[applause] noam: our message for today is quite simple -- free julian assange. been indicted under the espionage act. it's another shameful chapter in its sordid history from its origins, should be stricken from the books. the act has no place in a free and democratic society. we should, perhaps, not be surprised that the act is now being used to punish the exercise of journalism. letting citizens know what is being done in their name is an unforgivable assault against the majesty of the state. the crime of the indictment under this disgraceful legislation is compounded by the years of imprisonment and torture that julian assange has already suffered. the targets of the indictment, however, reach far beyond their immediate victim. they reach, in fact, to all of us who hope to understand what is happening in the world, and to the journalism profession, whose task it is to perform this essential service in a democratic order. those who seek to perform this honorable task are under harsh attack in these troubled days. that's more reason to assure the attack on jour

julian assange is an interesting subject but it is not for this.t, first of all, let me respond as a legal scholar, i am not a lawyer but i have studied law and i have dedicated a lot of my work in the legal office of the minister of foreign affairs also to the creation of the international crime court. i was involved in that in the 1990s, and one of my first action as minister was to increase our tiny contribution to the icc. so i'm somebody who has always been in favour of pursuing international crimes. but let me just remind you, that a number of states have not signed and ratified the rome statute, the founding charterfor the icc, so it has nojurisdiction for president putin, and this is my formalistic response as a legal scholar. it is interesting that austria is formally diplomatically neutral. you, of course, as foreign minister represented that neutrality, but i think it's fair to say, you are clearly not neutral any more. you make regular contributions to the state—run russia today media network which is, of course, controlled ultimately b

i'll pardon brave truth tellers like julian assange and investigate the corruption in crimes they expose. it's only ok to imprison journalists when the u. s. government does it free assange with the same time gillian assange? obviously one of the most well known news publishers in the world is facing of a 175 years in an american prison. a sanchez, the founder of the wikileaks websites, which published classified information regarding us war crimes in iraq and afghanistan. now says, yes, regulators on the european counterparts wage war against russian media parties. sputnik and many of the russian media outlets have been banned in the us, as well as europe since the start of the war in ukraine. american officials have underlined the importance of fighting so called russian propaganda urging the shutting down of its media channels around the world. which is for ministry spokeswoman commented on the issue on the west attitude towards russian. gymnast, well, they didn't let us go get no music. it just this just some kind of more crayon, a slate, the united nations general assembly. this out

oh, pardon brave truth tellers like julian assange and investigate the corruption and crimes they expose? it's only ok to imprison journalists when the u. s. government does it free assange . and we must also protect the journalists who provide be platform for the visibly was to tell us what's really going on. so that we don't think, you know, we don't misunderstand that britain and america went to afghanistan to liberate the women of britain. and america went to iraq to protect the people from them. who said, no british america were involved in, in legal wars. just as you maybe, you know, you come from a country where you're concerned about the legal wars. we must all be opposed to illegal wars where all the civilians are killed in vast numbers. and the people who are profiting arms companies are the weapons manufacturers and the very wealthy people who have investments missing. and this is not good for ordinary people. and most of these people are struggling to survive. and our government and our leaders should be focusing on making sure that people have enough to eat, that they have b

. >> our message for today is quite simple -- free julian assange.med dissident and professor noam chomsky, pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg, and former british labour leader jeremy corbyn are all calling on president biden to drop charges against imprisoned wikileaks founder julian assange, who faces extradition to the united states.

the polarizing reaction among americans excellent new opportunity for julian assange and wiki leaks to apply for us funding to help their media organisation survive. lothair from the u. s. government journalism must be defended from legal threats, meant to silence critical voices instead of championing free speech. the u. s. actively persecutes journalists and whistleblowers. all pardon brave truth tellers like julian assange and investigate the corruption in crimes they expose its only okay to imprison journalists when the u. s. government, does it free? a staunch and we must also protect the journalists who provide be platform for the visual blurs to tell us what's really going on. so that we don't think, you know, we don't misunderstand that richard in america went to afghanistan to liberate the women, or britain and america went to iraq to protect the people from them. who said no britain in america were involved in, in legal wars. just as you maybe, you know, you come from a country where you're concerned about the legal wars. we must all be opposed to illegal wars. we're all real

in australia, family members and supporters of julian assange rallied in sydney as they say momentumto free the jailed wikileaks founder is at its peak. >> it is about julian assange but it is also about press freedom, all our freedoms, and the fact he exposed a crime that i was horrified about and he is the one in trouble, he is the one in prison and yet he exposed a war crime which no one has done anything about. amy: today's action in sydney was supposed to coincide with a visit from president biden for a quad alliance meeting with leaders from india, japan, and australia, but biden cancelled his trip amid ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling. julian assange wife stella called on australian prime minister anthony albanese to do more to secure the release of her husband, an australian national, as his health rapidly deteriorates inside london's belmarsh prison, where he awaits possible extradition to the u.s. to face espionage and hacking charges. facing up to 175 years in prison if convicted. albanese has said he is doing everything he can, while a group of australian lawmak

julian assange is an interesting subject but it is not for this.nd as a legal scholar, i have studied law and i have dedicated a lot of my work in the legal officer of the minister of foreign affairs also to the creation of the international crime court, i was involved in that in the 19905, was involved in that in the 1990s, and one of my first actions as minister was to increase our prosecutions to the icc, i have always been in favour of pursuing international crimes. but let me just international crimes. but let mejust remind you, international crimes. but let me just remind you, that a number of states have not signed and ratified the founding charter for the signed and ratified the founding charterfor the icc, founding charter for the icc, so founding charterfor the icc, so it has nojurisdiction for president putin, and this is my firm on gnostic response is a legal scholar. firm on gnostic response is a legalscholar. —— firm on gnostic response is a legal scholar. —— formalistic response. it legal scholar. -- formalistic response-— response.

the president of brazil asked the british government, especially julian assange, to release wikileaks from prison. a journalist who feeds the deception of a government against another government has been arrested and sentenced to death in prison . in 2010, asan published confidential documents of the american intelligence agencies about the actions of this country in iraq and afghanistan, and the united states demanded extradition and england for a criminal trial. espionage is

i think that would be fair while julian assange rots in prison.ou're all getting fat salaries around here because he's in jail for doing your job. on the last program, among other things, censorship in the democratic states was discussed by us sex intelligence officer scott rieter. that's how he called this problem. we need an enemy and that enemy russia we need to create that enemy to justify our exorbitant military spending, to justify the existence of nato . so in the united states, er. i think you 'd be shocked at how it goes. it's not discussed much, because at that moment, for example, when someone like me dares to speak up and say, well , wait a minute. why don't we consider? they call you a russian propagandist , a puppet of putin. there is a feeling that such an atmosphere has ripened in america, that the time is approaching and they are ready to even take a swing at their sacred cow called american democracy, that is, freedom of speech. they didn’t allow themselves such egregious things there seven years ago. mm. why are they getting rea

i thought they would be seeing me through heavy glass in prison and the way julian assange's had to growhis young sons and his total secured prison in belmarsh for having facilitated through taking of the same kind that i have done. as a matter of fact, his was the first prosecution of a journalist for putting information out, and it will not be the last if he is successfully extradited over here. he has a couple of children who have seen him literally only in prison step better than not seeing him at all, but -- i revealed this year that i had the information from julian assange, essentially, that chelsea manning had given a stage and would later put out in the papers. i had them before the papers, before the newspapers had them. eating i was as indictable right now as i am talking to you as any others who have been indicted by this justice department because working with the law whose plain language is on the one hand unconstitutional from the point of view of the first amendment, but just as anyone who reads or handles or stores the piece of paper that has been marked to be protected,

we can't view this day without calling for the freedom of julian assange. amy: at this point, the live stream went silent, as medea benjamin hooked her leg around secretary blinken's chair while security pulled her off the stage. >> we are here to celebrate freedom of expression and we just experienced it. amy: reporters without borders warns 2023 is among the worst years on record for journalists worldwide, with seven media workers killed since january 1 and 563 detained or in prison, the federal reserve has voted to raise interest rates for the 10th consecutive occasion. fed chair jerome powell announced the latest increase on wednesday, which brings the benchmark interest rate to a 16-year high of more than 5%. >> reducing inflation is likely to require a period of low trend growth and some softening of labor market conditions. amy: labor organizations blasted the fed's move, saying it will drive unemployment higher and further risks plunging the u.s. economy into recession. massachusetts democratic senator elizabeth warren accused powell of "aiming to p

not just shoot reena -- juliet assange, eamonn, you can have whatever opinion about julian assange, i'mhat we needed to know about war crimes in iraq and elsewhere. if you're going to say journalism is not a crime, you're going to have to talk about people like -- and you're going to have to talk about whether or not you like people julian assange. >> you are going to have to celebrate the first amendment rights of the press to be able to report on everything, even if we don't like where they're reporting, what they are reporting about. and who is reporting. mehdi, it's great to see you, my friend. great show as always. enjoy the rest of your evening. coming up on ayman, red state authoritarianism. zoe's death are silenced by republicans in her legislator. it's going to join us live. we are going to hear her talk about those gop's underhanded attacks. blue state pushback, i will be joined by washington governor jay inslee for an exclusive conversation on the

have whatever opinion about julian assange, i'm not a fan of him personally, extradited are tempted be extradited or -- publishing things that we needed to know about war crimes in iraq and elsewhere. if you're going to say journalism is not a crime, you're going to have to talk about people like -- and you're going to have to talk about whether or not you like people julian assange. >> you are going to have to celebrate the first amendment rights of the press to be able to report on everything, even if we don't like where they're reporting, what they are reporting about. and who is reporting. mehdi, it's great to see you, my friend. great show as always. enjoy the rest of your evening. coming up on ayman, red state authoritarianism. zoe's death are silenced by republicans in her legislator. it's going to join us live. we are going to hear her talk about those gop's underhanded attacks. blue state pushback, i will be joined by washington governor jay inslee for an exclusive conversation on the actions he's taken to protect reproductive rights and put limits on firearms. back on the wit

and the information that julian assange and chelsea manning put out about massive war crimes that wee times that it is worth giving your life for, to revert terrible catastrophe. we are, at this moment, on the road to hill. the world, in terms of climate and in terms of nuclear war possibilities, there should be, i think, a global emergency that is going to -- point out, it is just that people are not rising to that challenge. as for biden and julian essential, of course, going way back, he says that julia sanish is putting out the truth about the in 2010, doesn't 13, going back to that. he said that made him a -- terrorist. >> daniel. it was a ridiculous line for biden. -- he has been acting on it. >> it is obviously ridiculous. we are at a time. you said we need people to rise to the challenge. you did, we appreciate your service to this country, daniel. we all play for your well-being and health going forward in the coming weeks and months. thank you so much. >> thank you, i appreciate it. >> daniel ellsberg, a living legend. after the break, when it comes to mass shootings, thoug

, and he was telling people he was dealing with julian assange, who was then releasing the information top of it all, at the end of the day, you actually had proof that there was a russian connection and a conspiracy. but the problem was the government didn't have sufficient proof to make out a criminal case in a court of law. you had konstantin kilimnik, who was meeting with roger manafort -- i'm sorry, paul manafort, the campaign manager. >> but you have these nine convictions or people from the mueller investigation, nine people who either pleaded guilty or were convicted in some way in connection with the case. but the mueller report does not say that they were able to find sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to use russia, that the trump campaign was trying to use russia or had used russia to try to win the 2016 campaign for donald trump. so, alyssa, when you look at this report, it's 300 pages long. so, it is no small report. for some on the right, it is being hailed as, this is proof that donald trump is, you know, innocent of everything and he did nothing wrong. how do you see

it's targeted by governments. eligible media outlets must pain angela new opportunity for julian assange and wikileaks to apply for us state of championing free speech. the u. s. actively persecutes journalist sermon, does it free assange and was to tell us what's really going on. so that we don't thing to protect the people from saddam hussein will be opposed to illegal wars where weapons manufacturers and very well struggling to survive. and our government in our itit of life, this shouldn't be, especially in the developed tone. so it's important to speak about these things in, you know, as young as 14. well, for years without trial of charged 5 years and an american prison, as long as the founder of the european count, pause, wage, a war against the russian media on the lines, the importance of fighting so called russian propaganda urging. i think it does. okay. nice music, it just this just some problem and all the salmon, the refusal to each of these is to russian generally point all this against bull enough on the media which doesn't fit. now it's past the key said, you let us on t

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the odyssey to have a bazillion and presence looted the silva has decried the finds that julian assange was put behind bars for revealing trickery by the us. a lawyer . it's an embarrassment. the other joined the list for the analysis. 33 by one stage against them all, those arrested. you condemned to die in jail and will do nothing to free him. it is a crazy thing with the guys in prison because she didn't else recovery the guy doing the analysis involved. gartner wants to do now is the state most pine and all those. and that's became a crime against the journalist for the past, which the past freedom of the press does nothing to free him. a son's code face over a 175 years in the us prison after his website weekly review of classified information on us more problems in iraq and afghanistan, and the mountain luma. abu jamal, every now and american journalist on civil rights sides of su, covered police brutality, and corruption was convicted of murder despite contesting the credibility of much of the prosecution's evidence. i'm just the international completed the case was highly politi

. -- freedom of julian assange. >> take it easy. [indiscernible] >> we are here to celebrate freedom of expression. >> he must be free. >> mr. secretary, to ask you about evan gershkovich and your efforts to get him free. sec. blinken: first, it is good to be here with you. this is an important day. it is a somber day for the reasons my alter ego cited a few minutes ago. we know journalists around the world are increasingly under siege. under siege in variety of ways. that has manifested itself very powerfully. in evans detention and incarceration. profoundly unjustly for doing his job. we are intensely engaged with the russians to seek his freedom, to seek his immediate release. short of that, to get what russia is obligated to provide which is consular access which they have done once but have yet to repeat, our ambassador had a chance to be with evan about 10 days ago. found him of incredibly strong bind and spirit which is a powerful thing in this situation. but we have a country in the case of russia that like a handful of othe

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previous us involvement in the country, hot and visible denalis is the lack of effort to release julian assange defending the journalist actions and revealing information that was in the public's interest the sunday. that means it's the weekly hey on. i'd say mine is pizza, scott. so there was some of the top stories from the week just don't have the head of rushes volume that private military company of guinea pig gordon has said that he's been from a sufficient munition on weapons necessary to maintain his troops in october. must go backwards on seasonally acosta as the story. earlier in the week a if daniel garzon published a video and a letter explaining why wagner pmc would be retreating from a to almost or bus more than he addressed that to russell's defense ministry and the russian army. and he justified, that's why that would be leaving the office almost after may 10th and handed over their positions to ross, as defense ministry because they suffered heavy losses. and he accused the russians defense ministry of not supplying them with enough ammunition is, which is why they wanted to re

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if it's to expedite julian assange, the founder of what he likes, massage and australian citizen is wanted on spying charges for publishing classified documents. he spent 4 years in detention in the u. k. funding extradition to the us before that he's been 7 years and asylum in equity was london embassy. it's in the up and easy said that was more time served then would be reasonable. if assange was convicted enough is enough. this needs to be brought to a conclusion. it needs to be worked through including we're looking through diplomatic channels and so i have some issues with what he did. but i just side the enough is enough. there is nothing to be served but he's ongoing incarceration. but still ahead on l, just here, a city as president announces new gun control news yourself to, to mess shootings this week. that have killed at least 17 people. and a tough, nice and local elections for britain's prime minister. she's through neck. it is conservative policy. the the, or in the long run there's probably one west inside of the main bulk of the philippines. that massive clad is resolve its

the trump administration action against, i think, the most courageous journalist of our era, julian assange. so national ism is a and a very dark elixir. and, and the of iraq of course i watched it raise its head in american and and reacted by working on a long investigative piece for the nation with the reporter leila al-arian, where we interviewed 50 combat veterans from iraq who had either participated in or witnessed atrocities and and put together this book, collateral damage, which was largely ignored by the media, but received wide publicity in europe with many european newspapers running, large extracts from it. so over the last 20 years, i go back and revisit my own experiences in war. those are something i prefer not to resurrect, but i did do many interviews, people about their own wars and once again, especially after the 20 year debacle in the middle, suddenly ukraine was used quite effectively as a way to restore the the the myth of american virtue. american prowess and goodness and of course, raised the familiar bile within me. and i wrote a few columns about it i was in east

start of the conflict , he was going to bomb moscow world war, i think that would be fair while julian assangeries around here because he's in jail for doing your job. on the last program, among other things, censorship in the democratic states was discussed by us sex intelligence officer scott rieter. that's how he called this problem. we need an enemy and this enemy of russia we need to create this enemy to justify our exorbitant military spending, to justify the existence of nato . so in the united states, er. i think you 'd be shocked at how it goes. it's not discussed much, because at that moment, for example, when someone like me dares to speak up and say, well , wait a minute. why don't we consider? they call you a russian propagandist, a puppet of putin . there is a feeling that such an atmosphere has ripened in america that the time is approaching h and they are ready to even take a swing at their sacred cow called american democracy, that is, freedom of speech. they didn’t allow themselves such egregious things there seven years ago. mm. why are they preparing for elections? it's the

. -- freedom of julian assange. >> take it easy.ernible] >> we are here to celebrate freedom of expression. >> he must be free. >> mr. secretary, to ask you about evan gershkovich and your efforts to get him free. sec. blinken: first, it is good to be here with you. this is an important day.

roger stone, was dealing with julian a sounds, and he was telling people he was dealing with julian assangewas then releasing the information. and then on top of it all at the end of the day, you actually had proof that there was a russian connection, and conspiracy, but the problem was the government did not have sufficient proof to make out a criminal case in the court of law. you had constant teen clinic, who was meeting with roger manafort, i'm sorry paul manafort the campaign manager. >> you had these nine convictions, or people from the mueller investigation. nine people who either pleaded guilty, or were convicted in some way in connection with the case. but the report did not say whether they were for able to find sufficient evidence of a conspiracy to use russia -- the trump campaign was trying to use dresser or had used russia to try to win the 2016 campaign for donald trump. so alyssa, when you look at this report, it is 300 pages long. it is no small report. for some on the right it is being hailed as, this is proof that donald trump is innocent of everything, and he did nothing

out against nato and the policy of inciting a warrior, and for the freedom of wikileaks founder julian assangesian flags and posters calling for peace and against the lies that lead to wars. the official media of australia ignored the rally. despite the fact that it brought together thousands of people, protests also took place in other cities of the green continent. ukraine should apologize for the volyn massacre, said a representative of the polish foreign ministry in an interview with the anet portal. lukasz yasina recalled that the polish state took responsibility for the crimes it committed against ukrainians, but from the side ukraine, according to the diplomat, lacks such responsibility during the second world war, the organization of ukrainian nationalists massacred the poles in volyn and also in the eastern golitsy in poland , these events are regarded as genocide and ethnic cleansing and declare the death of up to 150,000 people, men, women, old people and children, but zelensky's office is in no hurry to apologize. but they circulate the news that kiev will still receive f-16 fighte

with secretary of state, antony blinken, today, to call for the release of wikileaks founder, julian assangedacious attack in the heart of moscow, but there is so much we don't know about the videos. the kremlin claims the russian security services destroyed two drones and that mr putin had not been in the sprawling complex at the time. videos verified by the bbc show what appears to be a drone flying toward and exploding above the kremlin senate, which houses the president's executive office. another video shows the dome of the senate building on fire. ukraine denies any involvement but throughout this war, kyiv has maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity over any role it might have played in attacks within russia. the white house said the us intelligence agencies are trying to determine whether the images we see are authentic. our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a closer look. russia claimed that ukraine tried to kill vladimir putin in the early hours of wednesday. this is the first video we have. it is in moscow, we see an object fly in from the left and explode. let's play

. >> our message for today is quite simple -- free julian assange. amy: famed dissident and professor noam chomsky, pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg, and former british labour leader jeremy corbyn are all calling on president biden to drop charges against imprisoned wikileaks founder julian assange, who faces extradition to the united states.

. -- freedom of julian assange. >> take it easy. [indiscernible] >> we are here to celebrate freedom of expression. >> he must be free. >> mr. secretary, to ask you about evan gershkovich and your efforts to get him free. sec. blinken: first, it is good to be here with you. this is an important day. it is a somber day for the reasons my alter ego cited a few minutes ago. we know journalists around the world are increasingly under >> and we'll leave this here to keep our over 40-year commitment to live coverage of the house. you can watch more if you go to our website c-span.org. and live now to the floor of the house on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. holy god, be our guide for the week ahead of us. in all that will be will to follow your own wherever you may take us to accomplish your work in this place. call us again to humble ourselves and in response may we assume a posture of obedience an attitude of surrender, and offer thi