minister tourism a started in the house of commons by saying the house should welcome his arrest alan duncan the foreign minister said it's total rubbish to raise the un ruling on arbitrary detention and the judge because quite apart from the media that we talk about quite often the judge district court judge here michael snow in westminster magistrates' court characterized as sons as having the behavior of a narcissist who can't get beyond his own selfish interest well that's just abuse that's not a judge that's an abuse or another judge would recognise that as an abuser the rest frankly you name joe jeremy hunt the man responsible for. for so much destruction of the national health service when he was secretary of state for health i mean frankly i don't think these are credible people i think in the world of politics where a very diminished state i'm trying to be polite about this but. i mean commenting on what hans says all the rest of them it used to be like commenting on what boris johnson says there's the problem there's another problem of course where is the opposition diane abbott ma

human rights committees education that he was under three to ten year the british government alan duncan the minister of state for europe and the americas that's total rubbish where our gov can doesn't know a thing about the law and his comments of course are hostile to us are. all this government's ministers and you can you expect him to get a fair trial when they're bad mouthing him i think you can and i think bush judges i have i have faith in them but whether i have faith in the u.s. supreme court is another matter because by the time this case comes before them and we're talking maybe five years. how many trump appointees will be on that court if you can do these extra land would you say. about if. you did faces in prison long term of imprisonment you would of course he would claim because the trump argument is this that the first amendment which protects this famously only applies to american death and doesn't apply to any foreign journalists even those working for american papers in fact driven goodale who was the hero of the pentagon papers case he was the lawyer for the new york

sir alan duncan. you're watching wednesday in parliament, with me, alicia mccarthy.alicia. now back to prime minister's questions, where the snp's deputy westminster leader kirsty blackman called on the government to reverse "damaging policies" on energy and the environment. the call came a day after swedish teenage activist, greta thunberg, met uk politicians to urge them to do more to tackle climate change. in a speech, she criticised the uk for supporting new exploitation of fossil fuels and exaggerating cuts to carbon emissions. kirsty blackman took up some of those accusations with david lidington. climate change is the biggest crisis facing the world today. even the environment secretary has admitted that his government has failed to do enough. yesterday, he promised that the uk government would take action. mr speaker, this government has spent millions on nuclear power, cut support for renewable energy, and continue to pursue fracking. so does taking action include reversing these damaging policies? there is clearly more that needs to be done, and probably al

the junior foreign minister alan duncan it was saying that after a song was arrested that he would not be sent to the u.s. if he faces the death penalty that do you think we could see some conflicts within the the u.k. or storage fees over what to do with those. we could possibly see some conflicts at the moment again we have a lot of activists outside the embassy we have a reporter on their way to the embassy right now to kind of understand and get the support that people have been giving julian the son over the years he's been holed up in the embassy since twenty twelve a lot of activists were back last day in particular saying that that was off the news that we released the tweet saying that julian assange could be extradited could be expelled from the embassy within a matter of hours or days but as i said and later on such a job it will be making a statement in the house of commons and probably know off about statements and have a clearer idea of a clearer picture of what that will be losers thank you for keeping on top of everything for us as we understand we've got our reporter p

that statement from sir alan duncan.ve also had the latest statement from the president of ecuador saying, in line with our strong commitment to human rights and international law i requested great britain that julian and international law i requested great britain thatjulian assange would not be extradited to country where he could face torture or the death penalty. so that coming from the president of ecuador. finally, a reaction from russia saying that they hope that the rights ofjulian assange will not be violated after his detention by british authorities. a lot of reaction coming in at the moment. we'll update you on the latest as it comes to us here. in the meantime, i will correspond and looks back on the case. this report does contain some flash photography. julian assange shot to fame with a massive spill of american state secrets. it was then his personal life that put him at the centre of an international drama that has run for years. this shocking footage first brought wikileaks to international attention. c