the u.s. officially request the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange if sent stateside he could be jailed for 175 years. plus to. start legal action against u.s. companies whose materials it's claimed contributed to the tragedy. and almost 80000 people have signed a petition demanding that italy drop the criminal proceedings against a german skipper who rescued over 8000 refugees from drowning in the mediterranean .

sea watching aren't international bringing you in your live news update from our studio here at moscow welcome to the program. u.s. prosecutors have made a formal request to the u.k. for the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian that's according to media reports citing officials from both countries. has the details. well that extradition hearing is due to take place on friday we understand from the wiki leaks editor in chief that the u.s. department of defense is due to present its evidence as to why it wants to extra julian assange he's not expected to appear in person but he could appear via a live video link so what's he charged with well there are 17 charges and counts of spying this is because of the publication of classified military and diplomatic documents by the wiki leaks website and also a count of trying to 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 so essentially this is a life sentence and we can leaks editor in chief says it's just not possible that he will receive a fair trial 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 unless 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. julian the soldier is currently serving a 50 week prison sentence that's because he skipped bail and back in 2012 he's serving that at the high security belmarsh prison now in recent weeks has been concerned for his health he was too ill to appear or to quote hearing the video that was obtained by artie's rocky news agency showing

a songe inside the prison looking incredibly poor and thin to me in a soldier's father visited him in prison in the medical world where he's been receiving attention for that weight loss father said that he thought his son's weight had stabilized also expressed concerns about this extradition and julian assange is father says that if his son is extradited then this is the celebrity slope for journalism rich to poor actions you just wrote against somebody who's more suited. to. hold you. through him. proving to be reason i. will work with. you. joan. rivers back in april julian assange was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy where he'd sought asylum for around 7 years he sought that

asylum back in 2012 following the fact that there were accusations of sexual assault brought to him by individuals in sweden that were being pursued by the authorities now julian assault has always denied those allegations of sexual assault and he said that they were pretext for moving him to sweden and then to be able to be extradited directly to the usa from there now this all spans form a massive dump of classified military documents that was provided to the wiki leaks co-founder to the website by a former u.s. . private chelsea manning since then the us government has been pursuing julian this source for the fact that the wiki leaks co-founder on the website published those classified documents which showed alleged war crimes being committed by u.s. soldiers in iraq while doing a song joe awaits his fate his former protector ecuador is refusing to extradite an

alleged american france or to the u.s. i would ring president lenin right now has personally blocked proceedings citing national sovereignty reasons humanitarian concerns and international law we asked wiki leaks activist clark stokely why 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 we you leaks has been publishing has been the truth showing that these major. 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 walk away the fact the mare is it's always without your percent factual evidence and.

maybe people need to start reading the facts of the matter rather than loews through a prism to us. nearly $250.00 survivors and relatives of the victims of the grunfeld tower tragedy and london are suing 3 us firms that made materials used at the residential complex it's claimed they facilitated the spread of the devastating fire in 2017 some of the materials are banned from use on u.s. sky crisscrossed papers something accusations of double standards. a comic sent the message that foreign lives the west 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 to last names cladding producer our comic who's product was highly flammable something that helped the grenfell fire spread very fast and also names whirlpool the maker of the refrigerator that's believed to have caused the fire and inflation made by style attacks is said to release cyanide

gas leading to further avoidable victims. all 3 companies have expressed their sympathies with the victims well paul also noted that 2 separate probes failed to find fault with its refrigerator teletext said it's inflation was just one element of the clotting system used on the tower and our comics said it would respond in court we spoke to peter herbert co-founder

of b i mean lawyers for grunfeld who says that multinationals who are found guilty of negligence are likely to be punished. the united states does have a very good friendly culture whereby if a multinational national company has been guilty often selling magazine product or a failed product without sufficient safeguards then they will pay those previously been cases in the united states where a building collapse has resulted in damages of around about $230000000.00 being 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 commence the floor 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 their legal position and at the end of the day the question is are the individuals in grant's own stuff and so much going to get you to real

benefits for those of their families who have been bereaved people who are often the breadwinners and therefore if that is right then that must be part of a just settlement. almost $80000.00 people have signed a petition demanding that italy drop criminal proceedings against a german boat captain pierre clan the 5th 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 1000 migrants they were at risk of drowning in unsafe things as they attempted to cross the mediterranean sea to reach europe are days where if national 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 of boat in august 2017 when it entered the port of lump it was a located on an island between malta and the coast of tunisia the rescue vessel was

detained and appears a lawyer now says she may face up to 20 years in prison and horrendous fines but no matter what appears stance is unwavering get out food have witness to what women and children have to face if they are denied safe travel ignore you submarine boats of european warships and expel in libyan militias from 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 cracked down the talent interior minister and deputy prime minister is

known for his open and strong until migrant views 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 are to do without probable cause there is much truth 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 don't. once anymore sheen able the trafficking of people that's illegal she's 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 seat undecided on whether to assist or hanged the flow of migrants into europe captain clem could be losing her

battle at sea and on shore reef nationality reporting from germany although the italian authorities say that their anti migrant policy is a success rights organizations say lives are still being put at risk. pretty much your since the start of the year there have been around 2000 rivals by street with using small boats sailing boats rowing boats whatever they have to cross the mediterranean that's compared to 14000 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 all dissent in this because that is no agreement to that european level for the resettlement of the asylum seekers and therefore easily could have become just the container of all asylum seekers waiting for

maybe resettlement in other european countries the 1st thing is to return the european level and the stablished 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. british internal security service and my 5 is under fire for illegally holding on to bulk data collected on citizens the situation came to light during a case brought by civil rights group liberty. m i 5 have been holding on to people's data on ordinary people's data your dates on my data illegally for many

years not only that they've been trying to keep their really serious error 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 secret from the public during the trial it emerged that a life i was already aware of the failure 3 years ago artist polly boy picks up the story. 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 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 acknowledge 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 oversight feel you're back in may britain's home secretary sajid javid revealed that compliance risks had been identified with how and why 500 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. in the unauthorized march in support of russian investigative

journalist yvonne is currently taking place in moscow as a spite his release from house arrest and all charges against him having been dropped he'd been accused of illegal drug possession with the intent to distribute and what he claimed was a trumped up case of prison journalistic activity we go live now to who is at the march in moscow for us now why are people out on the streets now that the journalist has been freed. jacki if you look behind me you can see the business about 2 dozen people that are left here this is sort of the final point of their march this is where they intended to come now this is the action we do have the ability to take the nation showing it was about the few 100 people we don't have the official figures just yet now that this protest was not approved by the forty's and is why because if you take another look behind me all of the people there all the protestors and all of them are activists some of

them are just going out and about celebrating because it is russia day it is a national holiday everybody's but much everybody's or so they're out there in the streets again celebrating and this is the main thing on the agenda right now and this is what among the key reasons why the authorities never possibly would be nice is this margin move with a few days in the calendar. this sunday and that is the approved date this is the date when this much is still going to happen officially or not and that thing is that you point out a very quiet writing that have been going over as we please from prison he is being released from home arrest i should say i mean he's a free man now he himself is not even at the margins of the. movie you can probably attending this march today in few denies is the initial organizing this is not a march you know it was so many would want everybody to well to abstain from children i mean to make a show or not to on sunday on the police day because this much is not being

arranged do you see what you've done all along was released from prison but will now some people who have been saying that he did this thing is you're going to get you just one minute and so were you to listen to the chance to the political chance to rule over the political agenda would building these venturing in such areas even affordable mortgages and so on. you. prefer to work here i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in the same situation that i happened to be in the future or will. this expression even flow to every detail the girl nobs case. oh yeah it was a little bit difficult to believe but basically i think what we've just seen was a moment when yvonne golan of was released when he learned that this is

a free man he can leave his apartment gotz what we just want to just listen to him but indeed let me just briefly on the case really quickly last week yvonne golan only journalist and investigative journalist was arrested in the in central moscow and he was charged with attempting to sell drugs but from the case was not good enough with the holes the evidence provided by the police while it raised a lot of questions like for instance a bungalow not to be he's been saying to the guilty could you tested negative for me or drug consumption could basically want you to test his medical tests children didn't take any drugs at least for a few demands and they were in the arena so he's crawling through never found the flu stimulus on the zipless contain your drugs that we're told that were said to be found in his apartment so that release you know who is doing absolutely absolutely outraged. outraged you and russia not just

a not just among young people but also other media major russia's major outlets force their support for the journalist and pulled and pulled on the authorities to answer the questions to provide evidence to corroborate their claims as quickly as possible as a result of russia's internal affairs minister is saying that he wants to fire 2 generals what implicated in this that he will be asking flatten the previous commission to do that by law he can do that you know actually he needs the president's approval of the decision now this is the this is this is the situation so far but again the fun going on has been released but some people have decided to make a show and that's why you see the police presence here as well. because don i'm bringing us the latest from central moscow thank you. the new york times has dropped political cartoons after the publisher faced a severe backlash over one of them more on that after this break.

you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. we are in 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 do you hope that iran

makes a mistake and somehow and then does it some kind of confrontation and then the iranians 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. welcome back the new york times has officially stopped publishing political cartoons it comes just over a month after a strong backlash against a cartoon featuring a blind president i will trump led by the israeli prime minister in the form of a guide dog one of the paper's longtime contributors broke the news i'm afraid this is not just about cartoons but about jordan and opinion in general we are in a world where moralistic mopes gather on social media and rise like a storm. cartoonist patrick have paper in his post stressed that without humor

we're all dead in new york times issued an apology soon after the offending cartoon was published the disputed image of donald trump and binyamin netanyahu it was the work of antonio moreira and tunes back in may he hit back over the controversy claiming the backlash was fabricated the backlash was made through the jewish propaganda machine which is anytime there's criticism it's because there's someone anti semitic on the other side and that's not the case 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 aim whitey opinion is spineless we need political humor now more than ever 4 years ago the new york times it 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 polit gys and have a keener i freak regis lee 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 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 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. police have news tear gas water cannon and pepper spray against protesters and hong kong or lawmakers have delayed voting on a controversial bill after tens of thousands took to the streets the bill would enable the semi-autonomous region to extradite suspects to mainland china but activists say that would feed too much control to beijing and encroach on hong kong special status they fear it would enable politically motivated expeditions that china argues the bill is necessary to prosecute crimes committed by hong kong residents

on the mainland numerous shops banks and enterprises gave their employees the day off to protest wednesday on sunday over a 1000000 people in hong kong pressed to protest in the same issue. the european football union is marking one year till the euro 2020 chair. kicks off with a week long celebration in one of the host cities northern capital st petersburg our sports correspondent is there for us and he joins us now alex say what's in store for the menace of the north. now off the overwhelming success of last year's world cup in russia the beautiful game is coming again to this country namely to st petersburg now exactly one year from today the euro 2020 integral anniversary competition will begin 1st time ever it will be held not in just one or 2 countries it will be held in 11 cities across the continent including amsterdam

london and st petersburg as one of the cities so today it's all about football here in the vitus of the north now behind me you can see the football pitch 6 some kids and adults are now strutting their stuff but just a short while ago a match of legends was held here the u.a.e. for its against the russian legends the absolutely incredible game which ended 16 goals to 16 goals in regulation time and it was decided on a penalty shoot out the russians won 4 goals to 3 and i had the privilege of commentating that game i will bring you all that later on my show roth take on r.t. but i actually managed to mingle with some of these players including federer non the money and us including again who ever played football and watched football in their lives know these names these are legendary players i mingled with i asked them questions about what they felt about the euros next year and the prospect of while holding it in st petersburg and 10 more cities across the continent they seemed very very positive it's worth also noting that today the ticketing the

official ticketing program for you a full stop so anyone can go to europe was wipes website and buy those tickets and last year i put in questions last week so i put in the question to direct a film out in color and he said that the tickets will be pretty much affordable starting at 50 euros and the cheapest ticket to the final. london's wembley stadium iconic stadium next summer will be 100 euros which is something important especially considering all the backlash that's been receiving following the champions league and europa league finals. it's all about. everybody's enjoying the beautiful game in the beautiful st petersburg. thank you for bringing that report. that's our global news update for this hour and thanks for tuning in.

greetings and. let's kick things off with a new scandal in the world of big brother watchers this week just as the us government law enforcement agencies multiple airlines in the tech giants of silicon valley were singing the praises of the magical wondrous convenience of importance of facial recognition technology a major blow to their manufactured reality lended in the form of a cyber attack on monday buzz feed and other outlets reported to us customs and border protection subcontractor data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers coming in and out of the united states the breach consisted of identifying photos a license plate images taken over a month and a half of a single port of entry and it involved close to 100000 travelers and while according to officials no other identifying information was included with the photos and no passport.