i i i i i. i. the u.s. officially request the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange if extradited he could be jailed for 175 years also to survivors of london's grenfell tower fires start legal action against u.s. companies whose materials it's claimed contributed to the tragedy and almost $80000.00 people have signed a petition demanding that italy drop criminal proceedings against. 1000 refugees from france in the may.

follow there is a day here in moscow you're watching international now u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange that's according to media reports citing officials from both countries so let's get the latest now charlotte dubinsky he's in london for us charlotte good afternoon she one of the details here that. well we understand that that extradition hearing is due to take place on friday of this week we've had information from the wiki leaks editor in chief this is kristen her office and who said that the u.s. department of defense is due to present its evidence as to why it wants to extradite julian assange we understand that he's not due to be there in person but there is a chance that he will connect to that hearing via a live video link from belmarsh prison where he's currently serving

a 50 week sentence now what are the charges that the u.s. have brought will live indicted julian assange on 17 counts of spying this because of publicizing a published classified military and diplomatic documents by the wiki leaks website and there's also a charge of conspiracy to hack a u.s. government computer now if julian assange is found guilty of those charges he could spend up to 175 years in prison a century meaning that is a full life sentence for the weekly co-founder. kristin her office and from leaks has said that there is no chance that julian the songs will receive a fair trial here in the u.s. i do believe that we are going to win this with legal arguments there is no chance the julian will get a fair trial here in the u.k. or in the u.s. of course and there's

a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out we're not talking about a prosecution we're talking about a persecution. so julian assange currently serving that 50 week sentence in a high security prison in belmarsh in london that's because he skipped bail back in 2012 now we did see in a video that was obtained by artie's rocky news agency in the last week videos of inside the prison looking very very gaunt and in fact his health has been such a concern that he's actually been moved to the medical wing of that prize prison and he has been so far too ill to appear to hearings now on tuesday he was visited in the prison by his father and also by the chinese artist and human rights activist a way now his father said he was concerned about the extradition and suggested that if his son is extradited to the u.s.

that this is the start of a very slippery slope for journalism. to. ericsson's you vote against somebody. who. you do in. proving to be reason i. would. be. the worst so just to bring you some background on this to remind you how we got here back in april julius was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy by the british police he had been there for around 7 years where he sought asylum now he sought asylum initially after sexual assault allegations were brought against him by prosecutors in sweden julian the song has always denied that sexual assault claim and said that that was being used as a pretext to get him to sweden and then to be able to extradite him straight to the

u.s. to face those charges of hacking and of course a conspiracy over the documents that were published these are. documents that wiki leaks obtained back in 2010 from a former u.s. army private this is chelsea manning and at the time and in fact even up until now it's one of the biggest divests and digest of classical classified military documents that has ever been released in these documents actually showed alleged crimes by u.s. soldiers in iraq and since then of course since those were published back in 2010 the u.s. authorities have been trying to bring julian this orange to account and this of course this extradition extradition hearing on friday is the latest chance to for them to do that ok thank you charlotte that was a charlotte dubinsky there for us in london. she waits his fate then his former

protector ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster to the u.s. ecuadorian president. personally blocked the proceedings citing national sovereignty reasons humanitarian concerns and also international law we are asked wiki leaks activist clark stoically why the 2 cases are being treated so differently. i don't want double standards very hypocrite always very sure of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that wiki leaks has been publishing has been the truth showing that these 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 girl those who preserve to us. nearly $250.00 survivors and relatives of the victims of the grenfell tower tragedy in london assuming 3 u.s. firms that made materials used at the residential complex it is claimed they facilitated the spread of the devastating fire in 2017 some of the materials are banned from use on u.s. guy scrapers prompting accusations of double standards are comics and the message that foreign lives are worth less than american lives and that it is acceptable to expose people outside the united states to dangerous to which people in the united states would not be exposed while the lawsuit names are conic exterior cladding was highly flammable and helped spread the flames quickly it also names whirlpool the

maker of the refrigerator that's believed to of course the fire and also insulation made by seller texas said to have released cyanide gas leading to victims. but all 3 companies expressed their sympathies with the victims will pools than 82 separate probes fail to find any fault with its refrigerator teletech said its

insulation is just one element of the cladding system used on the tower narconon he said it will respond in court we spoke to peter herbut he's the co-founder of the emmy lawyers for grand fell he says that multinationals who are found guilty of negligence are likely to be punished the united states does have a very good a friendly culture whereby if a multinational national company has been guilty often selling magazine product or french trail product without sufficient safeguards then they will apparently those previously been cases in the united states where a building collapse has resulted in damages of around about $230000000.00 to be distributed to the victims and residents and that tragedy i believe there's a 2 year limitation period in the united states that action must be commenced the full 2 years expires otherwise the limitation act would rule any action outside of

their limited jurisdiction of the u.s. so it is a necessity to safeguard the legal position and at the end of the day the question is are the individuals the grindstone stuff that so much going to get even serious . benefit for those of their families who are people who are after the break i'm glad for if that is right but not must be part of me just subtle but. the russian investigative journalist even gallen of has been released from house arrest with all charges against him dropped he had been accused of illegal drug possession with the intent to distribute what he claimed was a trumped up case over his journalistic activity officials are now saying the evidence was reexamined and found to be invalid gallen or was met by cheering crowds of supporters. was. refusing i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in

the same situation that i happen to be in trouble. resisting the british thanks a lot of room for support thank you but no new term to come to terms with what's happened since it wasn't. what he was detained on thursday with police officers claiming that they had found drugs on him and also at his flat he said the evidence had been planted in retaliation for his investigative journalism the officers suspected of framing him have been suspended russia's interior minister has started an investigation into the detention and asked the russian president to fire 2 high ranking moscow police generals over the case called an avs arrest sparked a widespread public outcry in russia many journalists and other public figures rallied in support of him accusing the police of misconduct there were protests in front of moscow police department 3 of russia's biggest newspapers also around the same from page with the headline we are evil and calling off will independent

political or political analyst alessandra bruno says the way the case has played out does have a number of positive takeaways it is definitely a victory for civil society but it's also a victory for him. clean government. happy to see that the people responsible have been put under investigation and most importantly the civil society and leader were able to express their opinions and support for the goal not really in the west in particular where a lot of. propaganda against russia is presented and prepared. we are often told that the media in russia is very. controlled by the state. censored so i think this case is perhaps not very good for going off it's a very important case in helping to show that perhaps the media in russia is much

freer than we believe. that almost $80000.00 people have signed a petition demanding that italy drop criminal proceedings against a german boat captain klemp the 35 year old skipper of the rescue ship is accused of abetting illegal immigration that after she personally assisted in the rescue of more than a 1000 migrants they were risk of drowning in unsafe as they attempt to cross the mediterranean sea to reach europe. reports. this is the case of peer clem a german boat captain and hero to some criminal to others she was at the helm of the event or boat in august 2017 when it entered the port of lump it was it located on an island between malta and the coast of tunisia the rescue vessel was detained and appears a lawyer now says he may face up to 20 years in prison and horrendous fines but no

matter what appears stance is unwavering to get off we have witnessed what women and children have to face if they are denied safe travel ignore you submarine boats of european warships and expelling. libyan militias brutal people who shelter refugees from unsuitable overcrowded scraps and beat them up sometimes too late italian investigators have accused her crew of colluding with smugglers with photos leaked to the media alleged in the boat returning to libya's coast on purpose to be used again by smugglers a date hasn't been set yet for with klemp has dubbed her show trial and many agree tens of thousands of people are back in her in a petition calling for italy to drop the charges this however falls under matteo salvini is crackdown they tell an interior minister and deputy prime minister is known for his open and strong until migrant to stop rescue ships that are carrying

migrants from docking on italian shores and allowing refugees to disembark it's what he's been after since his appointment last year and he has supporters too it's not as though the italians acted without probable cause there is much truth through reporting that every year of investigation preceded the arrest including videos witness statements don't develop the picture mrs rescuing people from drowning is b.s. propaganda rescue them and take them to germany it is quite convenient to rescue people and leave them initially greece cetera we have enough migrants we do not want any more she may believe the trafficking of people that's illegal she is responsible for the so-called refugee crisis there is a clear split within the e.u. over how to tackle the migrant crisis and while they see it undecided on whether to assist or hanged the flow of migrants into europe captain fear clem could be losing her battle at sea and entre. reef national are to reporting from germany where

although the italian authorities do say that their anti migrant policy is a success rights organizations say that lives are still being put at risk. but imagine now your since the start of the year there have been around 2000 rivals by seat using small boats sailing boats rowing boats whatever they have to cross the mediterranean or that's compared to $14000.00 last year. by guns have no say in how or when to leave the traffickers make that decision for them they couldn't care less if the people arrive dead or alive if we do not intervene soon it will be a sea of blood the reason why old he says that that is because that he's no agreement to that european level for the resettlement of the as i know seekers and therefore easily could have become just the container of all asylum seekers waiting for a maybe resettlement in other european countries for the 1st 15 years to return at

european level in this stablish leaders rules that apply to all member states so the country of 1st arrival we could say it doesn't because also and only the only one to receive these people so this this food creates a flow there should be a coordinated approach. but at the moment to europe is not capable of device in any kind of solution washing out international are going to take a quick break we'll be back continue. recent high level controversy surrounding you tube clearly demonstrates the online universe and freedom of speech are not on the same page apart from says it wants to ban extremism it's probably fair to say most would agree on this the problem is how

you tube defines this concept. we are in a strange situation where everybody is making a lot of noise about military action against iran but nobody in the part of that alliance actually wants to do it there's no desire for it so they hope that iran makes a mistake. somehow and then there isn't some kind of confrontation and then uranium will be forced to come to the table you know begging for some kind of solution on american terms but you know i think that is dreaming that's a pipe dream.

that the british internal security service m i 5 is under fire for illegally holding on to bulk data collected on citizens the situation came to light during a case brought by the civil rights group liberty m i 5 have been holding on to people's day time ordinary people's date on your dates on my data illegally for many is not only that they've been trying to keep their really serious errors secret secret from the security services watchdog who's supposed to know about them secret from the home office secret from the prime minister and secrets from the public during the trial it emerged that m i 5 was already aware of the failures 3 years ago with more his. well there might not be a plaque on the door but even google maps will tell you that that building over there is m i 5 britain's domestic intelligence agency and even though its job

is to root out the bad guys the agency itself has been accused of extraordinary and persistent illegality in a high court case civil rights group liberty brought the legal challenge against m i 5 to the high court the case against m i 5 now relates back to a law that was passed in the u.k. in 2016 the investigatory powers act back then the new legislation was sold as something that would create transparency in the wake of the snowden scandal which had revealed that the u.s. and its allies including the u.k. had been collecting vast troops of public data but the investigatory powers act quickly became dubbed the snoopers charter privacy campaigners claim it simply legalized the practices that snowden had exposed and introduced intrusive new powers. there is however

a government watchdog that's meant to oversee the u.k.'s sweeping surveillance laws and according to documents revealed in court that watchdog the u.k.'s investigative powers commissioner has delivered a highly critical assessment of m i 5 in particular over m i 5 storage of cracked public data in one letter presented in court m i 5 knowledge that personal data collected by m i 5 was being stored in ungoverned spaces. there is a high likelihood of material being discovered when it should have been deleted in a disclosure exercise leading to substantial legal or oversight failure back in may britain's home secretary sajid javid revealed that compliance risks had been identified with how and why fide handled data the report of the investigatory powers commissioner's office into these risks concluded that they were serious and

required immediate mitigation the commissioner also expressed concern that m i 5 should have reported the compliance risks to him sooner the court case which is ongoing also revealed that the government watchdog would be subjecting m i 5 to far greater scrutiny from now on comparing it to a school being placed on special measures which is the government's equivalent of the naughty step. now the new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons it does come just over a month after a strong backlash against the cartoon featuring a blind president donald trump led by the israeli prime minister in the form of a guide dog one of the papers a long time contributors broke the news. the new york times all and all political cartoons are just learned we saw 3 published a syndicated no 2 new yorker to cause the scandal for me this is the end of an adventure begin to him 2 years ago. they're also complained about moralistic mobs

influencing newsrooms and in his post he stressed that without humor we are all dead in new york times issued an apology soon after the offending cartoon was published the disputed image of donald trump and benjamin netanyahu was the work of one ternium rayo and tuna's back in may he hit back over the controversy claiming the backlash was fabricated by quote jewish propaganda meanwhile the decision of the new york times to abandon political cartoons caused uproar on twitter. the n.y.t. really did fail this time decision not to run political cartoons by a white c opinion is spineless we need political humor now more than ever 4 years ago the new york times it was all just c surely now they're no longer publishing cartoons new york times are not through out to b.b. with the bathwater yes there was a terrible lapse in judgment to print that cartoon so polish guys and have

a keener eye for a creature slee offensive cartoons john and art from completely unethical cartoonist and author ted rall believes 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 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 this 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 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 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. that police have used to guess what canon or say pepper spray against protesters in hong kong where lawmakers delayed voting on. a controversial bill after tens of thousands took to the streets in fact these are live pictures we're looking at from hong kong the bill would enable the semi autonomous region to extradite suspects to mainland china but activists do say that would see too much control to beijing and encroach on hong kong special status they do fear it would enable politically motivated extradition to china or argues the bill is necessary to prosecute crimes committed by hong kong where the mainland

humor shops banks and enterprises gave their employees the day off to protest and wednesday on sunday over a 1000000 people in hong kong were protesting over the same issue these are live pictures from the center of hong kong where the protests are still looking pretty strong. bring you up to date that's how things are looking don't forget though plenty of stories to you on our website you can find that. there. are. going to welcome to worlds of our detention of

a prominent investigative journalist on drug smuggling charges has gone to the russians the sides like your rascality for nonstop picking so fond of police have flashes of solidarity from across the media industry what does the case often volatile not say about modern day russia and the ways of affecting change here to discuss that i'm now joined by alexei been in editor in chief of the moscow radio station. this 3rd benedicto thank you very much for joining us michel your station has always been why. critical about what's going on in russia such reporting on all sorts of improprieties and malpractise is what is every day routine for you but as far as i recall nano such cases have every triggered so much mass public outcry as the recent arrest of yvonne garland off why do you think his case received such a response or did you. think the reason you said and the goal now of my case

affected so many people is because there is a slight detail here that not many people have noticed drugs are a serious problem in russian and it gets worse and worse and we all are all aware of this and rob we all have children so when our colleague was detained for allegedly drug possession or or dealing drugs over this the 1st impression among journalists was that they were shocked because journalists are well familiar with this problem so this is what they thought about them initially and later it became obvious that there were many holes in this case and we realized that maybe there is no actual war on drugs it's not maybe nobody's actually fighting drugs maybe people are using drugs for character assassination when you wrote the political opponents or investigative journalists so the reason for this treaties that evil

are terrified or the feel that this war on terror may be actually used. to squash dissent to go off the we'll talk about that in more detail later but that the public outcry is certainly very important to what i thought there is also such a thing in russia as the so-called telephone justice and personal connections did you have to make some phone calls to try and help move on yes that is late edition of on the go and of. more when this whole thing happened i was. 4 out of. president putin was giving his street on the west and i was watching my news. and i've been calling it was put in couldn't go no go no go go no go no go no no we're just put in style of play now that's when aerialist that something was going on because i just stabbed a girl in the excess made more news in social media than clinton which is

extraordinary indeed it's. you know i have former you know concern burning me are you guinea roy's woman and working for me at the reuse lesion that it was and he was had a city with drugs foundation and he is as tough on drug dealers as a man can be back in what way it was he started telling its evil disease doesn't on some group of 6 you know. drugs he hates the drug dealers he always sides with police about in this particular case he told me he doesn't yep and then i realized something's wrong again i think many people are like that which people who drugs or cover the fight against through ugs they realized something was wrong indeed it is clear that there was a massive abuse of legal process in case of a mongolian else ever asked he was denied immediate access to his attorney he had bodily injuries on a lot and information about.