so the wiki leaks lawyers have asked the court to withdraw the whirring saying it's lost its purpose something you would agree with yes indeed i've just read the routing by the judge it's typical for this kind of case it's very short it's very robust there's not much argument the judge says i don't agree with i agree with and that's really the whole reasoning and the point is that in this round the judge only looked at the very technical question of interpretation of the british doctor doing the statutes here the public interest reasons the human rights. i understand that's for and you. expect also and you're hearing before you call we hear the judges news on it and i fully expect that judge to lift. the warrant. there's no reason for it and on that's not something the judge really discussed in this ruling today was a very technical. question of interpretation on the statute has or not we will have a new hearing on these issues which are at the core of this case and i. don't expect the judge. to drop this. so that. we'll have to wait and see what happens even if a sound does away tod

to lift an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder. the us defense secretary asa progress to a group a major funding boost for the military and singles out russia and china as peak local threats. and human rights watch reveals how anti psychotic drugs are being misused by american nursing homes. when you're seeing who do this totally drug you can even talk to. i'm kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. a british judge has ruled that an arrest warrant for julian assault remains in force meaning he's still unable to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london and the president of ecuador has just given a statement saying he will continue to protect the wiki leaks founder artie's anastasio has the latest on the standoff. it was expected today that a judge would want here outside the court behind me to potentially lift the arrest warrant put in place by british officials in connection to the initial allegations made against julian the stands by swedish officials his legal tea

well his work as editor of wiki leaks over the years has certainly rubbed washington up the wrong way they've got a bone or two to be. take the sunshine politicians stateside have made no secret of their dislike for julian assange and take a look at what they've had to say in recent years as. the united states do something to stop mr saunders we're looking at right now this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the defense we want to do it illegally shoot the son of a wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service ignorant or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons but even if the herring does end songes way today and there's a big question mark over that now his legal team has been saying all along that they will still need guarantees guarantees that he could get safe passage or guarantees that you won't be arrested on the spot when he does walk out behind the scenes diplomats ecuadorian diplo

when given the scale of the revelations wiki leaks has published against the u.s. it's not surprising many think washington is keen to get his hands on a song wiki leaks expose details of torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp and also published damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan for the company also leaked the cia spying tools as well as this. you know when you get. to sixty. three two three two. this video which we kill it's called collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunning down on the guys in the rockies and more recently the release of the d.n.c. even hours which then allegedly helped donald trump will u.s. presidential races human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these revelations could easily see a silent expert out trying to meddle with the u.s. there's no doubt that the bottom line in the us own case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can theory carry the death penalty at the very least he ca

when this video which wiki leaks called collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen the rockies and more recently was obviously the story with the d.n.c. e-mails which has been suggested helped trump the u.s. presidential race human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these revelations could easily see a songe extradited selection there's no doubt that the bottom line in the astounds case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which theory carry the death penalty at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that there's a rational human being during your sons' would not wish to step outside the ecuadorian embassy when the risk of arrest and extradition to the u.s. hangs over his head. british acca larry love who on monday won his fight against extradition to the u.s. visited a sergeant the embassy the man's accused of carrying out cyber attacks on the f.b.i. and n

it's not surprising many think washington the scheme to get its hands on the song wiki leaks expose details of torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp and also published damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan and the company also leaked the cia spying tools as well as this. this video in which we can exclude collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen iraq leaders and more recently the release of the d.n.c. even ours which then allegedly helped donald trump when the us presidential race human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these hotel ations pretty easily see aslan extradited trying to meddle with the u.s. election is no doubt the. bottom line in your sound case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which current theory carry the death penalty at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that as a rational human being during your sons' would not

well given the scale of the revelations wiki leaks has published against the u.s. it's not surprising many think washington is keen to get its hands on a song we can expose details of torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp it also published damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan and the company also leaked the cia's spying tools as well as this let me know when you. will this video which we keep leaks called collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen iraq is and more recently the release of the d.n.c. e-mails which then allegedly helped dr trump drill into u.s. does it ensure race human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these revelations could easily see assault extradited trying to meddle with the u.s. there's no doubt the. bottom line in your sound case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which theory carry the death penalty at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possib

given the scale of the revelations wiki leaks has published against the united states so little wonder many believe washington is keen to get its hands on him for instance wiki leaks expose the truth about torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp as well as damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan the company also leaked the cia's spying tolls as well as materials such as this. to traffic two sixty. three zero two three two nice. video you just saw was called collateral murder by we can leaks it shows how american helicopters gunning down more than a dozen iraqis more recently the big story was obviously with e-mails which has been suggested to help trump when the u.s. presidential race based on human rights campaigner believes these revelations could easily see a song. extradited. there's no doubt that the bottom line in the assailant case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can in theory carry the death penalty and at the very least he can expect for

individual threatening the lives of three hundred twenty three million people it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia some might argue that isn't just publishing of cables has contributed to international security by revealing nato war crimes but that belief appears not to be shared by the british crown prosecution service which decides on court action in the name of the queen fighting discredited rape allegations astonished has not until this week been able to determine just how politicized his case is been because the c.p.s. allegedly destroyed information british prosecutors have reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts we've got in the case of wiki leaks founder julian assange and this happened back in two thousand and fourteen but was it twenty fourteen. now confidential e-mails show that swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against julian assange much earlier and who is the boss of the c.b.s. in twenty thirteen none other than jerem

the wiki leaks editor for his work over the years with that website the politician stateside have made no secret of their dislike for julian assange let's take a listen to what they've had to say is that they is. the united states do something to stop mr sausage. right now describes a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so i'm not for the death penalty want to do it illegally shoot the son of a wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons. even if they're hearing his way today and that is a big his legal team said all along that they will need concrete guarantees from the british authorities that he'll either get safe passage or he won't be arrested and extradited straight on to the u.s. diplomats have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes in recent weeks and months ecuador has been trying to get this case moving along from this legal stalemate that it'

issued an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks boss for breaching bail conditions quarter though granted him asylum in may last year sweden dropped the rape investigation against the science but it didn't leave the embassy fearing arrest by u.k. police. for more on this let's go live to peter tatchell human rights campaign the director of the natural foundation joining us from london peter good to have you on as always i suppose still no end in sight for the songe saga of this hearing being perspire owned was it something you expected at all or further period in limbo for him. i thought we would get a decision today but as you've suggested that decision final decision has been deferred for another week i think the important thing we remember is that journalists. sought political asylum in ecuador and was granted it so as someone who's been granted political asylum britain other countries which have signed the refugee convention have a duty and obligation to honor it it has always been the tradition that britain would on our refugees who have secured political asylum in other countries in

given the scale of the revelations wiki leaks has published against the u.s. so little wonder many believe washington is keen to get it sounds on him for instance we can expose the truth about torture at the guantanamo bay detention camp as well as damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan. or the organization also leaked the cia's spying toles also this material. you know when you get. to sixty. three through three to. look at. the video you just saw which show weekly it's called collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen iraqis and more recently obviously the story with the d.n.c. e-mails which has been suggested help trying to win the u.s. presidential race a human rights campaign at least attacked still believes these revelations could easily see. trying to meddle with the u.s. election there's no doubt that the bottom line in the assailant case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can in theo

this little one many believe washington is king to get its hands on a song for instance wiki leaks expose the truth about torture by detention camp as well as a u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan the company also leaked the cia's spying tools as well as this. let me know when you get. to sixty. three zero two three. and this video you can see which we can exclude all collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen iraqis and more recently it was obvious the story with the d.n.c. e-mails which has been suggested helped win the us presidential race human rights campaigner peter tatchell believes these revelations could easily see a songe extradited so much there's no doubt that the bottom line in the assailant case is the very serious and likely risk that he would be extradited to the united states to face a whole raft of very serious charges including espionage which can in theory carry the death penalty and at the very least he can expect forty years in prison and possibly life imprisonment so it is totally understandable that there's a rational hu

the wiki leaks chief may soon be able to walk out of the doors of the ecuadorian embassy in london a british court today where there's a drop his arrest warrant for breaching bail in two thousand and twelve. human rights watch has published a new report revealing how strong the plant is like altering drugs are being misused in some u.s. nursing home. are you so sleepy did a. group he runs. totally droned to new could even talk with. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron good to have you with us this hour now u.s. republicans out released a document alleging the man behind the trunk rush a dossier was not only funded by the clinton campaign but was also fed information by it mr steele's memorandum states that the report was information that came from a foreign sub source who is in touch with a friend of the clintons it is troubling enough that the clinton campaign funded mr steele's work but that these clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding mr steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility. the so-called trump dossier was

s fraudulent intent were released into the public domain and that actually wasn't wiki leaks that was good for two point zero which released a number of internal d.n.c. documents and i believe june of two thousand and sixteen which showed how the d.n.c. was strategizing to. elevate hillary clinton to the nomination and how exactly it was going to pursue a very specific and discreet media strategy among other things in order to achieve that outcome and so we filed our lawsuit very shortly after gucci for two came out with those documents that that lawsuit there were two hearings held in the district court in fort lauderdale florida where the lawsuit was filed which is also happens to be debbie wasserman schultz's district and of course she was named as a defendant with the d.n.c. as the former chair person and so the court held two hearings. of eventually the court dismissed the lawsuit and said that our clients who were donors to the bernie sanders campaign didn't have what is called legal standing to pursue claims against the d.n.c. and debbie wasserman schultz for rigging the primar

has actively collaborated with what wiki leaks sanjian his ilk make common cause with dictators today. yes they try unsuccessfully to cloak themselves in their actions in the anguish of liberty and language of liberty and privacy but in reality the champion nothing but their own celebrity as just fade arguably doesn't rest in a british court tomorrow but with the erstwhile presenter of celebrity apprentice well julie the sun just currently held in an embassy in the royal bar of chelsea and representing that in parliament the richest bar of the riches constituency in the country is ever dead code m.p. she joins me now and i welcome to going underground before we go to the catastrophe that is greenfield just take us back to the general election in june when you became the representative of the richest constituency in the united kingdom things were really changing we could feed our neighborhood there are lots of different things going on one of them was a general disaffection with national government but it's far more right wing given amongst the richest people almost country living your

let's go back to our breaking news for the but afternoon for the wiki leaks co-founder julian assange british court upheld the arrest warrant for him and let's discuss this now with patrick henningsen executive editor for the first century was called gosh grown for well my old city plymouth i believe that's where you are today by the looks of it i think to ruin there we wanted to talk about that though we had to talk about julie the sunshine about afternoon for him but it was expected was in it. yes it was.

let's go back to our breaking news for the but afternoon for the wiki leaks co-founder julian assange british court upheld the arrest warrant for him and let's discuss this now with patrick henningsen executive editor for the first century wired dot com gosh i see now but grown for a while my old city plymouth i believe that's where you are today by the looks of it i think to ruin there we wanted to talk about that though we had to talk about julia sunshine about afternoon for him but it was expected was in it. yes it was. no point did the the u.k. judiciary make any signals they were i think going to drop the arrest warrant so i think from this proceedings today it's become clear now the sort of the games up with for release of the emails from the crown prosecution service is showing that there was collusion between the c.p.s. and the swedish judiciary to sort of keep his case on the rocks even though sweden could have dropped the case for five years ago so that is now out in the open so clearly what we have here is not anything to do with legality this is completely political just r

court goals against wiki leaks founder julian assange in his bid to have his u.k. arrest warrant dismissed. their warm welcome to the program while there are reports that a six point four magnitude earthquake is what east and taiwan according to the united states geological survey the quake struck near the northeastern port city of who are lame the taiwanese government reports the fourth film forced from the quake toppled hotel is the latest in a string of quakes that have hit the region in recent days and we'll bring you more on that story as we get. un's calling for an immediate month long cease fire in syria to allow humanitarian aide medical help to reach civilians trapped by fighting syrian government and russian forces have stepped up their attacks on the rebel held areas of problems in eastern guta there too for supposed deescalation zones agreed by iran and russia last year more than fifty people have been killed by airstrikes on eastern ghouta on tuesday alone and at least six bringing the total killed in the last forty eight hours to more than one hundred

its embassy in london after a british judge ruled the wiki leaks co-founder still wanted for arrest. a new party is being launched in the u.k. with the a move. to support it's getting from the channel has led to accusations of french meddling britons in. mid-morning on wednesday here in moscow you're watching international. it is now just two days and till the twenty eight hundred winter olympics get underway and it's still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the case of dozens of russian athletes but no decision was reached today the session has now been adjourned until tomorrow the russian athletes are challenging the international olympic committee's decision to ban them from competing in south korea over the doping scandal in just a few moments here on the program we will go live to south korea and speak for more details with our. now on the program julian assange is to remain stranded inside the ecuadorian embassy that is after a british judge ruled that an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder remains in force the president of ecuador says

after a british judge ruled the wiki leaks co-founder is still wanted. and he is being launched. but the support. has led to accusations. you're watching international welcome to your latest world wide. it is two days now until the twenty eight winter olympics get underway and it's still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport will today hear the case of forty seven russian athletes challenging the international olympic committee's decision competing in south korea over the doping scandal. is right outside the court building joins us here live on the program on. the very latest that you know. henri hello to you from the winter olympic capital twenty eight i can tell you that there are a couple of two rather small hearing rooms behind my shoulder where history is being made right now the decision that hopefully we'll hear about very soon will definitely go into the sports history books it is forty seven russian athletes with a clean doping test history versus the international olympic committee but in a sense it is a battle of the court of arbitration for sport

court is expected to announce later today the result of an appeal by wiki leaks editor julian assange against an arrest warrant for breaching bail in britain and here in a week ago maintaining the warrant he's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over five years after seeking asylum that honest looks at his fight for freedom. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that the suspension of an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the warrant but asuncion and his defense team believe his freedom is long overdue new judgment on whether to lift the u.k. warrant for

of british courts expected to announce the results of an appeal it could be imminent by the wiki leaks that had to julian sunday against an arrest warrant for breaching bail in the u.k. here in a week ago held up the warrant is of course still stuck in the door an embassy in london has been a phonetics six years now after seeking asylum first off and this is the look says fight for freedom that is ongoing. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that this is spend should have an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the warrant but a songe and his defense team believe his freed

the founder of wiki leaks julian assange has lost another court appeal to have his u.k. arrest warrant dropped songe fled to the ecuadorian embassy in london six years ago to avoid being extradited to sweden why he faced rape and sexual assault charges charges have now been dropped and his defense team said the arrest warrant for skipping bail should be dropped too but in court today the judge said his son should have the courage to face the consequences of breaking the law the fact has more from the court in central london in the short run it means that life for julian assange remains very much the same the warrants outstanding for his arrest for skipping bell in two thousand and twelve has been up the second time it's been upheld in the space of a week his defense team made an initial pill to have it lifted last week they said it no longer should stand but it no longer applied after swedish investigators decided to scrap their attempt to have two minutes extradited to sweden to face questioning for sexual misconduct and rape allegations but despite that ruling his defe

and nasa among other organizations while wiki leaks is also known for publishing classified information about american politics and the work of its security services clearly the two men have a lot in common and had plenty to discuss speaking to journalists love said he wished to stanch look in the case we're following the continuing hearing and we'll be bringing you all the latest updates on the final conclusion of course as soon as we get it. u.s. republicans have released the documents alleging the man behind the trumped russia dossier was not only funded by the clinton campaign but was also fed information by it mr steele's memorandum states that the report was information that came from a foreign subsumes who is in touch with a friend of the clintons it is troubling enough that the clinton campaign funded mr steele's work but that these clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding mr steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility the so-called charm dossier was compiled by a former british intelligence officer christopher hill and claims to establish strong

breaking news here about international it's been a double blow then in the space of a week for wiki leaks co-founder julian assange as a u.k. court has just held is arrest warrant for the second time in a week will bring a lot of reaction from outside the court. also to we've got an exclusive interview lined up for you with the head of the court of arbitration for sport who tries to defend the committee's decision to exclude russian athletes which the court itself they're ready cleared of doping allegations. the fact that unable to show the guilt of an athlete. has nothing to do with the kids. more big news in. the last few hours a preliminary investigation indicating passenger jet that crashed in moscow on sunday killing all seventy one on board was caused by a faulty speed an indicator that accidently say i stop and think it's based on data readings taken from the plane to plug the boxes. i am. i am. breaking news from london i'm kevin are in thanks to him with us by the way britain's top court has upheld the arrest warrant for wiki leaks co-founder june. in songs of the last few minute

this embassy in london after a british judge ruled the wiki leaks co-founder is still wanted for. a new party is being. said he supports getting from across the channel has led to accusations of french meddling in britain's in total. midday on wednesday here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international latest world news headlines. just two days now until the twenty eighteen winter olympics get underway it's still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the case of dozens of russian athletes but no decision was reached today the session adjourned until tomorrow the russian athletes are challenging the international olympic committee's decision to ban them from competing in south korea over the. trying to reports sports history is being made on wednesday and thursday is the two hearing rooms that you can see behind my shoulder it is the court of arbitration sports ad hoc panel determining the fate of dozens of russian athletes right before the winter olympic games and then chang begin one state's session didn't bring them to any decision but he

a british court has turned down a request by the wiki leaks founder julian assange managed to have his arrest warrant cancelled last for a sign she was in the ecuadorian embassy in london say they will continue to fight in the courts and to seek assurances he will not be sent to the u.s. as sanjay originally went there to avoid being extradited to sweden over allegations of sexual assault sweden's now dropped that investigation in the u.k. still wants to arrest him for failing to turn in court. a french judge has ordered a prominent swiss islamic scholar to remain in custody over allegations of rape tariq ramadan was arrested in paris last week and is facing an investigation and trial over claims he assaulted two women he denies the allegations police in kenya have failed to release opposition politician begin in the guna despite a court order that he be set free immediately he's been charged with treason for participating in a controversial mock swearing in ceremony or opposition leader rather a dingo mcguinness seen here on the left who was next to it in the last week when he declare

court is expected to announce the result of an appeal by wiki leaks editor julian assange she against an arrest warrant for breaching bail in britain hearing a week ago held up that warrant he's been stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over five years after seeking asylum there and has to see a check and looks at his fight for freedom. when one door closes another door opens but not for julian a songe holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london for years on end he has heard all after hurdle to overcome to walk a free man without being forced to look over his shoulder but the seemingly endless international saga could be about to turn a new page as a judge in london continues to consider whether the arrest warrant against the weak you leaks founder could be dropped last week amidst a media frenzy it was decided that the suspension of an investigation into alleged crimes in sweden that first led to his arrest was not sufficient reason to drop the warrant but asuncion and his defense team believe his freedom is long overdue new judgment on whether to lift the u.k. warrant

court rules against wiki leaks founder julian assange and his bid to have his u.k. arrest warrant dismissed and in sport the eagles have landed back in philadelphia after their super bowl victory but the hot seat isn't over yet more on that coming up we'll talk to. the supreme court's of the mall days has an old its own order for the government to release a number of imprisoned opposition leaders this after the president accused of engineering a coup president. refused to comply with the order stead him post a fifteen day state of emergency and arrested two senior judges and a former president who is in fact his half brother or some a binge of it has the story. just hours after a state of emergency was declared in the island nation of maldives disport carries a prominent opposition leader to the country's main jail on a remote island. was arrested on charges of bribery which the opposition says this politically motivated. his family released a video earlier in which he urged his supporters not to lose hope when you heard. the news police came to arrest me i'm going

this third party was the whistle blowing website wiki leaks. on october seventh twenty sixteen one month before the election his cia finally published its information on russian influence was secretary clinton mr trump the russian government has engaged in espionage against americans in the following hours wiki leaks released the house e-mails from hillary clinton's team weakening the candidate considerably to run for the presidency china's knowing details that there is russia china already i am not in this close election in which every vote counted the months of russian interference were of great importance for the outcome of each fortune. was. an arrow. seger showing him. the. colonel of the k.g.b. had pulled off a masterly crew by influencing an american election now he even played the role of godfather to the new president of the world's leading power. his revenge. guten had come a long way since the collapse of the soviet union in the one nine hundred ninety s. washington had made his predecessor. its vicarious agent but putin now still ha

but no such luck for wiki leaks founder julian assange she's lost his bid to have a u.k. arrest warrant dismissed against him. the end. but it still feels cold in hong kong and it should do daytime maixner about the same as where you expect to get down to at night and has been persistent the whole of february when to code it come down shanghai's warmed up actually surprisingly to seven degrees but the chill mark returned as you can see back down to five by and hong kong steadily just about five degrees below where it should be compared with the average but the increasing cloud and humidity probably makes you feel quite as chilly as it was we've got a streak of clouds visible from space across india and pakistan is heading so the south is but it is no more than a streak of clouds it will make the sky white rather than blue but do nothing much else it's that dry time of the year the temps will be affected little bit progress down to twenty eight and up thirty two again come thursday occasional showers show in sri lanka otherwise nothing much. as it is in arabia apart from o

that risk remains real nobody can credibly deny that risk we've had the head of the cia declare wiki leaks a hostile and on the same intelligence agency which had the u.s. attorney general say that prosecuting join a songe is a priority in these circumstances it is time to provide an assurance against extradition so that this untenable situation and i. believe. bishan plans to colonize mars have taken another step forward. three of. his company space x. has successfully launched its most powerful rocket yet the twenty three story fall can heavy blasted off from the kennedy space center in florida on tuesday with a tells the sports car inside the spacecraft shot musk's roadster convertible into mars albeit now the fall can heavy is propelled by twenty seven rocket engines driving it eighth to a thrust the sequel to eighteen boeing seven four seven jets now that means it can take incredibly heavy payloads of up to sixty three thousand kilos that's second only to the rocket nasa used for its moon missions its cost cutting reusable boosters also give space x. an edge over other companies compe

stories now that are making headlines around the world a british court has rejected an attempt by wiki leaks founder julian assange to invalidate in arrest warrant against him the warrant stemmed from a sexual assault case in sweden that has since been dropped now boarding the warrant could have paved the way her sons to leave the dorrian embassy in london where he's been holed up since two thousand and twelve poland's president says he will sign a controversial holocaust bill into law all this but he says he'll let the country's constitutional court decide on its legality the build makes it illegal to suggest that poland was involved in nazi germany's crimes that it bans the term polish death camps that israel and the u.s. have criticized the bill as a done zimbabwe's main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai is reportedly in critical condition this evening in a south african hospital his supporters have been told to quote brace for the worst the sixty five year old disclosed two years ago that he has colon cancer. well south africa's jacob zuma has been forced to cancel his state of the nat

court order to release imprisoned opposition leaders a british court has rejected an attempt by wiki leaks founder julian assange to invalidate an arrest warrant against him the warrant stemmed from a sexual assault case in sweden that has since been dropped voiding the warrant could have paved the way for a song to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up since two thousand and twelve aerospace firm space x. has launched the world's most powerful rocket the falcon heavy roared off the watch pad at florida's cape canaveral it's carrying a sports car into orbit around the sun shortly after takeoff the rockets side boosters peeled off and made a synchronized landing back on earth. south africa's jacob zuma has been forced to cancel his state of the nation address due to fears that lawmakers would disrupt the speech it's an embarrassing climbdown for zuma and a sign of the intense pressure on him to step down in the wake of a string of scandals. jacob zuma future hangs in the balance as pressure to resign mounts the opposition says zuma has no right to address the count

stories now that are making headlines around the world a british court has rejected an attempt by wiki leaks founder julian assange to invalidate an arrest warrant against him the warrant stemmed from a sexual assault case in sweden that has since been dropped voiding the warrant could have paved the way for songe to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been holed up since two thousand and twelve south african president jacob zuma has postponed his state of the nation address which was set for thursday the move could herald an attempt by members of his own party to else to him from office leaders of the ruling african national congress say that the party's executive committee will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss zuma as possible removal zimbabwe's main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai is reportedly critically ill tonight in a south african hospital his supporters have been told to quote brace for the worst the sixty five year old disclosed two years ago that he had colon cancer. the new york stock exchange opened one percent lower today and then bounced back somewh

individual threatening the lives of three hundred twenty three million people it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia some might argue that isn't just publishing of cables has contributed to international security by revealing nato war crimes but that belief appears not to be shared by the british crown prosecution service which decides on court action in the name of the queen fighting discredited rape allegations a son as has not until this week been able to determine just how politicized his case is been because the c.b.s. allegedly destroyed information british prosecutors have reportedly admitted deleting e-mail exchanges with the swedish counterparts we got in the case of the. it expanded julian assange style this happened back in two thousand and fourteen but was it twenty fourteen now confidential e-mails show that swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against julian assange much earlier and who is the boss of the c.b.s. in twenty thirteen none other than jeremy corb