that's lying here. an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction from the media freedom groups is yourself thought is far 17 new charges against julian assange carrying up to 10 years behind bars. and emotional trees of a cause of the day announcing she will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with a normal during gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. the philippines is threatening to dump tons of non-recyclable rubbish into canadian territorial waters should also we're able

to take it back with all of ours to start shipping it by next week with canada pleading for more time. very good t.v. thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. we start this hour with some breaking news because at least 8 people have been injured in an explosion in the french city of leone the reports say that a possible bomb went off near a bakery local authorities confirmed the number of casualties and said there is been sealed off by police so far there's been no official word on the exact type of explosive and no one has claimed responsibility will bring you updates on the story as they come in. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian assange with 17 new charges is parking the

concern of media freedom groups. 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 when the 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 it's 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 heap 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 u.s. 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 song to 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 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 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 this whole saga we entered it new legal day 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 sentenced 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. i think what's interesting here is that a songe 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 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 these wiki leaks secret with me here you'll see us a neighbor they are. right to think i strove a lot of secrets for

a lot of emotion which is upset a lot of people well because 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 them by 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 now and all of them so it's 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 speedplay skew should this government is going off the reservation it's time that people realize that

a mosque that's moving most information with new people would be aware before him he's put himself on. the line for that he will see anybody who says otherwise is wrong. is to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by our songs over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public that league detailed among other things the indiscriminate shooting at civilians in iraq here later the so-called get most fallsville routine taught at the guantanamo bay camp and the death of in a harsh treatment and then in 26 thing wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the 2016 presidential campaign and the plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activist kevin zeese says washington's taking revenge on a sandwich. i think a lot of reasons why they haven't done this in the past is because science 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 there could be characterized as war crimes certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the time i think it 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. the u.s. media picked up on the mounting concern over these new charges against the sanj questioning the move of the justice department let's go to new york now and speak to the source from caleb. caleb has this stand by the u.s. media come as a surprise to many. well certainly there have been

a number of voices who have come forward and expressed concern about freedom of the press and the implications of these charges against a son now it's important to note that the u.s. department of justice is insisting that julian assad is not a journalist however many of the voices that have stepped forward are saying that essentially that point doesn't really matter because what assad is accused of doing is what journalists do that would be publishing information making information available to the public now the new york times has made a statement on behalf of julian a songe and it's interesting that the new york times has themselves published classified information that was provided to them by leakers before here's what they said about the case. notably the new york times among many other news organizations have trained precisely the same kinds of documents from wiki leaks without authorization from the government it is not clear how this is legally different from publishing other classified information now it's important to note

that among the voices expressing concern about the free speech implications of the charges against asunder some of those voices that have been quite critical and even somewhat hostile to join a songe in the past the mainstream us media outlets let's review what they've said . this is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department a big deal here for a 1st amendment advocates the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time that is the bread and butter of what we do now it's worth noting that julian a son just not being charged for anything that relates in any way to hillary clinton's e-mails and the 2016 election and it's also important to note that the obama administration apparently considered prosecuting a songe under the espionage act but ultimately decided not to do it and decided that they could only prosecute chelsea manning these sources within the u.s.

military that leaked the classified information now chelsea manning was found guilty and sentenced to 35 years in prison until obama then commuted her sentence as he was leaving office now at this point chelsea manning the source for that classified information regarding u.s. military activities in iraq that source apparently now at this point she is back in custody because she has refused to testify against you in a songe before a grand jury however the founder of wiki leaks is songe now faces far more essentially 5 times as many years in prison as chelsea manning was originally sentenced to 35 years facing up to 175 years in prison so number of voices have spoken up about the implications of the use of the u.s. espionage act a law passed in 1917 and at this point. even some voices that have joined in efforts to denigrate or smear julian assigned have come forward and said they are

quite worried about the implications of these new charges so forces are waiting to see what could happen what could be the implications for freedom of the press in the united states if indeed songes extradited and then he does stand trial on these charges which seem to implicate him for the crime of publishing classified information that he was provided from a. from an inside source many thanks to our correspondent in new york more paid. more than one case of whistle blowers in the u.s. being punished for media leaks former f.b.i. agent terry old brie leaked classified data on how the bureau recruit recruits informants that he got a 4 year sentence in another case reality when it was an n.s.a. contractor when she leaked top secret info about alleged russian interference she received 63 months behind bars john kiriakou disclose details of the cia's top program and was sentenced to 2 and a half years here's what he thinks about the songes 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 she will not give him a fair trial it would 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 too great 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 at all across the media not just among americans but everybody around the world. we have us troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the situation in the region president from confirmed the use in just the last hour

however the numbers being sent are much lower than recent reports suggested. we want our projection the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops mostly protect do. some very talented people are going to the middle east right now see how it works see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people. diplomatic staff were ordered to leave iraq recently the u.s. military raised threat level in the region after a rocket reportedly it's an abandoned building near the u.s. embassy the latest tension comes after iran suspended its commitments under the $215.00 international nuclear deal it threatened to resume production of enriched uranium used to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons the lame to lift sanctions on iran in exchange for an end to its nuclear program but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew what it called the defective agreement last year imposed

sanctions. in recent days the u.s. has deployed an aircraft carrier to the region washington insisted has intelligence reports about iran backed forces threatening u.s. personnel but has presented no further information despite all that both iran and washington claim they don't want to start a war in any way. i can speak now to a joint. session that profess purpose the tauriel lecture of american university that's edmund ghareeb a very good even if you hadn't done in terms confirmed it now additional troops going to the middle east washington previously talked about unnamed threats in the region what you think those threats might be. clearly this is what this is the sponsors to the rising tensions in the middle east especially go isaac the wrong there's no doubt the of course there's been talk even of sending many more forces

in addition to the forces of course. being. carrier aircraft carrier and other support ships with it. there was look you know even sending up $120000.00 troops of course this is a situation that's still fluid we don't know all that's going to blow but generally this is much much smaller many would have expected and sending forces i think this is clearly a message that the president is sending both internally and in that region and we are on a course that is willing to send more forces to protect its interests in the area but spend time he's sending a message that this is not really an escalation and his emphasis as he poured to. this news item basically said order a given the authority of the secretary of defense acting secretary to send troops

to them at least also was sending a message that this is protective this is not a large number of forces so in a way he's both saying that the potential is there we will defend our interests but at the same time the numbers are not huge and they are not anywhere near what we heard about why send troops without getting the the approval the backing of the senate or congress is is that does that suggest that actually there isn't much of a threat that he would actually be able to explain to them no and i think this has to do with something else partly could be that but i think the main thing also is that there has been as you know in the united states over the past case not just recently as. congress and the executive branch of the government all who has the authority to send troops to deploy troops to foreign lands of

course under the constitution the us congress is body which has the authority to declare war but saved presidents u.s. presidents up expanded there of authority over recent years we've seen the rise of what some describe as it and period presidents. a president decides that. to send troops overseas and i think this is a continuation of that policy which several other presidents followed but the dissent time now we're seeing war and war of choice is in the u.s. congress for saying the only congress has the right has the authority to declare war and therefore the president must come to congress before he declares or starts any new conflicts in the region the presidential election in the united states coming in other media talking about it does not play any part in trump's decision making in. you know this is this is extremely i think significant this is

a very good point that you raise primarily because at the same time we have to remember what president candidate from emphasized during the presidential election in his early days as president he always said he would he's not going to get into more wars more and less wars more wars absurd wars a some people describe that he in fact wants to protect u.s. interests and does not want to be involved in more wars. have not gained anything for the united states at the same time that this is happening there's also as you pointed out there are new election presidential elections coming up president's arm has a base or at least a good part of his base some of the people who voted for him actually voted for him because he said we're not going to be involved in syria are not going to be involved in more wars the wars in afghanistan and iraq war on terror

cost us trillions of dollars and we did not see any returns that small based maybe we don't know what percentage it is a business base that goes somewhere between $3536.00 up to 4042 percent if you loses some of those. voters who do not want to see more u.s. entanglements indonesian. could be seriously troubled and so i'm truly what he's trying to do is he's trying to balance his budget on the one hand he's saying we will defend our interests on the other hand he's sending a small number of forces and he's trying to reassure is those within his base who do not want to see more tactical minutes and that he should have been appreciate you joining us sonti this saving many thanks edmund ghareeb my guest a gent professor a lecturer at american university. it's

a reminder of our breaking news story at least 8 people have been injured in an explosion in the french city of leone local media say a parcel bomb went off near a bakery after the package was dropped by a motorbike rider detonated shortly afterwards police have sealed off the area no one has yet claimed responsibility president arroyo micron called the incident an attack on it's been confirmed that there were no deaths an investigation has reportedly been launched into an attempt to intentionally kill bring you updates on much story as even progresses. tons of non-recyclable wakes may end up in canadian territorial waters the country doesn't take it back from the philippines that's a warning coming from president rodriguez deterred murders valid to start shipping the trash door to it by next week despite canada's plea for more time spent reflects part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as dumping grounds.

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 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. 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 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

it can. we're going to continue to work on this because this is a situation that is not acceptable and has gone on for 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 hawke's ins 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 elektra explains 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 the basil convention for example the point of which was to stop rich countries from dumping all their waste and poorer nations but there are no

punishments violates at 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 was especially privately kompany violating the base of convention which go for the movement of talks. between developing developed countries in coronation in time that week some filipina counterpart to develop we're going to stop to come together maybe the us yet has to come together all along which and in order to go countries and make it very clear that they're no longer willing to take this kind of talks he tries. to he's a miser now says she's stepping down from the role of prime minister speaking

outside her and the 10 downing street residence she expressed regret over failing to get a briggs deal over the line despite her best efforts she'll step down as party leader on june 7th although remain as pm until a successor is chosen this makes my 2nd prime ministerial scalp to be claimed by breaks it. we will shortly be heading to buckingham palace to see her majesty the queen well i'll turn the my resignation as promised. today announcing that i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june so that a successor can be chosen. right . enormous standing during gratitude to have had the

opportunity to serve the country i know. from the beginning of a premiership series of my set a goal was to deliver brags that a task she has found impossible with rejecting her proposed deal 3 times the control agreement she did with the european union has been criticised by people right across the political spectrum earlier this week she announced she tried a 4th term to get it passed but offered a chance to vote on the 2nd referendum if they backed or briggs it goes next that's 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's a deal but not mates in the brig's it party or both advocating a so-called hard brigs where britain also quits the e.u.

single market the green party and change u.k. they all want to reverse sprague's it and have a 2nd referendum. director of britain's crisis research institute in oxford says that 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 brig's that 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 october which.