a u.k. court rules wiki leaks co founder julian assange will not face his u.s. extradition hearing until next year in america he could face up to 175 years in prison. also this hour the crew of one of the oil tankers damaged in a suspected attack in the gulf of oman state they were hit by a flying projectile currently contradicting u.s. claims that he ran into a mine on the vessel. has hit back at the american allegation accusing the u.s. of resorting to sabotage on the sea. and tech giants are accused of silencing speech they don't like that after you tube removed a video by a project of paragraphs detailing the way social media interest allegedly censors conservative views documents obtained raise serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms or publishers with an editorial agenda.

they're watching our to international bring you here live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. wiki leaks founder julian assange will not face a full u.s. extradition hearing until february of next year is facing more than 175 years in prison in america for publishing classified documents during court proceedings the whistleblower maintained his innocence claiming he was just doing his job as a journalist here saudia edwards with more. but it really was crunch time for 2 in the sun just this extradition request was being heard here at westminster magistrate's court though he was given a glimmer of hope as he will not face a full extradition until february of next year and 2020 it's understood that a 5 day hearing will take place at

a later date off to february the 24th which his lawyers have agreed to that timetable now of course it did follow indeed yesterday the u.k.'s home secretary such as shafiq signing that crucial order that pave the way for this judicial procedure now he believes that this was the skewing the right course of justice but protesters and activists here outside westminster magistrates court think that this is not the course of justice in fact completely goes against justice and simply they believe that this is the gang's freedom of expression uprising that there are more journalists here campaigning because obviously investigative journalism is under now we should be released and i think this is not enough people will realise that this is such an attack on freedom of press and also just ordinary people the right of us to know what's going on the things that he exposed a threat the american woman that's what we should be checking in for free by seeing we will succeed again you will be victorious you know time will be actually going

to go and say you see kids none of us should be able to live with you trying to get one. of the many stories. that. you would trade journalism. without these to see anybody living with. so well today might be slightly more symbolic in terms of laying out the procedures and the very next step it does actually set the ball rolling towards extradition to the united states for 2 innocence now we know in the united states they've been directed to on to 17 counts under the espionage act for happening classified documents related to the iraq war . and afghanistan but also one of conspiracy to hack a government computer to actually make these secret classified documents so if found guilty he would be convicted and facing a prison sentence of over 175 years behind bars while some say his crimes his

so-called alleged crimes for whistle blowing and indeed posing is not actual security risk and threat many say that he will not face a fair trial in the united states and that's an opinion that's been held also by the wiki leaks editor in chief i do believe that we are going to win this with legal arguments there is no chance that 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 opposed to misunderstand back into the public on earlier this year in april when he was pulled out of the ecuadorian embassy by british police he was for a long amount of time in fact 2 and a whole 1000 days which is the sum amount of 7 years in that confinement he was a full seeking political asylum that he then moved to belmarsh prison where he was serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping felt in 20 trials now this is

actually a video filmed inside that belmarsh prison that was obtained by alex he brought me which is the video agency and in this footage you can see your innocence the king someone may see it didn't go to trial it's known that he's not a dramatic amount of weight you know something that his father has voiced concerns of earlier this week and we know that he was also sent to the medical board in prison that on top of all of this is not just the united states wants to decide he's also wanted for swedish prosecutors for allegations of sexual assault something of course good asuncion self-image need to know i think he also believes it's a pretext to extradite him to the united states and here i was doing fine award winning australian journalist john hill. he was also in the court room behind me when that ruling was in and now he told me that this is an incredibly emotional moment freedom of expression in a vast me and i have a direct impact on jenna's wild life charges to be made up the charge is contrary

to the 1st amendment of the us going situation. what they boil down to is that he is a publisher. released information which he has a right to do under the u.s. constitution the u.s. wants to see itself as a great bastion. of free speech no it's not all when in a rest of us and that's why so many americans are so now so nervous about this. because it applies to them was to you guys to me lies to everybody who was a journalist who is what they told investigators. it means that journos will now. almost certainly be intimidated from doing their job. journalist and founder of the 21st century wire news site patrick henningsen was also inside the court hearing and shared his impressions. of the defense is asking for more

time because of the complexity of this case and julius on himself made the comment via video link that he hasn't even read the full indictments yet there was a video that was leaked online a couple we last week of which weeks ago when he was underweight severely underweight he has gained some weight back his is here was home to well he has a beard so he looks like he's put on a little bit of weight mentally he's compas meant just so physically better mentally he's clearly been under some duress you can tell he's not his fluid self not so quick on his feet as usual but i think that's because he was trying to process everything that was coming through this issue is absolutely pivotal in terms of freedom of the press the united states is effectively exerting universal jurisdiction over non us citizens of non-u.s. media outlets to doing something that journalists do every day which is to get classified information in the which is in the public interest and to publish it in the united states is saying this is

a crime internationally and we will exert international universal jurisdiction and hunt down to apprehend detain and hold to the u.s. to extradite people who are not even u.s. citizens but for these crimes of exposing flaws in the u.s. national security or embarrassing the united states. washington's claim iran was responsible for attacking 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman as had doubt cast on it earlier the u.s. presented a video claiming to show iranians removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels the tanks owner though says his career imported the boat being hit by flying projectiles more than a good united with the crew say they were hit by a flying object we don't think it could have been a bomb attached to the boat. as i mentioned earlier the u.s. military central command has released a video showing what it claims is an iranian military patrol boat removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers. iranian leader hassan rouhani has accused

the u.s. of destabilizing peace and security in the middle east while secretary of state mike pompei are said washington's assessment that iran is culpable was based on intelligence that no one else in the region had the capacity to carry out such an attack islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman though proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. over the last 2 years the u.s. has been implementing an aggressive approach violating international law and using its financial and military clout this poses a serious threat to the region and to global security. the iranian foreign minister is a branded the claim his country was behind the attacks as sabotage diplomacy the u.s. has sent sent missile destroyers to the region tehran denies any involvement and has questioned the timing of the instance the russian foreign ministry also commented on the situation saying the iran a phobic position of the u.s.

is creating an artificial escalation of tensions in the region martin has more. so there were 2 oil tankers that were hit. back i'm so happy. for we're going. to be. going. from up above to from both of you to. your brothers and i want company here to go and he's going to be our new. group of everybody but it will do the civil. service when the did it

will get honor not specifically. let's go over the facts now the 1st one belongs to john frederick 2 so he's a long time norwegian trading partner of iran his relationship with iran goes back to the 1980 s. one biography even refers to him as the ayatollah as lifeline so at a time when washington is using all kinds of pressure to try and stop or running an oil exports it really doesn't make sense for iran to then lash out and attack one of its oldest friends now the 2nd oil tanker to be hit is even more interesting this is a japanese owned chemical tanker and it was hit at the same time. japan's prime minister shinzo abbay was in tehran meeting with iran's supreme leader did that to . iran from the ancient times of the persian empire into the present day has been the great country of the middle east and will remain sorry in the future so we're to believe that at the time that iran was making nice with japan while japan was

helping them to find ways to help their oil exports keep flowing despite u.s. sanctions that iran then turns around and decides to bomb a japanese vessel in fact iran has been rather nice to the united states in the last few days a u.s. resident who is charged with espionage was just released as a gesture of goodwill so why would they then choose this moment to fire tar paedos in the gulf of oman the iranian foreign minister job and zarif is describing these events as suspicious reports of the tanks on japan related to tank use occurred while pm was meeting with ayatollah for extensive and friendly talks suspicious doesn't begin to describe what likely transpired this morning while iran is struggling to keep its nuclear deal intact and keep its economy afloat by selling its most prized resources on the international market like bomb peo would have us believe they then flipped out and torpedoed their 2 key business partners now why

exactly would iran do that well because they're the bad guys of course don't ask too many questions caleb mop and r.t. new york iran says it sent a group of experts to check whether or not it's safe for the rescue crew to return to the tanker the 2 vessels far and one of the world's key oil routes through the strait of hormuz it's the only way in and out of the gulf incident prompted oil prices to surge tehran has threatened to shut the waterway in response to the u.s. and in waivers on iranian oil imports last month for oil vessels worse have a taj near the same strategic straight back then the u.s. also pointed the finger at iran and sent an aircraft carrier group plus bombers to the region. and may iran's had it with some of its commitments under the nuclear deal you know a lot of the abandoned by the united states after washington impose sanctions this escalation sparked fears of a confrontation both nations say if they do not want war president of the jerusalem institute for strategy and security afrin anbar says it's too soon to jump to any

conclusion. i'm not sure that any investigation will really be able to come out was it was a clear result basically as our suspicions against the iranians which of course create additional tensions between the united states and iran and we'll see what follows so we don't have the facts if 1st americans will produce some evidence of course it's likely that the iranians have sabotaged the ships because. they are under american pressure. it seems that. change those strategies they don't want to outwait president. new elections and they can do trouble. in order to affect the flow of of an important strategic commodity like. you to have twitter and pinterest have been accused of bias and censorship yet again the details after the break.

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paradigm shifting technology that transforms economics and finance in a heartbeat the apollo 11 landing on to the max and stacey. welcome back you tube has removed a video by project veritas which uncovers the way social media pinterest allegedly censors conservative views twitter also chimed in temporarily banning the group for sharing internal communications from pinterest the founder of project for a toss has accuse you tube of waging war on journalism. tech giants retaliate against the side who leaked docs showing censorship of christine and pro-life material they have removed our investigative inside reports you tube now 14 bullet

proof journalism by deleting it censorship that's how you tube responded to a recent report by project veritas exposing well censorship in social media the investigation features an inside source from the social media platform pinterest concealing his identity during the interview whistleblower eric cochrane exposes the ways his employer censors conservative voices on the platform words like bible verses and christian are put on a so-called sensitive terms list basically words that might offend people are excluded from search suggestions a list of what the company considers conspiracy theories was formed also to control the spread of certain information and a pro-life website was even labeled as pornography to prevent usage of its link on the platform the documents we've obtained raise serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms or publishers with an editorial agenda or her school groups. through talking to. somebody.

order. are the ones who support our. troops who are from war so what did this whistleblower get in return for shedding some light on social media censorship the boot from his job and the backlash didn't stop there twitter also suspended project veritas after the organization leaked pinterest employee chats publishing conversations without permission violated the terms of service they said but the published talks revealed employees calling ben shapiro a white supremacist the pinterest insider also saw how quote white supremacist unquote content like ben shapiro. commentary for instance goes from identified to censored and somehow his name found its way to pinterest sensitive terms list alongside cocaine and some not so very tasty sandwiches see the connection and to

be honest this isn't the 1st time project veritas has so controversially done what journalists are supposed to do. one strategy is. to shut. down someone to. show she what she should. go to the. trouble to go i says i mean that is the you know the you. know the. i think whatever you want. whatever oh. you know

what they say when the going gets tough the tough get going pinterest says the website was targeted for misinformation relating to conspiracies and anti-vaccination advice you've added it's robust guidelines exist to the due to the importance of user privacy and tech expert told us platforms like you tube are increasingly losing people's trust but they didn't want people to know what they found out i mean what they found out was actually very bad they found out that that there was a systematic. suppression of conservative voices on on these basically on these platforms that are open and in fact under the law these are supposed to be communication systems which are. protected speech that people have it's just like a telephone they don't censor your telephone calls and why should they be able to censor you when you go on twitter or on instagram this is the kind of thing that's

happening now and people just need know one thing they cannot trust these platforms for anything. the b.b.c. is facing a backlash from u.k. pensioners they're angry after the broadcaster announced it was scrapping free t.v. licenses for the over 70 five's r.t.s. broadcaster has more. respecting and. elders looking out for them is one thing but money's money if a 75 year old can watch t.v. they sure as heck can pay for it says the b.b.c. currently all households with people over $75.00 are entitled to a free t.v. license that government funded scheme which is expected to cost $745000000.00 pounds by 2021 slash $22.00 comes to an end in 2023 tele's over the grandpas and grandmas time to cough up in short millions of

pensioners many of them disabled and living on very modest incomes are going to have to sponsor the b.b.c. because the corporation doesn't feel like shutting some of its hugely expensive projects the b.b.c. did the math right what they got wrong was the public reaction outrage boycott the b.b.c. they are in disgrace money grabbing all sound a 5 year old should be exempt from pains a license fee. so over 70 five's have served their country and worked for decades to make her country a better place will not be church 154 pounds for a t.v. license a week after d.-day commemorations shima new b.b.c. petitions popping up left and right anger frustration a feeling of injustice why of those who worked serve the nation for decades being put in the same level as everyone outs where are your manners

even government ministers party leaders are upset pensioners have spent their lives contributing to our society providing over 74 hours with 3 t.v. licenses is not too much to ask here is the kicker the b.b.c. plans to make an additional 500000000 pounds by making the seniors pay for comparison that's roughly the cost of $5.00 f. $35.00 fighter jets which the u.k. is buying $140.00 of talk about priorities some are angry about the t.v. license cost say the b.b.c. of today the quality of their programmes don't justify the billions that go into it with the latest public hits show hosted by a cartoon vladimir putin who has what appears to be a middle eastern accent. you

see now why the b.b.c. needs more money the poor fellows can't even afford a russian voice actor public patience is wearing thin for those that are getting tired of the scandals of the scandal coming out of the b.b.c. the ridiculous salaries for the top guys or lack of objectivity so many british people are asking openly why are they still paying to see. these in the age of the internet almost certainly this idea of a t.v. being a separate box that stiffer into your computer will completely disappear. from many many households and then the question do you have a t.v. will become a weird question to ask by the way the b.b.c. is still 250000000 pounds short of keeping the all of its stuff on there so if you have any ideas of who alse to squeeze for

a few more quid immigrants ginger's centenarians don't hesitate get in touch i'll appreciate it the b.b.c.'s decision comes after the u.k. government passed the cost of funding for licenses for the over $75.00 to the broadcaster the b.b.c. and says maintaining free licenses or fact the quality of its programming adding that those least able to pay will still be entitled to a fee waiver writer mike yardley says people are losing their patience with the b.b.c. . there is a tremendous amount of anger in the country about the b.b.c. there is this feeling that the b.b.c. no longer represents the voice of ordinary british people and it is of course a state broadcaster and t.v. licensing is a brand of the b.b.c. and it is extraordinary the 10 percent of the people who go to court in britain are going to court about t.v. licensing issues and that most of those people are little old ladies and some of them may even end up in prison for not paying a t.v.

license i think there is an argument that people are deeply concerned about the elitist liberal direction of the b.b.c. they're concerned because it pursues certain agendas for example it's very positive on global warming this is a major issue for the b.b.c. it doesn't like mr trump it doesn't like bracks it and a lot of people feel there's been a huge political bias not just in b.b.c. news programs but in b.b.c. comedy and in other output i mean this is a very big issue. that's a governor's update for this hour but africa you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more.

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a little shoe. that. you do with. a low in welcome across the top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle after a breakdown in negotiations presidents and she may soon again meet to hash out a trade deal the stakes couldn't be higher. both sides need to perceived wind failure could witness the global economy divided into rival blocks and a dual internet world.

crosstalk in the trade war i'm joined by my guess at the zuma rug in washington she is a financial analyst as well as vice president of vision for fund distributors also in washington we have john gong he is a professor at the university of international business and economics located in beijing china and in forest hills we crossed to michael hudson he is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city as well as author of forgive them their debts a financial times 2018 book of the year all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate heather let me go to you 1st in washington it seems to me i mean you know we're all covering this so-called trade war you know beat by beat pulse by pulse but you know you in the larger screen scheme of things it's really about who is going to dominate this century economically and technologically the united states is fighting very hard to preserve the status quo its position in the world and we can focus in on the tech

sector and this is really what it's more about it's who is going to dominate and that's why it's taking so hard to get an agreement and it's and that's why it's so politically important more so for trump because he's up for reelection but of course the chinese leadership has to come through for the chinese people because well they've been on a pretty good roll for the last 30 years they want to keep it going go ahead heather that is that is very true i think it's important to stay where we are in the tariff negotiations the u.s. has imposed thus far 25 percent and $200000000000.00 worth of goods coming from china and that was recently increased from only 10 percent now china has also retaliated anywhere between 5 and 20 percent tariff on $110000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods i think it's also important to remember that we buy we meaning the u.s. a lot more goods from china than they do from us so i did some point.