for months due to the coronavirus lockdown shot he had stashed a reporter outside london central criminal court. day is of course an incredibly important day for both truth and justice says wiki leaks founder julian assange is back here in court at the old bailey here in central london for the latest hearing proceedings which will ultimately decide whether or not he will be extradited to the united states of course this case was due to be heard much earlier in the year but you took over it 19 pandemic it was postponed until now well very early in the morning i saw for myself the very van the blacked out found i was carrying to massage into the criminal court but here outside we heard from his father but also from his partner son of morris also mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so do they really does open up the new it's trapped in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute judy massage for alleged playing a massive role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and c

months due to the coronavirus lockdown so he had woodstock state reports from outside london central criminal court. well very early in the morning i saw for myself the very van the blacked out found i was carrying to massage into the criminal court but here outside we heard from his father but also 6 from his partner son of morris also mother of his 2 children she was really pleading with the courts for his immediate release so today really does open up the newest chapter in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute jude in a sarge for alleged playing a massive role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted he could go down for 175 years as the u.s. has of course indicted him on 18 counts under mostly the espionage act so the u.s. really want him to face trial for spying a publishing these classified documents all related to the war in iraq and afghanistan plus one of conspiracy to how could government computer to publish these documents as well now just a few minutes ago we heard from the wiki leaks editor in

behalf and all this but does his health have any impact on what's going to happen at the central criminal court. well certainly in theory and principle a person facing extradition should have their mental health and physical health taken into consideration they're going to number of cases in recent years where people who have also been up for extradition united states have had exclusion blocked by the british courts on the grounds that the mental trauma and risk to their mental health and even the potential of that suicide would be to grow to justify extradition so that is a precedent in the british courts for blocking actually dition on the grounds of a person's severe health ill health and i'm hoping that this is a decision that the british court will take injurious arjun's case but i do know there is incredible determination on the part of the british government in alliance with the us government to get a sanch to the us regardless though my fear is that these health issues these health concerns itself dangers will be overridden for the sake of that political objective those are the 2 things

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orders have gathered outside the central criminal courts for the extradition hearing that's expected to last 3 to 4 weeks the wiki leaks founder faces 18 charges in the u.s. for publishing secret government documents that reveal the evidence of war crimes and human rights abuses in iraq and afghanistan he could be jailed 475 years say found guilty in the u.s. let's go live to laurin sydney in london who's outside the court for a set of us on just supporters we can see on the live pictures no instant case resuming today have the arguments changed at all. whether one sentence no it's simply the resumption of the case that had to be suspended in may because of the kind of it's a break at that point it was being held in a high security jail in the touch pools right on the edge of london where in the sun she has been held for really a very long time where is health mental and physical health deteriorates and traumatically is now being moved as you say to the most that the biggest criminal court right in the middle of london what we believe is sound she's transferred in a prison down this

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honestly is at the central criminal court in london.it's simply the resumption of a case that had to be suspended in may because of the case if it's outbreak at that point it was being held in a high security jail in attached pools right on the edge of london where gina sanchez been held for really a very long time where is health and mental and physical health deteriorates of traumatic and he has now been moved to the most the biggest criminal court right in the middle of london where we believe a sound was transferred to in a prison van this morning but the arguments are essentially the same certainly from his supporters they say it's a show trial and it raises enormous questions about both the rule of law the relationship between the u.k. and the united states and also about the future of journalism as well very high profile journalists like. the filmmaker have been giving speeches here saying if a son she successfully extradited then it will become impossible in the future for an investigative journalist to try to uncover unpleasant

the 49—year—old was brought to the central criminal court in a prison van from high security belmarshof hundreds of thousands of classified documents. there's been an increase in train services in england, wales and scotland, as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work. services are returning to around 90% of pre—pandemic capacity, with passenger numbers now back to about one—third of normal levels. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. the daily commute is coming back. from today, rail companies will be operating something close to a full service. commuting by train these days is very different from how it used to be, yet these passengers arriving at london liverpool street this morning seemed unconcerned. they have barriered off certain seats you cannot sit at, so it's maintaining spaces between everyone on the trains. i think you just have to get out, and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears. the new timetable has been designed to allow more people to travel while maintaining a degree of social distancing. although there still won't b

justice but also for wiki leaks founder julian assange it was back here at the criminal court the old bailey here in central london for his hearing proceedings which i'll treat me decide whether or not he'll be extradited to the united states now the hearing was supposed to happen much earlier this year but due to the covert 19 count demick it was put on hold until now now early in the morning i saw for myself the very ground that carried him into the crown court directly behind me but also i saw his father that was outside the court and his partner stella morris who was also trying to plead for his immediate release from prison so today really opens the newest chapter in almost a decade long attempt to prosecute her in a song for an alleged playing a role in one of the largest compromises of what's the 5 information in the history of the united states and if found guilty and convicted for such a. probably will go to prison for up to 175 years and that says the u.s. has indicted him on 18 counts mostly under the espionage act and so the u.s. wanted to face trial for spying and publishing such classified mil

central to the russia investigation. a federal appeals court today ruled against michael flynn and the justice department and their request to quickly shut down his criminal case. flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russian officials. a panel from that same federal court decided that house democrats have no authority to sue president trump's former white house counsel for refusing to testify about the mueller inquiry. and trump adviser steve bannon is facing a may 24th trial date in his fraud case involving donations to build the border wall. "the new york times" reports that the feds have seized a trove of emails and other communications in their case against bannon. "times" correspondent michael schmidt is also reporting that the justice department never fully investigated trump's ties to russia and that the department secretly took steps to narrow the scope of special counsel mueller's investigation without telling the fbi. that reporting comes just days after john ratcliffe, trump's director of national intelligence, announced his department will no longer provide in-person briefings to congress on foreign election m

criminal act that's going to continue to be prosecuted i hope. but during the court between october and june of -- october of 2016 and june of 2017 the dossier that was central and essential to getting the warrant had so many holes shot through it that it became almost a joke. the point is without the russian steele dossier there would have no-no warrant. it wasn't until the dossier appears on the scene that they were able to go and get a warrant. the dossier was prepared by a man named christopher steele who was hired by fusion gps that was being paid by the democratic party and the clinton campaign to do opposition research against candidate trump. he had a subsource -- we didn't know until now -- it was a single individual he hired named igor, we now know igor was suspected by the fbi back to 2009 as being a russian agent slash spy, a national security threat to the united states. that's the man who gave all the material to mr. steele. i will go in pretty deep detail about how the dossier over time not only became uneliable, it just lost all credibility and the court was never told of the information that was obtained between october and june. the fbi ign