very. supporters of. refusing to extradite him to the us decision. and by his remaining in produce custody reaction. we his supporters have to be saying you have to bail him out because he. should be. the prime.

of the ruling is the judge supported america's. refusing to extradite him only because of concerns over his mental health. does not inspire confidence. that another state might not pursue somebody else in the same way. only very far. from the criminal was in. the country. very good morning thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. supporters of. elated after the shock decision by

british judge to refuse a u.s. extradition request the relation. by the fact that he remains in custody while the americans launch an appeal once say the wiki leaks co-founder will find out if his bail application has been successful. while the extradition denial is good news for press freedom groups are still dismayed because the judge maintained that the u.s. had a solid case against him she was concerned rather that extradition would adversely affect his already deteriorated mental health and his rag as the of looks at the message the ruling sends to journalists. it may not yet be but a visa when a songe for now has been span being said into the muscle mechanical mouth of the u.s. justice system. the we were. the

way. the a. verdict was a damning indictment of the songes mental health how it must the deteriorate for a judge in such a politically charged case to have made it the chief consideration she just didn't believe he'd survive in the u.s. jail the overall impressions of a depressed and sometimes despairing man who is generally fearful about his future the risk to mr science will commit suicide is a substantial one for years we've heard about the psychological torture of julian a songe the better part of a decade spent in hiding in syria of political persecution this taken a terrible toll and send an even more terrible message in offense to 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 to publishing our dirty secrets and making that known to the world because judgment is coming from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and book blowing at it avoids even to the time you risks that it would still have that its own supreme court in the u.s. might overturn a. judgment against to in essence based on on the 1st amendment the constitution as was done in the pentagon papers we have to recognize that the other. the journal just may not have a use for you all important health issue could still be extradited to the us based on the exactly same charges the ruling may have been a small win for

a son but it's spelled to do for whistleblowers and the judge's opinion journalists shouldn't be allowed to solicits damn name leaks or to publish an redacted scandals in my judgment mr sanchez a legit to vicki's went beyond the mere encouragement of a whistleblower free speech does not comprise a trunk card even when matters of serious public concern are this closed and it does not provide an unfettered right for some like mr sashi to decide the fate of others essential the judge accepted almost every one of washington's arguments against assad's and by implication whistleblowers what this means is that if he is a professional citizen journalist soo much is asked for information about a potential state klawonn and you get it via any means but that press office you had to have a nice it a liable to be prosecuted and if you publish that information and someone feels

that someone might be threatened by it charges just doubled the only reason why a journalist was not extradited and submitted to the espionage legislation the united states was his health condition otherwise he would be extradited so it's very very worrying dots. that joshua basically creamy now lies journalistic t.v. it is. only in the last over $350.00 save the american prison system is so pretty so fresh picture you would be at risk of suicide if i sent it to america to america thought not going to she said this nope. look interesting but there's no we there's no defense for journalists to come before you like a proper journalist or you like to do what most journalists do because they feel that there's no public interest but these are these with very very biased remarks

but 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 and by the option of the people in the united states to trying to get him to be extradited in the pushing this election year and the socially the judge agreed with the u.s. government on everything. which leaves a horrible precedent for future journalists activists whistleblowers even happy. the president these inserts ease catastrophic that essentially outlaws not only whistle blowing but encouraging whistleblowers to do what they think is right what we're left with these as you have new ways to target and punish those with a functioning moral compass we spoke with roger waters a founding member of the rock band pink floyd and

a long time supporter of julian assange she thinks this is a battle for human rights we his supporters have to be saying you have to bear him now he has he's suffered brain beyond any suffering that should be meted out to him for his warm small bio infringement which he sees only crime under u.k. law a case of bail him now let the man begin to live this is a battle not just for the life of one great truly great journalist julian and sometimes it's a battle to the survival of the human race if we give up the 4th estate if we allow. the united states government to 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 believe you

are lives 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 then we'll say you can't do that because if you do we're going to kill you is that the world we want to live in the 1st on the u.k. has blocked a u.s. extradition over mental health in 2002 british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems and even found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years behind bars in america after a decade long legal battle treason made the then secretary refused to send him stateside citing the risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to mckinnon about this son's case. we shouldn't even be in this

position you know 7 years in the ecuadorian embassy the best part of 2 years in belmarsh prison. for telling the truth you know he's not a criminal. jury and did their best to always ensure that they were for intelligence assets in danger and it really has been journalism on trial mainly in marji mainly to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this from to curiously unbalanced tradition treaty we have between a president and america can only imagine julian says exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not unlike your going to say. it really is. incredibly difficult it's awful i got to the point of suicide i'm short periods and suicidal thoughts and you're trying to maintain normality you're trying to fight your case you're trying to live as normal a life as you can but you've got this unbearable pressure inside and when it goes on for 7 years 10 years it gets worse and worse and worse it is really really

difficult to handle. stateside the committee to protect journalists has welcomed the british court's decision to deny a son's extradition it's head is urging the u.s. department of justice to drop all charges against the wiki leaks co-founder we heartened that a british court has denied the united states' request to extradite julian assange launch the us government's decision to charge the wiki leaks founder said a harmful legal precedent for the prosecution of journalists around the world simply for interacting with their sources we asked the u.s. department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against a stone age or the us prosecutors have already indicated they will appeal the extradition denial they have 2 weeks in which to do that on the scale of morva takes a closer look now at washington's war against the whistleblower. so a huge win for julian assad but the usa is still not ready to back down while we are extremely disappointed in the colts ultimate decision we are gratified that the

united states prevailed on every points of law raised in particular the culture jets and all of mr songs as arguments regarding political motivation political offense fair trial and freedom of speech we will continue to seek mr saunders extradition to the united states washington quickly announced it intends to appeal and continue pursuing the extradition and julian aside this makes sense as politicians from both sides of the united states political spectrum have placed a target on his back or to argue that it is closer to the high tech terrorists it is an attack on the international community we are not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a son should be assassinated actually they're tough and say if we catch you we're going to hang you whatever when the world's top military power is out for your blood you don't really stand much of a chance they're ready to throw the book at him he's facing 18 different charges 17 for as and one for attempted hacking of a u.s.

government computer if convicted he could face up to 175 years in u.s. prisons the law being invoked is an obscure piece of legislation known as the espionage act from 1917 it was originally used against peace activists during the 1st world war now the parts of the law that suppressed free speech had been cut down by the courts but now it's being used against whistleblowers human rights activists call it a tool of intimidation the espionage act must be reformed it locks the public interest to fund it any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceeding they cannot adequately defend themselves today's decision does not inspire confidence that the u.s. government or the another state might not the time to pursue somebody else in the same way so that seriously needs to be addressed and we will continue to advocate for broader rick. i want to strengthen protections for journalists for sources for whistleblowers because at present they were anybody trying to publish similar information to what we can at least they could find themselves in very hot water

that the case is far from over u.s. officials are very unlikely to forget all the damaging information that found its way into the public eye thanks to julian assange and wiki leaks. but we do believe.

our guests discuss the implications of these songs ruling. it was a truly disparate surprising decision because you know i expected a judge who had ruled so often in support of the british security state to simply be a rubber stamp and what was interesting about it to me was the way that the judge's decision essentially endorsed the entire narrative of the us national security state and at the same time they seem to find a way 'd of saving face you know we're at such a pivotal time where news and truth and and getting out information is so necessary and so what one hopes that can come from this is a delay meet a slight delay in the process to as races to allow a new president to come in who may take a different view of this nation a certain planes place to eliminate this mess coming into the united states this

despicable act where people can't defend themselves where the cia will be shown to have interfered with lawyers who knew others were that terrible shape the collateral murder to be shown endlessly about what our troops did in the room. the political nature of the accusations and the impact on freedom of the press makes it a very difficult to get a fair trial we're starting to see elements of the establishment media and establishment n.g.o.s press freedom organizations which had been muted on julian a songe largely due to his demonization by the press they're starting to speak up for him and they're starting to say this is an attack on all of us the political left or what passes for it in the united states has been very muted and we've seen

remarkable developments for example in mexico with president andres money. well lopez obrador actually offering to give sanctuary to julian a songe to take him in this is a president of a country that's historically been allied with the u.s. and so julian assange has summoned so many of these new currents of resistance to empire and it's going to be interesting to see where he winds up maybe we need a u.n. peacekeeping unit to come in and surround him lest he be droned death or otherwise targeted for assassination by whomever i mean it's sounds crazy to be thought to be speaking about these things but i've been there i've been there and that embassy and i've seen how he's been treated and i know he's in the enemy number one from pump a 0 to 2 to anyone so my immediate concern is that he rarely. go

out out of the out of belmarsh without a security detail that is equipped to take on anyone well i just want to say that i think that their goal is to debilitate him not to chart try him and they're they've they've been succeeding at that is mental state and his is ability to hurt him in the future or this is probably been damaged to some. some degree obviously and so i think that. i don't think the assassination type scenario serves them either they just want to. neuter the messenger if you will we'll see what happens on wednesday i do believe ultimately julian assize will be a free man but he should be released immediately the conditions in a maximum security prison in london are not much better than those in the u.s. so i fail to see the case for holding him there 'd and still continuing to abuse

him psychologically and physically. well that decision on the song to be made on wednesday will bring you all the information on that and any other developments relating to the case as they come in.

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to john rubino of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to you now john we've known you for many years going back 3 days and well 2020 seems to be the year that has driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. welcome back boris johnson has imposed another national log down in england the country's

3rd since the spring the british prime minister said that he hopes the move will be enough to contain a highly contagious variant of code currently spreading around the country and says you case pushing tools nearly 60000 new cases a day. we now have a new variant of the virus and it's been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading. scientists have confirmed this new variant is between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible in england we was there for going to a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant if come back full circle to to last march when we were told to stay home protect the n.h.s. and to save lives and that mantra was repeated by boris johnson again today and is in force once again what it means simply enough is that people in england are being told to stay home except for a number of reasons essential shopping work if that work can't be done from home

exercise urgent medical needs or in cases where someone is threatened with domestic violence and has to get out there's also significant pressure coming for parents and students as primary and secondary schools will move to remote learning from tomorrow and the closure of schools is a major government u. turn as the pm had said that he was determined the primary schools at least in england would stay open he did say that there is a rather downbeat meds message of course that the oxford astra zeneca vaccine means that the biggest max nation program in the u.k. history can now be effectively rolled out and that he hopes that the most vulnerable will all have been vaccinated by mid february for goes well. britain's the says that now more than ever we must pull together many people who are going to be extremely frustrated that the government has given them almost no notice again for yet another major life upheaval and is once again being reactive rather than

proactive with covert 19 by the way we're back in lockdown in england and the new rules are going to become law from wednesday. microbiologist that reading university sonic clarke believes the situation has not been heading in the right direction if the numbers of the factions are going up by definition restrictions on all working because of the very minimum they should cause them to level off by ideally you want to drive them down so if the numbers are going up then they're not working so really there are only a few leavers left to pull and there are. closing schools and universe to. restrictively amount of people that go to work on a daily basis that those who really really have. the means on germany's expected to extend its current slog down the final decision will be announced after chancellor angela merkel's meeting with regional heads some german states have seen protests

against the current anti pandemic regime into all of it has more well angle of merkel will be meeting with the heads of germany 16 states later on tuesday almost certain that there will be an extension of the current lockdown measures that are in place what we are expecting to see is an extension until the end of this month however one senior social democratic party politician the social democrats part of the ruling coalition here in germany karl lauterbach who is a respected professor of epidemiology in his own right has said that there should be an indefinite lockdown put in place across germany unlikely that that will be the option taken by the chancellor and the the leaders of the 16 states later on tuesday the mood music suggests it could be a 3 week extension in view of the still too high numbers it is necessary to extend the measures and the restrictions. the lockdown must be extended until the end of january prematurely easing would set as far back again the numbers

a still simply much too high as much is it annoys people we must remain consistent and not give up too soon again unfortunately we do not yet have the numbers we need and above all too little clarity due to the holidays at the end of the year but there are still a number of questions about what will happen when it comes to schools they are supposed to go back here in germany next week at the moment we don't know whether that will happen one year groups will go back and how this will affect things like daycare and kindergartens as well now we've also seen protests across germany against kovac restrictions that have been put in place they continue to this weekend just gone in nuremberg him bavaria the state of bavaria put in place stricter rules in december last year where they put in place a curfew from 9 pm until 5 am in the morning 'd well over the weekend riot police had to keep

a separation between protesters against the covert restrictions and anti far counter-demonstrators suit come out as well these were some pretty ok things at times. well vaccination is the words on a lot of people's lips here in germany at the moment and yet in spawn the health minister was speaking on monday saying that anyone who wants a vaccination in germany should be able to get one by the 2nd quarter of this year now that is an ambitious target germany's vaccination program has been criticized for moving at a late. she'll pace so far will be looking to see if there's anything more from you

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