waits for ecuador to decide on his request for political asylum within hours but the chances of him leaving the u.k. without being arrested remain in. moscow is not sending offensive weapons to syria and hasn't changed his position on ways to solve the conflict there according to russia's foreign minister in an exclusive interview with r.t. . meanwhile britain and the us may give immunity and clemency to syria's president just sat tens of conference on the transition of power as part of their effort to oust the syrian leader. and fighting continues in libya with over one hundred

killed in a week of tribal clashes as the interim government fails to end violence in the post to get back the state. this is r.t. with international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow the fate of julian the son could be sealed within hours as the president of ecuador is expected to make a decision on the whistle blows request for political asylum that we could examine spent a second night in the london embassy of the latin american state where he came hoping to avoid extradition to sweden that says british police say they're ready to arrest him as soon as he steps out of the embassy building. the story. 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 a western explain and a freedom of speech the charges of ever being forty gets 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 he seeks the latest from i think twist in the case of julian assange has once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy. takes recchi it 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 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 has been a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the resulted in the rejection of

his supreme court's appeal against extradition to sweden what this was about was once julian assange gets extradited to sweden he's in prison in sweden the next thing that happens is the u.s. assuming there's an indictment largest 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 browser you'll end up actually go through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a stacked against as are seeing with the bradley manning case united states now has carried the records rather than we'll of course these on time founded concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest. he openly calls not only for songes incarceration but even for his death this guy is a traitor treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to

be and i'm not for the death penalty so i'm not for the death penalty i want to do it illegally shoot 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. 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 with 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. r.t. london. legal experts are now in dispute over what's going to happen if ecuador

does grant asylum to silence since there are no guarantees the u.k. will provide him safe passage professor donald from the australian national university college of law explains the complications likely to arise. but i think if it would or is intending to remove mr a sandwich with these permission to take a quick all 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 ecuadorians will be seeking to grant her sons will be respected by the u.k. government and the complexity associated with that is of course that assigned is currently being held in the united kingdom as a result of the swedish arrest warrant he's on bio at the moment our pinning the finalization of those extradition proceedings to sleep and of course he's breached by all conditions by actually spending the night but to now the ecuadorian embassy

so he is now wanted by the british police and they have indicated that it will suit your esteem and while the world is watching where the latest twist in the sand is legal saga will leave him lottie met with a leading figure from the we can that made it spawned a hellhole name and you can watch our interview with kristinn hrafnsson a close friend of sanjay in less than half an hour from now hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on r.t. . russia says it has not changed its stance on syria and that's after british prime minister david cameron claimed that impotent had shifted his view of president sad during international talks and that discussions were not focused on the transition of power in syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said help moscow's position in an exclusive interview with artie's and he said she brings us the

details now. barn minister sergei lavrov very clearly rebutted those comments by david cameron that russia or more specifically president putin app the g twenty made it quote explicitly clear that russia was ready for president asad to go this is clearly not the case i've seen the statement by prime minister could there on the president put it up which is shifted his position off the bitterness of the scope of it is not true at all the meetings is that it could there are that because president obama i did discuss syria. both so we're. watching this that you're accustomed to but you will see this. president asad must go and then the external players must develop for the transition to live for the syrians go agree. we express those positions that we came to accept the call to see which would be a good changing regimes for about so this has been though there's no will and that

we can. judge for the syrians what the outcome of the political dialogue with the foreign minister lavrov told me that if a transition does take place it should be accompanied by talks that would ensure safety for all sides in this conflict including those supporters of president asad we also touched on this issue of the media frenzy not just surrounding syria but specifically surrounding rumors and claims of why the west specifically the u.s. that russia is sending weapons to the country are you sorry minister said that yes russia does have contracts with syria there previous contracts and it's only left for just facts of what we have seen don't know but those ships to syria we have been saying publicly that we are implementing the calling for. which this is the supply of the syria those elements inside the defense of. the most because the most we can see is those. systems which going to be used for the

gays or will kill the show which can only be used to. respond to an outside the us the foreign minister also you know referred slightly to of course what we heard from the department of state a couple of weeks ago specifically for hillary clinton bob out helicopters being delivered to syria on the foreign minister did confirm again that those were from previous contracts and that russia continues and will continue to push for a solution to this crisis only through diplomacy and he said no that was part of the push to see syria's president assad step down britain and the u.s. are now full to be considering giving him clemency that's if he agrees to attend an international conference on the handover of power in syria. following the story. well the offer is being seen as a potential sweetener from britain and america to get basher al assad to the negotiating table for talks in geneva at the end of the month however the offer of

clemency which could be contained in the proposal suggests that london and washington are remaining true to their mantra that despite no charges having been brought against him assad is a criminal and must be removed from power clemency offer could be crucial though if assad is to travel to switzerland as it's unlikely that he would attend talks during which he could be packed off to the international criminal court however should assad accept an offer the question has to be asked who and what would fill the power vacuum if he steps down now 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 which is marred the transition of power in other countries who toppled their leaders during the arab spring. who will 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 tunis is 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 well his personal safety aside the syrian leader must also consider what would happen to the sizable portion of the people who still support him they won't receive the same clemency and may be subject to the type of brutal reprisal attacked which we see continuing in libya following the killing of gadhafi. r t live here in moscow still ahead in the program this hour on ending uncertainty the results of the presidential election in egypt are delayed with experts saying egyptians are between a rock and a hard place anyway. plus london pulls back from a pension deal with its doctors have taken strike action for the first time in decades we look at the effects pension reform will have on the u.k. . all that still to come but first more than a hundred people been killed and five hundred injured in a week long tribal clashes in libya tensions have been running high since last

year's uprising which toppled with the interim government failing to stop the violence a middle east correspondent paula slip reports. there are many who say that a nother civil war in libya is on the cards this coming as you say off to the interim government announces that a week of classes southwest of the capital city of tripoli have left one hundred and five people killed and more than five hundred people injured this is to happen just days after authorities called for an immediate cease fire and a clear civil mountain of cities in the west of the country a military zone now we do know that a national audience brigade has been recorded between the warring factions there heavy and light with worry is being used that since monday the situation has been calm but this doesn't attract family very real volatility that we're seeing there in the region hoping this is also reporting that at the same forty two billion cells and dozens of doctors to evacuate people and at the same time to bring in

emergency supplies the situation is such because what you have at the moment is a long standing between various tribes and also divided communities coming to the fore and the government. at the moment are just simply unable to impose a law and order it's also raising questions over whether or not the election for the national assembly that has been slated for the july the seventh is going to go ahead it has already been postponed once due to the just tickle and technical reasons. belgian an independent journalist who covers africa says the history of libya shows it's a tribal society used to being any other way. all indications seem to point towards libya being well on its way to being libya never really was a country before the italians came in and italians lost. very similar to what.

they are. calling the british people see what it came to power it was never really a king of our country called libya they don't really have a history. in tribal. leadership it's breaking out and that thing is your green opposition rep people. could after you have tried the rebels then the tribes fighting each other tribes themselves fighting it's like land warfare similar in somalia and therefore at each other and don't forget there's plenty more for you on our website including a case of consumer discrimination in the us an american government was refused the right to buy goods from an apple store for having it rainy and ancestry. plus nuclear alert sniffer dogs discovered explosives near a swedish atomic power plant all the details for you at all t. dot com.

in egypt the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until we can it says it must review complaints presented by both candidates the uncertainty to over the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak who said to be in a coma sights and eek professor of political sociology at the american university in cairo thinks the run off has forced the majority of egyptians to choose between options they don't actually want. those three options now you will have a confrontation with the. feet and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and move on. against him and that would leave the country in big chaos and the second scenario is the military council and the muslim brotherhood would reach an agreement in the pakistani model in which there is the vision of the political

party between the military and the muslim brotherhood so the truth is. that the muslims. in this case will be miss violent reaction in this 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 a. brief look now at other major news stories from across the world in this hour an indonesian air force plane has crashed into a residential area in the country's capital jakarta killing at least nine people jet hit a hells in complex setting a number of buildings on fire it was on a routine training flight at the time. norwegian prosecutors in the trial of anders breivik believe him to be insane and have

recommended that the mass murderer be sent to a psychiatric hospital rather than prison judges will take that statement into account before they issue a final verdict in july or august to previous evaluations of believe it's mental health produce different results. seventy seven people in norway last year tax were necessary to stop the. of the country. and arrest warrant has been issued for the man who's just been nominated as prime minister of pakistan. in is facing allegations over imports of an illegal drug while he was. health minister he's currently the country's textiles minister but have just been nominated by the incumbent president to take over from sacked. he was fired after being convicted of contempt of court two months ago using to reopen corruption case against because. doctors across britain have begun their first twenty four hour strike in nearly forty years refusing to work on paperwork and urgent procedures they're protesting

against proposed pension reform that would extend the retirement age and increase social security contributions thousands of planned surgeries have been cancelled well for more on this i'm not joined by claire solomon she's from the coalition of resistance. clever changes to pensions for doctors and others just how drastic really is this people's lives in the u.k. . well of course pensions what the government into our pensions are having a serious impact on people's lives people are being expected to work for longer for harder for less money something that the government said that they weren't going to do that or he said they wouldn't attack the n.h.s. and of course this is exactly what they're doing people are really feeling the cuts at the moment we're seeing sort of about six million people unemployed and mental health issues are going through the roof students applying to university has dropped dramatically so i think what the government are doing to us in terms of cuts across the board is certainly going to have an effect on society by out of

a deal agreed on years ago the government does say that the doctors still have a very good deal in place why is it that people don't seem to believe the government. well of course the government are going to try and label the doctors as responsible as irresponsible but as you say doctors haven't been on strike for forty years they are people who are genuinely dedicated to the welfare of society they've often trained for many many years at their own expense and so if they think that they can attack the doctors at this time i think it really shows that the government are in a weak position doctors going on strike but sounds a bit irresponsible to patients being put at risk well that's exactly what i just said and i think the doctors are irresponsible what they're doing is actually to protect society time when we're having so engine cuts across the citee we're going to need more health care not less and it's not going to be the m.p.'s that are in parliament that are going to feel these effects because most of their doctors are in harley street private doctors private doctors offices and so actually as in

society they're going to feel the effects of this the most i think it's good that the doctors are standing up to protect us but the u.k. like many other european governments are struggling financially is this really the time to be demanding mall well of course this is what i'm doing landry said today's the doctors don't understand the economic and political implications of what they're doing but actually i think they act salute we understand it and if we look at what we need to do for society there's a couple of different answers of course we can go along the expansion route and demand that the government creates more jobs by building hospitals building schools not closing them creating more jobs that people can then spend their earnings in the economy we can also look at the political priorities of our governments governments that are prepared to spend billions of pounds on wars still governments are prepared to bail out the banks that are paid to cover our m.p.'s expenses and at the same time not saying that they can't afford education health care housing and all the other things that we need in our class in society but do really believe

there is an alternative to cut backs to austerity measures. well i think i just said that in my my previous comment of course we have to choose our political priorities carefully when we shouldn't be funding wars we should be funding. health care or where is that money i mean i know you're saying the misappropriation of funds as it were but where does a country get growth from where does the money come from when a country like the u.k. has now got another recession. well again i think that the you know to invest in society to build houses to build schools that is where we're going to get the expansion from by creating jobs not cutting jobs by providing more services not less services we see plenty more protests now in the future resource some pretty drastic protests in the u.k. not just the student protests but also those riots but what can we see in the future do you think are people getting pretty fed up and. well of course we've also had mobilizations of up to three quarters of

a million on the streets march twenty sixth last year and we now have a nationally nationally called demonstration by the t.t.c. for october the twentieth and we had a public meeting to talk about how we're going to build this demonstration just two days ago actually and then we had a packed hall and people from all sections of society attended the public meeting people from. campaigns and labor campaigns we disabled people's campaigns to students to pensioners to doctors and i think this is what we need to do and what we are going to do is all come together because it's when we stand together that we are the strongest and we can give the government a bloody nose and say we are not going to put up with their cuts close on and thank you very much and the coalition resistance there in london mostly your thoughts thank you for joining us here on r.t. . a major economic forum is taking place in st petersburg here in russia where the financial elite is discussing ways to overcome the european sovereign debt crisis but first let's check out what's going on at the trading floors across the globe at the moment for the markets for you wall street is posting some losses after

disappointing comments made by the u.s. federal reserve investors were hoping to hear about quantity of easing but that didn't happen in europe markets ended trading session in negative territory with investors mainly reacting to weak manufacturing data that came out in china and russian markets closed in the red tracking overseas losses another disappointing factor were declining oil prices which are now hovering at eight month lows and let's have a quick look at the currencies at the moment while the euro is losing against the dollar and the ruble lost against both major currencies as we can see there. right now it's time to get the latest from russia's main economic event of the year petersburg for business r.t. is there for us with our special coverage of this high profile gathering and we don't have all the highlights. well president vladimir putin's been basically running the show here in st petersburg and when addressing participants at the forum when talking about the

russian economy. basically from a macro economic point of view although the country does look even better in many aspects of this and then it did even before the crisis it's extremely important in order to maintain growth levels that like the ones we saw last year of four point three percent of g.d.p. russia needs to base its growth not on oil and gas revenues but on private capital . we must increase investment into the economy to the level of twenty seven percent of g.d.p. by twenty team this is a realistic goal given the fact that now this level stands at twenty percent of course since private investment we're talking about here we do understand that we need to offer investors exclusive terms that's why it's the government's turn to improve the investment sentiment towards russians. furthermore the idea of noted the importance of the privatization programs that it plays a key role not only in liberalizing the economy but also attracting foreign capital

and he said that even during the sale of stakes of key energy companies it will be open to foreign capital and echoing basically this statement we've seen several agreements signed during the forum with rosneft its head basically assigned to agreements with norway stats oil and it's in these any to create joint ventures in exploration of russia's arctic shelf and this is also a very important step for rosneft in establishing itself as a global company now among other key deals we saw russia's trans aero signing a deal device six super jet one hundred planes with an option to vote just to. all together this deal could be worth around six hundred million dollars and it's extremely important for us as aviation industry and furthermore we are of course expecting many other deals to be signed worth around one hundred billion rubles all

around three billion dollars notably in the pharmaceutical sector and in the road bill. business presented to me to have an end to reporting from the world economic forum in st petersburg now in a few minutes here not that with headlines from our exclusive interview with one of the main spokesman for wiki leaks day with this is r.t. live here in moscow.

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