congressman dana rohrabacher who told yahoo news on thursday that quote i spoke to julian assad and toldhim if he would provide evidence about who gave wiki leaks the e-mails i would petition the president to give him a pardon now that doesn't that certainly doesn't sound like donald trump offering asylum's a pardon that sounds more like rohrabacher saying give me the goods and i'll try to get you a pardon that's the difference big difference there anyway we all know him put sideswipe runs at the end of the day we all know that the it takes at least 50 grand to get a pardon from donald trump these days you get to make to get big the payoff c. but that wasn't the only goes from russia gates' past to make headlines this week roger stone yes he was sentenced to 3 years or 40 months in prison this week for charges not involving any kind of russian collusion but you know who is being investigated for possible collusion this week yes our old buddy from n.b.c. news a zone john brennan yes the u.s. justice department is looking into the former cia director's role and into how exactly the intelli

now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world a lawyer for julian assad stays a trump administration made an offer to pardon the weak unix founder in 2017 if he agreed to say russia was not involved in leaking democratic party e-mails during the 2016 presidential campaign the white house has said there is no truth to the claim. the e.u. has unveiled a strategy for regulating the controversial artificial intelligence technology also known as ai in the 27 member states event commission president was left on the line is calling for strict oversight of the sector saying ai must comply with people's privacy rights. japan's government is facing criticism for its apparent failure to contain the corona virus as 500 people who all tested negative left the cruise ship diamond princess just quarantined off the yokohama the government said nearly 80 more passengers still on board had tested positive so it seems that effort to stop the spread of the covert 19 virus has failed some analysts are calling the current operation a flop. a floating prison that was host some on boa

couple of weeks ago who took a moral stance to get the world's most famous political prisoner julian assadout of the torture of solitary confinement as craig murry a former british ambassador said julian is finally released from solitary in belmarsh prison because the other prisoners were appalled by his treatment and took up action on his behalf a small victory for basic humanity and it took criminals to teach it to the british state but that's not the only step in the right direction in the case of a songe the international human rights and rule of law organization the council of europe which represents 820000000 europeans has finally sided with julian assange and called for his release look i get it i understand belmarsh prison you don't want to let him go because when you have high profile prisoners you get lots of money from the government i'll tell you what you release julie the son and we'll give you the whole u.s. congress. and the trucking industry. and the entire cast of m.t.v.'s jersey shore which for some reason is still on the air. i mean i mean honestly honestly what's what k

i'm here in the center of london with protesters who are opposing the possible extradition of julian assad to the u.s. we watch from australia house is australian of course to parliament square and you can see behind me there's a lot of talks going on and some entertainment in support of putin now this is of course the center of british democracy and supporters they gathered here ahead of the wiki leaks founder hearing on call in court on monday people are. serious this. is a crazy. it's more freedom is about the future of. journalism. for journalists. have to be able to scrutinize the wrong to be decided whether he is indeed extradited to the u.s. he could be facing 175 years in prison for leaking documents. accusing him of hacking a u.s. government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 now he has an awful lot of high profile supporters worried about. showing everybody how totalitarian they really are by saying your crime is that you publish crimes american war crimes that you published america more crimes now that it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what

to break ordinary criminal walls what do journalists say about this many are rallying around julian assad's more than 1300 journalists and whistleblowers have signed an open statement of support speak up for a song here is part of the video attached to that whether. this is why i'm seeing in defense of food on the thought of now at these dangerous procedures for all these guys to be a wall to decide the terrible discovery of just going to suppress been directed it's a larger is working around the globe. well that message is one that is championed by claire daley she is an independent socialist irish member of the european parliament she's met julius on gin she's campaigned against his extradition here's what she told. we have here it's very much how this prosecution extradition proceedings are very much it's never made to be for issues like i mean in essence his extradition is sauce to the u.s. in order to answer cherishes. cost point information rich wants to monstrously in the public insurance information and bad joke war crimes states government in afghanistan and in iraq actually in syr

a historic legal hearing begins in london to determine whether julian assads will be extradited to the united states where the wiki leaks founder is wanted on hacking and espionage charges. israel carries out air strikes on islamic jihad targets in gaza and damascus that follows an exchange of hostilities with the grew . shot dead one of the movement's members near the separation fence on sunday dragging away his body with a bulldozer. police in the central german town say around 30 people have been injured after a car.

politically motivated while the prosecution claimed that whistleblowers actions endangered lives julian assad's father insists his son's actions harms no one. chose the many straws that had to be. released why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of. 2011 why aren't we here talking about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists that is why we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america. hiding their voices to get society's extradition blocked is the family of a british teenager who was killed in a road accident last august parents say the u.s. 1st needs to hand over the woman suspected of killing their son she's the wife of an american diplomat and has admitted driving on the wrong side of the road she fled the u.k. shortly afterwards claiming diplomatic immunity and despite requests from the british government washington says it will not agree to her extradition but one family's lawyer accuses the u.s. of rank hypocrisy. whilst america is. protecting her h

medical experts that julian a songe was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assad and are going to side there's nothing that i saw or that actually. discredited what does doc does and what mills mills a said he is exhibiting saw ends of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing loss a large notice i take lay within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself 20 to 22 as a die with that minimal human contact you're effectively oss alloted so all of that has led to a guess at the plated state of health for julian a songe and i don't think it's fair or told to extradite an australian citizen. at of one foreign country into another foreign country to face charges for what for reporting on the facts. meanwhile the guardian newspaper has published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression by the british special envoy on press freedom clooney however one key by clooney however one can detail has been emitted clooney slings to do it in the sand and his case in particular despit

president trump wants to make an example of julian assad and they say extradition would eventually make it easier for governments around the world to target a journalist who report on leaked information. well if extradited and convicted in the u.s. he was likely spend the rest of his life in prison how did the man who gave us wiki leaks become one of america's most wanted for leaking we have this report. that these are the images that made whistle blowing website wiki leaks a household name. in 2010 it published classified u.s. army material implicating the u.s. government and possible war crimes. i believe it may julian assange a brave defender of the truth to some rules and an enemy of the state to others. more controversy followed over a later mass leak of diplomatic cables and the 2016 publication of leaked e-mails from hillary clinton's presidential campaign. in 2012 a 7 year stretch holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london trying to clear his name last week and sought to extradite him on rape charges. sweden dropped the case last year saying too much time had passed but the pr

gates' past my hawk watchers you see in the span of a few short days the names of roger stone julian assad's john brennan donald trump and of course russian acting have once again banned on the tips of pundit tongues across all of cable news land retro russia gay we kicked off across the pond in london england at the westminster magistrates' court on wednesday when one of us songes legal team declared to the court that according to witness testimony u.s. president donald trump offered a pardon wiki leaks founder julian assange if he said that russia had nothing to do with wiki leaks publication of democratic party e-mails 2000 and.

defending julian assad and getting the word out because i felt it was so important to go there because the media is committing omissions here and i had to go there and i made a public stand and i hope people watching this program will also make a public stand because it's time to be counted go ahead alex well absolutely and i'm glad joe brought up the dreyfus affair because of course the dreyfus affair in france in the 18 eighties and $890.00 s. was also a case was to find for the french people what kind of a society they wanted to be were they a constitutional democratic republic or were they a society in which powerful people in the but you know in the background could control who was designed to be guilty and who was not who would be packed off to devil's island and who would not be and they took a stand and respond enormous pressures and enormous battles in the end they won for britain these these aren't very 1st affair and i think that far too few people in clinton understand this and i was at that same event that you were peter which job was in which to you know was and i'm glad

murdering customs eliminate again exactly well if you can get millions around the world to support julian assad like he is a latter day nelson mandela. identity politics at least has been presumably there's been massive progress on it since you started out but even in their. own like josie manning who is refusing to testify against judaism and it's day 346 of her it because our ancient tongue credit was a brave woman people think chelsea manning is a traitor and that she deserves everything that she gets the hatred was so intense music has been such a great part of rebellion against elites over history obviously in south africa and so on presumably that's why you turned up outside the home office here to protest about the incarceration of julian a surge hardly any people turned up i have have to say are you saying that again propaganda hardly any people turned up and not a single word was printed in any english or american newspaper of that event a powerful monarchy but obviously what journalists that all the television networks here would say no one told them don't cover roger waters singing w

presumably that's why you turned up outside the home office here to protest about the incarceration of julian assad's hardly any people turned up i have have to say are you saying that again propaganda hardly any people turned up and not a single word was printed in any english or american newspaper of that event a powerful monarchy but obviously what journalists that all the television networks here would say no one told them don't cover roger waters singing wish you were here in ignorance of performance so it's a would it's in their heads oh. people aren't stupid where you think journalists are coming out and in day drove sin there hundreds of thousands to defend judea you don't have to write shit on people's forehead so they read it every morning when they go to shave they go oh look of mustn't step out of line or i won't get that promotion i was because i won't be given that job of this one how about what happens when you fly a big pig above a demonstration of the mother of all parliaments what are you drawing to do. get attention. like for instance a pig that we've got flying over here now. has

and historic legal hearing that begins in london to determine whether julian assad will be extradited to the u.s. where the wiki leaks founder is wanted on the hacking and espionage charges his supporters claim case against him is extremely weak. but we just want to know all of the same the same thing we've been hearing for. 2020. or. so and singled out today. and in the stony and woman requests asylum in russia after her ex-husband is acquitted of sexually abusing their daughters she shares her story with on t.v. . broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm john thomas really glad to have you with. us a democratic senators are urging the trumpet ministration to impose additional sanctions on russia following reports alleging that country is meddling in the 2020 presidential election a letter from congressional democrats was presenting sensually calling for more sanctions to be imposed on russia in response to allegations of russia trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election which will take place in november here's some of what was incl

in london a historic legal hearing begins to determine whether julian assad's will be extradited to the united states where the wiki leaks founder is wanted on hacking and espionage charges. and israel carries out air strikes on islamic jihad targets in gaza and damascus following an exchange of hostilities with the group's militants in the besieged by listing on the flare up comes after the i.d.f. short they had one of the islamist movements members near the gaza separation fence on sunday dragging away his body with a bulldozer.

the british like to talk about their sense of fair play julian assange would argue otherwise if the authorities would let him mr assad was being held in the dark at the back of the courtroom. covered by a glass partition so he is being held in the back as if he's a violent criminal when he actually poses no physical risk to anyone regardless of what you believe about the charges against him he does not look well he's complained several times that he cannot focus properly or follow properly what's going on from behind the glass partition after the 1st day of the. he was sent back to the prison a was and cast 11 times sleeps or 2000 he was not the allowed to read the notes he was consulting during the hearing by the prison authorities and you know what it's really frustrating that this is happening in plain sight where. julian assange has physical condition was deteriorating long before he was jailed he had spent nearly 7 years cooped up in the ecuadorian embassy in london having been granted asylum there in 2012 when a swedish prosecutor was investigating him for sexual assault which essential said was an obvious ploy

politically motivated the whistleblower could be released meanwhile assad his father claims his son faced intimidation on the eve of the hearing. julian harassment today. goes to court tomorrow and searched. so often just. to see you know for the on our conference to work. she's. having with no crime or the family that you can come and live with. some supporters were out in the hundreds of the weekend in london protesting against his extradition people carry placards demanding a song to be set free those in attendance ranged from veteran british rocker roger waters to fashion designer vivienne westwood and also former greek finance minister yanis varoufakis hit his correspondence ask you tell a bit more. care or enemy number one you decide either way during the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wild but 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. bitch song is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant was her 6 was wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service but i do find

lawyers are trying to draw the proverbial line in the sand assad's attorney edwards's jerald argued that essentially the u.s. is persecuting julian a songe not prosecuting him telling the packed courtroom today that julian a son just being made an example of president trump and his administration decided to make an example of julian a son. so with harvey weinstein now legally a rapist yes harvey it was indeed rape no matter how much you claimed it was not and now the legal future of the freedom of the press hanging in the balance i think it's time to do a little watching the hawks. was going on in a city the streets. clear so.

lawyers are trying to draw the proverbial line in the sand assad's attorney edwards's gerald argued that essentially the u.s. is persecuting julian a songe not prosecuting him telling the packed courtroom today that julian a son just being made an example of president trump and his administration decide.

they need to be hunted down and julian assange is currently in london and the ecuadorian embassy. because you are who has granted assad asylum but it's unclear how he intends to get there from the london embassy the british police are outside ready to arrest him the moment here merges to get to the airport through coffin. was trapped in the heart of london. and sweden fell silent no hearing no charges. then in 2016 wiki leaks made another major release the d.n.c. leaks implicated the democratic party. including e-mails that showed a harsh light on hillary clinton's campaign manager. escape 5 eat out there have been new e-mails disclosures once again jeopardizing hillary clinton's career. the enter the whistleblowing platform wiki leaks has released confidential e-mails pointing to the d.n.c. preferring clinton to run as the democratic presidential candidate instead of the outsider bernie sanders. they clearly disliked hillary clinton they didn't like john podesta her her campaign manager and he was happy to do whatever he could to damage their interests against the whistleblowing platform wiki leaks quoted clinton fro

julian the sons of his successor. produce supporters gathered this monday to protest against assad's use detention extradition rallies are being held never court in london ready day the where the hearing is taking place and also tell you sydney to similar kind of thing a strike a democrat investigative journalist and human rights activist attending the demonstration today saskatoon and looks next how is sizes for themselves closer than ever to a traditional. camera or enemy number one you decide either way judy in the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wilds but 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. terrorist he should be treated as an enemy combatant. her 6. walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service by defeating the jury in the sun we just feed them or see for brights the 48 year old australian put a target on his back when he leaked a truckload of classified u.s. documents lang bad views of powell at the very highest levels with the u.s. justice department hot on his heels as so

lawyers are trying to draw the proverbial line in the sand assad's attorney edwards's jerald argued that essentially the u.s. is persecuting julian a songe not prosecuting him telling the packed courtroom today that julian a son just being made an example of president trump and his administration decided to make an example of julian a son. so with harvey weinstein now legally a rapist yes it was indeed rape no matter how much you claimed it was not and now the legal future of the freedom of the press hanging in the balance i think it's time to do a little watching the harks. on a cd you st. peter so let's see this is joyce state. grace suggests least systemic deception is a late show which. brings us. to watching the hawks. and i'm a. boy what a day for courtroom battles to show not only really in the wind stream in the beginning of the extradition hearing absolutely and i don't think that there's anybody fat about peppina wife thing today if anything there was an expectation that he might have actually been convicted on some of the stronger charges but i think that this spells a victory for the need to move and it's both a victo

there get masses covering the assad extradition hearing for us at the court in london so arrogant lawyers there representing the u.s. have been presenting reasons why the julian assange should be extradited tell us more. well those lawyers have said julian assange has assisted members of the u.s. army to steal classified documents and that he has endangered human sources so basically that he has endangered activists people that were working with the u.s. army for example informing them on the activities of the taliban and of al qaida that he has put 150 of these people at risk and they say it's not about poor publicizing alleged war crimes but it's really about the specific allegations so they have also said that it is not about this huge long jail sentence that would await julian assange if you was convicted in the u.s. not like have 175 years but more like $42.00 over 48 months so this is what they have set out so far they're going to be more speaks specific in the course of the day how will his defense team likely respond to the u.s. case. i would think they would. reiterate what they have said so far that julian assange had rejected material that he had p

criminal cases julian assange lawyer has told the british courts that president trump offered to pod it with. if he cooperated of a democratic party e-mails the court heard a statement suggesting assad could be patent if he said russia was not involved in the wiki leaks publication of the emails and 2016 white house has denied the account the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power. treat tensions could cut global economic growth by point 8 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in to what extent we're trying to be a drag on the global economy 2020 counting the cost on our own just 0. africa is rich with natural resources yet all too often the benefits of that abundance end up with international finance the consequence of a post-colonial globalized economy in which the rich get richer and the poorest to captain poverty get some africans have long pushed back determined to find the holes in the scraps the developed world leaves on the table so says ghosts one such struggle now comes covered in chocolate. togo west africa. and something very unusual is going on and. this is a groundbreaking project by a local entre

julian assange is didn't just receive information from an informant which would not constitute a crime journalist do have the right to acquire information from sources even if it is classified the american government claims that assad conspired with private manning to help him access classified information intending to harm the united states. u.s. hopes to prove that the sound is a spy not announced. the charges they are absolutely applicable. to the times the other journalism or media publications. during the sanish being a publisher was put in prison for being a publisher for no other reason than being a publisher. where normal. there are no rules to the game. even really in turn a list in the united states should feel a comment a scene in and running down the response. at the charges that have been leveled against this publisher. because they could be next. they're julian. you are one of the most bravest person i know and this sentence that you'll get repeated often courage is contagious was really true. that's the reason for great movements and draws you'll have slobbered think of people. support and understand but there is. a wider issue at stake he is the lone he is not alone. there are a large number of peop

people like julian a science nobody believes you until you have hard evidence and they give it to us and i think you need that's the reason why us sure look you know determined to get assad to humiliate him to destroy him it's to sort of what the story of walk crimes and thought you heard back.

julian assange to set to begin his u.s. extradition hearing at a london court on monday meantime his supporters have planned protests over the weekend with veteran british rocker roger waters heading the rally assad is facing charges of hacking a u.s. government computer and leaking classified documents back in 2010 he spent 7 years in self-imposed exile in london's ecuadorian embassy before being removed by police we spoke to the former pink floyd from a man about the importance of saturday's protest. committed no crime apart from a minor by oh it fridge man he did it it's absolutely clear now that he didn't rape anyone in stock that was a pull up thing to try and get it he was so right when he said he was frightened of going to sweet because they would extradite eyes to see exactly what they would have done is this is being blown out completely by what's happened now here in the united kingdom where the u.k. government have decided to feed him to the wolves. they've almost killed him in belmarsh he's really sick if you read craig murray's description of him in the in the last hearing before that awful matches straight. it's really really moving craig's a friend of his and he's in a chilling cou

people like julian a science nobody believes you until you have hard evidence and they give it to us and i think really that's the reason why the us sure looks you know determined to get assad to humiliate him to destroy him it's to sort of the story of walk crimes and torture back into the bottle and make this a story about somebody demonized in such a criminal way my feeling is that he's not going to get anything like a fair trial and it's really quite a shame for journalism in general you might have to remind us actually there was a wiki leaks us cable showing the international red cross met with u.s. officials in delhi about warnings of detention and torture by indian authorities in cash when one learns these things when leaks come we know it's happening i mean we don't need these leaks in fact we have people on the record talking about how they've been tortured but it hasn't done enough to shake this govern. particularly against its quite criminal policies against certain docketed populations ok well i have to say they deny commission did come on this program to tell us that there is no arbiter detention or torture currently being meted out in in kashmir as you can ima

leaks founder julian assange if he said that russia had nothing to do with wiki leaks publication of democratic party e-mails in 2016 at least that's how the story was reported trump offers assad's pardon to vindicate russia that's that's what you saw that's what the headlines were except that wasn't mags really quite the whole story at least not according to the previously mentioned witness yes former u.s. congressman dana rohrabacher who told yahoo news on thursday that quote i spoke to julian of songe and told him if he would provide evidence about who gave wiki leaks the e-mails i would petition the president to give him a pardon now that doesn't that certainly doesn't sound like donald trump offering a pardon that sounds more like rohrabacher saying give me the goods and i'll try to get you a pardon that's the difference big difference there anyway we can put sides my friends at the end of the day we all know that it takes at least 50 grand to get a pardon from donald trump these days you're going to make to get big the payoff c. but that wasn't the own. goes from russia games past to make headlines this week roger stone yes he was sentenced to 3 years or 40 months in priso

julian a songe is some kind of russian spy who's in trouble tonight because he stole classified documents from the us gov. that is not true it's factually incorrect saying so it's not a defense of assad right here to promote him or excuse any number of things he said over the years that we disagree with quite a lot but just so it's clear whatever his sins a songe did not steal documents from the united states government he did not hack the d.n.c. servers he didn't break into john podesta g.-mail account there is no proof that he is working for the russian government or ever has worked for the russian government has never been charged with any of that and wasn't today no matter what they tell you grudging defenses of assad by outlets like rupert murdoch's fox news the statement they did b.b.c. and former weiqi leaks partners the guardian new york times among others perhaps emerging because they realize they could all soon find themselves in court for merely reporting on the crimes of nato countries well i'm joined now by the united nations kneels meltzer who wants answers from boris johnson's government about britain's role in what defenders of us honest say are attempts to eliminate

julian a songe is some kind of russian spy who's in trouble tonight because he stole classified documents from the u.s. government that is not true it's factually incorrect saying so it's not a defense of assad's right here to promote him or excuse any number of things he said over the years that we disagree. with quite a lot but just so it's clear whatever his sins a songe did not steal documents from the united states government he did not hack the d.n.c. servers he didn't break into john podesta g.-mail account there is no proof that he is working for the russian government or ever has worked for the russian government assad has never been charged with any of that and wasn't today no matter what they tell you grudging defenses of assad by outlets like rupert murdoch's fox news the statement they did b.b.c. and form a wiki leaks partners the guardian new york times among others perhaps emerging because they realize they could all soon find themselves in court for merely reporting on the crimes of nato countries well i'm joined now by the united nations kneels meltzer who wants answers from boris johnson's government about britain's role in what defenders of a zionist say are attempts to elim