breaking silence during a song speaks from his current sanctuary in ecuador and embassy in london saying the legal proceedings against him have been deliberately delayed to allow the us time to construct a prosecution case over the cables. 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 hype as outlets get excited over false reports of military aid and massive joint war games. we go along with business leaders to find out how work in your russia compares to the some petersburg international economic forum the business is

just off the twenty postville. pro-car sing live from moscow this is r.t. welcome 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 sanctuary to understand said the u.s. was building a case against him over leaked cables when he applied for refuge as he faces extradition from britain to sweden which could eventually see him transferred across the atlantic where sarah ferguson is in london for us with more on this sara what else did a son chatter say to the friend is it. well it was a chance to in the sun to really set the record straight of course but huge amounts of speculation as he spends his days in the ecuadorian embassy and everyone really

trying to figure out what's been going on behind the scenes what exactly is going through he is going to. fix that i think was very surprising to a lot of people because the latest twist in this ongoing saga has been an eighteen month legal battle in the way now we're all waiting to find out whether his asylum bit is going to be successful now in the end to the he gave it was interesting that the journalists. used a lot of people have been using it there's a lot of rhetoric here in regards to his actions saying you know that. gaping in some way so that journalists that talked about avoiding extradition and julian assange and certain strays and said you know this is never. anything and it was never even really about sweden if it has always been about what would happen when he was in sweden and a huge amount of the u.s. actions while he is in sweden let's take

a listen to what he had. to . buy. that i would. in sweden immediately on the expedition i tried the fourteen days that i had to apply to you about it for the european court of human rights issues about it frees you to come to the u.k. for the pasta eighteen months because by being absolutely normal procedure i'm the refusal to explain achieving any manner whatsoever to the press corps has kept me tracked. the team from. the united states has put paid to try to convince me. wiki leaks is always maintained that they they have the evidence that the us put the case against getting a bunch of things that that agenda today about the fact that the us has

a wave maintained. in detention the legal action will be taken again in the sciences that is the case in the us playing well again repeating thinking about or deny. the evidence that there is a case that again is everywhere. you now have a forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five page f.b.i. files and decision statements made in court. you should probably manage even next monday. manages the are among the subjects on the grand jury proceedings which are now being going to come from. subpoenas everywhere there is witnesses who come out on public record about how getting into a grand jury where you have received. the fifteen is mention my names two people

have been detained at the u.s. airports arrogated by the f.b.i. . i mean a very serious situation and that gives an insight into exactly what's going on because this is really working. well the attention of the world media and we've been outside the ecuadorian embassy the last couple of days you know huge amounts of press attention getting and everyone who's coming in and out of the n.c.a. of course being quizzed on exactly how things are going everyone trying to guess about what the outcome of this is going to be that you know even the man himself that we can hear that not entirely sure about what exactly is going to happen i mean he said later on in that interview that he give and he knew that the end to end to sympathetic to his struggle scientist into previously the ecuadorian president on his show that runs an r.t. and they said to the white well well as well. no absolute going and he also said

that there's no indication of timing because of course everyone waiting for this big decision this been a lot of speculation about when exactly we're going to get that that's a no indication of timing every time someone comes out at the end of the having the ten questions that everyone thinks they will thank the. general response is that you have the full you know he's waiting waiting now to see what exactly the output is going to be but you know you're going to and you know he's running out of options in the way his appeal against expedition has failed very concerning obviously as we've heard about what would happen to him once he was in sweden what the u.s. action against the concern the what they've accused him of still carries the death penalty in the usa this is a very very high stakes game for julian assange and. do keep us updated with that sara sara furthur reporting from london. well sanchez that once

again you criticize australian government for not doing enough to protect him the whistleblower says he had no consular contacts except for text messages for two years a sydney based author in a place called commentator bob ellis says a strain should safeguard its citizen if the government wanted to play should have done what the swedes have done which is to. bring him to safety if it was the purpose of the swedish authorities to give closure to these allegedly raped and traumatized young women but i would have moved faster and i would have accepted the songes offer of being interviewed in england. and if i had been convinced of anything at all i would have charged you there can be no other explanation for that a lie then they wish to put him geographically where america my team when i

say this are we report on how keen the u.s. is to pry into other countries business washington take cyber spying to national level by spending billions of dollars on developing the most complex virus software ever. there are fifteen of the world's largest banks have been rocked by a credit score downgrades with rating agency moody's delivering on what it would loan the promise to do those hit include the goldman sachs can stand the bank of america bank of scotland and bank natural powerhouses domestically and internationally the move could make it harder for them to keep existing clients or attract new ones and the port and then money it's also fear that downgrades could trigger a fresh market panic a new exodus to gold but charlie mcgrath economic a blogger and founder of the website why the wait needs since the end don't move is to spread fear i spoke to him a little earlier. 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 too 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 backbreaking 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 ear that 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. on a graph that saving the euro is going to be top of the agenda today as it is of the years as four because economies meeting room whether there's enough time to rescue the single currency is also the topic for debate but people have their own his guests in cross talk coming away at nine thirty g.m.t. . yes there are ways out but there's a cost so if the cost of the cash to each way out so i think what you have is the one at this moment is that i think calculate these costs as best as they can and they will two of the lower cost so. i personally think letting greece out or any country is going to be hurting the zone on the currency immensely was i think

precedent has been set if they're exactly as if you know you know that you know they 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 out why is the why is portugal and why as i said it's all these weaklings will always be questions. reports of russian warships headed for syria massive joint military exercises and that even putin sudden change of heart regarding the assad regime they're all stories flying in the mainstream media over the past week which have been raising eyebrows in moscow. with 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 me diogu ships on a ships that's been the question for the past week as reports twelve person ship

was on its way to sea according to the reports the battleships were laden with oh i'm certain troops and headed to syria it later turned out they would know when east area they're in their home port of seven don't quote empty but in the fog of rule any reports however it accurate has some kind of influence as long as you have so many forces. excited about the your option and that is that things are always just there and they will. get there through this information as usual so war like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventy's or so there was a doing some information there was one ship it was turned back off the coast of scotland after it was found to be carrying helicopter parts bound for syria cua said. since the 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 the ship which is being discussed for these days indeed was scary for the defense systems and it was carrying three helicopters which have been repaired in russia under the control of the size of the souls of those a soviet helicopters seventy five feet in syria from the soldiers. and the fuel cells and there was a concern to repeal that they're still to be assembled when they are delivered the fifth of assembled the entire process will fit with less than three months or so to speak about something which we just sold to syria and which is being used. in action is not true but it wasn't only ships apparently war games were planned to

it made me a news agency fawaz reported that iran russia china and syria are planning to conduct 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 it suited them for the u.s. the news agency is love the story because it matches their narrative that you know the. regime and its supporters in iran or russia or china or the bad guys in this battle and they are the ones who are. getting the conflict instead of seeking a peaceful solution so they like the story you know a great leap at tension to get any news agency is bad as the war of words. prime minister david cameron came out of a meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying crusade no

longer wanted president back in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was putin's 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 the last fifteen months is being immediate in syria the crisis the syrian crisis is seventy percent of media thirty percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some model of stations like zero 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 their situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words lower

smith. why is that more waiting fewer website r.t. dot com including a legal high in europe what are the country's government take matters into its own hands and start legalizing the selling of marijuana to fight drug trafficking. most of those the controversial anti counterfeiting trade agreement act the european parliament committee recommends rejection of e.u. vote on the bill in july. the reports have surfaced suggesting the u.s. and israel are behind a computer virus that pierced have been the ones to try to spy on iran's nuclear activities that's despite washington's large condemnation of hacker attacks directed against the u.s.

and. reports. guidance 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 the loss of the right 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 system cerner our grid acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists and 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 interpretations of 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 twenty documents

by now nobody doubts the program was development by a government entity something like this appears to be what they would call state sponsored it sounds like the n.s.a. it is i mean but i mean they're necessary to say he 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 had teamed up with israel to create stuxnet 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 read reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works

turn it around send your way. leading moscow based security firm which uncovered the flame virus as 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 kind of 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 and sorties go offensive in cyber warfare the pentagon's cyber command has

fast tracked the development of. the administration just announced a one hundred ten million dollars 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 over 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 cyber space as a whole is now seen by the u.s. military as the basket of opportunity you can't really tell the government don't do to others what you don't want them to you but in light of the recent revelations about us being a state fiber one might ask what the message that the same way the government even the dems library. has heard them all but it felt like

one hell of a proper company check out reporting from washington. now look at some of the stories making headlines around the world this hour twelve people have reported being killed off to a taliban attack on a lakeside hotel north of kabul civilians hotel guards and a police officer among the dead as well as to the militants around forty hostages have been freed by afghan security forces in the ongoing sea just a day ago president hamid karzai one that attacks were increasing in the run up today to troops leaving in two years' time commenting after an assault on an afghan checkpoint on wednesday which killed twenty one people. 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 told by. went off as a group of mostly women and children gathered from ten to. militants have targeted

these types of shrines in the past considering them a form of idol worship which is forbidden under their strict project islam. well time now for the business needs and the annual meeting of economic heavy it is the scent petersburg forum is underway in russia's northern capital. yes this is r t and daniel bushell is there first now with exclusive in-depth coverage of the high profile catherine i bet that you know that what's the mood among the global policy makers today. is the message from the legates here today they will the transformation of russia speeded up just big speeches and programs that don't work anymore president putin who did make the right sound in a speech about selling russia's biggest making the country move or trying to to foreign investors but they point to the promised joints loaf of russia's crown jewels the biggest oil firm roles in if the biggest lenders burbank and so on which

has been postponed so many times over the years that they've lost count. investment banks as one of russia's oldest and biggest private investment banks joins us to discuss that now do you expect russia's big privatization to stop this you know daniel that really being skeptical about the sort of things has generally been the right approach to take over the last year which generally there's a disagreement in the ruling circles about what privatization is for there are very strong influential private interests within the regime that don't believe that crown jewels as you call them shouldn't fact be in private hands they'll fight about it there will be obviously some forms of privatization to come but it won't be that big and certainly i don't think anything's going to happen or it will stop . i think that. calling for. privatisation are predicting improvisation is going to happen it's been a fool's game for many years and i think the market view that for today generally

how attractive is russia's economy compared to all the world economy is how the you know for all the negative sentiment globally about russia so-called investment climate. russia's been a great place for pastures it would be prepared to stick and for the. long term they go through a tremendous fall totally that this economy has witnessed over the last twenty years if you're an entrepreneur the tremendous entrepreneurial opportunities in this country it's very inefficient it's very fun competitive internally as well as actually that in situations where you have tremendous inefficiencies and lack of competitiveness for doors or even strategic investors bringing in global practices global resources and so on to do extremely well. put in this bridge in this so how vulnerable the euro states to contagion from europe will russia in particular is very vulnerable or what we're talking about we could import contagion as

undoubtedly we're doing it now with a lower oil price number one number two i think something like russia's something like half of russia's trade is with the e.u. . there is a big risk for the russian economy going to be such a that's invisible but that's all very interesting that you'll come is do that katie is out it's almost good this to have the latest figures from around the world for us. going to get started with the russian market is then they remain in negative territory and the second part of the trading day the nosedive as you can see the all the yes i have a three percent down that's following the losses that we saw in asia in the session the fifteen major banks were downgraded by moody's and if we move on we can see them i think says well i have a percent in negative territory now the russian currency is thing shop sells that i was investing they clearly have risky assets and head for the u.s. the last place to have been where those got the common currency is well just losing at the fraction that's illinois hearing around the six month low is one twenty five

thirty nine so going to be europe let's see how the thing looks i read that part of the wall as you can see the fuzzy down the banks. and it's no surprise that it's the financials that are really suffering in the first few minutes of trade off the moody's because we had asked. credit suisse going to bag all off in the session save all those oil prices as well if we check those out ok which at my next hour we'll be back in about fifty five minutes carry from st pete is back on the business that's ok i will catch up with you that for a few minutes on the back with the headlines stay with altie.

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