To do. Just. One thing with your house on them. Hello in a welcome across talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle in london Julian Assange and youre standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher saunters libya even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you wouldnt know that for. The Mainstream Media. Cross talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest in london joe lauria he is the editor in chief of Consortium News dot com we also have taylor hudak she is an independent journalist and cofounder of action for a stone age and were joined by alexander make your us he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com or across the cause and effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it lets go to the the legal part of this story here will go to our examine me curious alex i mean the Mainstream Media when it does report the tr
Hello im Richard Gaisford youre watching a special edition of the listening post on a new kind of reporting open source journalism citizen journalism allows anybody with a mobile phone to document a news story to produce content that is now routinely used by news organizations open source journalists often start with that kind of material and then they apply some of the same investigative techniques that are used by police and intelligence agents so this is a growth industry partly because of declining press freedom in some hostile place. In china for instance open Source Researchers have proven the existence and the location of socalled reeducation camps for muslims in the province of shin jack and they broke those stories long before Mainstream Media outlets to open source reporters have also proved valuable on the story in syria where at least 10 media workers were killed in 2018 and they did so without having to go there and take the risks that come with that a sign. Weve had 2 pro
And they broke those stories long before Mainstream Media outlets to open source reporters have also proved valuable on the story in syria where at least 10 media workers were killed in 2018 and they did so without having to go there and take the risks that come with that a sign. Weve had 2 producers working on the story of open source journalism and daniel tory daniel youve looked at how open Source Research has shed light on the camps in synch and well see that report a bit later on but briefly what have you learnt while for a long time richard chinese officials were actually flat out denying that these camps even existed and at the same time the government was doing its best to make sure that journalists on the ground in shin jang didnt find it and thats where open Source Research has made their mark it was the evidence that they are coveted which ultimately gave the lie to those denials that have been coming out of beijing. Tarik your report on syria will be coming up 1st that war
So then the u. S. Defense secretary has had to clarify there has been no decision to pull troops out of iraq casper and other military figures to set the record straight after a draft letter by a top general was in their words mistakingly circulated the confusion followed a vote in Iraqs Parliament pushing for all Foreign Forces to go after the assassination of top iranian come on a custom sort of money iraq is also urging the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and a shia militia leader who died alongside u. N. Chief tears hes worried about the growing fallout ive been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean Constant Contact with living officials around the worlds and my message is simple and clear stop escalation. Exercise maximum restraint restart dialogue new International Cooperation that does not suggests the terrible human suffering caused by walk but massive scenes of grief and rage have filled the streets of irans capit
Levan owski and through uber and the way mo unit accused of trading secrets when he left one company for the other. This press conference just wrapped up in the last ten minutes or so. Were just getting our first look at that indictment. So well be looking through that for the details but i can tell you that it was unsealed today. And its because he was a Google Engineer at the time, a Founding Member of the group that worked on the selfdriving car project. He worked on that project from 2009 until he resigned without notice from google. He eventually made his way over to uber and worked there. Now neither of these Silicon Valley valley giants are named in the indictment. The u. S. Attorney involved said that they have been fully cooperative and they have gib access to records in trying to resolve this case and research this case. Here is comment from the u. S. Attorney. Silicon valley is not the fastpace and competitive environment does not mean federal laws dont apply or they could b