welcome back here with our team here's a look at the top stories and nervous wait for join us on this ecuador is to decide later on thursday on whether it will grant political asylum and a safe haven to the world's number one a whistleblower who says he is persecuted by leading western democracies. egypt's election committee the phones the 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's grip on power. rebel forces and home staging a massive sounds of against syrian government troops under the cover of a red cross brokered truce and reports that armed gangs are using the results of

the nation to bolster support for the insurgency. while julius songes fighting his battle against extradition to sweden and for political asylum from ecuador r.t. discusses the future off us weekly's project with the website's press spokesman chris and that's next. thank you very much for joining us can you tell us how you came to join wiki leaks well. joining us ours was working quite a lot in iceland in the winter of two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten and after actually here year we could be produced a tremendously important leak and two thousand and nine exposed the corruption within the iceland banks. all sorts of station school. had a light on why the entire banking system isin webster two thousand and eight i met him in that the period when he was doing. all the things on supporting the project

the icelandic modern media initiative. and we befriended he. showed me the collateral murder video i was at the time working for the state television and of course offered my help and it became. basically a joint project to with between the eyes and the state television and we can use. join then we can use pool time in the summer of two thousand and ten and how's it being feel you've been described as sort of the second public face of wiki leaks having stepped into this much more spotlighted role so to speak at such a difficult time with wiki leaks. have you been finding it i've been finding extremely interesting and it journalist would find it interesting to take part in the biggest leaks in history. basically transform. politics from certain areas and it's been a total game changer it's

a paradigm james is saying is a generous but it's like working in what do you perceive is the other journalists response because we see a lot of the. wiki leaks and julian assange. well i mean there is a very mixed feelings among journalists and we have worked with a lot of excellent journalist who understand the importance of we can use we also work with other journalists who have to go back and we have. a very strange most of the. people of the world. it is hard to say what exactly forces so but they have many of them being. dishonest and spiteful in their in their. covering of. i have no idea. but it's extremely strange that it is disappointing to experience that for me as a journalist for more than twenty years but it's

a fact ok i want to talk to you about wiki leaks as a how do you think there's a concern there that the focus is moved away somewhat from the really important aspect of it which is these incredible leaks to actually this sort of idea about wiki leaks as a whole in julian assange that's maybe a shadowing more important aspect of it now does that concern me well i mean the focus has. always been an independent panel thing that we have not been able to always. decide upon how it was handled i mean. for example like in the first probably the day too. hart in the collateral murder video release in april two thousand and ten i was surprised by the fact that the biggest stories were actually on the leak itself and secondly on julian a science. the fact that this is

a video that is exposing. a war crime got much less attention and still hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but it is the media for you. the media will decide where the focus is and that's the reality we live in a way to see the future of wiki leaks always very hard i mean we have. we have been starved of ninety five percent of our funds julian assange is facing a legal battle. we know that in virginia there is a secret grand jury trying to find those of bringing cases against julian and or possibly others in the organization. people that have and are supporting we can use our being harassed when they. tell us even u.s. citizens so we it's hard to see where the world if you choose to.

believe that despite. everything we look back at the accomplishments or we can do so they are. great in this period to say this is a battle between wiki leaks in big corporations governments. it is a battle. against corruption. and lies and secrecy. and he thinks going to win. well it's hard to say but let's hope that. rupert murdoch was right in the early fifty's when he was on a tour in australia where he rode in leather tauriel. in the race between truth and secrecy truth will always win. i hope he'll remember these words himself but somehow i doubt if you're an effective journalist and i think. which is the thing that is being one of the world's

strongest when it comes to the legal rights protected to whistleblowers what you think is the other countries are following well iceland is on the path of changing the last two to make it a very strong. shield for journalists and whistleblowers. it's a long term projects but after the economic collapse in no time two thousand and eight when everybody was agreed was caused by lack of transparency and luckily formation so this is a. nation was. ready for for a total overhaul of the legal system it will take some time but sometimes shock like. the entire nation spectacular show total meltdown economy. creates the right atmosphere for. deciding for improvement in this nature one of

the positive things that can come out of such situations but i suppose the shocks can also work the other way because the scene of the sea the u.s. and some extent by sort of almost taking steps backwards and there's a sense maybe that these big corporations that are now under threat that the sort of transparency wiki leaks would bring fighting back against this now. now with that is sort of the trend that maybe the situation in the comically or worse stream entire i mean it was a spectacular meltdown i mean the banking sector. was ten times the size of the local economy ten times the g.d.p. of iceland when it all collapsed over a few days you can imagine the consequences. in other places like here in britain i mean there was a bailout. basically the taxpayers have to shoulder the burden to keep the banks like they were too big to fail. years which. all over all over yet what we're

seeing of course is this trend. which you so much to. crack down with a point with. totally contrary to to be slow and gradual improvement in the legal environment that we've seen. over the years. most long go some more protection i was introduced here in the u.k. a similar one of us but still we received basically a systematic crackdown on whistleblowers especially in the us a very serious one were all from one nine hundred seventeen the espionage act is being used to. haunt those who are basically blowing the whistle blowing the whistle on. illegalities corruption which is hurting the general public and costing the taxpayer a lot of money ok so we think that the legal protections afforded to potential

whistleblowers can't necessarily be relied on at the moment which is an organization that predates these anonymous leaks what can you actually offer a whistleblower when they come to you how much genuine protection can you offer then. we'll have you know the a track record of. is impressive in that respect i mean nothing no nobody that has contributed material to weeklies has been exposed by anything that we can use has done so. hopefully the ses like that we have we are still working on reopening the. electronic dropbox allows people to submit information to is with. it being traced to them in any manner we we wouldn't not be able to do it ourselves even let's hope that they will that will open soon meanwhile we've heard from

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of sports and it's a day break from the action in europe twenty twelve but plenty going on elsewhere the strides well it can be all about football merino the russian men's basketball team are on their way it's a venezuela where of they will try and qualify for the london olympics have got more on that in just a few minutes. hello and welcome the business for the artsy with me room on cost and here is what's coming up. and then there were eight france and england securing the last two quarterfinal places at the euro two point it's well. from chelsea to china did he a drug boss was the champions league winners for chinese super league strugglers and big spenders shanghai sheinwald. and last chance saloon russia's basketball

squad gear up for another big qualifying events in venezuela their last chance to make london twenty as well. full first where the quarterfinal line up your oats once it's well it is now known in england and france shattering co-hosts ukraine's dreams by securing the two qualifying spots from group d. k. partridge and i reports from kiev. so it's england and france to go through from group d. and we're respectively play italy and spain in the quarter finals of euro two thousand and twelve well first up at the donbass arena internet skate was england wrong on ukraine ill and a controversial victory at that it was an england man who was making his return wayne rooney who missed the best chance of the half back after two match ban and his mansion on teammate ashley young found a cross on the left hand side but rooney practically on charge could only head white however three minutes after the interval i really swiftly made amends the cross this time coming from the right hand side from steven gerrard his cross-breed the goalkeeper who fumbled and rooney couldn't have got any easier goal heading in

from one yard ads well after an hour of ukrainians i tried to fight back and it was going travesty milewski he had it over he had a free header and he missed the controversy came just a minute later he beat the defense and he just the hand of joe hart it looked like john terry had cleared the ball off the line however replays showed that the ball had crossed the line all the officials missed it and again raises the question of goal line technology is a major championships and it finished a learned one ukraine will roy hodgson he's now been to instrument in a draw and they go through as group d. winners and one next play italy so then we turn to kiev where france lost two nil to sweden swedish captains last anybody him of it said sweden they had to play for their own or after two to face and they were already eliminated and after forty minutes all the toivonen need be made those words come true he managed to hit the post but stehman is off to the interval it was either him of it himself but the swedes one across from seven lawson was acrobatic a met by the ac milan with

a sixteen yard volley as spectacular started to put sweden one nil up while france they've been content to sit back but they did push forward olivier giroud who is about to sign for arsenal next season seven minutes from time he missed a sitter he had it over but the swedes made him pay seven last and turning from provided to go scorer in the dying minutes christian wilhelms and he hit the bar and lawson was there with a rebound to make it to no france's twenty three match unbeaten run comes to an end they finish second in group they were next play spain. elsewhere dizzy a drug has left chelsea and joined chinese superleague side shanghai shanghai walk the ivory coast striker signed a two and a half year contract with the big spending club reportedly earning up to three hundred thousand u.s. dollars a week the thirty four year old spent eight years at chelsea scoring one hundred goals in two hundred twenty six appearances he went out on a high scoring the decisive penalty in their champions league final victory over bar in munich last month. and briefly about basketball and the n.b.a.

now miami could be just one game away from claiming their second title following a one zero four ninety eight home victory in game four of the final series against oklahoma the score is now three one to the heat as the next match takes place on thunderous courts and kevin durant's knows that his side have nothing to lose at this point as they will try to get back into the contest on thursday. real to one with a chance to. take it back to oklahoma city. tomorrow we can win three games in a row here. we can win the series you know but next game we're going to take it to position the time a game of the time. go for the so you know tomorrow of course is a you know do it. for the russian men's that basketball teams last chance of the big qualifying is fast approaching the squad set to travel to venezuela to

attempt to book their place at the london games michael with that scene at their final training session here in moscow. four one win and one loss that's how the russian national basketball teams played out the two recent friendlies against macedonia and greece but team russia's coach feels the results are the least of his worries when playing in practice matches the results to me or less important you know i've never been a big practice game guy in terms of. the results and it's always proven to be the case that that we do better in the in the actual tournaments than we do in practice games and i hope that continues team captain andrei kirilenko who's had some highs and lows in the past season losing out with serious caught in the league final but snapping up the most valuable player award for twenty two and also reiterated his coach sentiments saying recent friendlies are not about getting a result but really trying the different sides are no different back combinations and different cross stars on the floor lineups and i think david perry did what he

knows what he's doing and we definitely fighting to win the game but i don't think it's a big big issue for us you know to be very you know concentrate on results right my friends and family with a few allowed in to watch their loved ones train one more time it will then make stage of preparations. and even sports minister of italian would call found the time to pop in to meet and greet the coach and players the minister of sport was very kindly and gentlemanly as he always is and let us know that he expected us to call the fog. which is. which is understandable what he should do you also said without your respect so he wishes this good luck to him and we hope to make here and all of the russian fans happy this training session concludes with russia's national basketball teams preparations on home soil they will now fly off to the us where they will play another three friendly games twice against great

britain and once against that the way new before heading out to caracas venezuela where the olympic qualifying toman will begin on the second of july michael schenker moscow. now with thirty seven days to go until the start of the breaks athletes from across the globe are finalizing their preparations great britain's eventing scene may have more global media attention than most that because of the presence of queen elizabeth the second granddaughter zara phillips has been selected in this five strong squad but refused to comment on whether the queen was her biggest fan with my family you know very proud been right behind me. yeah you know it's great. name with basically. you know going to get there and we know the next few weeks is working really hard to make sure. this is the

best performance ever. i just feel myself very lucky to be riding a team with these guys. now there are less than two weeks to go until one of the toughest enduring sevenzo in a world sport gets underway that's one to twelve tour de france begins in belgium in ten days time the favorites this year is team sky's bradley wiggins who has been preparing for a training camp in spain thirty two year old wiggins is aiming to become the first ever british winner all the events and says it's something he's dreams about since he was twelve years old however wiggins says defending champion australian evans is the once a catch toss to think. he's the winner last year he could climb and win sprints on small mountains so he. is still the man survey for the issues too and he wants

a fight so never gives up. so for me. and finally indian cricketer yuvraaj saying is eyeing a return to the sport that's once it's once the world cup later this year the big hitting batsmen who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer earlier it's one it's well and spends more than a month in a boston hospital in the united states its target is to play at the i.c.c. events in sri lanka are in september the thirty year old has already returned to light training and says his recovery is on the right track. sections of grooming. so i'm just getting back in the groove to do this we can or would you know normally normally which is a lot of excitement and fun for me at the moment i'll be back with dates less than a couple of hours from now but our you tube channel is available to you at any time

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right enough to my mind it was like many of them out h. that wasn't forced marriage it's just money when i was fourteen years old you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effect of social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe going to spawn can not truly cross paths without a sufficient its chemical permission and that a construction of that stuff people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan.

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