times you're exactly right there were some pretty incredible moments in court last week when clive stafford smith and attorney took the stand and he discussed the ways in which wiki leaks publications helped him and his own work as an attorney and how wiki leaks publications have led to positive social and political change in our world he cited his defense of want time of a prisoner as that he is wiki leaks documents to show evidence of torture and wiki leaks documents have also helped aid in the passing of legislation to and drone strikes in pakistan and the prosecution i can tell you was not happy and this is being discussed in a court of law unfortunately these are issues that are not discussed in our mainstream media and in our corporate media and that is why join us on chose to create wiki leaks in the 1st place if there is absolutely right with him to join us on this wouldn't be necessary for weiqi leaks of journalists have been doing their job to stop no kidding no kidding well in something i want to add to something that you said peter whether they're so concerned with where and how he go

it was response to witness clive stafford-smith testifying that "grave violations of law" like targeted u.s. drone strikes in pakistan were exposed. the judge warned assange he would be removed from the courtroom in field again. protests in defense of assange and press freedom have taken place in london and in cities around the world. this is julian assange's father john shipton speaking monday as he left the london courthouse. >> the case is a fraud against the court. court of the the american department of justice. julian is an australian a citizen. the publications are in the united kingdom. he is kidnapped and judicially abducted to the united states to spend 175 years in jail. amy: for more, we go to london from an update from jennifer robinson, human rights attorney who has been advising julian assange and wikileaks since 2010. she is joining us during the court's lunch break. back tonson, welcome democracy now! you are seeing julian assange for the first time in six months. he has been at the belmarsh prison for a year and a half and under lockdown because of covid. can you descr