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feel. it's. following special. reports. in orbit despite the opposition. from space mission. international news center here in. my names you know welcome to the program our top story a court hearing on julian assange is possible extradition. the u.s.

has been postponed in london it comes as the whistleblowers health took on a part in turn for the worse and he had to be transferred from his cell in a high security belmarsh prison to a hospital wing parties. to listen. the exhibition hearing isn't taking place any longer to the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pass via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the post it's a wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where 7 out of 50 weeks said to expect. that he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to the state of the brain inside about the face of his health to take a listen to what we know is that he was pushed. the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the world speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a higher security max the maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but you

didn't spend 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before without medical treatment without most of the medical treatment so he's going to have a lot of worse stage than most people might think and here we are outside westminster magistrate school this is meant to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair that wasn't me major arguments from a scientific team or the presentation the official start of it has been moved to around about the 12th of june we think but essentially the question of what's meant to be all cute and boils down to 2 fundamental things it is to get us on to act as a journalist when he published those roads that secret us materials and information and crucially the head is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the us so far as he is where he could face up to hunt. it's i'm 75 years behind boss who turned. 17 counts on the

espionage act and one previous to that richard in his face a constant 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted the publishing the truth and face a lifetime and in a prison in another country is outraged at this espionage act has never before been used against john certainly against government officials who keep secrets in the cost of course washington's argument is that assad is and such on the list that he's a house cat and that his publications put the lives of informants for the u.s. . for its allies around the world in grave danger although what's interesting here is that with the charges unveiled against. a lot of people even his critics of which there have been many many press freedom organizations and just journalists

and whistleblowers around the world say that what happens with this exhibition case could have serious implications for freedom i'm depressed i'm concerned for around the world which is why connors so you much attention. ok staying in the country british teenagers of somali her being sent to us by their parents to avoid the rising threat of knife crime in the u.k. the stuff like a nation itself has a reputation for being one of the most dangerous countries in the world with the u.k. foreign office warning north to travel there because of the threat of terrorist attacks kidnapping artie's kate partridge looks now into why the somalian community considers britain are greater threat to their children. stabbings of young people across england have become epidemic in those few years i was doing my a levels it was tough just seeing people being dropped every other day being stabbed london is

not the place to be for a teenager when they're living here in britain the context is britain this is a british problem and it's a problem that we've fallen into one of the things i'll never forget is the fact that when you walk in the streets of kenya you don't have to go over your shoulder here i could travel women out of the city go and visit her about wanted and it was good i felt a sense of freedom when i came here it was like a clean slate my mum feels i'm much safer here than anywhere else in the world and it's not just parents and teenagers who are worried the author or it is are also raising the alarm i'd have to say that the last couple of years on down to julie have been as dave said the 1st and most worrying levels i think in my service and it is really worrying 50 people who have been stabbed to death in the capital since the beginning of the year and what's even more worrying that number has almost doubled in the past 2 years in hammersmith and fulham in west london there

has been an 84 percent rise in these crimes from 236 in 2017 to 18 to 434 in 2018 to 19 while in central london there has been a hike of around 52 percent in knife crime the number rising from 652985 and kensington and chelsea has also experienced an increase in knife related incidents a 25 percent spike from 262-2328 were home secretaries side you job it has called the rise in violent crime a national emergency and the targets are often teenagers from black communities i know for terms of. the 5. 5 there is. very different picture of what used to be people could buy they. feel for the safety of their children they fear the safety of.

them solved i think it's very very dangerous for young readers a lot of. positive activity good for them out of london for the local authority. even do a lot of good for its own problems just so you wall off camera somali people in north london say gang related crime is the real problem several refused to be filmed because they feel reprisals for speaking out and to save their children some parents even prefer to send them back to africa while job it is promising to put 20000 policeman back on the streets to fight this virulent disease somehow africa seems safer than london. right heading stateside no where u.s. special counsel robert mueller has handed in his resignation 2 years after he opened his investigation into alleged collusion between president donald trump and

moscow speaking to the public for the 1st time since the probe he sought to give clarification on the major conclusions of the report but as killer martin explains both camps in washington are interpreted in his words in differing ways. robert mohler is all done the special counsel's office is closing and he's going to retire and to celebrate 35000000 dollars and 2 years worth of work he decided to address the media there's an old psychological test they call the war shack and basically it's a set of ambiguous ink blots it's up to the mind of the patient to determine what to see and 10 minute presentation of robert muller seems a very much be in the eyes of the beholder if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not however make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime it's not that different from what he said at the end of his report but the

democrats certainly took a lot from the statement of the mother was essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller's statement makes clear would those who have read his report know it's an impeachment referral and it's up to congress to act they shewed given the special counsel was unable to pursue criminal charges against the president if the congress threw stones of the crimes and other wrongdoing of president trump and we will do so i think it was very clear if you could clear the president he would have but he couldn't makes clear well muller said the report speaks for itself a special counsel found no collusion by any americans in ira's illegal activities now trump or the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the mother reports there was insufficient evidence and therefore in our country a person is innocent the case is closed thank you then the white house press

secretary clarified with the statement there was no real news and there he reiterated the points that he'd already made in the report. that we agree with them there was no collusion there was no conspiracy and we consider this case. closed he completed his investigation now he's closed his office and it's time for everybody to move on the report has been published the investigation is long over but the saga continues both sides are sticking to what they said all along so you have to ask yourself if everyone was just going to keep saying what they've said the entire time impeached or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with. r t new york we got the folds of legal media who told us he believes conducting the miller report made no sense in the 1st place. the interesting thing to note is one of the reasons why many suspect he doesn't want to speak to congress

is one that republicans asked him when did you know this how many years ago how many months into this investigation did you come to the conclusion a either there was no evidence are there was no reason to charge him but how long have you been stringing the country and the president and the world along why here's another question for you if you can't end dive him if those were the rules why did you investigate him in the 1st place did you know these rules before or did you know the rules before that say you can indict him or charge him then why were you investigating ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice such a paltry and diminished amount of time that was that was given to the reason for this what was this rush in collusion explain this more.

now i want to turn attention to this dutch u.f.o. spotters went into overdrive on saturday when reports came in of a row of strange objects in the sky over the netherlands an amateur astronomer captured the images but the mystery turned out to be the 1st part of a subtle i program by entrepreneur musk space x. company heading into orbit he plans to launch nearly 12 of them this year with hopes they'll help provide internet access to really on wired parts of the globe but it seems not to everyone was prepared for the surprise of seeing these new celestial bodies heading skywards one local u.f.o. website called 150 reports of an invasion the concern for a lot of professional stargazers though is that the night sky will not be changed for the worse forever. i know people are excited about those images of the train of

space x. starlink satellites but it gives me pause if space x. launches all 12000 they will outnumber the stars visible to the naked eye i consist of us from my garden down to magnitude 5 i'm on the edge of the city lots of light pollution and can just see the milky way 1600 stars a bright of the night 5 thanks to space 6 star link i will soon see is 7 satellites for every single star do those upset about how bright the elon musk's starling said allies are please don't forget their hair and his impact on radio astronomy or in response or otherwise the law must later asked his team to investigate ways of reducing the amount of light coming from satellites of his one us true physicists we spoke to things that even work companies will be encouraged to use the night sky as a business platform in future. visual issue which is that i asked you to telescopes usually track the stars in the sky and then the satellites move not according to

the stars in the sky but according to their orbits which is a bit faster and that leaves huge trade in the images when you analyze them and therefore this is a huge problem that you have to deal with we usually estimate we deal with these kind of problems but if the number of satellites increase to post to us with the brightness is maintained as we hope served ross weekend then that this could be really problematic that in the optical reading which is the kind of light that we can see the other probably meeting the radio which i think it's even worse because there is some leakage of radio signals from the satellites it might happen that the regulation has to be of dated in terms of how many players want to get into this business which is you know really big providing low internet for everyone sounds like a good idea but is really the sky this the price but we want to pay for things because

you know this this case for everyone in. the i mean if we want to pay the price of fine but someone has to ask this 1st i think we are heading to the far north of planet earth after the break on an icy standoff between the u.s. and russia over a nuclear testing claims in the arctic or not shortly. you know world big partisan movies. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the

truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. make manufacture to send to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. when the final merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room. just approaching it 10 minutes into the program welcome back a u.s. military official has claimed that russia is likely conducting nuclear tests in the

arctic and therefore violating a multilateral treaty the defense intelligence director also sais the alleged move would aid moscow in bettering its nuclear capability united states believes that russia probably is not hearing the nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with 0 year old standard. our understanding of nuclear weapon development leads us to believe russia's testing activities would help improve its nuclear weapon capabilities we categorically reject these allegations it's a well planned concerted attack not only on russia but on the arms control regime and the whole strategic stability architecture. let's bring in our t's correspondent. to discuss all this kind of quite a few claims counterclaims the question is as always what evidence is to the back of the accusations tell us more bring us up to speed on all this as you can see

there another spy public spat going on between the u.s. and russia that was a speech given on wednesday it has been institute in washington that it was talking about moscow's questionable approach to nuclear testing and apparently it helping russia enhance new warheads now russia as you saw there categorically claims denies any claim to violating that accord and perhaps they have a point this time they've actually got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization c t b t o that's a bit of a mouthful there and they've made this statement. the c.t. b.t.o. has full confidence in the ability of its monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions. so the question is why russia so riled up about this well it's about the loose accusations the rhetoric that's been used the words like probably. the probably not adhering to an international treaty questionable approach you can hear it and it's this constant it's not definite and actually they do have the back in

this case about it not being definite again so is the language is the finger pointing it's it's heightening these diplomatic tensions and and it seems to be a theme from the russian perspective on all fronts that we've seen over the last few years so here's a couple of examples of how they felt about a recent ongoing investigation. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible. if. you likely to do it was his decision overwhelmingly you can hear it all highly likely so as the situation stands that russia they're quite angry about this russia's ambassador to the u.s. has said that these public discussions are not going through the correct channels instead they're being washed the washed out in public before those discussions that he feels should be behind closed doors the u.s. are very clear about their views on their mistrust of russians in terms of nuclear

testing and development so the question is are they going to be resolved be able to resolve these problems behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see this kind of rhetoric in the public domain thank you for breaking all those don't for us or. now it appears e.u. leaders are split over who gets the block's top jobs president of france german chancellor angela merkel just can't seem to find a compromise on a nominee for the president of the e.u. commission on the power that that position wields as daniel hawkins has been looking into. the dust has settled for voters but for europe's elite so the question is who replaces sean claude you grow is the king of dry humor and aimless or could moments big shoes to fill out a pretty important path to. so

how does one become top dog well some counted out process sounds simple right but actually it is all european parties put forward their preferred candidate and the one with the most seats a political consensus wins thing is they all want to win and i'm going to buckle is no exception if she wants her man in the presidential hot seat. repeat what i said and to avoid any unnecessary questions we stand by our lead candidate the p.p. candidate manfred weber others stand by their lead candidate obviously that's a problem in the european parliament stated today that the majority of its members are committed to the lead candidate principle that is the message to the european council even though not all heads of state and governments are fully convinced of

the value of that principle. the system has worked perfectly and if it ain't broke why fix it but marco has a political headache on her hands president micronor leads a group of rebels pushing for total change not to mention a different candidate. i'll speak to we confirmed tonight that there is nothing automatic in the lead candidate process. political group what their own concerns are to help their opponents the conservatives and socialists have taken a political battering so they think they hold all the cards and they're not the only ones these socialists also have their own ideas and guess what yes own kind that we would support france i think he's a qualified person for the position for the commission i seem to not only he was his speech and come to do it but also he has the experience not only at national level but also if you appeal never to leave the commission like anything worth

waiting for disappointments and hard graft that make up the path of the prize in this case limping parties and political underdogs so let the race. no the us city of baltimore same won't give in to the demands of hikers who part allies major networks earlier this month the cyber attack which hit the city in may the 7th left some $10000.00 government computers blocked making it impossible for people to pay their bills taxes parking tickets for instance it's estimated some $8000000.00 have been lost so far the hackers say they will block the network if the city pays them one $100000.00 in bitcoin well the reportedly used is known as a terminal blue it was developed by the u.s. national security agency baltimore's mayor the scribe the attack. this was a smart virus and the time to say you do something they do it well i just hope that

they have the key so we can get out of this well if eternal blue. is because it 1st really fell into the public eye after a must have run somewhere attack back in 2017 hitting many countries around the world affecting banks and hospitals in particular and later that year it was also used to target the ukrainian government we asked people in baltimore whether they think their marriage office should stump up the ransom or an aunt. should never pay a ransom she somebody that's trying to terrorize others if it is the n.s.a.'s making pick their response to being a part of. this it's you look great i mean should it be i don't think that the ransom should be paid am i don't think and that they should help out any of the few from maro and a lot of these are a lot for not but remember get right up to the moment of elements on our twitter

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show. and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. greetings and sally you to. society today is standing at the edge of the proverbial cliff when it comes to antibiotic resistant bacteria hawk watchers as we previously reported the united nations believes that this is a global health emergency and unless we act now these antibiotic resistant super bugs could be responsible for $10000000.00 deaths worldwide each year by 2050 and

to make matters even worse it appears that our over use of antibiotics has polluted its way into the major waters around us in the largest to date global study on the subject led by the university of new york and england researchers have uncovered that hundreds of sites and rivers around the world from the tames to the tigris are washed with dangerously high levels of antibiotics and that some of the world's best known rivers including the times are contaminated with antibiotics classified as critically important for the treatment of serious infections this this would be like you tweeting out your social security number and banking passwords for all the world to see and then praying and hoping that no one decides to drain your bank accounts and steal your identity in 72 countries across 6 continents researchers looked for 14 of the most commonly used antibiotics and discovered them in 65 percent of the rivers they monitor 65 percent and let's not forget that added to

the antibiotics is last year's discovery that more than 60 per scription drugs are getting into river food chain. not to mention all of the illegal drugs like the cocaine and ketamine recently discovered contaminated water ways in the united kingdom. so my friends with our addiction an over use of pharmaceuticals now destroying our freshwater rivers with the promise of antibiotic super bugs on the way. i think it's time to start watching the hawks. get the. real thing this week. as it gets to the politics it just. like you that i got. was that we. would. think. it's.