if you go back to your old standardisation. us formally request the extradition of julian assange just the wiki leaks co-founder continues to serve his prison sentence in the u.k. . first getting journalist has been freed legal charges against him drop to say those responsible for that his case have been suspended. just the corruption case against brazil's former president lula da silva was in fact a stitch up designed to destroy his reelection and. look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being more missed by parts of the mainstream media outlets are something the man who condone this force against

president assad has praised the $911.00 attacks of rebel i. am. very good evening and welcome to this is r.t. international. u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange the son just been slapped with 18 charges 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 that racial request for extradition for the songs found all week this web site is currently serving about 15 prison sentence for skipping bail you carrie. well judy the sellers will see who simply looking cool to

wait a minute to do it it's a marriage belmarsh prison and baseball that has been able to visit him on t.v. he's been speaking to joel shipped would be told this that soon do it for make still some problems. in his impossible. dream. but his spirit struck. surprise because it was my. last. now stabilized. duty and a soldier faces charges under the espinosa act of $97.00 soon also conspiracy to hack government computer is in the u.s.

and that's why the former request for extradition has been made by the authorities at this event 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 songe will 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 and effectively 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 on the espionage act but for the british government to hand over the.

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 julian saunders 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 he here to say no more 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. is 0 to punish him to make an example of and and to destroy this event to raise awareness for jews in the song and also the ticket sales of this event going to see his friends fees we know that there are going to be individuals such as dane 50 in westwood speaking tonight and many others who have been vocal in the course of

julian assault and many people concerned that if he is extradited to the u.s. they're not completely deaf nay even the freedom of press. and once in a son's case plays out in court his former host ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster could or in present let him or a nose personally block proceeding citing national sovereignty reasons we asked with leaks activists clock stuff about why such a varied to proceed to the cases. i don't like double standards very hypocrite always very showing of the morals and the ethics of of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing as been the truth and showing that these you know major or. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so forth. you know then

the messenger is going to be the one that keeps going you know locked away the fact the mare is it's always been a 100 percent factual evidence and maybe people need to start eating the facts of the matter rather than those who present them to us. russian investigative journalist if angolan offers walked free from detention russian officials announced earlier they dropped the criminal case against him over the illegal possession of drugs the evidence gathered was said to be reexamined and found invalid let's look at the 1st moments of the journalist release. i hope the investigation will continue no one will find him certainly seem to treat him to be the 1st of all. it's a pretty sure thing slow to. think you know when you turn to come to terms with what's happened. with journalist attention but widespread outrage not just among

the media but publicly to get stiff looks at 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 it was an evil itself they're also investigating the investigation which led to the arrests to see whether police went beyond the scope of their powers 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 of forensic biological

fingerprint and genetic testing we made a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in office and you to the lack of evidence of these images the patient is growing in charges a drop all charges dropped he's been released from house arrest the investigation is now over the investigation is 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-commutative i see the russian investigative committee will analyze the materials and by the interior ministry's own security surveillance in connection with the police officers involved in the criminal prosecution of mongol not the investigation will trace all circumstances related to chronicle or not detention over the illegal circulation of the whole to get trucks if the printer has to give should prompt shots there are grounds for concern a lawful and reasonable decision will be taken in this case of course has provoked outrage both in the media and among the public how did 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 no drugs in his system nevertheless police tried to charge him 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. the sky. exploded every day it got bigger and bigger and bigger went global really do we have 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 joint in our editing chief margarita simonyan she came out and supported him eventually reached even the politicians we had like me a putin spokesperson came out in support of him and you know with the pressure

building in building perhaps. that is what pushed the ministry of interior to start looking at things seriously to see whether something's gone wrong because we would had protests public protests journalists and politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior that really got things going. scandal has a rep that in brazil after linked messages suggested a corruption case against the country's former president lula da silva it was politically motivated. now the messages published by our investigative news side the intercept appeared to show judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of lula da silva say the leak confirms their fears the case was designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year the probe spotted brazil's biggest anti corruption crusade it was known as operation co wash which saw dozens of high level politicians and president lula da silva was sentenced to a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering including for accepting

a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts claimed he denies ever owning that apartment and the league messages suggest the prosecutors themselves question the strength of evidence against him one of the journalists behind the revelation said they made sure the messages were genuine. me we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's why we're very cautious and scrupulous chicken recipe 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 have expressed doubts about the messages they know they're genuine as do we the links of also lead to accusations the judge gave biased advice to prosecutors with more details his. 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 and to silva 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 in organized crime it was all a lie a setup when i was by the federal police the public prosecutor's office and by mora

who took on the investigation more i didn't need any proof of crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind because 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. so listen for me the contact person is annoyed at having be nice to see dr property transfer deeds for one of the x. president's children apparently the person would be willing to provide the information and therefore 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 just 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 for politics different 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 be. 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 sensational as some of the articles 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 or realize that they can create some discomfort for some people who are deeply sorry about that the 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 a morning controversial figure that there branding a rebel icon who died in a battle against syrian government forces in homs province according to his rebel faction and the find his role in syria's uprising was the subject of an award winning documentary a goalkeeper for the country's youth football team who gained prominence for staging street protests against president assad and singing songs praising the revolution some of the songs the values that seem to go completely against those of western countries fighting islamic state in the country what he's done a quarter explains a warning though his report contains scenes of an 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 sing 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 route was a former syrian footballer who turned rebel fighter and not just any rebel fighter oh no 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. 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 our. kovar western operations it

becomes important 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 and 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 are the groups that the cia and and its allies it's british and french and saudi and qatari and turkish allies worth supporting and arming from the very early stages of this conflict. the new york times is officially stopped publishing political cartoons the move comes just over a month since there was a strong bank lasher going to stick controversial cartoon the feature the blind

president trump followed by a seeing guys really prime minister news but most of the announcement after one of its cartoonists did like the plants. the new york times will and all political cartoons are just learned we saw through a publisher syndicated new yorker to their caused a scandal for me this is the end of an adventure that begin to him 2 years ago besides announcing the newspaper's decision cartoonist patrick sharp aren't complained about the moralistic mobs influencing the news rooms however he also slammed the image saying that it should never have run in the best newspaper in the world the new york times issued an apology soon after the cartoon was published the cartoonist responsible for the image fired back about the controversy claiming the backlash was fabricated by quote jewish propaganda the size that is art had a political not religious meaning the decision of the new york times to abandon political cartoons completely caused an uproar on 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 ted rall believes not being able to laugh at political leaders creates a serious problem for society. this is a pretty despicable series of i mean 1st of all i don't think we need to throw on tonio the portuguese cartoonist under the bus there really is it's highly debatable whether his cartoon was anti-semitic or not and i think to portray 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 too much 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 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. mobile phone networks in the u.k. calling on the government to clarify its stance on wall way that's according to the b.b.c. who says it's obtained a draft letter from industry leaders to the british cabinet secretary there

apparently concerned whether the chinese tech giant will be allowed to supply the new 5 g. network political reports. their concerns over the lack of clarity on what way 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 greenlights the use of huawei technology and the rollout of the 5 g. network here in the u.k. so as a result these industry bosses can't invest in vital. structured 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 snapped 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 is complicit in utility pieces he should do business with all companies that stick to the 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 was a bad move was some countries totalitarian repressive one party states nothing to say communist china doesn't that put your seat where we can sure who it would be

for it's a complete. your company is right you forgotten who manufactured. and sold it to the german government your research and where will. i think our minds a different picture and of course there are strong arguments on both sides on the one hand you've got the us pressuring the u.k. to reject while way technologies saying that it presents a danger to national security and on the other hand there's the opinion that in medicine doses only on certain tod's of the feisty network using while away can be passed back to you safe. reva is actually vital for the future of britain as sort of the front runner in the lead at technologically and so far this debate has been very let's a call but now we're seeing industry step in and say actually we need carrots on what happens with while way. political economy professor president says that the

u.s. china trade war will decide who gains technological dominance. this attack. on 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 wean its allies away from any kind of economic relationships with china is kind of an absurd comment because you know i.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 phone network 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. tariffs on the big issue for china and its relations with another country the united states times issued an ultimatum to say any scant part xi jinping urging him to attend the upcoming g. 20 summit if he doesn't the u.s. president threatening to impose another $300000000000.00 worth of trade tariffs president xi doesn't come will that mean that the tariffs on china for the 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. well the threat comes amid a trade war between washington and beijing last month trying to raise tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods to 25 percent retaliated with hikes on a revised list of u.s. products china's response dogs of more than 5000 goods and came into force on june 1st aging assistant does not want tension with the u.s.

but will respond to white house actions when we found out more china does not want to trade war which we're not afraid of one if the u.s. is willing to negotiate with me equals losing our door will be open if the us insists on escalating mystery soon fight to the finish in the meantime troops scrambling for advice on sunday he called former u.s. president jimmy carter who switched the diplomatic recognition of china from taipei to beijing in 979 carter says that trump fears the country's economy is pulling far ahead of america but international an independent china specialist under long things trumps plans to counter china will benefit no one. but it's going to be highly disruptive especially especially if the terrorist that is why did i think a lot more products and because nowadays. all things fall into the production supply and very chain around the world this is becoming much more the thinnest

because you take. for example call a different composers the engineers the hoarsely the chase sees they only want to print companies and the territories and you just concept create one from the of even. rare materials like where it's embedded in the long haul that's across the globe so to think that you can just impose tariffs and expect that all of them with this one by one side is really. where we allocate so i think that this all the of the rest of it was likely to be held hostage to this easing treating a lot of statement on. thank staying with me for updates and often.