nervous wait for julian assange does it with or is to decide later on thursday on whether it will grant political asylum and a safe haven to the world's number one whistleblower who says he's persecuted by leading western democracies. egypt selection committee postpones declaration of the results of the presidential runoff there is public anger over what's being seen as the latest attempt to prolong the ruling military is grip on power. plus his opposition forces in homs stage a massive amount of against syrian government troops despite a red cross brokered truce we reported on how intimidation joined the ranks of the rebels was meant death for some to refuse.

a dam in the russian capital you're watching r t it was me marina joshie ecuador says it will deliver the final word on whether of the world's top whistleblower will be taken under its diplomatic umbrella later on thursday doing a stunt is now in its london amnesty seeking asylum to avoid extradition to sweden which could eventually see him falling into u.s. hands british police are also on alert to arrest him for breaching bail conditions sara for us has more. held under house arrest and oppressed by the government in an effort to silence a pro-democracy message to the public but we're not talking about famous political dissident suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about a western explain and a freedom of speech the charges of ever being voted against julian assange yet he

still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven see the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange has once again caught the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy those julian assange takes refuge but away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man who has been abandoned by his own country persecuted by the u.s. and failed by the u.k.'s legal system but he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for a stroll in government to stand up for a son just fights has been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the resulted in the rejection of his supreme court appeal against extradition to sweden what this was about was once julian assange gets extradited to sweden he's in prison in sweden the next thing that happens is the u.s.

assuming there's an indictment largest extradition warrant in sweden eventually the u.s. gets his hands on him they stick him in a prison in the united states fears of what might await him across the atlantic may well have prompted his latest i think you'll end up actually going through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a stacked against those who are sitting with the bradley manning case united states now has carried the records rather than will courts these on time founded concerns as a long list of u.s. figures he. openly calls not only for songes incarceration but even for his death this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot and here's why because of his work with wiki leaks this guy has made some powerful enemies you know the collateral murder video shows american

helicopter gunships shooting reporters the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this the cable guy has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game with new rules new players and unexpected moves even first on his legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter a songes law is one of many he submitted a letter of support the ecuadorian embassy in it she details from a very personal experiences western silencing campaign i am writing to someone who has suffered immensely harassment at the hands of the united states government because of my associations with a song i did a personal friend my case is well documented and if you require additional information i will gladly provide it i believe that the swedish and british governments are acting with the malice of forethought knowing that the us wishes to persecute julian

a song and that the request to extradite julian is in bad faith sweden has taken every measure to him to justice in this matter and say the man he revolutionized whistleblowing and through wiki leaks released groundbreaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now hoping that the next big release will be julian assange himself served r.t. london. u.k. based investigative journalist tony aslam believes the case shows countries which bring to loudest for democracy clamping down on freedom of speech it's pretty shocking i think in a way britain has lost its moral soul tonight what we've got is a crazy situation where somebody who's actually not even been charged formally with a crime is being hunted down whilst we've got a mean we've actually changed the law in britain over the last year or so to allow people like zippy livni the israeli military minister christmas in two thousand and

eight launched operation cast lead. with the military attacking school children and innocent civilians ultimately you know this is a war criminal is allowed to walk the streets and somebody who's done more for radical publishing than anybody else probably in the last fifty years is being hunted down i just think it's absolutely appalling. now while the world is watching where the latest twist in a songes legal saga will leave an r.t. spoke to a spokesman for the website that made its founder a household name christian happens and admits that fewer over wiki leaks itself has caused more of a stir than the crimes the website was exposing the for injury is coming your way later this hour. the first part of it they took part in the collateral murder video . release in april two thousand and ten i was surprised by the fact that the bigger stories were actually on the leak itself and secondly on julian signs.

the fact that this is a video that is exposing. a war crime got much lesser attention and it hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but it is the media for you. the media will. decide where the focus is. and edge of the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend it says it must review complaints presented by both candidates there's uncertainty too over the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak who said to be in a coma policy or looks at developments in cairo. the latest word now is from state television which is reporting that the election results which were due to be given on thursday have now been delayed and we're talking here about the first post democratic election now those results are results that people here have been

waiting for the run was quite tight in terms of the two candidates the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi and the. fix from the former regime of hosni mubarak we understand that the reason for the delay is that the election commission says it needs to investigate the complaints that have been put forward by the various candidates here we're talking about some four hundred complaints at the same time we're hearing from international monitoring groups who say that they cannot say that these elections have been free and fair largely because they had insufficient access with which they could view the whole election process so certain there are fears here in egypt that the army is trying to hang on to power we're hearing the word coup being bandied about by the muslim brotherhood which is expecting its candidate mohamed morsi to win very of course with the figure of fifty two percent compared to suffix of forty eight percent of these officers that are being supported by most of the media as well as independent surveys indeed this is not

going to be greeted world by the thousands of people who are gathering in tahrir square they are mostly muslim brotherhood supporters and they will do this in the strongest possible terms so it remains to be seen though if they they turn their anger into wide scale protests that cannot be denied that the former president is probably quite sick and quite unwell we're hearing different reports on the one hand we are hearing from egyptian state media that he is in a critical condition they've gone so far as to actually say that he is clinically dead but then this has been refuted by the authorities they say that he is critical but that he is not clinically did the skepticism by. any objections is why is the army always making announcements about his deterioration in health at a critical time in egypt's political life with a suggestion that perhaps trying to detract attention from other things that are. costly are reporting their sites professor of political sociology at the american

university in cairo things the run off has forced a majority of egyptians to choose between two evils those three options now is so you will have a confrontation when they announce that general and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and the evolution is mobilizing again this him and that would leave the country in big chaos the second scenario is that the military council and the muslim brotherhood would reach an agreement in which there is the vision of the political party between the military and the muslim brotherhood. option is clear that the muslim brotherhood can do that and in this case there will be this violent reaction in the street but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time in seven thousand years with. the president but this was not the most favorable choice he wanted. was that we don't want.

and we do not want a military state. coming up for you later in the program too little too late u.s. troops involved in burning the koran and of down stanbury already may get off with fines out of reprimand with fears the mild management could spark a further way to public anger in the country. and greece's new government is poised to push through a slew of new cuts as auditors there are to give the rundown a state of spain's deeply troubled banks. syrian rebels have apparently launched a major of fans have to retake the baba amr district of homes under the cover of a red cross brokered cease fire sources say that dozens of army checkpoints have been struck that's as reports emerge of violent intimidation to force people to join the rebellion often at gunpoint parties marias the national has this report. every evening because a man has a spends time with his grandchildren but the stories grandpa tells the kids about

bad and good people on fairytales their real one of them. who is this mohammad where is he he's dead. what they kill him because he didn't want to bring down president bashar assad. carson is the leader of a five thousand strong tribe his son and youngest granddaughter were shot dead by terrorists after he refused to join the movement against the syrian regime. when their son here they came to me masked men carrying the al-qaeda flag with kalashnikovs and many other weapons they wanted me to demonstrate and bring my tribesmen with me then they came in the night and started shooting in my house discovered in bullet holes from floor to ceiling. later cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two. we

stormed his us house we were shooting and set fire next day where arranged to meet another victim but when we called him back for final details a stranger picked up when they had been. sure. to show that they were shot i said it may have been. pretty much as. we found him he didn't hours later in hospital fortunately alive he told us he'd been attacked gunmen stopped his car took his money and mobile and shot him in the leg. they came asking to join them straight months ago they searched and me and they took my family and love the city hard as i was told

they were following me but what should i do has a came i don't even know why me was a little while my head dean is wondering why him mahmoud the last of the two matt knows exactly why people with guns visited his home and threatened him in his restaurants he used to feed syrian army officers and was also delivering center which is to the checkpoints. tourist told me i cannot feed the army and i now have to see them for free free syrian army they also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many others mahmoud has fled his native it lip the city known as one of the syrian opposition strongholds which has seen several deadly terror attacks and now hiding in neighboring aleppo change in location every ten days and just like others he says he's already lost a lot but his ready to sacrifice the rest if it helps turn this dark page in this

country's history while the west continues to pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of the posen president assad it remains unclear what kind of people would take his place with open support for the syrian rebels and a rise in the use of terror tactics the question many are asking is that what kind of direction would these force take the country. or if national our team from syria. oh there's more for you on our website r.t. dot com including a case of consumer discrimination in the u.s. the american teenager in the south was stopped from buying an i pad at an apple store because of her ancestry. terror in france more on the gun then claiming to have links with al qaida was finally captured after taking four people hostage back.

american soldiers who were involved in burning the koran in afghanistan may get away with white punishment involving just fines and written reprimand and u.s. military investigation has reportedly decided not to press criminal charges against up to seven troops and recommended administrative discipline instead several copies of a koran were thrown into a garbage fire pit and setting up deadly anti-u.s. riots and forcing washington to. dance have been expecting stricter punishment and it's feared that these could trigger a new wave of anger phyllis bennis director of the new internationalism project believes that nato troops have created an environment which fuels violence in the country. the relationship between the u.s. and government in kabul has been very difficult for a long time it certainly isn't only about this question of the burning of the koran

there's been the killing of civilians and most especially the use of drones that have been responsible for the deaths of so many civilians across afghanistan these troops that are responsible for these outrages should be held accountable and there should be severe punishment there should be severe punishment right up the chain of command to those who have put them in these situations and set up the scenarios that have led to these actions the killing of sixteen. afghan civilians just a couple of months ago. allegedly one u.s. soldier this kind of activity highlights what is the reality of a long standing war that from the beginning has been characterized by the deaths of civilians and other violations of international law military occupation breeds outrage by the people who are occupied whether that is palestinians occupied by israel whether it's afghans occupied by the united states iraqis that were occupied by the united states for so long you know that in these situations the incidents

the specific incidents that get a certain amount of attention are really only the tip of the iceberg. now it's back to starting greece where an new probiotic coalition government is on course to finally implement the cuts that sparked a social and political crisis in the country the e.u. is now also preparing to release a billion euros to athens they seen by some as a reward for good behavior their relief in the euro zone may be short lived however with auditors poised to unveil a preliminary report on the state of spain's troubled banks on thursday depending on what they find the e.u. may be facing a crisis of new proportions as spain is seen as too big an economy to be alive but spanish politicians are adamant that the new come from athens will help soothe the euro crisis but some believe it's only temporary and the crash is imminent. everybody says oh yes all the situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums we're going to get as high as sugar rush of call for the

next couple of that is on the way you know experience and you know come thursday friday and the reason i started speaking well you know i did mousavi thing and we're still in the same hole it really is for because they're trying to do two things i was going to see on the one hand bro and on the other and back on their. civil list and on their governments in order to comply with the detroit those. years now you can't do it you can't do the same thing and you also things at the same time it's either one of you i mean if you squeeze the people the people are going to scream and when the screen governments fall and that's what we're going to be seeing in the near term future of this government. the measures which have been ineffective over the last two years and so there's no reason to think that they're going to be effective over the next six months plenty of government in greece loan payments from the e.u. and i.m.f. are set to resume but critics say too much of that money is going just on debt maintenance will be of more use of spent directly on the economy because

a report besta gates at seven thirty g.m.t. and house max kaiser says the real winners are not the greek people but bankers and creditors. j.p. morgan estimates only fifteen billion euros of four hundred ten billion total aid to greece went into economy rest to creditors no wonder they are cross. well you see this in wartime all the time and you see this now during the financial war the aid comes but you know ten cents of the dollar or five cents the dollar actually makes it to the ground the rest is stolen by the gate keepers there who are negotiating these horrific aid packages that benefit only the insiders and the bankers you know this was going on in egypt for years right the pentagon would give aid to egypt as long as they bought toys from the pentagon the money hitting the ground nothing same thing in europe it's really a leper colony and it's just a race to see who's got the most fingers right now greece is losing that race and

the only thing they can do to help themselves would be to get out of this leper colony kind of to nation of a europe catastrophe and maintain their sovereignty. and . now look at some other stories making headlines around the world south korean japanese and american troops are holding their largest ever joint military exercises they say it's to demonstrate how so tokyo would react if their countries were invaded by north korea the maneuvers marked the sixty second anniversary of the korean war and are expected to involve around two thousand troops the north has been down the exercises same day in preparation for an attack. after three days of clashes in the gaza strip palestinian hamas militants have agreed to an egyptian brokered cease fire with israel among the conditions they are seeking are stopped or the building of new jewish settlements in the west bank fighting began after an israeli man was killed in

a cross border attacks launched from egypt's sinai desert since then nine palestinians have been killed and there were one hundred rockets have been fired into the jewish state. pakistan's president has nominated a political rival of former prime minister use of raza gilani to take over as premier the current textiles minister has been named for the role and falls given his dismissal after being convicted of catan of courts two months ago for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president the parliament will meet on friday to decide on a new prime minister. and we're switching to the world of business katie is there for us good morning to you people are now seeing that as work former economic forum kicks off today what can we expect these and. what is exciting marina we're looking forward to it we'll get hearing out for it today so i'll be talking about that later on first of all i'm going to get through the markets and see what's going on with kick off with asia because that author running right now

we're looking at a mixed picture we've got japan stocks that are rising for a second day that's all speculation that the japanese currency will be halted after the last federal reserve or from similar so it's was the hating that the cars will be kids oh says another boost of the norm eight years approved to quantum it seemed to support loose monetary policy to all the bank of japan's bald so if we talk about stocks individual stocks come to motive they rely on the us with forty four percent of their around three percent at the moment it's a different color palette for the high side as you can see that jumping around nine tenths of a percent of the time is not to be seen we could. to output a new export order to cloy thousand according to the admission results by hay just the same or just so i think part of the stimulus from beijing is being four calls to going forward by hate just the same now let's go to wall street and save all the talk of stimulus eyes were firmly focused on the federal reserve that sees

a reason came to a close start the fed by cut the growth estimates on their expanded economic stimulus the program known as operation to its not is a program to long to mature it is so nice that balance there was an initial sense of disapprove money because investors were hoping for more aggressive action that ben bernanke you the chairman of the fed accepted that progress in the job market had floods and he mentions additional steps going forward in the future such as asset purchases if the labor market doesn't continue to increase that will see yesterday if we move forward then we take a look at how oil is responding to all of this is now reaching an eight month low as you can see just that u.s. in adventurism now climbed to twenty three mild heart overcalls like those prices to plummet because of course supply is going up or oil is have a look at the cars and see how the euro dollar is responding as well i just want to mention as well that with greek government has been formed it's

a coalition between the new day and apostle paul says it will be an option today said you know it's all is just perhaps not the one twenty six seventeen to talk about russia or the ruble of the strange is that i did lose out to the u.s. dollar as well as the euro and yes it was a disappointing day for the my sights on the arts yes but i was out flat and they pretty much remained in red territory for the rest of the generation of the day now talk about russia you mentioned it yourself marina it is this and petersburg forum and today it kicks off in just under an hour's time now on the outside for this to focus in pieces but for me is a fish and leadership. is a three day long event as i say and it will once again provide a unique platform for discussions on various issues affecting the world economy around five thousand persistence from around ninety countries are expected to pay additional attention to the year as our problems as well as the prospects for

russia also president vladimir putin will give a speech later in the day we'll be following throughout the day with for bringing the latest on the event morita looking forward to it absolutely well we're looking forward to learning more about the efficient leadership there and thanks very much indeed for bringing us this business update and i'll be back shortly with an update of our top stories stay with us.

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