will send a chilling effect to attention because of. his legal bid against extradition to sweden with this is just a prelude to the wiki leaks founder being handed on to the u.s. to face espionage charges. a million and a half a million and a half we have a winner allegations that saudi arabia is auctioning off suicide bombers to syria's rebels as the french president threatens military intervention following the shooting massacre at. the u.s. denies sending special forces to spy inside north korea but the journalist to uncover the story says the pentagon is on a damage control mission to save face. online

on screen this is r.t. live from central moscow twenty four hours a day in the sun chanel looks set to be extradited to sweden after britain supremum court dismissed his appeal the wiki leaks founder has been under house arrest in the u.k. for more than five hundred days now he's wanted in sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations which the whistleblower himself strongly denies. has the details from outside the courthouse in london. chilliness and wasn't actually in court today when that judgment was passed rejecting his appeal against that extradition to sweden but it's not over yet he's being granted a fourteen day extradition stay while his legal team try to get an appeal to reopen this case now that he's a point on some of the points that were made in the judgment that they say they

haven't had time to respond to say that's the immediate steps that you're going to see taken if that fails then you kids the jews in the sand and then put on that plane to sweden but it's very likely that you are going to see his legal team taking this fight even further to the european court of human rights that everyone said today among his supporters that the turned out that this isn't just a loss for julian a stance but for the british justice system as a whole and i'm joined now by n.e.p. gerald pathan what they've actually said to dinosaurs there was this was this was decided on a submission that was put by the lawyers and not put an intervention in as well as what is the meaning of a judicial authority now. we argued and the joy is argued that a judicial authority meant a proper jobs or a court of law because it's a centuries old principle of english law that you cannot be a judge in your own case and the prosecutor in sweden was going to try this crisis therefore the person also the person requesting extradition so it was an

independent call actually referring to an extraordinary joint judgment in my view which was that the original you framework decision used the french word go forward you judiciary which had a wide variety of meanings including i prosecutor so although our own parliament and our own government minister believes a judicial authority means a proper court or a proper judge that was overturned and it was the saudi that the french or the wording of the sorry the meaning of the word in french was actually what mattered and therefore they threw out the submission i think it's extraordinary it means that now english law has been decided on the meaning of a french word i have to tell you there. british justice system has been overridden by the now for some time creating their own system of criminal law the european arrest warrant is a key part of this and in fact the english and scottish courts now have no power to protect people from extradition i really have no power to prevent an extradition provided a piece of pipe has been correctly filled out name address the nature of the offense i don't have to supply any evidence and the court is not allowed to take

into account the problem if i share evidence or lack of it against the accused person you know as mr assad just found out this is not about the evidence against him about whether it stacks up or not it's about the meaning of a word in french thank you very much for joining us and you heard the evidence against you nina thanks it's been widely misconstrued and misreported as well a lot of facts of the case haven't been presented that clearly said a real sense it's a day that certainly justice hasn't been served when it comes to dealing the sons. in london and today's decision by the british court has revived fears that during the sars might now be extradited to the u.s. where he could face espionage and conspiracy charges the case against the wiki leaks founder has been consistently built up in the media with the tone shifting from celebrating the whistleblower all the way to calls for his execution. she did a sanchez hello that is a modern day cheats see what she likes wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks

wiki leaks that the many of the same people he had to champion ten have now joined this may campaign aimed at silencing hand julian assange is a cyber terrorist and war time he should be killed and we've got to apprehend mr aslan's the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as of violator of the espionage act because if we don't this will keep happening the dead man can't leaks that this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a very short time off that we could be. released to launch a number of u.s. diplomatic cables suddenly the case was reopened why is it that i am kept. under electronic house arrest. when i have not even been charged in any country sweden wants him extradited for questioning a for sexual conduct allegations of having unprotected yet consensual sex. and with

this climb unique to sweden many a questioning why he found himself on the same interpol list alongside senior mexican drug lords the european commission has acknowledged that these arrest warrants are being misused the no questions asked system these judges very little discretion to refuse the warrant the outcome of the case could have why did placation see human rights. when wiki leaks published u.s. embassy cables it gave the world an unprecedented insight into u.s. government activities and revealed some uncomfortable truths it's time to see the we need to be our own sound and it's also important that really we need to be working for society where we no longer necessary but democratic process is something that now seems to be lacking he could be locked up with very little access to the outside world he will be allowed to see

a priest and he will be allowed to see a lawyer but his ability to speak to others family members the media to read newspapers and to access the internet could be severely restricted. but the united states may use the liberal extradition laws in sweden to then get him fast tracked states where he could face really serious charges affectively. by the release. i think this will send a chilling effect to return to whistleblowers but if they do challenge the secrecy in many cases. united states they will face retribution and is why has many supporters have to ensure that night with no wiki leaks asylum there are still doing. well julian assange has been fighting his extradition from

the u.k. here in r.t. we've been airing his series of interview programs in the next hour he meets members of the group behind some of the biggest protests in the world right now the occupy movement here's how they describe their relations with the law. occupy sort of simmer for a while for the first week or ten days or something until there was violence. well yes i mean one police violence but nonetheless we did not provoke like a silence we took a radical you can record police speak we took a nonviolent direct action we went and we occupied a square so we could have a general assembly and starts talk about the world that we wanted to live in which we saw is completely antithetical to the world we're currently living in and the structures that governed it so yeah i mean i guess by being there by exercising directly democratic process we're posing a threat and so the police had to respond when there's nothing that terrifies the american government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in america

wasn't there for to react violently. and that program in full for the later today here in r.t. u.n. investigators are still looking for those behind syria's houla massacre but some nations opposing the syrian regime have made their own conclusions japan and turkey are the latest to join the u.s. and its own eyes in kicking out top syrian diplomats accusing president assad of being behind the killing of more than one hundred civilians that's despite u.n. findings that suggest forces in the president's army may have been involved but the syrian rebels are not only enjoying diplomatic support from abroad the backing could go as far as selling them terrorists got a chick on explains. this is said to be an auction taking place at a hotel in saudi arabia what's on sale is a human life the video shows a father offering his son as

a suicide bomber into syria and raising money as compensation thank you for the products of my knowing my secret son precise about his brother is already a martyr yeah i didn't know you were going to send him to them. let's start the bidding not two hundred thousand leones the chilling footage was leaked on the web we cannot independently confirm its original source or authenticity they are sacrificing our lives we need you to sacrifice your money don't be stingy. syria has seen a dramatic increase in suicide bombings the syrian government has been raising the alarm about its gulf neighbor sponsoring and staging terrorist attacks in their country. do you or do you use to not just like i said but it seems here in the west nobody hears their outcry the spotlight is placed solely on the actions of the syrian government in the meantime saudi arabia qatar and other gulf states are flooding millions of dollars worth of weapons into syria while u.s.

officials say they are providing their gulf allies with intelligence and command and control infrastructure the statements we hear from the state department is that . the u.s. is there to help the opposition with. non-lethal weapons however if others would provide that if the weapons we will manage that so it's a lot of hypocrisy in the gulf countries are not the brains behind this they are merely instruments. their brains you can find them in the u.s. and israel in some countries the u.s. is formally committed to kofi annan as u.n. backed peace plan which calls for a halt to violence by all sides of the conflict but some analysts say the influx of arms and increasing number of suicide bombings make peace in syria virtually impossible and plunges it deeper into chaos the syrian regime plays an active role in supporting the palestinian resistance the lebanese resistance in claiming

brights and palestine and things like this and this is not doesn't sit well with with israel so if we can not change the role of syria we will destroy syria so that it doesn't have any international monitors are on the ground investigating the massacre in houla where it's not clear who's fully responsible for the deaths of over one hundred men women and children also on a regular basis they observed destruction from suicide bombings which bear all the signs of terrorist attacks we need. to understand that this is going only to create more suffering for the women and children the syrian people outside syria back in saudi arabia a young man named ali was allegedly sold for the equivalent of four hundred thousand dollars maybe only a million and a half million and we have a winner right here. we don't know the fate of khalid maybe he is now on his way to

syria to bomb something or maybe he is behind one of the deadly blasts which already happened there with the u.s. supporting the proactive approach of its golf allies with regards to syria the question one might ask is could it be hassled me supporting extremism like this as well i'm going to check our reporting from washington. president ford still ananda's being at the helm of fronts for only two weeks now but he's already threatening foreign intervention in syria well to discuss this with me now is political writer donna johnson joining me now in paris the former french president nicolas sarkozy he championed the use of force in syria and of course led the campaign in libya does a lot of threat of potential intervention in syria suggest nothing's actually changed french foreign policy unfortunately nothing has actually changed in central and policy and that's not surprising because. in the

print of what imposed they were not even an issue in the campaign there was. the only criticism of french foreign policy came from very marginal parties a little bit from the. national but. there it is simply not an issue you know unfortunately in the last census ducted humanitarian intervention. there is. simply no difference between the left and the right there what about a london so trying to set himself as a world leader as he's not taking on this new i would that not only. will but he does this from the start that he was at a lot of harmony with obama he felt a lot of harmony with obama so what happens is that in fact print forms out of the sea is made in the united states by the united states and united states foreign

policy is largely made by the israeli lobby so it doesn't change no matter who is in charge in paris. he's ok in harmony with a bomb but what about the french people though in harmony with them firstly does france have an appetite to get involved in another military intervention such as libya on a cost basis is going to cost a lot of money and in times of hard economic times and in europe as a whole that is not good news and also an appetite for the french military to be seen there in syria. well you see. no perfected this kind of war starting in the course of the war and in libya where nobody gets hurt nobody on our side the victims are all on the ground and we're up in the air or we are now even sending drones or the people on the ground are in fact mercenaries from libya into syria from qatar

arab states and so it's it's just i mean it's been a lot of money on the military anyway with their exercises so it doesn't look as if it costs that much and it doesn't post anything in human life and our goals in life so there doesn't matter none of this talk about the latest reaction many countries expanding diplomats so soon diplomats from schools one of those countries expanding the syrian diplomats in paris the placing the blame solely on the syrian government for that terrible tragedy in huna do you think it's fair to make such an assessment now given your investigators have so far stopped short of blaming anyone. well i think it's it precisely as in the moment a person is accused of the accused without. a serious crime you say you can't have any lawyers and you fire all the lawyers because the if you had the diplomats here they might be able to explain something or engage in some

sort of dialogue or negotiation they want to get rid of the limousine who really is to use you instead of diplomacy in the course of. guilt tripping is our friend the so-called philosopher. there are now all these maybe who specializes in making everybody feel guilty for not intervening to same. the same thing that and. and so it is ok on a basis. we will be guilty if we don't save the people who are currently the government only aspiration is there and i laid it down calculated so we have to go in and save this inauguration to dictators who once did you know this . and that with you and you know there's the you know if you get in the area and that's the best thing is for. your war that you are let.

the right wing government they were getting your wrestling government and. now we want to save the people from their dictator but it comes with the same thing donna thanks very much indeed for your thoughts there live in paris good to hear what you have to say political right to donna johnson joining us live there in r.t. thank you. later here on a lottie in the bell questions whether foreign intervention is the way to bring an end to the vicious rest in syria. the end of the day if there's going to be an intervention i would tend to think they will be along those lines it's not that we're not going to see a rerun of iraq not even a rerun of libya ok some anyway it is a rerun of iraq go ahead sam i'd say it's a rerun of iraq it's a rerun of iraq post original goal for we do you know no fly zones humanitarian corridors so i kind of thing that are nowhere near as benign as they sound mark you

want to jump in there. no i think i think that's it and we rock is a terrible example the only thing i want to say is who knows the creative destruction and washington may come up with an even newer and more disastrous unique form of payoff from the if the syrians or iraq will have to also on. the debt crisis is still gripping europe but that's not stopping the e.u. splashing out tens of millions of euros to build a museum about european history in brussels building hasn't even started in any peace or already had olds over its cost and purpose martin and some of the member of the e.u. budget committee who voted against the project says the museum is the last thing the e.u. should be focused on right now. it is very important that this point in time that we focus on you know the economic and financial crisis one that we are allow people to be able to eat and feed their children before we. divert resources financial

resources into this narcissistic project the parliament doesn't exist size in the defense of the interest of taxpayer sesay should they live in a comfortable environment where they get to pay fat salaries and pensions and they just don't care about the interest of the european taxpayers the interest of european cities since really i and i think there is no hope for that because. parliament you know we elected members to this parliament should be very forceful to make these changes happen and and we are not i mean i am a solitary voice in this parliament about the way the money of taxpayers should be spent the day the way the proper way and the efficient way. we've got all our top stories coming for you not just on screen but also online at all to go com here's what else is on the site right now ukraine gears up to do it for the twelve building special medical facilities for treating foreign firms and other guests the

details on the website of the moments. plus employing beauty a rare martian pink and dominant the biggest risk and goes on about how much christie's the price tag was. book called. the. it's a scandal likely to fuel the long standing tensions between washington and pyongyang and we do report accuses u.s. and south korean special forces of parachuting into north korea to spy on underground military facilities the source was an american army general who

admitted the missions had happened it's been to him and he did nine washington which now accuses the journalist behind the report of making up the quotes however he insists what he published was exactly what he heard it comes as the u.s. looks to reinforce its naval power in the asia pacific a region already experiencing american military buildup. and says washington strategy goes far beyond that. i think u.s. policy on north korea really. it really wasn't exacerbating the threat from some people more than anything else and that i don't think simultaneously building up the military occupation of the south in various ways as part of the u.s. policy pivot to asia i want to emphasize that the legal infrastructure is already in place at the moment to imply a very belligerent policy team with korea and she included foreign occupation of through them occupation and preemptive nuclear strikes no it sounds

a bit extreme but getting excited here to back it up in chief thousand nine becomes law on foreign relations released a policy paper and title preparing the first sudden change in north korea advocated stationing four hundred and sixty thousand troops inside of host north korea if the regime were collapsed for whatever reason to maintain security and to capture pyongyang's un peace so this sounds like a recipe for disaster certainly and the same pretext i want to point out can be applied to you wrong and not any other country which is basically accused of developing w m d's. twenty three minutes past the hour dimitris with a split the business news very shortly but first let's check out some major news headlines from across the world former liberian president charles taylor has been sentenced to fifty years in prison after being convicted of war crimes last month he was charged with eleven counts of helping rebels in sierra leone to slaughter fifty thousand people taylor himself has been accused of cannibalism in the past

this sentence is unprecedented with the first acts head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since the second world war the. rescue workers in northern italy have removed what's believed to be the last body from rubble following tuesday's earthquake it brings the number of dead to seventeen a series of strong aftershocks have shaken the region which has suffered two major earthquakes in a month also a fortnight ago seven people were killed and thousands left homeless. the former top media adviser to the british prime minister david cameron has been arrested over accusations of perjury it relates to the corson's evidence in the trial of a former scottish politician in which he denied knowledge of phone hacking by journalists at the news of the world calls from was editor of the paper at the time last year he quit as cameron's communications director after becoming involved in the wider allegations of phone tapping in the u.k. . what his promise to reach is next with the business news and dmitri new cracks

are appearing in the raso british company teaming k b p that's right bill the shareholders of the russian partners in peace say they are fed up with the current structure that it's run its course the fifty fifty joint venture and therefore they're considering either buying out b.p. in this joint venture or changing their shares for shares in the now this is all from an exclusive interview that stand the c.e.o. of the russian side called a gave to business r.t. and he says basically that this is also after mccoll friedman stepped down as the chief executive of team k b p which was a sign of tensions between the partners are open to whatever makes the most strategic and commercial sense one thing. or certain about is that our shareholders want to remain active participants in the world. who are there

would remain. shareholders of. majority shareholders and controlling shareholder. or whether we become significant shareholder in b.p. or something. rude elsewhere. what one thing that's clear is that the fifty fifty arrangement has grown its course and it's going to realign. if you . rather secular what's going on on the global financial markets this hour and it's all about selling yet again with the dow jones and nasdaq declining more than one per cent on concerns about both what's going on in europe and in china which has said that its economy would grow at eight point two percent and the stimulus would be smaller than in two thousand and eight in europe of course this is coupled with the fact that spanish bond yields are yet again growing making borrowing for the country more expensive and greece apparently according to

a recent referendum not happy with the bailout terms yet again and this is making investors worried about the state of demand in the oil markets and oil is declining almost three dollars per barrel for light sweet more than that in brant and that's also coupled with pretty high inventories in the united states and the falling and weak jobs market. falling oil is taking its toll on the russian currency which saw some of the biggest declines against both the dollar and the euro notably against the dollar around two percent and the euro is at two year lows versus the greenback the russian market was there for yet again for ling on wednesday with the declining to a half percent to my six a bit better than that in a week the ruble one point four percent on the my six among the interesting stories gazprom is a bit stronger than the markets as it said that its export plan to a europe is not going to be changing there for the time being despite falling

demand in europe rosneft was up one point seven percent reacting positively to the nomination of a good situation and burbank was down along with the financial sector and that's all i have for you this i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with more. dimitri thanks very much indeed for that good to see you will see a little later here in r.t. now on in a few minutes here on the program we will be grilling the israeli deputy pm about what his country's government sees next for iran that's an all special interview coming away it will be after headline wrap up with me stay with us live here on r.t. .