members of the media in some way and so this is a very important case to look at the prosecution of julian the sun is part and parcel of trump's war on the free press full stop and i think they'll be limited takers for that actually both by sea the u.s. and here look the reason important process exists both in the united states in america and across the world although the 1st amendment the reserve to be a news gathering and clearly where julian the songs go see united states of america assuming he does that there will be court case to the supremes courts related to that but if you look at where bradley manning released all they see information he was ultimately paul didn't brock obama not because there's there's a process here what cannot be allowed to happen he's a group of people in the military intelligence services. break the espionage laws i think it's a basic mark of respect to chelsea manning to get her name right and and give her due respect on that score in addition she was never part of the administration i wish she had been her sentence was commuted which means that her conviction her c

so the latest chapter in julian the sun is now we're taking a look at this and you know in the him being sentenced and what's going to happen to america and everyone's worried about what's interesting is his in court today he offered an apology julian and apologized and he said he told the court quote i apologize unreservedly that those who consider that i have disrespected them by the way i pursued my case this is not what i wanted or intended he went on to say i did what i thought at the time was the best and perhaps the only thing that could be done i regret the course that this took the difficulties were instead compounded and impacted upon very many years. we make of jordan. what we would be apologizing for sorry i sat in the ecuadorian embassy to not have to deal with this swedish rape case and also i mean yes i understand yes he would have clearly as they will eventually want to extradite him to the united states and the asli discussed but even the judge brought up this idea of i don't think it sounded that you were going to be swept away to a basement at the pentagon and be tortu

the prosecution of julian the sun is part and parcel of trump's war on the free press full stop and i think the limited taken after that actually both in the u.s. and and here so i. somewhat optimistic about that you are right that he is facing battles on various fronts and it will be up to the u.k. home secretary to decide whether. any new extradition requests from sweden as a court hearing i believe in a slot on the 3rd of june will be able to take precedence over the u.s. case and that's something that's going to be worth watching very carefully my opinion is that i don't think it's completely stupid to say that you should face the investigation in sweden i think that they're understanding the reasons for saying that i think that needs to be treated as an entirely separate issue however so i do think that any started you are that should give precedence to the swedish request it's of the utmost importance that he also gives an undertaking that the british government will not allow an attempt to do it from sweden to the united states i think that's terribly important and that takes t

in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist i think that julian assange has put out the most important journalism of my entire lifetime i can't think of anyone who has made a bigger impact on the world i mean he's been nominated for a nobel peace prize pretty much every year for the last 10 years i believe he's won countless awards for his publishing including to this month. to say that he's not a journalist is is asinine it's ridiculous he actually puts in things that change the world and it's. people thing that he is not a journalist it's just me i think it's absolutely a thing. came to a head early in april when the ecuadorian authorities withdrew the whistle those asylum and evicted him from ecuador's embassy in london letting the british police enter the palaces to track him out he was subsequently sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for attempting ballantine to trial at that time he was going to demonstrate in connection with the socialist told us however he fled to occur during embassy fearing the claims that he'd be extradited to the u.s. . ta

the basis of 2 states. that. ah ah. whistleblower julian sun feels to appear before a london court for an extradition hearing with the wiki leaks founder his lawyer is saying his health is in rapid decline. also ahead on the program seeking safety a dramatic surge in knife crime in london leads some in the community to send their children to east africa to live and. they feel safe until. they feel safe it's. themselves it's diverted into the for the. cold for impeached.

news alert within the wiki leaks co-founder julian sun is expected to be sentenced for skipping bail back in two thousand and twelve so coming to a head again this comes three weeks after of course you sensationally drugs are that good or an embassy the british are the cameras with the capture the british company you may recall exclusive pictures been around the world he's been holed up there for seven years let's go live to kate partridge in london. it's all going to have you about twenty minutes that. should give it sentencing very short a dramatic few weeks of just been turn of years for julian assange and behind you face is facing more twists and turns very shortly in court what can we expect you think. hi there kevin yes indeed it has been a dramatic few weeks as you can see we're outside so that crown court where we are awaiting sentence is on julian assange for breaching the bail act here in the u.k. as you said on april the eleventh he was arrested at the ecuadorian embassy by the metropolitan police and taken to a hearing at westminster magistrates court where the judge ther

the london embassy for six of the seven years the julian assange was under detention there welcome to both of you fidel and joseph void when we get to the sun should we leaks appealing to the former defense secretary disgraced defense secretary gavin williamson for information and i think what the point there is is that we have our address. in a prison for having publish classified information and there seems to be no call or or realisation that why is that not the same for for chris evans the editor of the telegraph if he's been publishing classified documents there's a dis connect your response then to this week's activities julius on chanted more or less the maximum sentence by u.k. judge deborah taylor and and of course there was this extradition request where we can tell me what explain what happened there from the time the training was informed of the extradition which was the day that he was arrested the u.s. has sixty five days to give a full charge she's sorry. that is what has been pencilled in for the twelfth of june we saw on wednesday when he was sentenced for a for a bail issue he was given a maximum sentence. double what the

request an arrest warrant for julian assange to reopening a sexual assault investigation into the wiki leaks this well as that could all continues to divorce itself from the sun john is about at some point today and it's going to hand over all his possessions and its london embassy.

says julian assange has been subjected to inhumane treatment in recent years and that it's taken a striking toll whistleblowers mental health. all those. that are the culture of person in the. sun. and assessment on the song sees the british foreign secretary go on the offensive calling for the u.n. to stand down and refrain from making inflammatory remarks and. malaysian prime minister calls the investigation into the downing of flight m.h. 17 politicized as calls continue for stronger evidence to pin the blame for the 24th tragedy on russia. and the united states rebranded shale gas as a product of freedom in an attempt to sway reluctant european countries into believing better than russian energy. friday night and here in the russian capital money welcome to world news this hour a united nations expert on torture says julian assange is being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment and that several democratic states are trying to break the whistleblowers will special visited the wiki leaks founder in london's belmarsh prison wings being held and is said to be extremely unwell explains more in saturday's going underground here on r.t. . julissa physical consequences clearly

julian's mother, tweeted -- "the u.k. government is unlawfully slowly killing my son! they made him very ill by refusing him any access to life sustaining fresh air, exercise, sun/vitamin d or proper medical care for six years of illegal embassy detention. then against all medical advice threw him into a prison cell." she tagged the u.n. in her post. talk about your visit with him. talk about the time he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london. he was there for almost seven years, was not able to go outside because the british government said they would arrest him if he did. well, it is very important to say i went to the prison with two very experienced and specialized medical experts, experts that are specialized in examining and identifying and documenting symptoms of torture -- physical or psychological torture. we ran medical protocols, the is istanbulotocols, -- particles, to have an objective medical assessment. mr. assange showed all of the symptoms that are typical for persons that have been exposed to prolonged psychological torture. hasssessment is mr. assange been exposed to various forms of cruel and degrading treatment that camilla to have the same affect