thank you thank you thank you. thank you thank you. thank you. thank you thank us formally request the extradition of julian as far as the wiki leaks co-founder continues serving his prison sentence in the u.k. . russian journalist ivan golde an obvious freed with all charges dropped all parties saying those responsible for arresting him on drug allegations have been suspended. leaked messages that just a corruption case against brazil's former president's nudists over was a good job designed to destroy his reelection bid thanks. and part to part of the western media mourn the death of a syrian militant describing him as a rebel icon we take

a closer look at the controversial figure who supported jihad is groups and great at the 911. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me the. top story this hour u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian a song he faces 18 charges including spying and computer hacking from london his. yes confirmation today that u.s. authorities have put him back to a racial request for extradition for chile and the songs to bond over the weekend leaks website is currently serving 50 week prison sentence for skipping bail here in the u.k. we'll see you recently looking. cool to wait

a minute to do that to merge belmarsh prison and taking his fall but has been able to visit him on t.v. he's been speaking to joel shipped would be told this to do it for make still some problems be. possible. for ice. cream. but his spirit struck. right because he might. be. now stabilized. judy in a still faces charges on to the espinosa to the 92nd season also conspiracy that competes is in the u.s. and that's why the former request for extradition has been made by the authorities

at these events and many people are hoping to continue raising awareness on jewish soldiers pace and many have been telling us why it's so important that the student's face remains in the public eye a d.o.j. is really really stacked high and so i think and a lot of people believe this is also a strategy there is not a guarantee that joyce andro 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 a journalist an award winning journalist to the united states. the un 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 doing so on just like we also want 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 peer 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 him and to destroy this event to raise awareness for jews in the song and also the ticket sales to this event going to do to his defense 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 could be the deaths nail or even the freedom of the press. and on julian assange his case plays out in court his former host i could or is refusing to extradite alleged american force to ecuadorian president lenin murano has post many blocked proceedings that fighting national sovereignty reasons well switching makes activists clock stoically why the 2 cases are being treated so differently. the point 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 and showing that these you know major or. government organisations 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 mare is it's always with a 100 percent factual evidence and. maybe people need to start reading the facts of the matter rather than those who present them to us. larson investigative journalist ivan gall unarmed has been released from detention with all charges dropped he was only accused of illegal drug possession but officials are now saying the evidence was really examined and found to be invalid let's look at the 1st moment that the journalists really. just that. you are here i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in the same situation i happen to be a little. simulation thanks a lot of information thank you right now i need time to come to tune with what's happened. in jenin and the rest provoked outrage in russia and abroad. have

looked at before that from the 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 use too much force whether there's 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 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 in this was this was a huge scandal especially in russia very very resonant nevertheless for him the trial is now over it was approved in a complex and according to the results of forensic biological fingerprints and genetic testing we made

a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in order to to the lack of evidence of his participation in the crimes of 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 the detention over the illegal circulation of mexico to get drugs if they're praying investigation shows 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 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 released with the doctor saying that there was nothing serious and then. the scandal exploded every day it got bigger and bigger and bigger went global really do we have politicians on the other you know in 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 that joined 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 the building perhaps 9. that is what pushed the ministry of interior to

start looking at things seriously to see whether. something that gone wrong because we would had protests public protests journalists and politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior really got things going. with us live to our get independent political analyst alexandra bruno to discuss this further mr brunei thanks for coming on the program for us and what does the case really mean for journalism in both russia and the rest of the world do you think. thank you well i think the timing of the release in particular is very interesting because it coincides with the u.s. making an extradition request for joy in the sun and we have a contrast ing story here all of a sudden. you know the russian press seems freer or at least. that's

the impression that i mean there couldn't help but noting the 2 stories together today. and also it was very interesting to see that margarita simonyan the one of the heads of our tea your network coming out in support of the journalist good enough whose name have reminds me of her novel by their famous russian writer. and so i think it's of the way they think that the government reacted very swiftly he was arrested after all on friday last friday and put the quickly into house arrest as opposed to he spent i think a night in jail and then was put under house arrest so the case was quickly moved. importance of the case and how it would be perceived outside of russia was very clear especially given his may do so publication is often very critical

of russia and the fact it has headquarters in latvia. it was founded by. the next editor in chief of the famous lent group publication so i think old enough. with the goal of case will could set a precedent yes or journalism yeah this is it and how he's handled this case we need a desk widespread outrage in play even protests how influential to think that was and the charges being dropped. well the protest the cells were influential but. i think. there was perhaps good sufficient evidence from various. internal government sources that there was corruption

within the police agency and perhaps. some people may have even i don't know this but i'm just imagining. speculating that some people wanted to entrap the police officers involved i'm sure if they've done this case they may have done others and arrested others on trumped up charges so they may have used this case for. the clean up operation also learned or stand there is a whole day in russia coming up and this could have caused more protests. in and more in. undesirable protests for various. reasons so it was important to act quickly and i mean i'm glad that is that it's really the situation resolved in this way. and i think it sends a very important signal at

a very important time even in the west. given the case at the scene extend safe media reaction and coverage of the case that what do you think that says about civil society in russia. well actually this is what was most fascinating about it 1st of all we had the protests unlike what we are told in the western media were allowed protests were planned and there were i don't see any major army or police presence. i think in fact the fact that 3 major newspapers published the headline money you've undergone of you know we are even go enough was very important and shows that there's much more media freedom in russia than what. we are told in the west in fact

this case in the west would have been used for all kinds of. propaganda purposes had it gone on longer. so i think it says a lot about. the potential to the fact that the media is freer and civil society is more active in russia than we believe but also i think it speaks about the the fact that the government is now really understanding how are things work in the west and can play at their own game. and it's going to be harder to spread certain. propaganda i think in the west about russia in the near future and i hope that this becomes this is a case that will be followed up with similar actions in the future in other cases independent political analyst alexandra burke i thank you for your time

thank you thanks for watching out international have plenty more still to campaign carrying a political scandal erupting in brazil live or at least conversation between a country's top prosecutor and a court judge a story of more to come. inconvenient truth time we've never been off the gold standard. people say we left the gold

standard but in fact central banks clear all their. dealings with gold and now after this period of experimentation with a purely siyad run currency i think there are cities of the globe various countries are recognizing that it's all nonsense they need to go back to your gold standard as they should. back a scandal has erupted in brazil after leaks messages suggest a corruption case against the country's former president alluded to silva was politically motivated the messages published by an investigative news site the

intercept appeared to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutor says supporters of latest silver say big leak confirms that if it is the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year. the proof was positive brazil's biggest anti corruption crusade known as operation car wash which sold dozens of high level politicians in prisons now that it's over was sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering including for except in a luxury apartment in exchange for state contracts well he denies ever owning it on the leaks messages suggest prosecutors themselves question the strength of the evidence against him one of the journalists behind the revelations that they made sure the messages were genuine. we waited and waited for a response from the prosecutors for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's 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 we believe the led to accusations the judge gave biased advice to the prosecutor says with more details his r.t. the cannibal. 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 by the federal police the public prosecutor's office someone more of them who took on the investigation that was more i didn't need any proof of the crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind you called the plan was to paint the workers' party as a criminal organization with a criminal boss couldn't have happened to be made well it seems the new leaks show that will lead to civil 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 the 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 bazan 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 said 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 is not. 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 my own as a result of 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 and 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 off 1st reports we have a lot of information you have analyzed i think only one percent of the conversations we will publish materials from these messages are. part of the mainstream media and the syrian opposition are mourning a controversial figure there branding a rebel icon who died in a battle against syrian government forces in homs province according to his rebel

faction the fighters role in syria's uprising was the subject of an award winning documentary a goalkeeper for the country's youth football team he gained prominence for staging street protests against president assad and singing songs praising the revolution some of those songs though hold values that seem to go completely against those of western countries fighting islamic state in the country artie's donald quarter explains a warning his report contains scenes of an execution. he became the poster boy of the syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback. oh my. god. 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 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. 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. 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 the 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 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 thanks for choosing r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest to see that. thank. god

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