schools so married by so many possible that us remember all those people. an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment action pours in from media freedom groups and u.s. authorities 17 new charges against julian assange. to 10 years and jail. an emotional theresa may call for 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 a normal. gratitude to attach the opportunity to say to the country i know. the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non-recyclable trash and a comedian waters to ottawa failed to take it back and start shipping it by next

week with canada up leaving for more time. and a 21 month old venezuelan girl is unable to continue with the 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. you're watching or to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap joining us 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 here 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 have a computer and it carries a maximum charge of 5 years so 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 the espionage indictment of his sons for bob listening is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad the department of justice

just declared war not when we can 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 all the additional 17 charges heap on a songe 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. documents and a song to the weekly team and of course the sponsors loyal supporters 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 the songes revealed the names of military informants in war zones and thus put their lives at risk 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 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 son which she refuses to do so she's actually ended up back in custody as a result of that and this whole saga really 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 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 songes 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 consoling everyone. and make it public. i think which may be 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 you'll see us a neighbor they are. right to. strobe a lot of secrets for a lot of emotion 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't actually i can't 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 he should be protected from that's the american system idea like it or not. 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 it was all about yes a little much the question is whether he faces the north or not in the united states personally i think the minds of. lunatics to do what it is an absolute travesty speech they skew should this government is going off the reservation stand the people realize now and have a muskrat's movement most information with new people will be aware before him for . and i'm for that he will say anybody says otherwise i'm going. to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by a song over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and cost 5 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 more 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 a song. 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 often involved in there to be that could be characterized as a war crime certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the time i think was reporting and they

obviously offended wiki leaks 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 leaked classified data on how the bureau recruits informants for which he got a 4 year sentence in another case around the winner 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 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 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 a as many years as they possibly can the point is to write we 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. theresa may has announced she is stepping down from the role of prime minister speaking outside her 10 downing street residence she expressed regret over failing to get a deal over the line despite her best efforts she will step down as party leader on june 7th although remain as pm until a successor is chosen this makes me the 2nd prime minister ariel scalp to be

claimed by bracks it. will surely be heading to buckingham palace to see her majesty the queen well tender my resignation as prime minister. today announcing that i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june so that to successor can be chosen. right. with a normal during gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve 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 criticised by people all across the political spectrum earlier this week she denounced she tried a 4th time trying to get past and offered m.p.'s a chance to vote on the 2nd referendum if they backed her where 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 as you can and the party are both advocating a so-called hard drugs it or 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 europe 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 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 it. tons of non-recyclable waste may end up into the avian waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines that's the warning of president rodrigo to tara today will has vowed to start shipping the

troth trash to ottawa by next week despite canada's plea for more time the spat reflects part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as dumping grounds for garcia for parts. 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 their local lord it will. voters 2 then i would advise you and your garbage. on a lovely. grounded if that you don't. need it if you want to can you imagine it war over canadian trash there were other creative threats the philippines threatened to dump rubbish and cattle the territorial waters unless they acted they did eventually all well promise to kennedy's police to announce that he has awarded a contract to bring the waste back promptly and to ensure its safe and

environmentally sound disposal canada has amended its regulations to prevent this from happening again and easily looking at ways to hold the responsible parties to account. we're going to continue to work on this because this is a situation that is 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 burned to 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 elektra explain 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 candidate b. it was especially god privately company violating the basic convention which go very slow movement of talks at cereals for between developing and developed countries in coordination in time to some filipino culture for us to develop we got the stuff to come together maybe the us to come together all along. and make it

very clear that they're no longer willing to take. in 21 month old men as well and girl is being denied a 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 you then. it was only days ago we were told the u.s. was preparing to strike iran for nonspecific reasons to deter nonspecific tracks then the narrative simply disappeared into thin air just exactly what is the

trumpet ministrations policy regarding iran we are strong you know. we are not to shy to talk about. chinese navy blue water navy actually we have made it clear that if i need a sentry a will be. hopefully. the military. would even clued the classic chinese navy. welcome back washington's efforts to topple the leadership in bed as well as 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 in 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 isabelle experience post-op complications requiring 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 them the 2nd killing her body has to accept that little piece of liver that her mother donated to 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 in very specific care the around the u.s. imposed sanctions on bet as well in january which targeted the country's main oil company which also funds a number of charities that help sick children 7000000000 dollars in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says these things are aimed at toppling what it brands the dictatorship of current president nicolas maduro. wish them well will be there to help and we are there to help action ensures they can no longer elude the assets of the venezuelan people

were taking action against a vital source of 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 isabel's father thinks it's unfair 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 on with her post transplant treatment and now she is in a life threatening situation she could die. but it's so sad to do to someone else this winter walking resources for this mission when i mean this mission is the initiative of the venezuelan government to meet her needs of sick children suffering from chronic diseases that cannot be treated in the country. leading french journalist who broke the story about president emanuel aide beating up a protester has been summoned to appear before the country's intelligence service this is the 5th such recent case prompting grave concerns for media freedoms in the

country charlotte devinsky picks up the story. the along 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 movement last year she broke an exclusive story concerning a security aide to president and manual mccord it centered on this man alexander who was accused of beating up made a protest says in 2018 whilst wearing a police helmet video also emerged of the incident.

since then she has continued to write about the banal are a fair point in the history of the current elisei ministration is being 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 aids inside the easy and the matin yong 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 a disturbing 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 and 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 have also voiced support for their clearly saying they would just doing that job 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. paris. that's

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