well today's court ruling follows the highly critical findings of nils meltzer the un special rapporteur on torture he sounded the alarm on the state of julian associates health after visiting him in britain's belmarsh high security prison with a team of doctors today on twitter mr saltus lawyer or not i feel or i thought the un team for their efforts saying it and probably saved the wiki leaks founder as life nils meltzer spoke with the w today and told us what prompted him to get involved in this case. in the beginning i refused to actually get into this case because i was very much marked by the same prejudices that the broader public have been affected by through the mainstream press reporting on this response for 10 years it was only when i started to actually look into pieces of evidence to see that that whole narrative that had been spread about him for so long. was not supported by evidence and that's what triggered my interest in this case and i then visited him together with a medical team in belmarsh prison and we found that he showed all the symptoms that are typical for pers

well nils meltzer is also urging donald trump to pardon julia so much during his final weeks as president that call has been echoed by another man but u.s. prosecutors are keen to extradite edward snowden today on twitter mr snowden welcomed the u.k. decision saying let this be the end of it. and with less than 3 weeks left of his presidency don't trump apparently still hopes to overturn his election defeat to joe biden over the weekend a recording emerged of mr trump pressing officials in georgia to change the outcome of the state's presidential election georgia has already counted its ballots 3 times and has certified biden's win by $11779.00 votes but donald trump remains adamant that he won the race is an excerpt of that call a play by the washington post no luck at all i want to do is as i use one of. the. 11780 loves which is one more that we have because we want to say the people of yours you're angry at the people that can't hear anything and there's nothing wrong with saying that you know. 2 2 that you've recalculated well mr president determines that you have is the data you hav

the overlap between meltzer and lorenzo is mounted they tell him there's these videotapes that show him abusing children which there aren't in lorenzo's they actually go as far as to have him take his shoes off and they do this whole charade where this very angry cop comes back in with the shoe and says well i'm a shoe print expert and your shoe matches the print at the crime scene was untrue. the moment. you feel. in the united states police a permitted to lie about evidence. and tell you right now this afternoon we have done something. really think long and fast. that is a shocking discovery to most people most western countries don't permit it the u.s. supreme court permits it so consequently you have 2 detectives making it seem as if we have independent evidence they sometimes will get very specific about what that evidence is telling us that you are involved in something they've already started that is shaping process and the mother already is believing it still there is a book review they're not ready to say vote for it isn't it is it. rather that the real issues that you are sure

says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for that we can leaks founder mr meltzer what's your take on today's ruling . well thank you very much for having me and yes clearly this document is a barry important 1st step in the right direction i think it is to be celebrated that the judge has recognized that the new conditions of detention does you know fans would be facing in the us are oppressive in my view and view of many human rights organizations they would actually amount to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment and that therefore for medical reasons also he cannot be extradited to the u.s. so that is a very important 1st battle to the one interest in this fight and a battle that is also for the prohibition of torture to recognition of the profession on the other hand we have to see to recognize that most of the judgment actually goes barry far fortunately income farming and sustaining the rationale underlying the u.s. prosecution of during the fund which could be setting a precedent by which other journalists could be prosecuted and extradited

well we're joined now by neil's meltzer he's the united nations special report on torture and has visited prison he says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for the we can leaks father mr moussa what's your take on today's ruling that. well thank you very much for having me yes clearly the start meant is a very important 1st step in the right direction i think it has to be celebrated the judge has recognized that the conditions of detention that julia fans would be facing the u.s. are oppressive in my view and in view of many human rights organizations they would actually amount to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment and that therefore for medical reasons off which you cannot be extradited to the u.s. so that is a very important 1st battle to be won into in this fight and a battle that is also for the prohibition of torture to terrific national. on the other hand we have to recognize that most of the judgment actually goes very far fortunately income farming and sustaining the rationale underlying the u.s. prosecution of during the firms which

thought the un team for their efforts saying it and probably saved the wiki leaks founder life nils meltzer spoke with the w today and told us what prompted him to get involved in this case. in the beginning i refused to actually get into this case because i was very much marked by the same prejudices that the broader public have been affected by through the mainstream press reporting on this response for 10 years it was only when i started to actually look into pieces of evidence to see that that whole narrative that had been spread about him for so long. was not supported by evidence and that's what triggered my interest in this case and i've been visited him together with a medical team in belmarsh prison and we found that he showed all the symptoms that are typical for persons that have been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time it's important to clarify that obviously modern forms of torture they cannot be compared to the kind of medieval forms of physical torture it is very much a cumulative process of destabilizing people through isolation. and really a sion

upper to torture earlier now as meltzer and he told me that he has asked u.k. authorities to investigate the treatment and the human rights treaties of judea songe but they have refused to do. i mean what sort of message does that send. well it served a very clear message that united states government has got a stranglehold over the british government the british government has never throughout these proceedings acted in an independent way we have always taken a cue from the united states and we're still doing it today. you know most judges would decide that on the basis of he not being extradited states that journalists on should be set free but they are all under perhaps quite strong conditions remain to the particular address you pending any subsequent u.s. appeal and he really clearly should be released noel and we know all throughout this whole saga the united states government has pressured the us of the u.k. government and the u.k. government has nuclear comply u.k. governments never stood up to the united states on this issue it's never really defended

have fled their homes since the war began in november 2020 let's talk more about this with chris meltzer senior external relations officer with the u.n. it's yeah in ethiopia hello chris welcome to the program now i understand you just arrived from. tell us more about the situation on the ground. where it's a dire situation for the people there not only the refugees but we actually signed between the long run. out of. the refugees. declared that they had no food they still have no clean water but at least they were not in the center of the comet in the northern part we still have no access so we can't really say we can't can see with our own eyes what's going on there but all the reports we are receiving from refugees and people they are very disturbing . it's it's a bit disturbing hearing that you do not have access to actually help the people in need but for what you know what help do the people need to survive. well the 1st thing is of course food and clean water and we were able to distribute it with our very important partners the world food program the suit for the 2 southern kansa

people fled their homes since the war began in november 2020 let's talk more about this with chris meltzer senior external relations officer with the u.n. it's yeah in ethiopia hello chris welcome to the program now i understand you just arrived from. tell us more about the situation on the ground. but it's a dire situation for the people there not only the refugees but we have to decide between the northern part of the southern part. of tikrit the refugees. declare that they have no food they still have no clean water but at least they were not in the center of the comet in the northern part we still have no access so we can't really say we can't see couldn't see with our own eyes what's going on there but all the reports we are receiving from refugees and very disturbing. it's it's a bit disturbing hearing that you do not have access to actually help the people in need but for what you know what what do the people who need it to survive. well the 1st thing is of course food and clean water and we were able to distribute it with our very important part of the world food program sued for t

thought the un team for their efforts saying it and probably saved the wiki leaks founder as life nils meltzer spoke with the w today and told us what prompted him to get involved in this case. in the beginning i refused to actually get into this case because i was very much marked by the same prejudices that the broader public have been affected by to the mainstream press reporting on this recipe for 10 years it was only when i started to actually look into pieces of evidence to see that that whole narrative that had been spread about him for so long. was not supported by evidence and that's what triggered my interest in this case and i've been visited him together with a medical team and belmarsh prison and we found that he showed all the symptoms that are typical for persons that have been exposed to psychological torture for a prolonged period of time it's important to clarify that obviously modern forms of torture. cannot be compared to the kind of medieval forms of physical torture it is very much a cumulative process of destabilizing people through isolation. and really a sion itself ju

well we're joined now by niels meltzer he's the united nations special report on torture and has visited julian assange and prison he says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for the we can leaks father mr moussa what's your take on today's ruling that. well thank you very much for having me yes clearly this document is a very important 1st step in the right direction i think it is to be celebrated that the judge has recognized that the new conditions of detention funds would be facing the us are oppressive in my view and view of many human rights organizations they would actually amount to torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment and that therefore for medical reasons also he cannot be extradited to the u.s. so that is a very important 1st battle to the one interest in this fight and a battle that is also for the prohibition of torture and total recognition of the opposition on the other hand we have to see to recognize that most of the judgment actually goes barry far fortunately income farming and sustaining the rationale underlying the u.s. pro

but we're joined now by niels meltzer he's the united nations special report on torture and has visited julian assange and prison he says the past 10 years have effectively been psychological torture for the we can leaks father mr meltzer what's your take on today's ruling. well thank you very much for having me and yes clearly this document is a very important 1st step in the right direction i think it is to be celebrated that the judge has recognized that the conditions of detention funds would be facing a review.