Views documents obtained raised serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms or publisher. Getting to you watching. Could speak facing more than a century and a half behind bars in the United States but he will not find out whether that will happen until at least next february this is after an extradition hearing in the u. K. Was postponed until then. With more. But it really was crunch time for 2 in the sun just this extradition request was being hurt here at Westminster Magistrates Court though he was given a glimmer of hope he will not face the full extradition until february of next year and 2020 its understood that a 5 day hearing will take place at a later date off to february the 24th which his lawyers have agreed to the timetable now of course it to follow indeed yesterday the u. K. s home secretary such as shafiq signing that crucial order that pay for way for this edition of procedure now he believes that this was the skewing the right course of justice but protest as an activist here outside westminster much to say school think that this is not the course of justice in fact completely goes against justice and simply they believe that this is the gangs freedom of expression prize you know there are more journalists here come. To see me Investigative Journalism as im doing now we should be relieved i dont think theres no enough people who realise this is such an attack im freezing and also just to do everything for the right of us to know whats going on the things that he exposed the american model machine thats what we should be checking in so well today it might be slightly more symbolic in terms of laying out the procedures and the very next step it does actually set the ball rolling towards extradition to the United States for 2 in the sun we know in the United States theyve been directed to on to 17 counts under the espionage act for. Classified documents related to the iraq war on the war in afghanistan but also one of conspiracy to hack a government computer to actually these secret classified documents all some say his crimes his socalled alleged crimes for whistle blowing and indeed posing as National Security risk and threat many say that he will not face a fair trial in the United States and thats an opinion thats been held also by the wiki leaks editor in chief i do believe that we are going. To win this with legal argument there is no chance that julian will get a fair trial here in the u. K. Or in the u. S. Of course unless theres a change of reporting that people actually start speaking out were not talking about a prosecution were talking about a persecution opposed to misunderstand back into the public ah i earlier this year in april when he was pulled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy by British Police he was there for a low amount of time in fact 2 and a half 1000 days which is the sum amount of 7 years in that confinement he was of course seeking political asylum he then moved to belmarsh prison where he was serving out his 50 week sentence for skipping fell in 20 trials now this is actually a video filmed inside got belmarsh prison that was obtained by alex he brought me which is the video agency and in this footage you can see your innocence the king someone may see it didnt go to trial its known that hes not a dramatic amount of weight you know something that his father has voiced concerns of earlier this week and we know that he was also sent to the medical board in prison that on top of all of this is not just the United States though wants to decide hes also wanted for swedish prosecutors far locations of Sexual Assault something of course good asuncion selfimage lead to noise and he also believes its a pretext to extradite him to the United States earlier i was doing fine Award Winning australian journalist john pilger who was also in the court room behind me when that ruling was indeed and now since he told me that this is an incredibly difficult moment the freedom of expression you know best me and i have a direct impact on john this was why charges will be made up the charges are contrary to the 1st of evidence of the us going situation. What they call down which is that he is a publisher. Released of information which he has a right to do under the us. Sponsor too should be u. S. Wants to see itself as a great bastion. Of free speech no its not when it arrested journalists and thats why so Many American term us are now so nervous about this. Because it applies to very close to you post a very close to everybody who is a journalist who is what they call the 1st to get it. To mean that journos when they are almost certainly be intimidated from the doing their job we spoke to tracey was the gist of both for time friend of julian the sons who believes that he might not get a fair trial if hes extradited to the United States. June in a sign shes not an american he goes to the americans he wont be covered by free speech 1st amendment of their constitution so its gets very dangerous for everybody who in any way is working towards revealing the truth whether you are a journalist or a human rights expert or an environmentalist and any time that you criticize the American Government its secret Service Since its military you could be literally extradited by the British Government why cant we stand up on our own 2 feet and say no hes a hero he has allowed us to have information which is precious we need to know if i government is committing crimes in war we need to know if its true committing crimes in the democratic process. This man is a beacon of hope for free speech. Among Julian Assange his supporters says lori love love is a well known british hacker charged by u. S. Authorities for stealing classified data from Government Agencies including nasa and the army 2018 he won a landmark appeal after a british judge ruled against loves extradition to the states citing fears that he commit suicide in the custody of american or thirtys now hes speaking out in support of a such a 3 viking and we will succeed again he will be victorious and you will not be active i would say. Its none of us should be able to live with. A tray. Of them that courage. That we would have betrayed journalism. With the east and. If you could bring. Washingtons claim iran was responsible for attacking 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman this i doubt cast on it earlier the u. S. Presented a video that claimed to show iranians removing an unexploded mine from one of the vessels of the tank is owner says that his crew reported the boat being hit by flying projectiles more than a good job with the crew see they were hit by a flying object we dont think it could have been a bomb attached to the boat. As mentioned the u. S. Military Central Command claims that this video here shows irans responsibility u. K. Foreign office also confirmed the u. S. Accusations saying the revolutionary guard corps should be held accountable for any and leader Hassan Rouhani accuse the u. S. Of destabilizing peace and security in the middle east but u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o said that no one else in the region had the capacity to carry out such an attack. Islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred in the gulf of oman no proxy Group Operating in the or has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication. Over the last 2 years the us has been implementing an aggressive approach violating International Law and using its financial and military clout this poses a serious threat to the region into Global Security the Iranian Foreign minister has branded the claim his country was behind the attacks sabotage diplomacy russias foreign minister said the us is creating an artificial escalation of tensions in the region the details his kill him open. So they were to oil tankers that were hit. Im going to forward them but i want to know. From one of them to from both of you. Dont want company. To go and hes going to be more neutral to. The boat but to put the civil the bid in the in the did it will get on the. Lets go over the facts now the 1st one belongs to John Frederick 2 so hes a long time norwegian trading partner of iran his relationship with iran goes back to the 1980 s. One biography even refers to him as the ayatollah as lifeline so at a time when washington is using all kinds of pressure to try and stop or running an oil exports it really doesnt make sense for iran to then lash out and attack one of its oldest friends now the 2nd oil tanker to be hit is even more interesting this is a japanese owned chemical tanker and it was hit at the same time that japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay was in tehran meeting with irans Supreme Leader is that. Iran from the ancient times of the persian empire into the present day has been the great country of the middle east and will remain so i mean the future so were to believe that at the time that iran was making nice with japan while japan was helping them to find ways to help their oil exports keep flowing despite us. Sanctions that iran then turns around and decides to bomb a japanese vessel in fact iran has been rather nice to the United States in the last few days a us resident who is charged with espionage was just released as a gesture of goodwill so why would they then choose this moment to fire tar paedos in the gulf of oman the Iranian Foreign minister job and zarif is describing these events as suspicious reports of the tax on japan related to tankers occurred while pm was meeting with ayatollah for extensive and friendly talks suspicious doesnt begin to describe what likely transpired this morning while iran is struggling to keep its nuclear deal intact and keep its economy afloat by selling its most prized resources on the International Market like bomb peo would have us believe they then flipped out and torpedoed their 2 key Business Partners now why exactly would iran do that well because theyre the bad guys of course dont ask too many questions hale bopp and r. T. New york. The 2 vessels called fire in one of the worlds key oil routes near the strait of hormuz its the only way in and out of the gulf incident prompted oil prices to surge to run threaten to shut the waterway in response to u. S. Threats about sanctions a. Senior lecturer at Lancaster University thinks that there is no evidence the tankers were attacked by iran. Got to remember that the food is that we see our grainy black and white pictures and it doesnt say whether these are iranians because there is no evidence to suggest that it is indeed an iranian battle board and how do we know that the people who are on board are iranians in fact and if the iranians did it why would they be so silly i needed to kind of open themselves up to criticism when the noid very well that there are surveillance cameras satellites that who are going around taking these pictures thats number one and number 2 is the fact that we have harder jubilantly pointed out. When evidence has been doctored and we have our kind of some miss and hooch are not actually revealing the truth and that is the reason why i would use the very phrase weapons of mass deception. You chippers removed the video by project veritas which uncovers the way social media out pinterest allegedly senses conservative views twitter also chimed in temporarily banning the group for sharing internal communications from pinterest the founder of project veritas is accused of waging war on journalism. Tech giants retaliate the side who leaked docs showing censorship of christine and prolife material they have removed our investigative inside reports you tube now 14 bullet proof journalism by deleting it censorship thats how you tube responded to a recent report by project vera 6 posing well censorship in social media the investigation features an inside source from the social media platform pinterest concealing his identity during the interview whistleblower Eric Cochrane exposes the ways his employer censors conservative voices on the platform words like bible verses and christian are put on a socalled sensitive terms list basically words that might offend people are excluded from search suggestions a list of what the Company Considers conspiracy theories was formed also to control the spread of certain information and a prolife website was even labeled as pornography to prevent usage of its link on the platform the documents weve obtained raised serious questions about whether these companies are neutral platforms or publishers with an editorial agenda or her School Groups and cruise through. And somebody. Wardrobe should go to war. Are the ones who support our. Troops over from war groups so what did this whistleblower get in return for shedding some light on social Media Censorship the boot from his job and the backlash didnt stop there twitter also suspended project veritas after the organization leaked pinterest employee chats publishing conversations without permission violated the terms of service they said but the published talks revealed employees calling ben shapiro a white supremacist the pinterest insider also saw how quote white supremacist unquote content like ben shapiro. Commentary for instance goes from identified to censored and somehow his name found its way to pinterest sensitive terms list alongside cocaine and some not so very tasty sandwiches see the connection and to be honest this isnt the 1st time project vera toss has so controversially done what journalists are supposed to do. One strategy is to back. Down from one thing they dont know. But you know what she should get. The vote and i think the go. There we. Go. I think a lot of. What it was like. You know what they say when the going gets tough the tough get going. The interests of the website was targeted for misinformation relating to conspiracies the nation of vice you tube added its robust guidelines exist due to the importance of user privacy the tech expert told us that platforms like you tube are increasingly losing peoples trust. But they didnt want people to know what what they found out i mean what they found out was actually very bad they found out that that there was a systematic suppression of conservative voices on on these basically on these platforms that are open and in fact under the law are these are supposed to be Communications Systems which are protected speech that people have its just like a telephone they dont censor your telephone calls and why should they be able to censor you when you go on twitter or on instagram this is the kind of thing thats happening now and people just need know one thing they cannot trust these platforms for anything. The b. B. C. Is facing a backlash from u. K. Pension is theyre angry after the broadcaster announced it was scrapping free t. V. Licenses for the over 70 fives right because diff has more. Respecting and. Elders looking out for them is one thing but moneys money if a 75 year old can watch t. V. They sure as heck can pay for it says the b. B. C. Currently all households with people over 75. 00 are entitled to a free t. V. License that government funded scheme which is expected to cost 745000000. 00 pounds by 2021 slash 22. 00 comes to an end in 2023 teles over the grandpas and grandmas time to cough up in short millions of pensioners many of the disabled and living on very modest incomes are going to have to sponsor the b. B. C. Because the corporation doesnt feel like shutting some of its hugely expensive projects the b. B. C. Did the math right what they got wrong was the public reaction outrage boycott the b. B. C. There is disgrace money grabbing all sound a 5 year old should be exempt from pains a license fee. So over 70 fives have served their country and worked for decades to make our country a better place will not be church 154. 00 pounds for a t. V. License a week after d. Day commemorations shima new b. B. C. Petitions popping up left and right anger frustration a feeling of injustice why of those who worked serve the nation for decades being put in the same level as everyone outs where are your manners even government ministers Party Leaders are upset pensioners have spent their lives contributing to our society providing over 74 hours with 3 t. V. Licenses is not too much to ask here is the kicker the b. B. C. Plans to make an additional 500000000 pounds by making the seniors pay for comparison thats roughly the cost of 5. 00 f. 35. 00 fighter jets which the u. K. Is buying 140. 00 of talk about priorities some are angry about the t. V. License cost say the b. B. C. Of today the quality of their programmes dont justify the billions that go into it with the latest public hits show hosted by a cartoon Vladimir Putin who has what appears to be a middle eastern accent. You see now why the b. B. C. Needs more money the poor fellows cant even afford a russian voice actor public patience is wearing thin there are those that are getting tired of the scandals of the scandal coming out of the b. B. C. Be it ridiculous salaries for the top guys or lack of objectivity so many british people are asking openly why are they still paying to own tea. These in the age of the internet almost certainly this idea of a t. V. Being a separate box that different to your computer will completely disappear. From many many households and then the question do you have a t. V. Will become a weird question to ask by the way the b. B. C. Is still 250000000 pounds short of keeping the all of its stuff on there so if you have any ideas of who else to squeeze for a few more quid immigrants centenarians dont hesitate get in touch ill appreciate it the b. B. C. Is decision comes after the u. K. Government passed the cost of funding for the licenses for the over 70 fives on to the broadcaster the b. B. C. Insists that maintaining free licenses will affect the quality of programming adding those least able to pay will still be entitled to a fee waiver writer mike yardley says that people are losing patience with the b. B. C. There is a tremendous amount of anger in the country about the b. B. C. There is this feeling that the b. B. C. No longer represents the voice of ordinary british people and it is of course a state broadcaster and t. V. Licensing is a brand of the b. B. C. And it is extraordinary the 10 percent of the people who go to court in britain are going to court about t. V. Licensing issues and that most of those people are little old ladies and some of them may even end up in prison for not paying a t. V. License i think there is an argument that people are deeply concerned about the elitist liberal direction of the b. B. C. Theyre concerned because it pursues certain agendas for example its very positive on Global Warming this is a major issue for the b. B. C. It doesnt like mr trump it doesnt like wrecks it and a lot of people feel theres been a huge political bias not just in b. B. C. News programs but in b. B. C. Comedy and in other output i mean this is a very big issue. For a White South African farmer was murdered 3 simply amid rising tensions over Land Ownership in the country r. T. Spoke with the victims the neighbor who was himself attacked the day after the killing. I saw. A person in the outside the window in the kitchen. And it all. Happened so fast it was standing on the ground so when this guy was smashing it at the boats with the crew. I grabbed hold of it to to try and get a problem because i thought that i could stop him. From smashing his way in but he was so strong. In post apartheid south africa white people make up about 8 percent of the population but they still dominate the economy and owe more than 70 percent of the countrys most productive land in 2017 the African National congress endorsed the expropriation of land without compensation or the policy has still to become law prospectors heighten tensions bring in the National Debate over the ownership of land right to the fore the number of farm attacks is increased significantly over the last 4 years the government denies white people are being deliberately targeted and says farm murders theyre just part of south africas crime problem but white farmers say that they live in fear we were shocked when we would difference mut whod been killed and they were a lot more scared than we were say even through you 2 years ago in the last year ready 18 months we had no burger proving owner we didnt think it was necessary but now we think its different but definitely in this is. According to the police one of the suspects in the recent farmer murder was previously employed by him in the mass stop is a spokesperson for black 1st land 1st and says south African Society still lacks equality. South africa is a divided society the most Unequal Society when the world we continue but people in general in this country are subjected to lend this and this and in this particular case and white people in particular the white minority continues to elude over the land that they still send 62. 00 p. To 80 percent of the lead people that people are but to kill and continue to live without pain and without hopes in an indian dignified way the White Community strive to be sent to the international community. Like the. White genocide against because its completely false white people when they die in the. Age of communities or and their followers that the stolen land that there was this white people in the white could be good noise tries to make it like its some special experience that they have been told that if anything we must realize that black people are subjected to in human come to ships that need to get those living in a christmas a they really made lenders that majority were sewn into the ghettos and kill each other as it is out of this and white people Must Immediately turn them and that they have stolen so as to ensure that we as black people can look with dignity and not be 0 placed in the ways that we have been all being oppressed and as a runt of they join me for the latest on our top stories here and ill say enough. You know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath 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. Hello and welcome to cross top where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle after a breakdown of negotiations president s trump and she may soon again meet to hash out a trade deal the stakes couldnt be higher both sides would need to proceed to wind failure could witness the Global Economy divided into rival blocks and a dual internet world. Talking the trade war im joined by my guest heather in washington she is a financial analyst as well as a Vice President of vision for Fund Distributors also in washington we have john gong he is a professor at the university of International Business and economics located in beijing china and in forest hills we crossed to Michael Hudson he is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city as well as author of forgive them their debts a Financial Times 2018 book of the year all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate heather let me go to you 1st in washington it seems to me i mean you know were all covering this socalled trade war you know beat by beat pulse by pulse but you know and and the larger screen scheme of things its really about