breaking news this hour julie massages request to reopen its extradition case is rejected by britain the supremes court decision bringing the world's most famous whistleblower one step closer than to being said to sweden we got the latest ahead . also egypt's highest court orders the dissolution of the country's islam is dominated parliament after the ruling a third of the m.p.'s were elected illegally. and a suicide car bomb explosion in just ten in damascus with syrian officials saying terror tactics are being stepped up to pave the way for foreign military intervention.

hello very good afternoon for me kevin owen it's no seven pm here in moscow this is the r.t. news channel and the breaking news i was talking about in the last hour or so the details coming out of britain the supreme court has rejected a request to reopen the extradition case of wiki leaks founder julian assange it brings him therefore one step closer to being sent to sweden where he's wanted for questioning about sex crime allegations a silence denies those allegations saying the politically motivated in london our correspondent sara firth is there to bring us up to date on these details of this state as a say are still coming out there on the surface in the last hour or so but today's decision then as a bit of mentioning moved closer to extradition where do his lawyers go from here sara. well his legal team haven't confirmed yet what their next step will be but of course that is the big question now just what comes next the case of prison calls for jech did that appeal to reopen the case and now really there are only three

options that we could see happening here one is that the legal team can make an application to the european court of human rights to they can make an application to the high court preventing that extradition order but that's still pretty unlikely that that would be successful and the third option is that you're actually going to see julian assange has extradition now going ahead and he could be under extradition law here on a plane back to sweden within ten days so it's all going to happen for the quickly here and hopefully over the next couple of hours we'll get a bit more clarity about what that legal team plan to do but of course if he does end up going back to sweden there he'll face questioning over these sexual assault allegations now of course it's important to remember that julian a songe that wiki leaks founder has never actually being charged he's just facing questioning there in sweden this is always been something the legal team have been very eager to point out and to clarify the kids indeed aver this eighteen month

legal battle that julian assange has undertaken with his team we've seen a real shift in the coverage surrounding the trial surrounding the man himself of course very controversial stories coming out of wiki leaks we've seen governments around the world especially the u.s. government absolutely furious as some of the revelations wiki leaks was able to reveal and a lot of his supporters saying that this is a mounting to nothing more than a smear campaign an ad campaign to silence not just putin a staunch but also wiki leaks itself and so we're going to see as we said this very long legal battle that is already being three continuing now as we wait to see what that next creatures that's going to be your sort of first rajamani your views again the big story the. supreme court has rejected that request to reopen the case of. wiki leaks founder julian assange thanks for bringing us up to date as you get more details will come back she later said if we may. egypt's political future is looking increasingly uncertain the supreme court ruled that the country's

parliament must be dissolved just a few days before the second round of the presidential election the court found that a third of m.p.'s in the assembly dominated by islamists were elected illegally and another ruling has allowed the last prime minister of the ousted mubarak regime to stay in the presidential race despite thousands demanding a ban on the eve of the court session egypt's government restored the army powers to arrest civilian something that's usually only allowed in a state of emergency cairo based journalist a blogger while s.k. told me to move may mean a return to the ways of the revolution regime the military would do everything in its power to get your feet to presidency and the point they would take every measure to every oppressive measure to crackdown on dissent and things would be it would reproduce the mubarak regime once again this is an expansion of the military presence presence in egypt and. direct contradiction to the promise of the military to hand over power because at this moment they seem to want to grab on to power by

extending the power of the police what has happened is that they've given the police a boost by adding in military officers and personnel that have the same role as the police but this time without any kind of supervision because they only respond to a military prosecution and military judiciary and this gives the military impunity to act as they wish without questioning from the civilian parties and another development has come out the last few minutes state t.v. reporting that egypt's ruling military is now holding an emergency meeting tonight to discuss the course decision to dissolve the parliament this is a problem the expert in the region says egypt's moving away from democracy not towards it and the situation with the election illustrates just. so if you think that the elections were completely transparent you have some questions to ask

because approximately forty five to fifty percent of do you are still supporting you already it's all days to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know almost being inside and then the removed him and they kept your feet someone who is ready and my sense of all this is that we are not dealing with a transparent process we are dealing with calculation and calculation means that i think that never from behind the scenes the army lost control of the situation so this is made sense and it might be that even the muslim brotherhood were used to be the visible legitimacy to something which is happening from behind the scenes so they were the instruments of the coming back of the regime and indeed you can watch the entire interview in full next hour on this channel on r.t. and more on the turmoil that's gripping egypt still ahead too we speak to some of

the countries where they say it's an islamist domination of their country that they fear the most we've got their story policy or mideast correspondent on top of the four in. the syrian capital has been rocked by a powerful blast that left ten people wounded a suicide bomber set off a car bomb near one of the holiest shrines there which attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world it's believed the blast was targeting a security police department office located nearby that explosion came just days after the release of that video in which al qaeda second in command called on islam missed to quote help rebel groups fight syrian government forces syria's ambassador to moscow told us the opposition is using increasingly violent tactics to pave the way things for foreign intervention. because syria is now under an organized terrorist attack some of the world's. powers are behind those acts and they also fun terror that the syrian government strives to stay committed to the non peace

plan but we are constantly provoked by terror groups and we have to respond to those provocations just as the syrian government has absolutely no interest in murdering defenseless people it's armed terrorist groups who are responsible for human rights violations and bloodbaths in syria that is being done to justify foreign intervention in the creation of buffer zones. and the syrian ambassador also denied that moscow supplying the assad regime with attack helicopters allegations also refuted by the russian foreign minister. look where those claims came from and the robust response that followed them. while the top u.n. official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria take

a look we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington seem to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that now all washington was left to sort out his confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations and we see it shows we are currently fulfilling a preexisting looks and paid for contracts for one of these contracts are related

to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used to get into the civil demonstration because you believe that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently one such ship in the right in a certain persian gulf state to put up with for some reason the u.s. considers this normal when you're now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. slash spending. credit rating near junk status in the latest blow to a struggling eurozone most after your leaders agreed to provide the spanish banks with their bailout earlier as the country's unable to rescue the banking sector on its own well more of what that means for madrid still to come this seems to me to move into the business desk with a preview. well basically on the stock market the reaction has been quite moderate so far but on the bond market we did see a jump to

a new era of more than seven percent seven point one percent in the yields for ten year bonds and spain and any value above seven percent means a much higher risk of danger zone of a nation defaulting on its debt but it has since come down to around six point nine percent the yields and this is all because not only moody's downgraded the rating by three notches but is also put the rating on further review so that in the end in the future we could see further downgrades i'll tell you more about that around twenty minutes to. come as well on the program later in the kaiser report stacey focusing on what they say is fraud dressed up as rescue measures spin bailout to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects a growing consensus that spanish class might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all the game and some

are more well known than others the greeks or the spanish or the irish they are the instinct they're too polite to question the con artists because they're some of the talking they wear suits they have nice hands you know they come in there and they talk a good game and they thought well maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and the con artist walk out the door with their money step get their pockets picked but too big to fail banks don't waste your time i get lonely as a dental. so more for mr k. and co in about twenty minutes time you're on our team a recession raging social problem solving the two go hand in hand so sadly and in ireland clearly dublin growing drug addiction is among the many difficulties as artie's laura smith reports next to government struggling to keep the country's economy afloat is also struggling to foot the bill for people trying to get off the struggles. it's a tale of two cities

a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. when people have less disposable income on account find work or confines you know if you. have more recourse. you know turned. on people. between drugs and crime and know not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction here's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of

relationships with family friends and community when i was single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get a drug rehab center to seeing their government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists

a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less and less likely to get to become tomorrow's the say i says no point in even trying i'm never going to do that. having access to treatment programs to my mind is fatal if in this fight against drugs. programs in ireland or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts communities and for society laura smith r.t. . if you missed any of the stories who are recovering or catch up with a bit more about it you can and our website don't forget there's always a whole load of catch up on our website great pictures and features too including wigs gambling all red his body is currently a bar that opened to the public at the malls of leonor moscow's red square but now bookmakers are taking bets on when and where the mere lenin might be very. also in

line most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote but in one texas city it seems for all of the dice may be enough what's that about what you find out online. now it's a bad news story turned good throughout the course of the day it's the story of the scandal between russia's top investigator and a leading opposition paper in the last few as it came to an amicable end with the two sides apologizing to each other now earlier the newspaper claimed that the official had taken one of the journalists is serious stuff this to a forest where the accusation is he threatened to kill him the investigator on his side denied those allegations calling them the ravings of a madman. and peter all of picks it all up. it seems like this could have been

a potentially harmful scandal for the newspaper perhaps for the investigative committee perhaps for both it seems now that it has been sorted out with a handshake between the editor of the opposition newspaper no vikas yet the chairman of the investigation committee now this all came about following an editorial that was posted by the editor of the sun which he claims one of his journalists was taken to woods in russia where threats were made against his life by the head of the investigative committee this all stems from an emotional and very opinionated article which the journalist wrote where he was damning of the investigative agency in the work which they do now this resulted in a heated exchange between the chief of the investigative agency and the journalist in question well the chairman of the investigative committee in russia alexander has denied out of hand all of the allegations against him going as far as to

describe them as the delirium of an inflamed brain and accusing the newspaper of publishing a blatant and shameless article the newspaper was saying that they just wanted to protect their journalists well finally they met here in moscow the two people who could put an end to this seem to have done so with both sides apologizing to the other for whatever part they played in this story it was certainly as i say it times was unclear where we were going to end up with it but it seems to have reached an amicable end which i guess is happy hit with news for everybody all concerned. will do stories who brief british prime minister david cameron has been testifying in front of a u.k. media ethics inquiry saying press regulations need to improve cameras come under fire of self after the phone hacking scandal at rupert murdoch's now defunct news of the world tabloid british officials who are accused of helping the media giant avoid investigation cameras also being criticized for the way he handled. to take

over british sky broadcasting. treasure rain swamp large areas of central china is triggered mudslides and forced hundreds of people from their homes one person is missing officials have set up shelters to house the people displaced by the flooding and take a look at this village is also working to save one man trapped amid the raging waters is a quick shot you can see the peril it was in there thankfully he was pulled ashore after an hour of those frantic rescue efforts we think he's alive and well tonight emergency repairs are underway with several highways being destroyed by landslides and caves. the ongoing dispute over the falkland islands between britain and argentina will be discussed by u.n. committee later today in new york it's thirty years now to the day since the war over the british territory ended nine hundred people died in that conflict in one thousand nine hundred two before the argentinean troops around argentina says the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the melvyn this almost two hundred years ago the does themselves are set to hold

a referendum next year to decide the future thought political analyst martin mccauley that he says it's what lies off the island's coast though is fuelling the dispute. it's if you like a signal to one's art is that the focus is always argentineans call them last move in this part of britain and don't wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is their duty to government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by britain france and even the judge and the i.g. do claim is a very thin one but argentina is concerned about structure it's good so they all of . which lie under the water there the idea to you to discover the. body.

you know argentino it's possible that the extent whites through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting for the us are under focus so we see find. that strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very well. back to egypt now is the big. presidential runoff the muslim brotherhood is warning that the military could effectively take control of the country even after the election but it's islamist domination the some fear most especially the country's women are his paula slayer picks up the story for you. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turn forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winnings a seat or so but for the sequel proving that if you can women can deal with but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify oh it will

show is for they quietly stood for the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood's candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse and fast cream has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher

i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me very badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future. ovine can theorise tied to the role of women and the full equality of women. and anything that undermine their floor. and that it is the handedness. in the road to progress to develop and so why don't we and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in

tweeting and blogging about the evolution more people are asking if it's possible because evolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just been slaving at least a part of it policy r t. twenty four minutes past seven o'clock here in moscow a whole raft of mitri of business news stories around today but let's focus in the u.s. we are starting to to a start off as looking there well it's looking positive you look at the stock markets because both in the seas are gaining right now but the paradox is the economic data we've seen come outside of the united states has been pretty negative the jobs market is still weak we still got rising jobless claims c.p.i. consumer prices are still declining that's also bad but investors think everything's so bad in the economy then there's going to be stimulus of this stimulus there's going to be more purchases in assets so they're buying up passes right now so that the season profit if the government intervenes over in the in

european markets we're seeing a bit of a different picture the more depressed about the fact that moody's is downgraded by three notches rating to or near junk status we've seen the spanish bond yields actually go up above seven percent the crucial danger zone threshold of seven percent but they're back down now again around six point nine percent but in greece's low looking quite positive the end there was up more than eight percent or one point driven by banks and that's all ahead of the elections on sunday crucial actions for years are. over on the oil market we are seeing a bit of a rebound actually from eight month lows on the clothes that we've seen the previous session this is as opec is meeting in vienna to make a decision on the production quotas earlier credit suisse. course of that the price of bread would go down to fifty dollars per barrel by the end of the year and that's only if this coalition of the eurozone crisis takes the worst scenario now

and then to view to the u.k. telegraph newspaper the banks and the said that the current global imbalances are worse than those we've seen in two thousand knight just remind you then prices fell from one hundred forty five dollars per barrel to around forty dollars per barrel relations capital says this is very unlikely. we have seen oil at fifty dollar level it's not the broadway out of the possibilities but i find it difficult imagining that anyone in there you know what and they exist in supply demand environment would be taking fifty dollars a barrel as their base case. you know that's the spare capacity is still very limited it is it is at the end of the day is going to be it they haven't but by what happens to the demand trends both in china and europe but i mean if you're talking about fifty dollars oil to your talking about old broad based economic collapse and i might not be an economist i'm you know i'm just i'm just a loyal analyst but they don't think we're anywhere close to that yet so good some figures now as you can see there is rebounding thirty one cents per brant is

declining point one as soon as we get some decision on production quotas this might of course change over here in rancho the markets closed on a mildly negative note with the my six barely changed but the o.t. is the climbing around half a percent and that's off of several sessions of gains we've seen some pretty strong performances in the past couple weeks of course this is still rebounds from big losses we've seen the past couple of months actually. the main movers on the my six we're seeing the financials declining worse than the market b.c.b. down half a percent lukoil was better than the market up point three percent and guess from who's pretty easy to see that so energy shares are pretty mixed. and that's all we have time for this i'll be back in around fifty five minutes time to bring an update. the first.

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