then he'll have to also sexual misconduct allegations which he denies and describes as politically motivated laura smith was at london's high court but he's certainly one step closer to the plane following today's proceedings this rejection of his appeal against the extradition it's not certain that he will. he have said that he will appeal he's got fourteen days to do that but an appeal is no you don't go automatically have to be granted permission by the high court to appeal to the supremes cool is the highest court in the land and that will only be granted if it's deemed by the high court that this case represents a white a precedent that it up that applies to the wider public and its results now that he and our sons did come out on the steps of old the high court make a short statement following the announcement he said that he and his team would be considering what that next steps would be in the days ahead and who's they want

people in that would be intense just didn't want to tighten the cool head today and directed them to his website just sounds versus we to hear it from the horse's mouth what has happened what has happened and he also criticized the european arrest warrant let's hear what he had to say about that i have not been charged with any crime in any country. despite this the european arrest warrant is so restrictive that it prevents u.k. court from considering the power over case as judges have made clear here today. to asos and his team considering that next steps in full on really on the european arrest warrant time joined by jim carr and he's the chair of an organization called civil rights international. jim if this case does go to the secret even cool what it looks unlikely that the european arrest warrant itself could come under scrutiny is that something the e.u. would welcome. yes i would welcome dr you know i do think the european arrest

warrant should come under scrutiny because they're just being abused for political purposes because when you know the song was in sweden he did go before a court there should not allowed him to leave sweden once he was there he should be tried if the told there was a case against him and then he was allowed to come here to england. and i believe that there was pressure put on the swedish government perhaps by the american government or by other governments or who were embarrassed as a result of the revelations that we could be exposed to the international community and i believe the duct is why you tried to get to make sure there is very great concern here in the united kingdom. extraditions to the united states because many people believe that they would not get to fear here in

india nightsticks in current thank you very much as jim curran that talking to us outside the high courts where julian assange has now left he's gone back presumably to the house all full in smith in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next steps this case is not safe but it certainly does look less likely that he will walk free at the end of a civil. war and i mean or smith reporting right now the course decision to extradite julian songs to sweden comes just a week after week leaks announced it was suspending activities to a financial blockade and many believe the case is more about his whistleblowing activities or rather than any accusations of sexual assault. i mean this is just the latest in a saga isn't it a kind of scandinavian viking saga of the barbarity of which it is being treated appallingly it's been eighteen months disruption campaign now against what is

actually one of the most important websites in the world what what wiki leaks does is it was one the most powerful tools to address corruption corruption at the highest levels and what we've seen over the last few years with these expeditions in other parts of the world afghanistan iraq a later one libya is the importance of whistleblowers being able to actually expose criminal behavior as being the most powerful person in a way in the world exposing some of these crimes what is certainly very similar isn't it to the dominic stress can sexting it seems to me that there isn't any real basis for this as we heard there's not even been charges over in sweden and so yes it's a spear yes attempt to shut down what is one of the most important media outlets in the world right now. well as always we are always interested in what you think about the course of it and dot com here how your votes are stacking up for right

now so far just over half think the u.s. is using the u.k. as a puppet again about thirty nine percent believe the verdict is the result of a conspiracy to gag internet freedom six percent say it was a legitimate step towards a fair trial the rest think the supreme court may overrule the decision anyway but do submit your vote at r.t. dot com. six minutes past the hour here in moscow the upcoming g. twenty summit in the french city of care is set to begin with what's become something of a tradition massive protests suppressed by police the rage behind the banners remains the same this year that of economic hardship and seemingly disconnected leaders and as artie's daniel bushell reports there's a growing sense that corporate interests are taking precedence over the public's wellbeing. g. twenty who says it wants the summit picturesque mediterranean coast to reflect the full two steve emerging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists sports self interest behind the claim to involve more

rising economies virt is really to try to convince those who rise you can wish to put money on the table to the unsustainable currency union of europe in the first place developing countries which still the west quick to back civil unrest among their population they'll see those same whiston countries coming hold on public movements in the room. and she was to describe double standards the primary powers within the g twenty the united states germany britain france the real dominant economic and military powers they want to show a world order a system of states that still has stability when in fact there is instability this summit is an attempt to put a shiny face on what is really a failed system there's a seam of coal. not just from the side of protesters but also from the police because there's a helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens so there's police

really have mounted this military style operation to shut down and stop any of the protesters going where they don't want them to go one former diplomat says western leaders can't continue to just block criticism this whole idea that. they can simply ignore popular protests against what's happening could come back to bite the leaders of the g seven energy twenty summit this protest different from summits of the post was billed jims dicksee of the latest western banks to get bail dealt with public money growing numbers here worry there's something fundamentally wrong with the current setup we have basically a financial system where corporations and financial institutions are able to write themselves favorable legislation quid pro quo be a corporate lobbyist police roadblocks will demonstrate just getting from east to the nearby town of can with the g. twenty takes place but it's becoming ever harder to stop world leaders hearing the voices of protest. in nice france. now to greece where it's been

confirmed the prime minister's proposed a referendum on the latest e.u. bailout will go ahead george papandreou has called shocked e.u. leaders and sparked chaos on world markets it even came as a shock to greeks themselves with probe l. out m.p.'s calling for his immediate resignation the prime minister is now due to fly to the g twenty meeting in cannes to explain his actions to german chancellor angela merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy the chief sponsors of greece's financial life support machine and your hand a van overtveldt the editor in chief of belgium's leading trends and that business the magazine's believes that at this point greece has no choice left. the situation in greece has become really desperate the economy's going down very rapidly and very deeply unemployment is rising fast lead the budget situation is out of control and it is clear by now i think for the greek leaders that the recipe followed so

far doesn't lead to a solution on the contrary it makes things worse and for me what mr papandreou is doing with organizing this referendum is preparing the exit of greece from the euro zone the only thing they know for sure is that the model will be worse then today in the day after will be even worse than tomorrow so to a certain extent mr mr papandreou is asking a question to which he already knows the answer and the answer will probably be no which will be the end of the rescue packages and which unavoidably will mean that the only option left for greece is an exit from the euro zone. with greece up to its neck in economic and political strife another crisis could be just around the corner the existing a mood of desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants scapegoats. so i don't let's turn our attention now to libya

where the new prime minister says making sure the rights are respected is a top priority it comes after a string of war crime allegations claiming the fight is a torturing people he wants for on the side of could death the more insight into the situation i'm now joined live from washington by former cia intelligence officer michael scheuer good to see you thank you for coming on the program today or the world of media was abuzz with stories about the atrocities of the cadets the regime now it seems like the bloodshed committed by the other side is being ignored or hushed up as the media now lost interest in the story. i think they've lost interest in the truth of the story syria there are only interested in out there being out there campaigning for so-called democracy the media is very childish in many ways believing you can build a democracy in six months or six years the americans and the british have been at it for eight hundred years and so now that it's turning out to be a mistake that the islamists are in power in tunisia they're going to come to power

in libya the media is running away from the story yes or now the declared goal of the original nato operation in libya was simply to protect people so why are they not condemning the new regime then if indeed atrocities such as these are taking place. there was there was no do you know the cover story was to protect people in libya so what they wanted to do is to get rid of gadhafi the europeans and the americans wanted assured access to european oil and on top of that american leaders are not unlike the leaders that were in moscow during soviet times they believe in the inevitability of democracy everywhere just is as marxism was it once believed to be inevitable and as a result they're of setting power structures centuries old and they're going to pay for it by an increased power among islamists and by civil war in those countries now the national transitional council says it has a plan on how to solve the population however we're just getting why is right here saying that the u.n. chief a u.n. chief or other is urging libya to secure khadafi said weapons that when you've got

a country such as this where so many millions of people are is it realistic to think about disarming the population is that even possible it's neither possible nor realistic certainly you know what the main one of the main goals in afghanistan when we went there was to disarm the population the population is better armed today than it was in two thousand and one if we were concerned about those arsenals we would have secured them when the nato operation started in february or march many of those arsenals are already emptied some of those weapons have turned up in somalia and other places we have just created an enormous reinforcement in terms of the people who are released from libyan prisons and in terms of supplies of weapons for the islamists across north africa if we can provide it so let's address the political life of libya that the new prime minister actually lived in the u.s. for more than thirty years is his selection suggest the new government is seeking. that is perhaps palatable to the west. not only palatable so they want someone

who's pliable certainly star cozy cameron harper of canada obama of the united states and mccain and lindsey graham the senators they want libya to behave as a western country not an islamist country so they're delighted to have someone go back there even though he doesn't represent anybody inside of libya this new libyan prime minister. kiba who spent thirty years in america during all these decades he didn't once visit libya do you think such a person is a bit too detached from the libyan reality to actually become the new ruler of the country. oh i think so sir he is that you know that libya is a country of two hundred some tribes he's never had any experience with dealing with those tribes khadafi had to use you know had to knock heads together to keep them in order you know again much of the afghan government came back from europe in the united states and is totally unacceptable to the afghan people i think we're

going to find the same thing that that expatriates from outside the country in the long term have no future in libya michael scheuer former cia intelligence officer live from washington thank you i think. you would see that russian investigators have concluded that the crew applied the brakes during a takeoff the cause the plane crash and level in september that killed forty four people. listen to what the investigative committee had to say. the investigation has shown that says those pilots were trained how to operate forty planes for a very long time and then they had to switch to forty two days and according to the committee those two planes have a very different brake pads all systems which share the pilots didn't have enough time to get used to you and so that could have been done by mistake another reason there is a jesse is one of the pilots was suffering from a strong neurological condition which strongly in fact someone's reflexes and was

also under the effects of strong medication perhaps he was using that medication to treat that condition that he was successfully hiding from the aviation medical committee for all this time a lot of the documents that were falsified apparently and from the conversations records from the black box during the press conference that we were listening to it was pretty clear that two pilots they sounded very negligent there was a lot of swearing and the interstates. aviation committee i was actually saying that it sounds like the pilots did not come if you laid all the parameters for the sake of before hand so they were not prepared for the flight. reporting right on our website on the dot com you can find all the details of september's tragedy if you look on the to read about the sole survivor the sole survivor of the plane crash where you can learn how the families and fans cope with the last see the drive to rebuild the white top hockey team for next year's season. also

a lot for you fighting for their rights for clean up squad members try to force their way into the ukrainian parliament angry a plan that cuts to their benefits and much much more to dot com. this is also a lot from moscow now the leaders of turkey and germany met on wednesday as the nation celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of in a storage guest worker pact the deal bro. hundreds of thousands of turks to then west germany to fill jobs as the industry boomed but the anniversary comes in during a heavy debate over the concept of multiculturalism in europe which many say is failing perhaps exemplifying this the office of a satirical french newspaper was firebombed after named prophet mohammed its editor in chief for the week saw an s. percent p. from the danish people's party says that that happened because extremists simply don't understand free speech it's quite obvious that it is jodi to has been

targeted by by fanatics who do not accept any critique subgroup of their religion and want us to lead their two ways thereby destroying the freedom of speech in europe and that's really what sister up is about it is a question of defensiveness least i miss wanting to decide what can be serious what can be written and what came to be drawn in the way they're challenging how sweet they were speech and i think that's one of the most cherished freedoms that we have a strong so we should not accept this by any chance and i think that all right that might be provocative also what you just posted but also what shirley to do in what in order to say no we have to stand here we would say what we like we would laugh at what we like i think that's also very humid there's a lot of humor in what is surely a good deed and it's a shame that these muslims cannot learn this think about all the lectures that christianity has received throughout the centuries my goodness in my country i mean

they have been marked. by all sorts of persons during the last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who is fanatics but one has to keep quiet they do not want us to have like create some religion that is part of our our system and we need to say to these people you know you are not the one to decide what we decide about free speech we all say what we like. and now artie's reports from greece where anti immigration sentiment is reaching a boiling point it's been fueled by the country's ongoing economic woes. on the streets of greece protests have become a common occurrence this gatherings not one of the usual demonstrations in and say every gratian fright that the ethnic tensions here in the city evidence of becoming more and more of a concern in the last three years illegal immigration into europe increased in

particular has skyrocketed as the greek economy has plummeted the crisis led to unemployment poverty creasing to a lot of people not being able to make ends meet face to these tough economic conditions it's not just extreme factions a society that has seen a rise in anti immigrant sentiment but every day greeks he faced with exceptionally tough station circumstances have begun to point the finger of blame. for. their problems on the streets of athens has now become a kind of limbo for illegal immigrants who are struggling to make money and to survive even second generation immigrants who've lived in the country many years of feeling the tension we've come to one of places neighborhoods of the dangers a first high immigrant population the local park here has become isn't mine a battleground. among the we have to close the poor because it was overrun with

immigrants no one could cross the call everybody was scared and no group of people could come here it was not a playground anymore. that children are now forced to play their games here outside the closed gates of the part of the best area with native dangers say whether or not the threat israel the fair in this neighborhood certainly is it's definitely controversial issues and getting yesterday is an issue because it's a symbol of fear yet they believe they think that the policemen would because of the immigrants in many areas of the world they could lose these things after midnight i think night meadows. you're not to go to be open in the. glow of the night but close like that whether to bring it down to the reason that is the year a crisis continues ethnic tensions have been growing into an extremely volatile and sometimes dangerous situation greece is a country now in the midst of not just

a financial and economic crisis but immigration crisis trying to find a way to rebuild say showcase he's in here is no it's going to be easy surf. in. just a few minutes or an hour to use the business with kareena but for now the growing issue of cyber crime has brought together high ranking officials from over sixty countries in london the event saw the likes of communist david cameron and the u.s. vice president rub shoulders with prominent internet figures like the founders of wikipedia and facebook russia was it represented by a minister of communications if you go to sugar one goal is to set out a range of rules to govern what's being called acceptable behavior online for the task is being made harder because of different views around the world the host britain has already been accused of double standards for trying to regulate cyberspace while condemning other nations for stripping internet freedoms towards more details on that story on our website our website our team dot com for another

the business with covering. our welcome to our business update this all thanks for joining me it's a volatile day for us and stocks with fear over the debt situation in europe dominating sensitize couple equities are still reeling somewhat from the group decision to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout throwing the whole plan into doubt artist on martin who's at the r.d.s. stock exchange in moscow has the details. it's been a turbulent day on international markets the russian r.t.s. m i six have been up and down but have finally finished tentatively in the black the reason for all the turmoil the continuing uncertainty over the drama unfolding in greece the government's decision to have a referendum there on the euro bailout plan is they say to try and get a clear mandate from the greek people but it has sent shock waves through international markets the fear is that the greek people will say no i'm not would

make this already very dangerous crisis a lot worse it could cause greece to do you fault on its debt it could go further and mean greece leaves the eurozone altogether or it could mean that another larger bailout has to be organized all three of these alternatives to greece simply following the austerity measures that have been demanded it will be very economically painful and will shake confidence in the markets they will also terrified nearby italy and spain both of whom is a common these are staring down the barrel of an economic catastrophe e.u. ministers for their part of trying to stress to greece but there is no alternative to the severe austerity measures they have demanded but they too are facing the possibility that the plan that they've worked so hard to try and put together may fail before it's even off the ground. well let's take

a look at the numbers both rustan's main bourses gained in the black gained at the end of the trading session the r.t.s. ended up over two and a half percent in the black my six percent that does have a look at the individual family from isaac's last energy majors were ample cast on getting over three percent of the company's or subsidiary gas from one never has been sealed up for asians and libya britain's biggest lender is very bank was almost two percent up as well and telecommunications major ross telecom is gaining more than half its. reported a twenty nine percent fall in third quarter net profit. u.s. stock futures edged higher and investors are awaiting the results of the meeting of federal reserve policy makers keeping a close eye on developments in greece banking shares hit hard on tuesday we bound with bank of america under four percent citi group two and a half percent. in europe stock markets are gaining even trading traders are keeping an eye on the u.s. spreads miner randgold resources the biggest gain on the footsie with its shares

surging five point six percent as it reported a rise in third quarter profit now or as high this all light sweet is trading at around ninety three and a half dollars per barrel while brant is over one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. tourism in north caucasus is to receive a power boost and a host of south korean power companies have teamed up with the north caucasus resorts company to develop the region's power infrastructure the joint venture will include building five new environmentally stations as well as a complex of solar and wind generators south korea's investments into the first stage of the project will total three hundred million dollars. for us all except ukraine's offer to pay for imported natural gas and rubles state energy company enough the gas pays between five hundred and one billion dollars a month for the imports a potential move would help ease depreciation pressures of ukraine meanwhile head

of the russian gas association believes all. the trade of russian energy resources whether it is oral or gas or the enrichment of uranium should be done in rubles it's in line with the president's decree to turn moscow into an international financial center and this is one of the steps so i welcome the decision to convert specific contracts into rubles but on the whole russia should be trading all its energy one hundred percent in rubles. that's our business update this hour but don't forget you can always find more stories just log on to website r.t. dot com slash posts.

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half past the hour here in moscow you with a quick recap of the headlines now whistleblower winded by verdict the high court in london rules the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be tried in sweden over controversial sex crime allegations. results of the investigation into september's a plane crash that killed a russian hockey team name a pilot error as the cause and speak of traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's blood. a sense of disillusionment dominates the protests ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes as world leaders gather to contain the global financial mayhem and the greek announcement of a referendum on the eurozone as a rescue deal has only fueled the flames. my colleague bill daughters here in half an hour's time but for now with tunisia approaching an islamic party into power and the same would likely to happen in egypt people of his panel of guests should the world now get used to the idea of islamic democracy.