we visited julian assange in belmarsh prison for four hours. spoke with him for an hohour just to get a good first impression, then we had a physical examination for an hour by our forensic expert, then we had the two hour psychiatric examination. all three of us had the same impression -- certainly had the and they had a diagnosis, welcome to the same conclusion he showed the same symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed to psychological torture over an extended period of time. now, i have the results. i have to say, personally when i met him the first time, the only time i met him, actually, he impression rational -- a lot of anxiety i could feel. stressed and on a stress level where he could never relax. and something that reminded me of many of the victims of torture at interrogation centers that have been detained for a long time. intellectuals that have been in isolation for a long time that we show that kind of reaction pattern. asking me questions and what i would start to answer, he would always -- already come to t

not taking in favor of julian assange. i'm brent goff. this is the day. ♪ brent-- >> based on the investigation, i have come to the conclusion that the accuser statement is a reliable one, but the evidence is not sufficient. it is not clear that the testimony by the accuser has weekend -- weakened. therefore, i have decided that the evidence is not strong enough to pursue an indictment. brent: also coming up, a french judge ruled in favor of a rooster in a north complaint and now the defendant is a duck. will the samee justicecepplied o birds of d diffent feather? >> t tse docs are a problem. my docs make noise in this bothers the neighbor -- my ducks make noise and this bothers the neighbor. brent: welcome. we begin the day when the two cases against ruling sans became the one case. there will give him as the founder of wiki leaks and through the u.s. accused of carrying out one of the biggest leaks of classified documents in history. in 2010, 2 women in sweden accused him of rape and sexual assault. he spent almost a dec

up on the show as hundreds are arrested in that could all protesting the regime of the man julian assange jova to u.k. authorities in marino we speak to the country's revolutionary former president rafael correa the 1st granted the wiki leaks founder asylum and his father john shipped an appeal to boris johnson to support international law for his visit to the u.n. condemned supermax prison in london where his son is being held in solitary plus will u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn do the double and again stop the conservative party from getting a majority in imminent general election all the support going on in today's going on the ground but 1st today 52 years ago the cia helped to make a man from latin america immortal. this is what che guevara's brother one martine told us about the assassination the cia or today but it was the believing that execute the assassination. was in charge . it was the army general in bolivia the cia was directing it it was the believe in. lights because what was being said at the time was that he died in combat. today che guevara. as image flies on a 1000 fl

turned to wiki leaks for help before being granted asylum in moscow well wiki leaks founder julian assange just still alive as he faces extradition to the usa in a hearing in london on friday for revealing war crimes we'll speak to julian assange his father john shipped in a book too but joining me now via skype from brussels is the president who gave asylum to joining the search for the president thanks for coming on the show let's just begin before judy in his sons to what is happening in ecuador than marino. your success accuses you of an attempted coup in ecuador we're getting reports of 3 oil field seized 12 percent of a good boy an oil output hit and he himself has fled the capital. thank you very much for this opportunity and for letting me tell through the world what is happening in ecuador everything that is happening now is the government's fault he betrayed the program approved in the elections and adopted an extremely near liberal losing program they had a terrible agreement with the i.m.f. to the crisis by cutting the domestic financial sources juicing taxes for the wealthy an

torture according to the un with he thinks founder julian assange faces a friday london court hearing certified by boris johnson's minority government the court declined to tell going on the ground who will preside over the case despite allegations of m i 5 links to his prosecution just father john chipped in joins me now thanks so much sean for coming in person to the going underground studio you've seen julian in the past 24 hours how easy is he. faces 175 years in an american prison sort of drove in this morning for. as you would expect is a big down in the dumps. and just by the. ceaseless and and intensifying persecution of him that's going on now for 9 years so. i presume that he's seen still in the hospital we. have and there is. activity in action to improve his circumstances he still spends 22 hours a day in solitary. and only recently has been given court papers to prepare skies does he know what's going on because of course he said in the bail hearing when the asked by a judge here do you want to take the opportunity to apply for bail he said the lawyers are handling it i d

it wiki leaks julian assange a good guy in a u.k. prison we speak to the united nations niels melts the edges british contempt of international norms of justice and we speak to go along the ecuadorian foreign minister who helped grant asylum josiah limit his embassy in london well joining me now is the un special rapporteur on torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment kneels melts special thanks so much for going on going on the ground this time in the studio just before we get to julian assange there's a saudi media forum at the riyadh hilton on monday and i understand that you and your fellow special report ters have been talking about the case of new jane newell who is apparently detained arbitrarily another area here prison she's been there for a year what is this case about well she's a human rights activist the women's rights activist actually that has been the the taint on spurious claims of national security but in fact she has spoken out for women's rights very vocally and she claims also to have b

afterjulian after julian assange was afterjulian assange was hauled out of the ecuadorian embassy incase against him. 0ver working on the case against him. over the summer, they interviewed seven witnesses. but today, they announced that memories had faded with time, and although the woman who made the rape allegation was credible, they didn't have proof. translation: my assessment is that all investigative measures that can be taken, have been taken. i've concluded the evidence is not strong enough to file an indictment. the investigation into julian enough to file an indictment. the investigation intojulian assange first get back in 2010 went to swedish women accused him of sexual assault. he was arrested and fought assault. he was arrested and fought a legal battle against extradition. when he lost that in 2012, he sought asylu m when he lost that in 2012, he sought asylum at the embassy of ecuador. this year, the rape allegation was reopened stopping the following month, then home secretary signed an extradition request from the us, where 18 criminal charges have been unveiled ag

what are the reasons being given for dropping this case againstjulian assange?lian assange was ta ken reopen the files, oncejulian assange was taken out of the ecuadorian assembly, embassy, they reinterviewed five witnesses and spoke to two others but what they have concluded is that there was not enough evidence for them to take this case further, to travel to london to interviewjulian assange, they say they do feel the evidence given by the woman who has accused him is credible and reliable but as for the others, the passage of time they say as well as the global media coverage may have effective people's memories of event in that is the key reason why they consider this as evidence to not give be satisfactory. that is a huge blow to the woman at the centre of the case, her lawyer has issued a statement in the past couple of hours which was texted to us at the bbc saying her client was very sad and very disappointed about the decision, she feels julian assange disappointed about the decision, she feelsjulian assange has never had to explain himself properly to

afterjulian assange was hauled out of the ecuadorian embassy in april, swedish prosecutors have beenhe summer, they interviewed seven witnesses. but today, they announced that memories had faded with time, and although the woman who made the rape allegation was credible, they didn't have proof. translation: my assessment is that all investigative measures that can be taken, have been taken. i have concluded the evidence is not strong enough to file an indictment. the investigation into julian assange first began back in 2010, when two swedish women accused him of sexual assault. he was arrested and fought a legal battle against extradition. when he lost that in 2012, he sought asylum at the embassy of ecuador in london. in may this year, the rape investigation, which had been dropped, was reopened. the following month, the then home secretary signed an extradition request from the us, where 18 criminal charges have been unveiled againstjulian assange, over the mass leak of american secrets. with julian assange's legal troubles in sweden now over, there will be no swedish extradition

they reopened this case, as i said, in may whenjulian assange left the ecuadorian embassy.the length of this case, the delays, those are now resurfacing. and authorities haven't ruled out an internal investigation into what exactly happened to cause these delays. two prison officers — responsible for guarding the convicted sex offender jeffery epstein on the night he died in his jail cell — have been criminally charged. the defendants allegedly created records falsely attesting to required checks of inmates. 0ur correspondent nada tawfik is in new york. there had been a lot of speculation about the circumstances in which jeffrey epstein apparently killed himself in prison. what do we know about the charges that have been levelled against these two guys? as you say, right afterjeffrey epstein was found dead in his prison cell, the us attorney general admitted there were severe irregularities at there were severe irregularities at the metropolitan correction centre where he was held. this lawsuit gives us a little bit more insight into what those irregularities are. these two

headlines this prosecutor strong almost 10 year rape investigation against wiki leaks founder julian assange sizing insufficient evidence to bring charges the decision has sparked it will mark will make his extradition to the u.s. more likely. the death toll in bolivia protests rises to 27 as a decree by the country's self-proclaimed leader actively grants legal impunity to armed forces dealing with. we want justice from this president and how she sent the military police to kill us like animals if we're human beings we're not animals for them to kill us like that. and in norway an anti muslim demonstration erupts into a street brawl after a copy of the koran is set on fire. good morning you're watching r.t. international is just gone 9 o'clock here in moscow nice we dish prosecutors have dropped a 2010 rights investigation against wiki leaks founder julian assange citing a lack of evidence it's feared though by his supporters that the decision will clear the way for the whistle blows extradition from the u.k. to the u.s. where he faces espionage charges is currently being held in belmarsh p

party has weakened therefore i have come to the conclusion that additional interviews with julian assange would not argue or d. avid in cherry bases in a decisive manner as such i have decided not to hold an interview with him sweden's decision may help america north or it is in their attempt to seek asylum she's extradition from the u.k. to the u.s. only faces espionage charges by can 2010 they publish classified documents leaked by former us army soldier chelsea manning these revealed alleged u.s. war crimes in iraq is on saga has raised concerns over washington street meant of whistleblowers generally and it comes as another saga overly curious covering the playing out protecting whistleblowers who see wrongdoing of any kind in our government is essential is basically on the verge of not only revealing the identity or getting somebody else to reveal the identity of the whistleblower but also bringing harm to that person. ok i'm still alive i'm alive now by roger waters musician co-founder of course of pink floyd and a supporter of wiki leaks thanks for joining me. let's just get a reac

with julian assange's legal troubles in sweden 110w assange's legal troubles in sweden now over, theree us. hearings over that begin here at westminster magistrates‘ court in february. from behind bars and belmarsh prison jail, julian assange is now preparing his case against extradition. one long legal chapter in sweden has finished stopping another chapter will soon begin. ina in a moment, i will be back with the papers. now it‘s time for the weather with matt taylor. hello, tuesday, the cost of the season hello, tuesday, the cost of the season so far, entering off the statistics for november so far it has been a particularly cold month, when we see temperatures on this chart, below average for this time of year, also substantially dry, the marine colours on our rainfall chart. also showing whether whites and blues, and we are seeing substantially above average rainfall, particularly so the east midlands, in fact nottinghamshire has seen almost double their entire months worth of rainfall, should be around 60%, notice shetland way, way below that, barely one fifth of what we normally

refugee cp in swedish p prosecutors saying there's not enough evidence to carry on investigating julian assange. he remains in prison and the u.k. for skipping bail and faces an exhibition to the united states on spying charges. ♪ brent: our viewers on pbs and the united states and around the world, welcome. we begin in washington on this third day of impeachment hearings against u.s. president donald trump. two senior officials of the trump administration have already testified, including dented -- jennifer williams and lt. col. alexander vindman. both listened to the phone call betwtween trump and ukraine's president back in july. bettman said the unequal bargaining position of the two leaders and the -- ukraine's dependence on the united states amounted to a demand from trump to the density -- two zelensky. >> to demand an investigation into a political opponent, especially a foreign power where there is at best dubious belief this would be a completely impartial investigation and that this would have significant applications -- implications if the became public knowledge, undermine ukraine

swedish prosecutors drop a 2010 rape case against julian assange after admitting they lacked evidence the charge of the wiki leaks founder. and a major policy overhaul the us schools is outraged by declaring that he no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as illegal. policing international law with the law of the jungle. i am in no way an anti muslim demonstration erupts into a street brawl after a copy of the qur'an was set on fire. good evening to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. prosecutors in sweden say that they are dropping nearly a decade long rape case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange is missing the evidence that we can over time clears the path for is likely extradition to the united states where he faces espionage charges earlier i spoke with donald quarter for the details. you know this whole saga started out did it with the rape allegations against us and you've been through the whole mill since then but now we're back to those initial charges that's right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed i

a swedish prosecutors have announced that they've dropped their rape investigation against julian assange prosecutors say the corroborating evidence was sufficient to prove the allegations assad is currently serving a 50 week sentence and bush and for jumping bail in 2012. well let's go back to one of our top stories now in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president we're joined now by lloyd greene a former justice department official and he is joining us live from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so we i think house way through 2 weeks of hearings planned so far how would you say the democrats are doing in proving their case. i think the democrats are making their case that they're laying it out factually their witnesses have actually been compelling. so i call that a plus for the democrats they've also received assistance from the president with his tweet on friday lashing out at one of the witnesses that was not on it place that you want to be it was really quite an extraordinary moment when he is tweeting about marie event which and she was asked by ad

war crimes these are tragic news and ongoing injustice for julian assange and i think all this. proves that ecuador was right all along. going to songe was. running a risk of losing what he's facing now ecuador gave him asylum for fear of persecution for his activities as a publisher at the head of we can leaks. i remember actually interacting with british officials and british officials telling me that we were deluded that it had nothing to do with we could leak nothing to do with freedom expression nothing to do with publishing it it had everything to do with the swedish case. and now we're seeing that we were right all along it had nothing to do with the swedish case and everything to do with this possibility of an extradition to the united states and i think it's an important global cause that we must all defend freedom for julian yes nowadays even the new york times and the guardian supporters you can't imagine who those british officials were that was saying you were deluded about a grand jury in the united states that was going to maybe imprison a son for 175 years in ame

missions of course julian assange helped edward snowden escape u.s. authorities for blowing the whistle on mass surveillance and amidst all of that the bolivian president of the time even more as his plane was brought down in europe trying to get a hold of edward snowden evo morales is gone your reaction to the coup d'etat or as british the british government says the proper judicial removal of president evo morales of bolivia or you can get much more of a coup than what happened in libya you know middle class uprising turning violent a police mutiny and then the army the military century saying mr president resign that's pretty much a textbook coup and i think it was prepared i think they was you know they were ever more alice had a lot of enemies you just mentioned some of the intimidation he was a victim of many opportunity came the oas ran i think a. i'm a mission of electoral observers that had a mission and that was to discredit the. believe in elections the think tank the center of economic policy. the economic the the center for economic and p

just before we get to julian assange there's a saudi media forum at the riyadh hilton on monday and i understand that you and your fellow special ruppert ters have been talking about the case of new jane newell who is apparently detained arbitrarily in our area here prison she's been there for a year what is this case about well she's a human rights activist the women's rights activist actually that has been the the tent on spurious claims of national security but in fact she has spoken up for women's rights very vocally and she claims also to have been tortured in detention and obviously no investigations have been undertaken by saudi arabia so we are calling on saudi arabia to conduct these investigations which are international obligations under the convention against torture which saudi arabia has actually ratified obviously this idea in government would deny there's been any torture and that indeed she is there for national security reasons we write these are the arabian ambassador on the program let's get now to another case what have you made of 60 doctors claiming julian a son

with julian assange's legal troubles in sweden now over, there will be no swedish extradition request t compete with the one from the u.s. hearings over that begin here at westminster magistrates court in february. from behind bars, julian assangg is now prepais case against tradition. has finished.chapter in sweden another chapter will soon begin. caroline hawley, bbc news. owlaura:o the u.k., where it is just over three weeks to gol unection day. tonight boris and jeremy corbyn squared off in a tv debate. as y might think, brexit dominated much of the discussion as the two sparred over who should lead the u.k. into the future. the bbc's political editor laurs kuenssberg w there and has the highlights. laura k.: a clash of welcomes before even began. the prime minister driven in the back away from a small band ofes protters. tie labour leader greeted instead by a selon of his fans. mr. corbyn: i thank you all from the bottom of my heart for everything you are doing. >> tonight, the conservative prime minister boris johnson and the leader of the labour party, jeremy corbyn, debate. la

swedish prosecutors drop their almost decade long rape investigation against julian assange slighting insufficient evidence it's believed the decision clears the way to speed up the wiki leaks founder as the extradition to the united states to lead u.k. where he's currently in prison and also in the stories that shape the week washington pulls the plug on a key element of the iran nuclear deal by holding the sanctions waiver on an atomic facility as the secretary of state grants hope his support for ongoing mass protests. a warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest world news and all round up of the stories that shaped the week both 1st amid weeks of deadly violence in bolivia lawmakers have moved to hold a fresh presidential election but have barred ousted even miraculous from standing his supporters have caused widespread disruption with protests in the capital and other major cities and recently took 8 soldiers hostage to. i. was already his latest update 7 of the men were released but there's still no information on the remainin

he said the trump campaign's access point to julian assange and wikileaks was roger stone.that sort of brought those two things, the trump campaign and julian assange, together in a way that i don't think we'd heard before. >> so one of the things that happens in this trial is roger stone is kind of a notorious b.s. artist. almost i think by his own telling he'd tell you that. he says a lot of stuff and he's boastful. and there's been all these very weird lame lies he kept getting caught in. so at one point he texts randy credico prepare to die. and when he's asked about it by reporters he tells mother jones he was actually telling them get your affairs in order because you have terminal prostate cancer, and credico is like i don't have terminal prostate cancer. and it just seems a me stone is playing the role of a gangster, playing the role of like a mobbed up guy but in a pretty halfhearted way that is not really fooling anyone. is that a fair characterization? >> i think that's a perfect characterization because at its core he is on trial for lying to congress. his defen

swedish prosecutors dropped a 2010 rape case against julian assange after admitting they lacked enough strong evidence to charge the wiki leaks co-founder. also this hour u.s. secretary of state mike pompei i know this is new sanctions on iran and rams home his support for the ongoing mass rallies in the country are on his back by accusing america of destroying its economy and inciting to riot or. united states will terminate the sanctions were related to the nuclear facility at fordo we don't expect anything else from mr compared to disgracefully defense the maximum pressure regime and imposition of sanctions on iran. and that a major policy overhaul the us causes outrage by declaring that it no longer views israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as a legal. international law with the law of the jungle. you're watching our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 7 pm welcome to the program 1st prosecutors in sweden say they're dropping a rape case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange and many of the evidence has weakened over

n februa from behind bars, julian assange is now preparing his case against tradition. one long legal chapter in sweden has finished. another chapter will soon begin. caroline hawley, bbc news. laura: now to the u.k., where it is just over three weeks to go until election day. tonight boris and jeremy corbyn squared off in a tv debate as you might think, brexit dominated much of the discussios he two sparred over who should lead the u.k. into the future. the bbc's political editor laura kuenssberg was there and has the ghlights. laura k.: a clash of welcomes the prime ministerven in the back away from a small band of protesters. the labour leader greeted instead by a selection of his fans. mr. corbyn: i thank you all from the bottom of my heart for everything you are d >> tonight, the conservativeim minister boris johnson and the leader of e labour party, jeremy corbyn, debate. laura: first, their chance at an opening pitch. mr. corbyn: this election gives you a real choice about your future, the ture of your community and of our country. labour is offering real change

on the show as hundreds are arrested in ecuador protesting the regime of the man who turned julian assange on jova to u.k. authorities then in marino we speak to the country's revolutionary former president rafael correa the 1st granted the wiki leaks founder asylum and assad his father john shipped an appeal to boris johnson to support international law for his visit to the u.n. condemned supermax prison in london where his son is being held in solitary plus will u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn do the double and again stop the conservative party from getting a majority at any imminent general election all this of all going on in today's going underground but 1st today 52 years ago the cia helped to make a man from latin america. immortal. you don't need our. case to me how i like. this is what che guevara's brother one of my team told us about the assassination the cia but it was the believing me to execute the assassination. was in charge. it was the army general in bolivia the cia was directing it it was the believe in me to actually carried it out we only learned about it lights becaus

this is how his sentence began this may julian assange we storm a courthouse after a judge refused his plea to stay free the wiki leaks founder had cleaned himself up since british police tracked him from the ecuadorian embassy just weeks earlier. outside the court supporters were vocal in their anger at the sentence many see as someone who is a hero for exposing abuses of power and championing free speach. the case against the songs in britain arose when 2 swedish women accused him of sexual assault and rape in 2010 a song sought refuge in the ecuadorian embassy afraid that sweden could extradite him to the u.s. he faced prosecution that the wiki leaks release of millions of classified documents since his sentence started in britain as on she's lawyers have turned their attention to the u.s. extradition request authorities there have charged him with conspiring to break into a pentagon computer system this case is and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states. we've been saying since 2010 that that risk is real and we now have a provisional extradition request

prosecutors in sweden say that they're dropping a rape case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange admitting the evidence we can over time this clears the path for his likely extradition to the united states where he faces espionage charges there i spoke with our quarter for the latest. you know this whole saga started out did it with that with the rape allegations against us and you've been through the whole mill since then but now we're back to those initial charges that's right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed in international arrest warrant against songs for 2 charges one of molestation and another of rape but assad has always denied these charges he's even cooperated with the international investigation from abroad and it was the threat of extradition to the united states if you were to have been arrested in sweden that forced him to take political asylum within the ecuadorian embassy in london now it turns out that this case that started it all doesn't even have enough so-called corroborative evidence. basis is such that he corroborating evidence

for almost a decade the founder of wiki leaks julian assange when 2 weeks streams in the u.k. to avoid facing rape charges in sweden the time apparently worked in his favor today swedish authorities dropped the investigation one legal door closes another remains wide open the u.s. wants the u.k. to hand over a song to face espionage charges another extradition for songs to resist but this time the clocks are not ticking in favor of julian assange on i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day.

swedish prosecutors drop their almost 10 year rape investigation against julian assange citing insufficient evidence now it's believed that decision though clears the way to speed up the wiki leaks found this extradition to the unite the. us pulls the plug on a key element of iran's nuclear deal by halting the sanctions waiver on an atomic facility as the secretary of state support for ongoing mass protests that. morning live from artie's world news h.q. here moscow welcome to the weekly a recap of some of the biggest stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you my name is kevin know it 1st in the midst weeks of deadly violence in bolivia in the week just gone lawmakers moved to hold a fresh presidential election but have bugged the morale is from standing his supporters of cause widespread disruption over it with protests in the capital and other major cities and recently took 8 soldiers hostage to. i. or the authorities later said that several of the men were released but the still no information on the remaining officer. list he was forced to resign of course after a wave of prote

julian assange, go to democracynow.org. and in new york city, at least 58 people were arrested friday night protesting new york governor andrew cuomo's plan to add 500 police officers to patrol the subway stations to crack down on fare evasion. the march comes after a series of arrests in subway stations, including of a woman selling churros. this is chelsea, one of the protesters. >> priorities are out of whack that we invest more into criminalizing porty than actually fixing poverty. like, we would rather spend more time making poverty a crime than actually fixing poverty as an issue for people. like, that literally makes no sense. with 250 billion dollars, you could literally have put that into a fund to help people get metro card so they could be ising the fair -- that convoluted. this whole city is convoluted. the mayor is convoluteded. all o of the police are convoluted. everything they stand for is convoluted. amy: the city's plan to hire 500 police officers will cost $250 million over the next four years -- more tha

steve bannon says trump team saw roger stone as access point to assange. the trump campaign apparently thought it was colluding with wikileaks. in bannon's cross-examination today stone's defense attorney asked him, you and the trump campaign didn't view stone as the access point to wikileaks? and bannon says, i think we did, yes. that's remarkable. >> yeah, that's pretty striking. and, you know, bannon didn't only say that the trump campaign was receiving what it thought was inside information on wikileaks from roger stone. he also suggested that they believed that stone was sort of orchestrating the release of the stolen democratic e-mails. bannon said that when wikileaks released the e-mails from the clinton campaign chairman john podesta on october 7th, 2016, he said he heard that stone had been involved in making that happen. and then bannon's assistant on the same day sent stone an email that said well done, just two words. so they kind of thought that stone was actually helping them actively, which was quite striking. >> what's the implication of th

emails that he told corsi to get an associate of theirs to get to julian assange. stone could have told the house intelligence committee that in fact corsi had responded back to him and told him there would be, quote, dumps coming in october, impact planned to be very damaging. and stone could have told the committee he had all of this in writing, in his e-mail accounts and text messages at the time of his testimony. stone could have told the committee the truth that he asked to pass along a question to julian assange, that he requested information from assange about whether or not he had e-mails concerning hillary clinton and libya. and stone could have told the committee that he spoke with steve bannon and others about what he was learning regarding wikileaks. stone could have truthfully stated he had hundreds of messages, emails, texts, that showed the truth of what happened in 2016 that he had many written records that could help the committee establish what had actually happened. but roger stone didn't do that. he didn't even come close. instead he repeatedly

soldier who spent 7 years in jail for the leak in may of this year julian assange was removed from the ecuadorian embassy and arrested he was later jailed for 50 hoops for breach of his original bail conditions us he's now in this high security prison in london while the u.k. government considers a u.s. extradition warrant a science faces allegations of conspiring to hack into a classified computer at the pentagon and could potentially face a jail sentence of up to 175 years his legal team insists he simply acted as a journalist and say his health is seriously deteriorating in jail on tuesday assigns briefly appeared at a london court via video link but full extradition hearing starts in february the al-jazeera and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the stories we're covering and of course everything to do with the impeachment inquiry on our website just so that ours are dot com and if you don't already you can also try out watching us live by clicking on the orange live like on al-jazeera dot com. quick reminder the top stories on al-jazeera a key witness in the u.s. impeachme

and in the beginning, he said he had spoken to assange.ckly realized that that was an embellishment. and he needed to correct it. and his story since then hasn't changed. >> you're saying something that we've reported here, you have to look at entire context of roger stone's career as a dirty trickster to try to understand where he fits into all of this. but don't you think that he still had a legal obligation to end the show when he was speaking to the authorities and congress? to not obstruct? >> i think he did. he went there voluntarily. he wasn't subpoenaed. i think his state of mind was to clear his name. and i don't think, you know, if you've been tricked into saying that's correct or "no" after 600 questions, i don't think that's fair. >> understood. i really appreciate you making the time for us and appearing hear on "the beat" as part of this week of the trial. and as i would wish everyone, i wish all of you the best. >> thank you. >> kristin davis on "the beat." >>> coming up, we have a lot more. donald trump making plans for the

bannon responded, quote, he told me he had a relationship with assange.al for me to reach out to him. that's the president's campaign chief from that time testifying under oath as far as the trump campaign was concerned, when they wanted to communicate with wikileaks to obtain information from them that had been of course stolen by russian intelligence, they used roger stone as their effort to do that. they used roger stone for that purpose because he said he could get to julian assange. roger stone was their access point, and by extension he was their access point to the stolen material that was weaponized against clinton in the 2016 election. the reporter who chased down steve bannon as he was leaving court today, as bannon turned to say i'm only here reluctantly, that reporter joins us next. they're america's biopharmaceutical researchers. pursuing life-changing cures in a country that fosters innovation here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patient's own t-cells... because it's not just about the next breakthrough...

that is now focused on the threat mr assange has been warning about for years to belligerent prosecution of the united states and the threat it poses to the 1st amendment the swedish sex crime out of geisha and led to the ecuadorian embassy in august plenty of. face with the drugged out of april this year he's currently in prison now swedish charges have been dropped all the time sometimes his extradition trial scheduled for february next year but some are concerned about whether he'll get a fair hearing i think it's absolutely fair to say that politics now is coming to. an extradition proceeding it was not designed to be a political or say that politics absolutely positively should not come into play but should be treated as any other. proceeding where the u.s. are seeking to have someone extradited from u.k. to the us or u.k. shaking down of one extradited from the u.s. back to you. but i think it's cruel ish for one to assume that politics will not come into play in this particular matter and if he is eventually sent to the u.s. he may not ever that leave with a potential of 175 year

the pursuit of julian assange is that the fear is about how whistleblowers are treated by washington although not every whistleblower is treated the same not if they're protected by the cia protecting whistleblower she is she wrong dealing of any kind and that government is a sham is basically on the verge of not only revealing the identity or getting somebody else to reveal the identity of the whistleblower but also bringing harm to that person everything is politically motivated that of the trumpet ministration as absolutely no credibility and no principles whatsoever when it comes to these things. whistleblowers should be protected whistleblowers should be lauded their heroes. whistleblowers do the store thing not for personal gain not for their ego they do it for the public good and it's proof to me that donald trump doesn't care about the public good he cares about himself and no without i mean clearly when he says that he loves wiki leaks and then after he gets electors i don't know anything about wiki leaks. international thank you company this morning at more from us in about

this transparency is what julian assange is and we can lease has been providing us with so there are many dimensions to this but these are the reasons i am standing by for julian as us chill and let's just focus on the main point you make about freedom of speech and its importance it's ironic isn't it that many of the papers that cover the genius on case seem to be against him and focus on the extradition and many seem to ignore that why the point that you make that look this is a story about freedom of speech and this is why we must protect genius songes is right. well i've said on a previous occasion again that in my mind julian assange is really not on trial he's simply an individual who is being persecuted it is the british legal system which is on prior on trial it is supposed to operate on the basis of the rule of law but how was that system to react to an american the month that julian now surrounds be extradited no pompei oh the foreign secretary of the united states has said that we can leaks is an independent espionage. institution that must be taken down i think this is ho

swedish prosecutors have dropped a 2010 rape investigation against wiki leaks founder julian assange citing a lack of evidence is feared by his supporters that the decision will clear the way for the whistleblowers extradition from the u.k. to the u.s. where he faces espionage charges as are just currently being held in belmarsh prison in london after his arrest in april he was sentenced to 15 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 hearings proper relating to a u.s. extradition request will begin in february he surrounding now has more on the swedish case. for 9 years due to the authorities faith an uncertain future in the u.k. it all started with a sex crime charges in sweden that could have seen the wiki leaks co-founder being extradited back to the scandinavian country he himself feared he would then be handed over to the u.s. for releasing classified information but sweden has now dropped the rape case against the silent after dinner issue investigation and that's get it steps taken over the summer in india is now clear that the oral statement testimony and suppo