amy: that was julian assange's father, john shipton. julian assange has been incarcerated in london's belmarsh prison since last september where he first served a 50-week jail sentence for breaching his bail conditions. since 2012, he had taken refuge in ecuador's london embassy to avoid extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations. during his time in the ecuadoran embassy, assange was reportedly spied on by a spanish security firm. julian assange says the cia was behind the illegal 24/7 surveillance. for more, we're joined by one of the people who was spied on, jennifer robinson human rights , a attorney who has been advising julian assange and wikileaks since 2010. welcome to democracy now! thank you for joining us from london. can you describe the four days of hearing, just physically in the courtroom in london and what julian assange faces? obviously, we have had a week of hearings. faces 100 75e years in prison per publications back in 2010 that were released to wikileaks by chelsea manning. it is important remember what t

operation against julian assange and all these. journalists are lawyers doctors you're expect this kind of rationing. this democracy as right to confidential conversations with his own legal defense was breached. united states government which is very aggressively pursuing him on trumped up charges has had access to his legal defense strategy and frankly the fact that they have said that that won't be used is insufficient because they have had access to that information. given what is at stake in the essential case the national security angle allegations from the un that britain is affectively torturing a dissident you would think british news organizations would be all over the story they are not saying he's going to cooperate said any of. the publicly owned b.b.c. he is just one example of the world's biggest news broadcaster it generates about 120 hours of radio and television output every day according to nils meltzer the b.b.c. has interviewed him just wants and not on newsnight its flagship news and current affairs show or th

because if they did, they would not be trying to extradite julian assange from london. with the kangaroo court. they have him locked up in a bulletproof glass cage in the highest security prison in the united kingdom. banged up for 23 hours a day in solitaire confinement. the onl -- solitary confinement. the only crime he is charged with and found guilty of is a minor bail infraction. it's a misdemeanor. it's not even what you guys call a felony. >> tucker: so let me, so that leads to my final question. in hanging a lot of people in people's minds are the sexual assault i think charges we read so much about. that assange was facing. >> there weren't any. >> tucker: what happened to those? >> there weren't any. they never happened. neither of the women involved accused him of rape ever. it was a concoction of the somewhere in between the swedish police and the swedish judiciary, this story was allowed to develop and to escape. it was blown not out of proportion. it was completely invented by the mainstream media for whatever the motivations might be. all the smearing sto

media continues to all but completely ignore the plight of jailed and tortured publisher julian assange jinnah london jail what should you do if you want to blow the whistle on your workplace in britain we speak to whistleblowing advisor. plus who is the british senior civil servant who sensationally resigned over an edge to bullying by boris johnson the time secretary pretty patel herself disgraced over links to the israeli government we speak to a home office minister who dealt with when drug scandal permanent secretary so if it were up to them now planning to take the government to court all of them all coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st let's go straight to the patient that corporate media is most concerned about when it comes to coronavirus wall street joining me now is the former white house communications director and the founder of sky bridge capital anthony's car mucci the thanks so much for coming back on the show so how confident are you about trump's pick as the czar for coronavirus v.p. pence is he competent enough to it to manage this well potentially could b

julian assange is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian a son who will receive the evidence which checks out as being true of high crimes and misdemeanors by the us government or any government for that matter including our own and then report it to the public. there will be there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in our bulletproof box in which ground ceasing extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the united states trust me that won't have a chilling effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. still to come towns in north eastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of a legally dumping trash across the border details on that story and more after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politic

assange the magistrate vanessa borate. she's an impartial woman deciding over the court proceedings well. it was very weird what happened last week. when we came together to the court and she just asked in the afternoon julian if he can concentrate on the trial and the proceedings and because it's in the dock and he cannot very well hear what's going on because we had this really does problems from the beginning on monday to the 24th the trial started and we had this julian and the media and the observers had the problem to follow sometimes because. sometimes they don't speak into the microphone sometimes you cannot hear the judge at all because she doesn't spoke to the microphone or even she started the proceedings while julian was not in the courtroom i mean he is a defendant you have to wait till he is coming in to the courtroom but then they started just a proceeding sometimes and that means this is disrespect about the court and the trial at all and then she asked him in the afternoon if she he felt good and he's well

war crimes revealed by wiki leaks instead we get leaks is julian assange is in london facing a defacto death sentence arousing questions about the future of publishers and whistleblowers in nato countries was a bigger eileen joe. both of their is no mean whistleblower joins me now welcome back to going a league round eileen i'm going to get to the book and the house of commons a meeting in a 2nd but it was 5 years ago when you were last time julius are just being granted political asylum in ecuador an embassy in london would have been your thoughts as we heard reports of this case last week regarding his extradition to the united states where i am really frightened for journalists firstly all the people that we deal with need journalists to get the truth out and are many find every journalist is in danger because of what's going on here it's hard to believe that this is the u.k. you know this is our justice system that supposed to be so fair. i've actually set through one of the pre hearings and it was awful to watch it. as far as we're concerned the whole thing is just a total scandal

is determined to get its hands on julian assange as we'll see if the british court does go along with his with his extradition but certainly if he is unable to testify i'm willing to testify that certainly deprives them of a of an important witness. it's not clear what the u.s. is looking for in the case so it's really not clear what what chelsea manning can tell the prosecutors. now how might this affect ongoing extradition cases against in london we know separately there's a different battle going on there. well i think the way i think it should affect it goes like this i think it. says something about the kind of conditions that assad could expect if he is ever if he is extradited returned to the united united states i mean he essentially is going to face life in prison could be a clamp of the maximum maximum security prison solitary confinement treated extremely in humanely and i think will be placed the same kind of you know in your situation as chelsea manning so i think that her attempted suicide certainly dramatized. the the punitive nature of this entire investigation and it

assange and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julian assange they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more. sharply criticized president trump the station to suspend most at travel from europe for 30 days they must both to the was in cologne abide with crisis but booklet is on thursday defended the messes they have taken to tackle the pung demick and stressed the need for international cooperation but porton from by then has paid all of. what the world splits over the best way to try and deal with the corona virus that continues to spread what we're seeing is a spot emerging between your leadership and the u.s. president donald trump this is after the president announced a. travel for foreign nationals from within the zone in europe to the united states apparently in a movie made well without consulting his allies on this site. of the atlantic the president though says it was ne

assange we're going to discuss all right it's time to boost your news i q. kovac 19 again dominating headlines with now 170 countries and territories territories reporting new cases here are the latest numbers worldwide there are now more than 490000 confirmed cases and more than 22000 deaths and here stateside confirmed cases now topping $69000.00 and deaths related to the virus over a 1000 and back here in washington d.c. after days of debate republicans and democrats came together. pass the largest ever stimulus package for americans impacted by the coronavirus shutdown now this bill is heading over to the house and president trump has already promised his signature artie's rachel blevins is joining us live with a breakdown of what's exactly in this bill rachel well manella this gun and 11th hour vote is being called historic after the republicans and democrats who have disagreed strongly on this 2 trillion dollars stimulus package passed it with unanimous support late wednesday night president trump who has already promised his support took to twitter wh

leaks they already have an indictment against julian assange they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more and so chelsea manning and and hammond 2 to another was a blower are both incarcerate refusing ever just to. answer questions of this grand jury the government is pursuing it because they have a weak case maybe because they want to indict other people is unclear but what is clear is chelsea manning will not cooperate this coersion will not work she will come out of that prison dead. before she testifies this judge has a reputation for being a very and forstmann minded aggressive judge and a very conservative judicial system in the us are just your virginia you know needs to come to his senses and realize that what he's doing is only one of us law and international level government but if he does refuse to testify what does this mean for the government's ongoing case on wiki leaks. well i th

the julian assange and his supporters for the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete the wiki leaks founder and the glass cage and denied opportunity to interact with lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. as events of towns in northeastern france accused. of illegally dumping garbage across the border. good evening and welcome this is the weekly here marty international. 4 employees of russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday says that turkish police also searched the office for the no reason was given earlier our correspondent taylor brought me the latest details. has been grabbing headlines in recent days you've seen this picture of migrants flooding across its border but this is another story from there that's been slightly over looked

and despite all these arguments despite the prosecution saying they had no problems with julian assange sitting with his lawyers. the judges district judge ness of braced she essentially read off of a piece of paper that was already with her prior to that evening's arguments it was like. her decision had already been made so it was a very clear sign to those in the courtroom that you know this is you know nor case . process is being followed unfortunately while and the crux of this case where i found it depends dean is proving that a 1000 is being persecuted by the united states for political reasons and not criminal with us because according to the ignition treaty between the u.k. and the u.s. extradition rules out political bent how backed up hasn't found is it depends in making that case. well this again it's a very similar situation where this is precisely the the argument that the defense relied on and discussed in court they said that this is clearly a political offense numerous examples of this. the judge didn't you know didn't seem to be moved by these arguments despite the extr

assange has just been granted political asylum in the ecuadorian embassy in london would have been your thoughts as we heard reports of this case last week regarding his extradition to the united states well i'm really frightened for to analysts firstly all the people that we deal with need journalists to get the truth out and i mean to find every journalist is in danger because of what's going on here it's hard to believe that this is the u.k. you know this is our justice system this price to be so fair am i've actually set through one of the pretty hair means and. it was awful to watch it. as far as we're concerned and the whole thing is just a total scandal and it's an attack on free speech and we should all be standing up and doing something about this was a plane organizations human rights organizations we should all be outraged at what's going on here and there is a deafening silence and in a way you were meant to like julian the sun just by government for germans in the late great campaigning journalist but you can understand you can deliver edna's lawful whistleblower. if the pu

month long with julian assange and his supporters with the 1st phase of the u.s. extradition case now complete in the hearings that were getting founder was kept in a glass cage denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. residents of towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of illegally dumping garbage across the border. thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here on art 1st this hour 4 employees of russia sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief along with 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday sputnik says that turkish police have also searched the istanbul office although no reason was given as to why to get more on this developing story now from of course for the task to tell you get across it just gives the the nuts and bolts. well obviously has b

wiki leaks founder julian assange just denied bail despite claiming his health is out risk problem for the virus i'll be talking to a human rights activist. we want to form a immigration minister warns britain stranded abroad have no way of getting home as countries close their borders i'll be talking to a woman stuck in cruel. come here take government faces course to release those in immigration detention centers over fears many could die from the coronavirus. welcome to. the u.k. prime minister and opposition leader have clashed over the government's approach to corona virus testing as the heir to the british throne prince charles has tested positive after exhibiting mild symptoms. to evans daschle joins me now with more on this hi there shall be a slow as we say literally testing times today absolutely very testing times in fact prince charles has tested positive for that 9. exhibiting very mild symptoms though the worry is however is that he's over the age of 17 not to mention the 2 weeks ago he was in close proximity with the queen herself which therefore could have implications

assange . former u.k. home office minister norman bacon tells us all about the seedier officially worked with whisper tactility just resigned saying he will sue boris johnson's government for bullying all the support coming up in part 2 of going underground. with feeding our hopes our dreams our desires our money to computer screens and what do we get back to our liking that's that's a bad deal so when is technology jumping out of this week when it's technology helping to keep me healthy to keep me informed or to keep me you know connected and i missed it so we will live in an area the post screen area where we will live with less and all these screens and it will be more in harmony or it will help us more. because there's a survival guide book stacie just imo to start with. you should go. back to. repatriation when we get to the 70. 4th. welcome back johnny niger good through some of the week's top stories is for me you can watch as mr norman baker norman welcome back to the program forget the

and that is less grotesque then what is happening to julian assange. furthermore while our united states crime family is insisting on extraditing assan from britain they're refusing to give up a cia agent who killed a british team in the high ranking cia agent has been charged with striking and killing a british teen while she was driving on the wrong side of the road in the u.k. near a u.s. air force listening post however now that she's back here our government is refusing to extradite her so apparently publishing information our government doesn't want people to see not only actually diable but they believe punishable by over a 100 years in prison however kendall killing british teenagers not a crime i mean it does make a little sense from does that kind of thing all the time i mean the park air force one on one of those british preschools last time i was there that killed 32 children yes but boris johnson was willing to overlook it because that's what friends are for we have a special relationship with the brits we murder people and they don't do a

so the way julian assange is his supporters have been protesting outside the courts claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms and calling on london and washington not to shoot the messenger celebrity supporters also been a key feature of the hints. admitted. in cho's remaining straw the body had to be for the release or so why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which he was in 20102011 why aren't we here talking in court about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists. that is what we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what some say in america is not democracy or told it's a total sham governments want to know is total control of information and that means they don't want dissidents they don't they want what looks like a free press you know you say what why is everybody here today they're here because . if they don't believe mainstream narrative we spoke to politicia

the long weekend julian assange supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete with hearings the wiki leaks founder was kept in a glass cage denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the court process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. and residents of towns in northeastern france accused of illegally dumping garbage across the board. good evening and welcome this is o.t. international. there are fears of a new migration crisis with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in a day that's after turkey opened its borders to the e.u. large numbers of migrants and refugees were seen throwing rocks at the border patrol's before they cut through a barbed wire fence at the turkish border or effectively tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side great police created the newco

throughout the week julian assange has supporters have been protesting outside the court claiming the case is a test of fundamental press freedoms and called on london and washington not to shoot the messenger the pentagon the new admitted. in chose the many straw the body had. the release why aren't we discussing the harm that was released there was revealed by the releases of which is in 20102011 why aren't we here talking in court about the war crimes yes as a nation of innocent civilians by the military the slaughtering of reuters journalists. that is why we should be talking about in a courtroom in this country and in america you know you say what why is everybody here today they're here because they don't believe mainstream narrative. broadcaster and former british m.p. george galloway about concerns surrounding the freedom of press. dylan our sons is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will voluntee

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court denied wiki leaks founder julian assange bail despite him not currently serving a sentence and with fears of a corona virus outbreak in presidents coming up we hear from his legal team. it was the solicitor. to the. judge this is really just an issue maybe a little too close to. hello there this is out international from moscow has just turned 11 am here now this thursday i'm kevin o. and welcome to this 30 minute world news roundup. and 1st corona virus is spreading rapidly around the world as the current number of covert 19 confirmed cases stands at nearly half a 1000000 as of today the death toll has moved beyond 21000 the amount of recoveries is also on the rise too we can report nearly 115000 that's roughly a quarter of all known infection. so than in the latest developments to report to the smalling the french president has given the green light to operation resilience it's a military plan that will see the army deployed to help with the logistics and medical support there in defeating coronavirus g d c d i have decided to launch operation resilience it will be entirely d

assange and wiki leaks about the documents that she had handed over in 2010 something that she says she has already done so she said to the judge no i won't do it this is you know this is the government abusing the law in order to go after whistle blows to go after journalists to muzzle them to shut them up which is something that chelsea manning doesn't want to do she further says that this is a she has already testified she has said what she had to say earlier on attempting to corus me with a grand jury subpoena is just not going to work. i will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury the questions are the same questions that i was asked before the court martial in my. 78 years ago it there's nothing new there's not they're not asking anything new they're out there there's no new information that they're trying to get from me in fact that the questions are very much the the same things that i've gone over the judge didn't like that at all so he ordered her to be indefinitely detained incarcerated behind bars until she talked she was let go for a few months then ordered bac

court denies wiki leaks founder julian assange bail despite him not currently serving a sentence amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak in prisons we hear from his legal team. it was good to listen. to the. judge is really just. a little too close to. hello there this is art international from moscow it's just so 4 pm here now this thursday i'm kevin. to this 30 minute world news roundup 1st coronavirus is rapidly spreading out around the world the current number of confirmed cases globally stands at nearly half a 1000000 and as of this hour today the death toll has moved beyond 22000 the amount of recoveries there was also on the rise over 117000 that's roughly a quarter of all known infections. some of the latest developments to report to you russia has registered its 1st 2 deaths from covert 19 so far it currently has 840 cases with more than half of those infected here in moscow all international flights are said to be grounded from tonight going into tomorrow except for those bringing citizens home moscow and regions across russia have started introducing a series of tight restrict