journalistic community . really good to get your thoughts on this that was ricardo gutierrez the general secretary of the european federation of journalists we appreciate your time thanks for coming on thank you now the current head of wiki leaks in the sun his close friend kristinn hrafnsson as well as the jailed journalists partner stella morris of appealed to america's leadership to pardon him. we still want. the president united states over one. soon leaving office and the one coming in to consider pardon. we want this to end. this. week. julian should not be in prison and of course. the partner just drop the charges. and the president of the state department. i k when i speak he cannot say we're back in the studio any we've heard a lot of reaction then to today's decision to deny eunice onj bio overall what's been the reaction coming from the united states while we're least on bail or no release on bail in any case it looks like that the assumption is that the u.s. side will fight till the very end to achieve their ultimate goal which is the extradition of julian assange under the espionage act sorry which has already

earlier we spoke to the general secretary of the european federation of journalists record of who believes mr a son should be offered the same protection as any investigative reporter. we simply cannot understand the decision from from the british british court. we believe that if there is no reason no good reason to extradite him then there is no reason to keep him in detention believe that this decision is a political one julian assange and in our view should be considered as a political prisoner we are still very concerned by. the mentation of the british call didn't didn't. take into consideration all the good reasons you know to release. julian assange. as a journalist you know or just as an actor or a media actor he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know one of you who acted as a journalist and. protection as a journalist. and moving on germany has toughened its anti pandemic rules and extended its lockdown as the country surpassed 35000 covert related deaths are europe correspondent peter all of our loo