actually. offered you can judge surprise many by blocking the extradition of. his and the american appeal we hear from some of his top supporters. his supporters have to be. asked. for. more press freedom groups say they are concerned by the judge launching supported america's espionage charges against. him only because of concerns over

his mental health. decision does not inspire confidence the government or the another state might not the time to pursue somebody else in the same way. very very far. rationale that underlie. cancer we criminalized. back in england this prime minister. the hardest weeks still to come. just gone 5 o'clock in moscow you watching the international. british court the extradition of. the united states his supporters and turning their attention to the fact he remains in custody while the americans launch an appeal on wednesday the

wiki leaks co-founder will learn if his bail application has been successful. i've. i my while blocking the extradition is good news for a songe press freedom groups are dismayed because the judge maintained that the u.s. had a solid case against him and only refused to send him to the united states over concerns for his poor mental health or his murder gaz they have looks now the message the ruling sends to journalists. it may not yet be true but of these a wean a songe the now has been spanked being fed into the muscles mechanical mouth of the u.s. justice system. was. 6

the verdict was a damning indictment of the songes mental health will how it must have deteriorated 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 wrist and 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 decades sent in hiding in fear of political persecution and this taken a terrible toll and sent an even more terrible message in a sense 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 because judgment comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and book blowing at it avoids even to the tiny 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 of the country to say as was done in the pentagon papers we have to recognize that other investigative journalist just may not have. used a year. important health issue could still be extradited to the u.s. 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 dam name leaks or to publish an redacted scandals

in my judgment mr sanchez a legend to vittie 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 are right for some like mr sashi to decide the fate of others essential ie the judge accepted almost every one of washington's arguments against the sun that by implication whistleblowers what this means is that if you is a professional rule citizen journalist soo much is ask for information about a potential state and you get it via any means but their press office you and who have the knicks it's a liable to be prosecuted and if you publish that information and someone feels that someone might be threatened by it while you 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 jaja basically creamy now lies journalistic p.v.t. it's. only in the last over $350.00 save the american prison system it's so pretty so fresh picture you would be at risk of suicide if i sent it to the america to america thought not going to she said there's no public interest there's no if there's no defense for journalists you can't be paid like property journalists or you. actually i do what most journalists do recall this thing is that there's no public interest rates these are these with very very bad reports 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 are by the action of the people of the united states they're 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 happier as president these insets 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 when u.s. prosecutors have already said that they will appeal against the court's decision not to extradite assange and they do have 2 weeks to do that in the meantime we spoke to roger waters a founding member of the rock band pink floyd and also a long time supporter of cheating the sanchia thinks there is

a much more at stake than one man's life 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 bt doubts him for his one small bio infringement which he sees only crime under u.k. law a case of him now that the man begin to live this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist julian and sometimes it's a battle to the survival of this human brains if we give 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 misery to leave him

alone and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murder 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 world we want to live in. now it is the 1st time that the u.k. has blocked a u.s. extradition request over mental health back in 2002 british hacker hey gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems he had been found guilty or had he been found guilty sorry he could have faced up to 17 years in prison in america after a decade long legal battle treason made it then home secretary refused to send him stateside citing the risk of suicide r.t.

spoke exclusively to him about the sons' 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 particularly imbalanced 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 sort of it's had 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. i mean the united states the committee to protect this is welcome the british courts decision to block assange his extradition and it urging the u.s. department of justice to drop all charges against him we heartened that a british court has denied the united states' request to extradite julian assange lunch the u.s. 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 have the u.s. department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against a stone age however that play dissipate afford an on deaf ears with the u.s. saying that it does intend to a pale and u.k. course decision. more pain takes a closer look now at washington's war against the whistleblower. so a huge win for julian

a son 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 saunders 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's closer but in the high tech terrorist 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 espionage 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 us government or the another state might not turn to 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 if you believe.

what we will tell you spoke with a former lawyer sauntered back to his case and he gave us his if you use only whistleblowers prospects. i'm aware that everyone is concerned that the americans. appealing. there's nothing to stop assad from cross appealing a songes fundamental position is that he was acting as every journalist acts you know ever since the daniel ellsberg case in russia the pentagon papers it has been fundamental in american role that a person who merely acts as a journalist has the protection of the 1st amendment and. even if that person leaks information to them. commits an offense it is not a criminal offense to publish that material the most notorious of the disclosures

by wiki leaks was the video collateral murder which i think upsets the american to great deal that that video was released by assad along with a lot of other mature later and. we most of us would not have heard about it except that it was republished by the major news networks across the across the world now the leaders of the major news networks are not being prosecuted for nothing attacks indictable us i'm just being attacked what we further discuss to the implications of the u.k. court decision with a panel of guests including a lawyer a journalist and a former cia officer. 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 them shane where the cia will be shown to have interfered with lawyers others were 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 'd 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 be 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 really that he not 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 there 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. so the next chapter then in your case is a decision on that bio that will be made on wednesday and of course i will bring you all the latest developments as they happen here on art.

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speed with which the new variant is spreading. scientists have confirmed this new variant is between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible in england was therefore 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 it's 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 to

morrow 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 mets message of course that the oxford astra zeneca vaccine means that the biggest maximisation 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. berman says 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 where a tightening of restrictions has been seen across the cape because just before johnson's announcement the main part of scotland or saying moved into lockdown

under the new rule was there people are required to stay at home and work for making it possible and while to northern ireland have had strict measures in place since late december. microbiologist at reading university in the u.k. simon clarke police of the crisis has not been heading in the right direction but the numbers of 3 factions are going up by definition restrictions on all working because it was very minimal they should cause them to level off ideally you want to drive them around so if the numbers are going up. then they're not working so really there are only a few leaders left to pull from there are. closing schools and universities. restrictively amount of people that go to work on a daily basis that those who are really really half. a mile in india have medical experts are sounding the alarm over what they say is the country's rushed

decision to approve 2 vaccines on sunday india approved a drug based on the astra zeneca vaccine another created by an indian biotech company a senior health official said both shots are totally safe but it does seem that not everybody shares that confidence. 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 grant's approval of barrett'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 or health experts from india did share with us their thoughts and

concerns over the vaccines approval for love for us in the in the spheres of science and public health. astonished to see. if you just look from the the data which is available to us that astra zeneca vaccine we're looking at in africa c.t. don't 60 pill wasn't part of the don't really have the necessary i think a seed so i think from that particular perspective for a country with 1200000000 people who provide these 2 vaccines mean not the one on the most strategy and the best decisions to be. i don't vaccinate in the one and the government should have considered the city from an effort to see the we have concerns in respect of both the a provost in respect of the part about expects even the callback scene of course the primary concern is the lack of efficacy the doubt because the phase 3 trial is

still ongoing in india and currently it is too early for there to be any data for any interim analyses to have taken place in the case of syria. not all of the details from the indian bridging study were submitted to the regulator is specially in the nation to immunogenicity the efficacy be to also that were taken from the trials of astra zeneca and oxford vaccine in respect of those do we do not have any clarity about what do you doubt will consider and what efficacy estimates were considered and granting the indian. as you know of the efficacy would vary depending on the dosing regimen the and over between doses and other factor concerns here out of about primarily a lack of transparency in that a greater process we know that this decision has been taken but it's marked very clear very on what basis that this is and has been taken what kind of be there was some of that how was that considered to be adequate and what is the meat of this

uproar because we have also used with rich it's not really fair in terms of allowing these to be used for district of emergency use into a mickle trial mode it cetera so i can become sons are not so. much closely with regards to the work seen being on c 4 more i think it shows what product the process thought being transmitted like one would make especially if i'm so proud to make when everything is being exposed to. you watching us internationally brings you up to date the new safe today here on our channel don't forget that we've got a website for the stories too you can find that. like a back to the kaiser report imax guys are time to go to john rubino of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to stacy now john we've known you for many years ago and back 3 big coing days and well 2020 seems to be the year that the going has driven the dollar to collapse in

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