journalism,ssion of the ceaseless malice directed against julian assange by ththe authorities, the 10ear long arbitrary detention of julian as witnessed by the united nations working group on arbitrary detention, the torture of julian rep.tnessed by the u.n. turner: on torture, all of those reports are available. that is what will happen to journalists, publishers, and publications if this extradition, this politicalal extradition of julian assange is successful. amy: that was julian assange's father, john shipton. julian assange has been incarcerated in london's belmarsh prison since last september where he first served a 50-week jail sentence for breaching his bail conditions. since 2012, he had taken refuge in ecuador's london embassy to avoid extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations. during his time in the ecuadoran embassy, assange was reportedly spied on by a spanish security firm. julian assange says the cia was behind the illegal 24/7 surveillance. for more, we're joined by one of the people who was spied on, jennifer robinson human rights , a attorney who has bee

operation julian assange and all these. journalists are lawyers doctors you're expect this kind of rush. this democracy mr sanchez right to confidential conversations with his own legal defense was breached . the united states government which is very aggressively pursuing him on trumped up charges has had access to his legal defense strategy and frankly the fact that they have said that that won't be used is insufficient because they have had access to that information. given what is at stake in the sands case the national security angle allegations from the u.n. that britain is affectively torturing a dissident you would think british news organizations would be all over the story they are not saying he's going to cooperate said any of. the publicly owned b.b.c. he is just one example of that the world's biggest news broadcaster it generates about 120 hours of radio and television output every day according to neil's meltzer the b.b.c. has interviewed him just wants and not on newsnight its flagship news and current affai

because if they did, they would not be trying to extradite julian assange from london.e kangaroo court. they have him locked up in a bulletproof glass cage in the highest security prison in the united kingdom. banged up for 23 hours a day in solitaire confinement. the onl -- solitary confinement. the only crime he is charged with and found guilty of is a minor bail infraction. it's a misdemeanor. it's not even what you guys call a felony. >> tucker: so let me, so that leads to my final question. in hanging a lot of people in people's minds are the sexual assault i think charges we read so much about. that assange was facing. >> there weren't any. >> tucker: what happened to those? >> there weren't any. they never happened. neither of the women involved accused him of rape ever. it was a concoction of the somewhere in between the swedish police and the swedish judiciary, this story was allowed to develop and to escape. it was blown not out of proportion. it was completely invented by the mainstream media for whatever the motivations might be. all the smearing stories abo

media continues to all but completely ignore the plight of jailed and tortured publisher julian assange jinnah london jail what should you do if you want to blow the whistle on your workplace in britain we speak to whistleblowing advisor. plus who is the british senior civil servant who sensationally resigned over an edge to bullying by boris johnson the time secretary pretty patel herself disgraced over links to the israeli government we speak to a home office minister who dealt with when drug scandal permanent secretary so if it were up to them now planning to take the government to court all of them all coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st let's go straight to the patient that corporate media is most concerned about when it comes to coronavirus wall street joining me now is the former white house communications director and the founder of sky bridge capital anthony's car mucci the thanks so much for coming back on the show so how confident are you about trump's pick as the czar for coronavirus v.p. pence is he competent enough to it to manage this well potentially could b

julian assange is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian a son who will receive the evidence which checks out as being true of high crimes and misdemeanors by the us government or any government for that matter including our own and then report it to the public. there will be there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in our bulletproof box in which ground ceasing extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the united states trust me that won't have a chilling effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. still to come towns in north eastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of a legally dumping trash across the border details on that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politic

german bundestag 7 document calls on labor leadership candidate gets accused of persecution of julian assange to see for himself in court what the u.n. calls torture and arbitrary detention of the founder of wiki leaks plus forget the coronavirus will breaks it all doubts on multinational chemical companies catalyze mass insect extinction all this more coming up in today's going underground but 1st what was it actually like to sit in a london court last week watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder julian assange fought for his freedom one international observer was the deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 dag dylan who along with 32 other m.p.'s from 12 different e.u. countries witnessed arguably the most important trial of the century so far thanks so much for coming to our studio in london rather than in berlin even before the trial doctors were saying he may die at any moment what was it like in court. terrible in many ways it's just you know i'm really appalled about the situation and the conditions even for us i

war crimes revealed by wiki leaks instead we get leaks is julian assange is in london facing a defacto death sentence arousing questions about the future of publishers and whistleblowers in nato countries was a bigger eileen joe. both of their is no mean whistleblower joins me now welcome back to going a league round eileen i'm going to get to the book and the house of commons a meeting in a 2nd but it was 5 years ago when you were last time julius are just being granted political asylum in ecuador an embassy in london would have been your thoughts as we heard reports of this case last week regarding his extradition to the united states where i am really frightened for journalists firstly all the people that we deal with need journalists to get the truth out and are many find every journalist is in danger because of what's going on here it's hard to believe that this is the u.k. you know this is our justice system that supposed to be so fair. i've actually set through one of the pre hearings and it was awful to watch it. as far as we're concerned the whole thing is just a total scandal

is determined to get its hands on julian assange as we'll see if the british court does go along with his with his extradition but certainly if he is unable to testify i'm willing to testify that certainly deprives them of a of an important witness. it's not clear what the u.s. is looking for in the case so it's really not clear what what chelsea manning can tell the prosecutors. now how might this affect ongoing extradition cases against in london we know separately there's a different battle going on there. well i think the way i think it should affect it goes like this i think it. says something about the kind of conditions that assad could expect if he is ever if he is extradited returned to the united united states i mean he essentially is going to face life in prison could be a clamp of the maximum maximum security prison solitary confinement treated extremely in humanely and i think will be placed the same kind of you know in your situation as chelsea manning so i think that her attempted suicide certainly dramatized. the the punitive nature of this entire investigation and it

watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder julian assange for for his freedom one international observer was the deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 dag dillon who along with 32 other m.p.'s from 12 different e.u. countries witnessed arguably the most important trial of the century so far thanks so much for coming to australia in london rather live in. even before the trial doctors were saying he may die at any moment what was it like in court. terrible in many ways it's just you know i am really appalled about the situation and the conditions even for us international observers i've seen so many trials worldwide and i'm really outrageous about the conditions for us international observers in the public gallery for observers they are just $24.00 seats 6 for the family members and 18 for international observers and we always have to queue there and wait for about 2 hours just to make sure that we can really go and follow the case in the court room and not in a media annex room where you cannot listen we cannot hear somet

welcome back now the 1st phase of julian assange as u.s.xtradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether he will be handed over or not we reached him a win further hearings are show jeweled the prosecution argued that a songe knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and other sensitive information and washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and also around that wiki leaks founder is also accused to encouraging the whistleblower and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network while sandra's defense team have sought however to counter those allegations buttressing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim that the publisher actually warned then secretary of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of the individuals whose names have paid in the documents they've also stressed to the songes activities are protected by

early due to coronavirus fears this while a london court has denied bail for wiki leaks founder julian assange we're going to discuss all right it's time to boost your news i q. kovac 19 again dominating headlines with now 170 countries and territories territories reporting new cases here are the latest numbers worldwide there are now more than 490000 confirmed cases and more than 22000 deaths and here stateside confirmed cases now topping $69000.00 and deaths related to the virus over a 1000 and back here in washington d.c. after days of debate republicans and democrats came together. pass the largest ever stimulus package for americans impacted by the coronavirus shutdown now this bill is heading over to the house and president trump has already promised his signature artie's rachel blevins is joining us live with a breakdown of what's exactly in this bill rachel well manella this gun and 11th hour vote is being called historic after the republicans and democrats who have disagreed strongly on this 2 trillion dollars stimulus package passed it with unanimous support late wednesday night pres

it's been a long week for julian assange and his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete during the hearings i was kept in a glass cage been denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. and paying to die germany's constitutional court repealed a 5 year old ban on assisted suicide services sparking fears of an exploitative trade in death. this is the weekly here on our t.v. welcome to our round up of the day's news along with the headlines that shape the week. there are fears of a new migrant crisis with almost $50000.00 people crossing into europe in one day that's after turkey opened its borders and affectively tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side of the border greek police greeted the newcomers with tear gas. but it. was

and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julian assange they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more. sharply criticized president trump decision to suspend most that travel from europe for 30 days and response to the worst thing coronavirus crisis the bloke's leaders on thursday defended the messes they've taken to tackle the pandemic and stressed the need for international cooperation reporting from berlin his piece on the. the world split over the best way to try and deal with the corona virus that continues to spread what we're seeing is a spotter merging between your leadership and the u.s. president donald trump this is after the president announced a ban on travel for foreign nationals from within the zone in europe to the united states apparently in a move he made well without consulting his allies on this side of the atlantic the president though says it was necessary to kee

and despite all these arguments despite the prosecution saying they had no problems with julian assange sitting with his lawyers. the judges of district judge nessa braced she essentially read off of a piece of paper that was already with her prior to that evening's arguments it was like. her decision had already been made so it was a very clear sign to those in the courtroom that you know this is you know nor case where due process is being followed unfortunately while and the crux of this case worth on does depend stand is proving that astonished me as being persecuted by the united states for political reasons and not criminal with us because according to the ignition treaty between the u.k. and the u.s. extradition rules out political bent how about that that hasn't found is it depends in making that case. well this again it's a very similar situation where this is precisely the the argument that the defense relied on and discussed in court they said that this is clearly a political offense numerous examples of this. the judge didn't you know didn't seem to be moved by these argumen

england at the crown court where the extradition hearings of wiki leaks founder and publisher julian assange have been under way accused of conspiring with former us army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to obtain and disclose classified information and charges 17 counts of violating the 1917 u.s. espionage act assad has not only facing down the possibility of 175 years in prison but also the full wrath of the u.s. government in its history of torture and abuse of political prisoners if the united kingdom courts grant this extradition professor of journalism roy greenslade sums up the threat of assad's persecution writing in the guardian the quote these offensives may relate specifically to one man's activities but should they succeed they would set a terrible precedent the aim is to prevent whistleblowers from telling the truth and journalists from giving them a platform. so at this 1st round of extradition hearings coming to a close and more on the way i think it's time to get the who the what the where and the why why we still can as we start watching the hawks. was going on a city st

it go and the court ordered chelsea manning to testify before this parable about her ties to julian assange and wiki leaks about the documents that she had handed over in 2010 something that she says she has already done so she said to the judge no i will do it this is you know this is the government abusing the law in order to go off the whistle blows to go off the journalists to muzzle them to shut them up which is something that chelsea manning doesn't want to do she further says that this is a she has already testified she has said what she had to say earlier on attempting to corus me with a grand jury subpoena is not going to work. i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury the questions are the same questions that i was asked before the court martial in my. 78 years ago it there's nothing new there's not they're not asking anything new they're out there there's no new information that they're trying to get from me in fact that the questions are very much the the same things that i've gone over the judge didn't like that at all so he ordered her to be indefinitely detained

the julian assange and his supporters for the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete the wiki leaks founder and the glass cage and denied opportunity to interact with lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. as events of towns in northeastern france accused. of illegally dumping garbage across the border. good evening and welcome this is the weekly here marty international. 4 employees of russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday says that turkish police also searched the office for the no reason was given earlier our correspondent taylor brought me the latest details. has been grabbing headlines in recent days you've seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there that's been slightly over looked

and the house of commons a meeting in a 2nd but it was 5 years ago when you were on last time julian assange has just been granted political asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london would have been your thoughts as we heard reports of this case last week regarding his extradition to the united states well i'm really frightened for to analysts firstly all the people that we deal with need journalists to get the truth out and i mean to find every journalist is in danger because of what's going on here it's hard to believe that this is the u.k. you know this is our justice system this price to be so fair am i've actually set through one of the pretty hair means and. it was awful to watch it. as far as we're concerned and the whole thing is just a total scandal and it's an attack on free speech and we should all be standing up and doing something about this was a plane organizations human rights organizations we should all be outraged at what's going on here and there is a deafening silence and in a way you were meant to like julian the sun just by government for germans in the late great camp

wiki leaks founder julian assange just denied bail despite claiming his health is out risk problem for the virus i'll be talking to a human rights activist. we want to form a immigration minister warns britain stranded abroad have no way of getting home as countries close their borders i'll be talking to a woman stuck in cruel. come here take government faces course to release those in immigration detention centers over fears many could die from the coronavirus. welcome to. the u.k. prime minister and opposition leader have clashed over the government's approach to corona virus testing as the heir to the british throne prince charles has tested positive after exhibiting mild symptoms. to evans daschle joins me now with more on this hi there shall be a slow as we say literally testing times today absolutely very testing times in fact prince charles has tested positive for that 9. exhibiting very mild symptoms though the worry is however is that he's over the age of 17 not to mention the 2 weeks ago he was in close proximity with the queen herself which therefore could have implications

month long with julian assange and his supporters with the 1st phase of the u.s. extradition case now complete in the hearings that were getting founder was kept in a glass cage denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. residents of towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of illegally dumping garbage across the border. thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here on art 1st this hour 4 employees of russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputnik says that turkish police have also searched the istanbul office although no reason was given as to why to get more on this developing story now from of course for the task to tell you get across it just gives the the nuts and bolts. well obviously has b

moving on to the world's most famous political prisoner julian assange extradition trial began this week lissa johnson one of the doctors who wrote an open letter in the lamp that medical journal demanding an end of torture and neglect for julian a songe has been reporting on his trial she said that in day one they learned he's kept in a bulletproof glass box making it hard to hear or see his own trial and in day 2 they learned he was handcuffed 11 times the night before stripped naked twice and changed to cells 5 times which is essentially the definition of psychological torture designed to make it impossible for him to defend himself meanwhile harvie wife stays in a company hospital. right now. granted it's a hospital room which is you know probably a little under cooked in the shell doesn't have that satisfactory little crack you know a little crack where you tackle used by clever light of the. point is to call a songes trial like a court would be an insult to kangaroo rudeness. thank you thank god. thank you ruth spend their formative months living inside. that feels like a snob sand

so the way julian assange is his supporters have been protesting outside the courts claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms and calling on london and washington not to shoot the messenger celebrity supporters also been a key feature of the hints. admitted. in cho's remaining straw the body had to be for the release or so why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which he was in 20102011 why aren't we here talking in court about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists. that is what we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what some say in america is not democracy or told it's a total sham governments want to know is total control of information and that means they don't want dissidents they don't they want what looks like a free press you know you say what why is everybody here today they're here because . if they don't believe mainstream narrative we spoke to politicia

and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julian assange they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more. now back to the topic that everyone's talking about coronavirus tech companies have been looking to step up their role in halting the spread of covert 19 various ups have been developed to highlight the increasing risks but critics fear it's at the expense of users privacy so here are a couple of examples one application asked for your postal code but even goes as far as asking about personal hygiene habits others get people to publish the virus like symptoms and then they create the map of high risk areas based on that data but in with our use of personal data could full file of e.u. laws which heavily restricts the medical data which can be gathered so it's illegal to use location data in any way to track someone who is sick employers also contact random temperature readings of the

throughout the week julian assange has supporters have been protesting outside the court claiming thecase is a test of fundamental press freedoms and called on london and washington not to shoot the messenger the pentagon the new admitted. in chose the many straw the body had. the release why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which is in 20102011 why aren't we here talking in court about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists. that is why we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what why is everybody here today they're here because they don't believe mainstream narrative. broadcaster and former british m.p. george galloway about concerns surrounding the freedom of press. dylan our sons is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer

the long weekend julian assange supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete with hearings the wiki leaks founder was kept in a glass cage denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. and residents of towns in northeastern france accused of illegally dumping garbage across the board. good evening and welcome this is o.t. international. there are fears of a new migration crisis with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in a day that's after turkey opened its borders to the e.u. large numbers of migrants and refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border patrol's before they cut through a barbed wire fence at the turkish border or effectively tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side great police created the newco

going on in the court room well it again can rains in may of course depending on the health of julian assange the magistrate vanessa borate. she's an impartial woman deciding over the court proceedings as well. it was very weird what happened last week. when we came together to the court and she just asked in the afternoon julian if he can concentrate on the trial and the proceedings and because it's in the dock and he cannot very well hear what's going on because we had this really does problems from the beginning on monday to the 24th the trial started and we had this julian and the media and the observers had the problem to follow sometimes because. sometimes they don't speak into the microphone sometimes you cannot hear the judge at all because she doesn't spoke to the microphone or even she started the proceedings while julian was not in the courtroom i mean he is a defendant you have to wait till he is coming in to the courtroom but then they started just a proceeding sometimes and that means this is disrespect about the court and the trial at all and then she asked him in the afternoon

court denies wiki leaks founder julian assange bail despite him not currently serving a sentence amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons we hear from his legal team. it was good to listen. to the. judge is really just. a little too close to. hello there this is art international from moscow it's just so 4 pm here now this thursday i'm kevin. to this 30 minute world news roundup 1st coronavirus is rapidly spreading out around the world the current number of confirmed cases globally stands at nearly half a 1000000 and as of this hour today the death toll has moved beyond 22000 the amount of recoveries there was also on the rise over 117000 that's roughly a quarter of all known infections. some of the latest developments to report to you russia has registered its 1st 2 deaths from covert 19 so far it currently has 840 cases with more than half of those infected here in moscow all international flights are said to be grounded from tonight going into tomorrow except for those bringing citizens home moscow and regions across russia have started introducing a series of tight restrict

be pretty cute it according to the un special rapporteur on torture we mention we keep leaks julian assange is currently being tortured according to the un in london at the moment i just want to quickly ask you that if britain and the united states hadn't started bombing your country in 2001 do you think things would have been better. i think if the u.s. and britain hadn't bombed the sun how did they do the current stance and then going 20 years further from 2000 which is the 980 s. if they hadn't created. the fundamentalist monsters which is the northern alliance john hartley which are in the government today which is the taliban government today and even recent creation which i think that were exported from from syria if they had not created these monsters then. guess and if you have been better off without them and without their direct occupation certainly this is something we all believe that we believe the end. so i think any of it is a put down. it's a dependable song. and then. they're lucky some equally agents fundamentalists and the other. part of the government today thank you wel