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supported washington. refusing to. help us or. does not inspire confidence. another state might not have time to pursue somebody else in the same way. very very far. now that underly. criminalizes in. coming up on the program. british prime minister warns the heart. of the world this is our chief international my names you know your company. a lot

of. following a british court blocking the extradition of julian assange to the united states the whistleblower supporters are now turning their attention to the fact he remains in custody while the americans launch an appeal the wiki leaks co-founder will learn on wednesday if his bill up location has been approved. while the blocking of the extradition is of course good news for asuncion press freedom groups are dismayed because the judgment tame the us have a solid case against them and only refused the sentence stateside because of concerns over his frail mental health artie's morocco's the of looks the message the ruling sends to journalists. it may not yet be but are these a wean a songe the now has been span 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 it has 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 to publishing our dirty secrets and making that known to the world because judgment it comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and book blowing at it or glory even to the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court and the u.s. might overturn. the judgment against to in essence based on on the 1st amendment 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 damnum leaks or to publish and redacted scandals in my judgment mr sanchez a legend 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 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 crime and you get it any means but their press office you and who have the knicks 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 the american to barack or thought not going to she said there's no public interest there's no it there's no defense for journalists to come before you like probably journalists or you. actually i do what most journalists do recall mr wilson there's no public interest but these are these were very very remarkable

that 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 action of the people of the united states to trying to get him to be extradited to 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 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 the right guys they have all of us prosecutors have already said they will appeal the court's decision not to extradite us and have 2

weeks to do that earlier i spoke to roger waters a funding member of the rock band pink floyd a long time biker of killing innocents he warned there is more at stake much more in fact than one man's liberty 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 the 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 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. to leave you alone 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'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. well it is not the 1st time britain has blocked an extradition to the u.s. on mental health grounds in 2002 british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems he being found guilty he was facing up to 70 years in the

american prison after a decade long legal battle treason may that then u.k. home secretary refused to send him across the atlantic citing a risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to have about the 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 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 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 that 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 and it's really really difficult to handle well in the united states the committee to protect journalists welcome the british courts this isn't to block a songes extradition the ngo is 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 harmful legal precedent for the persecution 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 or via the plea appears to fall on deaf ears with america as weeping going through stating it intends to appeal the u.k. court decision or to scale up and has been taking

a closer look 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 than in 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 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. much.

like you believe. we also spoke with a former lawyer for julian assange his case and his prospects. i'm aware that everyone is concerned that the americans. are appealing but there's nothing to stop a sound from cross appealing 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 law 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 to 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 filmed it could lead to big attack. or oil prices soared after an agreement was reached by top oil producers to keep production steady in february and in march on top of that saudi arabia has voluntarily agreed to cut $1000000.00 barrels per day if i put while russia and kazakhstan will be able to increase their output and i'm very happy to say joining

us live now on the program to get is a couple of bin yeah leamy permanent representative of the kingdom of saudi arabia to the united nations you're very welcome to the program. why have saudi arabia taken this essentially a burden upon itself while other countries increase oil production what's the thinking behind that looks solid arabia tries already is to exercise and play a constructive and positive rule in stabilizing markets and reaching agreement as with partners countries such as long as you mentioned the numbers so we are prepared to make sacrifices if you mess that he provided others on responding favorably to larry mentioned not sticking through them and acting in accordance with them so this is nominees with force on the radio we have always

been a constructive partner and constructive player we try to maintain stability in the markets and try to. use that are suitable for consumers and producers of the same time and i'm sure your partners here in opec are are happy with that but of course there's the other side isn't there the potential to lose market share is riyad not concerned about that perhaps countries like the u.s. turning to the she'll tell on further. well we think that there will be a company in order that markets with a new year and would be improved economic situation and that will increase our of course tutti for. cruising assembly monitor moms quantities so if we take a short term hit for your objective all achieving

a monger to. lose. your economy the global economy has been has been hit by the pun to make it seems to be continuing into 2021 a lot further or do you 1st see it getting worse the global economy and this is why perhaps you want to see oil producing levels going down you know we don't foresee it going worse we think it will is going to come out of the crisis of the president hopefully in the 1st half of the year and therefore pick up demand and become pretty comical activity in various parts of the rule so no we are looking favorably at the prospects for an improved market situation just to get your thoughts on the big picture here. countries like russia pushing one way to

increase production that's going to happen in the next number of months saudi are cutting their oil i put are there factions starting to appear at we had a meeting yesterday that rolled into today are a lot of talking and what does this mean for future opec plus cooperation. well the fact that we are able to reach agreements with russia and ominous is a positive indication for pick plus that oprah plus is there to stay and will continue to maintain discussions and coordination with our enemies or clears in the market so i think it all indicates a positive outlook and within opec itself where did the visions over you willing to do this or other nations happy that you're cutting the amount of i pad i think other nations will benefit from this agreement didn't wait. that it isn't in the form of reduced output generally

a limit if used in the form of better prices so i think they will go along with this agreement and then they will support it and we are a bit continuous contact with a lot of pick partners and we try to do something with rights to use it consideration and we try to reach common ground with all relevant parties so just to wrap up in terms of the global economy you're buoyant you're happy that you will see some kind of improvement in the coming months i think so i think we are coming to the crux of the situation that it got its through the pandemic and i think by the middle of the who should be able to see some. improvements in the situation and has in the local economy ok well thank you very much for your time and giving us your sense of what occurred there in the big meeting a big i come from adam buster abdullah bin leamy permanent representative of the

king of aside the arabia to the united nations thank you sir. thank you. ok within the past number of hours german chancellor angela merkel has both extended an toughened national coronavirus lock down restrictions among the new measures those living in areas most affected by the virus won't be able to travel over 15 kilometers from their home without a valid reason and contact with people from the high school will be limited to just one other person existing restrictions that have been ramping up since november will be no in place until at least the end of january into the closure of schools and all non-essential workers. are staying in europe the number of daily cobra cases in the u.k. stop 60000 for the 1st time since the pandemic started it follows boris johnson imposing another national lockdown in england 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 covert currently spreading around the country we now

have a new variant of the bars 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 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 maxa 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 but bowman says says that now more than ever we must pull together many people here 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. well the tightening of restrictions has been seen across the u.k.

just before pm johnson's announcement the mainland part of scotland also moved into lockdown under the new rules people there are required to stay at home work remotely as possible and wheels and northern ireland have had stricter measures in place since early december microbiologist reading university in britain simon clarke ses because of the continually writing figures questions that have to be raised over the effectiveness of lockdowns if the numbers of the factions are going up by definition restrictions on all working because that very minimum they should cause them to level off ideally you want to drive it around so if the numbers are going up then they're not working so really there are only a few leaders left to pool and there are. closing schools and universities. restrictively amount of people who go to work on a daily basis you really really have. the european union

has vollard to ramp up efforts the selvage the 2015 nuclear deal with a role that comes after to run stepped up its uranium enrichment program on monday to levels not seen since before the agreement. we are highly concerned by the steps taken by iran to start a bitch and you really need to 20 percent and we will redouble our efforts to keep the agreement the iranian government confirmed this week that it has started increasing its enrichment of uranium foreign minister java to reef said the steps are fully reversible if other partners of the deal complied with it or period increasingly unlikely ever since donald trump polled the u.s. side in 28 dealing with washington slapping another round of sanctions on iran steel industry only today choose the fierce the russian foreign ministry take on the situation. the renewal of rainman richmond by iran is

a departure from the joint comprehensive plan of action but these devastations 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 on 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 rep the deal apart was 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 a 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 applied and doesn't want to abide by the deal then the iranians will continue with their nuclear program is just one of the stories we will be closely following in the coming hours hope you will as well here in our to international with us i mean a real cæsar. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. and i noticed that at 1st the usual. when you have australian bush you know they go this route you have to white people. who are. used to dumb shit up to the nearest. gets you. to go to collect it is insist that

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