My. Hello and welcome again to rewind on the product since the launch of aljazeera english back in 2006 were built up a library of Award Winning films and here on rewind were very visiting some of the best of them today were reminded to 2013 when we went undercover on a wildlife smuggling trail stretching from madagascar off the southeast coast of africa across asia to malaysia on the trail of a man known as the Pablo Escobar of reptile smuggling. Well Global Wildlife trafficking is estimated to be worth billions of dollars every year almost as lucrative as the trade and Illegal Drugs and arms a key destination for wildlife traffickers as madagascar over 90 percent of the countrys animals all found anywhere else making them a prize catch for smugglers including anson wong the man named the lizard king would jailed after a sting operation in 1908 he was soon back in business before being arrested again in malaysia in 2010 an aljazeera and best occasion in 2013 travail that those arrests
Over the redeployment of nukes and that poland at the move which interestingly enough is also being criticized by some American Institutions all right its hard to believe i hear. Ever since the coronavirus forced americans to stay home that obviously led to the shutdown of a lot of businesses and congress has since passed several relief measures aimed at getting americans back on their feet but after trillions of dollars got rubber stamp approvals the country as a whole is really nowhere near reopening and americans are becoming impatient with elected leaders well today the u. S. Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chairman were grilled by members of the Senate Banking committee wanting to know where all that money went. Rachel blevins has been monitoring those hearings she is joining us now with the details as a rachel how did these hearings actually play out well this marks the 1st time that Administration Officials were questioned on the results of that 2. 00 trillion dollars
Glamorous facade we talked to steve coogan and Michael Winterbottom about their satire on capitalism featuring the last ever on screen performance of u. K. Celebrity Caroline Flack pulitzer ball coming up in todays going underground but 1st ahead of next weeks hearings on the trial of Julian Assange still heard nothing from u. K. Labor leadership contenders in defense of the wiki leaks publisher but one candidate for Deputy Richard bergen has been speaking out going on the grounds find ahmed caught up with him. I think important that we speak out against the actual vision of Julian Assange who could end up in prison in the United States of america for 175 years people have got to look at was his given reason was given rise to this situation youve got to look at the. Crimes that we kill akes exposed the truth the wiki leaks spoken for example look at the. Video which came out in 2010 a video which went around the world and horrified people showing innocent civilians in iraq being gunned
For 175 years people have got to look at whats his given reason was given rise to this situation youve got to look at the. Crimes that we kill akes exposed the truth the wiki leaks spoken for example look at the. Video which came out in 2010 a video which went around the world and horrified people showing innocent civilians in iraq being gunned down that wouldnt have been seen by the world if it hadnt have been quickly simulate the wall logs in relation to iraq and afghanistan and similarly the treatment of people in Guantanamo Bay it is because if wiki leaks the world knows about these things because it wiki leaks the world to see the evidence of these things vitally important in a democracy the. Truth is known that we know what the powerful do in our name in the name of every citizen in this country so we need to speak up what we call it says dont need to depend defend press freedom we need to speak out against the extradition of jews in the United States america through feeling thes
For a russian agent whos committed sex crimes i mean everything that hes said now in strew. How theyre even having these extradition. Trial for Julian Assange is weird because its goes completely contrary as we know to u. K. Law so our law the law of this country the little that supposed to represent all wear wigs or addition treaty with the elated today has a tree superhit specifically precludes anything that could be claimed to be a political crime or a political misdemeanor which obviously this is because julian is his only crime is to speak the truth to the people and hes speaking truth though to a powerful elite to do not want the truth spoken to the people to go to serve is obviously believes that the espionage act that hacking these are crimes that you can exert i think they do i thin as 6000 the powers that be in washington d. C. Have decided that they want judean killed or at least imprisoned for the rest of his is health its extremely poll. And and they want to tell for that