from phones to permission. he starts on t.v. don't come. and nervous wait for join us on jeopardy or ways up the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he is eventually transferred to the u.s. before delivering its verdict on his plea for political asylum. his opposition forces on stage a massive chance of against syrian government troops despite a red cross brokered truce we reported how intimidation to join the ranks of the rebels and death for some refuse. and the military backed election commission delays the results of a presidential runoff an interrupt the move has outraged many in the country who see it as part of a coup aimed at keeping the army interim rulers and power. in

the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program ecuador says it will deliver the final word on whether the world's top was a lower will be taken under its diplomatic umbrella later on thursday join us and is now in its london am a c 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 so 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 the western explain and freedom of speech the charges of of

imported gets julian assange yet he's 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 in a cell and takes recchi that 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 the 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's 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 the records rather than we'll of course these on time found it concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest pin. cool's not only for songes incarceration even for his death this guy is a traitor treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a and his why because of his work with wiki leaks this guy has made some powerful

enemies. the collateral murder video shows american helicopter gunships shooting reporters the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this. has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game with new rules new play is an unexpected me even first on his legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter a songes lou is one of many he submitted a letter of support yet could do in embassy in it she details some of my personal experiences illegible westen 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 julian a son a dear and 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 sandwich 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 who 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 science case shows countries which bridge the 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 i launched operation cast lead. with the military attacking schoolchildren 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 sound as legal saga will leave them are two spoke to a spokesman for the website that made its founder household name christian happens and admits that a few are over wiki leaks itself has caused more of a stir than the crimes the website was exposing for interviews coming your way next hour. the first probably the day took part 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 assange it's. the fact that this is a video that is exposing. a war crime got much less retention and it hasn't gotten the attention this words but it is the media for you. the media will decide where the focus is. siraj have apparently launched a major offensive to retake the baba amr district of homes under the cover of a red cross brokered cease fire sources say the 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 art is marie of the national has this report. every evening cause a man has a spends time with his grandchildren but the stories grandpa tells the kids about bad and good people aren't fairy tales they're real well you know who is

this mohamed 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 our 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 my house is covered 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 a man has his 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 what is more hardeen. you want. yes wait we'll give you the mall and bashar al assad. goes past child related to mundine wait will bring you all the heads dogs whereas my danish bring me bashar al assad then we'll tell you where. the hell is this your families of kidnapping and killing people. sure. you will be kidnapped two. we found a man who didn't hours later in hospital fortunately alive he told us he'd been attacked the gunman stopped his car took his money and mobile and shot him in the leg. they came asking to join them three months ago they searched and me and they took my family and loves the city i was told they were following me but what

should i do it 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 mats knows exactly why people with guns visited his home and threatened. in his restaurants he used to feed syrian army officers and was also delivering send which is to the checkpoints. with a camel to feed the army and i now have to feed them for free free syrian army also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many others mahmoud has fled his native 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 supplier more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of depose and president assad it's 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. ready for national our team from syria coming up for you later in the program just a rap on the knuckles for actions with a raid. and nation. troops involved in the koran in afghanistan in february may get off with fines and reprimand with fears. that spark a further wave of public anger in the country. in egypt the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend it says a must review complaints presented by both candidates there is uncertainty too over

the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak who is said to be in a coma 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 everyone else 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 turkey a square there mostly muslim brotherhood supporters and they will do this in the strongest possible terms of remains to be seen though if they they turn their anger into wide scale protests it 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. we need action that 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 on the. policy reporting there now side side a professor of political sociology at the american university in cairo thinks the run off has forced a majority of egyptians to choose between the 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 evolution is mobilizing again this and that would lead the country into 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 steve but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time in seven thousand years we elect 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. well there's more for you on our website or to com including a case of consumer discrimination in the u.s. the american teenager who says she was stopped by an i pad at an apple store because of her breaking ancestry. plus terror in france more on the gunman claiming downlinks will was finally captured after taking four people hostage to.

american soldiers who were involved in burning the koran of ghana stam a get away was white punishment involving just fines and a written reprimand a 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 the koran were thrown into a garbage fire pit in february setting off a deadly end to u.s. rides and forcing washington to apologize afghans have been expecting stricter punishment as feared the light palaces could trigger and 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 us 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

qur'an as 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 by allegedly one u.s. soldier this kind of activity highlights what is the reality of a longstanding 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 south korean japanese and american troops are holding their largest ever joint military exercises near the north korean border and around two thousand troops are expected to be involved in the maneuvers which have been condemned by the north which says they are in preparation for an attack let's get more on this with professor jones. hong kong university mr chang thanks for being with us here in the program well first off these war games are taking place in an area where tensions are already running high so what sort of an impact will that have in the relations between these countries and north korea. certainly it means an escalation of tension and destroy and has been going on the since around trend and when territorial disputes in east asia as well as so east asia have been

escalating. the countries involved have been engaging in this type of the confrontational military exercises so what we see is one it's a size one minute three. and so on but at the same time appears that all parties concerned would like to maintain their communications lines open and a sort of honey do not want to see any shop deterioration in derby basin ships like the i am sas the exercises are provocation so how do you think north korea will react. well north korea is an exception to what i just said. i believe there will normally treat it's kind of exercises as an excuse to be used. in opportunities so if.

it's interested in a dialogue with the united states of penn and south korea they probably view of a problem and do not want more but. is interested in breaking the about involved in excerpting sort of pressure on the western countries and you use the exercise as an excuse to terminate their dialogue and to escalate in the region while you were saying earlier i mean certainly complicates the political landscape in this area the geopolitical i should say but. what do you think china will make of all this activity when how will it react to what's going on in its own backyard. china understands that since around twenty ten the shopping of the territory of this fails. has led to the strengthening of the hedging strategies on the part of the countries

concerned especially on the up of japan so countries like japan and south korea certainly have been strengthening their security ties with the united states and the united states has been exploiting fully these threats these strategies to strengthen and two it is returned to asia strategy china understands that exerting pressure on the countries concerned is suing. would tend to be counterproductive so it will try to continue to improve relations with japan and south korea and thereby to weaken their security ties and a military dependence on the united states now very briefly mr chang the u.s. is boosting its military presence in the asia pacific region with washington saying it's to improve partnerships there but others on the other hand see it as

a threat to china why do you think this is the reason well the united states certainly believes that the asia pacific region is very very important strategically and militarily and it is making a use of the strategies of the neighbors of china to make up for the the crime even relations with these countries concerned during the. previous administration. all right professor joseph chang thanks very much indeed for your views here. now it's back to greece were and new probate allowed coalition government is on course to finally implemented the cuts that sparked a social and political crisis in the country that is now also preparing to release a billion euros to athens being 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 the pentagon why they find that you may be facing a crisis of new proportions as spain is seen as too big an economy to bail out but spanish politicians are adamant that the new call in from athens will help soothe the euro crisis but some believe it's only temporary and the crash is imminent. everybody says oh yeah i saw the situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums we're going to go just hi this sugar sugar rush of kong for the next couple of that is on the way you know experience in them and you know come thursday friday and the reason i started thinking well you know i did mousavi you thing and wished on the same hole only for him because you're trying to do two things are you see on the one hand bro and on the other hand there are there are civil list on the honduran government in order to comply with the troika's call for austerity measures now you can't do it you can't do the same thing you can do lots of things at same time it's either one of them i mean if you squeeze the people all

of the people are going to scream and when the screen governments fall and that's what we're really seeing in the near term future of this government pursues these austerity measures which have been in effect of 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. straight to the world of business now is the first day of the same pittsburgh anomic forum what can we expect from the van katie primary and it's going to be a busy day that the show got picked and that he's going to be giving a speech about five thousand but his opponents from ninety tons certainly laws on the agenda let's get through the markets first of all how to ease up and i remain mix that in the afternoon. japanese stocks they're rising a first second day on speculation that the step of the japanese yen will be halted so will it will we can it because of that u.s. federal reserve the fact that they were afraid from having any aggressive stimulus says are also given enough of those. that have actually said to economists who are

supporting a loose monetary easing are now going to be sitting on the bank of japan's bulls investors since we were all those missing about all of that we've got one hundred most ways to get a steady halt of its money from the u.s. it's rising around three percent and. sessions the hang seng is dropping as you can see just around nine tenths of a percent that's off the china how to use manufacturing activity weekend. says outputs and new orders to claw and that's according to initial results by hey just b c they're expecting more decisive policy stimulus going forward in order to counter out those results as have a look at wall street and see how by going yes they are as i say lots of speculation about the federal reserve intervening we have a mix just as there's a pretty full out finish a really also a disappointment as i say thought there was some kind of stimulus going on because

they're going to continue with operation twist this is a program to long maturities of assets on the balance sheet so as i say disappointment to begin with they were expecting a more aggressive approach from ben bernanke but he has said this will be done if the job while he continues to be mentioned in this know what steps to counteract that such as i'm. all right let's move on and see how the oil is responding to all of this and that still rise either they got us a venture is now reaching a twenty two month high which means that supplies going up and that will prices go down let's also take a look at the current says and see that the euro dollar you've been talking about is self merino we've got a new government now in greece one twenty six and seventy two sounds going to be one of the. in the year as i would say the ruble a little stout for the u.s. dollar and the years we look at the russian market said it was a pretty bleak day really here most we didn't see much movement a skull it colors on the screen just. as i mentioned it's all about this in pieces

but at the moment for. is just kicked off actually and the theme for this year's event is a fish and leadership and as i say is a three day long and then it will once again provide a unique platform for discussions on various issues affecting the world economy around five thousand just went from almost ninety countries are expected to pay additional attention to the eurozone problems as well as the prospects of russia president vladimir putin he'll give a speech later on today and we'll be following throughout the forum bring you the latest on the event. all right gary thanks very much indeed as always looking forward to more our dates from you and in just a few moments i'll be back with headlines followed by the latest edition of our interview show spotlight.

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