an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment protection force and from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities 17 and you charges against julian assange is carrying up to 10 years in jail. and emotional theresa may call the day i don't think 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. also this hour the philippines is threatening to dump tons of numbers likeable and comedian waters

should ottawa fail to take it back. to start shipping it to them next week but coming up leading to more time. and a 20 month old 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. it watching our team international bringing you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the proper. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian a song 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 a sandra's 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 to be collect but in journalism itself this is no longer budgetary 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 heat on a song each carry a maximum of a 10 year sentence which means that his a vent chilled 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. a songe the weekly team and of course the sponsors of the oil supported as i have always argued always only ever acted as

a journalist 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 superseding indictment alleges that a songe 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 astonished 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 she's now been subpoenaed to testify against a songe which she refuses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that and this whole saga we entered its new legal phase

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 of 50 weeks 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 to 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 us authorities is very heavy handed he just revealed some informations of. everyone. and they make it public. i think you're putting maybe for the good. i do not deserve that oh yes i've heard of it 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 his wiki leaks secret with me yeah yeah well so he'd known us a neighbor they are. right the guy stole 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 could actually i called them by the 1st thought he has done what he's done sure he's paid for it and

. the one year is about suitable probably and he should be protected from the american system idea like you know. there's no there's probably no perfect legal system in the world you know american c.e.o.'s cover that i really knew i mean i think i heard 75 years you know it's all about yes a little much i think the question is whether he faces the north or not in the united states personally i think the minds of the. lunatic you do. not see a travesty speedplay skew should this government is going off the reservation stand the people realize now and have a muskrat's movement most information with no people would be aware before him for . the line for that he will say anybody says you the wisest go. let's look back at some of the biggest 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 in this criminal shooting of civilians in iraq a year later the so-called files revealed routine torture at the guantanamo bay camp and the deaths of inmates through harsh treatment and in 2016 that wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the presidential campaign and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activist kevin zeese says washington is taking revenge on the. 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 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 a war crime certainly atrocities and certainly also the corruption of our

transnational corporations that was all the time that he was reporting and they obviously offended with you it's obviously offended 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 media leaks former f.b.i. agent terry leaks classified data on how the bureau recruits informants for which he got a 4 year sentence in another case reality when it was an n.s.a. contractor when she leaked top secret information on alleged russian interference she received 63 months behind bars and john kiriakou disclose details of the cia's torture program and was sentenced to 2 and a half years here's what he thinks about us all just potential fate. i think that they're going to. try to make an example of julian he's been charged in the eastern district of virginia and is judge was also my judge and snowden's judge and jeffrey

sterling's judge who reserves every national security case for herself she's a hanging judge and she will not give him a fair trial it will be impossible for julian to receive a fair trial in the eastern district of virginia so i think that they're going to try to extradite him as quickly as possible and they're going to try to give him as many years as they possibly can the point is to break 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. bags that has now claimed a 2nd prime minister ariel scalp speaking outside her 10 downing street residence theresa may express 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 and till a successor chosen as mate 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 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. from the beginning to recently said her goal was to deliver brock's 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. has been criticized by people all across the political spectrum earlier this week she announced to try a 4th time to try and get it passed and offered m.p.'s a chance to vote on a 2nd referendum if they backed her where bracks it goes next is hard to tell what

becomes of the official conservative stance depends on who succeeds may labor the main opposition party accepts the referendum result it wants a deal but not may's camp and the party are both advocating a so-called hard by exit where britain also quits the e.u. single market the liberal democrats the green party and change u.k. all want to reverse that and the 2nd referendum mark almond 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 your up and the members of parliament and so unless 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 all 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 will be in union may decide we find you too much trouble we want you to leave now and so that could be a chaotic disorderly brigs it. 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 president rodriguez to tears say miller has vowed to start shipping the trusts to ottawa by next week despite cantor's plea for more time this that reflects part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as dumping grounds as 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 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 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 in one of the. lord it. 2 was 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 in canada's 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 an example 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 isn't pretty cargo ships blitzed alternative destinations vietnam malaysia thailand well over asia and africa.

garners been taking in european elec shortage 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 the basil convention for example the point of which was to stop 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 china did the it was especially the 5 it can eat it company violating the basal convention because go for the movement of toxic materials for between developing and developed countries in coronation in time that we some filipina counterpart to develop we going to stop to come together maybe the us yet has to come together all along which and other developing countries and make it very clear that they're no longer willing to take this got a toxic tries. it 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 her story and more after this short break.

join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see if. we are to shy to talk about i'm vision to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have built it clear that if by mid a century a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy. there's a cyclical nature to things touristy 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 death. welcome back washington's efforts to topple the leadership in venezuela 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 has now on the u.s. sanctions list.

isabel's parents took her to argentina where her mother became a donor and last november doctors carried out a transplant but then isabella experienced post-op complications required treatment isabel's father says she's now suffering numerous problems. already very severe currently she is showing a slight rejection because 1st she didn't continue with her treatment properly as she should have them the 2nd killing her body has to accept that little piece of liver that her mother donated to them you know right now 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 and very specific care the way the u.s. imposed sanctions on that as well in 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 these 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 fee assets of the venezuelan people we're taking action against a vital source. for the madeira regimes well. 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 at risk by u.s. sanctions isabel's father thinks it's unfair his daughter and other children have to suffer. under the blockade is directed against the people and 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 feel it's so sad to do to someone else is when they are blocking resources for this mission when i mean this mission is the initiative of cannot be treated in the country. for more than half a year russian activists have been battling with the owner of what's been dubbed a whale jail or illegally caught orcas and belugas are being held a trial is under way but despite international outrage over the conditions the animals are being kept in the owners refusing to release them. as usual going to what is have to do with your mere these animals have been kept in the will breeze in the 4 or 8 months so far there has been suffering for asking the court to set the wheels free and to do good to legalise to kitchen.

to keep orcas in cages is true torture for them. both in the end. to make you just kick out the young jewish and worshipping everything. to do in the company because we have a contractual obligation on swith some foreign companies the contracts have not been cancelled and we believe that we should honor international contracts.

oceanarium straining process is frequently based on food deprivation give the orca's don't do what they are told they are simply not fed the conditions the metals are held in their shorten their life expectancy tenfold in captivity they leave 56 years versus 80 years in the wild. lupul jungle releasing the animals would pose a risk to their lives and else they could die in february the outcry reach all the way to the kremlin with president vladimir putin ordering the situation to be resolved however it kremlin spokesperson has since confirmed the order has not yet been fulfilled. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook are up to the minute reports. of. you know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy

it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family my daughter's in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery in meaning this is 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 pin this on than him and what happens in court b b b b. shot after shot as far as a side deal that we don't know chills just for. the end of this trial unfortunately you. will still not know what childress.

the problem in venezuela is not that has been poorly implemented. within a decade my country was ruined. it lost

a quarter of its manufacturing. a 1000000 people emigrated and public debt kept rising. in 2015 a government claiming to be a left wing promise to force an end. however it's agreed measures that tie the country up until 2060 and started mass privatisation. motors on the lift became depressed because it had succeeded with what the right hadn't. the right was depressed because they knew they'd lost their is on difference. in this country of mass depression however there was one word that awakens the political fervor of the. venezuela.

i love the supporting cast we see live up able to see steve it is up up him to send them the b.b.c. . on another human as well again not going out of the. 20 european country went through a crisis why were its politicians worried about toilet paper in latin america. i flew to caracas to find out.