i'm gonna my. then. current set of. the u.k.'s home secretary passes a u.s. extradition request for julian assange is to the courts meaning the whistleblower could be decided at a hearing on friday. also this hour 2 oil tankers catch fire and the gulf of all men in suspected attacks amid high tensions in the region the incident has sent all prices soaring. her special alliance with very special people big buyers of our equipment over a plane she. praises a new deal that sees a deepening of military ties with poland a 1000 extra u.s. troops will be deployed as worse home buyers over 30 american fighter jets.

you're watching our 2 international coming to you live from the moscow welcome to the program. you can use home secretary has passed a u.s. extradition request for julian assange is to the courts which will now consider the whistleblowers fate and extradition hearing is scheduled for friday we go live now to charlotte in london charlotte take us through the latest development in the asylum saga. well yes that's right the confirmation now that the extradition hearing will take place on friday of this week that comes off to serve a judge it had signed that order later this week as he said today that means now that the courts will be able to decide whether a song is extradited to the u.s. that the secretary said he thought it was right that julian assange was currently in prison. we're very pleased that the police were finally able to apprehend him

and now he's right behind bars because he broke you cade law i want to see justice done at all times and we've got a legitimate extradition request so i signed it but the final decision is now with the courts so that final decision is with the courts now the hearing will take place on friday although some say it could actually take place in the belmarsh prison and that's because the health of julian a soldier has deteriorated in the recent weeks what are the charges that he face we know that the u.s. indicted him for 17 counts of espionage this relates the publication of military and diplomatic documents classified documents and he's also charged with one count of conspiracy to hack a u.s. computer now the you editor in chief of wiki leaks has said that they don't think it's possible that julius aunt will be able to face a fair trial and if of course he's found guilty of this he could face up to 175

years in prison. i don't 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. well julian is orange is currently taking part in a 50 week sentence in belmarsh prison in london that's high security prison he's in prison for skipping bail back in 2012 now as you can see from this video that was obtained by artie's. agency this shows julian assange inside the prison looking coolant and thin we know that there has been concern for his medical stability over the last few weeks without loss of weight and he was transferred to a medical ward within the prison we also know that he was too ill to appear at

a hearing recently however we heard from his father john shipton earlier this week who visited son in prison and said that he was on the road to recovery now where did we go how did we get here we'll just remind you back in april british police officers were given the authority to enter into the ecuadorian embassy which had claimed refuge in asylum for almost 7 years he went in there that was after he faced allegations of sexual assault from prosecutors who wanted to extradite him that he has always denied those claims of sexual assault or said. as a pretext to get to sweden to be able to extradite him quite easily to the u.s. why well back in 2010 you may recall that wiki leaks published the huge dump of documents that were obtained by a former u.s. private. army soldier this was

a private chelsea manning chelsea manning was able to obtain those documents and known as a whistleblower and those documents contained some incredible information including videos which showed alleged war crimes being committed by u.s. soldiers in iraq and since then the u.s. government has made moves to try and bring julius. and it looks like that at least on friday in the u.k. they will have that day in court show devinsky bringing us the latest from london thank you. to oil tankers have caught fire in the gulf of oman in what are suspected to have been attacks on the vessels the incident occurred amid high tensions in the middle east and triggered a surge in oil prices it comes a month after similar events in the region back then the u.s. accusing iran of sabotaging 2 saudi oil tankers something the islamic republic tonight we're now joined live in the studio by quarter bring us up to speed well

jacki we've still got a lot of unconfirmed information there's some calling the incident in attack others not sure but here's what we know so far the iranian state television is reporting 44 crew members and 2 tankers under the flags of both panama and the marshall islands were involved in the incident near the strait of hormuz witnesses report one vessel called the front tear was quote on fire and adrift and state media also retreated pictures of that going on however different sources suggest the conditions of the ships are unknown and the damage as well as the loss of cargo have yet to be assessed now as far as we know the crew are safe the u.s. navy received to describe 2 distress calls and they actually ended up rescuing all 44 sail sailors according to iran the fleet leader said that the ship's operators described a possible attack and taiwan's state oil refiners said one of the tankers may have been hit by a torpedo but we don't have confirmation of any of this the cause or who might have

been responsible and this is the 2nd such incident tell us a little bit more about that back in may there was another there was one attack on 4 oil tankers near the united arab emirates and the government there 1st denied that the attack altogether later blaming in quote unnamed state actor for those attacks involving sabotage and naval mines although the u.s. was much more straightforward in their. national security advisor john bolton said that they were that iran was almost certainly to blame in response to iran called this accusation ridiculous as well as calling john bolton a warmonger these harsh words came amidst intentions in the region right now let's not forget that the united states has a fleet in the persian gulf while at the same time they're saying they're not looking to start a war on top of that washington already said they're trying to exert maximum economic pressure on iran after trying to pull out of the nuclear the nuclear deal with iran so it's certainly

a delicate situation that could only get more volatile as time goes on i t. is not a quarter that you for staying cross the story for us. the u.s. is boosting its military presence in poland as part of a new deal with donald trump warsaw will host an extra $1000.00 american troops by u.s. fighter jets and purchased american liquefied natural gas term praised his post counterpart in washington. u.s. polish alliance it's a very special alliance with very special people poland will soon provide basing in infrastructure to support military presence of about $1000.00 american troops polish government will pay for this so america is bolstering its military presence in poland they are adding to the $4500.00 troops that are already in the country on a rotating basis now it sounds dramatic but it's actually somewhat short of the request from poland for a permanent u.s.

military base which they intended to name for trump in the end the usa agreed to shift non-combat troops to poland who had already been stationed elsewhere in europe so who are the poles trying to defend themselves from because we bought it when russia is again showing its own kind unfriendly imperial faces russia is always looking out to take us territory yes those menacing russians on whole ones border just waiting for the right moment to invade but it seems that donald trump doesn't quite share that view do not see the russian read the whole nation and the euro. i hope. we're with everybody and i hope i think that russia will treat poland with respect now while the russian threat may be imaginary the money that poland is showing the united states is very real big buyers of our equipment to our planes and our community sions in every form in every respect at this point we've got praising the warsaw for meeting its nato spending requirements

2 percent of their g.d.p. trump is encouraging poland to buy more than 30 f. 35 by. jets even had one of them fly over the white house on the sunny afternoon dude gave an encouraging wave and there's more money from poland coming america's way trump paled a deal in which the country would purchase 2000000000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas from the united states furthermore at this point trump is praising poland for its baltic pipe project to support poland's construction of the baltic pipeline which will help european countries diversify. their energy sources it's desperately needed them that's the way to go so the big bad russians have got poland into a situation where it has no choice except to increase its military spending purchase a bunch of fancy new f. 35 fighter jets and import liquefied natural gas all the way from the other side of the planet yes trump the salesman is happy to make

a deal it seems that sometimes having a bogeyman can be very convenient kaleb up and r.t. new york moscow says it regrets the military build up former pentagon analyst michael maloof told us we can't really afford the jets or to host more troops. but being trump he will take the he will take money from wherever he can get it and the whole the whole notion of. putting a 1000 troops noncombatants i might add does not alter the balance of power at all in the region it's really more of a show showcase type of thing the cost for those f. $35.00 is going to be horrendous ultimately the u.s. may have to subsidize it to present a poll and it really is trying to in namur himself more with the west by buying these f. 35 s. and at the same time trying to purchase natural gas from the united states united states is going to have a problem in getting the natural gas and i don't know yet if poland has the

infrastructure to support that all well intentioned about the reality is going to be something else. human rights watch has slammed a recent british government report the organization accuses the u.k. of whitewashing a saudi arabia's role in aggravating the humanitarian crisis in yemen the u.k. foreign office report states that the conflict in yemen has had a devastating impact on people's lives but it only mentions saudi arabia one of the belligerents in connection with the alleged use of secret prisons. and missed international alleged the use of secret prisons in areas under the saudi led coalition's control there was no reliable process for inquiry into detainees held at these facilities human rights watch says that riyadh's actions in yemen could amount to war crimes and accuses the u.k. of turning a blind eye the reports most striking weakness is on the yemen while acknowledging the many civilians killed in the conflict it ignores the saudi led coalition's responsibility indiscriminate saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen have hit

hospitals funerals weddings markets civilian homes and even a school bus killing and wounding thousands many of these attacks may be work crimes. since 2015 the u.k. has sold 4700000000 pounds worth of weapons to riyadh its one of the biggest exporters of arms to the kingdom the issue of weapons exports to the saudis has led to heated exchanges in the british parliament we have requested comment from the u.k. foreign office although so far we have not had a response the saudi led coalition began its bombing campaign against who's the rebels in yemen which riyadh sees as terrorists back in 2015 saudi arabia insists it's doing all it can to reduce civilian casualties the un has described the situation in the country as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis on earth.

the bomb is a killing people the cholera epidemic the number of people who are in hunger because of a block a port of data etc the foreign office is trying to obfuscate or hide from the british people the fact that they are supporting the illegal action of saudi arabia and its. in its war on the people of yemen the united kingdom just like the united states has its dziedzic interest in the region they want to protect these unelected dictatorial monarchical governments

in order to secure all natural gas resources and the people of yemen fighting for their liberation is an a thema to their foreign policy go. to u.s. national security adviser john bolton says reports about disagreements between donald trump and his top aides are part of a distant from mission campaign and by the likes of russia china and iran he also brought an american journalist who write such reports as quote so not a 1st of these regimes north korea iran. venezuela russia and china pride to. show this information about the administration and to say that the president his advisors are divided and things like that they asked the nodder firs of these regimes and the american press immediately pick it up. come on mr bolton in case you've been living under a rock the past few years u.s. president donald trump doesn't get along too well with the rest of capitol hill

close to 30 of his team members have either resigned or were fired since he got into office his term has been haunted by a cascade of information leaks by insiders saboteurs and trump hasn't always been on the same page with the rest of the administration. you think north korea remains a nuclear threat yes but the president said he doesn't it's not what he said i mean i know i know personally we did it and there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. i had a very good talk with president putin is. that looking at all to get involved in venezuela he was apparently ready to leave after the airport but the russians talked him out of that is that right that's right now it could be because the trump is in a tory asli divisive figure by nature could be because he's flip flops so much that he's policy u. turns were created into actual flip flops well you know he's sometimes difficult to

keep up with and you know after all he doesn't have to be a bad thing a clash of ideas challenging each other on policies is synonymous with democracy isn't it i really didn't use 3 times due to how unbelievable it is that the russians in other bad guys spread this information about to divided opinions of us president and his closest aides seriously when the president and his inner circle had different opinions it is a sign of the democratic process in the country doesn't washington defend this value with such zeal so yeah it could be a good thing except it probably stops being one when things move from the realm of professional to personal to go to work for a man who. is pretty on discipline and doesn't doesn't like to read doesn't read briefs. report's doesn't doesn't like to get into the details of a lot of things bricks to listen didn't have the mental capacity needed he was dumb

as a rock and i couldn't get rid of him fast enough he was lazy is how we already know a lot about the discord ready in the trumpet ministration from former trump ministration officials i mean let's face it what could north korea do to sow discord in the us what could be his way all of you it's doesn't make any sense the white house does not want to appear to be fragile they're now facing a reelection very soon in 2020 and boldness trying to help trump cover is behind by claiming others are responsible for discord and not those within the wife of course the message being that you know john bolton is looking for a pretext to go to war somewhere and he's a very devious man he likes to write. the man tipped to become britain's next pm thinks that threatening a no deal could win concessions from the e.u. details after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. to the reason for q.e. 4 is now well under way can taper a ponzi scheme no economics matters only money printing and stock manipulation. seemed wrong. just don't all. get to shape out. and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the problem of migrant criminal gangs is making headlines again in germany with renewed efforts underway to prevent their activity rich national picks up the story. powerful criminal clans terrifying germany for years those who love to stay as much in the shadows as possible in the spotlight to fight another big papers or write about them based on because of their regional interior ministry's conference unites in least $800.00 police officers from all around germany the country's interior minister is also invited they gathered in the all the city of

kids to discuss how to stop the violence powerful godfathers germany has suffered a lot from here just some of the cases. the list of crimes members of the clans have been involved is extensive while the number of members is a bit more so experts estimate there are now half a 1000000 people across germany belonging to criminal families many of them with arab or turkish origins which means the topic often spills over into another sensitive area for germany immigration and despite the state's enormous efforts

last year germany spent a record $23000000000.00 euros to integrate more than a 1000000 migrant some blame the feeler of integration for criminalization these people have not come to our country as criminals with regard to integration and identification certainly not everything was done right we have not consistently clarified the residence status of refugees we have looked away too often now the problems of piling up germany has been pushing forward with 0 tolerance crackdown on criminal families. a year now numerous raids hundreds of officials involved scores of properties seized but when questioning whether these far reaching measures have been a success there is no clear answer instead they say what's much more important is the signal the state is sending we are taking the streets back although some doubt whether that signal has been strong enough for the target audience we have lost

there are refugees just a lot of them excluded from freedom or more systematically excluded some of them many of them from russia and as long as the people who come here don't get your permission to grow up you know they have to search for a ruse to get respected and accepted by people of course their own that doesn't necessarily mean that people get a criminal of feel frustrated that they have the right to work but it infosys as tenants. the man tipped to be britain's next pm boris johnson says he doesn't want to know delbruck said but he might use the threat of one as a negotiating tool with brussels. after 3 years and 2 listed lines we must be the you must do better than the current withdrawal agreement that has been rejected 3 taught by dr levy not only for

a new deal. i do think that we will end up with any such the. but the. bigger. the story. since that was. what is on the day ball has been approved by has been negotiated successfully by the commission and has been approved by all member states and the election of a new prime minister will of course not change the parameters of what is on the table that is no when all the u.k. parliament has rejected a labor plan to prevent a no deal bracks that being forced on the country it's cross party a motion that was defeated by 11 votes for london here's kate partridge. basically these are labor and tory rebels getting together for a motion to say we want the option the house of commons wants the option to rule out a no do we want the say on legislation to stop that or does all of this mean effectively

it's about who controls brecht's it and the no deal option the opposition was saying effectively the new leader that came in the new leader of the tory party de facto the new prime minister could then effectively say even though we're not going to go through parliaments i'm going to take the u.k. out of the asean when i have the power to do that the reason i didn't go to deal 3 times it went through parliament it was rejected and the prime minister resigned and that's where we end up in the situation that we are now in that we're looking for a new tory leader and therefore a new prime minister and the problem was originally we're meant to go out on march the 20 not to mention leave the e.u. the e.u. looks to us that you can't come up with a deal you haven't agreed to anything will extend it for 7 months there's also elite cabinet memo that that's come out in the press saying no deal would be an option the country isn't actually ready for it so it's quite an intriguing point it might be a win for the government in the meantime but we still have that tory leadership race and there's also the ramifications of is the country actually prepared for

a no deal in the 1st place. the ramifications in the short term will be that yes no deal is on the table if you're a conservative y. undermine whoever comes in who thinks that they're going to renegotiate a deal but of course the view from brussels is entirely different this is a failure of labor strategy or opposition strategy what you don't do is try and intrude into a leadership contest by daring those in the conservative party to vote against their own possible leaders this was not a good mechanism if you like if you want to stop or exit i think there will be more opportunities down the road i don't think the majority is have shifted i just think that context is slightly different and i think things will move on. as well clear about who is going to win the contest of the next 2 or 3 weeks. that's a news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest

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