that was. us formally requests the extradition of julian assange as the wiki leaks co-founder continue serving his prison sentence in the u.k. . russian journalist ivan golan all these freed with all charges dropped overall if he stayed those responsible for arresting him on drugs allegations have been suspended. mixed messages are just a corruption case against brazil's former president's new to distil vote was a step up designed to destroy his reelection bid. and parts of the western media mall the death of a syrian militant describing him as a rebel on a kong we take

a closer look at the controversial figure who's the ported to hardest groups and praised the 911 attacks it's. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with media and the. u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange he faces 18 charges including spying and computer hacking from london his sean. yes confirmation today that u.s. authorities have put in that official request for extradition will soon be in the songs to co-found open which is what such as currently serving that 15 prison 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 merge 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 problems be. possible. for ice. cream. but his spirit strong. right because it might. be. now stabilized. judy in a soldier's faces charges on to the espinosa active 1917 year old so 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 students face remains in the public eye a 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 at belmarsh at the courthouse outside belmarsh prison that's an extradition hearing then it's going to also go to the government as well enough. actively 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 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 joints 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 he there to say no no to the high crimes and the war crimes committed in the name of western civilization but not only did he say no 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 jews in the song and also the ticket sales to this event going to woods 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 assaults and many people concerned that if he is extradited to the u.s. they're not completely deaf nailer ate the fruit in

a press. and while julian assange his case plays out in court his former host to ecuador is refusing to extradite alleged american fraudster i could dorrian president lenin murano hans puzzlingly bloke's proceedings fighting national sovereignty reasons well switching makes activists clock stoically one of the 2 cases are being treated so differently. double standards very hypocrite always very showing of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing in. showing that your major. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so. you know that. the messenger is going to be the one that keeps going you know walk away the fact the mare is it's always with

a 100 percent factual evidence. maybe people need to start reading the facts of the matter rather good and those who preserve the. russian investigative journalist yvonne golan all of has been released from detention with all charges dropped he was early accused of illegal ringback drug possession but officials are now saying the evidence was riggs soundman and found to be invalid when i was take a look at the 1st moments of the journalists really. like you just. referred to when you know i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find him tonight and it seems that you actually happened to be there for the last. 60 patients thanks a lot of information thank you but now we need time to come to terms with what's happened. to all the journalists arrest provoked outrage in russia and abroad on

his mark out of looks at the fallout 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 used too much force where they do the legal itself they're also investigating the investigation which led to the arrest 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 or forensic biological fingerprint and genetic testing that we made a decision to stop the criminal prosecution of event go in or for you to the lack

of evidence of his participation in the crimes nor the charges are dropped 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 committed to the russian investigative committee will analyze the material stand by the interior ministry own security service in connection with the police officers involved in the criminal prosecution offer bungle not the investigation will trace all circumstances related to particular not 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 salted by

a police officer he was taken to hospital 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 get 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 mutant spokesperson come out in support of him and you know with the pressure building the building perhaps. that is what pushed the ministry of interior to start

looking at things seriously to see whether. something that gone wrong because we would have protests public protests. politicians public protests in front of the ministry of interior really got things going. scandal has erupted in brazil after leaked messages suggest a corruption case against the country's former president lula da silva was politically motivated the message is published by investigative news the intercept appeared to show a judge discussing the probe with prosecutors supporters of limited service say the leak confirms their fears the case was a stitch up designed to prevent him from winning reelection last year with a probe was part of brazil's biggest anti corruption crusade known as operation car wash which saw dozens of high level politicians imprisoned there is still though was sentenced to almost a decade behind bars for corruption and money laundering including for accepting

a luxury apartment to exchange for state contracts he denies ever owning it and the leaks messages that just prosecutors themselves questions 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 prosecutor for them to prove that the messages were genuine that's why we're very cautious and scrupulous recipe when you work with explosive material like this you need to be absolutely certain that what you publish is true 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 the prosecutors with more details his kaleb more than. 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 morrow 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 without good idea and a prosecutor asking the judge for advice would you think of these crazy statements from the workers' party national board should with fish to rebut lead 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 and organized crime it was all a law i said when i was by the federal police the public prosecutor's office

someone more of them who took on the investigation with more i didn't need any proof of crimes committed because they all had a plan in mind you're going to plan was to paint the workers' party as a criminal organization with a criminal boss 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 informed me that 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 we're accusing based on 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 that is also narrow who won the election after his main

opponent was blocked from running actually promoted judge morrow after he took office i salute. 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 been identified as the source there is no sign of any abnormality or providing direction since a magistrate despite information being taken out of context and the sensationalism of the articles known as it was also 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 realized that they can create some discomfort for some people who are deeply sorry about that the leaks telegram conversations give the impression that the silver was railroaded in order to keep him off the ballot and there is more to come said to me

. we are continuing our work on the case as we said these are just office reports we have a lot of information we have analyzed i think only one percent of the conversations we will publish material from these messages we do cost me. the mainstream media and the syrian opposition on morning a controversial figure that branding a rebel i. he died in a battle against syrian government forces in homs province according to his rebel faction and 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 well some of those songs though hold volleys they 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 became the poster boy of the

syrian uprising or shall we say the voice ringback. and his death in battle against government forces apparently made him a fallen hero in the eyes of the media syrian footballer and singer of revolution cute 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 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. 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 i have you know we do blame islamic state. but that blame comes with love because we know that these 2 groups 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. god i. 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 abdel baset 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. the new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons i mean it comes just over a month since there was a strong backlash against a controversial cartoon featuring

a blind president donald trump led by a seeing eye israeli prime minister and his paper made the announcement after one of his cartoonists leaked the plans. the new york times will and all political cartoons are just learned we suffer through the publisher syndicated now to new york or to the cause the scandal for me this is the end of an adventure the begin to him 2 years ago besides announcing the newspaper's decision continuous patrick ship parts complained about the moralistic influencing the news rooms however he also slammed the image saying it should never have run in the best newspaper of the world the new york times issued an apology soon after the cartoon was published the cartoonist responsible for the image find back about the contrivance they claim in the backlash was fabricated by quota jewish propaganda he also emphasized that his arms had a political and 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 threw out 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 freak readers offensive cartoons john and art from completely press corps cause when you stand off the title role believes that not being able to a lot of 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 on tonio the portuguese cartoonist under the bus there really is but 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 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. networks in the u.k. our quote of the government to clarify its stance on huawei that's according to the

b.b.c. what it says is that tainted letter from industry to the british cabinet secretary there apparently concerned whether the chinese tech giant will be allowed to supply the new 5 to a network. 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 greenlights 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 khant 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 com 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 is complicit in utero to pieces i think you should listen business with all companies that stick to the there's a lot of the order 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 totalitarian 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 forgotten him or 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 rahway 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 political economy professor john ross mostly is the u.s. the china trade war will decide who goes 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 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 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 product did do that you know you make it sound like well you're guilty by association. trade tariffs are the big issue for china and its relations with another country be us donald trump position or issued an ultimatum to his chinese counterpart paying urging him to attend the upcoming g 20 summit if he doesn't stay u.s. president is threatening to impose another $300000000000.00 worth of trade tariffs president she doesn't come will that mean that the tariffs on china for the additional $300000000000.00 in goods going immediately yes it would and i think you will go and i think we're scheduled to have a meeting. that's right comes amid a trade war between washington and beijing last month trying to raise tariffs on $200000000000.00 of chinese goods to 25 percent beijing retaliated with hikes on a revised list of u.s. products china's response targeted more than 5000 goodson came into force on june

the 1st beijing insists it 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 but we're not afraid of one if the us is willing to negotiate some equal footing our door will be open if the us insists on escalators making frictions she will fight to the finish in the meantime trump is scrambling for advice on sunday he called former u.s. president jimmy carter who switch diplomatic recognition of china from taipei to beijing in 979 contests is trying phase the country's economy is pulling far ahead of america however international and independent china specialist andrew lunk thinks trump's plans to counter china will benefit no one but it's going to be highly disruptive as west especially if the terrorist why get a lot more products and because nowadays. all these products the production supply

chain around the world is becoming much more. because people take. for example call a different components the engines the hoarsely. they're all they wanted different countries and territories and you just can't separate one from the other even. rare materials like rare earths. or it's across the globe so the thing that you can just impose there is and expect that all the damage is formed by one side is really. what will we ality so i think that ready all the president was likely to be held hostage to this he's being treated a lot of states and. china is not the only country to face is trying to obsession with tariffs is currently also taking aim at french wine.