a songe citizenship could actually achieve ecuadorian officials say it does give him an extra layer of protection towards finding a solution to let him leave their embassy but britain says the only way to resolve the issue is for a songe to surrender to face justice we've been asking some people in ecuador what they think. the medical system it's vital to continue negotiating the situation is difficult being incarcerated for several years is dangerous to health we all know that the objective behind the trials has nothing to do with the song to wiki leaks there's a real possibility of extradition to the us. at the end i think it sounds was treated inhumanely during the entire trial process a prisoner without a fixed sentence and with rights to defense been violated so just to recap just been holed up in ecuador's london embassy for more than five years now after swedish prosecutors began investigating sex assault allegations against him british authorities are also after sanjay after he jumped bail when he went into hiding at the embassy and the u.s. has long been trying to get its hands on the whistleblower for leaking a bass the amount of classified documents on wiki leaks but we discuss the options facing sanch with the social justice campaign george barda he thinks the political stakes for britain a legal concerns the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions so the charges in terms of the case in sweden have now been dropped. maybe there will be an extradition attempt and various kind of international bodies found when they looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the u.s. of minimal with the robert miller investigation and the allegations about collusion between the trunk campaign and wiki leaks there's obviously a. sort of politicize ation element potentially around this case with bricks that looming the u.k. obviously wants. positive treatment from the u.s. as it leaves europe and in terms of potential trade deal you know so there are concerns obviously this will this will be treated politically rather than legally. nowadays that nearly decision time for don't trump on whether to extend punitive sanctions against iran have a look at whether that could happen just after the break. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported in a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. applied for many years so i know the gunman so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending to twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful just like great chance for. welcome back now a deadline is looming for the u.s. president on whether to extend sanctions relief for iran as poss of a nuclear deal struck back in twenty fifteen trump is a vocal opponent off that agreement and u.s. officials all suggesting new restrictions could be just. i am expecting new sanctions on iran we continue to look at them we've rolled them out and i think. you can expect there will be more sanctions coming well ahead of america's decision the french president told trump they were in favor of a strict application of the green with this echoed a statement on thursday from other here are paying countries. great value richard c.p.o. way that you deal with iran the deal is working you want to. protect just if you were a white support for this deal make sure that the lifting of nuclear related sanctions has a positive impact on trade iran is in compliance with this agreement of the only agreement which prevents us for the proliferation of nuclear weapons it's crucial for the security of the region but also what the security of the iran nuclear deal was signed in twenty fifteen after nine years of talks to six other countries including the u.s. it was seen as a major breakthrough ending a long running confrontation but washington now insists the deal allows tehran to expand its nuclear capabilities with a lot at stake we've been hearing how the disagreement is driving a wedge between america and its allies what we see at the moment we see a historic drift between the united states. and the e.u. we never ever seen such a gap such distance between the e.u. and the u.s. at least over the last thirty or forty years or so what happened in brussels was really interesting if they can believe every important player in the e.u. defied the verdicts of president trump the main target is really to pressure the american government to stick to the deal to do nuclear deal with iran that is the main objective i believe from the e.u. side not just the e.u. as a whole but also for france and germany as separate member states of the u.n. security council what would happen if really do us step out of the deal this is not something like like like the climate the climate agreement this is something that would much worse consequences and. not just over iran either where the us is being called to account at the moment because their new ambassador to the netherlands has come under fire from journalists at his very first news conference there he refused to defend previous remarks on the influence of eisel in europe and he's not the only one trying to give the press the slip. but it wasn't for. that you should. revisit it you should not ask your readers to do support something you believe useful. or not. why don't you answer the question was answered because this is not work for this is another man's. treasure and. we're going to use cluster weapons in europe and this is not. good news for you for your wife but. yes or no yes. now a brand new us submarine project set to be delivered in twenty thirty one could be left dead in the water right at the beginning of its development stage it is being compared to america's most costly fighter jet the f. thirty five which has been widely slammed by entry experts for its technical phase you know france in santiago reports. meet the colombia class submarines the u.s. navy's in business project to replace old nuclear submarines said to be decommissioned from twenty twenty seven twelve ballistic missile submarines all carry seventy percent of america's nuclear arsenal and are supposed to be packed with new technologies the columbia class submarine program is well positioned to provide needed capability at an affordable price on the time i need to meet national strategic deterrent requirements the new class isn't expected to enter service until twenty thirty one but already at a design stage it's causing some huge concerns the u.s. government accountability office is latest report highlights quite a few problems with the super project some of theology is yet to be developed heavy deal laser expected and the costs could skyrocket columbia class is not funded on too quickly to address program risks this is more likely than no the columbia class program will exceed the navy's one hundred twenty eight billion estimate of total acquisition cost. expensive and of big strategic importance ring a bell anyone columbia's submarines are already being compared to the f. thirty five fighter jet the u.s. military's most costly and arguably most miss civitas project the f. thirty five assessment reports have pointed to at least two hundred seventy six deficiencies in combat performance marked as critical to correct from unacceptable flight performance when breaking the sound barrier to overheating problems and cyber security vulnerabilities hundreds of issues of all kinds. so why would the us pursue another ambitious project and insist it's flawless despite worrying assessments called front loading you make a lot of big promises up front that this wonderful new technology is going to work just perfectly and then you hook in congress to commit to funding something like this and as with the f. thirty five once things don't work as play and then it's not very easy to get off the hook because they've already committed the money upfront to get the project started it's something that the that the military industrial complex together the pentagon has done for decades congress has a long history of appropriating money for weapons systems and other military equipment that the pentagon neither want nor needs so ultimately this is a political issue where you see unfortunately the columbia class submarine could mark the next big sinking of american taxpayers' money i mean look the u.s. has the largest military budget of ball yet a massive chunk of it is wasted on disastrous projects which are still being carried out only because they are too big to fail francis and jago r.t. . then friday does main football here or not and in today stan collymore show standards catch up with the former england footballer gary lineker 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i'll never know but. after ninety minutes extra times two two so we go for the team to bobby bobby cause. i told you so. great story you can watch the stan collymore show in full a bit later on are you watching r t nice to have you company this morning will be back. it's being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this a serious diplomatic opening or merely a ploy south korea appears to welcome this opening as the same apply to washington . the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with we korea colonies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline off to almost a decade how good are the results in your own peaceful by the people gathered in which there was a lot 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sort of. newspaper. and probably other politician which were tough. other politicians the media would point to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no one american single special a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze enlisting in the military this woman never thought she'd be in danger from her fellow soldiers grapes assaulted and harassed she was forced into a struggle that ended her career to victims of rape have a fair chance of justice in the u.s. military air force veteran and military rape crisis center worker jennifer norris is with me today to share the story of her back home. american women are reaching the highest ranks in the modern military but away from the front lines the fund themselves defenseless against a threat much closer to home why is sexual assault so rampant in the u.s. military what happens to victims who did it to speak out is the pentagon willing to concede. its own soldiers face. jennifer norris retired u.s. air force veteran activist in the military rape center who herself had firsthand experience of sexual assault in the military sank you for joining us on this program. i want to start right away now the first time this happened you were drugged by your recruiter did hate shrink kid into having sex with a game do you have any recollection of how the incident happened. when i look back on the incident i realize that i was actually tricked by this man to even go to the party to begin with he had told me that it was a new recruit party for other recruits and i was excited to go meet them because they would understand exactly how i felt so he had ill intentions from the get go because when i got there there were no new recruits i was the only one how many times were a year subjected to sexual assault or abuse or is it just that one case. it started with that one case and i thought that maybe it would be over after that that i was just on lucky at the wrong place at the wrong time so i pushed forward but unfortunately as i entered into the military service it happened again and again and again within the first two years of service so tell me this why didn't you report straight away after that happened the first time i didn't report the first time because i hadn't even gone to basic training yet and i didn't really know what to say to i don't even know where to go if i was supposed to go to a commander in the military if i was supposed supposed to go to the police department i was completely clueless as to what sexual assault and rape in harassment were at that time so i just tried to soldier on and move forward with a career that i was looking forward to doing for at least twenty years so what happens at that moment when you know you're assaulted sexually what what do you feel what do you go through is it guilt is it shape is it what uncertainty. it used to be shame because i used to feel like i was an eighty eight for going to this person's party but after years of counseling and working with rape victim advocates i learned that predators operate in much the same way they're very manipulative and they will set you up for an attack or they will take advantage of an opportunity and so now i realize it was a calculated crime but it took me years to realize that so far those. who hasn't been faced with this kind of ordeal but you know what danger is always there tell us how do this manipulators actually trick their victims into it how do they lure you in. i think they do what you would call grooming so they make you believe that they're trustworthy and that they're going to take care of you and it almost seems like it's too good to be true and so when you're naive you don't necessarily realize that not everybody is speaking at face value so as an eighteen year old or even a twenty four year old it's easy to fall prey to the niceties because you don't know that there's evil lurking behind it and i think that's the real danger of these these kind of people and how they operate is that it's they're able to get to us based on a trust that has been established in the military we depend in we are dependent on each other in every way especially in trust so how old were you like eighteen when that happened no i was actually twenty four i had already graduated from college as a social worker i worked in the field for a couple years i worked with as a case manager i worked on a suicide crisis hotline and then i decided i wanted to go and get my master's degree and the military offered a g.i. bill that could help me accomplish those goals so that's the number one reason that i joined aside from being patriotic and wanting to give back in being involved in something that was bigger than myself ok so i was completely clueless as to what was in store ok you know one woman who went through a similar ordeal air force sergeant marti riviera she said that the military has a way of making females believe they brought this upon themselves do you feel that as well. yes did you blame yourself for what happened i did for the longest time because especially with the recruiters incident i. knew that as soon as i walked through that door that there was danger but it was too late to turn. back and that particular incident taught me a lot about how to take care of myself in the future unfortunately if you're working for someone that's assaulting you you can't escape them so no i don't have shame or blame or any of that stuff anymore as far as what i did all i did was go to work in uniform and these people took advantage of their power an opportunity and that's what we're trying to change is that. it's taken more seriously if someone doesn't factor abuse their power in that kind of a sad i'm trying to figure out the psychological aspect of it how exactly does the holes military structure make you feel guilty for what has happened and not the other way around i understand so. given the way that you report currently in the military it's not you don't go to a police office to report a crime you're supposed to report it to your commander in my particular case and in a lot of soldiers cases that the commander is also has a relationship with the perpetrator and he may or may not have known the perpetrator way longer than he knows you and so what it does is it creates an atmosphere of intimidation that if you see your commander hanging out with the same guy who assaulted you then you feel like oh wow he's not going to take me seriously that looks like they're both really good friends and then when you do go ahead and report the first thing that the defense attorneys start looking into is whether or not you're this here that you know how do you conduct yourself you know they immediately go into well you shouldn't have been at this place and if you hadn't you know that wouldn't happen well they could've done that to me too but it's not our fault that i know we thought we were attending what was supposed to be but i'm thinking jennifer i'm thinking there are also other women working in the military i mean they you know they're they're compassionate creatures you could have shared your story with them they certainly would have understand what you once through especially if this happens all the time maybe there are other women alongside you who are actually subjected to the same sexual assaults did you share your story with any of your female peers what i learned is that first of all i was one of very few women in my squadron there may have. and if we were lucky three of them and one of them is in and ministration our personnel and then maybe there's another one in another shop but i was the only female that was working for satellite communications in combat communications so no i didn't have other females that i could turn to and say you know hey this happen to me as a matter of fact i didn't want anyone to know that this had happened to me because i didn't want to be judged unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator they think that you're going to be hypersensitive to if they swear or if they say something in offense you know offensive when in fact it's not going to be that way at all so there's a culture of fear built up in the military and i think that's why they want to automatically blame it on the woman because if she goes away the problem goes away and they can get back to work as normal human rights watch reports very dire picture of what happens to victims of sexual assault and they say i quote. that these people are being spat on deprived of food assailed with obscenity threatened with friendly fire during deployment discharged for misconduct is it true is it really that dangerous to come forward it is in some cases it just depends on your situation if you're isolated you're in way more danger than say other people would be on some big base that has security forces in a in a jag office but if you're in someplace like the eighty's or zor you know in some other random location across the world in all you have is the people that are with you then yes you could be in grave danger if in fact someone harms you and threatens you and says that if you say anything that they they will kill you it happens i research it we have had non-combat deaths occur overseas that include homicide and unsolved cases that nobody is talking about and that's what we're trying to tell people is. did you get threats where you threatened. yes not only was i threatened but i was physically beat after i reported by one of the perpetrators friends the entire squadron turned on me i was automatically the liar even though they didn't know the circumstances and even though we did have proof and we were able to move forward with two of the four cases the other people in the squadron did not know what had happened so they believed the perpetrator who was able to tell them the story while i was at some other squadron waiting for the case to go through but see for me it's just mind boggling that you're saying you just like standing there harassed assaulted in the open with other people just standing by and not interfering how come no one interfered why didn't troops come forward for a fellow soldier. well i did have a couple people that had my back along the way but it felt more like it was a culture of fear like nobody dared stand up to those that were higher ranking if they were the ones that were doing the the harm because they were afraid that it would have backlash on their career to me now. i don't have respect for those people that didn't stand by and take a stand and support the ones that were actually being harmed but along the way there were some silent people that came up to me and said that this person had done that to them that this person had done this to them and so people opened up along the way but they wouldn't take it as far as i did in actually report although i must say it was because of a senior master sergeant that i finally confided in he's the one that finally convinced me to report the four individuals to the commander jennifer we're going to take a short break right now and while we're back we'll continue talking with jennifer norris u.s. air force vassar.

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