you know i. i. joined us on fails to appear before a london court for an extradition hearing with the wiki leaks founder of lawyers saying his health is in rapid decline. and russia could sit back at u.s. claims that it is probably conducting nuclear tests in the arctic calling the allegations baseless. and the dramatic surge in knife crime in london leads to some in the somali community sending their children to east africa to live in stuff . they feel pushed to see if it kills children big fear diffs safety it's. themselves it's created very dangerous for the.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international one sean thomas glad to have you with us right a british court has postponed an extradition hearing for joining us on shafter the health of the wiki leaks founder sharply deteriorated is currently in prison in london archies probably boyko has more. the extradition hearing isn't taking place any longer today the sound was actually meant to be here in person he was meant to pair via video link but he's not even well enough to appear via video link 10 minutes on she's been moved to the hospital wing old belmarsh prison that's up to a maximum security prison where serving as a steamy eccentric specific detail when he went into the ecuadorian embassy back in 2012 and wiki leaks a whole range from so about the face of his health to what we know is that there

was a push from the medical board of. the fact that they did this and that may put him on the board speaks speaks plenty and that's how you know being in a higher security max the 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 attorneys bomb 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 when 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 hair boils down to 2 fundamental things it is take to get us on

to act as a journalist when he published those roads that secret us materials and information and crucially for him is the u.k. going to allow him to be handed over to the us also as he is where he could face up to hundreds and 75 years behind bars which are. 17 counts on the espionage act and one commentator just about richard in his face it comes in 75 years in prison which is outrageous the idea that a publisher can be. prosecuted and persecuted publishing the truth and face a lifetime and in a prison in another country is outrageous this espionage act was never the full of induced against agenda standing 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 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 the freedom of the press and for journalists all around the world which is why. so you much attention. supporters of the wiki leaks founder also staged a protest outside the court earlier in the week calling for his release and documentary filmmaker john pilger told us he believes the sanctions case sets a dangerous precedent for journalists. but what these new charges really or to strike. ring a bell at the very least it nor strikes fear into many investigative journalists who have been have been with wiki leaks from the green with julian assange through

this whole i would say the sting would step aside. for releasing the book through about government secrets and how they affect all of us to warn the sisters those people should be very very good. their own old but most of. the newspapers gaudium new york times or spiegel you know. there are individuals who have done no more. no less no less than julian assange so they could all be targets for. meanwhile an alleged wiki leaks associate and a friend of joining a songe was denied bail by a judge in ecuador on wednesday all of who is a swedish national stands accused of hacking government computers in the south american nation

a 37 year old cyber security expert was arrested last month while trying to leave ecuador on the same day that assad was affected from the country's london embassy binny has been refusing to cooperate with investigators and has not yet been formally charged is a lawyer told us we need rights are being violated. this process is only taking place because my client is a friend of julian and songe there is no other explanation than. any has been living here for more than 5 years and he has been developing special software designed to protect privacy in other words he has been working on the very opposite of what he stands accused of the way there with during government is treated my client is unconstitutional it violates his human rights from the beginning the reasons for his arrest have been unclear it is still unclear exactly what system was attacked when and how he did it as such the prosecutors have no grounds to prove this case any further. russia has denied us allegations that it is

probably conducting nuclear bomb tests in the arctic the head of america's defense intelligence agency made that claim on wednesday without providing any evidence 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 had to use would help improve its nuclear weapon capabilities a nurse in public between the u.s. and russia what you saw there was a speech that was given at the huston institute in washington by the director of the u.s. defense intelligence agency to the world questioning moscow's approach to nuclear testing and saying that this helped russia in hans new head designs now russia's categorically denied any of the violations that they've been accused of accord and

perhaps this time on this occasion russia got a point they've actually got the backing of an organization called the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization the t b t bit of a mouthful there let's have a listen quickly to what they had to say the c e o has full confidence in the ability of its monitoring system to detect nuclear test explosions but despite having that backing the opposition to russia has continued as you can see by that speech by the americans and it is these specific accusations that have angered the russians this time the officials have not been shy in responding we've got a little insight into what the foreign ministry had to say about this unfortunately search verbal attacks transmitted by the world's media have become commonplace. as a rule very care when washington is determined to withdraw from another international treaty or has been accused of not complying with one we cannot rule

out the washington is preparing to use this as cover for the resumption of its own full scale nuclear weapons it seems that has become the norm and it is those loose words that they seem to be using like russia is probably not adhering to an international treaty or a questionable approach overwhelming evidence highly likely we've heard it so often and those general accusations have really caused again these diplomatic tensions despite the fact that they have the backing on this occasion we can really have a look at what accusations we've seen over the last few years the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible quarrel is with putin's kremlin and we think overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision we also believe that it's highly likely that they're complicit with the chemical weapons use but what mike said yesterday i think we have a very high confidence was accurate i think it reflects the role russia has in

venezuela from russia's standpoint the russia's ambassador to the u.s. he said he doesn't understand why these discussions go on going through the correct channels the correct diplomatic channels from the u.s. point of view they've made it absolutely clear that they do not trust the way that russia is doing its nuclear testing and developments and the question is are they going to be able to sort out this latest batch behind closed doors or are we going to continue to see them wash their dirty laundry in public. international affairs commentator jonathan steele believes the u.s. should provide evidence to support its allegations. but if they said there is strong evidence there's convince you know that in secret sound better just to say highly likely or probably is to very. it's based on intelligence which is or is liable to the floor to anywhere well this is standard us unilateralism i mean if you come on to the iranian scene it's the same thing is it should be done with open

or vigilance at a press conference which everybody has a chance to ask questions jason favorite media outlets and giving them little tidbits of so-called intelligence assessment which nobody can prove one way or the other. crime epidemic in london has prompted some families to take drastic action growing numbers of british teenagers of somali heritage are being sent to live in east africa by their parents away from the violence this is despite somalia being regarded as one of the world's most dangerous countries u.k. foreign office warns against all travel there due to the high risk of terrorism and kidnapping kate partridge has more on the surprising trend. 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 highest and most worrying levels i think in 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 full terms of. the 5. 5 there is. you know it's at a different picture than a twit used to be people could buy here they say. they fear for the safety of their children they fear the safety of the loft themselves i think it's

very very dangerous for young people really dangerous even a lot of. positive activity good for them out of london for the local authorities from the event do a lot of good for its own the problem is so you wall off camera somali people in north london site gang related crime is the real problem several refused to be filmed because they feel reprisals for speaking ems 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 the us establishment remains polarized over the trump russia probe after the resignation of special counsel robert muller that story much more when we come back the start interest.

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all middle of the room see. the real news room. welcome back this is our international donald trump has lashed out at former special counsel robert muller who led the 2 year inquiry into alleged russian collusion speaking outside the white house the us president called him totally conflicted and condemned the probe as a giant presidential harassment and after mahler resigned from his post and said his report does not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice our trees came up and has more. 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 essentially referring impeachment to the united states congress. the statement makes it clear congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately miller's 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 stone

to the crimes noise and other wrongdoing a president trump and we would 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 report 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 . r t new york legal and the media analyst lionel believes that there was never any justification for the motor. 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 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 rush in collusion explain this more. dutch u.f.o. spotters went into overdrive on saturday when i wrote strange objects were seen in the sky over the netherlands kind of fascinating there an amateur astronomer captured these images of the mystery trail turned out to be the 1st part of a satellite program by entrepreneurial on musk's a space x. company heading into orbit he plans to launch nearly $12000.00 of them this year with the aim of helping provide internet access to an wired parts of the globe this

seems it is not everyone who is prepared for the surprise of seeing so many celestial bodies having skyward one local u.f.o. website received 150 reports of an alien invasion and some professional stargazers are concerned that the night sky will now be changed for the worse. i know people are excited about those images of the train of space x. stalling 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 sitting 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 7 satellites for every single star to those upset about how bright the elon musk's starling set allies are please don't forget their horrendous impact on radio astronomy.

you know our musk later asked his team to investigate ways to reduce the amount of light reflecting off satellites while the astrophysicist we spoke to thinks that even more companies will be encouraged to use the night sky as a business platform in the future. visual issue which is that you telescopes usually track the stars in the sky and then the subtle waves move not according to the 30 in the sky but according to their orbits which is a bit faster and that leaves huge traipse tricks in the images when you analyze them and therefore this is a huge problem that you have to deal with we usually s.s. numbers we deal with these kind of problems but if the number of satellites increased to post 2 and us with the brightness is maintained as we observed ross weekend and this could be really problematic but that's 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 satellite it might have been that the regulation has to be of dative in terms of how many players want to get into this business which is you know really big providing law internet for everyone sounds like a good idea but is really this kind this the price but we want to paper. because you know this this case for everyone in. the i mean if we want to pay the price of the fine but someone has to ask it's fair is that. the pentagon has confirmed it is adding russia to a list of countries whose space technology services cannot be used beyond 2022 ross cosmos condemns the decision by the u.s. department of defense as yes another man at the station of washington's unfair competition on the international space of his markets the pentagon is seeking to wreck what was created through such laborious efforts as be maintained in russia u.s. relations in the space sector russia has long provided the international market with

engines and boosters for satellites and is involved in numerous projects aimed at launching foreign spacecraft into orbit in the coming years among the other countries on the u.s. a blacklist are china and north korea and iran russia's space agency has condemned the move calling it yet another manifestation of unfair competition by washington in the international space services market. political analyst minute murat he believes world powers need to work together on space exploration. but appreciated space affairs is essential to maintain or you think so no matter what. the us are but it's still the. so does seem more fun ships will go to other. regions seems to come up and it takes real negotiation and it takes hold you got to approach make sure. and that does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top the hour this is our 2 international.

but never be peace unless there will be a palestinian state there will never be a rise in the fall of the state of israel without the palestinian state all those that hold the moderates countries who somehow call rate we something that. they wrecked the 2 state solution as we stated none of the countries will come forward unless there will be a proposed solution on the bases and to states. some

in media and even some politicians are giving julian assange new look and it's no wonder a case can be made the us crusade against a staunch is a blueprint for criminalizing journalism what fate is in store for a song will journalism suffer the same. this is happening around the globe and covering the world of business finance and impact. and i'm daniel brill in washington where is what's on deck for the show today while the trade war is shaking in many sectors vital areas like food are not exempt from the damage that is on hand today to discuss how the tensions have tainted the nation's food supply then we hop across to the market aspect to break

down how the trade outrage has been shaking markets not just here in the united states but around the world so have our financial ones as a hand to sort through the stock suffering and later. in the standing. over the major opioid epidemic. of america's boy it joins us to break out all the latest moves in the landmark law. and more straight ahead. a step toward recession for south america's largest economy leads our global report today as brazil's g.d.p. falls in the 1st quarter of 2019 the latest figures from the brazilian institute of geography and statistics show a point 2 percent economic contraction in q one fueling fears that brazil may stumble into a recession the poor figures and rising fears come despite some superficial successes for president also noro in the brazilian stock market and an embrace of mr bolton are all from the country's business class mr bows and arrows push for

cuts to pensions a major priority for the business class is on track but delayed while weak a konami indicators continue to accrue most notably brazil's central bank has downgraded its growth forecast for this year predicting brazilian growth of just 1.2 percent for this year down from a previous forecast of 2.6 percent. and from south america to the ever present concerns over the ongoing trade between the world's largest economies many crop prices. in the u.s. are on an upswing despite the trade war including corn futures were up one of 14 percent in may the gains are mostly due to the concerns over the size and quality of this year's harvest but soybeans are still reeling due to the trade fight between washington and beijing and the swine fever epidemic that is affecting china's pig herd which has in turn reduce demand globally for animal feed joining us now to discuss all things i recall sure and food is fred kaufman author of bet

the farm welcome back fred so 1st of all let's get your take on corn corn futures are up 14 percent for the month of may hitting a 3 year high at midweek the wall street journal today cites figures from the agriculture department showing significant delays and corn planting was extreme weather related to climate change may hurt yields of flooding could take graner's what should our viewers know about the situation and how serious is it. well it's been an extraordinary week in the problem with corn is only about a little more than half of it is in the ground now when in fact usually we're almost at 90 percent so there is just a tremendous amount of uncertainty plus added to the mix a lot of the short sellers are settling their position but the fact of the matter is this is a fairly serious situation and in fact there are about a 1000000 open futures contracts right now to the extent that chicago board has asked that people increase their margin requirements put some more money in one when people are asking for money it probably means it's

a little bit serious the actual ramifications will ultimately be felt by the consumer next spring right in time for the elections. and you know fred more broadly what is or what will be the impact on ag markets of the extreme weather we've been seeing that's been a factor here with the flooding you know flooding greater reads and people delaying plants and decisions because it's just too soggy out there obviously it's a wide ranging impact but what what what is what is the best way to get a handle on it now what's going to happen here. climate change is not a hoax climate change is not a fiction climate change is happening and we really have to take a very long hard look at it particularly farmers because when we have warmer weather crops come to market they they bloom sooner there is more path and more need for pesticide soils are soggy there's the yields go down so there's a lot of long term focus on the work that's going to be required to the climate change and plus.