This is r. T. International. Prosecutors in sweden say that theyre dropping a rape case against wiki leaks cofounder Julian Assange admitting the evidence we can over time this clears the path for his likely extradition to the United States where he faces espionage charges there i spoke with our quarter for the latest. You know this whole saga started out did it with that with the rape allegations against us and youve been through the whole mill since then but now were back to those initial charges thats right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed in International Arrest warrant against songs for 2 charges one of molestation and another of rape but assad has always denied these charges hes even cooperated with the International Investigation from abroad and it was the threat of extradition to the United States if you were to have been arrested in sweden that forced him to take political asylum within the Ecuadorian Embassy in london now it turns out that this case that started it all doesnt even have enough socalled corroborative evidence. Basis is such that he corroborating evidence is not sufficient to in a way that is prescribed by the Supreme Court deemed at the description of the alleged criminal act can be proven. Earlier today the swedish prosecutor explained her reasoning for dropping the charges she said that the witnesses involved were were credible but over the years the case itself had weakened and in the q. And a that followed she also said that the heavy media influence on the witnesses was another important consideration that they took into consideration 1st inspection suppose of joining the soldier might think this is good news but things are rarely that simple do you think it is good news well at 1st glance it certainly seems so but i mean the original fear was that if a songe was arrested in sweden he would be extradited to the United States but the fact of the matter is that the situation has changed since then and lets not forget hes been sitting in a u. K. High security prison since april a staunch has been i mean the government is set to decide his fate in 2 1020. 00 and the United States has already filed an official request for his extradition to london so wiki leaks has already said this actually only means that sweden is no. Longer going to be competing with the United States for the extradition rights over a song now as for what awaits a songe in the United States if he is extradited that while he is probably nothing fair i think a son should be assassinated actually. Contract maybe use a draw or something but this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the United States the guy ought to be and im not for the Death Penalty so if im not for the death and want to do it illegally shoot the son of a i think the man as a terrorist could act tough and say if we catch you were going to hang you whatever 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 and why has the us been so set on getting its hands on the songs well see for yourself. I mean. What are you kidding. The u. S. Secretary of state has announced the Washington Post sanctions on irans furder d Nuclear Facility hell also repeated his support for the ongoing protests in the country around hit back by accusing the u. S. A stirring up unrest. United states will terminate the sanctions were related to the Nuclear Facility at fordo people enjoy a Better Future when their government begins to respect basic human rights abandon its revolutionary. Posture and its destabilizing Foreign Policy in the region and behave simply like a normal nation but. It is strange the United States and its officials who committed the greatest of crimes by imposing much pressure on the toughest sanctions on iran communicating to the iranian people that they support these protests we dont expect anything else from mr disgracefully defends the maximum pressure regime and the position of sanctions on iran. All the rest broke out after a surprise 50 percent hike in fuel prices announced on friday boiled over and at least a dozen cities with buildings vandalized and pictures of irans Supreme Leader burned there and said the revenues will be used to help the less well off it all comes with a country in the grip of a big economic crisis aggravated by u. S. Sanctions. More than explains. The trumpet ministration seems jubilant about the recent protests in iran as i said to the people of iran almost a year and a half ago the United States is with you now the protests are being driven by the Economic Situation g. D. P. Growth projections are down by 9. 5 Percent Inflation is it 40 percent and unemployment is at 16 percent and rising but it was a 15 percent increase in the price of fuel that sparked the recent turmoil. Now in. An economic squeeze like that is bound to get people upset but why is iran in such poor shape well donald trump has a lot to do with it in 2015 the International Community agreed to lift decades old sanctions in response to an agreement that was reached about irans Peaceful NuclearEnergy Program but then along came donald trump he decided to pull out of the Nuclear Agreement he says that iran broke the spirit of the deal however International Observers say that iran fully complied as of today i can state that iran is implementing its. Commitments after pulling out of the deal the Trump Administration began imposing sanctions on iran intended to wreck their economy accusing iran of quote destabilizing activities around the region the usa even threaten to impose sanctions on other countries that dared to buy iranian oil anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the United States im asking for world peace nothing less. Weare ready to impose sanctions on any activity subject to restrictions after the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2015 iran was exporting roughly 2500000. 00 barrels of oil per day now that number is down to roughly 200000 in a country where the economy is centered around state run oil exports thats a pretty big financial loss and it has been detrimental cuts in fuel subsidies and other benefits for the population had to be made so i dont know top arena fishers have sat down and made a decision for the country based on expert assessments and this decision must be executed. But according to donald trump working to economically ruin iran makes him the best friend of the iranian people nothing says i love you like bleeding someone dry as cool nations to support irans people as they struggle to reclaim. Their religious and rights is. Today i want to deliver a message to the long suffering people of iran. The people of america stand with you will be arrayed in people return to the nations proud roots as a center of civilization culture and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again the United States throughout the reigning in history has always been against democracy i mean the United States was the country together with britain that instigated the 1000 the rule against democratically elected mohamed side there right now its no different i mean the United States has imposed a very severe sanctions on iran which is worth a lot of ordinary people so coming out and saying that they support these people is hypocritical in the sense that if you do support these people then you wouldnt sanction them so hard that you know they are having difficulty. With their. David normal my. Ok lets go back to our top story this evening on Julian Assange shits get analysis now from neil clark journalist and broadcaster it was me live on the line. For getting into neil firstly to make it would you make of the dropping of the i wont say charge because the word charges wasnt evidence for charges dropping of the possible case against Julian Assange because this is what started all of his troubles really the that the suggestion that he might be in trouble on allegations of rape is all gone is that a good thing or is it going to lead to more troubles for him it is a good thing that its come i think i fear its gone far too late neal because the dominant narrative is the old saying that life can be halfway around the world d truth has got his boots on i think that really applies at all at the here because during a sanch quite shamefully was referred to by many journalists Many Political figures as a rapist he was referred to as a sexual offender when in fact as you just correctly stated no charges were ever brought were brought against him and so now we have for the 3rd time the sweets dropping the preliminary investigation its quite clear there isnt a case against him and yet the law is going around that this guy is was at the very worst a rapist at least some sort of Sexual Assault in a stroke predator etc. Hes been to smirk and you know the lies been out there and im afraid in a lot of peoples eyes in the general public perhaps a large percentage of them if the mud will stick so even though the charge has welcomed the charge of a prop and now the investigation is being dropped neal i dont think it will make as big a News Headlines as the number of times weve had repeated ad nauseum that this guy was a rapist and so the damage i think has been done to his reputation by and it played an important part as you also said in the whole of his troubles its how his troubles really really began and what that what the whole backdrop of this was was that this having this cloud over him this aspersion passed over him that he was. You know linked with very serious offense of rape this had the effect of course of diminishing the support he could have counted on or would have thought he could rely on from many people sort of left liberals who would you would have thought would be sympathetic to his plight and what he was actually doing reading war crimes but they turned against him and i think that this this this this rapist kind of background to this this sort of allegation played a big part in that given the damage his reputation which might never recover given what you just explained dont you think its important that the prosecutors reveal exactly the specific reasons why theyre dropping the case because it all sounds a bit vague to say will the passage of time is too great as i said to again be a scarce you know witness testimony is not biodegradable that doesnt weaken with time so they need to dont they need to come up with some pretty pretty concrete explanations as to why this is happening absolutely its just not good enough to say oh its 70 years so the witness people cant remember who said this to me this doesnt apply lange other cases where weve got witness statements going back decades in fact and nobodys saying that they that the case has to be dropped because its over 7 years old no we want the telly and particularly. We want the spotlight shown on the i think on on the british authorities and the role they played in this we already know neal from wiki leaks itself the leaks that the british were prosecuting authorities trying to exert pressure on the swedes not to drop the case that had that email that we saw published i think i think the wording was a dont you dare get cold feet so the squeege were under pressure from britain and possibly also for america to to to keep this sort of investigation ongoing on and to have its carrying on against him this cloud over him weve got to look into that and we know that of course d the british we know that the number of emails of actually were deleted relating to this thats going to be very hard to come up with that yes we need detail we want to know exactly why. You know we want it we want basically to find out in detail why this decision was taken today and why they had to be the 3rd time why was it even reopened why was it investigated we dont want to see the pressure find out the pressure that was excerpted on the sweets to do that. Now the fact that the sexual possible sexual offense charges have disappeared it clarifies things quite considerably comes down to his work as a whistleblower which brings about the obvious question which is that why is a whistleblower who is supposedly revealing the wrongdoing of the u. S. President embraced by the u. S. Congress and yet Julian Assange she was a whistleblower he exposed information of the torture of prisoners that Guantanamo Bay the killing of iraqi civilians among many im embarrassing things why is he facing over 100 years in prison under the espionage act. Absolutely and this is what it all boils down to and weve got to remember the dominant narrative weve been spoon fed not r. T. R t to its credit one of the very few Media Outlets that didnt push this this sort of fake narrative was that was that getting a songe was a man who was fleeing rape charges of course a bit of a bought in the Ecuadorian Embassy and that the idea that he had something to fear from the u. S. Extradition was not since we had a british minister saying i think famously that he could just go out of the embassy whats he got to be worried about what we know that he had a lot to the already about now dont we and we know that he wasnt there to flee these great allegations we know that there wasnt a case against him thats been shown today again so he generally he terry had a reason to be in that ecuador an embassy didnt really love to be there he didnt really want to be there by choice and that was the correct move we know now because. Im very fearful that yunus on his health we know is in a very bad way. I fear that it is this agony will continue into the new year and its pretty clear that anybody be paid attention to what this is all about this is about trying to punish a man for telling us the truth and isnt it ironic that we have at the moment we have the stories coming out the allegations of war crimes in iraq carried out by british soldiers and yet the people who took that decision to take this to war in iraq the political leaders have put it and it was an illegal war dont forget that they see these leaders who have total unity whereas the guy who actually revealed to us the illegalities that was going on remains in jail and in a terrible situation in regards to his health really is a scandal i would hope that the journalists who played a key role in this campaign of character assassination of this much in the sun would cause tonight and you know hang their heads in shame but im afraid a lot of the quite famous i dont think that theyll be doing that neil thanks for coming on always appreciate your a frank opinions journalist broadcast the neil clark is my guest. Thanks neal. Now you might have noticed a new feature that we started using this week certain stories have a q. R. Codes alongside it means you can get more information background info on a particular story give it a try and in the meantime you can take a short break join me for more stories. There was an imaginary ghosts then an enemy out there called russia during the russia gate hoax meanwhile huawei another 5 g. Technology is coming out of china and other technology of china china is actually leapfrogging ahead of the us economically and now be is basically the currency war so now that period of focusing on russia it would be is just a waste of time they shouldve been focusing on the actual rivals the americas very dominant in the u. S. Now with the kind of. You know world of big part of the law and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Back. Has provoked outrage by announcing a reversal of a decades old stance on israeli settlements in the west bank they said that they do not necessarily violate International Law settlements so im totally occupied by israel since the 6 day war or one of the most contentious issues in the conflict between israel and palestine. The u. S. Administration has lost its credibility to play any future role in the Peace Process we regard washingtons decision as another step aimed at collapsing the system of International Law regulating the middle east and thus further straining Israeli Palestinian ties settlements in occupied palestine are a blatant violation of International Law and Un Security Council resolutions theyre an illegal action that will kill 2 state solution jordans position in condemning them is unwavering we warn against dangerous consequences of the us change of position on settlements on middle east peace plan all settlement activity is illegal under International Law and it erodes the viability of the 2 state solution and the prospects for a lasting peace. For decades the u. S. Regarded the settlements as being inconsistent with International Law still the view of much of the International Community citing the 4th Geneva Convention washingtons change of stance contradicts numerous un resolutions and International Human rights conventions and some of the latest controversial move by the trumpet ministration when it comes to israel earlier the white house recognized israeli sovereignty of the Golan Heights it was seized from syria in 167 formally it was annexed in 1901 washingtons also broken with International Consensus by formally recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel and both those decisions but widely condemned including by the un when the us announced the Embassy Relocation violent protests erupted with Israeli Forces killing dozens of palestinian political commentator and the order and what are the implications of this latest decision. This is of course a very. Discriminating way of conducting diplomacy and the United States has chosen to act unilaterally disregarding the United NationsSecurity Council even its allies and the western allies do not see eye to eye with washington on this topic so obviously it will not be a precedent and the United States will probably be isolated obviously this is going to please the right wing in israel it is not going to change anything if at all it is going to give more strength to those extremists in the Palestinian Community who say that diplomacy is not the road for statehood and that they must act violently and therefore israelis should be against this policy announcement and not for it. So we do. Really partys last chance in popularity to anti establishment opposition thats the findings of a new opinion poll for the 1st on the more than 100 years the social democrats are no longer the countrys most Popular Party now the figures show the anti immigrant Sweden Democrats would have the support of 24 percent of voters if an election was held today compared with 22. 2 percent for the ruling party the other parties they trailed behind a margin between the 2 is been narrowing ever since 2010 when the swede democrats gained enough votes to Enter Parliament for the 1st time. A major reason cited for the trend is rising crime in the country which is seen citizens swinging in favor of more right wing and nationalist groups Sweden Democrats favor tough immigration controls and increased security along with traditional families it claims sweden has become something of a hub for International Crime according to a separate survey a swedish citizens are increasingly experienced lawlessness violence and vandalism says the numbers are among the highest in europe and the ruling party concedes it is bearing the brunt of public anger. Its a damn tough situation right now so im not surprised when he consider what weve got against us we gang murders shootings and explosions its us as a ruling party who has to pay the price. Cant cross this from the Sweden Democrats party he believes that a hard line against crime is something the countrys been lacking. We need to raise taxes to pay for all this immigration and the of course affects ordinary people because they have to pay more taxes but its also a matter of a cultural phenomenon well swedish people dont feel at home anymore in their own city or in their own country they walk outside and they think where did the big debate. Is on this increasing Gang Violence that is almost exclusively immigrant related the regular order of people cant even walk in. Without the fear or the risk of getting raped getting assaulted getting robbed thats the real risk to freedom well now we have a situation we need to address on one of those things is to be tough on crime which none of the other 7 parties have been or have been interested in being. Without international this city dont forget were on facebook and twitter and you tube but will the social media pretty much and most popular vote i think. Plenty more stories for you that. The. 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Stock market continues to break into record territory we are breaking down the biggest stories youll be talking about this week with our guest peter schiff forward what do you a Supreme Court is looking at a case involving google and oracles that would have enormous implications for copyright laws and whether existing software can be used to build new computer programs well break it down a little is known as being good for the young thing but where do crypto rooms go when their business is needed but you say for promises to be just that well tell you how it works and why that company sees a Bright Future in the sector i want to get to today so lets get to it. Saudi aramco said to price range its range 1. 00 trillion dollars putting it in the running to become the Worlds Largest i. P. O. The oil giant plans to sell 1. 5 percent of the company in a 20 5600000000. 00 i. P. O. 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