julian assange just comes forward with his prison public comments since asking ecuador for political asylum claiming his case is deliberately being slowed down by sweden and the u.k. to give the u.s. time to drop charges against him. moody's and slaps the world's biggest banks with a credit rating downgrade adding more uncertainty to the ailing global economy. and what's in a word as the cia is said to be assisting with the transfer of weapons to the syrian rebels we take a look at what might be behind the media campaign accusing russia of on steel's with president assad.

you're watching already live from moscow i'm to bomb would say julian assange has broken his silence of for the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he still awaits a decision on his request for political asylum and his interview in the weekly leaks editor said that even if his peers unsuccessful his dramatic move has a draw in the world's attention to what he describes as a conspiracy against his orchestrated by the u.s. our jesus our furthur brings us more from london. escape avoids these the words you're going to hear in the media at the moment relating to his songes decision what he said though is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in sweden far from that is that he thought really this was never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in

sweden and the involvement of the us. or the very serious. to an announcement was made by discreetly that i would be detained without charge if. i meet with your next edition if you get one free for you to come u.k. party or a three month proof point for that procedure. to explain or know what we were to court retract. while the united states prepared to complete so sense really that always leads to the u.s. he's maintained that a grand jury deciding at the moment whether there would be charges brought against him in the us remember that in the us as being arjun stealing state secrets carries the death penalty still remember wiki leaks released huge amounts of information at the u.s. diplomatic cables that were released in two thousand and ten worst huge embarrassment

to the u.s. government so i mean there is no mistaking the fact that julian assange is a man he certainly from his actions and from what he said is very fearful of what would happen to him in the u.s. official for his license acts. very now every forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five if they are there is a statement made in court prosecution from a man. found and manages to among the subjects of the grand jury hearing which are now being going through. subpoenas everywhere the american public record of. america trick grand jury we have received. previous mention my name to people who are preparing to us report variegated part of your yard well this is julian assange just chance really to set the record straight he's just spent his third night in the ecuadorian embassy of course this is the latest

dramatic twist in the ongoing saga it's been an eighteen month legal battle for him and the end of last month we saw the u.k. supreme court reject his appeal against the extradition to sweden and the legal team in asuncion self running out of options really and so he took this step seeking asylum at the ecuadorian embassy he says he's hopeful that that's going to be accepted if he were to go to sweden not only is the pretrial detention in sweden extremely harsh he wouldn't have access that he does right now to the media all the same freedoms remember he's been under house arrest in the case for more than five hundred days no clear indication of exactly what the outcome will be and the stakes remaining extremely high. in his interview asunta once again slammed the australian government for a lack of support in his fight against extradition the whistleblower said it's this sense of abandonment by his homeland that made him turn to ecuador for help sydney

based journalism mary cause like he does as the australian authorities have never had any interest in providing assistance. for do so hasn't tried that's the problem to start hasn't of the gate. it's to protect the human rights we live in an advanced western democracy we expect our government to act in a way that's principled and courageous and to show leadership in the protection of human rights astray he has lost all moral authority to litter other countries on human rights i think it's a very sad day for our country if the fact is that sweden has a rather different arrangement with the u.s. to the u.k. so it will be easier to get to the u.s. from sweden but let's not ignore the facts we've been has covertly handed over people to the us handed over asylum seekers to the cia those people were tortured

and in the end. it was a case of mistaken identity so swigs track record is not good a sound has a place in a strain yet he needs to be back here well ecuador says before delivering its decision and asuncion they have to weigh up all the information and assess if his possible extradition to the us or presents a threat to his life the latin american countries president or a file korea is sympathetic to the cause of we can leads something he made clear during a recent interview for a thunderous own show that is here on our t.v. you can watch a rerun of their program on there's a very channel in a couple of hours. i'm julian assange. it is true we've exposed the world secrets these jackets belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question because the law illegally shoot five hundred days now i've been detained without

charge. that hasn't stopped. the day we're on a quest for relief ideas that can change the world tomorrow. moody's has less of the ratings all fifteen of the biggest banks in europe and the u.s. and the latest slap in the face to the ailing financial sector those hitting huge goldman sachs and morgan stanley royal bank of scotland enjoy each bank financial potholes as domestically and internationally the move could make it more expensive for the banks to attract funds it's also fear the downgrades could trigger a fresh market panic and a new exodus to gold for more analysis let's talk to our chief financial guru maxim kaiser who joins us from the international economic forum in st petersburg max good to see you there the banks have criticized the reverse saying mood is a decision is a backward looking is it. look the banks are dead you know the

famous russian short story the death of ivan ilyich about a dead man who hears everyone talking around him and that's what we're talking about when we're talking about the global banks their dead their corpses no amount of aerosol trying to make the stink go away is going to change that that's what pretty like art and these other folks at the i.m.f. have failed to come to terms with there's a huge problem in the banking sector in their core they are as dead as a corpse. dead as cool says this all comes up to you breathe a sigh all the reviews i've agreed. government after weeks of uncertainty what do you make of the timing. the timing makes no difference because starting in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight you had what's called an economics a minsky moment where the global indebtedness reached a critical amount of no amount of stimulus or any kind of policy changes would change the fact that the globe is embarking on this massive global deal leveraging

which is going to end massive defaults and banks across europe across the world these major banks in europe are technically insolvent do it your bank is insolvent been p. is insolvent society general is insolvent j.p. morgan insolvent and of course lloyd blankfein is here at the conference in st petersburg his bank goldman sachs is also insolvent now this downgrade could relate to the boring costs will bend but could it also help the politicians push through the agenda of global financial governance. well they of course will use this opportunity to put forward more global governance more centralized government more commanding control more state run operations and less democracy less market activity less free competition so all of those things are being displaced by state controlled command and control bank and fascist relationship with governments and

that's growing to the detriment of people in greece who are now suffering the real consequences people are dying in the street they can't afford health care they can't afford food that's the result of this incredible kleptocracy that has destroyed the global banking system and nobody particularly in america particularly barack obama and his administration are doing anything about. the leaders of the euro zone's of full biggest economies are meeting in with me tell you imply minister mario monti saying there's one week left to save the euro is a but after years of waiting to deal with the questions there is one we do enough to pull home some kind of rescue america maybe. but i would sometimes we're going to hear this hijacking scenario where some technocrat like mario monti put a gun to the people said it's either give us all your money or we're going to take all your assets going to do it anyway so i want to form some kind of resistance against this global occupation by bankers you know the people have to stand up and realize that no one's going to help them but themselves they need to push out the

kleptocrats of the the banking terrorists as i call them and stand up for themselves until they do something for themselves don't want to do anything for them or thank you very much there mexico economic expert and host of the consul report here thanks for talking to us. saving the euro is going to be the priority fully dissolve the euro zone's full biggest economies who are meeting in rome whether there's enough time to rescue the single currency is also the topic for debate with peta lavelle and his guests in cross talk coming your way to today . yes the ways are but there's a cost significant cost of attached to each way out so i think what europe is doing at this moment is they're trying to calculate these costs as best they can and they will choose the lower cost so i personally think letting greece out or any country is going to be hurting the zone and the currency war that's i think precedent has been so if you reject it if you know you know is that you are you cutting out

you're nowhere to be able to avoid the who's next question that's number one because people will see the markets will see at least if greece is otherwise why is portugal why is there such as all these weak links will always be questions. as u.s. officials acknowledged a cia agents are supervising the transfer of arms from turkey to syrian rebels some politicians in the west are still trying to turn the heat up on russia for leisure military deals with the assad regime moscow has flatly denied the reports of any new deals but that didn't tame the media storm. as myth has tried to suggest through what's falls and what's fact. 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 person ship was on its way according to the reports the battleships

were laden with oh i'm certain troops and headed for syria it later turned out they were nowhere near syria they're in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of war every report 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 yes they were and they were. going to get there through this information as usual so like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventy's 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 the shape of which is being discussed but these days that indeed was scary for the defense systems and it was carrying the three helicopters which have been repaired in russia under the control signed into cells of a there was a soviet helicopters seventy five feet in syria from seoul did this and the two thousand feet that was are going through three feet of the bastille to be assembled when they are delivered the fifth of the symbols of 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 a rainy 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 the. suited them for the u.s. and use the agency just 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. peaceful solution so. the story you know. tension 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'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 a media attack on syria that the crisis to syrian crisis is seventy percent of media so two 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 president

clemency and safe passage out of syria if he goes to an international conference on a poem hendo them. from the universal peace federation and believe it's a new tech take a with an old motive. i think this was 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 so for in order to attack such. russian let's say back up for it only the chinese even back up for this new i'm actually idea by the west in order for them to get rid. of you you know the out of the presidency i mean bashar last heard and this is their own tactical actually or strategical interests actually in the middle east and today above all is syria so the whole scenario i think it's an american movie illustrated directed could be by

the brits. here with our team still ahead in our business bulletin. and we have all the details from they still the same goes for academic reform and clearing all the multibillion dollar deals that's come up in the business update for. the u.s. and israel are reportedly behind a computer virus aimed at spying on iran's nuclear activities the obama administration faces claims of hypocrisy as always i denounce a computer hacker is targeting america artie's guy and he can't has a story. 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 problem loss of ryan fashion things 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 certainly 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 who say entrap aeration full 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 outer elec trani documents by now nobody doubts the program was development by a government entity that 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 think 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 where 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 a lead. moscow based security firm which uncovered the flame virus as part of its code is nearly identical to the code founding stocks net 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 covered 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 universities and videogame 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're saying 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 further and 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 a vast area of opportunity you can't 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 you was being gauged fiber one might ask what the message that the sector was what the government being with them cyber. hackers and all but it sounds like one hell of a hacker i'm going to check our reporting from washington are. taking a look at other news from around the world this hour thousands have filled cairo square protesting what many have called a poa grabbed by the supreme council of the armed forces over the weekend to the ruling generals who dissolved parliament and claimed all legislative palm meanwhile

the election committee has postponed the results of the presidential run up until the weekend it says it must review complaints from the two candidates mohamed morsi from the muslim brotherhood and whose name mubarak's former prime minister ahmed shafik. twenty people including twelve civilians did one attack on a lakeside hotel north of kabul and dozens of hostages were freed by afghan security forces several hotel guests jumped into the latest gate the gunfire president hamid karzai has warned that attacks were increasing in the run up to nato troops leaving in two thousand and fourteen he made the comments after twenty one people were killed in an assault on an afghan checkpoint earlier this week. time now for the business news and the annual meeting of the economic heavy hitters the st petersburg forum is in full swing in russia's north korean capital.

business r t and daniel bush l. is therefore as a with exclusive in-depth coverage of the high profile gathering daniel good to see you again there one of the highlights of today all the economics for. the downgrade of fifteen of top twelve banks by moody's credit ratings is dominating here we just spoke to the vice chairman of one of those led the citi group callers he called the move a step back which doesn't reflect the bank's positive future that of russia's top learned that his bank is too strong also to be affected by those problems. the downgrade decisions were not unexpected and the markets didn't react to them i don't think these actions will have any additional impact while our readings don't have a single reason to be downgraded we are currently in a very stable situation which could be the envy of many western partners. the most anticipated deal here was gazprom tolls agreement on the development of one of the

world's biggest gas fields stockmen here in russia the head of total told us however the contract is still in the pipeline. it went through the points which still need to be discussed. to reach an agreement. we have been doing a good progress is. that we ready for whatever using the agreement before the end of june or possibly. that's what's happening in. the moment the numbers for us from around the world yes i do that and we wanted to show them a little bit earlier so let's take a look at them now also with the europe of course again as daniel mentioned the downgrade of those fifteen banks away heavily on investors if we can take a look at the latest figures we'll see it's a sea of red the flood season six point eight percent was the. and that is losing almost point nine percent there and also in all the german confidence business

confidence has. also not encouraging investors if we move on and take a look at the currencies that the euro is again in against the dollar but it's still hovering among the lows and then we have the ruble which is both the major currencies and what we do know is that capital outflow from funds investing in russian shares is now reaching sixty two million dollars that's compared to thirty three million in the previous week not very encouraging let's take a look at how the russian markets are reacting to that as well as all the european war is there as we can see a sea of red here as well he has a setting almost two percent and the my sex line behind about one percent there and of course we have prices which even though they're going up higher this hour. because the prices are quite low they're hovering around eight month lows in fact we can see that. seventy eight dollars per barrel and the brant blend this at around ninety dollars a barrel brings us to the end of this business update the headlines will be.

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