the united states officially request the extradition of wiki leaks co-founder julian assange if sent stateside he could be jailed for 175 years. often this hour survivors of london's grunfeld tower fire starting legal action against u.s. companies as materials are claimed to have contributed to the tragedy. and almost 80000 people have signed a petition demanding italy drops criminal proceedings against the german captain rescued more than a 1000 refugees from drowning in the mediterranean. you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's

just turned 4 pm 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 assange that's according to media reports citing officials from both countries he has the details 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 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 a soldier is currently serving a 50 week prison sentence that's because he skipped bail of back in 2012 he's serving that at the high security belmarsh prison now in recent weeks there's been concern for his health he was too ill to appear at a court hearing video that was obtained by artie's rocky knees agency showing a songe inside the prison looking incredibly and thin julius on his father visited him in prison in the medical ward where he's been receiving attention for that weight loss songes father said that he thought his son's weight had stabilized. so

express concerns about this extradition and julian assange his father says that if his son is extradited then this is the slippery slope for journalism it's to root for actions of votes against somebody who's not. hold you. know through him. proving to be he's an icon. for. progress back in april julian assange was forcibly removed from the ecuadorian embassy where he sought asylum for around 7 years he sought that asylum back in 2012 following the fact that there were accusations of sexual assaults brought to him by individuals in sweden that were being pursued by the authorities now julian assange

has always denied those allegations of sexual assault and he said that they were a pretext for moving him to sweden and then to be able to be extradited directly to the u.s. a from there now this all spans form a massive dump of classified military documents this was provided to the wiki leaks co-founder to the website by a former u.s. private chelsea manning since then the u.s. government has been pursuing julian a 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. well joining a son joe wait his fate his former protector ecuador is refusing to extradite an alleged american fraudster to the u.s. or dorian present one moran out has personally blocked proceedings citing national sovereignty reasons humanitarian concerns and international law we asked wiki leaks

activist clark stokely why the to cases are being treated so differently don't point double standards very hypocrite always very showy of the morals and ethics of these governments you know the message that we queue leaks has been publishing as been the truth showing that these you know major or. government organizations are committing fraud or committing war crimes and so forth. and you know that. 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 and. maybe people need to start reading the facts of the matter rather good and those who preserve to us. nearly 250 survivors and relatives of the victims of the grunfeld tower tragedy in

london are suing 3 us firms that made materials used on the block of apartments it claimed they facilitated the spread of the devastating fire in 2017 some of the materials are banned from use on u.s. guy scrapers something 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. the lawsuit names clowning producer are comic whose product was highly flammable something that helped the grunfeld fire spread rapidly and also names whirlpool the maker of the refrigerator that's believed to have caused the fire and inflation made by subtle attacks is said to have released cyanide gas leading to further avoidable deaths.

all 3 companies expressed sympathy for the victims whirlpool also noted that 2 separate probes failed to find fault with its refrigerator cell attacks said its insulation was just one element of the clotting system used on the tower or colonic said it would respond in court co-founder of b i mean lawyers for grunfeld peter herbert says multinationals found guilty of negligence are likely to be punished. the united states does have a very little 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 ground so stuff that 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 german captain pierre clement 35 year old skipper of a rescue ship is accused of abetting illegal immigration that's after she personally assisted in the rescue of more than 1000 like prince they were at risk of drowning and unsafe things as they attempted to cross the mediterranean to reach europe where for national reports. this is a case of peer clem a german boat captain and hero to some criminal to others she was at the helm of the e.u. vented boat in august 2017 when it entered the port of lumpy do is it 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 off we have witness to what women and children have to face if they are denied safe travel by ignoring the submarine boats of european warships and expelling libyan militias 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 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 and telling 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 if 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 can. once anymore sheen able the trafficking of people that's illegal she's responsible for the so-called refugee crisis there is a clear splits within the e.u. over how to tackle the migrant crisis and while they seat undecided on whether to assist or hinder the flow of migrants into europe captain clem could be losing her battle at sea and onshore. refinish nazi reporting from germany. community has hit out at the vatican for its latest gardens that questions the existing principles of gender identity the paper is meant to be a bid to tackle what the catholic institution calls an educational crisis. delves

into the reason for the sudden outrage of a roderick the vatican has been insisting on for so long. now you'd be forgiven for thinking the catholic church doesn't really know what turns the public on and you'd be right in fact it's just dealt a mosque to class and turning people off the vatican has released a paper which says there are only 2 genders male and female and it's called male and female he created them just so that was no misunderstanding if we wish to take an approach to the question of gender theory that is based on the path of dialogue is vital to bear in mind the distinction between the ideology of gender on the one hand and the whole field of research on gender that the human sciences of one's taken on the other so according to the catholics men are men and women are women and anyone who sees themselves otherwise is provocative and poses a threat to the institution of marriage and seeks to overthrow nature itself

unsurprisingly it's head up you know note amongst those who are outraged to find that any of you want gender theory other than that of course exists by refusing to engage in dialogue with people about their lived experiences or so from the standing in faith the vatican remains in the dark ages for most of your false teaching the law is a myth rumor unfolds so the paper is not popular partly because it sounds like it's from the time before christ which it is it's filled with quotes from the bible after all and because it was released during pride month the 30 days every year the world celebrates the l g b t community quit but wait no where in the paper does it say being gay is sinful and in fact it condemns any discrimination on file and against people the number of men and women who have deep seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible they must be accepted with respect compassion and sensitivity every sign off and just destroy a nation in their regard should be avoided now it's surely not news to outrage

friends that the church struggles with accepting homosexuality and transgenderism and when they do throw in that 2 pennies worth net the by. as huge as one bishop in rhode island planned when he decided to chat his view on pride month a reminder that catholics should not support or attend a pride month of vents held in june they promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to catholic faith and morals. it seems the people who replied must of left the christian values of kindness out the door we woke up this morning and we saw the bishops tweet and we were honestly flabbergasted he is like the don't trump of the catholic church goes on twitter and spews out hate i'm catholic and i have read the gospels jesus says nothing about l g b t q cry says a lot about love you're a homophobic bishop for perverts in the gospels to discriminate against eligible to q community and there's the truth my catholic children will be attending pride

events as this. guy always taught me what would jesus do yeah i know jesus would be attending that pride parade with her also with pride and i also know that god is love and jesus is love and love is love the bishop apologized and decided to spread the love but the question begging to be asta is why the surprise kids the church isn't known for being big on reform is it really shocking it's not breaking it's habit pun intended your global news update continues after the break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so if you want to be president. or some want to. watch a white person this is what the. real people are. interested in the why. 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 does it in 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 british internal security service and life i was 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 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 secrets 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 emerged m i 5 was already aware of the failures 3 years ago r.t. his point boyko 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 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 5 handled data the report of the investigatory powers commissioner's office into these risks concluded that they were serious and required immediate mitigation the commission 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. police in moscow say they have arrested some 200 people at an unsanctioned rally in support of investigative journalist yvonne go a lot of it was freed from house arrest on wednesday at least a 1000 people are said to have taken part in that march all charges against all of have been dropped he's been accused of illegal drug possession with intent to distribute and what he claimed was a trumped up case over his journalistic activities reports. all from the looks of it there are a few dozen people still left here chanting political slogans the initial showing numbers was at around 1200 people these are the official figures now some 200

of them have been arrested have been detained by the police not just the artists offense here you do it is also people just minding their business and even celebrating because it is russia day it is a national holiday so a lot of people are just out and about having their phone and this is this is what the local authorities are citing is the main reason for refusing to prove this particular date for the march now the us. you organizes it to move with a few days in the calendar to this sunday even if organizers who had announced this meeting before we bungle enough was the least for me only wish. everyone who were willing to attend had to show up at least to show up on sunday when he pulled me from going off in self he's not here just today he said that he doesn't intend to attend for more than a 1000 people have been saying that it is big it is larger than just one man and so

now all sorts of political slogans you can be heard being chanted here stuff like affordable mortgages so clearly the participants are turning this protest into a big thing last week a fun goal an open investigative journalist was arrested in central moscow and he was charged with attempting to sell drugs but from the outset the the case was written with holes and there were put there were plenty of things police didn't have the answers for for instance of angolan of tested negative for any drug consumption he his fingerprints were nowhere to be found on the ziploc bags containing the drugs that were alleged to be found in his apartment so initially the judge sentenced him to house arrest but the case fogs massive truly massive social outrage and it wasn't just people or activists it were journalists also major russian. support for van gogh in office and eventually all charges wardrobe's

just yesterday all charges were dropped and he was released he is a free man. these are a few who are here i hope the investigation will continue and no one will find themselves in the same situation that i happened to be in trouble for this expression thanks to run for thank you but now i need time to come to terms with what's happened. russia's a minister of internal affairs he wants to fire 2 generals who have been implicated in the case and he has already said he will be asking for blood in a pool whose a mission to do that. he is required to do so he called if i owe those people you know a lot tribute and in general russia's authorities have been watching this case very very closely in fact they're still saying that they expect more. nations from the people from the investigators and from people who slapped charges in the 1st place

that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. law . i. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

world of politics this list i'm show business i'll see you then. recent high level controversy surrounding you tube clearly demonstrate the online universe and freedom of speech are not on the same page the platform says it wants to ban extremism it is probably fair to say most would agree on this the problem is how you tube defines this concept. quantitative easing for q.e. 4 is now well under way can't say for a ponzi scheme no economics matters only money printing and stock manipulation.

well you're welcome to well it's a part of the detention of a prominent investigative journalist on drug smuggling charges has joined in the russian society like your raft before with nonstop picking so fond of police have waters and pleasures of solidarity from across the media industry what does the case of above the law say about what india russia and the ways of affecting change here of discomfort are now doing violence even in the editor in chief of the moscow radio station and said it's especially by this 3rd venediktov thank you very much for joining us michel i see your station has always been quite critical about what's going on in russia so i've reporting on all sorts of improprieties and malpractises is every day routine for you but as far as i recall no no such cases

have triggered so much mass public outcry as the recent arrest of yvonne gallen off why do you think his case received such a response or did you all on board along with i think the reason 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 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 a lot of maybe nobody's actually fighting drugs maybe people are using drugs for character assassination you. will go against political opponents. are investigative journalists so the reason for this treaties that people are terrified that this war on terror may be actually used. to squash dissent to go off we'll talk about that in more detail later but that the public outcry is certainly very important i thought there is also such a thing in russia as this so-called telephone justice and personal connections did you have to make some phone calls to try and help move on. yes it is late edition of on the go and. more when this whole thing happened i was singing. for all of. president putin who was giving he's on the west and i was watching my news. and i've been holding 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 little something was going on because i guess that de gaulle 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 or 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 when he is as tough on drug dealers as a man can be back in what way it's what he started telling example disease doesn't on some type of city you know because of the. drugs he hates the drug dealers he always sides with police about in this particular case he told me he doesn't then i realized something's wrong with the thing many people are like people who would fight drugs or cover the fight against true 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 as it was denied immediate access to his attorney. yeah bodily injuries are a lot and information about his case shared with mass media was not always true to the fact in one of your interviews you mentioned meeting with some of the senior ranks in the police what do they say about these breaches of procedure if you. did talk to the chief moscow police in general but you know i asked him could you please explain to me of that i arrived in moscow on the night train and i met with him the next morning i asked him could you please explain the situation to me maybe i don't know something maybe i don't understand so i started talking to him and it was you know i realize that you didn't have answers.