free. and free book video for your media project free media. dot com. arrest or asylum british authorities are ready to detain julian assange for breaching his bail conditions that whistleblower is staying at the ecuadorian embassy in london while the country considers whether to accept him as a political refugee. egypt's former president hosni mubarak is said to be in 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 them amid a raging media war including false reports of tens of thousands of russian and chinese troops were to be deployed near the country.

on line this is r.t. with international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow and facing arrest british police say the wiki leaks editor has violated his bail terms by seeking sanctuary at the ecuadorian embassy in london the world's most famous whistle blowers asked for political asylum in the latin american country to avoid extradition to sweden. is that the embassy wall our reporter laura smith is near scotland yard in london and we talked to both of them a little earlier. well behind those 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 saying we left speculating at the moment of course the embassy here said that evaluating his request it wasn't going to be long before julian assange is 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 and also at the end of last month after 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 president. as you move

it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way. to the globe of the persecuted. thank you. thank you. to avoid every day. laura over to you know what to do tell us what are you saying at this point. well mainly that if he steps outside the ecuadorian embassy they will arrest him as you were 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 while inside the ecuadorian embassy he's 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 also

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 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. 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 all 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 time to sweeten. would be extradited on from that to the united states he's pointed out

that the united states is the country where the death penalty is still in force and they have also been reports all through this eighteen months place has confirmed that the u.s. is already building a case against him. but 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. or smith in london will alter your earlier talk to june in the soldier's mother christina sanchia told us it's his son being abandoned by his native country that's led to the current turn of events i would like to it saying is to government stand up and had some independence from us foreign policy and to know what you're doing is accusing a journalist who has not been charged with anything and you're on the statement as done nothing wrong they should have stood up they should have the carpet the swedish ambassador the fact that that breaks to iran and they dislike and like that you pay to respond when they shouldn't they should have protested immensely to the

. u.k. government it's disgraceful display during a hearing that your successor to the u.s. that calls are being trained on our son they should have protested all of the things they've done nothing that i did in a base in the us in persecuting my son when a little later here in r.t. we hope to be crossing live to new york to talk to an attorney to find out what he thinks is next for julian assange but in the meantime don't forget that own interview program is being broadcast right here on r.t. throughout the day it's the latest edition coming up in the next hour for you and if you've missed any of the previous programs they're always available in a special section of our website and that is a syringe don't r.t. dot com. i'm julian assange. that is true of wiki leaks expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government been attacked by the united states strongly condemn.

illegally shoot five hundred days now i being detained without charge that hasn't stopped. the day where on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is in a coma that's the latest from the country's security officials amid uncertainty over his condition it comes as the results of the presidential runoff are due to be announced on thursday with both candidates claiming victory. is incorrect. the fundamental question though we're asking just how people in taqiyya feel about the news that mubarak has died away otherwise is the question of whether one not his death would make a difference to people here on the streets and the general answer is actually no so people people came out and called for him to step down from power last february will bite for them is did whether he is dead physically or not makes little

difference he's still in the hearts and in their minds and he's certainly not at the ticket 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 as 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 the muslim brotherhood has been around and waiting for eighty years the only question at this stage that cannot be answered is when will that shouldn't happen and to want to extend it will it be will it be a massive demonstration when it was all to violence it will be something that is more controlled. here with r.t. we're live here in moscow still ahead in the program this hour a moscow court

extends punishment for political punk rockers known as pussy riot the arrested for performing at moscow's main cathedral russian society is split over the issue plus . more on this is exactly what investors want to see all the talk about that and what that means in the business update. now let's return to our top story concerning. his request for political asylum with the ecuadorian embassy let's discuss further what might be next for the world's most famous whistleblower kevin zeese he's an attorney who joins me now live from new york what i could do and officials are promised to deliver a decision on providing asylum soon but could this be a matter of days months or perhaps even years or some of these cases can take. this could take a long time the fact there are thousands of refugee cases already waiting in line to be considered in ecuador ecuador is the second largest recipient of refugees in

latin america to venezuela so it could take a while and even if he is granted asylum there remain a lot of questions like where can he be the ecuadorian embassy in the u.k. is a small office about five offices and i'm sure it has a shower and yet it's not there you could leave that office without being arrested there is no guarantee for example that the u.k. has to recognize the political asylum decision of ecuador and that could mean he could stay in that busy for a long time so this way it's in the you know the one case in the end so if you ask you but if you still leave the embassy having being granted pick political asylum he wouldn't get any diplomatic immunity to make his way to the airport so he could really be arrested. there's no guarantee of that there was a case in in hungary were a cardinal was granted refugee status by the united states he stayed in the embassy fifteen years before being allowed to leave and so there's no guarantee that the

u.k. would grant that kind of transport to allow them to go to ecuador was it a small thing then to go to the ecuadorian embassy. but his choices were very limited the last point he had to the european court would've really been almost no chance of success sweden had announced that they would hold him in confinement once they were able to get him in sweden and so he did know chance to that and he'd be held in sweden with who knows a long how long their process would take to go through pretrial through trial and then sentencing i could be a multi-year process where he's held essentially out of touch with the world and not able to talk so i think this was almost was his only choice but claims he didn't commit any crime one in sweden if so then what's the danger him actually going that to sweden facing allegations if he's set free what is the guarantee that he will be extradited to the u.s. after that. well first off sweden announced that once he came into sweden

he'd be held in custody there pretrial detention procedures allow for people being held in custody during pretrial and so he could have been out of the public communication beginning we know from other leaks that published strat for leaks indicate that there is a. bit against sweden a secret indictment against me against in the united states and so the odds were good that that was the process of sweden as a client state and i say to be buy lots of weapons for that from them although airplanes use the libyan war came from sweden sweden is not what it used to be it's a very much part of the national security system of the us empire and so it's of a friendly state when it comes these kinds of issues so he's rights protected by european and international law then. i think is the right actually taken people to understand that asylum is not unusual thing there are many people in

throughout history who've been involved in political asylum who was first recognised in the u.k. back in five hundred a.d. and recognised around the world before that it's a long term practice in fact there's some interesting people who get received asylum in fact. marks received asylum in the u.k. . obviously there's all these all political philosophers in fact obama's aunt received asylum in the united states in boston she was first denied it is ago then two years ago she was granted asylum so asylum is not an unusual thing it's an appropriate legal remedy for mr sawyer he's within his rights to pursue it in fact the universal declaration of human rights recognizes that every person has the right to seek political asylum and i think his case is a perfect example one he is certainly being persecuted this is a case of when held under house arrest for five hundred days without ever being charged for questioning he offered to provide answers to questions via skype there

is no need for this extradition this looks like a set up process and really he is taking the only approach he has to break up this set up and to try to get out of the stranglehold they had in this in this this legal persecution system just funny what next. well you know the united states i graduated law school in one thousand nine hundred eighty it was a country you could be proud of we look to due process you look at the presumption of innocence the right to bail the right to counsel the freedom from the illegal searches that all that has changed is started to change rapidly with the war on drugs we saw the drug exception of the bill of rights that is through an avalanche of the destruction of civil liberties united states with the post nine eleven war on terror we really have now a system that we can't be proud of that we should be embarrassed about has been turned on and said we really provide no due process we provide fake trials for terrorists that only meet the standards a real trial. the process is one we really should be nervous about so we.

as a people i'll just quickly solitary confinement that's what you have two sons and you reckon he will end up in such confinement in the u.s. . i think i think he'll end up. facing very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it'll be a stacked kangaroo court against as it were seeing with the bradley manning case united states now has kangaroo courts rather than real courts kevin zeese really interesting here thought thank you very much indeed for joining us live from new york kinsey's u.s. attorney there very interesting perspective the eurozone is breathing a sigh of relief after the greek socialist leader announced that three parties have agreed on a coalition government following sunday's election comes after weeks of uncertainty and fear is that the. party would have a majority in parliament where the crisis focus is now shifting to spain which is set to see another round of protests on wednesday. as this report. 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 some 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 with these elections but some of the parties in support of it such a new democracy have been shown force to change their tune of it they say they are very recent seek a renegotiation when it comes to the bailout conditions that's something that germany and other states in the years are nor is it a flat no two so that's the situation for them now the key word that's a big word when it comes to the euro zone has always been contagion and that's something three never been 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 as they. cross 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 eurozone for stop and that's led labor years today 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. you an observer say they're committed to completing their mission in syria seen as key to ending violence despite the early decision to halted because of security risks observers claim they've been given safety guarantees by the syrian government but not from the opposition there's been a spate of fighting in the country with a major media war also gathering pace. as the latest. 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 the government the opposition to the safety and security and freedom of movement will do observers the government express that it clearly. lays. 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 a toc 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 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. with the full scale media war taking place in syria we've been talking to one of president assad's main political and media advisors she should have views on the crisis in the country and the way the turmoil is being covered and he watched that interview in full in about five minutes in the meantime is a brief. the. there are. tens at least of satellite the channels. 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 damage to the media war because when you know how some religious men and fighting sectarian hatred among the syrian people there are many people who fall victim. to this incitement unfortunately the media war throughout history could be very damaging and. very effective. and you can watch the interview in full a little later here on our team 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 capital's main cathedral case of the group pussy riot has triggered flare ups and deep division among russians drove a brings us the details from outside the court. 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 is that demonstration children full of a so-called antique government a punk rock prep and a sit in lease place aliments within russian society in fact throughout the day outside of the cold we've seen heat is given to basic asian is spilling over into small scale scenes of violence between one side groups align themselves with the whole food chain on the other clues they agree with pussy riot its 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 with 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 for their investigation also saying that there was

a risk that they could take part in the demonstrations that all three women will remain in police custody until the twenty fourth of july now it's expected that eventually they will be charged with hooliganism charges this in russia could result in a jail sentence of up to seven years. let's have a quick look at other news from around the world this hour a world update a french police official says the government inside a to news bank has been captured alive and the four people took hostage have been released announcement came shortly after several gunshots were heard near the bank no one was seriously injured the man who said he who police say had passed psychiatric problems did fire one shot inside the bank after his demand for money was denied he claimed to be in linked to al qaeda and asked to talk with the police unit which killed islamist government mohamed merah in march when a killed seven people in three separate attacks into lose before a police sniper shot him dead. sixteen people are dead and

dozens more injured after a motorbike packed with explosives drove into an international military convoy afghanistan civilians and foreign troops were killed in the region the main area of operation for taliban militants is the third time in two days coalition troops have been targeted. and police checkpoints in the south returned yesterday. no time to check out the business is the business desk following the latest financial developments for us marina market blues. yes that's right bill wolff had a lot of positive reports so shouldn't really be like that but i think investors are now it's hired all of the same old thing and what i mean by that is that there are a lot of promises and a lot of policymakers saying that they'll do whatever they can to resolve the debt crisis but nothing is being done to achieve that let's take a look at the u.s. markets which are the only ones trading right now because they're the ones close the most take a look at that in a little bit as you can see the dow and the nasdaq losing about a quarter of

a percent there and what we see there's that investors there are waiting for a policy decision now we have analysts saying the federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he will announce that the u.s. central bank will extend its bond buying program and this is not what everyone wants to hear they want to hear about wants in the easing and analysts believe that will happen and if that's what we get in the end of this meeting they will see the numbers go even lower all right over in europe let's take a look at the close of picture there as you can see both of us here that i've added a little bit there but again there was a lot of posted reports i was saying earlier so the number should have been much higher what i mean by positive reports and we know that bank of england said it announced that in five lines over close to eight billion dollars to banks and that's using a facility that was set up late last year to ensure that the u.k.'s financial system was put cyc that from any possible. the euro zone that crisis and also the

news coming out from the u.k. is that the unemployment level there fell by fifty one thousand to just over two point six million in the first three months to april according to the office for national statistics the jobless rate is now at eight point two percent and the number of people in the work rose to just over twenty nine million making it the largest quarterly increase since august of two thousand and ten. but a quick look at currencies the euro is a loser and against the again against the dollar i should say i don't know what i was thinking they're saying now when it comes to ruble the closing figures for the day lost against both major currencies you look at the markets a bit of a lackluster performance today investors were courses making risky moves i had all of the announcement by the federal reserve chairman of the s. and m i six lost over one percent as this by the fact that we got news that russia as a trade turnover rose by seven point two percent in the first five months of the year

again positive news no reaction there as we can see in fact quite the opposite and also a local story here russian that gas exports are expected to hit a record high of two hundred twenty two billion cubic meters this year about three quarters of this amount worth about sixty one billion dollars will go to europe which is russia's key energy partner and separately gas from has reassured that it's northern to supporting any problems with greece spain bills or gas imports. about an hour from now. when the media coverage of the syrian crisis comes into focus in a few minutes that street top stories with me stay with us live this is in moscow.

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