rest for asylum british authorities are ready to detain. breaching his bail conditions. at the ecuadorian embassy in london while the country considers whether or not to accept him as a political refugee. egypt's former president hosni mubarak is said to be in a coma amid mounting tensions over who will succeed him after the presidential runoff. and u.n. observers pledged to stay in syria despite attacks on the. media war including false reports that tens of thousands of russian and chinese troops were to be deployed near the country.

worldwide live from the heart of moscow this is with me rule recent shy julian assange is facing arrest british police say the wiki leaks editor has violated his bail by seeking sanctuary at the ecuadorian embassy in london the world's most famous whistleblower has asked for political asylum in the latin american country to avoid extradition to sweden and. is now at the embassy while reporter laura smith is near scotland yard both in london and i talked to them just a little bit. over hind these closed doors and julian assange is taking refuge at the moment you can see some of his supporters have gathered outside here this morning now still a clear indication of exactly what the decision is going to be of course a huge amount of speculation at the moment now

a little earlier on investigative journalist government body and from city university had come out of the building and he had spoken to some of the reporters here and said that the atmosphere inside was warm and that there would be a statement later on today so we left speculating at the moment of course the embassy here said that evaluating his request it wasn't going to be long before in a song he's going to have to present himself to the british authorities and then he faced extradition to sweden where of course he faces questioning the sexual assault allegations that he's never actually been charged in all at the end of last month to the u.k. supreme court rejected his appeal against the extradition really a stunt in his legal team we're running out of options now the next big question that everyone's all seeing right now is why ecuador again a lot of speculation that we do you know that julian assange had previously met the president of ecuador he interviewed him for a show the runs analyse and it seemed to hit it off in the meeting just take

a listen but now i. think. as you move it is really a pleasure to meet you julie and least in this way will. be welcome to the global persecuted. thank you. first thank you. to avoid every. overt you know or to do tell us or one of the u.k. or thor he's saying at this point. well mainly that if he steps outside the ecuadorian embassy they will arrest him as he was saying earlier he is in breach of his bail conditions which are very strict he's been under them for the last eighteen months and one of the states that he has to spend the night at his registered address which is obviously not the ecuadorian embassy and he has been there since yesterday spent the night over there while inside the ecuadorian embassy he is of course out of reach of the police because it's

a sanctuary. the moment he steps outside we understand that there are police officers waiting for him they don't exactly know what their orders are but they know that they have to stay there until something happens according to reports says it's working with the u.k. to sort this situation out whatever that means but of course this is not unexpected it was that we didn't think that julian ourselves would just be able to go to ecuador without any kind of repercussions and this is really a last ditch move for him and a very unexpected move of course we know that he's exhausted all his legal options here inside the u.k. he took his case right up to the supreme court which offered him a picture of him an appeal but then rejected it at the last moment so now his only recourse in the legal system is to go to the european court of human rights but he evidently doesn't expect that the european court of human rights would be able to help him and of course this is because of him being wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault in sweden no charges have been brought they're

looking at sweden is looking to extradite him just for questioning and he has always feared that it's ten to sweden. would be extradited on from that to the united states he's pointed out that the united states is a country where the death penalty is still in force and they have also been reports all through this eighteen month process and confirm date that the u.s. is already building a case against him. the stakes are very high in this it's really a last ditch attempt to avoid being extradited this case is coming to a close. laura smith reporting there proceeded by sarah for someone with well we did a manager speak to julian a song just mother here on our christine a songe she told us it's being abandoned by his native country that's now led to the current time offense i would like to it saying is truly in government stand up and had some independence from us foreign policy and to know. what you're doing is accusing the journalist has not been charged with anything and you're on this

commitment and done nothing wrong they should have stood up they should have a copy of that the swedish ambassador to the fact that that breaks to iran and they could slice it and that you paid a response when they should they should have protested the immensely to be. the u.k. government it's disgraceful display during the hearing this year because it's to the u.s. that calls are being sought on my son as it pertains to organize things they've done nothing that i did a basically you wasted persecuting my son. that's i discuss further what might not be next for the world's most famous whistleblower with simon butler the coeditor of an australian campaigning paper green left weekly now joining us live from sydney good to see you today we've just heard the comments from julian assange his mother who has said that the australian government should have offered more support to her son why do you think they didn't well it's the witch helixes

exposure oh oh. crimes against humanity and war crimes particularly in afghanistan and iraq is also. government and the strength government being one of the world's most biggest backers of u.s. government. so-called war on terror and we hear leaks did a lot to show that this strain government has also been lying to its people about the conduct of that war. there is also other other reasons why straying government is not support of weaken leaks because for instance we q leaks expose that there were serving government m.p.'s who were had offered themselves and considered themselves and were considered as cia or assets. and at the end but the guts of it gets to the fact that in mainstream australia in politics the alliance with the united states comes up for or else comes for everything for them and you have not

states the said that they want julian assange and as far as the government's concern they can get it. as you suggest i'm sorry to interrupt you guys yes it is the close alliance between the australian and american government but ultimately that's why. one has offered no help to his native julian question certainly some are asking is why is a staunch chosen or to grow to ask for political asylum in ecuador and not any other country. well it's there there is a record that the current ecuador government has zero respect for human rights law and it could do and government has been very vocal about human rights issues since korea was elected so they have a far stronger record than the current strain government and it is worth noting that julia science is the first strain in history to climb political asylum in another country and it's the first time this is happening and it is it is it says

a lot about the strain politics science couldn't climb. in the country at birth you couldn't go to these shine and see because it's trying government has said very clearly that they will sit on their hands and they will not act to prevent a sign to be extradited to the united states that said that very clearly that they will not intervene and won't interfere so the. mother can i can i just interrupt you just for a moment here i mean obviously house arrest of roughly five hundred days in the u.k. the sex charge allegations from sweden the swedish authorities have not pursued posed no question him australia as many saying turning its back australian the government there turning its back on assad tell us what is your straightly in public think of julian assange. julie sidestreet popular industry he's opinion polls show that he has a higher opinion of support among the public than

a the prime minister all the opposition leader and there was a poll conducted a few weeks ago which asked people would they vote in the election just said that he is willing to stand the senate in australia now in that poll it said that he would get the support of twenty seven percent of voters and that's more than the labor party got in a recent election in my state while so in a lot of the evidence is that more popular in the politicians who have to. pretend to be extradited to the us some of the campaigning paper green left we can joining us live from sydney here on our team many thanks indeed thanks. to forget her julia saunders and exclusive interview program is being broadcast here on r t throughout the day it's coming up in about an hour and twenty minutes from now if you've missed any of the previous episodes that are always available twenty four seven on the special section of our website that's

a song dot com. i'm julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks we've exposed the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this . illegally. five hundred days now being detained without charge. doesn't stop this. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. live from moscow this is r t now egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is in a coma that's the latest from the country's security officials all amid uncertainty over his condition it comes as the results of the presidential runoff are due to be announced on thursday with already both candidates claiming victory in cairo was artie's fall asleep. the fundamental question though we were asking just top people

in town here feel about the news that mubarak has died away otherwise is the question of whether we're not his days would make a difference to people here on the streets in the gentleman's who is actually you know so people people he came out and called for him to step down from power last february who bite for them is did whether he is dead physically or not makes little difference he's dead in the hearts and the minds in the city not at political play here egypt is changing from day to day you have the presidential election that happened just last week and you have these conflicting reports of mubarak you have demonstrators back on the streets of tokyo and we do get a sense that there is going to be some kind of showdown if not on tuesday when those he makes an assault on mounds in sometime soon after that the showdown is likely to be between the muslim brotherhood and the ruling military and it's a showdown that's been some time in coming to the muslim brotherhood has been

around the lady for eighteen years the only question at this stage that cannot be answered is when will that shouldn't happen and to want to extent will it be will it be a massive demonstration when it was on to violence will we be something that is more controlled. reporting what i still have for you on the program here one calls to crack down on iran. wants to e.u. nations to toughen sanctions against the country despite the leadership and to iran offering big concessions to cooperate. plus a moscow court extends punishment for political punk rockers known as pussy riot were arrested for performing at moscow's main cathedral find out how russian society is quite split over the issue. the eurozone is breathing a sigh of relief after the greek socialist leader adults that three parties have agreed on a coalition government following sunday's sunday's election. it comes after weeks

of uncertainty and fears that an anti bailout party would have a majority in parliament however the crisis focus is now shifting to spain which is set to see another round of protests on wednesday with this report hotties jacob grieves. we're hearing that that government will be headed up by mr marson leader of new democracy who won in the recent election three way coalition that's what we're seeing at the moment now they're going to be out to john together one hundred seventy nine seats in this three hundred seat parliament that could prove very crucial going to be passing is a very unpopular austerity likely in the future legislation associated with it greeks they have some monsters but they're still really lacking in many such as the wave of anti austerity that we've seen that build up and with these elections some of the parties in support of it such a new democracy you've been forced to change their tune of it they say they'll be reese seek a renegotiation when it comes to the bailout conditions or something that germany and other states in the euro zone or is that a flat no to so that's the situation for them now the key word that should be

worried when it comes to the euro zone has always been contagion that something three never be more problems the right now when it comes to spain spain may already have to seek one hundred billion euros in order to recapitalize its banks will no more the figures on thursday soaring the boreen course at the moment late reaching that that holland portugal greece all face and they have to seek an all out bailout from the euro zone and that's something many people say the years are simply couldn't afford for spain right now you know when it comes to the economic situation spain facing unemployment was at twenty five percent the highest in the euro zone full stop and that's led labor use to day places day they'll be taken to the streets in barcelona to protest the current situation protest against the job cuts we've seen taking place in spain as part of this austerity or at quarter past the hour here in moscow this is our c.n.n. u.n. observers say they are committed to completing their mission in syria seen as

a key to ending the violence this despite the earlier decision to halt it because of security risks observers claim they've been given safety guarantees by the syrian government but not from the opposition now there's been a spate of fighting in the country with a major media war gathering pace the details now he's a marine 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 the freedom of movement told the observers the government express that it clearly. days. statements from the opposition the 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'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 and as marina was reporting there with a full scale media war taking place outside syria we've been talking to one of president assad's main political and media advisers she said her views on the crisis in the country and the way the moral is being covered the interview coming your way in well about a minutes from now. there are. tens a pleased of the trauma and. made themselves part of the war on syria and citing sectarian wars fabricating facts about what's happening in our country it can do a lot of them in the media war because when you're. fighting sectarian head to among the syrian people there are many people who fall victim to do this incitement to unfortunately the media war throughout history could be very

damaging. but effective. and the interview is coming your way in just a few minutes from now though a moscow court has prolonged the detention period for members of a notorious band who were arrested for singing a political punk song in the couple's main cathedral in the case of the group known as pussy riot. has triggered flare ups on deep division among russians outside the courthouse for us now is audi's pressure on a bit of the decision by the judge appears unlikely to further start up tensions all surrounding this case. the cold just behind me is being deciding whether the three women the alleged members of pussy riot who took part in a demonstration inside moscow's main cathedral earlier this year whether they should be remain in detention now that demonstrations took the form of a so-called government punk rock prayer and it certainly splits elements within

russian society in fact throughout the day outside of the cold we've seen heat it's all given to debates occasionally spilling over into small scale scenes of violence between all sides groups align themselves with the. you know on the other those they agree with pussy riot it's message as well as they saying that these women should not remain in detention should not remain in custody if they haven't been formally charged now the the investigators say that the women should remain in custody because they view them as a flight risk and say that if they were released they could try and escape further investigation also saying that they could try and tomko with any further evidence that could be could be could be gathered for their investigation also saying that there is a risk that they could take part in the demonstrations that all three women will remain in pleas custody until the twenty fourth july you know it's expected that eventually they will be charged with hooliganism charges now this in russia could

result in a jail sentence of the seven years. or so from moscow thank you. but i do remember here on r.t. there's always much more news many features and comments and opinions on our website but someone who can see what's in store for you right now at ati dot com a nuclear. scares the shit was down the spines of residents in beijing with an ominous cloud hanging right over the chinese capital quite some time as well. also an american navy warship returns home with ten tons of marijuana find out how the marines discovered the drug on our website dot com. just a few minutes on

a hostage crisis in the world update here on r t but for now france is urging the e.u. to toughen its sanctions against iran and to fully apply an oil embargo from the first of july that's as iran says it will fully cooperate with the international atomic energy agency only though if all sanctions placed on the country are lifted tehran's chief negotiator has offered the deal to the group of six world powers during their two day talks right here in moscow all in a bid to bring more transparency but he also stressed at tehran is not going to give up the enrichment of uranium to twenty percent something the world powers don't want to agree to now hopes are high for a technical meeting of nuclear experts that shut you all for the third of july in istanbul and the political crisis between iran and the international powers has certainly been the subject of heated debate in today's edition of cross talk. policymakers who said going to go clearly they've been affected you suggest that the sanctions are affecting the policy that's what i'm saying i was.

going to be honest i know but i think germany is you know we did use will sanction . for its 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. 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. . before we join a marina with a business let's go straight to the world update now and police say that two people have been freed from a bank in to lose france where a man claiming to be linked to al qaeda took four people hostage the area around the bank has been cordoned off and there are no reports of any injuries at this point police said the man did fire one shot after his demand for money was denied

he also asked to talk with the police unit which killed is the most the gunman that mohamed merah in march killed seven people in three separate attacks in toulouse before a police sniper shot him dead. sixteen people are dead dozens more injured after a motorbike packed with explosives drove into an international military convoy in eastern afghanistan civilians and foreign troops were killed in the attack the region is the main area of operation for taliban militants it's now the third time in two days coalition troops have been targeted after a base and police checkpoint in the south were attacked yesterday. as promised often business desk you've been following a busy day haven't you yes that's why rory was the guy and say maybe next time we should be careful about saying that you will be joining me later because when i know you. last hour and maybe replace you on the seat there but of course we decided against that so there you have it the camera back on track now we can

actually tell you what's going on with the markets last time we missed the opening of the american markets so let's take a look at what's happening as you can see the dow and the nasdaq are adding to. investors really has been for making any saw the moves that was because they're really waiting to hear what the federal reserve will say later in the day they're expected to make all this decision and in fact that other analysts are expecting the u.s. central bank to extend its current form program for the program of course but analysts know that what investors want to hear is about more cash stimulus or not you or anything like that and then of course to the markets of the drop all right not speculation that we'll see what happens when i get the news there let's move on to the european markets and there we have investors digest in a couple of years as you can see the footsie and the banks are and again just them all just a lackluster day across the board basically we have a spanish and italian bond. and that is of course caused the news because we've

seen the calls rising and rising and also. from now from the u.k. the unemployment level there fell to by fifty one thousand to just over two point six million and that's in the three months to april and according to the office for national statistics the jobless rate is now at eight point two percent and the number of people in work grows to just over twenty nine million making a little largest quarterly increase since august of two thousand and ten. and of course from the. banks are now struggling to raise cash to safeguard against europe's debt crisis it's in these economy is in recession and is expected to contract one point four percent this year and this makes a really difficult for borrowers to repay loans and it's forcing lenders to. capital to safeguard themselves. but and this is what i have for this hour always a pleasure marina many thanks indeed. the headlines in just

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