and nervous wait for join the sonship with your ways up the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he's eventually transferred to the u.s. before delivering its verdict on his plea for political asylum. rebel forces in holmes stage a mass of fans of against syrian government troops under the cover of a red cross brokered truce and it reports that armed gangs are using lethal intimidation to bolster support for the insurgency. and the military backed election commission delays the results of the presidential runoff in egypt the move has outraged many of the country who see it as a part of a coup and it keeping the army interim rulers in power. in the st petersburg gives us no economic forum kicks off with president putin

expected to provide his views on what's going on in the european and russian economies join me in twenty minutes for the details. this is r t coming to you live from moscow eleven am in the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program now ecuador says it will deliver the final word on whether the world's top whistleblower will be taken under its diplomatic umbrella later on thursday will join a sundress now and 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 while 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 song 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 is once again called 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 fight it's been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the case a result 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 browser you'll end up actually through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death toll the it will be a stacked against as are seeing with the bradley manning case united states now has kangaroo courts rather than real course these on time founded concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest. if a penny cools not only for songes incarceration then even if the his death this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death penalty want to do

it illegally shoot the son of a and his why because of his work with which 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 the cable guy makes has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game with new rules new plays 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 the it 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 assange 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 british governments are acting with the malice of forethought knowing that the us wishes to persecute julian assange and that the request to extradite julian is in bad faith sweden has taken every measure to him to justice in this matter and so the man who revolutionized whistle blowing 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 julian assange himself served r.t. london. well for more on what's ahead for joining us sanjay let's now live to professor don of roswell from the australian national university college of law who is in camera for us thanks very much indeed for being with us and the program here now if a son is granted asylum will he be able to cross equador in embassies door without

being arrested by british for use what's yours are. well the key issue is whether or not the community that the ecuadorians will be seen to grow his sons will be respected by the u.k. government and the complexity associated with that is of course that aside just currently being held in the united kingdom as a result of the swedish arrest warrant he's flown by a look at the moment pinning the finalize i should know all those extradition proceedings to slee and of course he's breached his bile conditions by actually spending the night go to the ecuadorian embassy so he is now wanted by the british police and they have indicated that i will see two or esteem. now let's take a look at a possible scenario they're supposed to or a grand asylum will that give you full immunity from any political persecution. well certainly it will with inequitable and of course within the ecuadorian embassy in london he enjoys the community and inviolability of the we were an embassy but.

i think if it is intending to remove mr assad with these permission to take him to ecuador there will be a delicate diplomatic negotiation that will need to type place between ecuador and the u.k. authorities on that matter. well claims that extradition to sweden will see him being eventually transferred to the us where he says he'll face the death penalty now if the u.s. wants him why daily americans just seek him directly from the u.k. rather than enough roundabout way via sweden. well look i think that's an excellent question and it's one that's been posed by the australian foreign minister in the last twenty four hours because we need to remember that the swedish legal proceedings commenced in mid to as it might twenty ten and to a certain extent by were in advance of the particular interest that the united states was beginning to express in

a songe so if you like sweden currently has priority in this process but if those swedish legal proceedings were to have come to an end in the united kingdom it will then your scenario would certainly play out and the us could have sort songes extradition from the u.k. that at the moment seems very unlikely because at the moment the only two scenarios for us on two would be to see his extradition to sweden being affected although somehow he may be relocated to ecuador on the vice of the asylum that he might be granted by that country why you know while a songe is waiting in ecuador is evaluating the threat of saddam a face in the united states how convincing do you think his claims that he would face death penalty if he's transfer to the united states are in your opinion. difficult to determine of course in his legal team he supporters have spoken quite widely in spirit of these prosecution by the united states clearly there are slight

means on the public record by politicians in the united states and political commentators throughout you know that sites which you referred to in your package in which it suspected that they my will have been already a sealed indictment against the songe presumably as a result of grounds upon which he has breached the espionage act but that really is supposition at this point in time there's nothing in the public domain confirming that the us ambassador in australia for example has denied that a songe is under investigation so we don't have anything clear at the moment into. getting a firm indication as to what the intention of the united states is in this matter and i think we need to distinguish between any investigation that might have been conducted in the united states as against legal proceedings leading to an extradition request i professor donnelly thanks very much indeed for being with us here in the program you're welcome. now while the world is watching where the

latest twist in the songes legal saga will leave him r.t. spoke to a spokesman for all for the web side of made its founder a household name christian happens and admits doubts the furor over wiki leaks itself has caused more of a stir and the crimes the website was exposing the full interview is coming your way next hour. the first part of 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. the fact that this is a video that is exposing. a war crime got much lesser tension and it hasn't gotten the attention disorder. but it is the media for you. the media will decide where to focus his.

posse rattles have apparently launched a major offensive to retake the baba amr district of homs 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 it is more of a 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 on fairytales their real one of them will 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. flater cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two. we stormed gaza mohair this 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 hardin you want. yes. i will give you them all and bashar al assad. goes bust harley's into mundine will bring you all the heads of dogs whereas my danes bring me

bashar al assad them will tell you where. the hell is this you have families of kidnapping being people. sure. you will be kidnapped too we found a man who 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 to go this route and me and they took my family and loved the city i was told they were following me but what should i do here's 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 send which is to the checkpoints. but i cannot feed the army and i now have to see them for

free free syrian army he also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many others mahmud 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 to pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of deposing 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 an ocean of our team

from syria found edge of the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend says it must review complaints presented by both candidates there's uncertainty over the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak was said to be in a coma i was near a 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 mubarak 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 mohammed 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 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 axes with which they could view the whole election process so certainly 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 they've called to the figure of fifty two percent compared to suffer expose forty eight percent of these africa's that are being supported by most of the media here as well as independent surveys indeed this is not going to be greeted world by the thousands of people who are gathering in turkey is clearly a mostly muslim brotherhood supporters and they will do this in the strongest possible terms of remains to be seen though if 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 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 many egyptians is why is the army always making announcements about his deterioration in health at the critical times in egypt's political life with the suggestion that there perhaps trying to detract attention from other things that are. cited a professor of political sociology at the american university in cairo thinks the runoff has forced him majority of egyptians to choose between two evils those three options now is you will have a confrontation when they announce that the general and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and move on lucian is mobilizing against 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 candidate and in this case there will be this violent reaction in this to be but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time egyptians in seven thousand years would make the president but this was not the most favorable choice he wanted. to give was that we don't want. and we do not want a military state. now 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 who sounds she was stopped from buying an i pad at an apple store because of her iranian ancestry. plus terror in france more on the gunman claiming to have links with al qaida was finally captured after taking four people

hostage in a bank. south korean japanese and american troops are holding their largest ever joint military exercises near the north korean border 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 now get more on this from dr tim the author and specialist in asia joins us live from new zealand thanks very much him for being with us here in the primary know well given the increasing tension in the region do you think this exercise was a wise move well i don't know one of the word is what we have internally

contrived in miracles of the. chinese it's really all to do with with elections elections in the united states you know so. and so then they're doing it knowing really caught up with nothing very much going to happen it's just a matter of raising tension now what reaction can we expect from north korea in light of what's happening i mean if we know that pyongyang stated that its use of war games as a serious threat. well it was a serious threat but i think they realize and spend you state strong media that it is to do with the elections so they're not going to they're not going to fight. the chinese they know what's happening so they're going to we're going to get a lot of strong words from going younger than from beijing as we might expect but. very much in any action so. it will go on get this attention.

and things will settle down until i guess until next time let's take a look at the situation in the region from the geopolitical standpoint i mean the u.s. seems to be bolstering relations with south korea and japan and expense in china so why is this likely to lead in the long run. well i mean this is the nurses a very. difficult question to answer but it's really a vital one in the worst case scenario we might get bored and it is possible for two in the united states and china with you and south korea. to noodle hopefully that's not going to have. we will get this continuing tension and it's really all to do with china it's to do with the containment china. and that's going to go on as china gets goes up in the world of the united states comes down.

continuing source of concern and danger well. now if the relations. between north korea. do you see this as a possibility of a war is i mean north korea condemned the u.s. military buildup in the region saying it's a prelude to war. and i mean north korea can't do anything about it north korea will. well retaliate if attacked it's not unlikely that you can do anything more than that so i think it's going to go on. i think they the koreans realize that now they have to wait probably until after the american election and so you see what happens there and a second term. may be a better partner just a second term bush was wrong on the nose. but they will have to sit around but the interesting thing and the big thing that might change the game is the

election in south korea there's going to be a change of policy in south korea towards more wins and that might turn the americans in. or item b. author in asia specialist thanks very much indeed for sharing your views with us here on r.t. thanks. well that's all for me for now time to get the latest from artie's business team first day russia's me to get out like a band of the year the same bet as burke for. well i didn't even go is there for us and we do get to see it so what makes a gathering particular important this year. well first of all there is this the fact that blood in the person has come back as president of the russian federation and he's going to be traditionally this reform is governed by the president he's

going to be making his plenary session address and he's going to cost some light on what russia's economic reforms might look like because many experts have been saying that depending on what reforms the new government will go ahead with they will potentially shift their investment focus of interest so let's talk more about these economic reforms with david wright managing partner with p.w. c. russia they've been very good to see you here in the things back at the border so what do you expect actually come out from this money such as big but first i hope that what comes out is a renewed commitment around the reform agenda i think russia needs to move forward in terms of its reform agenda around innovation and modernization and around the role of the state of the by the significance of the role of the states and i think this is a key issue which people expected to address part of the the fact is that russia has been hesitant even though it has voiced many times its intention to reduce the

state's role and reduce the shares of state companies than has them to do so because the market has been for them and now we've got the background of the economic crisis in europe how is that going to hamper the mood i think understandably the troubles in europe and the uncertainty that that generates does give you pause for force in terms of exactly when you talk the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of its share of the g.d.p. but i don't think that should distract us i think it's very important that we see a government that's committed to that as a process because i will send a very positive signal to the markets of bio reform in in general. russia and about there for the long term economic prospects because all right well bush has come back as russia's president went past the pre-election period where you know some of the unpopular reforms i kept in the shadow do you think they might emerge something such as a pension age or increased taxes increased i think in the environment that we have

where the economic background globally is relatively. and where it's weaker than we'd like the level of reform the pace of reform may be slower i don't think that we will see policies will be deflationary if you like in terms of the impact of all the private sector i think we need to support the private side to support rights for investment and so the policy is allowed to be toilet in that direction this will be constrained necessarily the water economic environment what happens to the oil price will be a big influence on the government's ability to finance reform but i don't think we should deviate from the long. direction which is to make russia more competitive the problem in making russia a model for the economy course so many times it has been said that the main problem is corruption and a lack of transparency how do you solve that there is a recent branch issue the takes

a long time to change i don't think it's something that we can achieve overnight i think it's about deliberate sustained direction in terms of policy it's about the tax reforms of the being introduced in terms of how the tax ministrations system works it's about reducing the role of the state a lot of corruption associated with state killam and increasing the private sector allowing the private sector to introduce the high standards of corporate governance and transparency these are all elements of the solution which will take place over time but i think we need to put it into context that russia can continue to grow even with its current economic state if you like in terms of environment. we can continue to grow for boy so which is which is a very nice rates of growth opposed to the global a lot of the global poison we all sub optimal in terms of our growth rate issues like corruption needs to be tackled if we're going to get up to the it's a million percent which we have the potential to treat all right very optimistic

view there from david gray managing partner with p.w. c. russia thank you very much for that all right well join me of course in the coming hours we'll be keeping you up to date with with the latest analysis with the a look ahead into letting a person ski address out of course we'll have that key speech live on sea as it happens absolutely thanks very much indeed for bringing us the mood from the vibrant agenda of the economic forum there is mr medvedev reporting and in just a few moments i'll be back with had lines followed by the latest edition of our kaiser report.

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