he tried to subvert the embassy security system and accused us of spying on him. in short he was accusing us of crimes. that commit the ecuadorian government could not tolerate that and no other country would have tolerated it either. there were a few isolated incidents that in no way reflected julian's overall behavior that. they had the goal of ensuring julian no longer felt comfortable there. the problem he was deliberately harassed and provoked to elicit incidents that would justify the unjustifiable. then they wanted to end his political asylum and use the pretext of alleged incidents within the embassy in this. then throw the land behind. hillary yeah i mean that's how the continuous vote on these gifts for the threaten to push certain buttons if you felt threatened or harassed by ecuador's government . or the base you know all that was a matter of substantial concern but again it was because we wanted to avoid risk by we employ diplomatic channels to ask the british police for support or people that we had to go eat but the more they didn't see on the left.

after the embassy was closed us antiwar activists supporting protests at the embassy after the embassy was closed u.s. antiwar activists supporting president maduro occupied the building with the push permission of caracas demanding washington stop president maduro occupied the building with the push permission of caracas demanding washington stop interfering in venezuela in the 1st pro supporters there moved in on them interfering in venezuela in the 1st pro supporters then moved in on the embassy condemning the activists a number of clashes broke out later the power and water to the building to see condemning them to wrists a number of clashes broke out later the power and water to the building were cut by american or thirties and finally the last remaining activists were forcibly and were cut by american or thirty's and finally the last remaining activists were forcibly removed by police many claim the events contradicted the vienna convention which claims in every move by police many claim the events contradicted the vienna convention which claims an embassy car be entered by the h

in september 1989 east germans were poor and into the embassy. the building was quickly overwhelmed. that many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. sanders spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. all over and. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hands deep fish kensho arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. was i can't share promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west stand it was that and heard him i know you are standing right here. but. it's all coming about is it all. just a few weeks later only the citizens of east germany gained their freedom crown november 9th 1989 the berlin wall came down. thousands of refugees are holed up in camps for migrants in libya. we report from neighboring niger which is taken in 3000 of them. these images were recorded by refugees in different camps in libya they show appalling conditions huma

many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. sanda spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. for them. it never stopped raining the cut down board so you didn't have to walk through the mud the. tents wherever they could find a space where you can match was the tents were all crowded up against one another. and. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans de trish kensho arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh. i can't ship promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west stand it was that and hurt him. while he was standing right here. at. this. but. it's all coming about israel. that same night santa and his family left the embassy and boarded the train to west germany. he thought he was or it was a very emotional journey of a shift a very difficult ordeal they say it would show for us. it was a train to freedom. cool

he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. in the car with him were runnin -- ronni moffitt and her husband michael. they turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a great sit in. in that great sedan were two cuban-americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver seat -- the driver's seat in the chevelle orlando letelier was driving. the order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that orlando letelier, a former ambassador to the united states from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate him, so they did this partly through an american chilean who came to washington, built a bomb with these cuban-americans, and they put it under the car of letelier. they thought he would be alone. he ended up having two american citizens with him. the car turned over here and exploded right here. this is where the two cuban-americans in the great

they looked at the embassy as an occupying force.ni issued a new warning. he said if the americans try military force to rescue the hostages, the students will kill them all and blow up the embassy. >> because of the distance to tehran from the arabian sea, a raid to rescue the american hostages is considered unlikely. >> how much longer can you go on doing this? >> we are ready to go on until martyrdom. martyrs are alive in islam. martyrs do not die. martyrs are not destroyed. >> so the bullets do not really kill? >> the bullets do not kill the rights of the people. >> terrorism was suddenly moving from what had once been almost entirely a secular, politically ideological movement to something that now is motivated or fueled by religious fervor. >> in mecca, men described as religious deviants are holding hostages in the sacred grand mosque. >> 15,000 pilgrims were praying at dawn when the 30 giant doors were sealed off by hundreds of members of a muslim sect. they seek to purify the religion from what they say is the corrupt influe

he vanished after walking into an embassy.onight on panorama, we hear from two women who've listened to recordings of what happened next. the horror of listening to somebody‘s voice and the fear in someone‘s voice makes a shiver go through your body. the sound will indicate he has been suffocated — probably with a plastic bag, over his head. a year on, his body has still not been found. will those responsible forjamal khashoggi's killing get away with it? we entered a big room, meeting rooms with a large machine for listening to tapes. un human rights expert agnes callamard led an investigation into jamal khashoggi's disappearance. in total we listened to 45 minutes, which covered two days. this is the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey. we only know jamal khashoggi was murdered and the brutal way in which it was done because the saudi consulate was bugged by turkish intelligence. the planning and the execution were all recorded. agnes callamard negotiated access to these crucial recordings. the intention clearly on the part

we were inside the embassy at the invitation of the rightful government. and that's what well and where and and when as some people were told were remained in search a. change in good hands i mean the upkeep and getting to the point layman is needed the replays and refused to use to lead would include 3 inside which and suzi lie league level which they also they also. work for clearly still assault and so as not being us and as i said the police refused to do anything so they were total downstairs and there were leaks out of this thing to do anything so they were total double standards throughout the whole thing they vandalized the building and the police refused to do anything they broke inside the building they vandalized the building and the police refused to do anything they broke inside the building at night time threatening the people inside and the police refused to do anything olding at night time threatening the people inside and the police refused to do anything chime in again so i think it's just outrageous the way they are being chime in again

embassy and took 66 americans hostage. officer talks about his time as a hostage in iran, including a memorable visit from a clergyman. this is from the association for diplomatic studies oral history collection. i am john. i was in the foreign service for about 35 years, served mostly in the middle east or islamic africa. during that time, i did not see what you would call a lot of big successes. there was not a lot of saving coup,rld, stopping a averting a humanitarian disaster , stopping a war and so forth, the madammight see secretary accomplish in her half hour series. i was never really in that kind of position. perhaps the opposite. trouble seemed to follow me, wherever i went. i saw a lot of military --inies, a lot of coos coups. i served in iraq and sudan. they were not places that you would call a try and for american diplomacy. i want tobout this, tell a story from iran in 1980. joinedived -- before i the foreign service, i lived in iran as a teacher, as a iranian.r, my wife was i felt like i knew the country fa

all appearing to be official as far as anybody in court or the american embassy or the u.s. adoption agency may have been concerned and i think that is at the heart of what this problem because if you can't trust the paperwork or if you can't trust the institutions where corruption is widespread it's very very difficult to protect the families in uganda who are losing their children and it's also difficult to protect the adoptive families in places like america because when they just go over what's happened when they discover that sport they're also victims of this and very did and you're right that we do need those protections in place and what i would say is that we have protections in place and there are solutions here we can do d.n.a. testing of these individuals to determine are they the birth parent or are they different relative or are they not related to a child at all so that we don't have that exact same situation happen we can do record interviews to make sure this isn't happening but right now the system in uganda is the same as it is in many countries where the

and my conscience clear i abandon the person i told this case to the american embassy and to the media suggesting. something. unfortunate grab the time. being. doing that. with no fun ran by the attorney general of the republic of uganda and nothing much we've done about it and they continue. to continue you know dennis what you're describing is actually not a typical and with international adoption it's a very normal thing that when u.s. families travel they often don't meet that child until they're in country to finalize the adoptive placement so exactly what you're describing there is something that we would see in countries all over the world the system is designed that way where the parents aren't in the country or selecting a child in advance they're receiving paperwork from the foreign government or from the foreign entities that they're partnering with the u.s. side and the foreign country side are partnering in that collaboration so wrong that sounds like a transaction it sounds like you have to time. the product is ready. it's very transactional and we wouldn't want to use th

i can't believe for one second the russian resident at the embassy in washington d.c. was not laughing every night over the non-escort policy. >> this goes back to state department not being a counter intelligence agency. their purpose is to build bridges for other countries. >> we were trying to normalize relations with the russians to treat them not like the bad old soviets they were used to. >> they kept countering intelligence of officers in washington d.c. but dialled back resources and slowly backed off thinking okay, let's see if they do come around. >> it didn't take us long to learn that the bear was not in hibernation and that the russian intelligence service that morphed from the kgb to the sbr had simply not changed their mission or goal. >> the wall came down. it didn't change anything from a national security counter intelligence standpoint that cat and mouse spy versus spy thing is always there. >> in the summer of 1998 i was the deputy director of the office of counter intelligence at the u.s. department of state. my counter part at the fbi's washington

he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies.ere ronnie andfrom its, her husband. they turned the corner over here. unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. in that gray sedan were two cuban-americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver seat in the chevelle that orlando was driving. the order to put the bomb in was given by a secret police of chile. chile was ruled at that time by a dictator who did not like the political activity orlando, a former ambassador to the u.s. and chile was taking on in washington. so, we know now it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate him. they did this partly through an american chilean who came to washington, built the bomb with cuban-americans and they put it under the car. they thought he would be alone. americanup having two citizens with him. important to note, also, the chilean ambassador's residence is over there, not the embassy, but the ambassador's residence. on the morning of september 21, the chilean ambassador heard the bombing. he was i

chief in the embassy, and he was replacing him. everything matched.e was the spy state department, still accredited gusev as a diplomat. so in comes gusev. >> wasn't >> compromised from the moment he got here because you already knew who he was? >> but they didn't know that. they didn't know that we knew everything we did. when they come into the united states, they will be followed. we have to establish their patterns. typically you don't see a lot of operations in the first few months. they assume they're under heavy surveillance. at the time that gusev came to the united states, i had way more work than i could handle. i had been following a multitude of line o.t. officers including his predecessor. and so my assumption was i can focus on other things and when he gets settled, then i'll dig in my heels and start tracking. >>> it was my luck, his misfortune that a surveillance team who was sitting outside of state department were surveilling another target, but when they saw a russian diplomatic vehicle pull in to a metered parking space, it got the

taylor arrived back at the kiev embassy on june 17th. he says within ten days of his arrival amid efforts to set up a meeting between the new ukrainian president and president trump taylor tells congress today that he got a call from one of the people who was operating this" informal irregular channel." quote, on june 27th, ten days after he's arrived at the embassy, "ambassador sondland told me in a phone conversation that president zelensky needed to make the clear to president trump that he, president zelensky, was not standing in the way of investigations." taylor says, "i sensed something odd when ambassador sondland told me the following day june 28th that he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participants in a call planned with president zelensky for later that day. ambassador sondland said he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring the call as they added president zelensky to the line. before president zelensky joined the call, ambassador volker separately told the u.s. participants in the c

beginning of the embassy great. britain and the embassy. riders here were trying to break the seal of the still. riders here we're trying to break in the seats are still. here to. get. serious or thank you these people are already attacked several. seriously thank you these people are already attacked several. would you think. well women tell himself would you think. well women tell himself claims he was arrested just hours after he published an article on links but off claims he was arrested just hours after he published an article on the links between the us and venice while in opposition the national lawyers guild international tween the us and venice while in opposition the national lawyers guild international committee also drew attention to the timing and condemned the arrest. maty also drew attention to the timing and condemned the arrest. well for more on this we can now bring life to the studio bill moron he well for more on this we can now bring life to the studio bill moore and he joins us and he's an attorney for max blumenthal

e simple reason that we thought we were in an embassy in a foreign capital, that this was owned andun by the permanent thlitical class. >> narrator: bannon pushed breitbt into what was known as "smash-mouth coverage" of washington power politics. >> said, "let's attack the real enemy, and the real enemy's the republican establishment. what we're going to do is just go after the house leadership, 're going to go after th mitch mcconnells, we're going to go after the donors. we're just going to go hard at kind of this paul ryan philosophy." >> narrator: bannon and breitbart figured they had a wedge issue that could help them take down the republican establishment-- immigration. >> we spent a lot more time talking to the public than weg spent talk the elite. >> narrar: breitbart's incendiary message boards proved the point. >> illegals kill 12-plus people a day in this country. >> torturous, murderous, rapists. this president calls them 'dreamers'. aliens.rt all of the illegal >>mmigration to republican voters, by a mile, it's the number-o issue, even ahead of tax cuts. >> for the firs

remember they said exactly the opposite from the embassy chilliness and used to spy there is evidence that they have been spying on me and my families and spying on julian songe even the sacred conversations but client with his lawyer so is extremely serious and take it as granted that julian assange and will be extradited to the united states always from the beginning that was the agreement you said you may have been the subject of surveillance to do you think that came from washington and do you think that whistleblowers of war crimes by nato countries bars johnson told trump who previously said he liked wiki leaks he loved wiki leaks they want dead as a lesson to other whistle blows so you see the international double morality and the asylum granted to julian assange is not because we agree with whatever julian assange just done i believe the nations in terms of national security certain information should be confidential for war crimes cannot be hidden but the asylum was granted to him because there were no guarantees of the fact process and because he was to be charged with laws

well you gave asylum to julian a son just your embassy in london he's facing a court hearing on friday for extradition to the united states for espionage what did you make of the el pais revelations that your embassy was actually being bugged the edge of the by cia linked security services including the bugging of his lawyer geoffrey robertson queens council. remember they said exactly the opposite that from the embassy chilliness and used to spy there was evidence that they had been spying on me and my families and spying on julian songe even the sacred conversations of a client with his lawyer so it is extremely serious and take it as granted that julian assange and will be extradited to the united states always from the beginning that was the agreement you said you may have been the subject of surveillance to do you think that came from washington and do you think that whistleblowers of war crimes by nato countries bars johnson told trump who previously said he liked with the leaks he loved wiki leaks they want. dead as a lesson to other whistle blows so you see the international do

i really was never attacked for the embassy bombing. in fact the accountability in the state department appointed a board that is set up any time there is an attack on personnel overseas in the diplomatic service. they found nothing wrong with my conduct or anything of the sort. this was not so much about the embassy bombing as it was about 9/11. .. >> but in the fact we are responsible for 9/11 because allegedly we were offered intelligence files by the government of sudan that we refused to accept because of the antipathy for the government of sudan. >> how do use suspects that would have led us to bin laden? make that is a complete fabrication. >> in the aftermath of the embassy attacks we struck al qaeda. president clinton struck al qaeda they came out in retaliation of the embassy bombing and sudan struck a pharmaceutical plant that according to s intelligence information is associated with chemical. >> and to osama bin laden if that's rather sudan connections are. >> but quite frankly those who were behind the vanity fair story we

what did the embassy do? they say they recognize this request for what it was, and improper efforts to influence the election and they refused to cooperate. that is a very important confirmation of something the rest of the media is calling tinfoil hat, conspiracy. it's an politico in the embassy's own words. >> sean: we've got about 90 more seconds and you brought these other documents, i want people to understand. >> so let's go to shokin deposition. >> sean: the prosecutor they got fired by biden. >> biden said it had nothing to do with burisma even though he knew the prosecutor was looking at burisma. mr. shokin said he was told he was fired because he refused to stand down on the burisma investigation. that was the only reason he was fired, he was told that by ukraine's president. that is a complete contradictio contradiction, which of them are telling the truth? >> sean: when the mob says none of this is proven without any evidence, they are lying. >> they are, it pains me to say that because i believe

from its embassy in washington and with the 12 connected ambassador to the u.s. as well as the ambassador the united arab emirates has been pushing a campaign to close the al-jazeera media network and report on the new site bloomberg says the embassy has employed a prominent d.c. law firm to meet with congressional staffers trumpet ministration officials journalists and academics to push its case the law firm it can gump strauss how and failed a well known company on capitol hill employed a small lobbying firm to help with its operation it paid $100000.00 to the company definers public affairs in turn it acknowledged it sure was to provide strategic communication support and guidance in furtherance of the interests of the embassy of the united arab emirates with an emphasis on strengthening bilateral relations and regional security of the united arab emirates in particular including issues relating to clients terminations of relations with qatar and accuracy and transparency of qatar or government owned media definer sprang to prominence when it was hired by face

on the 28th of august of this year, the us embassy notified us that the spouse of a member of staff at an accident. on the 30th of august, the us asserted that the spouse was covered by immunity so a waiver was needed. to enable the police investigation to follow its proper course, on the 5th of september, the fco formally requested the us embassy to waive immunity. given the seriousness of the incident, our view was and remains thatjustice needs to be done. if her immunity had been waived, northamptonshire police would have then been able to compel her to co—operate fully with their investigation. however, on the 13th of september, the fco was informed by the us embassy that they would not was immunity and that the individual would be leaving the country imminently unless the uk has strong objections. we duly and immediately objected in clear and strong terms, and we have done ever since. nevertheless, under the vienna convention, uk police could not have lawfully prevented the individual from leaving the uk. when the fco followed up with the us embassy on the 16th of september, they

i never attacked for the embassy bombings. and with that personnel overseas and then they found nothing wrong. >> not so much about the embassy bombing as it was about 9/11. most four years later with 9/11 and when that occurred i was at home in private life. after three months after 9/11 there is an article that allege that i and former secretary of the state madeleine albright and to be responsible and 9/11 to offer the intelligence file but that would give that information and that connection of the embassy attacks to strike al qaeda. . . . . we had made a mie policy by "tough on the government, so that was the original axis and my first experience in the spotlight. >> how long after leaving the administration you came back under the obama administration first as the un ambassador and you paint an interesting picture developing relationships with adversaries. >> the un ambassador role is a fascinating job of a that included sanctions on syria and the palestinian quest for statehood recognition. i could go on and on but a wh

>> this is not us about about the embassy bombing as it was 9/11. fast-forward almost four years later, when 9/11 occurred. i was at that point a private citizen whose home in private life, not even really working full-time. in two or three months after 9/11 there was an article published in vanity fair that alleged that i as well as former secretary of state madeleine albright and former national security advisor were in effect responsible for 9/11 . . . >> host: and had connections to al qaeda and osama bin laden. >> guest: well it is for that counted what links them together is those people who were behind the false and i would argue defamatory "vanity fair" story were frustrated by the policy in the clinton administration. these were people that thought they didn't belong and we had made a mistake by being so tough on the government. that was my first experience. >> how long after leaving an administration. >> you oversaw several crises but i'm curious if a lot of people don't know what the un ambassador does decide to vote on the resolution and

by the national government and the minister of foreign affairs or the embassy in d.c., and it was not able to influence or come through with the necessary plans to communicate with the congress and that is condemned in tripoli, but on the other side, the war criminal who is not recognized managed to reach trump and have him cooperate directly. so what are the future efforts and steps that the national government will take to establish effective communication channels that the suffering of the libyan citizens and the daily crimes being committed by the militias that should be held accountable. >> translator: i welcome you, and in fact, i did not want to take part, because our communication in tripoli and our conversations have been happening back there, however, there was a question that created a question within me. of course, the war in libya was not just six months, but a five-year war. we do not forget the war on benghazi, the destruction of darna and the war that has been waged in the south and now in tripoli. five years have passed. in tripoli, it is now six months that appear to

>> representatives of the australian embassy. you think they are u.s. allies.what did they want from you? >> exactly. they go to tell me that donald trump we believe in australia is a pariah. he should not be supporting the trans-pacific partnership and his positions regard russia and other matters are a threat to international peace and security. so clearly the australians have a vested interest in the trans-pacific partnership. when i met with alexander downer i was hearing why the america first agenda was an anathema to what these governments wanted. when donald trump was talking about protectionist measures, being tough on china. advocating from the u.s. position on the tpp and renegotiating international trade deals, there was i think a concerted effort by these foreign governments who did have these interests to deck the cards against him and hopefully predict a clinton victory. so like i said -- trish: they were trying to lobby you in some way, shape or form. you are the foreign policy advisor. so they are saying these are the things important to us and

coming from hezbollah secretary general hossam using the people here of being linked to foreign embassies or receiving funds from foreign embassies it really angered the street so it's going to be very difficult for the ruling alliance really to regain the support that they have lost and it's not just not how did he knows that he gives the hezbollah led alliance political cover hezbollah are already facing sanctions from the u.s. government for its links with iran and the iranian revolutionary guards so if hezbollah appoints a prime minister who's close to the movement then the government could be sanctioned by the united states so there are very very difficult positions right now for a difficult situation i'm sorry for hezbollah we understand that the secretary general hossam the seller will be speaking on friday so we have to wait to see whether or not he's going to try to absorb this crisis try to win over the streets or whether or not this crisis could escalate even further. senator thank you very much indeed. turkey's president says tens of thousands of kurdish led forces have withdr

they gave me a letter from the embassy, which the embassy said, you guys at the u.k. and prosecutor's office, you can touch this george soros group. hands off, back down. that is not usual for u.s. embassy to get involved in the internal affairs of ukraine. although that predates the hubbub that then comes in when rudy giuliani gets involved. in december of '18, i was told by a white house official, president trump was considering firing that ambassador. i tried for months to confirm, i never could confirm that. i wrote my story based on the evidence i had and events played out, and you can see president zelensky's complaint about the ambassador was that she was not recognizing him as the official president of ukraine. it seems to be a legitimate reason to recall and ambassador, if the current president in that country does not get along without ambassador, there is often a good reason to replace that ambassador even if she did not do anything wrong. >> martha: john solomon, always good to talk to you, sir. thank you very much. thanks for being here tonight. just brea