A step towards ending his five year confinement in the London Embassy arties an associate check into his birth. The mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of Julian Assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the Ecuadorian Embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that Julian Assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. Shirt with the Ecuadorian National colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to be specifically answered by either Julian Assange himself the founder of wiki leaks or ecuadorian officials what we do know so far is that a son seems to have been issued some sort of national ecuadorian Identification Number which is easily seen on the ecuadorian web site where this particular number coincides with his full name now the questions there are whether or not this is an i. D. That could potentially be used for him to apply for it were dorrian citizenship or somehow changed his status when it comes to this very complicated case that has now spanned over several years what we do know is this comes following earlier statements from the ecuadorian foreign minister saying that its really time to move on with his case lets take a listen with the peasant companies in those conditions forever. Considering the option of mediation will put this into said that could be done virus that country or individual solution no solution is possible without International Corporations or without that if the u. K. Wishes expressed interest in finding one well there are lots of questions now about who this potential mediator could be because obviously when it comes to the complications of Julian Assange being able to actually step out of this embassy. Find us revolves largely on what his status is in the u. K. Because clearly its been made very clear many times over and over by british officials that even if he does step foot outside the embassy he would be snatched up by them for the simple reasons of having breached his bail when around the time of when his whole case began to unravel so that has been the position of the british officials of course despite having the world seen that organizations such as the United Nations have found his detention to be arbitrary that of the swedish investigation that has been going on for quite some time having dropped the sexual allegations against him there were lots of assumptions there that this would open the door first to walk out of the sack with dorian embassy where hes been holed up a bunch of the asli all of this has been based largely on the fact that a staunch himself believes that as soon as he walks out he would be extradited to the u. S. Which seems to be his biggest fear given the sort of expectation for him to be punished there for his work as a whistleblower with the website wiki leaks having provided so much information when it comes to certain doings of the American Government so certainly a lots of questions were going to obviously be watching this very closely in terms of what is this going to mean for songes status not just within ecuador but potentially his case beginning to move forward a little bit more. Of a lawyer on this developing story were now joined by political analyst and also jeanne a lot of jayna thank you for joining us well according to the latest of the british newspaper the guardian the forno here the Foreign Office has denied ecuadors request for diplomatic status fold unisons i mean why do you think they would do that. Well i guess that this case has been so complicated from the very beginning and im sure there is a lot of political stuff going on as well behind the scenes that a lot of us cant see as part of the media in the united feelers out there and im hearing a lot of conflicting stories from people who are very close to the situation some more than others and so i think that theres a lot behind the scenes that were just not seeing quite yet so i think it will begin to continue rather to unfold in the days ahead lets look back over some aspects of this story i mean swedish prosecutors they dropped their probe on two new songs last year so why do you think the u. K. Are still set on arresting him well it could just be frustration because theyve been trying to do it from day one and theyve really been prohibited by the embassy and so it could just be frustration you know and almost one to prove that that theyre going to be able to do it and have the ultimate victory i dont think anyone can know particular what it is so particularly bad but anything about it. That a lot of maybe you would say is we dont want out of this deadlock. But without immunity the government there in the u. K. Is saying possibly with these mediation tactics that europe or he very much in the thank you for reply dated. Now the us mad max rather whats left of it that numbered in the south just for the look of a devastated husks of. Money. Shes never hungry are scared of you know she be going to school my mother says im mad. What else is there to do in mosul why she said it was and just it was during the holocaust and that to me that if she ever put it. Out strange the u. S. Had pledged to help and do what its bombs did they are already helping Fund Reconstruction iraq says it needs a hundred billion dollars to rebuild and the United States has doubled its pledge to one hundred fifty Million Dollars or about zero point one percent of what iraq needs and no one seems to have seen any of that but a city in your city if you had much if you. Do who would. All die for but. Dont have sherman. I love comedy not the shouting here about i would die i should i hadnt this way now i push any of them and many of us said it would rather than nothing send a message that the the numbers are an entirely different leagues but the United States spent on burning isis out of iraq and what the us has pledged to repair the damage it did or entirely in comparable numbers the average cost of a u. S. Air strike in iraq at the beginning of the operation. Very roughly counting fuel fly time cost of bombs made in uncertain military pay was half a Million Dollars for one of their strike they carried out fourteen thousand their strikes in iraq alone and after helping turn iraqi cities into these all they can pledge is one hundred fifty Million Dollars the equivalent of two midsized passenger jets that isnt going to change many lives in iraq. A course in germany has provoked controversy after it blocked the deportation of a turkish extremist the decisions likely to give chancellor Angela Merkel a headache and she struggles to form a Coalition Government r. T. Shiela do bensky reports. Well germanys top court her has ruled on wednesday that a person cannot be deported back to their country of origin if they face torture or Inhumane Treatment in that country now Turkish Court has said that germany would need to have appropriate assurances that neither of those would take place if a person was deported to that country now this case has been highlighted because of a court case brought by a german born turk who was convicted back in two thousand and fifteen of supporting terrorism the man whos thirty years old had traveled to syria and had supported a terrorist organization in the country including giving funds to that terrorist organization there he received a three and a half year sentence for doing so here in germany but in two thousand and sixteen he was threatened with deportation back to turkey and he decided to appeal that threat and take it to the court system here in this country now he had support from groups such as amnesty who said that if he was deported to turkey because he had links to a Terror Organization he could be tortured or abused and that man has two thirds of his sentence left to serve and could be released within the next year and that is highly controversial here in germany because many people fear that he could potentially be a Terror Threat in the future. More moderate to liberal liberal germany. Whole. Idea. Im afraid of the future and germany of course is no. Stranger to terror attacks the countrys been on high alert since the Christmas Market attack in december two thousand and sixteen which killed twelve people and injured dozens others in just weeks after that Christmas Markets attack the german interior minister called proceed deportations in cases like this but this ruling could spoke in the wheel of those with anybody now able to claim that if they deported back to their country of origin they could face Inhumane Treatment or torture the ruling comes during merkels ongoing struggle to form a government following the election in september the chancellor failed to create a coalition with minor parties and shes now conducting negotiations with the leader of the social democrats Martin Schultz who previously refused the offer to work with her former german Intelligence Officer and are up please the ruling to keep a potential terrorist in the country may further split the parties this thing is. A few on the fire or anyone and its not only the. Close in the social union to the christian democrats who wants to have. Criminals deported a new ruling of the federal Constitutional Court to not be received with great pleasure by the public at large us democrats are proposing radical new measures against alleged russian influence find out more after the break. When else should seem wrong. Why dont we just dont all. Get to shape out just days after. And in detroit because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. A cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from the rage in syndrome. Unfortunately it appears that once people learn that youve 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. Welcome back the u. K. s government has rejected calls for a better system to prevent future Prime Ministers making the same mistakes as tony blair made over iraq a special committee argued strictly investigation should be carried out before taking the country into a new conflict they inquiry into the war known as the chilcote reports led to the establishment of the u. K. S National Security council what is still to the old National Security issues coordinates the activities of the Intelligence Services and formulates defense strategy. Well the chilcote reports was published in twenty sixteen and ruled the u. K. s military action in iraq was not a last resort the iraqi leader Saddam Hussein didnt represent an urgent threat and there was no undeniable evidence of weapons of mass destruction being used by the Iraqi Government since the german from the start the War Coalition believes its easy for u. K. M. P. s to vote for war much harder for them to deal with the consequences. Chilcote was made to change the whole way in which these decisions were made it hasnt been implemented that hasnt been taken up and i fear that we are going to get another episode like weve had with tony blair in the past and of course it shows that this government just like the blair government doesnt want to be constrained by anybody the decision to go to war can be taken by a toy any clique of people around the Prime Minister with very little democratic accountability and of course its very very easy for these m. P. s to vote for war its much much harder to deal with the consequences of a war as weve seen in iraq as we as were still seeing you know that to reason my body is easier to poll to the case for war. Democrats in the u. S. Of course the measures include the creation of a new into agency cell modeled on the National Counterterrorism center the senators proposed spending more than two hundred fifty Million Dollars on building institutions in europe and eurasia to counter alleged russian meddling the report also suggested preemptive sanctions against socalled state hybrid threat and finally a social Media Companies would be required to track down propaganda and make the income from political adverts public and political analyst charles or tell told us the report is based on false information. Its really shameful its really you know a fake accounting of history its not objective it doesnt really have a proper context and i think serious objective people when they look at this and they try to weigh up the various ways in which we could spend money this wont be won i dont think that that committee reflects. The will of the American People or even indeed the will of congress i think democrats tend to vote as a bloc and this this report which must have been in preparation for many months is yet another tool really used to continue to sell you know the anti russian look there and there to have an end to sell the russian collusion delusion when a new senate is seated perhaps with a stronger republican trop lead with jordi youre going to see very different reports coming out of the committee. The german army is recruiting an increasing number of teenage is according to the Defense Ministry more than two thousand under eighteen join the military last year thats three times more than in twenty eleven germany is one of the few Countries Worldwide that allows under eighteens to volunteer only in a noncombat role teenagers can apply if they are seventeen and have parental consent well the German Military is currently conducting a recruitment drive with offices giving talks in schools across the country the campaign also features an online reality show. I. Explained. I. The Program Follows army recruits for twelve weeks and is one of germanys most popular on line projects however its drawn criticism for making the military more attractive to youngsters. The un is concerned the recruitment drive specifically targets children the german army has defended its methods insisting the training is done under strict supervision regional m. P. Martin dont so from Germanys Left Party is against taunting youngsters had been a huge campaigns in schools even in kindergartens. To. Make the army more attractive to young people there have been some schools who have been working together with the army to put the Young Students in some kind of camp we support some initiatives called the bundeswehr for example which say as well that education should take place without bundeswehr the people who are under aged they shouldnt be urged to. Get into the United Nation already in two thousand and fourteen. The German Government to stop this and race the age of soldiers i think this is a problem. But the main problem is if you do a foreign culture policy with this which is based on dialogue you dont need such a strong army also many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind it. France is minister of culture has attempted to dispel rising concerns about president s mccalls plan to tackle fake news from two thousand census heads the National Media regulator as well as judges would be in charge of enforcing the new law on the one hand you have the c. S. A. And on the other judges so its not the executive they will be getting involved macross proposal to crack down on fake news came a week ago however it immediately spot a backlash with many doubting the governments not getting involved in the process. What was initially tween fake news machines in the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed president ial campaigns and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response but i will say that the first ones who make fake news are the president ial candidates who do not keep their promises this is the real fake news that should be banned who will take care of it is there going to be an anti fake news brilliant or something said no and this no here is it not to the press of little since we go more and more in this direction we forbid everything we are prevented from thinking so much that we no longer know how to think for ourselves. The film almost always come back to George Orwells novel nineteen eightyfour with the ministry of misinformation i really feel like will ready for there and the people outside of it. Independent journalist nuclear verse says the crackdown on fake news is misguided i dont believe in it a tall i mean first if it goes to the judges its not reassuring because most of the judges in france are on the left side because for example they put a few years ago that the wall of the idiot saw them you are taking on which they they put some because the victims were complaining about bad sentences and things because they are on the left they know better so if they have to judge on what is a fake news it will always be the same that are condemned they feed us things which are not true so it cannot speak about propaganda hes the champion of it and the propaganda that mr michael himself use this is the word the uses that the press is the victim is the first victim of propaganda no we citizens are the first victim of the propaganda that he organizes. Well for more on these and plenty of other stories that go to the web site. Otherwise ill be back with the latest headlines at the top of the. Ones who knew when you dont. See the t. V. What did the court. What do you most through only ten space to. Make. Love to no. Said. Claiming to know german did not see that. Alex you speak french. Those are the result. Of the. Continued. Slowness busy signal to. Join me every thursday on the alex im im sure and ill be speaking to get us through the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. When the ruling classes protect themselves. With the final merry go round the sun be the one percent. We can all middle of the room sick. Greetings and salutations all right we begin today with some truly frightening news talk watchers and i want to go i want you to get prepared i want you to prepare yourselves for this get your prayers ready prep the underground bunkers alright prepare yourselves did you know that because of the brand name in chief one donald trump consistently watches fox news. Like most republicans across the land that actually makes box news a prime target for russian and chinese espionage and influencing done done. Though the organs yes in todays latest edition of i cant believe im actually reading this that is the dire warning positive by a former cia counterterrorism analyst aki perrette in the Washington Post perspectives section parrot smears is that given Sean Hannitys and fox and friends unadulterated influence on trumps twitter feed that if he were a spy a master in the employ of a hostile Foreign Service hed devote some significant effort to penetrating one specific private institution Fox News Channel he goes on to lay out the aisle tactics those evil russian spies might use he writes a truly aggressive intelligence effort would not just monitor whats being said on the network it would target the on air talent as well as the folks behind the scenes who make the networks programming possible this might range from opening friendly contacts with these employees to outright recruitment. Now i tell you hawk watchers this this this is this is truly truly disturbing news i mean i thought i thought it was my job and our t. V. Job to spread the evil russian influence across the lands now deep state Intelligence Community influences or influencers are telling me that fox news may be the compromised russian propagandists. Im confused and a little hurt a little hurt i guess is just another day of living in the upside down alternate reality insanity that has grown out of russia gate in the new cold war two point zero now lets jump on our b. M. X. Bikes pop some reeses pieces and turn the upside down right side up and start watching the hawks. With you rick. It looks like the trail the attributes would be analyzing the bottom. Of the plate like i got. The please. Please please. Please. Welcome one and all the watching the hard science i roll with and on top of the list