alex mahela is on the ground in canada and joins us now to bring us up to speed on the case so alex mayes defense team claims and i quote the u.s. is attempting to use these extradition proceedings for economic and political game what can you tell us. well this is their defense and this is their documents that the defense team is trying to get so what we're hearing today this is a day one of 8 days of being in court the last time i was in court was last may and we're hearing that in front of the justice in the court here in british columbia that there is a pile of files that are sitting there because there's a lot of paperwork to go through that meg's team wants to see this paperwork they want more paperwork they're claiming that this is all part of a bigger scheme from the united states to get the canadian authorities involved to arrest manning and that that scheme actually deals with the fact that there's a trade war going on with the u.s. and that they want to use her as a bargaining chip in all of this now with that said the crowd attorney today said which is the other side the prosec

every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back in the dying days of teresa mayes. foolish premiership she had to answer questions just as a scandal forced britain's man in washington to quit his job the whole cabinet rightly gave its full support to the came on she used to sit came has given a kidney has given a lifetime of service to the united kingdom and an enormous debt of gratitude the whole cabinet supported him but he still quits not exactly a ringing endorsement of foreign secretary jeremy hunt foreign policy cache anyway what did about the labor leader jeremy corbyn have to say about the mandarin 1st brought in to number 10 by alleged war criminal tony blair to regret the resignation of succumbed i think the comments made about him are beyond unfair and wrong i think he's given on noble and good service and he should be thanked for it and i think the whole house should join together in d.p. regretting the feeling that he's obviously got that he must resign at this moment yes that's foremost stop the war chairman jeremy call been paying homage to a man pro