part of the big picture. the high stakes game of cat and mouse is the selling seeks to avoid extradition to sweden claiming it's legit at the end were doing to be in london. agents convict a former leader hosni mubarak is reported to be clinically dead after a stroke the country is in a limbo after the presidential runoff vote as protests rage over the military's relentless hole in power. the mainstream media goes all out against those opposing intervention in syria with hyped up reports warning of women of more games to be held in the country involving sow's of warships jets and tanks.

one pm and the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie welcome to the program are dramatic new turn in the case of the world's top whistleblower joined us on just pleading for political asylum an outdoors embassy in london after the u.k. supreme court gave the go ahead for his extradition to sweden to sex assault allegations has repeatedly claimed the case is politically motivated them being driven by washington as artists are for us now explains. of course we've seen him take this dramatic step handing himself over to the ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum now when he when he entered the ecuadorian embassy and presented himself he made a statement and said that in that we know that he made no to his home country that's a strange thing that they were ignoring their obligations to protect a sister and that had been persecuted politically now certainly as the cases unfolded we haven't seen so much support for sanction is calls coming from

australia the australian prime minister releasing a statement saying that australia continues to offer consular support that clearly that wasn't enough of a guarantee for all his legal team now in that statement he made he'd also talk to the investigation of the political crimes in the us and a country where the death penalty is still in full so perhaps some idea of what was going through. his mind when he took that step of course this is always been less about avoiding extradition to sweden where certainly pretrial detention in that country much harsher than it is here in the u.k. but far more concerning was that it would have been much more easy for him to be extradited to the u.s. and that's always really been a big focus now the ecuadorian embassy is released a statement saying that evaluating his request and so bit of a waiting game now we see what the response to that is while the department says mr

saunders obligation mr sands will remain at the embassy under the protection of the ecuadorian government the decision to consider mr sanders application for protective asylum should a no we be interpreted as the government of ecuador interfering in the judicial processes of the united kingdom. well it's been a long old legal battle eighteen months of legal wrangling for songe and his legal team now remember that julian assange has never actually been charged he's wanted for questioning if a sexual assault allegations we saw at the end of last month the u.k. supreme court rejected his appeal against extradition to sweden and we know julian assange she previously on his show nazi had interviewed the president of ecuador we know the president certainly was a fan of wiki leaks we know certainly that they seem to get along we can hear a little extract from that and. think.

it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and. to the club of the persecuted . thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. that's only we have to avoid every day. here at kudo's record of human rights is already being criticized that's a very interesting point because of course the u.k. government come under heavy criticism throughout its handling of julian assange is case of course the country putting itself ford as a defender of human rights itself but a lot of the songes supporters feel that it's felt miserably on that point so it'll be very interesting to see what's happening but as he said julian assange is really running out of legal options and say that this doing all available options to them

but certainly i mean there's no guarantee that this is going to pay off and so certainly there's a lot at stake for him here. to our first reporting there well for more on what might lie ahead for doing a sans we're now joined by his mother christina songe on the line from australia christine thanks very much for being with us here on the program now julie and if it hasn't been charged yet but he's already seeking political asylum so why now is it too early to take such a step. he hasn't been charged he hasn't even been questioned despite asking the swedish government to do is allow us to use continues that post given a flagrant pieces of these human and and they go to the swedish the to use. their excusal to what he said the police could say to their own prosecutorial standards that were he to go to sleep in a way he would be jailed right away. and it would not have the opportunity did they

take a look. well you know ecuador has an extradition treaty where the united states so even if eleven american state gives the green light and shelters your son do you think he's going to be hundred percent safe there. ekotto i believe does have a an extradition treaty but if it's. at the time and the list of guys sion that the person seeking sought asylum is actually a political prisoner then i don't and that prisoner i thought now this is something that all nations have signed up and then you notions of signed up to it but a lot of them out actually acting upon a code in the u.k. i should have turned down that europe interest was coming from sweden because doing had made himself very much available for questioning sweden and unlock or not to the mindstream mady and our own attorney general is trying to the public. he could

not get the swades to. actually question him on the second on the right allegation was rise this vote was cost by the. time it was rise was also in twenty four hours they were thought of the chief prosecutor of the current woman as w. said she'd been well worded and refused to use the interview and so on is that when it was then resurrected within ten dies. saw a politician lawyer running for the election and woman i am who is also running for reelection she submitted a condom which she said to him had torn but on the pony this guy shouldn't dogs brings the department it was not a day and i didn't it was detailed to read ecofin the prosecutors i shopped around to less than a month and the prosecutor upheld the a pale in doing was not even told about the hearing and so these abuses of his human rights and they go right within sweden went on and on and on

a then was given to mission to late swayed on the fifth into september by the prosecutor mary ona he offered to fly back in because he had to business arrangements with his partners in publishing cable guy he did offer to slide back in on the not the tenth of all she said are we can't do that because of the weekend any of the flyback it on the eleventh of october we can't do that because it's to go away you didn't know i studied it the journalist pub in london while he was releasing you know iraq war logs and preparing the typo guide and he also jewing this time to be interviewed saw a protocol it says we didn't they ukiah both signatories to which is cold neutral legal assistance and that would be that he would be interviewed by video link or skype. as critics prosecuted or refused to says well sitting not just before couple guide was published. the time to you to pay interest warrant the questioning.

and then the history as it now exists and then once children had been detained in britain for six seventeen months she's continued to refuse to question him a to scotland yard or swedish embassy and my son says the reason for this is that once he's quit then i have to weigh the lady and guy we're charging for him and obviously they have no evidence to charge him that's why they're not questioning him and it will help studied this case believe it is nothing more than a holding case for us extradition well kristie let's not talk about the reaction to this in a camber i mean an australian zone a native country earlier julian as you know said he was abandoned by his own country's trillion so what reaction would you like to have seen from cambrai this point. well unfortunately we have a puppet government in

a style somebody us but how would would have liked to and think that to the greens . i would love to sing is to out in government stand up and had some independence from us foreign policy and to say no. what you're doing is post accusing a journalist has not been charged with anything under your own system in meant as done nothing wrong. that to publish such a cables and they didn't stand up that she should have stood up should have the carpet the swedish ambassador to the fact that the greeks told their own and they display sion and kike that you paid a response when they should and they should have protested in the plea to the. the u.k. government it's disgraceful display during a hearing. on her dog in the last hearing that the supreme court the court of appeal would introduce new evidence that the appeal absolutely on hudl. should have protested that the mentally ill the ship existed to the us that the the coals are

being denied to incite murder upon my son that should have protested that the grand jury being run by the us does not achieve a goal prices it has no judge will prosecute is the distance the tool is allowed and the jury comes to approve u.s. military contractors as it pertains to older guys things they've done nothing in fact that i did at the base of the us into securing my son all right christina johns are doing films as mother talking to us on the line from queensland australia thanks very much indeed for your views. thank you very much anytime. car stokley the artist and wiki leaks activist as asylum after door is the best chance for silence to continue his work in making revelations about the u.s. . we're not so worried about him going to sweden actually. that's just small business what we're most worried about is him getting extradited

to the united states and it's being orchestrated by the department of justice and most of the mainstream media doesn't seem to know about it because no one is allowed in and this is been going on simultaneously as bradley manning's trial i would say it's a fifty fifty chance either it does or doesn't i pulling for it sounds like this is a very good option so that julian can continue to do the great work he has been doing for journalism ecuador would be a very good choice i think the likelihood of an extradition from ecuador is a lot less than it would be from sweden or the u.k. it sounds kind of virtual interview show airs right here in our talking to pakistan opposition leader and in the latest edition he says that it was only for a week in weeks that his country learned about corruption in the your ship. related to the back to. the wiki leaks made not just.

the middle of the world but in. the with the little of these two fears the politicians you know who was sucking up to the mayor in the same. driver telling them how they were. sucking up to them and. giving completely opposite state it was a really specially this one really this is this guy that was the. leads this religious body up. to the minute and he said look if you backed me to become the prime minister i would never want to do. and he's considered the most anti american politician so he was it was a. it really exposed a lot of. how the whole show is on later this hour here on r.t. and of course we'll keep you up to date with the latest on join us and his surprise

asylum request. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. here what you are to know there are unconfirmed reports from egypt that convicted former president hosni mubarak is clinically dead after suffering a stroke the news comes as a nation awaits the results of a presidential runoff between as long as a candidate and the former prime minister in that opposed regime is in cairo for us . we are hearing reports from the state media that he is committee did but these reports have been refuted by the ruling staff the ruling military which insists

that he has not died but says that he is in a critical condition we're also hearing from his lawyers that he's in a coma and that he's suffering from water to the lungs the one factor that all sides do seem to agree on is that late on tuesday the former egyptian president did suffer a stroke but it's not clear whether that stroke happened before during or often he was moved from prison to a military hospital most egypt is all skeptical about this news most people here one verified confirmed reliable and solid information before the election i believe that the for many egyptians president has indeed died thomas which is dimming we have seen in the last hour or so people slowly making their way back home although there are some die hard so no doubt they'll be having a sit in at least in the mixed day also before those official election results come on thursday the fundamental question the women are asking just how people in town here feel about the news that mubarak has died or otherwise is the question whether

will not his death would make a difference to people here on the streets in the gentleman's who is actually no thirty four people he came out and called for him to step down from power last february mubarak for them is dead whether he is dead physically or not makes little difference he's dead in their hearts and in their minds and most egyptians though on skeptical about the news of his death and talking to people here in town this way many say that they believe it's actually a ploy by the ruling generals to detract attention away from the fact that in recent days they have been making an attempt to grab power to detract attention away from the fact that they have issued this interim constitution the fact that they've essentially made themselves the law makers of egypt essentially what they say is that this is a ploy on their side and that is why they don't believe it. policy reporting there was still a come for you in the program a bargain for progress iran is ready to trade full nuclear cooperation for the

lifting of sanctions as to ron paves the way for a diplomatic escape from political stalemate. doing great economies challenge america's long standing dominance over the international monetary fund as a group of twenty most industrialized nations needs in mexico. u.n. monitors say they're staying put in syria despite having suspended their mission after a spate of attacks targeting down observers are now asking for safety guarantees from the syrian factions but so far only the government has agreed with the opposition failing to follow suit has more. of the united nations supervision mission in syria general robert mood briefed the un security council on the state of syria and more importantly his decision to suspend the missions activities according to general mood supervision mission in syria can resume once he feels that the observers will be safe and secure as they monitor syria he says

the government has made a commitment to ensure the safety of the u.n. workers but so far the opposition group has not the commitment of the government the opposition to the safety and security and freedom of movement of the observers the government express that it clearly in the last couple of days i did not see in the statements from the opposition to it as the head of the u.n. mission in syria was briefing the international community about the crisis taking place in the country media outlets many of them were reporting stories indicating that russia was sending or attempting to send attack helicopters to syria a claim that russia has denied there was another somewhat outrageous report about some a legit military exercises that were scheduled to take place between russia syria

china and iran now the reason i say outrageous is because when you listen to the numbers of this report claiming that ninety thousand soldiers would be participating one thousand tanks one hundred warships that sounds like a humongous exercise to take place between countries and of course to include one country in the midst of his own conflict now the russian foreign ministry immediately denied this report saying it had no merit there were no facts to it and also russian officials say that those reports. being a unleashed by many western media outlets are part of a false information campaign being spread about syria so it is more important than ever right now with this considering the state of the syrian crisis for the information that is being provided by media outlets to be factually

supported so here we see that the international community is not just dealing with a an escalating conflict in syria there's also an escalating information war taking place outside of the country and most recently it is being aimed at russia by many western media outlets but meanwhile former u.s. presidential candidate senator john mccain has called for washington to bypass the un and launch a military strike in syria camilla trochee a contributing editor for the online magazine sera common says it's just part about well established cycle there are too many players. trying to achieve something out of the crisis this is a very very complex prices in a way the way sweet old was wont to grow its its forces in syria which are trying to topple the regime so this has been a cycle where there is human vices and there is this case again because they would like to go in this reserve states that's going to help them cope with that if you will in almost so long as you have so many forces. excited about that you would

option that is that in general it was just they were they were. going to get there through this information as usual so like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventy's also there was a feeling some information. now the group of five leading emerging economies has been seeking greater sway over the i.m.f. of the g twenty summit in mexico with a pledge of seventy five billion dollars the gathering was the first meeting between the russian president and his american counterpart since a lot of reporters return to the kremlin as artist got a ticket and i reports it was an encounter that was visibly strained by the differences between the two. the brics the group of the world's largest emerging markets are making an additional contribution to the i.m.f. that money can be channeled to europe if the crisis there spreads those emerging

economies brazil russia india china and south africa also pushing for reforming the international monetary fund which is why they dominated by the u.s. and europe they want to have a say on how that money is spent and as president putin pointed out a more balanced on a map would become a better tool to react to global economic challenges on international issues on syria president putin said it's nobody's rights to decide for syria who's their legitimate leader and who is not except for the syrian people themselves from president obama's statements it was clear that the u.s. will continue pushing for regime change in syria on the sidelines of the summit president putin had a very long meeting with president obama over to our worst who was behind closed doors but then the leaders came out with a joint statement they said both russia and the u.s. eventually share one goal and that is a peaceful syria where syrians get to decide their own future but russia and the u.s. have seem very differently on how to reach that goal and as president obama said

this tuesday the differences are not going anywhere also president putin was asked about the controversial missile defense shield in europe he was asked about whether president obama's reelection would bring about a breakthrough on the issue and he said he believes the u.s. is going to carry on with the shield plans no matter what. the president is but what would dress the coolie as he pointed out. the situation what would lift the tensions around the issue would be the u.s. russia and iran as partners in building and managing the ship that's the kind of partnership that russia has been putting forward for many years now the one that its partners are not taking for an option. peniche reporting there iran says it will fully cooperate with the international atomic energy agency false sanctions placed on the country are lifted to iran's chief negotiator has offered the deal to the group of six world powers during their today talks in moscow in

a bid to bring more transparency but he also stressed that you or anyone richmond is a natural right of the ukrainian people and they are not going to give it up both sides are hoping to build on there a negotiation progress during a tangled meeting of nuclear experts scheduled on the third of july in istanbul and the political crisis between iran and the international powers has been just subject of intense debate and today's cross-talk policy makers have sent a negotiator clearly they've been affected you suggested the sanctions on fixing the problem that's what i'm saying. you know you're. going to be i mean i know what i think germany is you know what to do. for us regime change there i mean that's the difference of opinion here and it probably won't happen ok so nations alone won't do that well i'm not sure about that but i'm talking more getting communicate clearly i'm talking about the injustice of it i think it's incredibly uncivilized to hurt innocent person a so innocent person they will go after

a guilty person potentially guilty person b. . of course i was coming your way to eleven thirty am g am now a dramatic new turn in the case of the world's top whistleblower jonas sanchez pleading for political asylum adequate doors amberson in the london after the u.k. supreme court gave the go have for his extradition to sweden to answer sex assault allegations wausau has repeatedly claimed the case is politically motivated and being driven by washington as r.t. sarah ferguson explains well by phone. now what's force is a songe to seek political asylum from ecuador. well i mean it's songes really running out the vote and this is one of the remaining legal options that they were left with and we saw a dramatic twist in quite unexpected i think when he did so for asylum at the

ecuadorian embassy you know we've been down there this morning we tried to. to make contact when we were on the door and managed to speak to someone that they're not commenting at the moment that we got some of those on the story because of course the big question was a whether or not this breach the bell conditions and julian is on just being under house arrest here in the u.k. and this is you know a year and a half legal wrangling for his team and the ballot in two hundred thousand pounds and we do know is that the metropolitan police have issued a statement an age that they informed and yesterday that he has actually breached one of the bell conditions by presenting himself at the ecuadorian embassy i mean again people are very quick to point out that this is a completely legitimate legal like they hinted to be going and claiming asylum in this way. all right her things were much new for bringing us the very latest and we

of course monitor this interest situation there and we'll be keeping you up to date now let's cross to the world of business so katie what's happening in the world of business this point alone mary and a lot going on i'm going to take off with the european markets they are dropping and snapping a three day rally that has investors await the outcome of the federal reserve marci meeting later in the day although financials are rising amid a report that germany well as ali european financial stability facility to buy bonds of the debt stricken country to drive down buying cars if we can have a look at this it's in the dark that you'll be able to see the numbers pretty much themselves a lot of the day never such a slight amount of momentum in the last sort of thirty minutes or so that there's a point to this that the on the dock on the two. tenth of a percent we've also had a bit of doom and gloom coming out of britain actually to do with his claims about the unexpectedly risen we know that the g twenty is putting

a lot of pressure on the eurozone. as well to really control the contagion effect. and have a look at the common currency and see that she bearing the markets just now is actually getting at is a fraction on the ruble is also losing out against the balls get this if we move on now with the russian markets and be able to say that they are indeed still in the red zone they haven't managed to escape it whatsoever today flopped they continue southward ok let's get on to these stocks and see that world yes is actually one of the top news about happenings that is gaining six tenths of a percent that soft announcing they're going to get twenty five percent of them that profit out of dividends to shareholders by. new call around fifty basis points in positive territory that brings on the boil prices which about a bit of a shock recession as you can see there if we look at the prices in particular they are remaining around that two day high that's louis speculation coming from the federal reserve that's all we've got time for marine i'll be back about fifteen

minutes all right kelly thanks very much indeed for the sub date and we're moments away from the latest program with the world's number one whistleblower doing a sauna here in r t that's right after the headlines.