Less attainabletoday the later , Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and sheryl wu dont report on the issues facing the working class in rural america. An enjoyable tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Great to sit down with you and your book, dont be evil is contained plenty on a timely subject given the political times we are in , given the heights that the stocks of apple, amazon, google and facebook and others have reached but you normally have a pretty broad scope to your coverage. Why is this book, why now mark. At you for having me by the way. I started this book i guess it was in 2017. And i had just taken a job as a columnist for the Financial Times and my mandate was to figure out are the worlds biggest business and economic stories and cover them in opinion form is a rather large mandate and in order for the to narrow the funnel i started looking through wealth figures and i thought i saw an amazing numbers in terms of how well to transition to the technolog
A case where do you have International Attention and interest and its not just us parliamentarians who are observing this case its the. Parliamentary assembly of the council of europe the Human Rights Commission of the council of europe there are so many parliamentarians worldwide why are very concerned about this case and i really dont understand to be frank whats going on in the British Parliament with my colleagues that they dont have there was not one british politician with you know and i mean if they are so secure and so secure about the case that the rule of law is accepted and the conditions are ok with the rule of law why they dont just come and see whats going on in the court room ok i mean i just dont like them i invite the candidate who has got running for the leadership of the labor party come with me as a calm rate and see whats going on in the court room well it again can rains in may of course depending on the health of Julian Assange the magistrate vanessa borate. Shes
Im not sure that they were going underground as the u. K. E. U. Trade talks begin today to determine a post brics it future while they do nation media continues to look away from the case of arbitrarily detained julia songe which may determine the end of free speech in britain coming up on the show deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 document calls on labor leadership candidate gets accused of persecution of Julian Assange to see for himself in court what the u. N. Calls torture and arbitrary detention of the founder of wiki leaks plus forget the coronavirus will breaks it all doubts on multinational Chemical Companies catalyze mass insect extinction all this more coming up in todays going underground but 1st what was it actually like to sit in a london Court Last Week watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder Julian Assange fought for his freedom one International Observer was the deputy leader of the left par
Observers in the Public Gallery for observers they are just 24. 00 seats 6 for the family members and 18 for International Observers and we always have to queue there and wait for about 2 hours just to make sure that we can really go and follow the case in the court room and not in the media and next room where you cannot listen we cannot hear something from the courtroom and in our other way its terrible too because to see how the conditions are which julian is facing i mean he is a really gentle human journalist who havent had to done a crime and hes treated like a top terrorist behind behind a bulletproof glasses. In the back of the court of the court which is just because of him and he cannot follow the court and he cannot hear the court even just hardly he can hear and listen whats going on and i think these conditions are not adequate for a state which is saying the rule of law is totally accepted well he did commit a crime a minor bail violation and the person who is about to pe
Countries witnessed arguably the most important trial of the century so far thanks so much for coming to australia in london rather live in. Even before the trial doctors were saying he may die at any moment what was it like in court. Terrible in many ways its just you know i am really appalled about the situation and the conditions even for Us International observers i have seen so many trials worldwide and im really outrageous about the conditions for Us International observers in the Public Gallery for observers they are just 24. 00 seats 6 for the family members and 18 for International Observers and we always have to queue there and wait for about 2 hours just to make sure that we can really go and follow the case in the court room and not in a media annex room where you cannot listen we cannot hear something from the courtroom and in our other way its terrible too because to see how the conditions are which julian is facing i mean he is a really gentle human journalist who havent