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broadcasting live from the russian capital every hour of this international hello. a british court blocked the extradition of julian assange to be united states on monday the whistleblower supporters are turning their attention to the fact he remains in custody while the americans launch appeal the wiki leaks co-founder will learn tomorrow if his bail application has been successful. the blocking of the extradition is good news for assad's press freedom groups are dismayed that's because they judgment tain that the u.s. have a solid case against them and only refused to send him stateside because of concerns over his poor mental health. has been looking at the message the ruling sends to journalists. it may not yet be but of these a when

a son just the now has been spanked being fed into the muscle a sma can until mouth of the u.s. justice system. was. 'd 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 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 decades bent in hiding in fear of political persecution that has taken a terrible toll and sent 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 the idea of publishing our dirty secrets and making that known to the world because the 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 the 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 legit to when 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 unfetter right for some that 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 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 warning. jaja basically crimi no lies. journalistic t.v. it is. only in the last mode it would fit did she say that the american prison system is so brutal so threatening to kill you would be at risk of suicide if i sent it to the america to america saw it not going to she said there's no public interest there's no we there's no defense for journalists to come to behave like proper journalists are you to actually do what most journalists do mccall mr wilson

there's no public interest but these are these will very very bad 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 are by the action of the people of the united states they're trying to get him to be extradited in the pushing this action here 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 unset sees 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 right guess the of all u.s. prosecutors have already said they will appeal the court's decision not to extradite a songe they have 2 weeks to do that earlier i spoke to roger waters a funding member of the rock band pink floyd a longtime backer of julian assange he warned there's much more at stake than one person'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 worms mo bio infringement which he sees only crime under u.k. law a case of buy him now let the man begin to live this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist julian and some it's a battle for 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 didn't believe you 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 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. roger waters live in our tyranny or not it's not the 1st time britain has blocked an extradition to the u.s. in mental health grounds in 2002 british tucker gary mckinnon was accused of

breaching u.s. military computer systems had he been found guilty he could have faced up to 70 years in prison in america after a decade long legal battle trees and maybe then home secretary in the u.k. refused to send them across the atlantic citing the risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to him about the case. we should leave him 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 have the intelligence assets in danger and it really has been journalism on trial mainly and margy mainly to the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this from to curiously unbalanced i should mention 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 that my own house not and ecuadorian embassy. 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 and in the united states the committee to protect journalists welcomed the british court's decision to block a songes extradition the n.g.o.s urging the u.s. department of justice to drop all charges against them 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 however the plea appears to have fallen on deaf ears with america

stating it intends to appeal the u.k. court's decision artie's kill up and has been taking a closer look 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 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 will 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

a 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 believe. we also spoke with a former lawyer for julian assange about his case and his 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 rule that a person who merely acts as a journalist has the protection of the 1st amendment and. even if the person who leaked 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 the great deal that that video was released by assad along with a lot of other material 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 they're not being attacked didn't it could lead us on the big attack. or for some more insight into the implications of the british courts the citizen we talked to a lawyer a journalist a former cia officer. it was a truly despair 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 of saving face you know we're at such a pivotal time where news and truth and and getting out information is so don't necessary and so what one hopes can come from this is a delay meet a slight delay in the process to as raises to allow a new president to come in who may take a different view of this. latest 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 others were that terrible

shape the collateral murder to be shown endlessly about what our troops did in iraq . 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 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 rally 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 they're they've

they've been succeeding at that is in the 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. yes indeed the next chapter in the event is a decision on his bail as the guest just said that will be made and wed instead of

course r.t. will be here to bring you all the developments and when they happen. the number of covert cases in the u.k. has top $60000.00 for the 1st time since the pandemic started it comes just as boris johnson imposes another national lot done and then the country's 3rd since spring the british prime minister said he hopes the move will be enough to contain a highly contagious variant of code currently spreading across the country we now have a new variant of the virus and it's been both frustrating and looming 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 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 meds 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. but 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 a tightening of restrictions has been seen across the u.k. just before pm johnson's announcement the mainland part of scotland also moved into locked up under the new rules people there are required to stay at home and work remotely if possible and wields northern ireland. stricter measures in place since late december a microbiologist that reading university in the u.k.

simon clarke says because of the continually rising figures of late questions must be raised over the effectiveness of locked up if the numbers of infections are going up by definition restrictions on working because it is very minimal they should cause them to level off 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 leaders left to paul and they are. closing schools and universities. restricting the amount of people that go to work on a daily basis that those really really have. the european union has vowed to run past their friends to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with around it comes after tehran increased its uranium enrichment to 20 percent on monday levels not seen since before the agreement. we are highly concerned by the

steps taken by iran to start a niche in uranium to 20 percent and we will redouble our efforts to keep the agreement. the arabian government confirmed this week the house indeed started increasing its enrichment of uranium foreign minister zarif said the steps are fully reversible if other partners of the deal complied with it however it appears increasingly unlikely ever since donald trump polled the u.s. side in 2018 with washington slapping another round of sanctions on iran's steel industry only today here's the russian foreign ministry's take on the situation. the renewal of reman richmond by iran is a departure from the join comprehensive plan of action but these dead the asians are caused by the united states actions iran should be ready to act accordingly once the u.s. abandons its efforts to undermine the nuclear deal the nuclear agreement that iran signed with the p 5 plus one was based upon the assumption that all sides would

respect the deal now what happened was that under obama the united states never fully implemented the deal whereas the iranians did but then under trumped the us wrote the deal apart after the americans exited the deal and the europeans obediently abided by trump's demands the iranians have continued to still abide by some of their commitments and now the iranians are saying that we're not going to abide by those anymore because the other side is doing nothing so the iranians are leveling the playing field either biden wants to implement the deal if he does fine then the iranians will reverse all of these as our foreign minister stated but if a biden doesn't want to abide by the deal then the iranians will continue with their nuclear program a lot is or a lot from the newsroom for not but said buck percents another documentary screening in moments discover what's on in moments.

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