a huge day for wiki leaks founder julian british judge rules against. mental health concerns but as the current editor in chief of wiki leaks points questions over press freedom. journalists. will appeal the court's decision we've been speaking for

today. for whatever reason it's fantastic he's standing up. to tell the truth. just because he's a terrific guy. could potentially. walk free. the verdict still. world. and.

broadcasting live from moscow every hour of the day this is your international my names you know me welcome to the program. today's top story a british court house rejected a u.s. extradition request for julian due to concerns about his mental health washington see it will appeal the decision still wants to try him on charges of espionage. the president of mexico has offered political asylum to the wiki leaks founder let's take a look they reaction to supporters outside the courthouse when the verdict filtered through. i mean yes. it's true i was there are you. there are you. the.

as long as julian has to endure suffering in isolation as an unconvicted prisoner in belmarsh prison and as long as our children continue to be the rest of their father's love and affection. we cannot celebrate. we will celebrate the day he comes home a glimpse of hope. the new year and hopefully a new era. it is a day. was when. we have. a window for journalists and. we have absolutely and that's why i was having st eunice on does not see the historic moment outside the for her was charged i was ready to actually date you

in a sense to the united states has been a decision based on was meant to house friends and do was 6 to be executed to the united states it is a very unexpected result because my judgment to the last moment the judge had said that the case was not politically motivated he said she said that he would not he would face in the united states under the u.s. constitution for that the 11th hour the judge actually said no to do so and would not be actually i said to the united states that it really is incredible scenes. just heard from star morris the partner of judy in the sun she says actually right now we cannot fully celebrate we can only fully celebrate when judas sarge is port hope but this is the 1st step to just as we've also heard from the wiki leaks editor and chief christian who roughed her up to and he said i can yet it's not over when i featured in just yet nor win for jonas and just yet but there should be

more pressure applied on to the united states for the u.s. government to follow and they say enough is enough because of course judah soldier has been wanted by the united states for his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states and if he were to be found guilty he would have been sentenced up to 175 years behind prison that's under the u.s. is indictments of 18 counts under the espionage act for spying and publishing tons of fire documents all related to the war in iraq and afghanistan plus one of conspiracy to hack a government computer to publish these documents as well though according to today's sun just defense the united states was trying to prosecute yunus on the political grounds it was a politically motivated case it said of course if it is politically motivated that would therefore mean that you know a soldier was exempt from actually titian under the u.k. you asked extradition treaty how as the prosecutor said the absolute opposite that

it was not politically motivated and in fact you're a songe endangered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for publishing these classified documents so although today is a victory in essence for june a surge as the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated enough to serious concern for journalism going forward on the future of journalism as well you know i spoke to rebecca vincent from reporters without borders and she says that journalists need to be protected so we're relieved very much and share the court's assessment of his serious mental health risk but we're concerned that the rest of the decision leaves the door open for possible other prosecutions on similar grounds because in. well that point until she came to that point of the decision it seemed very much that the case would have been in favor of the prosecution so without the mental health issues at play somebody else in that same situation could have indeed been extradited to the u.s. to face charges there so this pointed out broader systemic issues that need to be addressed the not the astronaut act must be reformed it locks the public interest

of fans if any publisher any journalist any source finds themselves subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves so the 3rd it hit today was one thing stone medical grounds of course students on his defense team said that he was totally unfit to travel to the united states both in terms of his physical health auntie's mental how the post in a song has been rolled up in london's ecuadorian embassy for a whopping 7 and a half is that he was put into a belmarsh prison for almost 2 years so his mental and physical health has been seriously deteriorating but it wasn't just his mental and physical health here in the united kingdom but what could happen to him if he were to be said to the united states he would have had to serve that sentence if found guilty and convicted in any text colorado jail that's one of america's most notorious jails in fact home to some of the world's worst criminal lost a large truck kills terrorists you name it there in that most notorious prison and that's exactly what you did a soldier was going to be had it so that huge sentence that prospect of the future

like that was something that really bent the judeans mental house was really at breaking point i his lawyer says that he was having suicidal tendencies and kills hundreds of times a day so that is pretty much the key reason why the judge today said that that is so stupid that's a fate that he was not going to be facing having said that as i do mention it's not in terms of journalistic freedoms we're still out a point where the buck is not over just yet we understand that a decision on whether or not you're in a search will be granted bail or not will come on wednesday and of course the united states is an appealing this verdict today. they still are on the hunt for judas urging as if they still want to see if you decide to accept i can see the united states to the bottle really isn't a big yet but in time to support his campaign is it outside the criminal court had to take it wasn't just your innocence that was in the dock but actually the fundamental tenets and principles of the rights and freedoms of expression not the

1st but also for the public to access the information as well so it is a bit safer to respond but there's still a long way to go when it comes journalistically. where i spoke to roger waters following doing member uncreative for spying pink floyd a long time supporter of julian aside we his supporters have to be saying you have to bail him out he has he's suffered way beyond any suffering that should have been meted out to him for his warm small bio infringement which is he's only crime under u.k. law ok so by him now that the man begin to live this is a battle not just for the life of a. great truly great journalist julian and sometimes it's a battle for the survival of the human race if we give up the 4th the state if we

allow the united states government troops crucify a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them. then we give up our access to the real world and we say ok we will believe what you elice and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered journalists by machine gunning them from a helicopter in baghdad in 2007 and we know they did and here is the proof and we're going to publish it and then and and then we will say you can't do that because if you do we're going to kill you is that the well we want to live in. but we also discussed the implications of the announcement with a number of a songes other prominent supporters outside the courthouse. i wasn't sure what to

expect but i'm so happy that it's. been discharged for whatever reason it's fantastic i mean there's so many people who've been campaigning for a loaf a long time against this injustice when he's gone through 1011 years of hell 1st under house arrest and in belmarsh prison for the simple crime of journalism which isn't a crime he's standing up for freedom of speech he's done nothing but tell the truth he's been treated as a political prisoner at least mental health has suffered an unknown people opposed to him has said that that is the case this is this is not just about him personally it's about journalism it's about freedom it's about freedom of speech it's about freedom of the press and all those things are being undermined both in this country by the actions of the people in the united states they're trying to get him to be extradited of pushing this action here was the right absolutely remarkable decision 95 percent that you're just remarks were in favor for us i mean favor of expedition

she threw my political the penalty through our public interest depends only in the last moment from a decision that she cited the american prison system so brutal so pressing it to you would be at risk of suicide if i sent him to be america or america sought help going to get there this is the end of the story we will go to a higher court so this is just because it is a terrific day what she said about iraqis much more worrying because she said there's no public interest there's no we there's no difference to journalists. like proper journalists or you to actually do what most journalists do because the reason there's no public interest these are these were very very bad remarks and this is a victory and the chains you need to celebrate the full time thing is if i never saw julian room be extradited according to the decision of the judge joe is very who are saying that the only reason they're. the reason why this study sion has

been stopped is his fragile health condition and the high risk of suicidal journalists around the world should be very very worried about today's outcome is very very worrying dot's jaja basically crimi now lies journalistic activities these are political case. and. it's not over it's not over yet laura tease igor she has been looking at the events lead up to a songes long fight for freedom. jr and his son has come a long way from an obscure activist to freedom fighter or traitor depending on who you ask reilley one thing you can deny him though is that he led the charge that we kill leaks to dig up the secrets that america's intelligence colossus spent

billions of dollars burying and he succeeded. the. field reports from iraq military logs from afghanistan sensitive documents from

guantanamo bay none of which made the u.s. look particularly good but would argue that it's closer to being the high tech terrorist it is it i mean international community and not for the death penalty so if not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a. great discredit to this nation should be assassinated he should be treated as an enemy combatant it didn't take long for his sons to experience firsthand what it means to be uncle sam's public enemy the u.s. went after the whistleblower launching a probe into his actions at the same time a seemingly unrelated sexual assault investigation was opened. in sweden a son himself though claimed it was all part of america's poor to extradite him by all means possible the pressure mounted so when 2012 a son requested asylum from ecuador and holed up in the country's embassy in london

this kicked off what would become a long 7 years of confinement with even the u.n. calling for an end to this suffering various forms of deprivation of liberty to which julian assad has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention the working group and maintains that the arbitrary detention of mr assigned should be brought to an end instead the old things short from bad to even worse for a son ecuador's new president who was looking for warmer relations with the u.s. seem to take personal offense when we can leaks wrote about corruption allegations against him sanj was shown the door artie's video agency ruptly turned out to be the only outlet to catch the moment a son was literally carried out of the building some 7 years after he stepped in it . was.

once u.k. law enforcement got their hands on a son they threw him in prison a proper one but the u.s. government is looking to try him under american law where the whistleblower faces more than a 100 years behind bars now every cording that emerged in line has sparked another wave of calls to pardon the whistleblower in the tape ironically julian a son she was trying to help u.s. authorities minimize the fallout of the 2011 leaks. which will have an. hour here is it is more or. but we have been calling. me. every day trying to explain. the holdback don trump since your given pardons to people please consider putting those who at great personal sacrifice expose the deception and criminality of those in the deep state

mr president if you grant only one act of clemens the turing the time in office please free julian a'sssos you alone can save his life on hoping that he will pardon julian assange it's the right thing to do so far trump has remained deaf to the pleas the julian assange has saga has been going for so long it feels like it could be over any minute but flashing back to how it's been going so far it seems like we've just turned the page on another chapter dude and i found it for what i have known of him is a very resilient person but he has been brought to the breaking point to 10 years of persecution. joint persecution for political reasons by sweden by the united kingdom by the us by ecuador and none of this is being addressed she's not being compensated and not receiving justice for the ill treatment you have suffered he should not have been brought to

a point where you are suicidal he has been persecuted to a point where he has been broken and now they basically the system is getting him out and you know obviously that is a legal obligation but in the fence the system has succeeded in intimidating the world and passing the message that this is what's going to happen to you if ever you have the idea of publishing our dirty. secrets and making that known to the world. let's recap the top story then this hour a british judge ruled against extra telling julian lessons to the u.s. due to concerns over his mental help the u.s. said it will appeal the court's decision a son's will remain in custody of the us appeal there is a chance he could be released on bail before then and a decision will be made this coming wednesday stateside the wiki leaks co-founder faces 17 counts of spying and one of conspiracy to hook

a government can use or find guilty he would face up to 175 years in prison and another development the president of mexico has said he's prepared to give us a political us 20 minutes into the hour of more of our team's world news coming up after the shortest of.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic probably the only move really . i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. we start back in the u.s. where there corona virus vaccine isn't quite going to play the country has missed

its target of an ocular 20000000 people by the end of last year only managing to give the job to fewer than 3000000 picks up the story. it might be a new year but it's cool to buy the same old problems on the fust day of 2021 the us hit $20000000.00 kovac 19 cases but just out was before as the clock struck midnight thousands flooded the streets hoping that the next $365.00 days would just be that little bit that. i've been scared i don't know what will happen 1st rule for 2021 don't talk about 2020 and i believe this is there we go she started here we did. that everything is

going to get better and actually working at the c.v.s. and his own crazy with the coded vaccine and everything right now we really hope that everything goes back to normal this christmas i knew here many wished for a return to our old normal lives something top medical advisors have been promising was just around the corner by the time we get into all of 2021 we could be approaching some level of normality tuns out though the very thing they said would quite literally set us free the vaccine is cool top end its own trauma president trump health experts in operation warp speed hope to have 20000000 americans vaccinated by now but things are going slower than 1st thought there is now growing frustration building over the slow roll out of the corona virus vaccines across the u.s. there's only a small percentage of the vaccine that's been distributed by the federal government that has actually been administered the massive vaccination campaign against the crown of virus in the u.s.

has gotten off to a slower start very slower start there's no way we can speed this up in the near term 14000000 doses of the fine and madonna fight scenes have been distributed across america but fewer than 3000000 have been administered it why well donald trump says he's done his job but states aren't doing that. the federal government has distributed the vaccines to the states now it is up to the states to administer get moving a blame game that didn't go down well with those who say it's a lack of direction from the top that's left people i worked in the cold. that comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models it says and comprehensible as it is inexcusable it was unrealistic to assume that the health care workers already overburdened with covert care could take on a massive vaccination program many of those over bugs and health care while because

on now protesting they say they were promised a vaccine and instead face and miscues and crashing apps if lucky that's despite being in contact with infected people all hours of the day for 10 months straight the promise to vaccinate them as a priority fell apart as quickly as the promise to inoculate 20000000 by the end of 2020 so if they're not going to be at risk groups where all they going while no one apparently there are delays at every corner of the number is lower than less we hope for we know that it should be better and working hard to make the best tons out the holiday period and snow storms on what a smooth rollout means but even once the holidays end in the snow melts if nothing changes unless say it would take almost 10 years to vaccinate enough americans to control the virus gives a whole new meaning to

a peroration warp speed and the mess continues on a local level 2. is it just normal teasing problems of one of the most ambitious vaccination campaigns in u.s. history or is it just incompetence at every level either way it looks like the kewl meant to bring all into is now only adding to the chaos. let's take you to the 2nd most populous country in the world india where medical experts have raised concerns over what they say is the country's rushed the session to approve 2 coronavirus vaccines on sunday india greenlit. is

a drug based on the astra zeneca vaccine kovacs in a job created by india's bharat biotech company a senior health official said that both drugs are 110 percent safe they wouldn't have been approved if there were any safety concerns however not everyone is. based on the full goes regimen for both shots that got approved astra zeneca had chances to 2 percent efficacy this is much lower than any other vaccine that has been approved in many countries the all india drug action network is shocked to learn of a c.c.s. recommendation to grants approval of bharat's biotechs kovacs in its appears that no efficacy data for the vaccine candidate was submitted from the phase 3 trials that are ongoing and completely confused parent has some data in preparation but as far as i'm aware there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented a published earlier we spoke to public health experts

a man who believes the indian government might now buy the wrong vaccine. in the fields of science and public health quite. astonished to see. if you just look from the the data which is available to us the astra zeneca vaccine we're looking at in africa c.t. 60 the sit on b. don't p.v. have the and this is the efficacy agreed so i think from that particular perspective for a country with 1300000000 people who provide a rule for these 2 vaccines mean not be one on the most strategy and the best decision to be taken i think there are other vaccines in the water and the government should have considered the 50 from an effort to see the need. ok some news just coming into us from the u.k. british prime minister boris johnson an annoyance that england will enter

a 3rd national locked on in his address to the nation he said that stricter measures were needed because of the more infectious variant of the coronavirus it's led to a 30 percent increase in hospitalized patients in england over the past week under the new measures people will only be able to leave home if absolutely necessary for medical reasons or grocery shopping at schools colleges they were going to switch to distance and learning from choose the it is all expected to last until mid february ok for all your up to the minute developments. including as well the huge news about julian assange do you remember to give us a follow on twitter fresh developments there are all the time.

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