ecuadorian embassy before we go to daddy st chambers in london to speak to julian's lawyer geoffrey robertson q.c. about the legal and human rights implications of the case i'm joined now from sydney in australia by legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger john welcome to going underground you've said the arrest of julian assange by british authorities is a warning to all journalists explain. it's a warning from history. it's a stark warning. anybody watching that shocking image of julian being forced out of the embassy by half a dozen police and pushed into a van will know that if that can happen to somebody for using journalism to let us know the truth that can happen to anybody and it julian. is in but as he's in prison now but if he's on the way to an american prison well the principle is unaltered on the way to an american prison could be a host of other editors if they push their luck catherine vyner of the guardian the editor of the new york times and i don't say that lightly the lead lawyer of the new york times has said it if julian and wiki leaks can be prosecuted so can the e

be left to the foreign office but as chambers we do a lot of free speech with geoffrey robertson thank you. i put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go on to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the warnings and. there are millions of people in america and around the world who are better educated than ray dahlia but in order to succeed on wall street you need to complete lack of empathy this is driven study after study after study. has no consideration about the effect he's having our society and the ruination of the law . by being a leak on the system is hedge fund that's a lack of empathy and there that that takes a certain kind of myopia and stupidity to work yourself into that state. was it the wind the. was . julian a song charged in the u.s. with conspiracy to hack government computers the issue of his alleged links to russia once again being raised in washington. french police used tear gas and.

go to world famous gouty street chambers to speak to its founder julian assange just lawyer geoffrey robertson q.c. that's all coming up after this break. i. join me every thursday on the alex simon schill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. so what he's got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront cation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. but ok so what's this if you. use the first one to the finish we just finished from a few. hundreds. let us. just who do. you think it was national guard. to. play to. cover this. from what was your film composers. there are full supports these critics one of the most musical yet you believe because they feel. shamed into life and the smear. you. oppose someone. because of the style if you please. those are the gate have to be changed and we're still living with historical legacy sophie decimalization most of the. le

nermeen: geoffrey robertson, can you elaborate on precisely the timing of this?ou said it t earlier on the bbc today that this is the result of pressure brought by secretary of state mike pompeo. you mention vice president pence, as well as national securirity advisor john boltoto. can you talk about that and also the pressure that the trump administration has been applying on ecuador to take a action? >> well, yes, you veve to understandnd the extradition war and, which required the cooperation of ecuador to expel decemberras signed in 2017. that is s 15 months. ththere have been vivisits by ye vice presidentnt. there have been loans and financial dealings and d so forh with ecuador. coupleeto mr. assangege of weeks ago, and he was ceceainly in no doubt thahat the , in effect,is captivity, have been by agreemement with america. there was a pointnt about 1 months ago when he tweeted some support for r the catalonian seseparatiststs i in spain, and ecuador said ththis is a brbreaf your asysylum conditions and stopped him seeingg visitors and stopped amusing thehe

laws he's going underground spokesperson just long time legal advisers geoffrey robertson he explained why he believes the breach of bio was not the real reason behind the arrest you can watch the full interview later on saturday. the home secretary said to germany ahead of the release of further or further arrest of said he's right be facing justice in the u.k. where he's not facing justice in the u.k. other than for breach of bail which is a very minor offense usually dealt with by a guy or a few weeks in prison these politicians so maybe he will stir up the judges to give him a couple of months but the justice that he's facing in is justice or in justice in america which wants him and has charges really for up to forty five years imprisonment the trump argument is this that the first amendment which protects journalists for him asli only apprise to american journalists and doesn't apply to any foreign journalist even those working for american papers in fact given goodale who was the hero of the pentagon papers case he was the lawyer for the new york times he came out of retirement

luna's lawyer queen's counsellor an internationally renowned human rights barrister geoffrey robertson q.c. said on monday's show there is a mentality in the judges. determined no matter what to keep him in prison so that bowl scenario has a clear run would have beaten both scenarios not according to the brazilian embassy in london they told going underground unfortunately the words of mr geoffrey robinson do not correspond to the truth in brazil the judiciary is fully independent and due process of law is faithfully observed the specific case of former president lula has already been analyzed by different judges in different levels of jurisdiction mr robinson suggestion the president lula's can.

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ecuadorian embassy before we go to daddy street chambers in london to speak to julian's lawyer geoffrey robertson q.c. about the legal and human rights implications of the case i'm joined now from sydney in australia by legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger john welcome to going underground you've said the arrest of julian assange by british authorities is a warning to all journalists explain it it's a warning from history it's a stop warning. anybody watching that shocking image of julianne being forced out of the embassy by half a dozen police and pushed into a via well know that if that can happen to somebody for using journalism to let us know the truth that can happen to anybody and if julian. is in but as he's in prison now but if he's on the way to an american prison well.

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ecuadorian embassy before we go to daddy street chambers in london to speak to julian's lawyer geoffrey robertson q.c. about the legal and human rights implications of the case i'm joined now from sydney in australia by legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger john welcome to going underground you've said the arrest of julian a songe by british authorities is a warning to all journalists explain it it's a warning from history. it's a stark warning. anybody watching that shocking image of julianne being forced out of the embassy by half a dozen police and pushed into a van will know that if that can happen to somebody for using journalism to let us know the truth that can happen to anybody and if julian. is in braz he's in prison now but if he's on the way to an american prison well the principle is unaltered on the way to an american prison could be a host of other editors if they push their luck catherine via of the guardian the editor of the new york times and i don't say that lightly the lead lawyer of the new york times asserted if julian and wiki leaks can be prosecuted so can the edit

how to zero london well i'm joined now by one of the legal advisers geoffrey robertson thanks very much for coming into al-jazeera and that's all i'll ask you why now what is it that is changed now that decided that they should go in and. i'm spoken to mistress in the embassy a couple of weeks ago and he said look they got me because mike pence has been to ecuador all the americans. made to ecuador i'm the collateral. on the deal. he's been i think googly paid for by the americans who've always wanted to get him to deter whistleblower. publishers who publish evidence of their war crimes and we all remember the killing of reuters journalists from the helicopter and he nudges down the long tunnel of extradition he may not be extradited it was tracked of stocked with chopped up. magistrate cook insulting him calling them liars and said that while the person. was very unimpressive when he got three british ministers badmouthing him you wonder the outside world must wonder whether he can get a fair trial with this judge denying an adjournment and rushing him almost. rushing him to. justice o

earlier i spoke to geoffrey robertson qc, a member ofjulian assange's legal team...ed enormous amounts of information. not a week goes by when wikileaks material isn't mentioned in serious discussions of american policy. for that he is to be locked up for 40 years? we in britain, this will be the question for our court, do we have any real support forfreedom for our court, do we have any real support for freedom of speech? we will quote, no doubt, the european convention... that will be an issue in the extradition proceedings. he is part ofjulian assange's legal team. our diplomatic correspondent james landale explained what led up to this point. what this is is essentially the product of a long negotiation between the ecuadorian authorities and the british could make that has been going on for some time. the ecuadorians are under relatively new political leadership and although originally the previous administration gave julian assange asylum, the current administration has been much more hostile to him and has been looking for a solution as they see it to the situa