you do 3 things. i like to tell the media to get. over 4000 rice fields and supplies drinking water to 25000000 people. that yes i. am a possible that a lot of people. an attack on journalism and a direct assault on the 1st amendment reaction pours in from media freedom groups as u.s. authorities file 17 charges against julian assange each carrying up to 10 years in jail. and in motion to resign my calls it a day announcing he will step down as conservative party leader on june 7th. i do so with no ill will but with enormous and during gratitude to have had the

opportunity to serve the country. with a round amount but the number is much lower than recent reports that suggest. your company this evening you're watching international. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian assange as with 17 new charges has sparked 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 a sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy in 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 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 spinouts indictment of his son's football is an extremely dangerous frontal attack on the free press bad bad bad the department of justice just declared war we can export our journalism it's over this is no longer

a budget in the songs 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 to a song each carry a maximum of a 10 year sentence which means that his event chills 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 secret documents and assigns the weekly team and of course the sponsors of the oil supported as i have always are always only ever acted as a journalist which is something that the department of justice in washington refuses to acknowledge and they say that songes river. we'll the names of military

informants in war zones and thus put their lives at risk the superseding indictment alleges to disarm 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 kind of entity 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 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 rather than a hero of 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 u.s. authorities is very. heavyhanded you just reveal some information

concerning everyone and they make it privilege. i think for to 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 so i have no idea he is in trouble but i have no idea why his wiki leaks secret with me yet the ensuing usa neighborhood they are adding is the right guy stroeve a lot of secrets all over a lot of. which is upset a lot of people well he's revealed an awful lot of secrets of 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 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 whether you like it or not. there's no there's probably no legal perfect legal system in the world you know americans to cover that are really no good i mean i think here at 75 years now it's all about yes a little much the question is whether he faces the north or not in the united states personally i think the minds of the heat. lunatic. what's happening to them is an absolute travesty speedplay skew should this government is going off the reservation it's time the people realized that a mass class movement most information with no people would be aware before him put yourself on the line for that he will say anybody says otherwise is wrong. here are some of the biggest revelations made by songs over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public. detailed among other things the indiscriminate shooting of civilians

in iraq years later the. review routine to squint on the move and the deaths of inmates through harsh treatment. revealed approach clinton media bias string the presidential campaign and the plots to push bernie sunday's out of the race. leave us media picked up on the mountain over these new challenges and questioning the move of the justice department to the bullpen takes 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 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 i have recently wrote an article on articles published by the new york times recently regarding the julian assange case 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. notably 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 this songe 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 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 indeed does stand trial on these charges which seem to implicate him for the crime of publishing classified information that he was provided from a leaker from an inside source. it's very differing opinion on these latest challenges from several guests. we're talking a lot about 1st amendment issues and 1st amendment rights and it is very important

to look at that i mean we're looking at social media mass banning censorship of certain political party outputs certain media commentators this is another platform we're talking about these are laws that really need to be looked at the 1st amendment has coming up a lot not just with twitter banning but with banning of other people and a lot of the people that are being banned are journalists are either freelance journalists or members of the media in some way and so this is a very important case to look at the prosecution of today in the sand is part and parcel of trump's war on the free press full stop and i think they'll be limited takers for that actually both by sea in the u.s. and here look the reason important process exists both in the united states in america and across the world although the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the songs go see united states of america assuming he does that there will be court case to the supremes courts related to that but if you look at where bradley manning released all they see information he

was ultimately paul didn't brock obama not because there's there's a process here what cannot be allowed to happen. a group of people in the military intelligence services. break the laws i think it is a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never a part of the administration i wish she had been her sentence was commuted which means that her conviction her conviction stands which is something that she is still being appealed and i believe will go all the way up to the supreme court i think if you look at the elements of the espionage act itself and of what's happened i mean this this could seem like a case where there could be some issues that he has to face and that he has to own up to but there also is the the facts that have come out that they haven't seen a lot. the people who were who were either killed or damaged in the light of duty because of this so there have to look at actual damages and harm that this cause

it's worth remembering that that particular claim which was her hearst during chelsea's court martial was not was never proven at the court martial and freed information extracted from the us government by freedom of information request subsequently has shown that in the very extensive surveys the us government did after the manning disclosures they could not find a single person who had been harmed by those disclosures he's not a proper journalist it will be for the american courts to decide whether what he did was not terrorism and that spirit knowledge or whether he is a genuine journalist my own view is that julian the sarge was dragged out of the ecuadorian embassy like a scared badger in the headlights and actually the truth the matter was he has been afraid of making his case to a group of juries i'm courts that actually properly constituted judge you are in i'm serious i think he needs to go to america and he needs to make his case in front of the american courts which may although you may not accept that he's

a journalist but what you can't do is what he did when he ridiculed the united kingdom by hiding in the ecuadorian embassy here in the science has been a member of australia's accredited journalism union and since 2007 julian of songs he's pretending that britain and america are like north korea i think julie the song should do is make his case and good luck to him i think it's going to be a fight but i think i think he can win it because what has happened with this superseding indictment it makes the issue absolutely crystal clear i think this is going to be a much bigger case than people imagine look at the end of the day i could scream and cry and insult others and just and just sit there and sob and baton being my feet like a baby in call conspiracy theory when i don't like something but there are facts there are laws and all of that is going to be assessed very soon. trees of areas announces she's stepping down from the role of you. prime minister speaking outside 10 downing street she expressed regret over failing to get a briggs

a deal over the line despite her best efforts should step down as party leader on june 7th although she remained as pm until a successor is chosen this makes may the 2nd prime ministerial scalp to be claimed by briggs it. will shortly be heading to buckingham palace to see her majesty the queen well turn to 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. normal during gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country.

from the beginning of a premiership to reason i said goal was to deliver briggs tasks she has found impossible with m.p.'s rejecting her deal 3 times the draw agreement she's. been criticised by people across the political spectrum there earlier this week she tried a 4th time to get it passed and offer them pays a chance to vote on a 2nd referendum if they backed. well briggs it goes next is hard to tell what becomes of the official conservative stance depends on who succeeds may labor the main opposition accepts the referendum result it wants a deal but not nace ukip in the braggs it party advocating a so-called hard bragg's it where britain quits the e's single market the liberal democrats the green party and change u.k. they all want to reverse sprague's it and have a 2nd referendum on call 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 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 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 will to newnan may decide we find you too much trouble we want you to leave now and so that could be

a chaotic disorderly brigs it. president terms announced more u.s. soldiers heading to the middle east than all explain all after the break. we are not to shy to talk about our ambition to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have but it's clear that if by mid a century p.-l. a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy. as if you were going to see that happen to you it was most of. the previous governments the needs of the former for rich to 40 years the country people wanted

much more and they didn't want just. really with you or of they want to through to become part of. this is very far way to go still you mean you can bring. back more u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the status quo in the region president from the news on friday but the number being sent is much lower than recent reports suggested. we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops mostly protective and some very

talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see how and we'll see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people we have seen reports in recent days that the united states was preparing to increase its troop presence in the middle east with some reports claiming that national security advisor john bolton was pushing for at least 120000 troops to be sent to the middle east to prepare for a possible war with iran there are reports of claim that that number will likely be between 510000 troops this comes after reports from u.s. intelligence claimed their wrong was directing militias to target american forces in the middle east in response to those reports the united states increased its military presence in the region and it also won as far as to call for the withdrawal of all non-emergency personnel in iraq citing threats from iran congress

has yet to pass a resolution declaring war on iran and the senate foreign relations committee follow the past a proposal that would have required congressional approval before any military action against iran multiple senators expressed frustration with this and they pointed to the fact that without the need for congressional approval the united states can continue to wage war in the middle east as it has done in countries like syria iraq afghanistan and gehman without any checks or balances our biggest focus at this point is to prevent the running of this calculation or you do worry you very much that intentionally or unintentionally. we create a situation in which a war will take place so this is about deterrence not about war that's been our. from the beginning that this is a blind escalation with the hope that the iranians will come to the table in the

end hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalate i think when you do that you're talking about a war that will go on and on and on and despite the fact that multiple u.s. officials have continued to warn about an imminent threat from iran against u.s. forces in the middle east president trump has said that he does not want to go to war with the country and at the same time iran's president has also said that he does not want to go to war with the united states and he has called for a merge and some talks to be held in a neighboring country so for now it remains to be seen just how many troops the united states well the ploy to the middle east if that number will remain at 1500 or go even higher and exactly what those troops will be used for this is a situation that's still fluid we don't well that's going to be global this is clearly a message the president is sending both internally. and of

course. willing to send more forces through protect its interests in the area but the same time he's sending a message that this is not truly an escalation and his emphasis as the report to. this news item basically said or good given the authority of the secretary of defense acting supreme. troops to them at least sending a message that this is protected this is not a large number of forces so you know what he's bold to say that the potential is there we will defend our interests but at the same time the numbers are much they are not anywhere near what you're going to walk you are. and they say people have been injured in an explosion in the french city of leone. local media saying a suspect had been seen riding a bike and dropping a parcel bomb near

a bakery which detonated shortly after police quickly sealed off the area and no one has yet claimed responsibility although the prosecutor's office said it's identified the suspect while it's been confirmed there were no deaths the paris counterterrorism prosecutor has learned an investigation into an attempt to deliberately kill president called the incident and attack the ticker conforming u.k. police officer says he believes that this was a lucky escape. it was plainly a very viable device i understand from the early reports that there were not some bolts and screws in it so it was plainly put together with intent to injure and those sorts of devices if they go bang to time to kill a very seriously injured people so yes very much a lucky escape i think there's no obvious motive put it out why it doesn't fit the model of what we've seen in france and elsewhere from extreme islamist terrorism it doesn't fit the sorts of things that they've seen in the south of france from terrorism coming from north africa so you know there's any number of potential

motives there's normally jump out of the i don't think they've had this sort of device in france for over 10 years. ok what's going to international join me for updates in health and.

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expert dan abrams is here with his take on this edition of paula. welcome to politicking i'm matthew cook in for larry king coming up later in the program consumer advocate and former presidential candidate ralph nader joins me stick around for that but 1st a setback for donald trump's effort to keep his personal financial information from the hands of congress this week a federal judge sided with democrats in the house oversight committee who've been trying to access trump's financial information for months so where does the legal fight go from here let's start there with dan abrams chief legal affairs correspondent for a.b.c. news and co-author of the new book theodore roosevelt for the defense the courtroom battle to save his legacy dan joins me now from new york city dan welcome to the program came out there so let's get to your fascinating book shortly right now

we've got some crazy developments going on between the law and the trump administration so what's happening. this is an interesting case because here you've got the banks sort of stuck in the middle right saying we'll do whatever you tell us to do you subpoena the documents we'll give them to you oh wait a 2nd the trump folks are telling us we can't you guys figure it out and so now there is this battle between the trump folks and congress over whether he asked to allow in effect this material to be released and this 1st court district court level very fast decision basically saying there is really no legitimate argument against releasing this information in essence congress has the .