cross talking julian assange i'm joined by my guest in london joe lauria he is the editor in chief of consorting. news dot com we also have taylor hudak she is an independent journalist and co-founder of action for astonish and we're joined by alexander make your us he is a writer and legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com or across the cause and effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's go to the the legal part of this story here we'll go to our examine me curious alex i mean the mainstream media when it does report the trial it seems to me there's an enormous amount of or mission being played out here in europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he getting a fair trial go ahead hours or what have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which to cause me a great deal of unease are i don't want to go into the. details too far but firstly are i have to have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept behind a glass beriah he's been complaining that this

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things were considered i'm peter lavelle in london julian assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher songes liberty even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you would know that from the mainstream media. talking julian assange i'm joined by my guest in london joe lauria he's the editor in chief of consortium news dot com we also have taylor she is an independent journalist and co-founder of action for us and we're joined by alexander make your us he is a writer and legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let's go to the the legal part of this story here we'll go to alexander me curious alex i mean the mainstream media when it does report the trial it seems to me there's an enormous amount of omission being played out here. in europe you have a legal mind you have a legal legal experience is he getting a fair trial g

a lot of young people know nothing about julian assange. you know to julian assange do you know anything about this man and what happened to him do you want to know about your bad 10 years ago. wiki leaks with a stockholm lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by western governments play war crimes but mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent civilians. or that country just pretend this is the 1st and they didn't think about the economics it kind of forced us to acknowledge it's you know we couldn't ignore it. he's an idealist he's on a mission he's on a mission to harm. people to information. to respond. but this comes with the crimes i'm alone isn't being charged. he's been well he was in the ecuadorian embassy for 8 years 7 or 8 in. a long time he's spending time in prisons basically and that now he's being fair many months in the present. there are a lot of people who don't want him in prison a lot of the very powerful this department is conducting a thorough aggressive investigation to de

defending julian assange and. 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 butt 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 this is our very 1st affair and i think that far too few people in clinton understand this and i was at that same even

operation against julian assange and all these. journalists are lawyers doctors you're expect this kind of. this democracy mr sanchez right to confidential conversations with his own legal defense was breached . the united states government which is very aggressively pursuing him on trumped up charges has had access to his legal defense strategy and frankly the fact that they have said that that won't be used is insufficient because they have had access to that information. given what is at stake in the sands case the national security angle allegations from the un that britain is affectively torturing a dissident you would think british news organizations would be all over the story they are now saying he's going to cooperate said any of. the publicly owned b.b.c. is just one example of that the world's biggest news broadcaster it generates about 120 hours of radio and television output every day according to neil's meltzer the b.b.c. has interviewed him just wants and not on newsnight its flagship news and current affairs show or

julian assange is currently in london and the ecuadorian embassy. because you are who has granted a songe asylum but it's unclear how he intends to get there from the london embassy the british police or outside ready to arrest him the moment here merges to get to the airport. 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. a skate by veto there have been new e-mails disclosures once again jeopardizing hillary clinton's career. the end to the whistle blowing platform wiki leaks has released confidential even. pointing to the d.n.c. preferring clinton to run as the democratic presidential candidate instead of the outsider bernie sanders. they clearly dislike tillery clinton they didn't like her her campaign manager and he was happy to do whatever he could to damage their interests gentle whistleblowing platform wiki leaks quoted clinton

i don't think you can really understand julian assange. or wiki leaks without seeing an aspect of his life that and that was absolutely here in melbourne and it formed him not only in terms of his ideas. his personality his expertise but also his conceptual thinking about forming software projects including working. so melbourne in the late eighty's and early ninety's became the center of the a strain underground which included hers and experimenters and also there's not just in the sense of people who broke into things illegally but also people who just experimented with. it didn't take long for australia's hacking community to embrace the young. teenagers they spent most of their time online but did occasionally venture out and with. this square in central melbourne. this is the historic town hall and it was the site along with some other sort town halls in melbourne. and other members of that technology community were here in their late teens and early 20 stopping for computer bits and exchanging ideas information about how to experimen

a muslim woman rapping about mecca we begin with the legal fate of julian assange this past week saw the commencement of a court case that will determine whether great britain should extradite the wiki leaks founder to the united states the american government has charged the sand for his part in the release of classified military documents and he's looking at a maximum prison term of 175 years a sanchez advocates say he has little chance of getting a fair trial in the u.s. that if sent there he could end up facing conditions amounting to torture that is one of the factors that the british court is legally compelled to consider however the u.k. authorities are also facing some serious questions in this case about whether a sound is getting a fair hearing and about britain's own commitment to human rights and the rule of law legal experts medical specialists and the un special rapporteur on torture have all sounded the alarm over the conditions at the maximum security prison where a sanch is currently locked up our starting point this week is a lunde. if you want to be told that there

assange knew he could get to trump. and rohrabacher did say he did call after this meeting and had a conversation, discussed this with then white house chief of staff john kelly. but he also made clear that there was no follow-up. kelly was -- kelly understood what a -- how politically problematic it would be for the president to do this. so it didn't go further than that, but it is interesting that rohrabacher went down this road. this is of a piece with all the testimony you heard during the impeachment hearings about conspiracy theories, about a server and ukrainian intervention, all designed for the same purpose, to deflect and discredit the idea that the russians engaged in their systematic attack on the 2016 election that we know about. >> but, you know, my understanding of mr. rohrabacher when he was in congress he was more of a back bencher. did he explain to you what would have been his authority to even talk about a pardon for anyone? what did he think his authority was to say that? >> i mean, his authority wa

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 protected sources and that he has not put any one address. they would also probably say that this if julie the sonship wi

julian assange e—mails, and passing them on to wikilea ks.t and russia denies any responsibility —— rotten. that did not stop the usjostens department judging did not stop the usjostens departmentjudging 12 officers over the hacking. the accusation being it was all pa rt accusation being it was all part of a wide plot to interfere with the election. julian assange is currently here, london's belmarsh prison, but if exhibition to the us over the leaking of diplomatic cables. that extradition hearing begins next week. julian assange's lawyers say that during the hearing they will present a witness who will testify that while mrjulian assange was staying at the ecuadorian embassy he had a visit from a former us congressman. this man. then aurora bachar, and that he came with a message. proof that —— prove that russia wasn't behind the dnc link and you will be pardoned at 22. the white house says that the claim byjulian assange's lawyer is a complete fabrication and eternal life. julian assange went into the ecuadorian embassy in london 2012 to a

s visit julian assange in jail and call on the u.k. government to stop his extradition to the us warning about the wiki leaks ponders deteriorating condition. easy exhibiting songs of disorientation. and ongoing loss allows you to cite. also this hour u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi warns that you against working with huawei running china's tech giant to meet your security threat she doesn't however mention her own reported role and mass american spying including on leaders we ask people in new york and london whether china or the u.s. is a bigger surveillance threat over both the u.s. anybody having. access to our data. and billionaire michael bloomberg is set to take the stage at a democratic party presidential election debate for the 1st time i meet criticism from the main rival that he's affectively buying votes. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. australian m.p.'s have called on the u.k. government to stop julian assange just extraditi

the accusations coming out from assange's lawyers. >> yeah, so what assange's defense team is going toe arguing as soon as tomorrow is that rick grinnell, when he was the ambassador to germany, he intervened in assange's extradition case and his arrest, essentially, on the direct orders of president interrupt, they are arguing that this demonstrates that this was all very political because the obama administration declined to bring charges against julian assange for the chilling effect that it might have on journalists on the first amendment. when trump came into office things changed. one of the ways that he facilitated the arrest and prosecution of julian assange. was through rick grinnell. in order to bolster their case for this, they're going to introduce recordings and screen shots that a grinnell ally had going into last year about grinnell's involvement in the case. so a lot of threads to pull on here is a little complicated. essentially they're going to be arguing that grinnell was acting on his orders. that made the process toxic from the beginning. >> and the interesting thin

please visit julian assange in jail and call on the u.k. government to stop his extradition to the u.s. warning about the wiki leaks founder is deteriorating condition. he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing loss of life. and the u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi warns the europe of the security risk of working with way but fails to mention her own reported role in u.s. surveillance including on e.u. leaders we've asked people in new york and london for the china or the us is the biggest spy threat. probably the us probably us anybody having. hello good evening thanks for joining us here on r.t. into. turkey's president says it is only a matter of time until he launches a military operation in the syrian province of idlib and shipped to our now that he's been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation. he has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plans and it looks as in every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to p

there's some agencies in this country that disagree with julian assange. that's separate and apart from the fact that hillary clinton paid for russian lies to influence the election. how come she's not being arrested? how come she's not having charges brought up on her? this is lack of equal justice. the question remains, if julian assange has charges, where are the charges for hillary clinton who paid for russian lies and colluded with russia and paid for the russian lies and used it in the 2016 campaign? this is one part of our duel system of justice in this country. want to talk about more unequal justice? let's look at the sixth amendment. the one that guarantees in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a trial by an impartial jury. does that mean anything to you? because apparently means nothing to federal judge amy burbman jackson who presided over the case against roger stone and the manafort case. the judge went on an anti trump rant. the obama appointed judge even pushed an unrelated conspiracy theory. roger stone was cov

supporters of the jailed wiki leaks founder julian assange. had a. number of celebrities with the protestors and. i think all the sun has provided. a safe place for information to go on they don't want dissidents they want what looks like a free press. russia is accused of backing both republicans and democrats in the 2020 presidential election with anonymous sources in the media now saying the kremlin wanted to help bernie sanders. and new leaders have failed to agree on a post funding plan at an emergency summit in brussels. for the latest on the stories you can head to our dot com in about an hour's time the man's name is khan brave he'll be here with. news but coming up floyd of the pink floyd frontman roger waters going underground if you're watching in the u.k. political talk show is next. and we're going underground ahead of a london trial that could decide the fate of all journalism and the ability of the public to understand how that consent is being manufactured by the powerful coming up in the show you comfortably numb close to 10 years si

julian assange said his hopes on sweden's liberal press laws afraid that the u.s. would investigate him he hoped sweden would be a safe haven for him and for wiki leaks at the time key servers were located in stockholm they have since been removed and relocated several times when he was in sweden. and the 1st real great bruce's. after collateral murder. i did say to joe the reporter be careful a warning that proved to be well justified in stockholm a science had intercourse with 2 women allegedly unprotected after attempting to reach a science personally the woman turned to the police to compel him to undergo testing for s t d's the police open preliminary investigations into 4 counts of sexual offense overnight the story of a song as the rapist hit the headlines it would become an accusation he could never quite shake off you're going to say i was a rock star over him i was an asshole and that was kind of swedish consensus among from the left to right up and down. in the meantime the hunt for julian assange and his informants have begun in the us. we want what eve

and we'll speak to the father of the founder of wikileaks julian assange.ere's a danger to life — are in place in england and wales this morning. it's the continuing impact of storm dennis which swept across the uk over the weekend. there are also more than 200 flood warnings as some rivers remain at unprecedented levels. towns and cities along the river severn in herefordshire and worcestershire have been particularly affected. in hereford the river wye has reached its highest ever levels and is now a city under water. in upton—upon—severn 300 properties were evacuated overnight and ross—on—wye has also been badly affected and the river there expected to peak this afternoon. nearby monmouthshire has also been hit hard. labour says it's a disgrace that borisjohnson has refused to visit affected communities. downing street says the prime minister is receiving regular updates. yesterday, the environment secretary george eustice defended the government's response and said it could not protect every home. let's speak to debbie mcnally, the landlady of the hope

symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange. and are going to side there's nothing that i saw or that actually. discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting saw ends of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing loss a large negative side technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself for 20 to 22 as a die with that minimal human contact you're effectively ocelot and so all of that has led to i guess at the plated state of health for julian a songe and i don't think it's fair atoll to extradite an australian citizen. at of one foreign country into another foreign country to face charges for what for reporting on the facts. well that says doctors around the world also condemned the u.k.'s handling of the case warning of sciences being subjected to psychological torture in jail more than $100.00 medics signed a joint letter urging all thirty's to take action they also called on the australian government

the white house, assange, and congressman rohrbacher. credibility records. but there is some contemporary press that has rohrbacher after he did visit with assange at the ecuadorian embassy, made a public statement to the effect that he had some dynamite news, that there was talk that he could get a pardon based on this news. and implication being that he would talk to the president about it. so that's where it started and this is just the latest round. i can't imagine his lawyer going into court and making the representation that was made if there isn't something that they have where they believe there's something there. >> brad, i want to bring you in. you're skeptical, but assange's lawyer says they have evidence. we know that the president met with representative rohrbacher and that rohrbacher subsequently met with assange. >> yes, we have limited details of what we know has been confirm. all we know is the president met briefly with rohrbacher and there was a separate meeting in the u.k. between rohrbacher and assange. we don't know

naomi: was 2010 win julian assange hit -- when julian assange hit the headlines with this video.eds of sensitive diplomatic cables were also released. in 2012, he so ught refuse inside the ecuadorian embassy. the sdish case was later dropped, but not before julian assange spent seven years inside the embassy. he finally emerged last year, dragged off the premises by metropolitan police. he haseen kept in jail ever since because the u.s. produced the expedition request, which a judge must allow whether to allow. he sat listening to proceedingsn dresse suit and gray jumper with papers in his hand. lawyers for the u. argued julian assange putnformant lives at risk when he published material about t iraq and afghan wars. there had been a grave and imminent threat to human life. later this assange will claim extraditiul him wo be a blow to freedom of speech for journalists and that it is politically motivated by the trumpdministration. witnesses in this hearing areno due to appear until may, so there will be no ruling before then. naomi grimley, bbc news, greenwich crownrt cou. ♪ laur

there are some agencies in this country that disagree with julian assange. that is separate and apart, by the way, from the fact that hillary clinton paid for russian lies to influence the election. how come she's not being arrested? how come she's not having charges brought up on her? this is a lack of equal justice law. the the question remains, okay, julian assange is aggressively targeting for publishing material, where are the charges for hillary clinton, who paid for russian lies and colluded with russia and paid for the russian lies and used it in the 2016 campaign? this is just one part of our dualal system of justice in this country. you want to talk about more unequal justice? all right, let's look at the sixth amendment. that was the one that guarantees "in all criminal prosecutions, the accusedd shall enjoy the right to a trial by an impartial jury." mean anything to you? because it apparentlyyo means nothing to federal judge amy berman jackson, who presided over the case againstre roger stone r and the manafort case. in a recent decision, the ju

julian assange had russia had nothing to do with the computer leaks.o are the embarrassing hacked e-mails from the dnc and hillary clinton's 2016 campaign that wikileaks famously published about the campaign in 2016. the white house slammed julian assange's saying it's complete fabrication and live. in former congressman said in a statement today this. at no time did i offer julian assange anything from the president because i have not spoken with the president about this issue at all. however, when speaking with julian assange, i told him that if he could provide me information and evidence about who actually gave him the dnc e-mails, i would then call on to president trump to pardon him. so would you believe? joining me now on the phone, consumer advocates, co-author of fake president and 205 time, i exaggerate former presidential candidate my friend of 45 years, ralph nader. ralph, you old dog, welcome to the show. >> thank you very much judge. napolitano: why is julian assange in jail in the first place and as a surprise to the lawyers told the lon

symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange. and are going to say there's nothing that i saw or that actually. discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing us a lot of going to psych technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself a 20 to 22 as a die with that minimal human contact you're effectively ocelot and so all of that has led to i 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 lol clooney however one key detail has been omitted toonies links to julian assange and his case in particular despite the fact is one of th

julian assange to grow fuge in the ecuadorian embassy and 2012 after sweden asked the u.k. to extradite the wiki leaks founder to answer allegations of rape and that country . her son has always denied those allegations saying they were pretense to have them eventually extradited to the united states where he is wanted on espionage charges. as we can you expand under threat so does the freedom of expression and the health of all our society. his supporters share this view they say the swedish rape allegations were fabricated and an excuse to punish a sanch for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents and for exposing possible war crimes. one high profile leak was a video obtained from the u.s. military which wiki leaks says shows he was soldiers opening fire on people in baghdad and killing several civilians and 2 journalists. a son just now in a maximum security prison in the u.k. and continues to fight against his extradition to the united states if he loses his fight and disk convicted in the u.s. the wiki leaks founder faces up to 175 ye

trial for julian assange is weird because it's goes completely contrary as we know to u.k. lol so our law the law of this country the little that supposed to represent all wear wigs or addition treaty with the elated today has a treaty but it specifically precludes anything that could be claimed to be a political crime or a political misdemeanor which obviously this is because julian isn't she is only crime is to speak the truth to the people and he's speaking truth though to a powerful elite to do not want the truth spoken to the people to go to serve is obviously believes that the espionage act that hacking these are crimes that you can exude i think they do i think has 6 o. the powers that be in washington d.c. have decided that they want julian killed or at least imprisoned for the rest of his is health it's extremely poll. and they want to be locked up for that as an example it's frightening to know that any minute they could be that standard issue kicking in the door and your talk of you know stuck into beaumarchais where you will stay until they've had their way with