british police say julian assange on charles broken bail conditions and is therefore liable to a rest stop for the world's top whistleblower sort of political asylum ecuador's embassy in london to stop his extradition to sweden. egypt's convicted of former leader hosni mubarak reportedly in a coma after a stroke the country's meantime in limbo after the presidential runoff vote as protests rage over the military's relentless hold on power. and the mainstream media goes all out against those opposing intervention in syria with hyped up reports warning of imminent war games to be held in that country involving thousands of warships jets and tanks.

global news live from moscow with me rory sushi and welcome to the program fears that he would be sent to the u.s. off the extradition to sweden have driven julian songs to seek political asylum from ecuador at the country's embassy in london for the latest implications are let's have a look at this now we're joined by our correspondents in london and laura smith. good to see you both thanks for coming on today laura first to you were so far what's been if any official reaction in london. where the official reaction has been really that good enough is now liable to arrest if he does leave the confines of the ecuadorian embassy we understand that that's because he has been in breach of his balcony since he's been living the last eighteen months under these very strict conditions one of which is that he have to flee the night. his registered

address obviously the ecuadorian embassy is not his registered address and that is where he spent last night while in the ecuadorian embassy there he is out of reach of the police he's under diplomatic protection but we understand that as soon as he leaves he can be arrested by police who are apparently standing by that. says that it's working with the u.k. to sort it out but we now have heard reports that you innocence has in fact been granted political asylum in ecuador we'll have to wait until a confirmation of that comes through but those are the latest reports that we're hearing that this this threat of arrest was expected he didn't expect that he could just go to jail without any kind of reprieve repercussions and this was really a last ditch move to julian assange he must have thought about who he was going to ask for asylum and he had developed what seem like good relations with your over the last few months that's why apparently. or laura so as you were saying that we have got a unconfirmed reports at this point unconfirmed reports from the wiki leaks blog.

may have been granted asylum in ecuador so sarah to you the ecuadorian embassy has become saunters latest bust you. absolutely were behind those closed doors julian a staunch taking refuge after school c. went there yesterday seeking asylum and unexpected news for many but of course his legal team running out of options before he to face extradition to sweden where he did face questioning of the sexual assault allegations now of course a huge amount of speculation eva why exactly ecuador now we know that julian assange sure that chile met the president of ecuador a while ago i was interviewing him for his show you on r.t. and they seemed to hit it off the president of ecuador even saying that he was a huge fan of wiki leaks we can hear a little bit from you right now. thank you chris. as he'll go talk on a solution has been a pleasure to meet you julian at least in this way and cheer up welcome to the club

of the persecuted. thank you. take care. thank. you. that's only we have to do it every day. and. now as you say unconfirmed reports at the moment that a song has been granted political asylum now is going to be very interesting as of course in the statement released by the doing embassy they said that in assessing his request they were going to take into account of course international law but also the policy of ecuador all of defending human rights that's very interesting so it's been a huge amount of criticism here already about human rights record but of course the u.k. government's come under huge criticism from the sun just supporters for failing him in this eighteen month legal battle. propagating itself as a defender of human rights itself but certainly his son just supporters don't feel

that's been the case maybe we're not going to see that he's had more luck with that could do it but certainly the stakes remain extremely high for him and do they do so in fact we're hearing right now it all to the ecuadorian embassy in london has just given sanctuary to wiki leaks founder julian laura over to you know so much hasn't been charged yet but is already seeking asylum why do you think he's taking such a step with this story. when i mean it was really the end of the line for today and . he of course went through the entire legal system here in this country and last week he was denying it for him to take his case back to the supreme court here the only step then further on was him for him to take it to the european court of human rights he's evidently not decided not to do that he wanted to as you say no charges yet but wanted for questioning in sweden on allegations of sexual assault and he's always feared evidence that came out that from sweden he'd be extradited on to the

u.s. and he points out in regards to us that the death penalty is of course still in force that we also have various reports. this process is going on that the u.s. is in fact already preparing a case against him for espionage he says when he was on the steps of the ecuadorian embassy that he felt abandoned by the u.k. by sweden and also by his own country australia and he said he felt that they just weren't protecting him so he thought that some sort of move like this was necessary and you can take you see why he feels that that that he he asked for asylum because he didn't feel that he was being protected by any of the countries that were involved in this legal process now with me here i've got paul within who is a member of the u.k. independence party which has always been a big supporter of julian assange is particularly in this case and you came to this really you and i both have been following this since the very beginning you came to this really in the wake of the the extradition treaty that's in place with the

european union it's actually called the european arrest warrant and i wouldn't even even qualify it with the term treaty it's a form that somebody fills out and as long as the forms filled out correctly there is no other judicial recourse the interesting thing is of course that we've discovered the form hasn't been filled out properly in sweden it's been filled out by a prosecutor i think very clearly states in the regulations and this is why he was asking to go to the superior court to clarify this point it's very clearly meant to be filled out by a magistrate or a judge not a prosecutor a prosecutor is the person whose job it is. however you can and we feel that you know this is an additional thing deeply a showing that the court in britain is not wanted and soon to that and i'm due to show you that someone like julian songs has to go to our door to get any kind of protection and this is a consequence of our membership of the european union and the european court of

human rights is is not going to help julia songs it's too busy helping people like to target you know the islamic hate preacher to. wander the streets of britain free while steering the job force we of acting as the us is sort of a proxy of your own on trying to get the songs over the whole thing you have and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the european arrest warrant and julian assange has always felt that there is this kind of state machinery working against him is that how we perceive exactly the same thing what worries us all the time is that more and more the rights of normal people doing protecting things like freedom of speech are being eroded yet at the same time the human rights of people . are being reinforced to the point where we're powerless to do anything so we're powered the powerless to remove the target from this country and we're powerless to protect our songs so you know it seems to me that we're moving backwards in time eludes losing the liberties that britain has been so proud of and all of this comes

down to the european union not the british courts the british courts have their hands tied was this the only recourse gee i sounds to thing well i think it would be a brave man that would have gone to sweden you know there's no case still been lodged against him in sweden. he was only going there for for questioning on this case and he's always been prepared to talk to the swedish prosecutors in england they could have come to england they could have interviewed him then at least there would have been a case. to answer laid against him which there still isn't he would be a brave man that would get on a plane to sweetly knowing that swedes are very friendly with the americans and as you as he's pointed out many times there is still the best death penalty for what he's being charged with in the us we've now had confirmation from the ecuadorian embassy that they have offered him asylum what do you think will be the reaction from here well i think it's going to make us look over

a showing that there's going to be a lot of british politicians wringing their hands and saying you know we couldn't do anything for him but i'm personally in our party's. very pleased dorian's are taking a much more sensible stance on this than we are and you know we offer asylum to so many people who don't get me and yet when it comes to a clear cut case like this where someone is even in threat of their lives you know we've got other outstanding cases with with the americans on extradition and i feel that it was the whole thing with gary mckinnon that made the americans used to try and get a soldier to continue to have a computer suffers from the syndrome whereby he's liable if if a tradition goes ahead to take his own life because you know he doesn't have the mental tools to deal with the whole process now are obviously a much stronger character and he is he has attempted to study and live with the judicial process as long as he could but that there comes

a point where any rational person has to see that the cause that he's being dealt a stacked against him left right center and say listen not from this poker table i'm not playing this game and thank you very much that's probably been from the you can't pendants party will be following this as it develops and getting more reactions from person are very good. for us both live in london thank you. well i mean julian a native country australia has said that it will provide consumer assistance to him despite that the whistleblower says he still feels abandoned by his home and more in how the case has been dealt with by the top australian politicians when i joined by senator scott ludlam joining us here on our from canberra a spokesman for the australian greens good to see you today julian assange says his home country has abandoned him is not justified. it's justified in fact it's a polite interpretation of what's been occurring here so i'm sorry but i have to

confirm that he's quite correct quite so australian government though for the meantime it is saying that it's ready to provide consular assistance to assad is that going to be of any help to him and what exactly does that mean none whatsoever it means that strain officials have been present at the various court appearances that he's made in the high court in the supreme court in london. system to a degree when he was incarcerated briefly at the end of two thousand and ten actually he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for his government to stand up for him and they've been entirely inadequate in that regard and so it's with enormous regret that i would have to say i completely understand why he's appealing for political asylum with the ecuadorian authorities in london as yes as you suggest and as you say quite plainly the australian government has turned its back it has neglected julian assange so so what next how indeed if it can how can the australian government help assad at this point. but we're asking for two things really and one

is simple transparency we're calling on these trailing in government to provide information as to what if it's it has made in good faith if it says that it's done to assist mr sanjay not with the not with the not with the case in sweden which i think my now not run its course what we most interested in is how the issue will be resolved with the united states government there is evidence that it will be an attempt to prosecute mr assad through the grand jury that was impaneled at the end of two thousand and ten and i want my government destroy in government to make inquiries as to whether or not that's true and then to make representations to the us government that we will not tolerate him being prosecuted for these very serious charges which publishes quite frankly shouldn't find themselves subjected to so demands of these trillion government are actually very simple. but we haven't take we haven't had much luck to diet but here on our tea just

a bit earlier today we spoke to do it in a soldier's mother she says that her son has been effectively disowned by its home country because of its support for the u.s. do you agree and if so what kind of president does that set for the case. i really feel for christine she has been absolutely steadfast as an advocate for her son obviously principally as her son but also for his political work and for his role as a publisher think she she's really set the standard and i hope that events over the next couple of hours go well for julian and go well for christine and it's i think a terrible precedent that i think julian is entitle to the same citizenship rights that we all hope will happen if we find ourselves in legal difficulty overseas our foreign minister senator bob carr is i believe still in libya at the moment advocating on behalf of of legal counsel for the international criminal court who's

been i think very unfairly incarcerated by libyan authorities and it's entirely appropriate that our foreign minister has has advocated for her and has gone to the trouble of flying to tripoli to make her case and yet for julian assange and she who's in if anything even greater leave the legal difficulties of threats of assassination and extrajudicial killing in the united states the australian government hasn't lifted a finger and so now he's taken this extraordinary step of throwing himself on the mercy of the ecuadorian authorities he shouldn't have come to the us senator scott ludlam thank you for coming on r.t. today thank you much appreciated. controversial interview show it has right here exclusively on r t the latest installment out of him talking to the pakistan opposition leader that of imran khan and he says that it was only through wiki leaks that imran khan learned about the true corruption in the leadership of his country. to. the wiki leaks. not just.

the middle of the world but in. the with the little of these two faced politicians you know who was sucking up to the americans. telling them how worried they were. you know sucking up to them and then. giving completely opposites to it was a really specially this one religious is this guy owns the booze to clear it leads this religious logic and he needed to do in the matter is that look if you need to become the prime minister of ireland whatever you want to do. and he's considered the most anti american politician you know so he was it was a. it really exposes a lot of people and you can watch that program in full here on r.t. in about fourteen minutes time of course so we will be keeping you up to date on an hourly basis here the latest on julian assange and his surprise asylum request.

there hasn't been a thing yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps to keep journalism on us we. we wanted to present. something else. live from moscow this is r t thank you for joining us today by egypt's convicted of former president hosni mubarak is reportedly in a coma after suffering a stroke early reports suggested he may be clinically dead the news that came as the nation awaits the results of a presidential runoff between an islamist candidate and a former prime minister of the deposed regime this report now from cairo with

artie's paul asleep. late on tuesday the former egyptian president did suffer a stroke but it's not clear will that stroke happened before during or often he was moved from the prison to a military hospital the fundamental question we're asking just how people in time here feel about the news that mubarak has died to what otherwise is the question whether we're not his death would make a difference to people here on the streets in the gentleman's who is actually you know thirty four people he came out and called for him to step down from power last february who bought it for them is did whether he is dead physically or not makes little difference he's dead in the hearts and in the minds of most egyptians the last skeptical about the news of his death and talking to people here in town this week many say that they believe it's actually a ploy by the 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 will make his of egypt essentially what they say is that this is a ploy on the inside and that is why they don't believe it. his policy reporting right now for meantime you are not monitored say that they are staying put in syria despite having suspended the mission after a spate of attacks that were targeting the observers and i was going for safety guarantees from the various syrian affections so far though only the government has agreed with the opposition failing to follow suit the lead is now it's water is more important. head of the united nations supervision mission in syria general robert mood briefed the u.n. 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 told the observers the government express that it clearly in the last couple of days. statements from the opposition here 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 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 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

an escalating conflict in syria there is 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. reporting that well meanwhile a former us presidential candidate senator john mccain has called for washington to bypass the u.n. and launch a military strike on syria coming a contributing editor for the online magazine syria comment says it's all just part of a well established cycle there are too many players. trying to achieve something out of the studio crisis this is a very very complex prices in a way the ways we all want to grow it's forces in syria which are trying to topple the regime so this has been a cycle where that is you know devices and the risk is they gain because they would like to go in this reserve states that's we've had them cope with it as you might

and almost so long as you have so many forces. excited about the your option and that is that in general it was just there that they were. going to get there through this information as usual so will like they did before the attack or before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventy's or so that it was you doing some information. now before we join katie for the businesses let's now go straight to france to kick off the r.t. world update is where police say four people have been taken hostage inside a bank in the southern city of toulouse there are reports that shots have been fired and that the hostage taker claims to be linked to al qaeda in march seven people were shot by a man claiming to have been trained by al qaeda before he was killed in a siege of his apartment there are reports the gunman inside the bank wants to speak to the police unit responsible for that operation. greece is a democratic left party says it's agreed to support

a coalition government expecting it to be formed within the next twenty four hours the new administration is likely to include the conservative new democracy party which came out on top after sunday's election the socialist apostolic which was third and it democratic left of the left wing a series of party which finished second in the poll has refused to join any coalition that follows the terms of the country's international bailout. twelve afghans have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on international forces in the east of the country another fourteen were wounded when a motorbike laden with explosives was driven at a nato military convoy in the city of cost it's the second time this month that coalition troops have been targeted after a base and police checkpoint in were attacked in the south. or let's hop over to the business. to give us all the latest details on the market hello again to you katie do far away absolutely rory now investors right now they're really crossing

their fingers and toes they want some fiscal stimulus from the federal reserve later on today we had optimism and initially coming out of the asian markets european trade as unconvince i was sitting on the fence for much of the trading day but right now looking again to the sea on the sax as you can see just the sonority because we've had some positive news coming out of the britain and the bank of england the latest meeting that shows that the monetary policy committee is considering expanding the five hundred eleven billion dollars asset in program that's basically the purchasing of forms to really enforce and catch in to this system that's helping dampen the disappointment that came from the u.k. jobless claims that rose by over eight thousand eight thousand more people having to go to the government and ask for benefits to really you know get them through while they don't have a job while they're searching let's also talk about the fact that germany is also going to be buying some bonds from the debt ridden countries they italy to help

bring cause to really try and reduce that is a look at the currency one chatting away i just want to say as well the g. twenty leaders they really have given the pressure on anglo merkel she's seen as a figurehead for the european region to really get her house in order because it just never got optimism on your screen want twenty six ninety five so the comparison is holding its own against the u.s. dollar this hour as for the ruble is losing out against the u.s. dollar and the euro in this tension has been these and pretty much for the majority of the day and that brings us on to the russian markets as well they remain in negative territory as you can see you got some scholars on your screen just there seven tenths of a cent for the r.t.s. of the my sense it's around half a percent in negative territory this hour i haven't seen stocks ten. arabs that's one of the biggest news today it's offering. twenty five percent of its net profit as dividends to its shareholders yes please we like the sound of that six tenth's have said we've also got the biggest lines of his expenses sent down in negative

territory as the loop hole to bases eight hundred basis points just just that now let's talk about energy majors and we've got russian gas exports their expenses they hit a record high of two hundred twenty billion cubic meters this year about three courses of this amount worth about sixty one billion dollars to go to europe russia is he added g partner last separately gazprom has reasserted is not sound is the pacing any problems in greece paying bills for gas imports i'm all wrong god says let's have a look at those all important oil prices looking at them because prices still remaining around those a two day highs but it's still managing to drop in the last hour or so in your screen just that so we're going to talk about some other troubled economies in the euro zone cyprus europe is pushing cyprus to take a full package worth ten billion euros resisting the country's attempt to limit the emergency aid to its banking system the land is in focus is the second largest lender cyprus popular bank which took heavy losses due to his exposure to greece

well considering a bailout for europe cyprus has also asked russia for a direct slowed sigman maybe. rory you'll be joined by marina controversial have all the latest enjoy the afternoon. in just a moment we'll be doing the headlines you're not the world's number one whistleblower julia songs today announces you seeking asylum in ecuador we have the latest edition of the exclusive interview program with julian r. sargent just a moment. well

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