from. i think it would have been better had he gone to sweden because i think he needed is a change he's clear his name but. at the same time i completely understand why he did the problem in sweden it's not a country where i understand the language of addition a media climate has been set up in sweden. i think that if julian went to sweden at that point he would have been extradited he was often like mocked in the prednisone and people say ah he just wants to know as he doesn't want to face the music in sweden and so on and then said he's paranoid but i think from today's perspective we don't really know now what the that u.s. is really after him and i think he was. the big thing that i think cruelly undermined the public support for julian was

a swedish case obviously you would find the newspapers of high repute. television stations to doing julian in and became gratuitous. i think to be fair to say the mainstream old sound media never really liked chile and. they didn't really like tulane because his model publishing was a threat to their existence. and there was a great deal of jealousy in the mainstream towards wiki leaks and torches song which are particularly why i wanted to be more like office be one the boss. when they want. then that is

a spurious and simple. now they can't even do no great this little note with respect. in the moment they collided with him they took the information he had but then immediately let's say the next day you had a hit piece in the new york times from bill keller he was at that time described him as a bag lady. he came immediately something about his character. though i think that is a betrayal it's a betrayal of principle. what do you think of the allegations that julian assange geez and that there are a quote from the new york times is that he's a narcissist with an outsized view of his own of origins and that he has no interest in monday matters like personal hygiene. really.

i can't think of another journalist or publisher who has won a major international journalism awards. and for media organizations have complained about whether his socks were dirty or had been washed here i mean really. i wonder whether any single human being has been subjected to about never most news. in the parts it was at school. in 20 a little in a british court released. on condition that he didn't leave the country. she was

also required to remain at the country house owned by a close friend the british journalist full and smith. well i'm now sitting in a chair. and ingham home is a sort of house that is the products of wealth of my family has generated for hundreds of years my family moved here in 17 months to find. fortunate. to have that responsibilities or go off to. me is an investing at the journalist and that's why our journalist and kindly offered these may be a secure place to be the place from what are the publications with me mate. she'll say yes and. i feel as safe as one country. it's always a bit safer to be much much safer i was here and though i knew i was young but as

far as a few weeks ground is concerned because it's about as good as. we can expect a sickly turn this into the office for quite a lot so you would have come in here and you'd have found people working on computers bits of paper printouts everywhere running around with these little disks and things like this so that involved having julian it had involves having. the people that work for him and involved having everybody who wanted to interview him but this was the main office this was where he had courses. this is the place where. a lot of work later down the road also came to happen but i would say that the big here. the big publications for. cable gate they were conducted. wireless jordan was in house arrest and having them all. because it was so secret you'd be heroines

you see people working on computers and you know i wouldn't like office because it would you know you you know you'd be looked at and one don't you think oh gosh what a silly question washed off will bury them tell me if i want to tell me. i sold them release the afghan war logs i sold them working on the diplomatic. and i saw them working on some stuff that came off to the woods when they were here this is interesting. very hard to stop organizations like we. and the with these isn't going to be the end of it even if we disappear as which is no sign that it will. become a sort of guerrilla organization for freedom of speech. on the 1st judy it was in the next year and the see. the morning off to he went to that and the 6 i read in the news and realized that i just lost my bail

money. that is the school and. selflessness. was taking. the sat listening wait a minute. this is they could do it in the embassy when. you leave. maybe 7 gives them but sees only the one. shoe flat. so what you're looking. at the need all of them which in fact was. julien's the room in the last. 5 years. was tedious owners they found wiki leaks he's refusing. the ecuadorian embassy in

london expected to make his last public comment the softer they. say. we knew each other before he came to them to say. basically that. team arrives from that friendship. can lead. me to. say that this is him 30. percent so free during the embassy itself was a small piece of flight. 300. 81st

when they were some time to sort. through. their building is surrounded by high buildings which doesn't. sound. to come into them but julian compared he's stay at the embassy. to be leaving space because he was subject to only a few feet. and he never saw sunlight he didn't have dental and medical they were huge challenges. the 1st years he was constantly on the surveillance there. and when you were in the embassy you could cost them here the people outside with the speaking on walkie talkie the. we

know corner in the embassy where you were not watched in this or in the ng buildings we also had a long range video camera. pointing at the embassy all the top. piece was the most sort of a place in the wall for many of us. to newness and continued to run we can stay at the ecuadorian embassy while within its walls many new publications and revelations came to light the highest profile exposing is probably a period in 2016 of the year in which a new president was to be elected in the us and. capitalism in the united states abandon the united states the leading capitalists in this country are now global capitalist grab that loop that leaves them their

middle class without jobs without a future it's a disaster covered over with. each other but the reality is a disaster and if mr trump were here you would see other people emerge in trying to make a political career by pointing to their. problems drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invited america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame. patients doctors manufacturers all the governments

of. syria has been engulfed in civil most 10 years its cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions more no one foresaw the peaceful protests of 20 of these collating into a complex conflict between various ami's geopolitical interests rebel groups just. how they are needed in the book on this. but if you tell us if you say in the hague because of the.

mess that the look cool and. let you know idea of going to lick. them on. an ordinary i sat down i feel that it never stops times them other than the shame what i did on this decade get a shot that. if you. want to do one thing. believe that stern. came from the fact that

he put in bobby to maine. one of the d.n.c. leaks basically. e-mails from democrats. the democrats are. trying. to present. about was something that i think the american public is really important about wiki leaks is that the russian government has engaged in espionage against america and then they have that information. wiki leaks.

of a $2.00 and. d.c. leaks and you know which. is to convince us that this information was from russia well you know i don't. know whether it was from russia. leaks julian hasn't told me it wasn't. my. they revealed this. everyone. but when she lost the election everybody said oh my god this was the reason why it happened because they needed some explanation.

those cables was pretty nasty i think it was even this outrage and these hate make it stop making stuff make a songe stop he came out of the embassy silence he guy came. when the years went by his situation became more difficult and difficult the pressure become bigger and bigger and then the government changed in ecuador i think of the situation became really great. there was an election in ecuador. marriner lenin became president. he was a great supporter of america still the. government decided to shift. going on foreign policy. decided to have

a different nation in connect states to you know was an obstacle for dot from us he started. going to get really sexy oversights not historical as he could see of this . battle stress but the political it was healed but it must be your 2nd. but it's a kind of let me see if to so he said this will be able to persuade us no it is not for them or a no government was to tell us that they had to get rid of him and turned his life into hell. going away loiters the searching businesses and. installing cameras in a very very rich private meetings had to be holding the door would not supplying toilet paper. and every cross supplying clothes.

they forgot to bring food. by the. julian was an extremely difficult.

it's to really see the toll it took on him. it will stay like i was shocked. cut back to 2011 when his youthful lawyer very. sweet and mike's journey into see. him. after a variant of torture certain views were. dragged out by. several policemen. not to where you. know you are. doing. a star. was very very.

the united states immediately filed an extradition request with the u.k. but it could not be considered until julian a son should serve in the months in prison for breaching the terms of his home detention and 2012. just keeping to the we don't remember seeing the wiki leaks founder was sent to belmarsh prison just outside london. last prisoner. high security maximum security prison where your murderers and terrorists are. brutal. belmarsh prison is said to be a worse place even than what. he is. there nod the right fraternizing with all the person knows.

he told me that when he sees people go past his sell he wishes he wished he could 3. i saw in those leaked media also where he appears to have a lot lost a lot of weight. when i saw that i really started crying because when you know someone very well and see him in this position. i'm not allowed to hand him anything the only way of communicating with the outside world is to him to receive . we we're not sure if he wanted to communicate with journalists but here's a letter we have just received from belmarsh prison and it's from jewel in a songe as it says here on the back of. that letter reveals

despair and frustration as the trial draws closer the wiki leaks founder says he has no internet or telephone access which seriously hinders his ability to prepare his own defense and that he has nothing much to do except walk thousands of laps per day around the cells. it's very distressing to. see someone you have worked with and who is an old friend. in such peril. and. to. think that they may not come out of it is very upsetting. the charges that the u.s. government have raised against union to extradite him have shifted. 1st they called him

a hacker and said that he had assisted manning in securing the information that manning wanted. bradley manning was a hand man who was in the armed forces and clearly was shocked by what was going on around him and. bradley manning now chelsea manning. was the original whistleblower who gave wiki leaks them most important information on the afghan war logs the film from the helicopter maurice is going to spain and. the diplomatic papers all came from bradley manning. the way the u.s. ministry of justice sees it julian astonished didn't just receive information from an informant which would not constitute a crime journalist do have the right to acquire information from sources even if it is classified the american government claims that assad conspired with private

manning who helped him access classified information intending to harm the united states. the u.s. hopes to prove that the sound is a spy not a journalist. to look at the charges they are absolutely applicable. to the times the other journalism for media publications. during astonish being a publisher is put in prison for being a publisher for no other reason than being a publisher. there are no rules. there are no rules to the game. is very in turn a list in the united states should feel i caused a scene in running down the spine. at the charges that have been leveled against this publisher. because they could be next.

dear julian. you are one of the most bravest person i know and this sentence that you'll get repeated often courage is contagious it was really true. that's the reason for great movements of drugs you'll have so i would think of people. support you and understand but there is. a wider issue at stake here he is the lone he is not alone. there are a large number of people who value the contribution has made pointing in the public interest. i remembered you today and went into another us famous when you were relatively free and i remember that you were just you know carrying

his legal back. and having him very humble life. would look forward to a day away he's free and not being honest or. not being chased around the world by the americans. i hope that we can get you out of there. if you will be sitting next to us somewhere nice something water by deceit these would be like just just a bad memory. or on her. revel to thank you for.

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a dream shaped by phone person with those great. snow dares thinks. we dare to ask. problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we see me very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids and invented america under the banner of medicine he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really

became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients. it's a. matter of weeks we heard from a reporter who got caught up in a police crackdown in seattle to get closer and closer to me and i'm saying hey. i started filming him. and in the stories that shaped the week opposition labor party pushes for artie's broadcast license to be revoked after a report on alleged russian influence got reactions from londoners. be honest i don't believe. it poses.