and there are just ways for joining us on twitter or ways up the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he is a man fully transferred to the u.s. for delivering its verdict on his plea for political asylum. rebel forces aid homs stage a massive fan set against syrian government troops under the cover of a red cross brokered truce and it reports that armed gangs are using me for intimidation to bolster support for the insurgency. the military backed election commission the place the results of the presidential runoff in egypt the move has outraged many in the country who see it as part of a coup aimed at keeping the army interim rulers in power. say petersburg its national economic forum kicks off with many expecting president

search and to shed light on what will happen with the european and with russia's economy some more of this in twenty minutes time joins me live. this is coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program how accurate or says it will deliver the final word on whether the world's top whistleblower will be taken under its diplomatic umbrella later on thursday join us sunday is now in a slum in amber seas 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 sarah ferguson 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 games julian assange that 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 she is once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy those julian assange 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 the 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 one 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 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 penalty i want to do it illegally shoot the son of a 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 new rules new players and unexpected me even first on his legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter and say the man he revolutionized whistleblowing and three wiki leaks released groundbreaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now a ping that the next big release will be julian assange himself served r.t. london professor down a rathole from the australian national university college of law says that even if

a court or decides to grant a signed asylum there's no guarantee it will be respected by britain. i think if it would all is intending to remove mr songe with these permission to take him to acquittal there will be a delicate diplomatic negotiation that will need to type lies between ecuador and the u.k. authorities on that matter but that key issue is whether or not the immunity that the ecuadorians will be seeking to grant his son should be respected by the u.k. government and the complexity associated with that is of course that is currently being held in the united kingdom as a result of the swedish arrest warrant he's on bio at the moment painting they finalize isin all those extradition proceedings to sleeting and of course he's breached his bile conditions by actually spending the night go to now the ecuadorian embassy so he is now wanted by the british police and they have indicated that i will seek to arrest team. now while the world is watching aware of

the latest twist in a songes legal saga will leave a mark he spoke to a spokesman for the website have made its founder household name christine hampson admits that so the furor over we can fix itself has caused more of a stir down the crimes the website was exposing the four injuries coming your way later this hour. the first problem that 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 assange it's . the fact that this is a video that is exposing. a war crime got much less of a tension and it hasn't gotten the attention that this works but it is the media for you. the media will decide where the focus is.

to rubbles 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 now that's as reports emerge of violence intimidation to force people to join the rebellion often at gunpoint are just worries and i'm sure has this report every evening cause a man has of 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 i want to 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 i stand 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 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 hardin what you want. yes. i will give you the all. possible use of me to mundine would bring you a great head start dog where is my danish bring me bashar al assad i will tell you

where. the hell is this you have to be set up among people. sure. you will get kidnapped two we found one 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 straight months ago as a threatened me and they took my family and love the city hard as 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 mad 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 center which is to their checkpoints. with stallman i cannot 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 a mash mood has fled his native it lit 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 depose and 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. ready for national our team

from syria. coming up three layer in the program just a rap on the knuckles for actions which enraged and nation u.s. troops involved in burning the koran in afghanistan in february may get off with fines and reprimand with fear is a mild punishment could spark a further wave of public anger in the country. and greece's new government is poised to push through a slew of new cuts as auditors prepare to give a rundown of the state of spain's deeply troubled banks. in egypt election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend it's as it must review complaints presented by both candidates and there's uncertainty too over the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak who said to be in a coma. 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 runnels was quite tight in terms of the two candidates the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi and the witch afic 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 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 very of course with the figure of fifty two percent

compared to suffix of 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 tahrir square there 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 that he is in a critical condition they've gone so far as to actually say that he is clinically dead but then this is being refuted by the authorities they say that he is critical but that he is not clinically did the skepticism by. many addiction is why is the army always making announcements about his determination and 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 on the go past the reporting there and paul is also following developments in egypt for us updating our twitter feed was the latest well her latest tweets quote hosni mubarak's lawyer is saying they ousted leader is worsening condition comes after a fall in prison bound for more mubarak's health as well as the volatile mood in cairo follow our teams and policy ears own twitter feeds. science had 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. have. been when they announced that this general and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and the evolution there 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 that. the the muslim brotherhood can do that is the window and in this case there will be . a violent reaction in this to leave but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time in seven thousand years. that the president but this was not the most favorable choice you want that the egyptian revolution was that we don't want. and we do not want a military it's the. 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 he says he was stopped from buying a i pad at an apple store because of her iranian ancestry. plus terror in france more on the government claiming to have links with al qaida he was finally captured after taking four people hostage in

a too loose bank. now it's back to starting greece where a new probiotic coalition government is in 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 being seen by some as a reward for good behavior their lead in the euro zone may be short lived however with auditors spoiler veiled preliminary. port 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 bailout spanish government politicians are adamant that the new calm from athens will help soothe the euro crisis but in saudi and economics blogger says that annie rasping

which might flow only temporary. everybody says oh yes all this 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 kong for the next couple of it is all the you know experience and and you know come thursday friday and everything i started thinking well you know i didn't solve anything and we're still in the same hole that i'm really for because they're trying to do two things simultaneously on the one hand bro and on the other and back on their on their civil list on the on their governments in order to comply with the troika is call for austerity measures now you can't do it you can't do the same thing and do all the planes at same time it's either one of them i mean if you squeeze the people at the few 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 if this government pursues easy austerity 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. well a new 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 maiden's and will be of more use if spent directly on the economy the cause a report investigates at eleven 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 know 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 this 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. in the. 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 can dam by the north which says they are in preparation for an attack author and specialist in asia dr tim beal says the war games are really about winning over u.s. and south korean voters. the americans have been into the no. side chinese side it's really all to do with with election elections in the united

states you know. so they're doing it knowing really caught up with nothing very much going to happen it's just a matter of raising tension in the worst case scenario we might get. this is possible in the united states and china and south korea being squeezed in middle hopefully that's not going to happen but 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 goes up in the world the united states. is going to be continuing. concern and danger. by american soldiers who were involved in burning the koran in afghanistan may get away was like punishment involving just fines and the written reprimand 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 deadly anti-u.s. rites and forcing washington. afghans have been expecting stricter punishment and spiritual litel these could trigger a new wave of anger phyllis bennis director of the international project believes that nato troops have created an environment that feels 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 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 well that's all for me for this hour time now to get a latest from artie's business team and it's the first day of russia's main economic event of the year the st petersburg form.

so i guess which way the anchor is therefore i send mitri what are the highlights of the high profile gathering likely to be this year. well of basically at two o'clock local time that's in around two hours one and a half hours we're going to have the plenary session kickoff kicked off by the president's speech led him of putin is going to make his address and he's expected to basically shed light on what his views are about the situation in the global economy specifically in europe and what russia's going to do about it how it's going to adapt to this changing environment and of course this environment this year is so much different from the from the previous years because of the intensity of the sovereign debt crisis in europe and to talk about that we're joined by the chairman of k p m g michael andrew michael a very nice to see you here in st petersburg so what do you what do you make of the current situation in europe we just had the greek elections we had the new democracy party coming into into power and basically the prospects of greece maybe

moving out of the euro or lower but just in general what do you think of my concern at the moment dmitri is that what was the european crisis a spring quickly into the global economy and steps have to be taken to place he stabilize the banking system to stimulate the global economy and then to put in place some longer term structural measures of the market has called for and seen that europe will actually solve this particular problem well that is of course indeed needed but do you think the euro and the europe in general will stay the same as it looks right now my view is probably yes i think there are specific sufficient political will and financial capacity now in the world sees that in the interests of the eurozone started here that this means there were there needs to be substantial reform both in terms of the governance structure within europe in particular the banking system but then a longer term plan is how you are actually going to address the efficiency and cost competitive in this of many european economies all right well we have the spain

asking for a bailout of one hundred billion euros it's a big sum of money especially if you compare it to the size of its economy which is twelve times smaller than the who has economy and. in the end relatively is getting more money for its bailout twice as much as the u.s. banking system did in two thousand and eight but i think you have to look at this is a broader european banking bailout in the sense what's not well understood sometimes is the european banking system is probably three or four times the size of the u.s. banking system secondly markets have to be convinced that the reason actually solid funds the why she supported guaranteed these people banks so you need to be always on the upside and no one knows frankly with one hundred million euros will be enough until the stress tests have been completed when that happens the mark will make a judgment as to whether it's sufficient or not over the more funds will be required but this is the right priority of the moment go large go big and convince the markets that you're there to support the european banking system what do you make so far of the efforts which have been made in order to resolve this crisis

wastefully we have a g eight meetings g twenty summits which result basically in nothing but well are fortunate americans aren't convinced the moment there is a plan now i think there is a plan at the moment there's a lot of technics going on it negotiate is like a chess game for the chess going to go to the end and the need to be subsides you lives made to get rich markets this problem being solved in the short term it's only when that happens the call for to be restored in the global economy do you expect russia to take part in the whole european bailout i think rush i think every g twenty country and every major financial nation needs to support the army if i make sure there are sufficient funds there because the global economy is so interconnected these days that if you don't deal with the european situation to become a russian a canadian a u.s. and of emerging markets very very quickly so i think all nations understand they are you put the they have a role to play secondly i think just in terms of the broader parameters a lot of countries have by sickly slipped to china wife and i themselves have to

start to regulate a number of some of the a marxist to seem like the mystical sumption the really substitute for the lack of demand in europe so you're. acting basically the prospects in terms of prospects of global economic growth china's role will still remain one of the main ones charges will be critical and we need to get that economy back on track growing and i present as the underpinning part of the economy but there are many other nations that merely to take up the contraction they were actually seeing in europe and a little bit of united states all right thank you so much for your comments michael andrew the chairman of k.p. m.g. talking to us here live in st petersburg and right now what's going on we've been talking of course about spain's. stress tests going on right now in the banking system we're expecting those to come out pretty soon but so far borrowing costs in spain have been going down for a further session meanwhile european markets have been declining around half a percent that's on the back of manufacturing potentially going down for eight

months in a row in china and also the u.s. economy's growth prospects have been cut down to basically is a general depression on the market a bit of it but pessimism and this is also reflected in the russian the markets we're seeing the russians ease will slow dropping the my six a bit more supportive than the r.t.s. because of a weaker russian currency and indeed the russian ruble has been falling against the basket of both the euro and the dollar right now well the euro stays pretty much the same against against the greenback around one point two seven two thousand all right so that's that's all from the st petersburg forum for now but of course join us in our further bulletins will be providing you latest live coverage we definitely will miter thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from the st petersburg economic forum the anchor reporting act and in just a few moments i'll bring the headlines stay with r.t.

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