in shock. u.s. formally request the extradition of julian assange says the wiki leaks co-founder continues his prison sentence in the u.k. . best part of journalists. has been freed riddled charges against him throngs forty's and say those responsible for this case have been suspended. messages suggest the corruption case against brazil's former president lula da silva was in fact a stitcher designed to destroy his reelection bid. we look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being warmed by parts of the mainstream media outlets that dubbing the man who can done this for president assad

and praised the $911.00 attacks and rebel peikoff. thanks for joining us this is our. u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request of the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange has been slapped with 18 challenges by the u.s. department of justice including conspiracy to commit computer hacking and violation of the espionage act from london. yes confirmation today that u.s. authorities have put in that official request for extradition will soon be in a strong state found all the weak links what such as currently serving about 15 persons sentence for skipping bail kate in the u.k.

will a junior miss salis was sealed recently looking cool to playing in a video the to the merged belmarsh prison and taking his fall but has been able to visit him on t.v. he's been speaking to join a ship to be told this the sooner you do it for making the story some probably be. possible. but his spirit struck. right because it might. be. now stabilised. duty in a soldier's faces charges on to the espinosa active 1917 year olds to conspiracy to hack government computer is in the u.s.

and that's why the former quest for extradition has been made by the authorities at least a vent and many people are hoping to continue raising awareness all to himself just pace and many have been telling us why it's so important at the student's pace remains in the public eye d.o.j. is really really stacked high and so i think a lot of people believe this is also a strategy there is not a guarantee that joyce on to actually be extradited to the united states so right now we have a hearing on friday which is going to be a belmarsh for the courthouse outside belmarsh prison that's an extradition hearing then it's going to also go to the government as well enough. if you could have a situation where the home secretary would be charged with making that final call now does britain want that on its legacy that's a historic line to cross not only for the united states to charge a publisher a journalist of the espionage act but for the british government to hand over

a journalist an award winning journalist to the united states where the u.n. and other bodies have ruled pretty clearly that he will not get a fair trial it's a highly politicized case but i think a lot of people believe that this this is going to be one this this battle for free press and free speech for julius on just life will be also won in the public of the spear of public opinion and so building awareness is absolutely essential make no mistake julian assange he's only kramer as a key there to say no no to the high crimes and the war crimes committed in the name of western civilization but not only that he's seen or he invited us all to see you know the u.s. isn't to punish him to make an example of and and to destroy this event to raise awareness for julian assange and also the ticket sales for this event going to what's his defense fees we know that there are going to be individuals such as dane $50.00 in westwood speaking tonight and many others who have been vocal in the

course of julian assault and many people concerned that if she is extradited to the u.s. they're not completely deaf neighbor even if the freedom of press. involved in a sunday's case plays out in court his former host ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster ecuadorian president then in the lane i was personally blocked proceeding scientific national sovereignty reasons we asked wiki leaks activist cox the cli about why such a very deprived the 2 cases. the only double standards very hypocrite always very show of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing as been the truth showing that these you know major or. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so forth. and you know then the

messenger is going to be the one that keeps going you know walk away the fact that america is it's always with a 100 percent factual evidence. maybe people need to start reading the facts of the matter rather than those who present to us. russian investigative journalist has walked free from detention russian officials announced earlier they had dropped the criminal case against him over the illegal possession of drugs evidence gathered was said to be in rigs and found invalid let's take a look at the 1st moments of the journalist release. you're doing here i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in the same situation i happen to be in. the 6 nations thanks a lot to run for a 2nd thank you but now i need time to come to terms with what's happened. the

journalist attention provoked widespread outrage not just among the media but publicly. against the efforts of the fallout from the controversial case. the head of russia's narcotics police has been fired the police officers who carried out the arrest there they've been suspended they're under investigation by internal affairs over how they carried out the arrest whether they used too much force whether through the legal itself they're also investigating the investigation which led to the arrests to see whether police went beyond the scope of their powers where they were whether they had legitimate evidence proved to carry out those arrests and i'm sure they'll be many more people fired because this was this was a huge scandal especially in russia very very resonant nevertheless for him the trial is now over. according to the results are forensic biological

fingerprints and genetic testing we made a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in of due to the lack of evidence of his participation in a crime the charges are dropped all charges dropped he's been released from house arrest the investigation is now over the investigation has switched to the investigators whether what they did was lawful and whether the went beyond the scope of their powers abused. their powers slits non-committed i see the russian investigative committee will analyze the material sent by the interior ministry own security service in connection with the police officers involved in the criminal prosecution of a bungalow not the investigation will trace all circumstances related to chronicle and of detention over the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs if their prey investigation prompts shops there are grounds for concern a lawful and reasonable decision will be taken in this case of course has been good

average both in the media and among the public but it all start when he was arrested in on friday that's when the news went public 1st police. said that during the arrest they found 5 packages containers with methadone a drug inside them this is all coming from the police the investigators that have now been suspended immediately after his arrest the controversy began because he said that they had been planted the drugs had been planted on him and add his house urine tests other tests carried out by medics showed that he had new drugs in his system nevertheless police tried to charge him with the accusation was that he was part of a drug ring his colleagues reacted straightaway the ones that work at medusa the outlet the publication where he works they didn't believe the charges they believed that they were falsified they knew him they didn't believe that he could do such

a thing you know sell drugs he's respected journalist there was a lot of outrage over the arrested self because apparently he said he was assaulted by a police officer he was taken to hospital the released with the doctor saying that there was nothing serious and then this scandal exploded every day it got bigger and bigger and bigger went global really do believe we had politicians on the other you know the western hemisphere talking about this 1st began with russian journalists they came out in solidarity russia's 3 biggest newspapers running with the same headline front page saying we are. in total solidarity with and then it was the t.v. channels the joined in our editing chief margarita simonyan she came out and supported him eventually reached even the politicians we had like me a putin spokesperson come out in support of him and you know with the pressure

building in building perhaps. that that is what pushed the ministry of the interior to start looking at things seriously to see whether. something that gone wrong because we would had protests public protests were just journalists and politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior that really got things go and . scandal has erupted in brazil after leaked messages suggest that a corruption case against the country's former president lula da silva was actually politically motivated now the messages published by our investigative news site the intercept appear to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of lula da silva say the league confirms their fears that the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year the probe responded with his biggest anti corruption crusade it was known as operation car wash sold dozens of high level politicians and present leader to silver center saw

as a decade behind bars charges of corruption and money laundering including for accepting a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts that he desired denies ever owning the apartment in the late messages suggest that prosecutors themselves question the strength of evidence against him on the journalist behind the revelation said that they made sure these messages were genuine. we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's why we were very cautious and scrupulous checking their veracity when you work with explosive material like this you need to be absolutely certain that what you publish is true the prosecutors and the judge haven't publicly expressed doubts about the messages they know they're genuine as do. the leaks have also led to accusations the judge gave biased advice to prosecutors with more details is kill him oppa. lula da silva who served as president of brazil from 2003 until

2010 is still wildly popular in the country brazilians associate him with good economic times when living standards were rising now a newly leaked conversation sheds some light on why he is serving a 12 year prison sentence for corruption it turns out that his trial the judge and the prosecutor were in cahoots these are some of the private conversations that took place during the trial with judge mauro seemingly instructing the prosecutor about how to proceed with the case. hasn't it been a long time without an operation you cannot make that kind of mistake now the thing called with a that's a good idea and a prosecutor asking the judge for advice what do you think of these crazy statements from the workers' party national board should with fish to rebut well into silver has long maintained his innocence he says the entire case was a set up he has named names. on how to political life and all of a sudden i was convicted for money laundering and organized crime it was all

a law i settled on when i was by the federal police the public prosecutor's office somebody more or who took on the investigation with more i didn't need any proof of crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind the plan was to paint the workers' party as a criminal organization with a criminal boss who happens to be made well it seems the new leaks show that little the decision was right here is an extract where the judge is seemingly directing the prosecutor and the prosecutor himself isn't moving his case is weak. source and for me the contact person is annoyed at having to be nice to see dr property transfer deeds for one of the x. president's children apparently the person would be willing to provide information i'm there for passing it along the source is serious they will say that they were accusing bay's a newspaper articles and for gyal evidence and here is what makes it even more scandalous loyd to silva's imprisonment is what prevented him from running for president last year and take a look at the polls to silva had

a pretty solid lead so then also narrow who won the election after his main opponent was blocked from running actually promoted judge morrow after he took office i salute gary moore the only man in brazil who's proving that we can do politics differently now the judge seems to think he didn't do anything wrong he says that the real crime is that these conversations have been made public it is regrettable that the person responsible for the criminal hacking of the prosecutor's cell phones has not been. identified as the source there is no sign of any abnormality or providing directions as a magistrate despite information being taken out of context and the sensationalism of the article's moan as of course those accusations published by the intercept are not true and their origin is linked to a criminal hack even though i don't acknowledge the trustworthiness of the messages realize that they can create some discomfort for some people who are deeply sorry about that leak telegram conversations give the impression that the silver was

railroaded in order to keep him off the ballot and there is more to come from me and we are continuing our work on the case as we said these are just our 1st reports we have a lot of information we have analyzed i think only one percent of the conversations we will publish materials from these messages. parts of the mainstream media and the syrian opposition are mourning a controversial figure that they branded a rebel lying con who died in a battle against syrian government forces in homs province according to his rebel faction and the fighters role in syria's uprising was the subject of an award winning documentary a goalkeeper for the country's youth football team going to prominence for staging street protests against president assad and singing songs praising the revolution some of those songs that overlies that seem to go completely against those of western countries fighting islamic state in the country and he's done a quarter explains warning though his report contains scenes of execution became

the poster boy of the syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback. oh. and his death in battle against government forces apparently made him a fallen hero in the eyes of the media. syrian football and singer of revolution killed in conflict syrian soccer goalie who became rebel i can dies in battle syrian soccer star symbol of free vault dies after battle. that also roots was a former syrian footballer who turned rebel fighter and not just any rebel fighter all know he became an icon of the fight against bashar al assad so he wasn't shying away from speaking the truth here's one of the so-called singer of the revolutions

greatest hits judge for yourself. and. perhaps the lyrics don't exactly communicate the artist's intended message that's all right though also it was much more articulate about his political beliefs in this 2014 interview that our vision of what we do blame islamic state. but that blame comes with love because we know that these 2 groups and not politicized and have the same goals as us they are working for god and they care about islam and muslims no you didn't hear that wrong the same goals as islamic state and apparently 911 was a great accomplishment to. was

good yet. there are those in the media who acknowledge it's problematic characteristics but for them a little elbow rubbing with terrorist groups shouldn't stand between him and his rightful page in the history books. some individuals celebrated as heroes make you doubt all stories of heroes in history books others like abdul basset also root not inspire of but despite his flaws make those stories highly plausible he's a true legend and his story is well documented may his soul rest in peace so if these guys got an oscar. abdul deserves a grammy no less as in other. kovar western operations it

becomes important to to maintain this sense of plausible deniability it's clearly been useful for for the us and the us media to maintain. this whole idea of there being moderate democratic forces among the rebels in syria but clearly most of the groups fighting the government were really extreme islamist groups that's the reality and they're these were the groups that the cia and and its allies its british and french and saudi and qatari and turkish allies were supporting and arming from the very early stages of this conflict. the new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons the move comes just over a month after there was

a strong backlash against a controversial call to the future blind president donald trump led by a seeing guy israeli prime minister newspaper made the announcement after one of its cartoonists linked to the plants. the new york times will end all political cartoons are just learned we suffer through a publisher syndicated netanyahu to their cause to scandal for me this is the end of an adventure begin to in 2 years ago signs announcing the newspaper's decision cartoonist patrick sharp but complained about the moralistic mobs in influencing the news stream however he also slammed the image saying that it should never have run in the best newspaper in the world new york times issued an apology soon after the cartoon was published a cartoonist responsible for the image fired back about the controversy claiming the backlash was fabricated by quote jewish propaganda he also emphasized that his art had a political and not religious meaning the decision of the new york times to abandon political cartoons completely has caused an uproar in twitter the n.y.t.

really did fail this time decision not to run political cartoons by n.y.t. opinion is spineless we need political humor now more than ever 4 years ago the new york times was all just see surely now they're no longer publishing cartoons new york times are not throughout to be with the bathwater yes there was a terrible lapse in judgment to print that cartoon so pollard gys and have a keener i free offensive cartoons john and art from completely political cartoonist and author to believe that not being able to laugh at political leaders creates a serious problem for society. this is a pretty despicable series of events i mean 1st of all i don't think we need to throw an tonio portuguese cartoonist under the bus there really is but it's highly debatable whether his cartoon was anti-semitic or not and i think portraying him as an anti-semite despite the fact that he repeatedly has denied it is really

egregious and something that many of my colleagues probably should have spoken out against to move to months ago and now you have the new york times firing its own syndicate i mean the editors who ran the cartoons are still working at the new york times and the and now they're firing to cartoonist who had nothing to do with the cartoon in question so i mean i've never heard of a political cartoonist getting fired over a cartoon that he did not draw so the new york times has literally declared nuclear war against my art form they've decided that all the traditional editorial cartoons that depict a strong opinion about the events of the day will no longer appear there when we can't laugh at ourselves when we can't poke fun at our political leaders we've got a major problem on our hands politically. of all phone networks in the united kingdom are calling on the government to clarify stance on the way that's according to the b.b.c. he says it's obtained

a draft letter from an industry leaders to the british cabinet secretary there probably concerned whether the chinese tech giant will be allowed to supply the new 5 g. network but it has been. their concerns over the lack of clarity on walk away they've asked for an urgent meeting with the government in order to discuss those concerns essentially there's a sense that they've been left sort of hanging over the government's indecision over whether or not to green lights the use of huawei technology in the rollout of the 5 g. network here in the u.k. so as a result these industry bosses con to invest in vital infrastructure going forward for the government they've stressed the importance of security above all else take a lesson the security and resilience of the key still to come snap works is of paramount importance we have robust procedures in place to manage critics to national security and are committed to the highest possible security standards

while the industry has questions for the government over while away the government's got questions to walk away and it was actually one ways cyber security officer who was. was giving on says in front of a committee of m.p.'s publicly yesterday and the politicians repeatedly asked him about wild ways alleged links to the chinese states and about alleged human rights abuses as well and his repeated was that while way works within the framework of the nor should we do business with a company that's complicity and you go to pieces if you should business with all companies that stick to a little there's a lot of nori in china isn't that just like there was a lot of law in nazi germany some laws are good little some little some company to tell the repressive one party states nothing to say communist china doesn't that put you see. who it would be for. your

company is it you for whom i'm your son should. be subject to the german government your research. the rule. means a different picture and of course there are strong arguments on both sides on the one hand you've got the u.s. pressuring the u.k. to reject qual way technologies saying that it presents a danger to national security and on the other hand there's the opinion that in measured doses only on certain parts of the 5 g. network using wrong way can be perfectly safe and moreover is actually vital for the future of britain as sort of a front runner in the lead technologically and so far this debate has been very political but now we're seeing industry step in and say actually we need clarity on what happens with wall way it's cool economy procedure rustam says the u.s.

china trade war will decide who goes to the logical dominance. this attack. while way and all of the chinese companies are actually here is really about this big fight between the u.s. and china over who's going to dominate technology in the next decade the u.s. trade war is really about chinese technology the trade war is beginning to slide into an economic war as the u.s. goes globally to try to we know it's our eyes away from any kind of economic relationships work china is kind of an absurd comment because you know our g for a good product was designed to kill people whereas you know our ways product is designed for people to communicate i don't know how you kill people with with with the firm at work you can take somebody by association you say i mean you know you don't say that huawei kills people but by associating them with a company that whose products did do that you know you make it sound like well

you're guilty by association. trade tariffs are the big issue for china i mean its relations with another country the u.s. trump has issued an ultimatum to his chinese counterpart xi jinping urging him to attend the upcoming g. 20 summit if he doesn't the u.s. president threatened to impose another $300000000000.00 worth of trade tariffs president xi doesn't come will that mean that the tariffs on china 30 additional $300000000000.00 in cuts go on immediately yes it would and i think he will go and i think we're scheduled to have a meeting. of the threat comes amid a trade war between washington and beijing last month trying to raise tariffs on $200000000000.00 of the chinese goods to 25 percent beijing retaliated with hikes on a revised list of u.s. products john his response targeted more than 5000 goods and came into force on june 1st asian insists it does not want tension with the u.s. but will respond to white house sanctions. when we don't buy more you china does

not want a trade war which we are not afraid of one if the us is willing to negotiate on an equal footing our door will be open if the us insists on escalating trade frictions we will fight to the finish the meantime trump is scrambling for advice on sunday he called former u.s. president jimmy carter he switched diplomatic recognition of china from taipei to beijing in 1999 carter says that trump fears the country's economy is pulling far ahead of america but international independent china especially standard long think strums plans to counter china will benefit no one. but it's going to be highly disruptive as best as specially if the terrorist why did a lot more products and because nowadays. all these products the production supply chain around the world is becoming much more the. because it will take. for example call

a different components the engines the hoarsely. they're all a part of the print counties and territories and you just can't separate one from the other even. rare materials like rare earths embedded in a lot of products across the globe so the thing that you can just impose there is and expect that all the damage is one by one side is really. what will we ality so i think the ready all the rest of was likely to be held hostage to this thing which really the largest there isn't all or. china is not the only country that faces terms obsession with tariffs he's currently also taking aim at french wine. tariffs we're going to be introducing.