an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction has been pouring in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities filed 17 new charges against julian assange each of them carrying up to 10 years behind bars. but emotional tourism a calls it a day announcing that she will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with enormous during gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. president trump announces he's sending another 1500 troops to the middle east

tensions with the round mount but the number is much lower than recent reports that suggest that. thanks for joining us this evening this is r.t. international. at least 8 people have been injured in an explosion in the french city of leone local media say a suspect had been seen riding a bike and dropping a parcel bomb near a bakery detonated surely afterwards police have sealed off the area no one has yet claimed responsibility but the prosecutor's office said that it has identified a suspect it's been confirmed there were no deaths the french anti terror force has reportedly launched an investigation into an attempt to deliberately kill. the incident and attack we'll bring you updates as we get them.

the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian assange 17 new charges a spot the concern 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 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 they're spinoffs 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 it's oh 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 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 the oil supporters have always are 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 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 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 the new legal way 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 if the 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. hakka 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 and from the us authorities is very heavy handed just reveal some informations of. 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. throw a lot of secrets all over

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 actually i can't remember the 1st thought he has done what he's done not 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 and the people realize that a mosque that's moving most information with new people would be aware before him he put his cell phone. i'm for that he will see only what you say to the wise. to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by sounds 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 year later the so-called get mo files revealed routine torture at the going ton of obey camp and the deaths of inmates the harsh treatment in 26 the wiki leaks revealed a probe clinton media bias during the 2016 presidential campaign and the plot to push bernie sanders out of the race political activist kevin zeese says that washington's taking revenge on a science. i think a lot of reasons why they haven't done this in the past is because it 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 war crimes certainly atrocities and certainly often corruption of our transnational corporations that was all the kind of thing i was reporting and they obviously defended 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's picked up on the mounting concern over these new challenges against the silence questioning the move of the justice department but he's been taking a look at the coverage. 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 assange 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 i have recently wrote an article on articles published by the new york times recently regarding the julian assange case in the new york times itself has in the past printed classified information provided by a leaker here is what was written in the new york times regarding the case. the new york times among many other news organizations have 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 classified information now it's important to note that some of the voices now speaking up with concern regarding

the julian assange case are voices that have not been juliana songes biggest fan in the past these are some of the very voices that have been harshly critical of wiki leaks and its activities but even they are voicing some very serious concerns in the aftermath of this new indictment 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 should be pointed out that the charges against assad have nothing to do with the 2016 elections or the publication of hillary clinton's e-mails the charges in no way raise that activity however it was chelsea manning who leaked that classified information as a member of the u.s. military who ultimately was charged chelsea manning was found guilty at trial and sentenced to 35 years in prison now she was then released after barack obama

commuted her sentence as he was leaving office chelsea manning at this point is back in federal custody is back in prison after having not been willing to testify against you in a son before the grand jury however the founder of wiki leaks his son 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 of the. does that have joined in efforts to denigrate or smear julian assigned you've come forward and said they are quite worried about the implications of these new charges so our forces are waiting to see what could happen what could be the implications for freedom of the press in the united states if indeed extradited and then indeed does stand trial on these charges which seem to implicate him for the crime of publishing classified

information that was provided from a leaker from an inside source there's more than one case of whistle blows in the united states being punished for media leaks former f.b.i. agent terry obree leaked 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 top secret info on alleged russian interference she received 63 months john kiriakou disclose details of the cia's torture program he was sent to. his what he thinks about the songs his 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 and 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 do many peers as they possibly can 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 at all across the media not just among americans but everybody around the world. the reason why has announced that she's stepping down from the role of u.k. prime minister speaking outside 10 downing street residence she expressed regret of a failing to get a break over the line despite her best efforts she'll step down as party leader on june 7th although remain as pm until a success is chosen this makes me the 2nd scalp to be claimed by breaks it. we will shortly 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 a success can be chosen. right. enormous and ensuring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i now. only beginning of her premiership treason i said her goal was to deliver briggs's a task that she has found impossible with m.p.'s rejecting her proposed deal 3 times the draw agreement she has to go with the use being criticised by people

right across the political spectrum early this week she try a 4th term to get it passed and offer them pays a chance to vote on a 2nd referendum if they backed. where briggs it goes to 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 results it wants a deal but not mates ukip in the break that party are both advocating a so-called heartbreaks it's where britain also quits the e.u. single market the lib dems the green party and change all want to reverse sprigs it and they want a 2nd referendum marcal and director of britain's crisis research institute in 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 briggs it. turns of non-recyclable waste may end up being canadian territorial waters if the country doesn't take it back from the philippines that's the warning given from president rhodri go deterred manila's vowed to start shipping the trash to ottawa by next week despite canada's plea for

more time and the flex part of a wider trend of rich countries using poor ones as dumping grounds. of explains. few of us ever wonder where all our trash goes are 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 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 you know i didn't i don't build it water this guy and i know there is a lot it will. voters don't know you know goes on and your garbage. all over the 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 count. 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 for them to smash electronics with hammers and pry out the valuable parts and burn do a dump toxins and chemicals leaching into the ground into water and land it isn't pretty cargo ships blitzed alternative destinations vietnam malaysia thailand one of asia and africa.

garners been taking in european extra 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 you there are

conventions of 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 that will it 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 challenge was especially privately contrary violating the base of convention digital movement of traffic. between to. we develop boundaries important a nation in time that week some filipino counterparts to develop we going to stop to come together maybe the house to come together all along each. countries and

make it very clear that they're no longer willing to take this kind of talks he tries. more u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the situation in the region president term confirmed the news in the last couple of hours but the numbers being sent much lower than recent reports suggest that. we want our projection of 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 the threat level in the region after a rocket reportedly hit an abandoned building busy near the u.s. embassy the latest tension comes after iran suspended its commitments and the 2015 international nuclear deal threatened to resume production of enriched uranium used

to make reactor fuel a nuclear weapons deal aim to lift sanctions on iran in exchange for an end to its nuclear program but the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from what it called the defective agreement last year and then re imposed sanctions. recent days the u.s. deployed an aircraft carrier to the region washington insist it has intelligence reports about iran backed forces threatening u.s. personnel but has presented no further details despite that tehran and washington claim they don't want to start a war in any way. professor of political science from tehran university joins me on the line welcome hard. these threats that the u.s. has cited and prompted them to send more troops to the region what exactly are they . well they have provided no evidence of any threats from the reins and this is

we are seeing a repeat of the scenario they used for the invasion of iraq in 2003 where they were constantly saying that there is intelligence but they weren't actually providing any facts and it's the same with this situation right now in american media has actually reported that the so-called intelligence is actually coming from these raby and we have to keep in mind that a war between iran and the us is something that the netanyahu government has been pushing for for years now if that's the case would you say that this decision today moves the u.s. and iran once that close it's a conflict. absolutely i mean the u.s. is unfortunately going down a path of confrontation the trumpet ministration on the surface it has constantly repeated that it wants to negotiate with the one and trump saying that it wants to talk with the iranian leaders however in reality what we have been witnessing is

that in the past 2 years the u.s. administration has taken a very hostile act towards iran i mean for example the recent announcement of sending troops and the sending of a u.s. aircraft carrier towards iran if you look at it from the iranian perspective are seen very as as a very hostile act for example if we reverse this situation how would americans feel if iran started to send attack ships near the coast of florida and started to position so-called protective troops in mexico i don't think they would like that and we have the same situation in iraq what do you make of them the number being sent to one and a half 1000 certainly a lot less than was being reported suggestions it might be as many as 10000. it's true that the number is small but we do have to keep in mind that the united states is slowly building its arsenal in the middle east so for example they have just

recent 3 warships to the persian gulf also the announcement today specified that they were also sending drones as well as missiles as well as fighter jets so we're not just only 1500 troops and this is very dangerous from the americans because at the one hand they are saying that they do not want war and on the other hand they keep sending troops and arms to the region. do you think any of this is connected to the fact that you've got the next presidential election coming up next year the media are already busy starting to talk about see it is a little bit of the planes decision here. well i mean definitely don't know trump is a person that wants to act and that's part of this person on he wants to appear very tough especially on iran i'm never that we have to keep in mind that a majority of the american people do not want another war in the middle of the

highways the past 2 wars the wars in afghanistan and iraq lost that the u.s. over 3 trillion dollars and it was one of the reasons why the united states had a major financial crisis in 2008 and i don't think the american people want a repeat of that never that i don't know in the trumpet ministration it seems that war hawks itches john bolton are getting the upper hand i'm. good to speak to him and miss obvious my guest professor of political science to run university. washington's efforts to topple the leadership in venezuela is having a direct impact on some families in the country for young girls 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.

isabella's paris took her to argentina where her mother became a donor last november doctors carried out a transplant then isabella experienced post-operative complications that required treatment a father says she's now suffering numerous problems. already there are a few 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. in the united states imposed sanctions on venezuela in january they target the country's main oil company which also funds a number of charities that help secure and $7000000000.00 in assets were blocked by washington the u.s. says that these sanctions are aimed at toppling want to bruns the dictatorship of current president nicolas maduro. we wish them well we'll be there to help and we are there to help action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people we're taking action against a vital source of the material regimes wealth. meanwhile isabel is not the only child who's 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 it's.