after a u.k. judge blocks the extradition to the us of julian assange attention now turns to his bail and washington's appeal we hear from high profile supporters of the wiki leaks founder. we his supporters have to be saying you have bailed him out he has. and he suffered and should be to see him for his. crime. press freedom groups are ringing the alarm though after the court largely supported washington's

case against assad's with the judge only refusing extradition over mental health concerns. 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 the judgment went very very far in comparing me. to crash and now that underlie us. and it is a good defense of the criminal why that investigative journalist. wherever you are whenever you are whoever you are you're watching our international donald quarter bringing the news from moscow to you welcome to the program. after a british court blocked the extradition of julian assads to the us the whistleblower supporters are turning their attention to the fact that he remains in

custody while washington launches an appeal the what the wiki leaks co-founder will find out later on wednesday if his bail application has been approved. press freedom groups have been angered at the court ruling that's because the judge maintained that the u.s. had a solid case against a songe she only refused to send him stateside because of concerns over his mental health or i'd guess the of looks at the message the ruling sends to journalists. it may not yet be true but of these a wean a songe the now has been span being fed into the muscles mechanical 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 decade spent 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 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 other investigative journalist just may not have a use for your. 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 and by implication whistleblowers what this means is that if you as 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 crimi no lies journalistic p.v.t. it's. only in the last over $350.00 save the american prison system is so pretty so fresh so peculiar would be at risk of suicide if i sent it to the american barrack or thought not going to she said there's no public interest there's no if there's no defense for journalists who can be paid like proper journalists or you. actually i do what most journalists do because they seriously there's no public interest but these are these with a very very fiber box but 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 in the united states they're trying to get him to be

extradited to the pushing this action 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 us president these insets ease catastrophic that essentially outlaws not only whistle blowing but encouraging whistle blew is 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 earlier my colleague union o'neill spoke to pink floyd founder roger waters who is a long time supporter of a song he believes there's more at stake than the freedom of just one man we his supporters have to be saying you have to bail him out he has he's suffered. way beyond any suffering that should be meted out see him for his worms mobo

infringement which he sees only crime under u.k. 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 full 3 states 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 would say you can't do that because if you do we're going to kill you it's not the well we want to live in. this isn't the 1st time that britain has blocked a u.s. extradition request on mental health grounds in 2002 british hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching in u.s. military computer systems how do you britain found guilty he would have been facing up to 70 years in an american prison after a decade long legal battle to race all the theresa may then u.k. home secretary refused to send him across the atlantic citing a risk of suicide or she spoke exclusively to him about the assads 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 i should mention treaty we have between a president and america can only imagine julian is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was at my own house not in the record or 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 noble 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 us committee to protect journalists welcome the british court's decision to block assad's extradition the n.g.o.s urging the u.s. state department the u.s. department of justice rather to now drop all charges against him 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 home full legal precedent for the persecution of journalists around the world simply for interacting with a source's we as 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 appears to have fallen on deaf ears and takes 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 colts the 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 of 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 but i'm 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 it just depends if any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings 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. we also spoke with julian assange just former lawyer about the whistleblowers prospects. i'm aware that everyone is concerned that the americans. appealing about there's nothing to stop a son 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 to great deal that that video was released by a songe 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 finda could lead us i'm just being attacked. for more insight into the implications of the court's decision i spoke with a former cia analyst a lawyer and an investigative journalist. 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 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. certain planes place to eliminate this mess coming into the united states this despicable act where people can't defend them show 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 to do the right. 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 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 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. so the next chapter in the saga is a decision on his bail that will be made on wednesday and of course r.t. will be here to bring you all of the developments as they take place. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the

dares thinks. we dared to ask. like a back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to john rubino of dollar collapse dot com john welcome back to stacy now john we've known you for many years going back treat big coing days and well 2020 seems to be the year that big going has driven the dollar to collapse in a way that gold was unable to. come

back to the program germany has strengthened its measures against the spread of the pandemic within the last few hours chancellor angle or chancellor angela merkel both extended and toughened national lock down the street. it's the kids see as the we are now very close to full capacity in some hospitals which is also one of the reasons for us to introduce these far reaching madness today. those living in areas most affected by the virus won't be able to travel more than 15 kilometers from their home without a valid reason and contact with people from outside a household will be limited to just one other person existing restrictions that have been ramped up since november will now be in place until at least the end of january including the closure of schools and non essential stores. the e.u. has vowed to ramp up efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with the rand it

comes after to iran stepped up its uranium enrichment program on monday to levels not seen since the b. since before the agreement. we are highly concerned by the steps taken by iran to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent and we will redouble our efforts to keep the agreement the iranian government confirmed this week it has started increasing its enrichment of uranium its foreign minister said that the steps are fully reversible if other signatories comply with the deal however that appears increasingly unlikely ever since donald trump quit the agreement 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 rainman richmond by iran is a departure from the june comprehensive plan of action but these deadly 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 ripped 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. well oil markets have been handed

a new year boost after russia and saudi arabia reached a compromise over oil production for the next 2 months a group of major producers agreed to keep the oil supply broadly steady in february and march that's after the pandemic forced some economies back into lockdown wall governments struggle to roll out vaccines and while russian kazakstan have been permitted to add a combined $75000.00 barrels a day for both of those months saudi arabia pledged an additional unilateral cut of $1000000.00 barrels a day. oil prices jumped 5 percent on news that the deadlock over february oil output levels had been resolved followed a slight drop on tuesday due to the continued uncertainty and new covert lock downs saudi arabia's permanent representative to the u.n. told us he hopes the oil market will recover and stabilize. the live fact that we are able to reach agreements with russia and all of us is a positive indication for one big plus that openness plus is there to stay and will

continue to maintain discussions and coalition without major players in the market so i think it all indicates a positive outlook i think other nations will benefit from this agreement did he wait. whether it is in the form of reduced output generally a limit if used in the full metal prices so i think they will go along with this agreement and then they will support it and we are in continuous contact with a lot of pick want players and mean we try to do something which rights to use exclusivities should we think that there will be a company in the oil markets with a new year and with the improved economic situation and that will increase our opportunity for. producing and selling a lot of sort of mom's quantities that's it for this hour for more details on your world news stories check us out at r.t.

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