on the basis. julian. to appear before a court for an extradition hearing with the wiki leaks for. his health. declined. also ahead on the program seeking safety. community children. feel. they feel safe in. the. cold for impeachment. case special counsel. rush

investigation. on the report itself. across the world this is your r.t.e. international from the team and myself hello welcome to our top story u.k. court postponed extradition hearing for julian assange after the wiki leaks funders health sharply deteriorated in london's belmarsh prison and he was subsequently placed under medical supervision. following the story throughout the day for us. event taking place.

to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hall so it's a wing all belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where serving as a steamy eccentric specific detail and he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and went to a whole range. about the face of his health to take a listen to what we know is that there was a push from the the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the board speaks speaks penta and so you know being in a higher security max a maximum security prison is difficult for anyone but julian spent 7 years confined in the ecuadorian embassy before but without medical treatment without hospital medical treatment so he's gone in other words states that most people might think i'm fair we are outside westminster magistrate school this was meant to be the 2nd hearing about this on just the extradition it will have to be a fairly procedural affair well there wasn't any 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 phrases 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 hundreds and 75 years behind bars they will turn. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about shooting his face in a constant 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted for the publishing the truth and face of life time and in a prison in another country is outrageous. this espionage act was never the fall of

india used against john certainly against government officials who leaked secrets in the cost of course washington's argument is that a sound isn't such on the list that he's a backpack 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 of the press and for journalists all around the world which is why i think on this so you much attention. well supporters of the wiki leaks founder staged a protest outside the london quarterly or in the week decrying his treatment which they say much to torture and demanding it for

a trial renowned documentary filmmaker john told us he believes the sun just pace so it's a dangerous precedent for journalists i think. what these new charges really or to strike. ring a bell at the very least it nor strike fear into many investigative journalists who have been have been with wiki leaks from the plane with julian assange through this whole i would say the springwood step aside. for releasing the truth about government secrets and how they affect all of us to warn the sisters those people should be very very from. their own old book most of. the newspapers gaudium new york or spiegel know. there are individuals who. no more. no less

no less from julian. so they could all be talkers. all staying in the city as london continues to struggle with a knife crime epidemic increasing numbers of british teenagers of somali heritage are being sent to live in east africa by their parents to escape it despite the fact that somalia is regarded as one of the world's most dangerous countries and the u.k. foreign office warns against all travel there due to the threat of terrorism and kidnapping with more on the on the likely trend here say partridge. stabbings of young people across england have become epidemic in those 2 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 b. 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 where home secretary signed you job it has called the rise in violent crime a national emergency and the targets are often teenagers from black communities i know full terms of. the 5 people 5 there is. a very different picture than what used to be people who live it by fear . they fear for the safety of their children they fear the safety of the loft themselves i think it's very very dangerous for them really to there's a lot of. positive activity good for the mode of run for the local authority

from the event do a lot of good for. the problem is you while off camera somali people in north london say gang related crime is the real problem several refused to be filmed because they fear 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 policemen back on the streets to fight this virulent disease somehow africa seems safer than london. ok moving on russia's foreign minister as expressed on me over washington's plans to place a missile system in japan speaking of bilateral talks in tokyo circular prof suggested the move could prove to have a destabilizing impact on the region. it was beautiful she was a bush and we have reaffirmed our concern about the risks that are being created

for security including in connection with plans to deploy elements of u.s. global missile defense system to japan. when our correspondent who is in the japanese company with the talks between russia and japan's foreign and defense ministers are being held in the relations between russia and japan correct me if i'm wrong but they've generally been cordial but as we just heard there there are a few topics which have dominated talks between the. union high again well there aren't that many countries in this world where in the timeframe of just a couple of days countries that in the timeframe of just a couple of days can welcome the american presidents and then the foreign minister and the defense minister of russia at the same time well japan is one of these

countries and in fact donald trump left this place only 2 days ago and while he was here he was talking a lot about how he wanted the military cooperation between tokyo and washington to expand. as you know japan recently announced its intent to purchase 105 brand new still f. 35 fighter aircraft the best in the world this purchase would give japan the largest fleet of f. 35 of any of our allies donald trump also made clear that with all the joint army work he really he's really counting on tokyo to make sure that all the regional threats are dealt with and it's easy to guess what he's hinting at that's perhaps north korea russia and china but japan has proven to be a real. geo political gymnastics and the relations with russia are outstanding in many

ways as well just think about it they're doing very good when it comes to trade the leaders are also treating each other as friends but there are still many issues standing for example ever since world war 2 a peace agreement has never been signed between tokyo and moscow and there was also a serious territorial dispute ever heard of the coral islands just to the north of japan while perhaps everyone in russia and in this country has ever was as a result of the 2nd world war the islands were given to russia it was a result of a decision and agreement between the countries that won the war however tokyo still claims that this land belongs to them and we've seen signals from the leaders of russia and japan that they want this issue to get sorted out however the best 2

words to describe where the situation is right now is complete stella mate even though the talks are happening however just lately russia held a small shooting drills on the islands and japan was outraged by that well today. explained why there's nothing for japan to be angry about. grown men used. to puns foreign minister has expressed concern over russia's military activities on the southern korean islands in response we have reaffirmed our position that the russian armed forces are operating in this over in territory as is customary under international law. so again there are still many serious disagreements but then at the same time when it comes to things like marine safety cultural exchange and also the desire to do. arm denuclearize the korean peninsula the 2 countries

are on the same page and also the fact that the ministers of defense the foreign ministers and the leaders are in touch also speaks volumes about how russia and japan are getting along the states live from tokyo r.t. correspondent bring us the very latest on the meeting thank you. after the break and i see standoff between the u.s. and russia over a nuclear testing things in the arctic plus plenty more besides stay with us. you know world big. lot and conspiracy 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 on the back and

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16 minutes into the program welcome back u.s. special counsel robert mueller has handed in his resignation 2 years after he opened his investigation into alleged collusion between president don't trump a 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 caleb maupin explains both camps and washington are interpreted in his words in different ways. robert muller 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 the 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. referring impeachment to the united states congress. statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller statement makes clear with those who have read his report no 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 we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. and the report is my testimony now

trumper the opposite from robert mueller he says he's in the clear nothing changes from the 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 impeach trump or no collusion why did we have the investigation to begin with . our new york illegal media analysts long all told us he believes

conducting the moeller 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 well here's another question for you if you can't endowed 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 what were you investigating ah you were investigating collusion and by the way did you notice

such a paltry and de minimus amount of time that was that was given to the reason for this what was this russian collusion explain this more. a us military official has claimed that russia is likely conducting tests of you yield nuclear weapons in the arctic thereby violating a multilateral treaty let's listen. 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 is testing. 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 you see in the right to another spot

that we're seeing in public here between the u.s. and russia that was a speech that we just saw by the u.s. defense intelligence agency director left and general robert ashley at the hudson institute in washington and he was talking about moscow's questionable approach when it comes to nuclear testing and they say that it's helped russia enhance new warheads now what we have seen is that russia categorically denying that they violated anything to do with that accord and perhaps on this occasion the russians have a point they have got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty that the c t b t a a bit of a mouthful there exactly that there question is where's the hard evidence this time it has been backed up let's have a quick listen the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization has full confidence in the ability of the international monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions here when we have seen this language time and time again but on this occasion now we've seen. in the words like probably russia probably not

adhering to an international treaty a questionable approach gives you pause the thing when you hear that is the kind of worry it does and they're very very loose and that's what really has riled some of the russians there from their perspective you know the tensions being going up for no reason really in their in their eyes now it's not the 1st time as i mentioned before there's been other incidents other ongoing investigations that have a quick look a look at one that really did cause again those very awful diplomatic tensions the government has concluded. that it is highly likely that russia was responsible. likely. overwhelmingly highly likely i mean we could compile a whole encyclopedia i think at this point because we've seen it over the last few years a lot especially you know we've been reporting on it and actually if you look at

the situation on this particular one they have got the backing of a legitimate organization who who have you know said that there's no evidence actually there's no real evidence that they're actually doing this that russia are actually doing violating this accord nevertheless it hasn't stopped the americans from coming out publicly and talking about their mistrust and using all the words that we've just talked about we have seen russian officials top officials come out as well and they've been very open about how they see this is being quite ridiculous right now what we have here is constantly in causative head of the foreign relations committee in the federation council russia's upper house of parliament he's said unfounded accusations from the mouths of the americans have already become an absurd norm in international affairs so they're certainly not shy in how they're phrasing what they think about what the latest comments are coming from the u.s. as the situation stands the rushers of us or the u.s.

has said that these public discussions are not going through the right channels and these questioning why they're not going through the right channels and ending up in the public domain for the u.s. are breaking clear obviously that they they're not trusting the way the russians in terms of nuclear testing and development so we have to wait and see whether actually the 2 nations be able to sort this out will they be able to have those discussions behind closed doors or indeed not. go through some of the main aspects of it with jonathan you international or 1st commentary live on the program jonathan good to see you what do you think the u.s. defense intelligence director to conclude that russia quote is probably violating the treaty. well i've got no special information i can't say whether he's telling the truth or not it is very risky where he's sort of hung less than 100 percent allegations of a marriage ministry said there is strong evidence well there's convincing evidence it would sound better just to say highly likely or probably is to vary and it's

based on intelligence which is always liable to be flawed anyway there has been some skepticism that low yield nuclear weapons would be able to be detected what it not make sense that the us the greatest superpower on this earth would be able to detect it as well in the arctic. where you would have thought surface seismic evidence if there's a nuclear test so they should be able to come up with some kind of data looks convincing convincing rather than just using. that you discussed i mean these are very complicated issues and one has to erase sure what one's evidence once got and then one better to go to the circle offending party in this case russia and confront them with the evidence and see a month they say in response to it and do that privately diplomatically rather than using public statements press conferences i don't think our correspondent actually

pointed out that the us has a rather find the deal of its claiming russia has violated therefore it is washington really in a position to complain about any activity in that case. well this is standard pattern of us unilateralism i mean if you come on to the iranian thing it's the same thing you're a new u.s. pulled out of the iranian nuclear deal a year ago now they're claiming that they have got evidence all there is that they don't use what evidence they say it's likely that the iranians are enriching uranium beyond the scope of the treaty i mean how can somebody who has violated the treaty. it. may indeed be. your company thanks for taking the time today international. a former prime

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here. alone welcome to worlds apart david ben gurion israel's founder and 1st prime minister at once sad that a jew who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist his current successor benjamin netanyahu has all the many miracles during his long and illustrious career but can he realistically do it again as his former allies one after another turned against him well to discuss that i'm now joined by anatomy of was predecessor and harsh critic former israeli prime minister ehud olmert prime minister olmert it's so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. now we're recording.