so anyway, again, even with those stories just smithson as a bunch of bones and not really a person. and i went to england to do this and after i was working for the museum, the historian of the institution called me and said if you are refering to learn anything about smith's and it's going to be in england if you want to poke around. and i thought that sounded like a lot of fun and sort of research project because i honestly didn't expect to find anyone. there had been lots of people over the last 150 years, and anyway, six half years later, whatever it is, i had finally gotten hooked on and i begin the book with a story of a fire because they gave me both a chance to sort of have a dramatic theme to start and also an opportunity to show the reader that it isn't going to be a typical biography because you don't have a big cache of documents to deal with and i want to show why it got about recapturing what i was calling the lost world of james smithson but body set out to map the social and scientific network that he had operated in and i went to oxford and poured through all the pe

s threats to storm its embassy in london to get to the whistle blow up laura smithson britain them brings us the details. it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually ecuador got what it wanted out of the meeting essentially the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called an assault on sovereignty and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempts to put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian our sons but also urged to continue talks between ecuador and britain to try and sort out their diplomatic problems the usa and canada are members of this organization and they were very much against this meeting from the very beginning and they also then expressed reservations about the resolution that was passed in the end but it goes to show that particularly in its own region ecuador is not acting alone and it's now got huge international backing across the americas

british government and there's no guarantee or even any indication that that might happen laura smithson of a team in london the long running saga surrounding julian assange just said he never looked plot twists those we've been reporting all too christine fraser that looks back at how the whistleblower went from being held a hero one stage being condemned to the alleged criminal now. we first met julian assange here in washington in two thousand and ten where he unveiled the collateral murder video at the national press club on. it showed it to u.s. army pilots treating war like a video game killing countless civilians in the process including two journalists a songe appeared in our studios later that night to talk more about wiki leaks and what he hopes to achieve with his website. in the forthright is to get information out about the real world and the second step is to comment on it and to think about the. sources who can get this through to be integration out to the public in the weeks following a sauna and wiki leaks were everywhere wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki