u.k. called rules wiki leaks co-founder julian assange will not face his u.s. extradition hearing until next year if convicted in america he could face up to 175 years in prison. the crew of one of the all time because damaged in a suspected attack in the gulf of oman say that they were hit by a flying projectile apparently contradicting u.s. claims that iran planted a mine on the tehran has said back at the american allegation accusing the u.s. of resorting to sabotage diplomacy. and tech giants are accused of silencing speech they don't like that tough to you tube removes a video by project veritas detailing the way social media interest allegedly

censors conservative. documents we detain raise serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms for publishers with an editorial agenda. very good evening thanks for joining us this is international. whistleblower julian assange may be facing more than a century and a half behind bars in the u.s. but he won't find out whether that will happen until at least next february after an extradition hearing in the u.k. was postponed until the edward stashed the details but it really was crunch time for q. and 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 here in the world. take place at

a later date off to february the 24th which his lawyers have agreed to the timetable now of course it did follow indeed yesterday the u.k.'s home secretary such as signing that crucial order that paves the way for this edition of procedure now he believes that this was the skewing the right course of justice the protest as an activist with outside westminster much to say school 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 prize you know there are more journalists here complaining because obviously investigative journalism is under now we should be released and i think this know enough people will realise that this is such a this i'm free to race and also just don't want everything for the right of us to know what's going on the things that he exposed most oppressed the american moon mission that's what we should be checking in for 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 in the sun we know in the united states they've been talked to on to 17 counts under the espionage act for. classified documents related to the iraq war on the war in afghanistan but also one of conspiracy to hack a government computer to actually make these secret classified documents all some say his crimes his so-called alleged crimes awful 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 don't 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. me or in the us 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 person. opposed to an assault or stern back into the public on i earlier this year in april when he was pulled out of the largest ecuadorian embassy by british police he was there for a long amount of time in fact 2 and a half 1000 days which is the sum amount of 7 years in that confinement he was of course seeking political asylum he then moved to belmarsh prison where he was serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping fell 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 loss something that his father has voiced concerns of earlier this week and we know that he was also sent to the medical boards in prison there but on top of all of this it's not just the united states wants to decide he's also want to fight the swedish prosecutors for allegations of sexual assault something of course good asuncion self-image lead to noise and he also believes

it's a pretext to extradite him to the united states earlier i was doing fine award winning australian journalist john pilger who was also in the 43 behind when that ruling was indeed and now said he told me that this is an incredibly clever tool moment for freedom of expression universally and we have a direct impact on journalists while 5 charges will be made up the charges are contrary to the 1st of evidence of the us constitution. what they call down which is that he is a publisher. released information which he has a right to do under the us constitution the us wants to see itself as a great fashion. free speech in which when it a rest of the so much why so many americans. fish about fish.

because it applies. it is very close to you both to be close to everybody to reach a journalist who's what they call the 1st to get it. to be a good journalist when they are almost sure the review is remote from doing their job we spoke to tracey was the duchess of both 4th and a friend of julian assange she believes he might not get a fair trial if he's extradited to the us. june in a sign she's not an american he goes to the americans he won't be covered by their free speech 1st amendment of their constitution so it's very dangerous for everybody who in any way is working towards revealing the truth whether you are a journalist or a human rights expert or an environmentalist and any time that you criticize the american government its secret service in its military you could be literally extradited by you know the british government why can't we stand up on

our own 2 feet and say no he's a hero he has allowed us to have information which is precious we need to know if i government is committing crimes in war we need to know if it's true committing crimes in the democratic process this man is a beacon of hope for free speech. explain now to fidel narvaez who's the former consul of ecuador to london he joins me here live on the line very good evening to fiddle what do you think of this decision 1st of all putting this extradition hearing back till february means another past year at least behind bars before he gets his case assessed does that work for or against julian assange. well i would say that this is too serious we are talking about the life of a man the life of

a brave journalese that has sucky fries his freedom for us so i hope this means that he's friends will have enough time to prepare their defense. in order to fight extradition. should be fired from every corner and by every one of us because it's not just julian's life. at stake here is the expression of the stake here. is a risk the freedom of every journalist to to publish to full information. about work crimes about corruption about mass surveillance that is in the public interest so i hope that this will play for julian and not against julian. if. the trial that he gets in the u.s. will be a significant one of course the u.s.

government was in paris by wiki leaks revelations the big question is do you trust the justice system there do you believe that assad will get a fair trial. there is no chance he's a serial seaward chance that julian assange who will have due process that julian assange is going to have a fair trial in the united states we all know doubt and we knew died from the very beginning when my country granted julian assange asylum their report from the. un representative against torture is absolutely clear and he says that there is no chance of genocide having a fair trial in the united states because he has been a big theme of long nearly a decade campaign of different nations of vilification of political

persecution in order to assist in a character so public opinion in the united states is very much against julian assange thanks to the foundation campaign carry out by corporate media and by the political establishment in united states in this country in many countries that are against julia. what about his health because many affectively been under house arrest contained to the embassy for what 7 years and now that he's officially in prison it looks like a songes health has worsened he looks thinner he doesn't look a well man do you think about you know how his health welfare if he's extradited. were after 7 years of closure or is. his health will be affected physically obviously but more than that emotionally

i used to think julian assange to us emotionally unbreakable. i know him very well he is a very strong person however the report from your un representative against torture is based on medical assessment from them most specialized people in the matter and they say died julian has been seriously affected in his health not only physically but emotionally so i'm really really concerned busy about his well being while he's. in a high security prison which is a prison for creaming us no for people who escape burial in order to us to get political asylum i'm very concerned about him now and i'm very much concerned about

him being extradited to the united states where he's going to be talking and that's not the speculation we all know that the united states does in high security prisons for people who are accused of espionage or accuse of of threat in the security of the united states. i don't know julian is songe but from everything i've seen and heard of him i would have said it was certain that if he is released at some point he will go about with some further continuing to do what he and we can leaks of done that clearly will pose a huge risk to government particularly the u.s. government will he ever be a free man again knowing that there's a good chance this is what he will do. i think this is all about really the prosecution in order to destroy him destroy him because the they fear they fear what he can he can do. they fear what he has done.

and they know and we know that. will carry on publishing bravely as he has done i think he is. somebody to and to and to support of course if he is ever free and i hope he will i hope he will. he will continue sacrificing his life for the good of all of us. fidel really appreciate you coming on thanks for your time fit on our vies my guest former consul of ecuador to london. thank you. among julian assange just supporters is lori love love so well known british hacker who was charged by u.s. authorities for stealing classified data from government agencies including nasa and the army in $28.00 teeny one a landmark appeal after a british judge ruled against love's extradition to the u.s. citing fears that he commit suicide while in the custody of american or thirty's

now speaking out in support of a science. viking we will succeed again we will. not be active i would say. it's none of us should be able to live with. trey with each. of them that courage. that we would have betrayed journalism. without the least. if it brings. washington's claim iran was responsible for attacking 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman has had downcast on it earlier the us presented a video claiming to show iranians removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels the tank is owner though says that his crew reported the boat being hit by flying projectiles. more than a good job 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. well as mentioned the u.s. military central command claims the video shows iran's responsibility iranian leader hassan rouhani has accused the u.s. of destabilizing peace and security in the middle east but secretary of state. 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 the proxy group operating in the early 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 into global security with the iranian foreign minister has branded the claim his country was behind the attacks as sabotage diplomacy or russia's foreign minister said the u.s.

was creating an artificial escalation of tensions in the region artie's more pain has details. so there were 2 or oil tankers that were hit. or were going to put on one of their own and we've learned. from one of them to from both of you to. your father and son on one company here to go if you've been wondering where i've been our news your. own group or everybody but the good the good is civil the system in the did it will

get on or not supposed to be. let's go over the facts now the 1st one belongs to john frederick 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 busy 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 that japan's prime minister shinzo ave was in tehran meeting with iran's supreme leader is that. 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 so i mean 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 us resident who is charged with espionage was just released as a gesture of good will 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 reported attacks 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 mopp and r.t. new york. the 2 vessels caught fire in one of the world's key oil routes near the strait of hormuz it's the only way in and out all the gulf incident prompted oil prices to surge to brownnose threaten to shut the waterway in response to u.s. threats about sanctions. i'm joined now by as dr gushee a middle east politics expert from the university of essex very good evening to you dr. what do you make of these recent accusations by the united states 1st of all is that a motivation for iran to attack these tankers. well firstly thank you very much for having me. you know the motivation of attacking the vessels is something that has been ongoing so far and that's one of the core themes

of discussion or the one of the aspects that many people are speculating around why why would iran want to do such a thing. but if i may i'd like to try to just add a layer of complexity here because i think it's very important to to try to change the dynamics of the situation rather than just say. is iran or we should say who we know iran could be doing this because iran is not really monolithic iran is very very complex and potentially. although it doesn't seem very rational there is the likelihood that other bodies in iran could act unilaterally could act in a way that they find that's not consistent with for example the pragmatists in iran such as the foreign policy in zarif. so old low.

if this is not really irrational to do this. it's there isn't any other actor in the region that has. declared its intentions of threatening the how to move shipping lanes and i think that's the reason why it's attracting a lot of attention and when you took it out. to king about governments groups militant groups it. i think well to be honest with you i'm referring to the revolutionary guard corps most likely and you see in the revolutionary guard corps there is a in iran there's a very complex domestic situation and sometimes what could be happening is that within the revolutionary guard corps there are it is comprised of a very hawkish form of ideology they're very much driven.

you know emotion really and therefore they might even undermine the pragmatic attempts that other officials in the arabian operators such as a reef and others they undermine their efforts in trying to improve relations with the west improve relations with the gulf i mean to say that iran does not want to improve relations with the neighbors and. and the united states and europe i don't think that's very accurate however. those pragmatists do have obstacles and they are within iran. so it's looking about you know who might have coming down this is looking at motivations another issue is trying to actually prove it if you look at the video that's provided it seems pretty grainy we see some people on the boat not really clear even doing and the german foreign ministry sofa said there this isn't evidence why would the state department throw this out there given the

seem to be so many homes that well this is this is very important question and quite frankly. this needs to be addressed yes we did mention that iran was the only state that you know had declared this but this doesn't mean that they actually did it ok so we have to be fair here. but there is also something else. that is not mentioned enough. it's very easy to jump on the anti iranian bandwagon. and one of the reasons being is that especially from the united states that the ease in which the american administration now jumping on the iranian bandwagon and to rein in bandwagon is that this is viewed or the iranian legacy is viewed as an obama legacy and i think there is a lot of also motivation within the domestic politics of the united states to blame

iran. even before there is any concrete evidence as of yet because quite frankly. 3 footage like this it cannot be you know it's just going to lead to speculation and not really clear cut evidence but nevertheless there is a domestic policy and tendency to have an anti obama legacy. which therefore means an anti or a knee and legacy and i think that's one of the rationale for the united states and the u.s. administration to that's one of their rationales and in. blaming iran. is it fair to say that this is simply just not very smart from the u.s. state department because in all fairness america has a track record of basing military campaigns on bogus information go for tone can

attack never happened leading up to vietnam and weapons of mass destruction didn't exist used as an excuse for iraq you would have thought wouldn't you that america would be providing concrete evidence in such serious masses. ok i do apologize and i really wanted to know the answer to that question unfortunate we have lost the line with as he's a gash in dr middle east politics expert at the university of essex. moving on you tube removed a video by project very task which and covers the way social media up pinterest allegedly senses conservative views now twitter also chimed in temporarily banning the group for sharing internal communications from pinterest the founder of project very task has accused 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 vera 6 posing 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 raised serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms or publishers with an editorial agenda or her

school groups and cruise through. and somebody. wardrobe should go to war. are the ones who support our. troops from war so what does 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. pierrot's 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 vera toss has so controversially done what journalists are supposed to do. one strategy is to back. the shadows that. you've found someone who they don't know they. think the show she didn't know what she should get. the. go by says i mean that is so it was.

i think it was. what it was my whole life you know what they say when the going gets tough the tough get going. pinterest said the web site was targeted for misinformation relating to conspiracies and anti-vaccination advice each about its robust guidelines exists due to the importance of user privacy the tech expert told us platforms like you tube are increasingly losing people's trust but they didn't want people to know what 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 that'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 you know what you've got international we appreciate you joining us this evening stick around i'll be back with updates on our top stories more analysis and often. backstabbers financial survival guide. housing bubble. all you mean there's a downside to artificial mortgage rates don't get carried away that's because a report.