just keeping to the don't remember seeing the wiki leaks founder was sent to belmarsh prison just outside london. prison. high security maximum security prison it's where your murderers and terrorists are. brutal. belmarsh prison is said to be a worse place even than guantanamo. he is. there nodded the right fraternizing with all the person knows. he told me that when he sees people go past his cell he wishes he wished he could speak to one. i saw in those leaked media also great he appears to have a lot a lot a lot of weight. when i saw that i really started crying because when you know someone very well and see him in in this position. i'm not allowed to hand him anything the only way of communicating with me out. side well this time to receive . we were not sure if he wanted to communicate with journalists but here's a letter we have just received from belmarsh prison and it's from jill and i songes it says here on the back of. that letter reveals despair and frustration as the trial draws closer the wiki leaks founder says he has no internet or telephone nexus which seriously hinders

the prison belmarsh is not just britain's guantanamo bay it is the coronavirus rhythm tunnel will be but the want to loan them out even on a tag even on to the supervision of his wife and children with a policeman standing outside his door insisting on keeping him in belmarsh where his health condition continues to deteriorate both his physical health and his psychological health it's very very marcus story chopped up that will live on in infamy in british legal history and in u.s. press freedom history as well george i will leave it there george galloway always appreciate your take thank you. and black lives matter protests took over key cities in the country this week in portland protests continued in downtown last night following confrontations with the police there that he before leaving one protester in the hospital after being shot in the head and over in st paul the national mother's march took place more than a 1000 people marched to the state capitol demanding an end to police violence then over in queens new york a pro cop solidarity walk ended with an intense faceoff that'

on torture who visited julian asuncion prison is being held in london's atory a high security belmarsh prison for publishing classified documents which exposed u.s. war crimes in iraq and afghanistan he's been indicted on 17 counts under the $117.00 espionage act alone he is not a us citizen and wiki leaks is not a us based application charged with the unauthorized possession and dissemination of classified material something that has been performed by countless journalists including myself when i worked for the new york times and publishers over the decades the such case is a frontal assault on the 1st amendment it will be used should a songe be extradited tried and sentenced in the united states where he faces the possibility of 175 years in prison to shut down any press investigations into the centers of power. joining me to discuss the importance and ramifications of the a songe case is marjorie cullen professor america at thomas jefferson school of law where she taught from 1901 to 2016 and a former president of the national lawyers guild she edited and contributed to the books the unite

across as highly disingenuous it's as if the fact that the founder of wiki leaks is sitting in belmarsh prison has simply left their minds hypocrisy is a you know something that pm at a state has very good at so you know we're seeing a lot of human rights abuses right now it's a long list you know we still have people in guantanamo today we're seeing peaceful protest smashed and almost weekly basis we're killing people with drones and. even and that goes back to obama when he approved even killing americans with thrones the idea that we would be standing as pillars of righteousness on human rights is really absurd despite blatant hypocrisy the leaders of the united states and the united kingdom have not given up one of their longstanding habits trashing the rest of the world with human rights rhetoric while ignoring their own shortcomings caleb martin r.c. new york. now after 3 years of delays and public inquiry into the tragedy felt tally. in london is finally under way the inferno at the block of flats which claimed 72 lives was initially caused by a faulty fridge however the brazen blaze qu

case with sweden before his torture currently going on according to the un in belmarsh prison an espionage act is one thing that is come out of this report and tell me since you have won already of course julian assange has wanted individual room for espionage how a foreign agents act could could benefit britain let alone an espionage act as regarding national security well i think a lot of people have forgotten we had an espionage act on the book until on the books until the obama administration began prosecuting a record number of whistleblowers people like jeffrey sterling thomas drake john kiriakou and then you know we saw the 1st publisher journalist transparency advocate in julian a songe being prosecuted under this act and so it's had a chilling effect within the national security state on people who consider themselves public servants and now it's having a chilling effect in the media people are afraid i can tell you from my own experience in washington in just the mood among the press here that people are afraid 1st of all the speak out for julian assad and 2nd of all they're afra

authorities in belmarsh prison in london according to the un is expected to be back in the u.k. courts in september he's not been forgotten by pioneering fashion designer vivienne westwood going underground fine ahmed's went down to the old bailey to ask what she thinks of accusations that a sandwich is a russian asset well everything's a spin everything i've ever heard the press ever says about judean is a love i and when if the lattes lied to about him all ready with regard to russia and so i'm assuming that this is just another you know the bit of rubbish added to the back to the last time that i spoke to you of course are very different circumstances jeremy called and lost boris johnson in the us now joe biden has called joining us on a digital terrorist so is there really any hope now for joining us on how to be liberated from extradition to our state what the e.u. while they american say doing is they are trying to fake the victim to the crime and they're inventing crimes in order to fit them to the victim and so they're making these toll all rubbish crimes as is the examp

khairi saadallah who is 25 and from libya appeared via video link from belmarsh prison.ve probably never heard of. but fans of plymouth argyle are starting a campaign to have a statue of him erected in the city. leslie was chosen to play for england in 1925 — but was dropped when selectors realised he was black. clive coleman has the story. jack leslie, a phenomenalfootballer. but was he denied his place in sporting history because of the colour of his skin? afine team... jack played for plymouth argyle, then in the third division in the 1920s. he's believed to be the first black player to captain a league side. here at plymouth, jack leslie scored 137 goals, at times suffering racial abuse from both crowds and opponents. but in 1925, the club manager called him into his office and gave him some thrilling news. jack leslie had been picked to play for england. it was the talk of the town. but when the papers came out some days later, billy walker of aston villa was in the team. jack was named as a travelling reserve. he never travelled. england struggled to a 0—0 draw in