he's from stockton on tees dot com. the wiki leaks spokesman says hopes for an early decision on julian assange request for political asylum in ecuador appear to have been dashed telling reporters it could take days. moscow is not sending offensive weapons to syria and hasn't changed position on ways to solve the conflict there according to russia's foreign minister in an exclusive interview with r.t. . meanwhile britain the u.s. may give immunity and clemency to syria's president sad if he attends a conference on the transition of power part of the effort to oust the syrian the. 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 gadhafi state.

one screen online this is r.t. with international news and comment live from the new center here in moscow the fate of julian assange just still uncertain as a wiki leaks postman says the decision on his requests for political asylum in ecuador could take days that we could take sedatives about to spend a third night in the london embassy of the latin american state where he went in hope of avoiding extradition to sweden now says british police say they're ready to arrest him as soon as he steps out of the embassy building sara for has 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 song suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about a western exponents of freedom of speech no charges of ever being fought against

julian assange yet he still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven he seeks the latest for matic twist in the case of julian assange has once again caught the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy in a cell and takes refuge but away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man who has been abandoned by his own country persecuted by the u.s. and failed by the u.k.'s legal system but he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for a stroll in government to stand up for him 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 gets extradited to sweden he's in prison in sweden the next thing that

happens is the u.s. assuming there's an indictment large is 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 go through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a stacked against as we're seeing with bradley manning 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. calls not only for sanchez incarceration even though 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 if 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. 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 new rules you play is an unexpected me even worse than just legal to me 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 ground breaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now i think that the next big rally will be julian assange himself. r.t. london and while the world is watching where the latest twist in the sand his legal saga will leave him our team met with a leading figure from the we can league's website that made its founder of household name you can watch our interview with kristinn hrafnsson

a close friend of june in the sand in the next hour hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. russia says it has not changed its stance on syria that's after british prime minister david cameron claimed putin had shifted his view of president assad during international talks and the discussions were now focused on a transition of power in syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov set up 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 it shifted his position after the bitterness of the

scope as it is not true of the meetings is that if there were that he was president obama did discuss syria. goes so we're. watching this that you're with us and the british we're seeing this. president asad must go and then the external players must develop for the transition. for the syrians to agree. we express though position that we can the accept the policy of which would be a good changing regimes for about say this has been though a position that will stand there to be. pre-judged 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 against it's only left for offensive weapons such as we have sending no but those ships to syria we have been saying publicly that we are implementing the calling for. which they have to supply arms to syria those albums inside the defense of. the most because the most we can see is those. systems which going to be used for the gays are fulfilling which can only be used to respond to an outside the us but foreign minister also you know referred slightly to of course what we heard from the department of state a couple of weeks ago specifically from hillary clinton about 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. well as part of the push to see syria's president assad step down britain and the us enough to be considering giving him clemency that if he agrees to attend an international conference on the handover of power in syria is following the story. well the offer is being seen as a potential sweetener from britain and america to get back 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 year in 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 in 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 peter

all over there were more on syria now from dr marfin them he's from the ngo the universal peace federation. so what do you make of the u.s. and britain mulling over granting clemency to a sad in exchange for him giving up power. who will i think this is a tactical standing point by the west specifically by the u.s. and the british or the brits in order to maneuver actually this is a political maneuvering in the middle east before in order to attract such. russian let's say back up for it all the chinese even back up for this new i'm actually idea by the west in order for them to get rid. of year you know the out of the presidency i meant bashar last heard and this is their own tactical actually or strategical interests actually in the middle east and today above all is syria's interest the battleground in all the details inside syria let me just analyze over

can point about certain points that person by actually by a certain report by not only have fur but i confirm that the russian foreign policy today does not agree of any intervention actually whether it's international or whether itself actually of the sovereignty and independence and the dignity not only the independence the dignity of the regime inside syria today i meant the regime of dr bashar al assad now still we cannot analyze or we cannot similar allies you know identify bashar al assad as a criminal as such like mom or cut duffy back in when libya he was the taking libya for the whole past four decades not only three decades like let's see how for the last but bashar al assad has all it has only ruled syria for only a decade so for we cannot blame him of all the atrocities all the aggression as the

worst is saying so far that he has perpetrated said such you know aggression suppression against his own people so the whole scenario i think it's an american movie illustrated and directed could be by the brits to say i do not agree with such a measure here of him potentially facing the international criminal court on behalf of the us it is an empty threat we would say because there are no grounds for him to stand trial. exactly and my friend in moscow do not forget that the chinese and the russians they are one of the major superpowers and they are members of the security council in the united nations and they have a veto so for until now and they cannot agree with any aggression or any military intervention as such under their article seven for example for the charter of the united nations unless there is a consensus and the security council to have a mutual. you know military intervention by the whole ground or by the whole globe

i'm sorry under the u.n. umbrella to attack syria's president and his own government and to lose them by force according to the western edge and the so far in their own foreign policy would it be the answer for syria for assad to voluntarily step down. well i i do not think that he will voluntarily step down as they want to actually to see that scenario accordingly like yemen if you remember with me yemen and ali abdullah saleh they want to have a good example in syria as such like yemen and they want this transitional period according to the west actually interests and to some arabs unfortunately under the arab league's states let's say or the arab league states because they have they have actually planned they have worked to not accordingly to the

to the united arab insta interests by claiming you know strategically with the west accordingly and in parallel with what the west actually aims and they have the wish or they dream about in all staying bashar al assad today in syria now the road is not according to their own wishes and to their all dreams it cannot be enacted as such there are other superpowers on the inside the globe like china like russia there is a regional and major power iran which is a strategic ally to syria and to lebanese actually resistance and do not forget the arabs the arabs all the people in the arab world which do not support any act of aggression or intervention actually militarily inside syria today so i do not advise i do not do i do not agree and i do not comply to any military intervention

and international intervention today in syria this is not according to the transitional period that we are to look for peacefully and in dialogue between conflicting parties now inside syria dr martineau from the universal peace federation thank you very much indeed for your thoughts your perspective on this life there in barrie thank you. thank you very much god bless you thank you this is r.t. live here in moscow still ahead in the program this hour unending uncertainty results of the presidential election in egypt a delayed with experts saying egyptians are between a rock and a hard place anyway plus the. roosevelts about burton says the private investment not oil should be the driver of economic growth in russia join me in twenty minutes time from this a p the book at the national economic for. more than a hundred people have been killed and five hundred injured in week long tribal clashes in libya tensions have been running highs since last year's uprising which

toppled moamar gaddafi with the interim government failing to stop the violence and the police correspondent 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 clashes southwest of the capital city of tripoli have left one hundred and five people killed and more than five hundred people injured this to happen just days after authorities called for an immediate cease fire and declared 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 which is being used that since monday the situation has been calm but this doesn't attract far live very real volatility that we're seeing there in the region we hope in this case also reporting that at the same forty two ambulances 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 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 has already been postponed once due to the just tickle and technical reasons. don't forget there's plenty more for you on our website including a case of consumer discrimination in the u.s. an american girl was refused the right to buy goods from an apple store for having iranian ancestry. plus nuclear and the earth sniffer dogs discover explosives near a swedish atomic power plant all the details are not dot com.

egypt now and the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential runoff until the weekend and says it must review complaints presented by both candidates as uncertainty to ever the condition of the convicted former president hosni mubarak said to be in a coma so professor of political sociology at the american university in currie thinks the runoff has forced the majority of egyptians to choose between options they don't actually want those three options now is have a confrontation when they announce that. and that would leave the muslim brotherhood and move on who should know is mobilizing again this and that will lead the country into big chaos the second scenario is that the military council and the muslim brotherhood would reach an agreement pakistani a model in which there is the vision of the political party between the military

and the muslim brotherhood. is that clear that the muslim brotherhood candidate is a window and in this case there will be. a violent reaction in this 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 he wanted. was that we don't want. and we do not want a military is the. a brief look now at other major news stories from across the world that very needed twenty minutes past the russian capital an indonesian air force plane has crashed into a residential area in the country's capital jakarta killing at least nine people the jet hit a housing 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 believin 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 two previous evaluations of brave experimental health produce different results and he admitted to killing seventy seven people in norway last year saying the attacks were necessary to stop the islamisation of the country. and the arrest warrant has been issued for the man who's just been nominated as prime minister of pakistan. facing allegations over imports of an illegal drug while he was health minister he's currently the country's textiles minister but had 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 for refusing to reopen old corruption case against the president. a u.s. military investigation into the burning by american troops in afghanistan has reportedly ruled against criminal charges it instead recommended administer to discipline for

up to seven soldiers which could mean following letters of reprimand is of the common sort of blazed deadly and to u.s. routes washington has apologized for the incident there it's like penalties could lead to a new. afghans for this bonus to reach of the new internationalism project believes this decision shows a lack of accountability. the relationship between the u.s. 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 if 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 of the atrocity that is military occupation that's what has to be brought to an end. let's move on and says left over eighty people dead in this month with seventy of them killed during the last week the state of has been rocked by revenge attacks between

the region's buddhists and a muslim minority well for more on the story i'm now joined by eric draitser a geo political analyst for stop imperialism dot com i read your recent article and explain some of the background concerning the ethnic tensions there which is built up to this violence but also you mention a proxy war from outside external influences affecting the country can you explain that. yeah well the general principle that i was outlining in the article is that many of the conflicts that we see in myanmar and elsewhere in the world but in particular in that country are the product of a proxy war an economic proxy war that the united states and the western powers are waging to prevent chinese economic development we see that in the state which was already mentioned we also see that in the province with the rebellion there and each of these particular hotspots in man more represent a key location of chinese investment chinese economic development in the country so

in what way though is this being pursued can you give us an idea of evidence clearly not with what boots on the ground military personnel involved. yeah in myanmar we see the presence of u.s. funded n.g.o.s like the national endowment for democracy the national democratic institute and many other institutions which are there that is not to say that everything that they do is negative that everything that they do foment chaos but rather that the presence that they have in the country indicates the presence of us the u.s. government and the u.s. intelligence community in an attempt to block the chinese so we see that for example in the city of c two a the capital of the province is the site of a major chinese port the location from which they're building a pipeline all the way across into the interior of china and so it naturally makes sense that if you're trying to block the chinese that you would want to foment the

conflict inside of the national endowment for democracy and many other institutions are involved in precisely this sort of activity in places as far flung as russia and in pakistan and elsewhere eric thanks very much indeed for that eric draitser geopolitical i'm going to stop imperialism dot com and indeed there will be a lengthy interview with which you'll be able to see on our website a little later dot com this is r.t. live here in moscow twenty five minutes past the up to our novice in business news . these petersburg economic forum dominated financial headlines here in russia what were some of the main points raised today oh nashua bill and other thing over you very much surprise there was europe is that crisis and of course everyone was talking about how to save guard major economies and what they can do it's a boost growth in their countries of course we had major state policy there as well as we had the bankers acts for experts said economists really and vladimir putin

was of course also there and in fact he had this key speech it was his first major speech afterward and his third term in office and he said that economic reform is the country's top priority that the guy. has mapped out an entire program of large scale reform and particularly mention that russia should position itself as an x. order of innovative goods and services and its a tap its allies on the national competitive advantages available and the country out haven't said that he also admitted that russia shouldn't depend on a stash of resources soley the aim here is to diversify the economy and move away from its reliance on crude oil and he actually promised to tackle this issue and most importantly here it origins of making the russian economy more appealing to foreign investors. and we must increase investment into the economy to the level of twenty seven percent of g.d.p. by twenty this is a realistic goal given the fact now this level stands at twenty percent of course

it's 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 russia because of course the impact of the escalating sovereign debt crisis in europe is something that a lot of analysts are talking about and how it could affect the russian economy and what many fear that it will be a burden on russia's reform agenda we've been talking to p.w. c. managing partner david gray and he said that's not the case. troubles in europe and the uncertainty that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you talk the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of. 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 the process because that will serve a very positive signal to the markets of reform in general in russia and about the

for the long term economic prospects of recovery. let's take a look at some international markets we'll start with a yes which is the only one trader right now and it's plunging into red territory we can see down losing almost two percent and already heading towards two and a half percent in the red and that's after disappointing comments made by the u.s. federal reserve to look at how europe performed earlier in the day it's pretty much been a right day across the board we're going to see another x. also loss and that's coming off the back of this a point in manufacturing data coming out from china as well as in reaction to the u.s. federal reserve saying that it will not the economy with quantitative easing as was something that was expected to happen by moving on to russia let's see how it wrapped up the trading session there we can see both the r.t.s. and the my six losses once again and this has to do with the oil prices as well let's take a look at the prices there in the hall for that eight month lows currently and then when that comes to currencies the euro is

a losing against the dollar. lost against both major currencies this thursday all right and this is how this edition of business looks like the headlines will be next with delphi for now.