it. was. headlines this hour as the 2nd day of wiki leaks founder julian assange has u.s. extradition hearing gets underway in london his lawyers claim the whistleblower has been badly mistreated by bush dorothy's there are allegations of the night code by the publishers the point. of view of course is more of the world where everything is done to. make global variables or if. you have not heard what a proper chance to prepare for this trial your. fortune's 4 time olympic champion mo foreign faces fresh from fresh media scrutiny over claims he lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial stuff lament. and the egyptian government announces 3 days of mourning after the country's president hosni mubarak dies at the age of

$91.00 we look at the legacy of his 30 years in power. a warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky air and now this tuesday was day 2 of wiki leaks founder julian assange is hearing on extradition to the us where the whistleblower was wanted on espionage and hacking charges if handed over he could be facing a 175 year prison sentence for his role in the publication of classified intelligence data madeira 2 to has the details. day 2 with crown courts and we have the song cheering supporters happy night in full force again we can hear them chanting throughout the proceedings now we had the defiance talking today talking about why these allegations should be thrown out of course they talked about mr

manning's involvement in the release of the 200-200-6200 extension 7 iraq documents the iraqi diaries and obviously the release of the collateral murder video saying that she felt that her conscience required her to release those documents. julian assange as she was handcuffed 11 times prior to the course of these hearings stripped naked twice and his case files called the skated after the 1st day of his extradition hearing according to his lawyers that's been told and they complained of interference and his ability to take part but of course the court has said that they can't intervene in this so we will have to see whether the prison authorities do actually come forward and answer those questions as to why that happened now we did manage to talk to former british diplomats and whistleblower craig murray under julian reasonably well the. very obvious

evidence of his mental and physical deterioration this is how. the people. i was when i was in solitary confinement in effect many months in solitary there's a little more contact no not allowing contact and this was not allowing his papers stealing all his papers to be embassy not allowing him a computer. to start. from united nations special the patrolling tortures or use of minds to psychological torture and i have no i don't know what i see the person i know i couldn't i can feel he is. suffering the effects of torture i have no doubt about that in my mind at all why i think it's entirely politically motivated. cover. the interesting thing of all. struck every single observer i've spoken to is just how amazingly hostile openly hostile the magistrate is to every federal defense is also just. plainly the entire

these are for the prosecution of the 1st place. beauty in the united states of the evidence of america's war crimes and corruption which with the leaks expose. with we've finally got to finish whatever it is all put fury of a playing out in court i think anybody who believes this is a genuinely independent political process is very naive indeed. well the prosecution has argued that a stange knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and other sensitive information washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 source is it disappeared in iraq afghanistan and iran that we can found or is also accused of encouraging the whistleblower and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network now as long as defense team have sought however to counter those allegations by trusting the case with previously undisclosed information they claim

the publisher actually warned then secretary of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names appeared in the documents they've also stressed that her songes activities are protected by the principles of press freedom his lawyers have also strongly rejected the assertion that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon saying her own testimony disproves that allegation or furthermore they say extradition would undermine their client's health and that prison conditions in the u.s. can be inhuman and degrading or kevin owen spoke earlier to wiki leaks editor in chief about the proceedings. what's happened today and what you make of the arguments for julie songes extradition presented so far yesterday we heard very shallow and hollow arguments from the u.s. . that have since that yesterday afternoon and especially this morning been torn apart by the lawyers of julian our science they are basically present going to the

judge that she has to take into consideration that the extradition request is based on fabrication and they can easily be proved by publicly available information cheerio that is available to you in the states so the abuse here is that the english court is being misled by americans they are trying to abuse the process of exhibition does it feel like when you walk in does it feel extremely heavy almost what it feel like the conditions at the court hearing here are totally inadequate for a hearing of the officer borden's julian is in the dock behind bulletproof glass he has indicated often that he has a hard time hearing what's going on in the room it's a rather small courtroom and that's. very small space for the public a very small space for the media and this is. somewhat not what i expected for

a very important to hearing you think you'd ever get a fair trial in the u.s. my primary concern is will you get a fair trial here the u.k. it's important that the outcome here is just that it's monitored every abuse is highlighted on a day to day with a basis. which is for time and pick champion and top insurance one and most far is facing fresh media scrutiny so if it claims he repeatedly lied to us doping officials about his alleged use of a controversial supplements and they have ski has more. this summer the whole of great britain will be glued to their screens rooting for the nation's prize athlete 4 time olympic champion runner more or will they and you panorama documentary by the b.b.c. has cost further doubt on whether more farah success was cleanly won don't fall back to salazar who coached her move to. what to do when course the main sticking point is the role of former coach alberto salazar who was banned

in october 29th for 4 years from any sports activities he was the head of the controversial nike oregon project until the u.s. anti-doping agency suspected he may have banned the doping rules one of those substances he used was l. carnitine designed to speed up muscle and heart recovery for athletes it's considered legal indows this which did not exceed 50 millimeters over 6 hours salazar however reportedly invented a new method of administering l. carnitine through intravenous injections which itself sparked questions from u.s. anti-doping authorities it hasn't been secret that more have had injections of the substance prior to the law on the marathon in 2014 but the new documentary opens a fresh can of worms namely about the relationship between salazar and u.k. athletics meed barry head of long distance running it still employed by the organization in 2014 he reportedly flew to switzerland to obtain the karni team in

a form which could not have been acquired in the u.k. he did not document this trip even though he had to he's called the u.k. athletics dr rob chakravarty reportedly administered the injections to more and yet he didn't report it either even though it is against the rules to prevent he later said he simply forgot to do that due to over working and travelling to germany better than usual occurrence this is very specific medicine was required to source to great difficulty given against the initial advice of the dogs being the work he said he recalls of it and there were dishonesty quo. but the even more bizarre case of forgetfulness occurred with more himself when you saw the investigators came to question him 1st he staunchly denied that he used l. carnitine left the interrogation but then came back and changed his account having spoken to barry fudge. never taking comments in injections at all i just wanted to come clean sorry go and i did take it at the time and i thought i

didn't usual comes back for me but at the time i didn't remember more farrah's lawyer says the athlete just didn't get the question now having seen the documentary the u.k. anti-doping agency's c.e.o. nicole sapp said said the agency was ready to cooperate and even called usada is investigation robust we thank the panorama team for their efforts the program is another example of the importance of investigative journalism regards in integrity matters in sports u.k. and to doping agency support of the u.s. agency with their investigation into the nike oregon project we believe the u.s. and to do in agencies investigation was extensive and robust but just a month ago the u.k. openly refused to hand over more all to doping probes to usada for retesting now there's no word whether this these new revelations would lead to the much sought

retesting of ferrous probes because who knows what kind of further controversies surrounding the pride 5 of britain sport such a move would uncover after this latest panorama bombshell wealth or shall i just unfold with both lecture ellis cashmore and swimming coach marco hendricks for their full from the scandal. i'm sorry i just don't buy the fact that someone or some people could be so forgetful if so injects a substance into you you don't forget you can just walk away and say no they didn't do it and there sometime later say oh i forgot it happened it keeps a now this is all thru pleated over the last 24 hours we did nothing that wasn't compliant with water protocols you know if this is our connotate is ok if administered in the right dosage errors but they're also saying it may not be within the spirit of sport what does that mean you know this to me is it is so

a very legal or is it there's no 2 ways about it and if there has been a violation of a wada code then i'm afraid u.k. athletics has to be brought to justice so i sing that's all a little bit funny what happened now and this time. at 1st more far set i don't take. and suddenly it seems he has he taken it and the u.k. asleep because a station chief medical officer says it was legal and nothing was documented it's for me or a big lie sometimes i wonder if. it's or a doctor saying that people are stupid imagine the same thing happened in the russian this time would be blocked again for the next or another for 4 years but the same like knowledge in the u.k.

is a small scene. 3 days of mourning have been announced in egypt after it's born the president hosni mubarak died on tuesday at the age of 91 but back said as the country's wealth head of state for 30 years before he was deposed during the arab spring protests that erupted in cairo in the early 20th paula slayer polls. hosni mubarak leaves behind a mixed legacy on the one hand he is credited with turning the egyptian economy into a market one and also mediating in a number of middle east conflicts ensuring also that the israeli egyptian peace treaty that was signed in 1909 remained in place but on the other hand he came to symbolize everything that people thought was wrong with egypt widespread corruption economic stagnation and political repression and now he came to power after the assassination of anwar sadat he saw that us as a nation up close and he spent much of his nearly 3 decades in power making sure

that islamic extremists would never come to power and that a police state would ensue now we felt some of that heavy handedness when i reported from tahrir square in the early part of 2011 myself and the other journalists often felt the brunt of tear gas that was sprayed at us and this sometimes 1000000 protesters who came out to the streets at the same time i would often have a laser beam shining into my face i remember asking some of the protesters what they felt would be the legacy of mubarak and they say that he had managed to unite egyptians ironically unite them against his own leadership it was just it was people who are still arriving now in times square as you can see heating oil and occupation. people's voices here are loud but they're being drawn down by 16 that mig 21 is trying to hit me but it is not going down without

a fine small boat was forced to resign and that resignation was welcomed by washington despite the fact that for the better part of 3 decades he had been a close ally of the united states interesting lee in 2011 in the year that he was signed washington gave something like more than $1000000000.00 in military aid to egypt now mubarak was replaced by morsi of the muslim brotherhood who proved to be one popular and leave. egypt in a situation that was even more unstable than it had been before. we have heard from the current president. he said that mubarak was

a military leader and a war hero and 3 days of mourning has been declared in the country. ideal darwish is the political editor of the middle east magazine and he shared with us his recollections of meeting hosni mubarak. i don't do them several times and there was a good really good sense of humor when i interview them at my panama hat then said oh i like your advise that i would love to see it fall delusion your chin were meaning it's yours i'm afraid your existence is it is too big to fit you know he was really relaxed with his of your mother. who is big. to fit him he said that's a very of it would have you actually considered. at cafes and bars as a 2nd career so i stood well least front to mr president there is copyrighted you can't use it so anyway so he can't actually there's

a horse and. he was quite relaxed about it and he also let society be modernized and the other nazi and allowed his nomic evangelists on t.v. and passed through islamist laws he tried to make existing be a more islamic then there's a mess he's actually fighting and that actually led to islamization as your chance to sightsee making who like daraa in afghanistan and that way for the muslim brotherhood took up. so to come in the program leading us democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders has provoked anger with words of praise and fidel castro not after the break.

the point is should we actually be charging for education because this is where we charge for things is because it's a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology took over education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a. benefits to society in general i wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engine is what happened without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit and ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill basis we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that skilled bice's on the individuals and what we turned it into is just now the china institution public higher education become a for the version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional society. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us on the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back from the front runner for the us democratic party's 2020 presidential nomination has provoked bipartisan anger by storm she defending literacy programs in fidel castro's cuba these self-styled socialists remarks were initially made in a c.b.s. interview in which he also stressed that he condemns all forms of both or tarion ism with very opposed to be authoritarian nature of cuba but you know it's unfair to simply say everything is but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad thing. senator sanders comments * on fidel castro are ill informed and insulting to thousands of for radians castro was

a murderous dictator who oppress his own people his literacy program was an altruistic it was a cynical afr to spread is dangerous philosophy and consolidate power after 4 years of looking on in horror as drum cozied up to dictate is we need a brother didn't who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights a brode we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this fidel castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but is sure bernie let's talk about his literacy program. the campaign team of bernie sanders his rival mike bloomberg was quick to try and capitalize on the divisive comments opposed to this series of satirical tweets but the hashtag burning on death blunt the mansion and leave the month senator lavishing praise the number of tyrants and perceived strong men however it later deleted them off the face in criticism of my colleague daniel

hawkins got reaction from some of our guests bernie sanders saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split it's the vibe that it's going through perhaps a bit of a p.r. image here across this i mean this is a really bad decision isn't it sanders to me shows his integrity here look he's been saying this for years that there's videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro and the soviet union i mean how can he backtrack on those things artists lee you know he's just you know reaffirming the ideas that he has had for many years the concern is not him saying good things about the literacy program it's i said it thing that mussolini got the trains to run on time that was not what it is that people associated with what mussolini did it happened to be the case but he was a murderous dictator as was castro spineless democratic establishment shows their

true colors it's like a litmus test every time you can say one positive word about cuba or a one word in defense of venezuelan sovereignty they want to make sure there's no critique and so imperialist critique of the u.s. foreign policy establishment so this is a very sophisticated form of censorship to try to narrow the perimeters as we have more and more debates within the democratic party coming out of that anyone can argue literacy is a bad thing literacy programs that's probably we could all agree on that but isn't this an error of judgment on bernie saw as paul given there are lots of countries with good literacy programs with social programs and robust human rights. i mean this is surely shooting from the foot before important electoral race we have a democratic nominee who is tipping his hat to castro the murderer for having a literacy program so it's not just a question of step to a ship or narrowing things it's making 100 percent sure we have a nominee who is electable and the concern is one to the public realizes what

bernie sanders has said in the past he's an unreconstructed socialist and the united states that generally not a calling card the unofficial religion of the united states is it's a communism and we just have to listen to richard previous comments but to hear some of the communism but the truth is that the youth of this country in the multinational working class who supported bernie in nevada 46 percent of the votes that he won in nevada they're not socialists they understand who the true enemy is the enemy is not venezuela or cuba or china it's the 1000000000 is right here in the pentagon in the white house the former. mayor of new york city michael bloomberg and on wall street i will quote george w. bush who said we judge other countries by the worst of their actions we judge our own country by the best of our intentions and i think that's true you can look at a country like cuba and yes you can learn about literacy programs that work health

care programs that work and we should be able to do that in a rational way again especially when you look at the fact that people like president trump and president obama before him and numerous presidents before them partnered with murderous regimes like saudi arabia which now is being funded by the u.s. in its war against yemen which is threatening to kill millions of people and yet that is something that isn't being discussed. greece's foreign minister has announced the government policy and protecting refugees highlighting that the country has long been on the front line of the my current crisis. greece continues to deal with the largest flows of migrants and refugees since the 2nd world war we are among the 4 e.u. member states with the highest number of asylum applications despite the disproportionate burden we have saved thousands of lives in the sea like came just

as violence broke out between police and protesters on the greek islands of less boston chill's on monday continuing the next day hundreds of residents were attempting to stop the author artie's from building a new camp for my plans. 6 . it's almost like war i don't want to sound crying from the morning i don't know what to think this is democracy and for this is democracy is that if this is democracy then i don't know what to say i don't know what to say shame shame on the

government shame on everyone it's disgusting it's betrayed and acceptable for what the way the government has acted towards us and they would be treating us like we're enemy its island is i'm going to take you to belongs to the islanders this country was based in democracy and you know they have done is create inhumanity the wealth of refugees into the residents of the island there is growing discontent among the islanders over the presence of the migrants who are living in makeshift camps locals are furious that the number of refugees is increasing at the same time living conditions are still far from normal for example maria kampong les pauls was originally designed to accommodate around 3000 refugees but now the number almost 7 times is almost 7 times higher last year 74000 refugees arrived in greece with more than half the number still living in camps this year because he predicts the staggering 100000 asylum seekers to reach its soil political alice petrus agree

rose phase that the situation could get even worse without more e.u. support. regarding the present situation was it because i want to go we're going to go clashes between. there are a lot of people on the migrants the islanders do not want 0. to be expelled from where on an island so they are staying so far and just protesting if things can get pretty was in the seminary some of the silence of the become condition is a dreadful so it's only logical of of the crime will increase if he doesn't. come. and work on the throne same thing i. do with programs like yours and program in greece as a european union program and just as a program of just one gun free then we'll be in big big trouble thanks to using aussie international went back in 15 minutes with the latest c. of the.

anyone else seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me if you get to say proud disdain become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. oh and welcome to the artie interview one peter lobo donald trump's deal of the

century has been put forward what does it say about the middle east geopolitics in even metaphysics i mean again joined by allister procures a former british and diplomat founder and director of complex form alister welcome back to moscow where we meet we talk about the middle east you know when donald trump and his administration put forward their deal of the century for what we thought was going to be the the israeli palestinian conflict to be resolved actually use something much much more comprehensive and i've read dozens and dozens of articles about it they all pretty much say the same thing but your article recent article israel in the middle east a civilizational and metaphysical war this is so think very different in looking at the deal this century what's your thesis in this article simply the fact to recognize. israel or zionism is more like any normal nationalism it's not

like nationalism of russian nationalism or other nationalism precisely because it was given this was dictated by god and it was an empire of a civilizational a metaphysical empire. came to the roman empire it came to the room and then and even the secular leaders of it like being gorean who was very secular all saw not just as a nationalist project but the redemption of the human race is what he described i mean not the jewish people but the human race as a whole and it's. and it tells the jews exactly what will be the that it will other states will submit to them they will provide their wealth honey milk will be coming to them and they will rule over this and in a sense this is what we're talking up.