glue a ca, whistleblower is convicted of the biggest leak of classified information in history . shutting lights on the agencies, international smartphone hacking software. also coming up a line because president resigned from his post following huge public pressure. thus, as the country declared a state of emergency with a nationwide curfew in place, much to the anger of protesters in the done yes, republic a kindergarten takes a direct hit from ukrainian shelling while another missile strike kills 2 civilians

. and jo biden's trip to israel kicks off with the gulf with the u. s. president mistaking mistakenly ordering the holocaust we see if his visits will help a late tensions in the region. a committee live from our headquarters here in moscow. you're watching our c 5 am here in the russian capital. i'm peter scott. here with the top stories this, our former cia program, a joshua schultz was found guilty and most claim to be the biggest leak of classified ca, documents in history. now it's after he disclosed information about the agencies software used to have smartphones and spiral people worldwide. when shulty began to harbor resentment toward the ca, he covert li, collected those tools and provided them to wiki leeks, making some of our most critical intelligence tools known to the public and

therefore our adversaries. sheltie has been convicted for one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in american history. joshua sheltie has been convicted of lying to the f. b. i other charges all stemming from the allegation that he leaked classified information. the information was included in the famous wiki leagues vault 7. now this was his re trial. 2 years ago, he was brought to trial and us federal courts. and at his 1st trial, the jury only agreed to convict him on 2 charges, and they were hung about the remaining 6. joshua schulty, at this trial, has been convicted on all a charges lying to the f. b. i and other charges related to the staff and leaking of classified information that was included in the wiki leaks, vault 7, the biggest intelligence leak in history. ricky leaks, vault 7, contained all kinds of information about these surveillance apparatus of the american intelligence agencies. the mechanisms through which they listen to

people's phone conversations, spy on people on which they hack into people's computers and otherwise violate what many consider to be the civil liberties of americans. it's not surprising that he was convicted because at this point, the conviction rate in us federal courts is roughly 95 percent 95 percent of cases that go to trial in u. s. corps that result in conviction. and it's important to note that very few cases actually go to trial. most of them have plea bargains that prevent a trial from taking place. regardless, we can recall the chelsea man. it was convicted of leaking classified information to wiki league. spent 7 years in prison before brock obama, ultimately commuters. and in addition to that, this conviction comes on the heels of julian, a saw the founder of wiki leaks to whom walt 7 information was leaked. it comes on the heels of the decision to expedite julian, a sorry on the part of u. k. officials. but to discuss this issue with joint live now by a civil rights,

it's any roberts patillo roberts, welcome to the program. now tell us what was your reaction to show t being convicted on all counts to do expect this result will be resolved. but for most legal observers, it's understand that just all these did represent himself in the trial of the 1st trial into a hung jury. almost the case was there, as has been said before, $95.00 per cubic inches in federal court to go to trial in the been a conviction defense do not take you to trial unless they think they have a sure park is against you. so do you think the fact that he represented himself affected the outcome was complemented by the judge on, on how he performed? oh, absolutely. as an attorney, i can say that the best performing layperson still will often like much of the skill needed to research a case, to analyze, to write the proper motions, and to find the best defense. very difficult at that one. so particularly in federal court of all the federal rules and procedures that are needed. i do think that that probably led into the difficulty and getting put on the case. another

time he was convicted on all towns sports back in 2020. the original trial was dead . lots on 8 counts, related to the, the theft and the transmission of the secret ca, documents. you surprise that it's a huge shift from one way to the other. all know my case or after the initial home jury on the counts and the previous trial was it became more than likely in the plea bargain, something where they agreed to a lighter sentence industry to a plea of guilty. i'm very surprised when i went to trial again. but often when there is a home during this particular issue that appeared before the jury made it, made them unable to come to a majority opinion. normally, prosecutors are able to cure that in the 2nd trial. do get a final decision from the jury. now given the nature of these crimes and previous precedence sets, i'm thinking. chelsea manning here was sort of the date,

sorry sentence. do you think this shulty is likely to be facing or the broad range in, or there's a broad range within federal sensing guidelines. but for a case like this, being it being the nature of the severity of a volt. several of the course, the largest breach of national security in american history can be facing between 10 or 20 years in incredible prism. we certainly know no short stands behind bars, and he has complained about the conditions he was kept in before. and do you think that this case will serve as a warning to anyone else considering leaking, sensitive information? well being your newest federal government. of course, the last 2 decades has made a point of harassing and chasing people to actually seem to be a threat to national security. whether it's meant to shulty, whether it be proceed to doing what's on we're trying to expedite now. chelsea manning spending 7 years in prison, their pursuit of edward snowden,

the u. s. government made it very clear that anyone who attempts to expose mean the programs of the national security apparatus ignited government will be punished. they are attempting to force chil, any efforts to mould covert action. i'm afraid we're going to leave it there, but civil rights attorney, robert patillo. thank you very much for your take on the conviction of joshua shulty for that's a huge leak of sensitive information from the ca. thank you. thank you. shall anchor's president has officially step down, though that doesn't seem to have stopped the must unrest in the country despite the nationwide curfew. earlier, protest is angered at worsening economic and social conditions broke into the prime minister's office. he was appointed as acting president on tuesday, but demonstrators are demanded that these done down as well. oh, nice to use water, continental gas against the protesters,

but were unable to stop them taken over by no weaker, missing is office, at least 30 people were injured in the cautious on the local journalists. sensors. this report, the situation and sri lanka is going from bad to worse to i'm thinking who does a complete sense of chaos and anarky. tens of thousands of people are out and about on the streets of colombo, despite a state of emergency being declared. and a go few imposed after president called by roger puck shall fled from minister donald wickham assumed he has been made the acting president. but that has not helped matters. she lumpkins want both the prime minister as what does the president do resign immediately? security forces use tear gas and water canons at the protest as earlier. but dad did not stop them from breaking through the gates and flooding the prime minister's office. taking all the prime minister's office city,

i asked all filling the gap between the select reach. i don't want to list everybody else in the county. strangely, door does a sense of order in this disorder, men, women, children, all take turns to see a quick look at the prime minister's office from the inside. these 2 have emotional undertones of anger betrayal. but it was so if you look at the history on the appreciated from mom wanted your leaders are actually the mom. we have a 225 employees that do not represent them on to the people. so they go to protest, or jonathan or the other people's movement has just gotten to this point because a representatives have failed to serve. john failed to do right by the people live in a state in the country. people that are taking mca me don't stop because of me. we

need justice to be doing stuff. 7 this is not only for and say it for the next generation about where it's coming up and you can see how, how long you're suffering for the oil and gas. and, you know, all, did everything is down now, right? so even some people are losing their job income, but within the company i getting it's looking off right? everything is going high, the prices are high. so we need no solution. the clock is ticking while we await the feet of the current government and the future direction of the entire country runs a sharma reporting for r t in columbia. maryland nations parliament's because confirmed the president's got to buy a raja pasco, who's fled to the mold. eaves has now officially resigned while acting. president wicker missing has announced the creation of a special committee to restore law and order in the country. it's includes military and police commanders. the bike shop to the chaotic scenes across the country is shank is major economic crisis. most of the country's external debts is owed to

weston countries. over the past south century, the i m f has given nation 16 loans, which shall anchored going through a host of what's called economic stabilization programs with the international monetary fund decides huge repayment issues of the 2018 world economic forum shall anker's prime minister, expressed hope that his country would become wealthy within decades. it's no secret that asia as the economic engine of the future. and in our endeavors to make sri lanka, a rich country by 2025, we aim to include asia even more and leverage strategic access to emerging markets . ranging from india, pakistan, china, japan, and south korea to association of southeast asian nations. independent journalist benjamin norton believes the policies of the international monetary fund benefit form corporations are not the people of the country. the u. s. government has complete domination over both the international monetary fund and the world bank.

the u. s. government is the only member that has veto power over the decisions of the bodies. and we've seen that throughout the global south in particular, the i m f in the world bank have been involved in imposing structural adjustment programs. that force countries to cut social spending, privatize their natural resources, and then sell off their assets to western corporations. usually the i m f demands that a country cut, pensions, reduce the minimum wage, basically implement policies that are bad for the people of the country and are good for the interest to foreign corporations. and it's very likely we don't know, of course, what's happening inside the talks between the sri lankan government and the i m f. but it's very likely that the i m f was demanding these conditions that were simply unacceptable for any self respecting sovereign government of sri lanka. we look at the history of the i m f. conditionality is that have been imposed on countries like sri lanka. they have been very arduous and they have been very undemocratic

demanding that the country violate its own economic sovereignty in the interests of foreign corporation. so if we can learn anything from history, i think we can conclude that it's very likely that the sri lankan government was unwilling to given to these unreasonable demands for the 17th time. ah, you as president joe biden has arrived in israel, the starts of afore dates, whole of the middle east, but the u. s. president's trip didn't gets off to the best of stance. i will once more return to holla, round of yod shem shem. doner 6000000 jewish lives were stolen into genocide and continue which we must through every every day. continue to bear witness to keep alive the truth and honor of the holocaust. hardball holler, god honor, those were lost. will that steak of joe biden has been picked up yet? ivy is waiting in palestinian praise of co site and has made mistakes in the past.

he once mixed up sweden and switzerland. if you remember before that it was south korea and once he got syria and libya confused. so that is something that has the social commentators talking about here tonight. at the same time, biden is going to receive a rather reluctant and i would go as far as to say, a rather angry response on the palestinian street. there are banners and package that have been placed, particularly in cities like bethlehem. way he will be meeting with the palestinian president of math were the best in the coming days and those plaque i'd say mr. president, this is a parties. it is in line with the recent publication by a palestinian christian organization who conducted an investigation and reached the conclusion that israeli actions can be classified as a parties at the same time. many people here are waiting for a potentially different response from washington regarding the recent killing of

a high profile. al jazeera journalist, shaheen abil place doki. her family once on says and palestinian officials and palestinian civilians themselves have said that the us says response that the soldiers actions were to quote unintentional, is simply white washing the crimes conducted by israel. as for these rainy side, we have heard from the temporary israeli prime minister, yet yellow pit, and he has said that you is the number one topic on the agenda. there has been criticism against this with many people saying that joe biden is in the region to store up some kind of a lion against he ran. and that, that is his primary focus of this trip. and so me, the iranian president has commented on it more if the goal of the u. s. officials trip to the region is to consolidate the security of israel and normalize israel's relations with regional countries. we are declaring vigorously that their actions

would not bring security for israel, and by no means are they peace providers for israel. now biting in the past has also said that he is looking towards some kind of middle east and nato. this has not gone down well here, particularly with many people pointing fingers as how the common tomato has contributed to the conflict in ukraine. so anger and frustration on the palestinian st. we operating ourselves for demonstrations there in the coming days. and i would say here in telephone, where i am, although these way the officials will signal to my things and they all speak line with american lady flags talking to his radio. there's almost a kind of lack luster moved amongst people here. no one really believes that this visit by joe biden, the 1st that he's making as president of the united states is going to yield anything. or from all of this as cos, live now to radio host and political commentator, steve gill, welcome to the program, steve. now the middle east is exactly known for its political stability. how

successful do you think joe biden will be in easing tensions in the region? well, he's already been more successful than many thought he didn't follow the lead of jill by then compare these re lease to falafel or how much so at least i had of the game there. but you know, he was, he's trying to thread the needle of being able to meet with the israelis and then meet with the saudis and not appear to be showing a preference for one or the other. and he's been brief that you know, he's not supposed to hug, he's not supposed to show too much familiarity with the israelis and then not show the same level of distancing or, or familiarity with the saudis. and you know, he comes off the play and he's been pumping, he's getting into the personal spaces of the israelis, which is completely throwing, you know, that sort of cultural perception and visibility out the window. and then you throw in the gap of just, you know, not recognizing the difference in the horrors of the holocaust and honoring the

holocaust. so again, it's off to a rocky start, but it's not really anything we expect any differently from joe by. i thought it was said that the, the fis bumping was due to cov, it measures in the resurgence of corona virus in the region. well that's possible, but then he was getting close to people. i think there was one military woman that after they were kind of keeping their distance, she kind of got right up in her face. so apparently as usual, joe biden shows a distinction of distance between men and attractive women. allen, one of the issues on the table for biden, and israel is combating what they perceive to be. the threats from iran will step, do you believe that they could take, take to pose to a so i counted that threat. i think he's doing the right thing by going to the middle east and trying to find some area of agreement that he can build between the se, between the israelis and, and try to bring at least some perception of movement towards piece and some tranquillity. you know, the problem is, is as you're clip the air,

the iranians are having nothing of it. and at the same time that vibe is talking tough about iran is also talking about going back to the iranian nuclear deals that we know the iranians must abide by or follow. so again, what he says and what he does and what he says the next day and what he does the next day or so. busy often at odds with this president, which is why i think it's going to get lack luster appeal. and generally, when a president goes abroad, he gets a bump in the falls at home. that's one of the reasons you see presence go abroad when their poll numbers are lagging. president biden was in europe just a week or so ago. his numbers didn't get a bump. they actually went down and i don't think he's going to get any benefit either in domestic calling here in the u. s. or having world leader see him is any more strong or decisive than they do with him beginning his trip. well obviously you've touched on that now with the various problems the u. s. they did the whole world is facing. do you think that this is the right time for him to to make a trip to israel, given the domestic issues at home?

i think he's looking desperately for anything that can make him look more presidential, more like a world leader. but again, the fact that he looks fragile, he can't really communicate very effectively whether it's domestically or whether it's internationally that is not, you know, adding any, any stature to this particular president. and again, i think the problems at home are growing even further out of control today we, we got to new inflation numbers 9 point one percent. the highest that the u. s. is seen since 1981. you're a young guy may not remember. 1981, but it's a long time ago. peter was certainly before i was born steve. a favor. going to leave it there. videos templates go, come and say to steve gill, thanks a much feel take on jo biden's trip to the middle east. thanks peter. ah, array of hope that's how un chief on sonya good. sarah is described negotiations between ukraine, united nations, to kit and russia, where deal aimed at resuming ukrainian grain exports was announced. the day in his

symbol. we have seen the critical step to step forward to ensuring the safe and secure the export of ukrainian food products through the black sea level. with her, as i said, more work was needed before a deal was finished. the talks in a stumble took place behind closed doors. the deal could be signed when the parties meet again next week. according to the turkish defense minister, turkey would also set up a coordination center with ukraine, russia, and the united nations for grain exports, ukraine and the west have accused russia of exacerbating a global food crisis and fueling inflation. those allegations of moscow is always denied earlier. russia withdrew its garrison from me in the island or snake island . that was one of the key points on the food export route from ukraine. it's also proposed to organize humanitarian cars or in the area which was rejected by kia and ukraine. since he refuses to move mines that scattered around is coastline,

causing a threat to shipping. the criminal says that western sanctions make, it's harder for russia to maintain its own maritime freight services. to flush this out, we're joined to live now by of in vote, a vice chair for the libertarian national committee. thank you very much for joining us. of in now the and chief called the talks critical step forward in resolving the food exports issue. are you optimistic? that's the case. oh, let's put this, this crisis in perspective though. first, i mean, this is basically a group of governments that are put themselves in the way of people from say, the united states, by ingrained from the people in ukraine. i mean, we're literally saying that people who were actively in the way are now saying we're going to be less actively in the way. is the step in the right direction. yeah, absolutely. but no government here had any business congratulating themselves. all they did is other a claiming to start to do is to cause fewer problems than they were causing before

. and if you want to see an example of government being the problem, not the solution. is this. how do you mean by actively in the way i've been, could you expand on that, please? so when we look, for example, of sanctions, one of the sanction do a sanction says that if you're an american and you want to buy something from russia, you want to buy something from ukraine. you wanna buy something from north korea. you want to buy something and somebody in that country is willing to sell it to you . that should be the end of the discussion that's, that's all that needs to happen. but instead we have governments that are present, preventing the people exchange between the citizens in each country. essentially, you have governments that are working to turn the people in those countries into enemies, whether they want to be enemies or not. over here we see government saying, okay, we're causing, you know, 500 units of news and now we're going to cost 499 units of news and everybody congratulate us and sure for their than 500 in this case. but again,

they're not doing something good, they're just like doing less of something bad. but as far as i'm aware, grain hasn't been sanctioned. and, and how do you count when obviously preaching last where he called his special mich operation. and what many in the west think to be an invasion of ukraine? how do you come that is not through sanctions? well, 1st of all, get into a disagreement. it's just not the role of u. s. government. it could be the role of somebody else, basically not through all the u. s. government, not the job of u. s. government to counter every single thing going on. the world. infiniti u. s. government should focus on fixing its own problems. you know, you look at the complaints that people have had over brittany griner being locked up and i agree with them. but the u. s. government right now is locking up people non violent drug, you fear to. so the us government and ag mentioned focus on fixing its own problems, not getting involved everybody else's problem. i can't remember the exact use that he was units of hindrance or something, but if it's units of hindrance, as you put to is removed oven. how far do you think this will go to alleviating the

food crisis the world is facing currently? if all sanctions across the board and we're not talking about just sanctions between united states and russia or between united states. no. you get rid of all the sanctions at the same time, get rid of all the terra, which are just sanctions light. basically get rid of all of that. you're going to see a huge drop in hunger, a huge increase in food production. because remember, it's not really, that's how the food is so hard to produce it and get the right mixture of food to different places. some the ingredients are grow better and one climate, some green grief of grow better. another climate. and the whole purpose of trade is to make all of us have access to all the food. and that's what would happen or what does happen when there is no government getting in the way. i mean, for example, right now, you know, i'm in the state of maryland, the united states. if i want to buy something of her from virginia, i just do it. there's nothing else. there's nothing special that happened. that's

why it's buying and selling should be worldwide. if you're an american company you want to buy from france, you just do it, that's it. and that's where you see a huge reduction in hunger, a huge increase in food product of amount and food quality. and you're going to see just a improvement in world food and world health, essentially immediately of involved. that's all we have time for vice chair for the libertarian national committee. hopefully we'll have your next week during the next stage of those negotiations as well. thanks dr. me on ah, and not the latest from the don bus. russian air defense systems have reportedly shot down a number of aerial targets, launched by the ukranian army over the new guns and kept on regions. and these, the latest pitches captured by eye witnesses in lieu guns. no damage was reported after that incident. while in the care of san region, 5 ukrainian rockets were reportedly shot down with some debris falling on a local factory. this comes 2 days after ukrainian strike there caused

a huge explosion leaving 7 people dead. meanwhile, on wednesday, the city of god lapka in the done yet republic was also shelled by ukrainian forces . according to local authorities, a kindergarten took a direct hit official say around 20 strikes from multiple rocket launchers were launched, arts the city 2 civilians were killed while a number of residential buildings were partially destroyed and a local infrastructure damaged. ortiz rome. acosta reports on that. 35 people have been killed and 179 had been wounded here in girl. of course, since the end of february, 1 of the latest tragic events took place are right here. this is a residential area. this is a grad rocket or what, what remains of it is pretty heavy. 122 millimeter rocket landed right here, right next to those shops. there is,

it is pretty heavy. all around me are residential buildings. there is a local community center right here. you can see kids are all around us. on the 12th of july, one man died right here just outside of the shop, and several people had been wounded. now one of those wounded people who works near by his name is vladimir, and i visited him at the hospital here in goal of car and said, this is what he told me about. what happened. there is a whole process was you know, to me and i just stopped by at the store to buy a pizza and then the shelling began a so if we hit in the store and we're after 15 minutes, the shelling stopped and we went out to the street, he's one of them and then immediately there was an explosion. look, there wasn't any sound before it happened. usually there is a whistle. me because i was with a colleague. he was in front of me to line. he died immediately. looks like he covered me, receiving my life. this house or what remains of it belongs to luke milan

constantino. she is currently in the hospital with very heavy injuries had resulted from shelling by the ukrainian military. this is her. this used to be her bedroom. she told me that it was about 8 o'clock in the morning when he crating a rocket hit her house and completely destroyed it. now ludmilla is an elderly lady and she was meant to spend her golden years taken care of her garden and meeting with her family and grandchildren. now she lives in the hospital and she has absolutely nowhere to get back to her. but in order to really discuss the, the shelling was like cluster munitions. everything was torn apart. the shell flew and burst into fragments. well, now i'm here. thank you for the help i get medicine and care that before that they

were shelling a lot of a lot of houses were damaged near my home, and my house was completely destroyed. while we were filming the houses of the victims that were injured by ukrainian shelling artillery thrice began, yet again here in goal of got. so we have to leave this area as soon as possible and move deeper into the next people's republic territory from on call for a party girl of the nest people's republic. well that's a rob.