r.s.s. feeds now with the palm of your. machine on the dot com. nervous wait for julian assange ecuador weighs up the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he's eventually transferred to the u.s. this before ecuador delivering its verdict on his plea for political asylum. rebel forces in homs stage a mass of fanciful against a syrian government troops all under the cover of a red cross brokered truce and amid reports that gangs are using lethal intimidation to bolster support for the insurgency. the military backed election commission delays at the results of the presidential runoff in egypt the move has outraged many in the country who see it as part of a coup keeping the army rulers in power.

it is good to have you with us here on our to today. live in moscow 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. right now at its london embassy seeking asylum to avoid extradition to sweden which could eventually see him falling into u.s. hands british police are also i want to arrest him for breaching bail conditions with more on this now what's he's sorry for. 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. she is now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government.

we're talking about the weston explain in a 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 hate being equitable in the safe haven he seeks the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange is once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the could do it and to see those julian assange takes rest eat it away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man who'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 just fight has been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the case a result is in the rejection of his seaplane course 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 i think you'll end up actually the united states facing very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death toll that he 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 death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't 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 you know the collateral murder video shows american helicopter gunships shooting reporters the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this cable guy 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 songes legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter and say them and he revolutionized whistleblowing and three wiki leaks released groundbreaking stories has in another twist the come the story himself and there are many now hate paying that the next big rally will be julian assange himself so. london. and a professor donald rothwell from the australian national university college of law says that even if a court or does decide to grant asylum there's still no guarantee that will be

respected by britain but i think if it would or is intending to remove mr a sandwich with these permission to take in ecuador there will be a delicate diplomatic negotiation that will need to take place between ecuador and the u.k. authorities on that matter but the key issue is whether or not the immunity that the ecuadorian will be seeking to grant her son she will be restricted by the u.k. government and the complexity associated with that is of course that aside she is currently being held in the united kingdom as a result of the swedish arrest warrant he's on bio at the moment in the finalization of those extradition proceedings to screen and of course he's breached by all conditions by actually spending the night or to the ecuadorian embassy so he is now wanted by the british police and they have indicated that i will see two or esteem. and while the world is watching where the latest twist in

a songes legal saga will leave him we met a spokesman for the website that made its founder a household name kristina admits that the outrage over wiki leaks itself has caused more of a stir than the crimes the website was exposing but full interview coming your way that will be next hour right here on r.t. . the first probably the day took part in the collateral murder video. release in april of two thousand and. i was surprised by the fact that the bigger story is we're 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 less would mention. it hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but it is the media for you. the media will decide we're the focus is.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today in a rather dramatic shift from their previous stance britain and the us said to be considering clemency for syrian president bashar assad at the move which is still under discussion is intended to encourage their leader to attend an upcoming peace conference and leave power. as the story. well the offer has been seen as a potential a potential sweetener from britain and america to get al assad to the negotiating table for peace talks in geneva at the end of the month for those peace talks where the west wants to focus on getting the syrian leader to step down the point that he would be given clemency under this proposal is crucial as it's unlikely that assad would attend any talks during which he could be packed off to the international criminal court however should assad 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 mar the transition of power in other countries that have toppled their leaders during the arab spring his government considered making the offer to assad british prime minister david cameron warned that syria is in danger of descending into a bloody civil war and that there was little time left to act now to put all of our reporting right there but meantime a syrian rebels have apparently launched a major offensive to wreak retake the district of homs so all of this though 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 tactics to force people to join the rebellion often happening at gunpoint or if a national prepared this report. every evening cause a man has or 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 is this mohammad 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 was shot dead by terrorists after he refused to join the movement against the syrian regime. when i saw him 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 so that later cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two. we stormed his us 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. i will give you them all i'm sorry. how is basra valley's into my dean will bring you all the heads dogs whereas my danish bring me bashar al assad the motel you where. the hell is this your families of kidnapping

and killing people. sure. you will be kidnapped too we found a man who did 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 them straight months ago this wrecked and me and they took my family and love the city hard as i was told they were following me but what should i do that 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 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 center which is to the checkpoints. with terrorists told me i cannot feed the army and i

now have to see them for free free syrian army they 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 is ready to sacrifice the rest if it helps turn this dark page in this country's history while the west continuous a pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of the posen 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. or if national our team

from syria. live from moscow this is our c.n.n. still to come for you later in the program here just a rap on the knuckles for actions wisht enraged. u.s. troops involved in burning the koran in afghanistan in february make it off with just fines and a reprimand and fears the punishment could spark yet another wave of public anger in the country. and south korea america and japan hold their biggest ever joint military exercises as condemnation from north korea which says that they're in preparation for an attack. now in egypt the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff into the weekend it says it must review complaints presented by both candidates now there is a uncertainty too over the condition of convicted former president hosni mubarak who is said to be in a coma party's policy it looks at developments and kyra. 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 which a 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 access with which they could view the whole election posters 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 have quoted the figure of fifty two percent compared to suffix 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 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 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 is being 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 the suggestion that there perhaps trying to detract attention from other things that are on the go. party's policy reporting there well she's following developments in egypt for us updating twitter feed with the latest as we can have a look now her latest tweets are quote hosni mubarak's lawyer saying the ousted leader is worsening condition comes after a fall in the prison bathroom for more of a barracks health as well as a volatile mood in cairo just follow and fall asleep twitter. and aside site a professor of political sociology at the american university in cairo think that the runoff has forced a majority of egyptians ultimately to choose between two evils those three options now is you will have a confrontation with the announce that general and that would leave the muslim

brotherhood and move on lucian is mobilizing against him 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. violent reaction in the street but there will be sadness in the country this is the first time egyptians in seven thousand years with freely elected president but this was not the most favorable choice they wanted. was that we don't want. and we do not want a military state. and there's always a much more on our web site r t v dot com 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 only because of iranian ancestry. plus terror in france more of the gunman claiming to have links with al qaeda he was finally captured after taking four people hostage to lose by. i don't like pictures for you here right now or you can also watch this on our web site r t dot com a live feed of lot of mia putin speech at the opening of the annual some petersburg economic forum a. business crew is there on location i will be checking in with them by the hour here on our. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today south korean japanese and american troops are holding their largest ever joint military exercises right near the north korean border around two thousand

troops are expected to be involved in the maneuvers condemned by the north which says they're all in preparation for an attack author and 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 there's no real sign chinese sign is really all to do with with elections elections in the united states you know in south korea so then they're doing it knowing really can't do 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. and it'll 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 well i do stay with us if you can the r.t. world update just a couple of minutes from now for the meantime though american soldiers who were involved in the burning of 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 recommended administrative discipline instead are several copies of the koran were thrown into a garbage fire pit in february setting off deadly and to u.s. riots and forcing washington to apologize afghans have been expecting stricter punishment and it's fear the light penalties could trigger a new wave of anger phyllis bennis are the director of the new internet as ation a project or believes that the nato troops have created an environment which only

fuels violence in the country. the relationship between the u.s. and its 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 allegedly one u.s. soldier this kind of activity highlights what is the reality of a long standing 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 shortly we'll be checking in with our business gurus of the economic forum and support this book but for now let's go to the r c world update for you indonesia air force plane has crashed into a housing complex in the country's capital jakarta killing at least six other turboprops fokker f twenty seven had a number of houses set up in one fire it was on a routine training flight at the time carrying seven and the accident follows a russian sukhoi superjet crash last month in indonesia which killed all forty five on. after. the chief negotiator for the palestinian administration has

said it's ready for peace talks if indeed israel stops building new settlements in the west bank statement came after a meeting with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton in washington earlier hamas said it had agreed to an egyptian brokered cease fire with israel after three days of clashes in the gaza strip fighting began after an israeli man was killed in a cross border attack launched from egypt's sinai desert since then nine palestinians have been killed over one hundred rockets have been fired into israel . and the rest word has been issued for the man who's just been nominated as prime minister of pakistan. didn't is facing allegations over imports of an illegal drug while he was health minister he is currently the country's textiles minister but had just been nominated by president darby to take over from such premier use if only he was fired after being convicted of contempt of court two months ago for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against president zardari no. more of

that so from me for now though let's see if you can stay with us in the program ati's business team as of the first day of a russia as a i knew economic forum this of course taking place at some petersburg. and he said to me you may think oh is there for us good to see you understand the president putin has been speaking at the forum any of the highlights in his address . well he started off by assessing the situation in europe basically saying that it is pretty serious and there's no unify of the approach to finding a solution to the crisis basically although he did hail efforts made in greece which have caused russia to to have a moderate optimism about the situation in that country but he said basically half measures are not good for the global economy are hampering efforts for

stabilization and there needs to be some kind of a radical turnaround for the movie global economic health basically adopted by will these is all together with a unified approach when it comes to russia's economy is a once again putin has failed the efforts that the country has made over the past couple of years to come out of the crisis saying that it's basically setting an example that russia's inflation has gone down for almost two full over the past four years that russia has unemployment at just the five point four percent which is lower than the pre-crisis levels and that russia's economy grew by four point three percent last year which is the first fastest growth in the world for the largest of the pace of growth of the rich in the world basically but what's a russia needs to do is of course diversify away from the world is going to be is not starve us fight away from energy and in order to do so it needs to basically

maintain the growth of the g.d.p. we not true gas extraction and export of the spot fruit in the investment which is now it's around twenty percent of the g.d.p. that's and should be raised to twenty seven percent of g.d.p. and this needs to be a notably private investment so therefore the privatization program was in this. lights of letting the clinton speech he says that it has been. adopted the program of privatization and will be now reduced it to also the regional level not only on the federal level and that russia needs to go away from state ownership which was a sigh of relief for many analysts which have been open since a pacing this speech basically speculating whether russia would maintain control in government companies or go ahead with the liberalisation so basically very inefficient hinted that liberalization is of course needed but there needs to be

a system introduced that would not replace state monopolies with private monopolies so this is of course a very complicated then long process and finally that in a few weeks into the applause of the crowd who said that i knew a new position would be introduced as the enormous amount of entrepreneurs and that would be bodies she saw the chairman of the deal of i.c. organisation which was a very popular figure among entrepreneurs and this was so very much cheered by these two with. our heart he said to me from a deck of that life at the annual economic forum insipidus but we'll catch you throughout the day here on r t many thanks. for the headlines in just a moment but do stay with us because my skies is back with there's a rather unique set of specimen of world economics this is our team.

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