mark almond director of the crisis research institute oxford thank you for your time. thank you. media freedoms groups are raising the alarm over these 17 new charges filed against julian assange by the u.s. department of justice activists say this sets a dangerous precedent where a journalist can. criminally prosecuted for publishing truthful information for some going as far as to claim the us has now declared war on journalism. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and the direct assault on the 1st amendment when a sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a us extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy

s on both sides of the house becoming increasingly irate mark almond direct to britain's crisis research institute in oxford believes the country faces uncertainty and chaos. it's going to be a difficult task because the house of commons is still strongly against leaving the e.u. except on terms which involve remaining in a customs union almost certainly so that there's going to be a disconnect between the tory party members and supporters and presumably the people who defected to the briggs's party who are mainly conservatives who want a serious break with europe and the members of parliament and so unless you change the arithmetic in the house of commons whoever succeeds mrs may if they want to leave the e.u. was going to face huge problems in the same sort can they force a new general election what will be the result of that we don't know but there's going to be a great deal of uncertainty and as i say there's this looming deadline of the 31st of october which is the end of the extension of britain's membership and the british politicians seem to forgotten that in the modern world div

we heard from mark almond of the director of the oxford crisis research institute who told us washington could have altered or motives in putting its foot down over the arctic rope i find it difficult to see why i might propose made such a big issue of this question because it seems to me that potentially creates more trouble than it benefits the united states after all it's unlikely that it's going to change either the climate changes which make this route open more likely to be open and also the chinese russian policy it could be a bargaining chip it could be that the americans are saying let's throw down a gauntlet in fact we're not really so concerned so that we can say to the russians and by extension the chinese if you can see if we can see this to you you should give us some help some morals in a different part of the world. part an update on a story that we've been following. through the night one student has died and seven are injured after a school shooting in colorado this according to the latest information the incident happened in a suburb of denver in the u.s. state of colo