of. the 2019 parliamentary elections that produced the highest voter turnout in 20 years. parties looks set to post big gains across the continent from the u.k. to italy france and germany in the u.k. the newly formed party is expected to win big leaving the conservatives with just. 7 percent of the vote. the big vote comes right on the heels of teresa mayes tearful announcement of step down as conservative party leader sparking the race for britain's next prime minister. i do so with no ill will but with enormous gratitude to attach the opportunity to the country.

and another news of the week wiki leaks co-founder. of 17 charges of espionage by u.s. prosecutors for publishing classified military documents and diplomatic cables back in 2010. by broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this r t international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us polls have closed in the huge you wide vote to like to the next european parliament there has been plenty of attention focused on this election in fact turnout has been the highest seen in 2 decades that is due to the perceived threat posed to the traditional parties by anti-establishment movements.

well this parliamentary election seems to have caught the public's attention i've just seen it flush on the official e.u. parliamentary feat they're saying the official turnout as it stands at the moment is 50.5 percent if it stays that way or goes up at all it will be the largest turnout since 1904 so the big this certainly grabbed the attention of people this time around what we have seen is wins for stablish mint parties in or from the anti establishment parties on the right we've seen them we in hungary where viktor orban body is doing very well it's really where. these parties seem to have picked up quite a few votes as well in poland in greece as well in greece actually gone bad for

electricity prices so it's a party actually called election snap elections in greece following the to pretty much a drubbing for him and his party in the european elections in spain box will enter the european parliament for the 1st time we 3 seats as well one of those. right wing figures though who didn't have such a good night get villagers in the netherlands it seems his party they had 4 seats they will have no seats in the upcoming parliament while in france there's also be . marine le pen speaking to the media she says that the fact that her party national rally upset to be the biggest winners in france means that the money will knock on the french president should dissolve parliament hold elections for that but she's also said that the good showing by her party shows that she said to mount a big challenge for the french presidency in 2022. more certainly the president has

no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and allow for a more democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national rally party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life. well in austria it's been well a rough 2 weeks for the scandal ridden government there are this corruption scandal has cost cost them a vice chancellor and all of the junior coalition partners in the cabinet quit as well however the chancellor has been reviewed well in these elections his party's done really well in fact it certainly seems to be caught in the garden little bit he moves currency early release and we have i'm usually not at a loss for words but i'm almost speechless we expected a lot we were optimistic but this is

a fantastic result this is never happened before we achieve the best results of all time with the biggest distance from 2nd place of all time it is simply unbelievable a cheery sebastien could there bear in mind at lunchtime on monday he will be facing a vote of no confidence in the in the austrian parliament in vienna elsewhere here in germany it was a night of seems to be a night of big losses for engler merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. union they going to still be the largest take the largest share of the vote here in germany but they lost a lot of seats we have seen both big wins for the green party now they campaigned very hard on as you would imagine with the green party environmental issues but also. saying they wanted to see reform in the e.u. they've been really one of the big protest votes also it's worth bearing in mind that the stats that come out from these things 48 percent of germans who were polled said that the environment was

a major factor for them voting in these elections seems a lot of people have gone to the greens the conservative opposition in germany they well they feel better when they get all their calls to do better than they did in 2014 back to take around 10 percent of the vote however that is less than they took in the general election back in 2017 earlier i spoke to some of the members and they told me that they hope to be able to try. and shake things up in the upcoming european parliament the good thing out of this evening is that we will end up in a very strong group and it will send out this signal or the the wind of change is coming to the year be a very happy that we got this resolved this evening and i think it's a good signal for europe because another conservative party is gaining additional votes and what we're going to do is we are trying to reform the european union together with the other conservative parties so to get

a picture of how it looks across europe and how they the next european parliament will shape up it's very likely almost certain that the european people's party the center right group will take the most seats but it's been a good night for greens across europe a good night for liberals across europe as well under a good night for some of the anti establishment parties across europe as people have well certainly it seems shifted away from voting for one of the 2 big parliamentary groups in the european parliament and it seems we may see well a few new faces in the european parliament after this this election. but cross live to washington d.c. and dennis francesca who is the national rallies representative in the united states thanks for being with us here on our international good evening. so probably going to results show marie le pen set to come out on top. disappointment to president crying what effects do you expect from this result in france and then

also the you as a whole. well for president. nothing to be honest with you and for what i heard the said that he will not change their policy so no matter what happened he is stuck in is you know is is a gender and i don't really see any any change on his hand he was involved in the selection of the president should not be involved in the actually represents. d. entire community the all the french citizens but he got involved in his selection east he bets that it will be marine le pen once again he lost so technically to what he should do the least he could do is to dissolve the assembly and house for a new election but i don't think he will do that so crossing to neighboring italy polls there are showing salvini in the lead can't be happy about that either. do you expect to work with them to work with solving his party in strasburg. yeah i

mean there's always bridges to build with different countries look the european union deploy i would say the structure of the of the european union is a failure many countries now have realized you is not a solution it's actually a problem so every country have their own interest and i'm not surprised if marine le pen will work with the leading a lot of people you know about a nudge of for out for the for the breaks of the movement if it works and if it's in into the interest of countries then they will definitely work together and so vinny's very close to marine le pen as well so i don't see anything that will go the distance so the big elephant in the room if you will we are watching this vote amid rising nationalist sentiment across the continent well not just in europe but everywhere really could in the new parliament have an influence on you policies with regard to immigration and refugees and are we seeing a more. culture arising in the.

i don't really like the drawing between you know the national is a movement an example of a movement there is a prob with immigration in across europe that's something that we need to talk about you know there are people obviously are suffering from this massive immigration and we need to find solution to make everybody happy it's one thing to help people that are a needs or people that suffer from the war for instance it's another thing to be able to reshape of population in certain zone in some countries and has nothing to do with you know being against foreigners it's just people want to preserve you know what they fought for what their parents fought for for instance in france you know the the care system is very is very strong and so they don't want to lose those things and has nothing to do with. you know with the. behaviors of i don't

believe that so hungary's prime minister viktor orban has said that the problem of my migration specifically will reorganize the political spectrum in the european union do you agree that that is right now the pivotal issue an issue though. it will look the population has you know 10 fold it and that's something that's a fact it's not you know but whether we wanted to or not it's effect so the influx of many of the migrations will become tomorrow's you know main concern i'm not saying it's good or bad is just something that we need to be prepared for so orban also is you know has different type of me great immigrations we have different types also in france and i think all country needs to be prepared to face those challenges all right dennis francesco and national rallies representative in the united states thanks for helping us sort through this it's going to be an interesting night to watch it all play out to only good night. the former president

of the government of catalonia mont who is currently living in exile in belgium has won a seat in the european parliament however it is doubtful putsch won't will be able to take up his new role without returning to madrid if you returns to spain to carry out formalities to take his seat he could be arrested over his role in catalonia as 2017 independence a bid which the government considers illegal in 2017 who fled from spain to avoid prosecution. in britain as upstart brags that party is on course for victory in the european parliament elections that is according to the 1st official u.k. results and the budget party is in the lead with 31.9 percent with nearly one 3rd of the ballots counted they have left the conservatives and labor in the dust to have only half as much support nigel kharaj seemed pleased with the outcome. so. we did it well but it. looks like

that with a. good leader. it's not really surprising when we look at the bigger picture there is a chance. that people's parties don't represent and more difference here society this is a channel of trend germany was kind of an exception in the process and now we see similar development happening in the past you have consensus on the china road narrative that european integration as such is good because it brings peace stability prosperity and we only disagree on certain ideological differences is it green enough is it fair enough is it parole. and now we have a large number of members of the bottom and who believe that the e.u. is not the solution but it is the problem. coming along with the bridge party success treece i'm a who has failed to see briggs it through will step down as u.k.

prime minister in an emotional speech outside number 10 may expressed regret for failing to deliver despite her best efforts she will resign as party leader on june 7th throwing open the race for a successor. it's now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. i wanted. to be chosen by our sea to become. a strong q what's. the future of our country let's it means brics it will be no 2nd referendum no attempts in that will that we could risk no breaks it is all we

can. i. or we can choose to unite and support the best deal that can be negotiated it is now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort theresa may made a bridget a cornerstone of her premiership but delivering on the results of the referendum proved an impossible task her deal was roundly rejected in huge defeats 3 times with m.p.'s on both sides of the house becoming increasingly irate mark almond a director of britain's crisis reacher research institute oxford believes 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 briggs's party who are mainly conservatives who want a serious break with your up and the members of parliament and so unless you change the arithmetic in the. house of commons whoever succeeds mrs may if they want to leave the e.u. was going to face huge problems in the same sort can they force a new general election what will be the result of that we don't know but there's going to be a great deal of uncertainty and as i say there's this looming deadline of the 31st of all which is the end of the extension of britain's membership and the british politicians seem to forgotten that in the modern world divorce can be initiated from both sides the remaining members of the opinion may decide we find you too much trouble we want you to leave now and so there could be a chaotic disorderly brigs it. goes it next is hard to tell what becomes of the official conservative stance depends on who succeeds may labor the main opposition party except in the referendum result it wants

a deal but not may's ukip and the party are both advocating a so-called hard drugs that were britain also quits the e.u. single market and the liberal democrats the green party and change u.k. all want to reverse bragg's it and a 2nd referendum. wiki leaks founder julian assange is being threatened with 175 years in prison by u.s. prosecutors that story coming up in just over a minute. but

the pope says he has to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be honest. it's going to be close this is what the 3 of them will be the. interest of all those in the water. welcome back this is our international now wiki leaks co-founder julian assange

faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing classified files u.s. prosecutors this week 17 new charges against him all of which fall under the espionage act they come on top of a charge of conspiring to hack a u.s. government computer which forms the basis of an extradition request for songe who is currently serving time in the u.k. donald quarter takes a closer look at what it all means for the whistleblower. the stakes are now much higher for imprisoned wiki leaks founder julian assange and 17 new charges by a notoriously anti whistleblower court and potentially up to $100.00. 5 years in prison this new batch of accusations falls under the espionage act used to convict spies and detractors during the 1st world war the indictments legal ease of obtaining and disclosure of sensitive government information which often just means exposing government wrongdoings is lighting a fire under stablish when american journalists since after all they're doing it to

this is to put it bluntly wrong unconstitutional and downright tyrannical is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department the 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 with the new indictment of a song the government is advancing a legal argument that places such an important work in jeopardy the administration has gone from denigrating journalists as enemies of the people to now criminalizing common practices in journalism notice anything not a lot about a songes work or fate but quite a bit about there's this is the hypocrisy of the mainstream media here in the united states just a couple of weeks ago the washington post editorial board ran an editorial saying

that julian was not a journalist well guess what the washington post one pulitzer prizes you'll using the information that julian and weepy leaks published so you would think that in a normal world the washington post the new york times the wall street journal the guardian and every other major news outlet we'd be lining up 100 julian to support him there not the thing is though some might argue the war on freedom of speech began long ago back in 2012 a songe fled to the ecuadorian embassy in london for political asylum over fears of extradition to the u.s. after exposing potentially incriminating acts by the u.s. military. for 7 years he was interned there and conditions the u.n. said amounted to arbitrary detention at times he was denied access to the internet stifling his journalistic work and all the while an allegation of rape in sweden has hung over his head his lawyers claim the alleged victim said it was actually

the police who sought charges not her the establishment media has had plenty of things to say back then and not much had to do with the 1st amendment the free press is not responsible for the origins of any material that gets to us. unless of course we are responsible for it because we had something to do with how it was a leak illegally obtained if someone's life was potentially a risk responsible media you would not publish yes these are conversations hard conversations that are had in newsrooms around the country and the world at the end of the day what would you say to those people who claim that look he's his activities to follow mold john made the good you are not allowed to help instruct you are not allowed to try to help somebody defeat security system they prefer to accuse the sonnes of working with the russians and of course to claim at the end he neglected his personal hygiene and like playing with his fecal matter

for years they've been ignoring restrictions on the songes freedom of speech and smearing him for the sake of the narrative but the monster they created has now turned against them when the mainstream media is absolutely hypocritical you know they spent these last several years criticizing critiquing damning. stones for constantly continuously all of a sudden now they've woken up and pretended to be so upset about the 17 charges of espionage they do feel threatened now it has nothing to do with freedom of press freedom of speech they feel threatened because they do the same thing to the songes done every day of the week this is called national security. reporting and so now all of a sudden it's getting closer to home and there are tend to be more concerned about it. to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by a songe over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public that leak detailed among other things and the indiscriminate shooting of civilians in iraq

a year later the so-called get mo files revealed routine torture at the guantanamo bay camp and of the deaths of inmates through harsh treatment and in 2016 wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the 2016 presidential campaign and a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race. donald trump says he has no fears over the latest military test by north korea that is despite his top foreign policy officials john bolton and mike pompei are condemning junks actions. north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbs some of my people and others but not me i have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me u.n. security council resolutions prohibit north korea from firing any bill istic missiles in terms of violating security council resolutions there is no doubt about that. this comes after north korea launched several short range missiles earlier this

month trump himself had initially condemned pyongyang's and tense which broke a $500.00 day moratorium disarmament talks between the 2 countries collapsed earlier this year and after washington rejected a partial lifting of sanctions without full denuclearization trumps tweet it comes during his 4 day visit to japan which has become increasingly concerned about pyongyang's military activity in tokyo has been highly critical of the tests with the recent missiles launched landing in the sea of japan the country also insists north korea's actions violate un resolutions former u.s. diplomat jim john trust believes trump is keeping a balance between both carrot and stick approach. mr trump's public disagree with mr bolton their number of questions raised the most obvious one to anybody who supported so if the election is why is bolton there in the 1st place mr bowles been quite clear that he wants regime change in north korea by military means of necessary whereas i believe president roh is quite committed to his relationship

with guard chairman and to bring about a peaceful resolution on the korean peninsula and i think this is something that the his his underlings have been trying to sabotage for quite some time they've managed to tank the hanoi somewhat and i think what we've seen with some of the recent tests from north korea are showing a very good patience at that and that's one reason mr trump is saying i don't care so much about that because he still committed to the agreement most of the news coverage coverage about trumpeters because your hand has been about korea i think there are other bigger issues on the table because we know sometimes destruction is one thing and that's another thing he wants to look at the way that he can he can keep some pressure on the north koreans but also keep the door open he would agree with kim realizing he can't trust the people he has around. a dozen for me i'll be back with more of the week we have the top the hour this is our to international.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic developments only really exist i don't see how we'll be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. historically. to claim that there are 3 issues. and. the fact is we are too poor is no longer correct because our. purchase very. country.

join me every day on the elec simon sure. i'm sure. i'll see you then. this is. actually who has. the most. going to the store and. everything how.

did i know that. were happening. or hear. shots came from over there. soon after the murder of my daughter jenna says jim you're more turns off in front of them so jeffrey other be also some variant of self. for an accomplice and we're seeing anthony was picked up about a month and a half after all of that and he was picked up on gun charges that were linked to the murder. one of

those that i. don't know. if you know i've been out all day i want to talk a. well i was at the people who put you out there and one much said one person i'm not just saying to people i'm sayin a lot of people and you know the c.d.c. the cameras are with me on the camera see here it has camera is a little star camera there's a build a tag on it cameras everywhere i was another way i was just you know what happened a 12 year old girl. was accidentally shot and she died because of this. and like i said you weren't there we don't know right now it's always come back to you. but i was at the. media as much as i was in bed and then i heard you know when i want to be honest with.