he's friends don't talk t.v. dot com. breaking silence during the sun speaks from his current sanctuary an ecuadorian embassy in london saying legal proceedings against him have been today but he did lay it to the other u.s. to construct a case. fifteen of the world's top banks are left reeling after rating agency moody's slashes their credit scores. and battlefield airways relations between russia and syria become the target of mainstream media as outlets get excited a false reports of military a massive joint ball games. news

and much more twenty four hours a day your watching our team. the world's top whistleblower says he's optimistic about his political asylum bid and his first public comment since walking into the ecuadorian embassy in london with a request for refuge during the song also said the u.s. was building a case against him he applied for diplomatic refuge as he faces extradition from britain to sweden which could have benchley see him transferred across the atlantic . the kind of very serious. by discreet. british government that i would. we don't charge him we immediately on extradition they try to pull the port. by. about it. very quickly right to the point. u.k.

part eighteen like this by the normal procedure and they refuse to explain it in any manner whatsoever to the court kept me tracked. while the united states i had prepared a trace it came from a. cartoonist songes request for asylum came out the u.k. supreme court gave the go ahead for his extradition to sweden to once a sex assault allegations he spent three nights on the door an embassy in london when they saw this to rest the whistleblower and the breaching his bail conditions says his prosecution is politically driven and lucy could face the death penalty in america over publication of a huge tranche of diplomatic and military cables which civilian barest washington. they now have a forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five page f.b.i. file and the statement made in court prosecution apparently manning the next day on

monday. under a manager that we are among the objects of the grand jury during the trip now being going in. and there are subpoenas everywhere there and we will come out on public record about how. the grand jury we have received you know. being as mentioned my name. to you people have been detained at u.s. airports by. by u.s. officials variegated by the f.b.i. asked questions about me and my organization are becoming almost. more on this so that said cross i live now to sydney based author in the pentacle commentator bob ellis thank you for talking to us today arundhati you know what i could or promise to this saga sanders asylum request on thursday but it's now friday on that in there's no decision yet now the leadership there has been sympathetic to assad so

why the delay do you think. i think it's tactical i think it's giving us. time to negotiate a peace with the australian government perhaps they brought them or to negotiate an arrangement with the swedish government to interview him. in london. and and indeed skull pite him because obviously they do not have a case against him well in his first public statement since seeking asylum he said that the legal proceedings against him have been drawn out on purpose to give more time for the us to prepare a case what's your view is that possible. if it was the purpose of the swedish authorities to give closure to these allegedly raped and traumatized young women they would have moved faster and i

would have accepted a scientist offer of being interviewed in england. and if if they had been convinced of anything at all they would have charged him there can be no other explanation for that a lie than the wish to put him geographically where america my get at him as you say hasn't been charged yet so why does sweden refuse to interview him perhaps remotely even by the internet for example because their purpose is nothing to do with the charges in collusion with the americans or some americans or some american or sororities to deliver him to go on tantamount to torture and to imprisonment and probably this what will be next though if. right now if ecuador faeces to grant him asylum in the immediate future. i think he will stay

in the embassy and try and negotiate a peace with these australian government and with bob carr the new foreign minister he will offer to be brought home to australia to be interviewed by sky or by agents of sweden in australia am to go to jail in australia if he is found guilty of anything it can be tried in absentia in sweden and he can spend time in jail in australia he would feel safer there in sweden that's quite possible if he is not extradited to america he could be blatant yes i mean no i have seen the girl with the dragon tattoo and it seems a sinister place on the subject of australia they say that he's received plenty of consular assistance while the sergeant self says he was abandoned by his own government what do you think you're straining leadership should have done for him.

lay should have brought him home and. extradited him rather they should have you know i fabricated a charge of treason against him brought him home questioned him and. let him go i mean i sure why they should have done what the swedes have done which is fabricate. bring him to safety ok we'll leave it there sydney based author and political commentator bob ellis thank you. thank you dick. well later we report on how the u.s. is prying to other countries business washington that takes cyber spying to international level spending billions of dollars on the most complex one of where. dozens died this month sectarian violence. blamed by some experts in the u.s.

see war against china. fifteen of the world's largest banks have been rocked by a credit score downgrades the rating agency moody's delivering on what it had long promised to do those eight include goldman sachs morgan stanley bank of america bank of scotland and deutsche bank powerhouses domestically and internationally the move could make it harder for them to keep existing clients or attract new ones and their money so say they had the downgrades could trigger a fresh market panic and a new exodus to gold trial human growth economic blogger and founder of the website wide awake news says the end goal of the move is to spread fear. i think what we're going to see is this play out over the next couple weeks we're going to see more fear we're going to see more gloom by the mainstream business media in order to effect what citibank and they're doing to big just a week ago came out and said that they need it they need

a shock to the market they need to get political cover not only the politicians here in the u.s. but they need to give political cover to the folks in europe as well so they can continue their process of battering in eviscerating representative government there and consolidating more power and handing it up to brussels is far is that the euro falling apart i think that that will not happen we will see the crisis escalate we will see fear and panic and i believe personally it is engine ears fear and panic in order to implement the agenda that they've talked about for a decade now global financial governance you need to have fear in order to take away people's sovereignty so how will these big banks react to the stand all the days of rampant risk taking that. no absolutely not carry a in fact look let's look at some facts here you know pre-crisis in the united states the top five j.p. morgan chase bank of america citi wells fargo goldman sachs they made up under forty percent of our economy in two thousand and twelve in june as i sit here and

speak to you they're over fifty percent of the economy you know these banks don't have to worry about risk these guys are writing the law in my opinion they are writing the law that governs not only this country but the world well the saving of the u.s. is going to be the top of the agenda today as leaders of the euro zone's for because economies meet in rome where there's enough time to rescue the single currency is also the topic for debate with people about today's guest in cross talk coming your way next hour. yes the ways are but there's a cost significant course not attached to each way out so i think what you have is the one at this moment is they're trying to calculate these costs as best as they can and they will choose the lower cost so i personally think greece out or any country is going to be hurting the zon on the currency was all that's i think president has been so if they're exactly as if you know years ago are you cutting out you're no good to be able to avoid the who's next question that's number one

because people will say the markets will say at least if greece is otherwise why is portugal then why is this all these weak links will always be questions. ports of russian battleships headed for syria massive joint military exercises and then a sudden change of heart regarding the us said regime their own stories are flying in the mainstream media of the past week which have been raising eyebrows in moscow . explores what's behind the speculation. syria may be on the brink of civil war but it's already the subject of a full blown media war ships on new ships that's been the question for the past week as reports russian ship was on its way according to the reports the battleships were laden with arms and troops and headed for syria it later turned

out they were nowhere mysteria their in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of rule any reports however it accurate had some kind of influence. as long as you have so many forces. excited about the your option and that is that things are always yes they were and they were. going to get there through this information as usual like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventies also there was a delay of some this information there was one ship it was turned back off the coast of scotland after it was found to be carrying helicopter parts bound to syria q a sessions that russia was supplying combat helicopters to president assad we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically

it's an allegation that russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says is part of a propaganda campaign pushing for which is being discussed but these days that indeed was scary for their defense systems and it was carrying the three helicopters which have been repaired in russia under the control of the size of the cells of a there was a soviet helicopter seventy five feet in syria from seoul did this and the fuel cells and say that was a concern the repeal of the bastille to be assembled you know when they are delivered they have the best symbols of the entire process will fit with less than three months so to speak about something which we just sold to syria and which is being used. in your actions is not true but it wasn't only ships apparently war games were planned to it rainy a news agency fawaz reported that iran russia china and syria are planning to

conducts joint military exercises in syria next month analysts think the story was planted by syria or iran as a show of strength but the u.s. outlets took it up because the. suited them for the u.s. and you love the story because it matches their narrative you know the. regime and its supporters in iran or russia or china or. they are the ones who are. the conflict instead of seeking the peaceful solution so they believe the story you know. and use agents use then there's the war of words british prime minister david cameron came out of a meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying putin no longer wanted president back in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was putin its position but was it a case of lost in translation wishful thinking on the prime minister's parts or

another attempt to exert pressure on russia in the last fifteen months is being a media attack on syria that the crisis just syrian crisis is seventy percent a media thirty percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some observations by just some of those using you tube. there is no confirmed reports anymore it's said the first casualty of war is the truth and all this international rumor mongering and jockeying for position comes at the expense of the syrian people the situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words lower smith. britain and the us are said to be considering giving a press and clemency and safe passage out of syria if he goes to an international

conference on a power handover. from the universal peace federation in geo believes it's a move designed to soften the russian chinese objections to what they see as the west's aggressive rhetoric. 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 or forward in order to attract such. russian let's say back up for it or the chinese even back up for this new i'm actually idea by the west in order for them to get the i mean reserve year you know the out of the presidency i mean bush had last heard and this is their own tactical actually or strategical interests actually in the middle east and to the above all is syria so the whole scenario i think it's an american movie illustrated and directed could be by the but it's. more waiting for you on our website r.t.

dot com to go high you require the country's government plans to take matters into its own hands and start legalizing the selling of marijuana to fight drug trafficking. a very controversial and counterfeiting trade agreement on and european parliament committee recommends rejection ahead of an event on me tonight. reports have surfaced suggesting the u.s. and israel are behind a computer virus appears to be in don't want to try to spy on iran's nuclear activities despite washington's allowed condemnation of hacker attacks was directed against america and artie's got it if you can explain. guides that american officials may sound defensive when they talk about cyber attacks as being

a major threat to the country's security a weapon of mass disruption you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy maybe even in terms of overall us ryan fashions we typically associate with more for the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power systems or in our grid acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer but it turns out the u.s. government itself carries out cyber attacks against other nations the washington post cites officials speaking on condition of anonymity to say entrap aeration for cyber sabotage against iran the u.s. and israel developed the flame virus flame is the most complex computer spying program ever discovered it has the capacity to steal or alger elec trani documents by now nobody doubts the program was development by

a government entity the something like this appears to be what they would call state sponsored it sounds like the n.s.a. it is a means by me that it necessary to say has and does this kind of thing we know they've done this kind of things you're getting intelligence without having to put someone actually there it's cyber espionage while the flame war was collecting intelligence the stuxnet virus borrowed into iran's nuclear program and created havoc in its uranium enrichment centrifuges the obama administration did not deny the leaks in the new york times that it had teamed up with israel to create stuxnet at some fear that the move almost invites retaliation when you attack for instance iraq's nuclear program you provide the iranians with their weapons your word which they can that really reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works turn it around send your way elite. eating moscow based security firm which uncovered the

flame virus says part of its code is nearly identical to the code finding stuxnet and suggested that the viruses were developed by two teams working in collaboration leaks in the press support that assessment one official also on condition of anonymity said is just the beginning and the u.s. is preparing the battlefield for another type of coverage action we're setting precedent for other nations and that's where the real problem lies because we've been criticizing china for allegedly attacking united states companies and u.s. governments while the same time engaging in this in the same conduct with other countries feel bomb administration has openly confirmed hacking websites but only if alleged al qaeda sympathizers in yemen the u.s. secretary of state described this cyber effort as part of a larger attack on terrorism but many fear the u.s. cyber efforts go well beyond that. as u.s. defense authorities go offensive in cyber warfare the pentagon's cyber command has fast tracked the development of weapons that ministration just announced

a one hundred ten million dollar program to solicit proposals from the universities and video game manufacturers so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology as if they understand that they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to root technology into that and so when we have no control of our technology we have these people that wish to use it for for their ends for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff cyberspace as a whole is now seen by the u.s. military as that vast area of opportunity you can really tell the government don't do to others what you don't want them to tell you but in light of the recent revelations about the us being a state library one might ask what are the message that the same way the government even the dems library. have heard them all but it is. like one hell of a hopper i'm going to check out reporting from washington. sectarian fighting in

the west in manaus claimed more than eighteen i was this month alone but it's have been clashing with the muslim minority when trying to flee a region plagued with violence to neighboring bangladesh other times have failed those that considered illegal immigrants across the border straits geo political analyst for stop imperialism dot com because the violence is fuel for brought. 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 in the western powers are waging to prevent chinese economic development in myanmar we see the presence of a u.s. funded n.g.o.s 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 u.s. the u.s. government and the u.s. intelligence community in an attempt to block the chinese. look at some other

stories making headlines around the world twelve people have reportedly been killed after a taliban attack on a lakeside hotel north of kabul civilians hotel guards on a police officer among the dead as well as two of the militants around forty hostages have been free by afghan security forces in the ongoing siege but just a day ago president hamid karzai warned that attacks were increasing in the run up to nato troops leaving in two years' time commenting after an assault on an afghan checkpoint on wednesday which killed twenty one. explosion at a sunni shrine in northern pakistan has killed at least three people two of them children dozens were hurt by the bomb which was attached to a cart being done he went off as a group of mostly women and children gathered. these types of shrines in the past considering them a form of idol worship which is forbidden under the strict branch of islam. that's

all for me this hour but the time not to deliver into the world of business and the annual meeting of economic heavy hitters the st petersburg forum is underway in russia's now the capital. well that's the yes i think the form kicks off he joins us from the business desk hi there katie yeah well with these a fresh wave of downgrades there europe's economic troubles on the forms agenda we should think precisely carried out a riot and president vladimir putin said that russia will support europe as its katie trading partner he also called for active and joint measures to cope with the global meltdown now one of reforming the i.m.f. to give more voting rights to emerging economies this will help to ease the euro area crisis which many economists at the fore of believe has reached a critical stage now business ulti caught up with the world trying to ask their

solution for the economic meltdown. if you want to maintain euro that means you have to also address this issue of banking and carve out a banking union is there you have then that the consequence is this fiscal union and that is going to be also the political union so that is the true feeler which is i think all becoming are is that we leave it now the other part of the discussion of the high profile gathering has centered around brushes economy and addressing foreign investors the russian president pledged to deliver a wide range of reforms this includes selling government stakes in state companies fighting corruption and cutting russia's dependency on commodity exports now putin has also promised a capital flows will remain on restricted and the central bank will keep its policy of ruble flexibility speeds up the sea managing partner david gray believes tackling issues like iraq should form a russian economy so go iraq. but i think we need to put it into context that's

russia term continue to grow even with its current economic status like in terms of environment we can continue to grow for four which is which is a very large rate of growth for both the global a lot of the global force. we are so vocal in terms of the growth rate issues like corruption which we charge but if we're going to get up to the eight to long percent which we're up to three. asian stocks are seeing sharp declines the session today has b.c. holdings that are down to moody's investor service cut its rating by one along with downgrades perfect danish phonies global lenders and just worth a mention that mainland chinese stocks are cheap clothes for today says hong kong run in the eye of a percent in negative territory in the hang around the nikkei around a quarter in japan i'm moving on to see how they got on yesterday and as you can

see they indeed drop to take in a second hardest not so far this year thousands economic reports indicated a slowdown in global manufacturing and u.s. home sales missing estimates were given to the cars and see that the year a dollar is very much a victim of all the uncertainty that's going on at the moment that is managing to demonstrate some resilience that one twenty five or fifty seven so it did take a bit of a beating yesterday the ruble very finished up lower against the u.s. dollar is going to be moving you shaking in about forty minutes time as is the russian markets we'll see how they closed up yesterday it was a disappointing day perhaps only investors are in some places so they are needing chips and downfalls yes an eight tenth's of a cent for the my sakes that brings on say the most important commodity here in russia oil prices which are also a loitering around those nine month lows but in the last hour or so i have managed to get a visit just like fraction they do as i say remain down those prices

are low and yearly to. the markets that are carried back about fifteen minutes ok thanks mark eighty. nine a few moments i'll be back with the headlines of one of our special report about the u.s.s.r. battles against german nazi forces one hundred forty one. good

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