a nervous wait for julian assange which ecuador weighs up the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he's eventually transferred to the u.s. for delivering its verdict on his plea for political asylum. rebel forces in homs a stage offensive against syrian government troops under the cover of a red cross brokered truce all amid reports that armed to gangs are using lethal intimidation to bolster support for the insurgency. the military backed election commission delays 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 of power. and the st

petersburg international economic forum is in full swing with president putin expected to share his views on the global and russian economy is join me in twenty minutes time live from st petersburg. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow reception ecuador says it will deliver the final word on whether the world's top whistleblower will be taken under its diplomatic later on first day julian assange just now in its london embassy seeking asylum to avoid extradition to sweden which could eventually see him falling into the hands of the u.s. british police or also want to learn to rest him for breaching his bail conditions and with more on this now we cross to r.t.c. sara forth with this report. held under house arrest and oppressed by the

government in an effort to silence a pro-democracy message to the public that 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 ever being both against julian assange lunch 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 he seeks the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange has once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the could do it and to see those julian assange takes rest eat that away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man he's 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 history

and government to stand up for and son just fight has been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the case a result 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 lodges an 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 there i think you'll end up actually the united states facing very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a stacked kangaroo court against those who are sitting with the bradley manning case united states now has kangaroo courts rather than we'll of course these on time founded concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest he openly cools not only for songes incarceration even though 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. 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. has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game with new rules new players and unexpected 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 heaping that the next big release will be julian assange himself so r.t.

london and i mean i'm a professor. of national university college of law even if at all does decide to grant asylum to asylum there's no guarantee it will be respected by britain. i think if it all is a intending to remove mr assad with these permission to take a quick will there will be a delicate diplomatic negotiation that will need to type place between ecuador and the u.k. authorities on that matter but the 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 songy is currently being held in the united kingdom as a result of the swedish arrest warrant he's flown by a lot at the moment painting they finalize i should know all those extradition proceedings to sleeping and of course he's breached his bile conditions by actually

spending a night or two now at the ecuadorian embassy so he is now wanted by the british police and they have indicated that i will seek to arrest team. and while the world is watching where the latest twist in a sergeant's legal saga will leave him we met with a spokesman for the website that made its founder a household name christian craft and admits that the outrage over wiki leaks itself caused more than a stir when the crimes the web site was actually exposing that interview are coming your way in for later this hour. the first problem that they took part in the collateral murder video. release in april two thousand and. i was surprised by the fact that the bigger stories were actually on the leak itself. secondly on julian signs. the fact that this is a video that is who exposed. a war crime got much less would mention. is that

hasn't gotten the attention that this were. but it is the media for you. the media will decide we're going to focus who's. live from moscow this is our team in a rather dramatic shift from their previous stance britain and the us are said to be considering clemency for syrian president bashar assad at the move which is still under discussion is intended to encourage the leader to attend an upcoming peace conference and leave power let's now go to what is a figure all of our who has been following this story for us so peter good to see you certainly a sudden change of posturing here what more can you tell us about this deal well the offer has been seen as a potential for a potential sweetener from britain and america to get basher al assad to the negotiating table for peace talks in geneva at the end of the month but those peace talks where the west wants to focus on getting the syrian leader to step down or the point that he would be given clemency under this proposal is crucial as it's

unlikely to decide would attend any talks during which he could be packed off to the international criminal court however it should aside accept the offer. the question has to be asked what will fill the power vacuum if he steps down there are thousands of tons of weapons on the ground in syria and enough factions within the opposition vying for power that we could see a repeat of the violence in libya which followed the toppling of gadhafi assad though we'll have to take into account the fate of those arab leaders who were not offered this kind of deal in egypt mubarak was sentenced to life in prison ben ali is in exile in saudi arabia and t.v. news audiences around the world witnessed the brutal slaying of colonel gadhafi by his own people the syrian leader must also consider what will happen to those who have supported him they won't receive the same clemency and may be subject to the type of brutal reprisal attacks which of the transition of power in other countries that have toppled their leaders during the arab spring well as his government. the

british prime minister david cameron warned that syria is in danger of descending into a bloody civil war and there was little time to art art art has put it all over thank you. meantime syrian rebels have apparently launched a major offensive to retake the baba district of homs all of this though under the cover of a red cross brokered cease fire sources say the dozens of army checkpoints have already been struck reports of merger of violent intimidation to force people to join the rebellion often at gunpoint with this reporter's artie's maria for not. every evening cars 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. who's this mohamed were you see he's dead. because he didn't want to bring down president

bush and. cause him he is the leader of a five thousand strong tried his son and the youngest granddaughter or shot dead by terrorists after he refused to join them and this is 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 over my house discovered in bullet holes from floor to ceiling so that later cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two in the. store and cars about 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 bodies more hardeen what you want. yes.

we'll give you the whole. sorry. i was struggling to mundine will bring you over head start dog where is my danish bring me bashar like saddam will tell you where. the hell is this you have to use a kidnapper mugging people. sure. you will get kidnapped two 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. this certain me and they took my family and loved the city i was told they were following me but what should i do has a came i don't even know why me was a little while my head dean is wondering why him mahmoud the last of the two mats

knows exactly why people with guns visited his home and threatened. in his restaurants he used to feed syrian army offices and was also delivering center which is to the checkpoints. told me i cannot feed the army and i now have to see them for free free syrian army also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many other is a mash mood 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 is ready to sacrifice the rest if it helps turn this dark page in this country's history while the west continues to pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of the posen president assad it remains unclear what kind of

people would take his place with open support for the syrian rebels and a rise in the use of terror tactics the question many are asking is that what kind of direction would these force take the country. or if notion of our team from syria. it is good to have you with us here in our to today and to come for you later in the program just a rap on the knuckles for actions which veneration of. u.s. troops involved in a burning of the koran in afghanistan in february may get off with fines and a reprimand fears the mob punishment could spark a further wave of public anger in the country. and south korea america and japan hold their biggest ever joint military exercises there's condemnation from north korea which says they are in preparation for an attack.

now in egypt the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend it is says it 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 the list of elements of from cairo now with artie's paula slater. the latest word now is from state television which is reporting that the election results which were due to be given on thursday have now been delayed and we're talking here about the first post democratic election now those results are results that people here have been waiting for the run was quite tight in terms of the two candidates the muslim brotherhood's mohamed morsi and the. fix from the former regime of hosni mubarak we understand that the reason for the delay is that the election commission says it needs to investigate the complaints 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 posters 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 they have quoted 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 into his square they are mostly muslim brotherhood supporters and they will do this in the strongest possible terms of remains to be seen if they they turn their anger into wide scale protests that cannot be denied that the former president is probably quite sick and quite unwell we're hearing different reports on the one

hand we are hearing from egyptian state media that he is in a critical condition they've gone so far as to actually say that he is clinically dead but then this has been refuted by the authorities they say that he is critical but that he is not clinically did the skepticism by. many egyptians 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. reporting right there and she is following developments in egypt for us updating our t's twitter feed with the latest and here we are with the latest tweets according to hosni mubarak's lawyers are saying the ousted leader is worse than the condition comes after a fall in the prison bathroom of more mubarak's health as well as the volatile moving car oh follow and call asli is very twitter from.

our site a professor of political social at the american university in cairo thinks the run off has forced a majority of egyptians to choose between two weeks. those three options now is you will have a confrontation when they announce that general and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and move on lucia 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 can do that and in this case there will be. violent reaction in the street but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time in seven thousand years with. the president but this was not the

most favorable choice he wanted. was that we don't want. and we do not want a military state. you're watching out c always i'm all for you on our website r t v dot com and certainly including a case of consumer discrimination in the u.s. the american teenager who says she was stopped from buying an i pad at an apple store because of iranian ancestry. plus terror in france more on the gunman claiming to have links with al qaeda who was finally captured after taking four people hostage in a to lose by. just a few minutes away here on r.t. from the world update for now though 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 condemned by the north which says they are in preparation for an attack water and a specialist on asia dr tim beal says the war games are really about winning over u.s. and south korean voters. the americans have been mentioned no real sign chinese sign is really all to do with with elections elections in the united states in south korea so then they're doing it knowing. 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 or two in the united states and china with you and south korea being. neutral 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 united states comes down it's going to be a continuing. concern and danger oh well twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow now american soldiers who were involved in burning the koran in afghanistan may get away with rather light 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 had recommended administrative discipline instead several copies of the koran were thrown into a garbage fire pit in february setting off. this riot and forcing washington to apologize afghans have been expecting stricter punishment and it's fear the light penalties could now trigger yet another wave of phyllis bennis a director of the new internationalism project believes that nato troops have

created an environment which only 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 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. interesting woman or join katie for the business from the art world operates starting with an indonesian crush or an air force plane has crashed into a housing complex in the country's capital jakarta killing at least six people turboprop twenty seven had a number of houses setting them on fire and that was on a training level and the time. of this accident follows a russian of sukhoi superjet crash just last month in indonesia which killed all forty five. got. the chief negotiator for the palestinian administration it says

it's ready for peace talks if israel stops building new settlements in the west bank don't stay. came after a meeting with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton in washington earlier said they had agreed to an egyptian brokered ceasefire with israel after three days of clashes in the gaza strip. and after an israeli man was killed in a cross border attack launched from egypt sinai desert since then nine palestinians have been killed and over one hundred rockets have been fired into israel. as promised by this year's hello katie good to see you over there the business desk certainly we know what's going on for the next couple of days the economic forum and some petersburg what's what are you expecting the highlights to be absolutely will is a full agenda a lot so in the way we're going to be having it in speech for a short they indeed were all gearing up for that on the slogan bori this is a fish and a leadership that is of the raids a love of it once again is going to be talking about all the economic issues that

are going on wall why with meticulous focus expected to be on the eurozone. now as i said going up for president vladimir putin speech very shortly in days around five thousand to spend some almost ninety countries are expected to pay attention to those eurozone problems as i say and we discussed the issue with g. ma he's the chief economist at deutsche bank in china so. that's probably going to be a process that's lasting for a few years in terms of a crisis getting worse in the euro can also repeat and i'm mad when you see taking additional actions so it's essentially what i call muddle through process for a few years the reason is that the events of evolution will require establishing a fiscal union together with a monetary union but moving towards that direction with quite a lot of political will and also support from taxpayers in larger countries like germany and france also require resolution from the prices countries are you know

to really taking. these are very tough well stereotype programs so what i'm saying here is that is the other countries including china russia will need to be prepared for additional shocks are going forward and to do you wish now these shots from the domestic you know angle. assigned with the euro zone issue spain recently also for a one hundred billion euro bailout to support the country's banking system but michael andrew from a k p m g international says it might not be enough. what's not well understood sometimes is the european banking system is probably three or four times the size of the us banking system chicken only markets have to be convinced that the research really solid funny as to why she supported guarantee this because and so you need to be always on the upside when no one knows frankly with one hundred million euros will be enough agila stress tests have been completed when it happens the mark of a good judgment as to whether to fishing or not with

a more funds will be required but this is the right priority the moment the large get big it can reach the markets that you're there to support the european banking system. and all of these issues in the euro zone the hope so because how they see is affecting the russian economy and many fear that the could why are russia's were form agenda so we spoke to p.w. c's managing partner david gray he told business also that it's not the case. troubles in europe and the uncertainty that that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you toil 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 that will send a very positive signal to the markets about reform in general in russia and about their for the long term economic prospects of the country. we're going to be out

before i'm old a law you can check out the details on the website business all t. in the meantime let's have a look at the markets we start with the last two months and see that the still the corning in a bit of a disappointing day as you can see the r.t.s. there one point three percent down of the my things around a third of a percent another detergent not helped and so by the fact that oil prices are continuing to a set of values just that we also have the federal reserve as well and they're not going to be enforcing quantity of easing as well as disappointing data coming from china with the snap so of some of the biggest blue chips that on the mises gas from ninety one percent down spag big. it's fine that jill led the hair on the halls of sat down and new clothes while i mention the ore price is not starting to well at all nine tenths of a cent in negative territory this hour that brings on to the old price of the defense and i also length and also want to mention the fact that u.s. inventors and are reaching a twenty two month highs that's helping with the increased supply and therefore helping those prices. have a look at the exchange rates and see how the variables performing and it's still

losing out against the u.s. dollar and the euro as for the euro dollar one twenty six eighty one so it's still amazed by that threshold of one twenty seven that brings the song to the european markets we'll see how that siren and that part of the world. that we are with a sense of their own hopes that after that it's around a third if we could move almost of an asian markets also finished up on the back foot today and that's a good time for a many thanks indeed see you later. headlines to come your way in just a moment seems to.

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