program now these new charges dramatically increase the chances of being extradited to the u.s. . well not necessarily could possibly reduce the because. the lawyers will be able to walk you through. just punishment and therefore he should not be extradited it's already the case that if you prefer to just he could

be extradited from britain because we joke recognize the legitimacy of suggest so there's no set aside to do 17 united nations judges very cruel tough and you know argument against extradition to be strikes. now assault is a very divisive figure but journalists all over the world have called washington's move an attack on free press to what extent can be called a journalist. well he's a publisher he's received information which may have been stolen but that often happens in the case of john hirst well publishers they receive information only decide whether or not it's in the public interest to publish the stuff and he decides degrassi guardian recent collaboration with him and the time when he published the diplomatic cables of the story to top engine the. some of the other rookies each material and serve as the guardians also cognition. room also under threat in

a sense from the same authority as that anon judging which leaks founder julian assange. now the un's privacy rights special repertory has expressed concern that ecuador could handle all the documents found in the embassy after assad has arrest to the us do you think that that's likely i think is very likely because there could or government's been operating interlibrary she was a united states since they changed their policy after a new president came in and they're deciding to allow the british police to come into the embassy which is normally treated as an extra territorial case that is not under the jurisdiction of the host country since the ecuadorian government is collaborating busy united states justice department and so therefore they may well agree to hand over the computers and other material to our sanjay was obliged to leave behind when he was bundled out of the embassy few weeks ago if that material is handed over could that become a pretext for even more charges down the line. possibly possibly. but i mean there

are enough charges against him now ready made don't need to bring any more off i mean because it's possible it might incriminate. leads to you know they're going to charge other people who have mentioned on the computer documents that have been seized. also owns is being accused of violating the aspin ask in these new charges not previous cases under the act part of the only government officials why is this publisher now becoming the main figure under fire well it's a good question in the trumpet ministration is very hostile to the liberal media this may be part of that it wasn't enough sense it made backfire because a sound wasn't particularly came out of the embassy a few weeks ago he didn't have very strong media support around the world particular not in the united states where you can sort the tea to skate if it's

a swedish. sectional on occasion issues that she has some. great here and she once you do comes to defend a general issue of publishing geria he's doing what many germans cheer insurgents around the world or in many annoyance not defending a censure so as in the u.s. government is shooting itself in the foot in a white by changing the charges and bringing in much harsher charges which. rich you know culture motives journalists and lawyers up in arms is a song's under any obligation to keep us secrets as it may be at all. well here's the question is a public interest that's what it publishes to decide. not just to really need to publish anything to fear comes from the government to decide what is it's come from the government is it revealing things that we didn't know before the 2 of. interest

like the war crimes in afghanistan that will reveal to like some of the answers to do with. the people. so you have to decide that there is a question of whether or not he names of secret agents that's not normally a good thing to do as a caution doesn't serve any purpose except here barsa government people's lives in danger so as i would be an argument against publishing which i think it's a 100 argues that you didn't. compromise any secret intelligence since international affairs commentator jonathan steele thank you for joining us on the program today ok. there's more than one case of whistleblowers in the u.s. being punished for immediate leaks former f.b.i. agent terry albright leads classified data on how the bureau recruits informants for which he got a 4 year sentence and the other case reality when it was in an essay contractor

when she laid to top secret information allege russian interference she received 63 months behind bars and john kiriakou disclose details of the cia's torture program and lessons for 2 and a half years here's what he thinks about assad as potential state. 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 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. that has now claimed a 2nd prime ministerial scalp speaking outside her 10 downing street residence theresa may expressed regret that she failed to get a deal over the line despite her best efforts she will step down as tory leader on june 7th and remain leader until a successor chosen as mayor made the announcement she was 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 it has been 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 attach the opportunity to the country.

from the beginning to recently said her goal was to deliver bricks that she has found impossible with m.p.'s rejecting her deal 3 times the withdrawal agreement she's negotiated with the e.u. has been criticized by people all across the political spectrum earlier this week she announced to try a 4th time to get it passed and offered m.p.'s a chance to vote on a 2nd reform referring them if they backed her whereby if that goes now is hard to tell what becomes of the official conservative stance depends on who succeeds may labor the main opposition party except the referendum result it wants a deal but not may's you kept and the bracks that party are both advocating a so-called hard drugs that were britain also quit the e.u. single market the liberal democrats the green party and change u.k. all want to reverse bracks that and i 2nd referendum mark allman director of britain's crisis research institute oxford says the country faces uncertainty and chaos. it's going to be

a difficult task because the house of commons is still strongly against leaving the e.u. except on terms which involve remaining in a customs union almost certainly so that there's going to be a disconnect between the tory party members and supporters and presumably the people who defected to the briggs's party who are mainly conservatives who want a serious break with europe and the members of parliament and so must you change the arithmetic in the house of commons whoever succeeds mrs may if they want to leave the e.u. was going to face huge problems in the same sort can they force a new general election what will be the result of that we don't know but there's going to be a great deal of uncertainty and as i say there's this looming deadline of the 31st of october which is the end of the extension of britain's membership and the british politicians seem to forgotten that in the modern world divorce can be initiated from both sides the remaining members of the european union may decide we find you too much trouble we want you to leave now and so that could be a chaotic disorderly brigs that. tons of non-recyclable waste may end up in

canadian waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines of the warning of president rodrigo to terra to manila has vowed to start shipping the trash to ottawa by next week the spike out of this plea for more time that's bad reflects part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as dumping grounds as our girls he explains. 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 it says recycling it 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 normally 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 in the middle of the night and build it water this guy i'm not there the lord it. 2 is done i will not go down and your garbage. all over the bear is going to 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 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 not acceptable 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 them to smash electronics with hammers and pry out the valuable parts and burn dog dumped toxins and chemicals leaching 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 extra it's waste 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 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 candidate did was essentially guided by the canadian company if i lead from the base of convention to go thirty's the movement of tossing a period for the philippines between developing developed countries important

a nation in time to read something deep in the concert for us to develop we got to stop to come together maybe the us has to come together all along each and our developing countries and make it very clear that they're no longer willing to take this kind of toxic tries in 21 month old venezuelan girl is being denied vital medical treatment because the charity that was paying for it has been hit by u.s. sanctions press story and more after this break. for.

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 of the biggest race in truth to stand the news business is just the dance the right questions demand the right answer. questions. welcome back washington's efforts to topple the leadership and that as well is

having a direct impact on some families in the country one young girl is now unable to receive the treatment she needs after a liver transplant because the charity that was funding it is now on the u.s. sanctions list. isabel's parents took her to argentina where her mother became a donor and doctors carried out the transplant but then isabelle experience post op complications require treatment her father says she's now suffering numerous problems. already we're seeing 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 and january which target the country's main oil company which also 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 brand the 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 elude fiasco of the

venezuelan people we're taking action against a vital source for the material regimes well you know isabel is not the only child whose treatment depends on charities and as well as foreign minister says children's lives are being put at risk by u.s. sanctions isabella's father thinks it's unfair his daughter and other children have to suffer. while 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 or him could fail it's so sad that due to someone else's whim they are blocking resources for this mission they want to 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 wrap up of the day's top news for now thanks for tuning it. after

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle it was only days ago we were told the u.s. was preparing to strike iran for nonspecific reasons to deter specific threats then the narrative simply disappeared into thin air just exactly what is the trumpet ministrations policy regarding iran and where is trump in all of this. cross talking iran i'm joined by my guest in washington he is a policy analyst at the arab center washington d.c. and fran we have mohammad marandi he's a professor at the university of toronto and in philadelphia we cross today lindorff he is an independent journalist with a long experience covering u.s. military as well as founder of the news site this can't be happening.