investment. in st petersburg on r t. turkey's prime minister says he can't confirm if one of his country's warplanes was taken down over syrian territory following reports a live shot down by the syrian military. julian assange speaks out for the first time since seeking 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. tens of thousands rally on egypt's tahrir square against the military with the muslim brotherhood calling for the announcement of the presidential election results the ruling generals blamed the movement for stoking tensions live video from egypt's tahrir square.

nine pm in moscow. good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour turkey's prime minister has failed to confirm whether a turkish jet was shot down over syrian airspace earlier report suggested the plane was taken down by syria's military artie's marie if an ocean is standing by in damascus with more and we'll get an update from her as soon as possible. first though international relations expert professor mark almond says if the reports can be confirmed it may well be a nato build up to a military intervention in syria. if the nato countries were really thinking about some kind of intervention to assist the rebels regime one of the person that won't do is to not. so some kind of light test in

syria radar syria and responses may be also one way of getting around the un and bargo by the russian trainer on intervention in syria is to make it into an international crisis so long as the crisis finally inside syria then pass it on human and international frenchness and the global crisis situation is probably how side the borders of the country concerned can really be made if you however have an international crisis and perhaps you can find a way of pressuring russia and china to agree to action or you may say nato countries have to create our course we don't know yet except the circumstances of maybe an incident can be resolved diplomatically without any problem but of course it comes at such times time even if nobody has purpose incident it's likely to take her life and so in terms of the crisis management holds the syrian crisis because. nato countries relations with the rebels against. the u.s.

officials acknowledge cia operatives are supervising the transfer of arms from turkey to syrian rebels some top politicians in the west are still trying to turn up the heat on russia for alleged military deals with the assad regime moscow's flatly denied it there are reports of any new deals but that didn't stop the media storm artie's laura smith has tried to sift through what's false 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 or no ships that's been the question for the past week as reports to world person 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 near syria they're in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of war any reports however inaccurate 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 like they did before the iraq war and before. intervening in afghanistan in the late seventies also there was a delay of 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 to syria q assertions 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 it was scary for 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 there was a concert the repeal of the bastille to be assembled you know when they are delivered the fifth of the 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 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 us and use the agency love the

story because it matches their. 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 they like 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 taft 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 in 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 model of stations 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 the 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. mary if an ocean is joining us now with all the latest from damascus so conflicting reports over the incident of this plane being shot down or allegedly shot down have been streaming in over the last few hours what exactly did turkey's prime minister have to say about all this. well turkish prime minister has talked

to the media and we have hopes that he will be able to shed some light on what happened on friday but in fact is to end the gun has just said that it remains clear what's happening to the turkish plane and the only thing that is the air right now and that he. is that the plane is missing and rescue and so it's all ration right now on to go eat this as a gun has also stressed that there is new information. all right unfortunately we've lost our connection with mary if an ocean of there we'll try to reestablish that and check back in with her first first we are hearing that turkish prime minister tell you appear to want to has confirmed that two pilots from the missing turkish jet all real life for more reaction on the latest from syria i'm joined by our wasn't a political analyst joining us live from beirut thanks for taking the time to speak with us so turkey's prime minister has refused to confirm details on this incident

with the fighter jet why do you think that is since it's been several hours since this is happened what's your take on it all. well i think the difficult time for the turkish position they have to meet i think they called for a merchant sea meeting it's a very important for his government his status because he's been supplying weapons to the opposition syrian opposition and he's been interfering in syria now for a very long time today he was quoted for fall handed by the syrian or adar system and he was shot down and this is a message by the syrian they're alert and they're ready and they're capable and they sending a message to the everybody for turkey and the nato and for the american don't mess with our territory because we're ready and we're not going to has a date to shoot down any interference any aircraft that well our airspace without any approval from our country so you don't think this could be

a mistake at all you think is something deliberate. i think the british been playing the devil in the whole process. then stability is taking place in syria the turkish government carry the heavy blame for what is taking in syria they've been arming supplying providing the propaganda the statement that comes every time from the turkish side hasn't been helpful and damaging to the peace process that actually was sponsored by the united nations and actually by russia and china and everybody who wanted stability and peace in syria that turkish part has been very negative and damaging to the whole process and today what they have the turkish have to answer what an airplane turkish airplane is

doing in the space of syria syria is a sovereign country has a right to defend its own space and its own territory and this is an invasion by the turkish into the space of syria and i think what he has to say he has to i think we have to wait and see what his explanation will be but the syrians said clearly this is according to security sources because there is no clear statement either from the syrian but from information from the syrian is it was shot down over syria airspace why do you think the syrians have so far kept silent on all of this. well i think a syrian this is a release him for by the securities and i think that's the style of the syrian they wait and see but the message is very clear that assertive when it comes to their security and their own sovereignty syria will not as they might as the meant to defend its territory and syria want to send another message this by defection

yesterday by and one by late into jordan is sending the sending a message today that the syrian army is united strong and capable and will shoot any and the airplane or will defend that country if they're there if the thing there is an eminent danger for the sovereignty of syria or a new political analyst live from beirut thanks for your time. julian assange has broken his silence for the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he is awaiting a decision on his request for political asylum and his interview the wiki leaks editor said that even if the plea is unsuccessful the dramatic move has drawn the world's attention to what he calls a conspiracy against him orchestrated by the us. has more from london fully escape avoid things that you're going to hear in the media at the moment

relating to stalin just decision what he said day is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in sweden far from that is that he felt really this is never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in sweden and the involvement of the u.s. . announcement was made by discreet that i would be detained without charge. immediately on extradition issues upon free for you to come to the u.k. for the past eighteen months despite the absolutely normal procedure and the refusal to explain or in any manner whatsoever to preschool. retracts united kingdom while the united states. if you can meet the sense really that always leads to the u.s. eventing that does 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 stealings a secret carries the death penalty still and then the wiki leaks everything huge amounts of information and the u.s. diplomatic cables that were released in two thousand and ten were huge embarrassment to the u.s. government so i mean there is name mistaking the fact that julian a son 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. officials for his license. very now every forty eight thousand one hundred thirty five if they are filed their statement made in court you should probably manage. manages the money with such an expert the grand jury. which are now going to keep. their subpoenas everywhere there is through comment on public record about how. three grand jury where you have received. the subpoenas

mention my name to people who are preparing to do us a report arrogated by the f.b.i. 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 in math a 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 south 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 with the gators tweeted not only is the free trial the tension 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 on house arrest in the case for more than five hundred days now no clear indication of exactly what the outcome will be and

the stakes remaining extremely high. in his interview assad who 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 journalist mary kosta kid is says the australian authorities have never had any interest in providing assistance. point is that i haven't tried that's the problem distended has an obligation to its citizens to protect their human rights we live in an advanced western democracy we expect our government to act in a way that is principled and courageous and to show leadership in the protection of human rights australia has lost all moral authority to lift or other countries on human rights i think it's a very sad day for our country if the sec does this weekend has a rather different arrangement with the u.s. to the u.k. so it will be easier to get to the us from sweden but let's not ignore the facts

we can has covertly handed over the people to the us handed over and saw that it is to the cia that most people would tool cheated and in the end it was a case of mistaken identity so swigs track record is not good a sound just place is in a strain yet he needs to be back here. ecuador says before delivering its decision on assad they have to discuss the matter with the other countries involved in american countries president rafael correa though seems to be sympathetic to the cause of wiki leaks something he made clear during a recent interview for assad his own program airing here on our t.v. and if you've missed it has well as any other editions are always available on a special section of our website that's at a songe dot martine dot com. egypt's military rulers say claims of victory in the country's presidential election before the official results were announced are behind the growing political divisions in

the country is seen as an attempt to pin the blame for the turmoil on the muslim brotherhood which declared their candidate the winner. this is live video that we are looking at from cairo's tahrir square right now you can see the huge crowds amassed there are tens of thousands of egyptians rallying against the military and the delay in the official announcement of election results most of these people who are gathered there are supporters of the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi protesters also demanding parliament be restored which the parliament which is led by the muslim brotherhood was dissolved by a court decision last week party's policy there is following what's become the largest protest in four straight days of demonstrations. as you have a high of the people not only on the ruling military to step down and at the same time they declaring the december the third candidate mohamed morsi the winner and now i'm driving the military issued

a statement in which it's always find him in front of the full raising tensions by declaring the candidate the winner of last weekend's presidential election at the same time it's if i can find the thousands of people to the streets to celebrate his victory is only going to potentially lead to the fireman's the army is inching thanks remain calm and it justifies its recent grab onto power by saying that this is necessary time in egypt last week the army issued an interim constitution which effectively undermines the power was of the would be president now most of the people here in taft here today are muslim brotherhood supporters they've called for a million people at this stage it looks like we have several tens of thousands but the crowd continues to arrive keeping away our supporters have a half mix of people who watch the content out of muslim brotherhood but essentially we are expecting these people to remain here in task here until sunday when those official election results are issued. to stay with us here on r.t.r.

business boyden still to come. all the details from they still the same the respect . but i might form including all of them all the time and the end all of the ills that's coming up in the business update shortly. but first moody's has slashed the ratings of fifteen of the biggest banks in europe and the u.s. in the latest slap in the face to the ailing financial sector those hit include goldman sachs morgan stanley the royal bank of scotland and bank financial powerhouses 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 financial expert max kaiser says politicians might try to exploit the downgrade to push through their own plans. they of course will use this opportunity to put forward more global governance more centralized government more commanding control more state run operations a less democracy lest 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 but i wait times are we going to hear this hijacking scenario where some of them technocrat like mario monti put a gun to the people said and say either give us all your money or we're going to take all your ass is 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 banking terrorists as i call them and stand up for themselves until they do something for themselves no money to do anything for them saving the euro was the priority for leaders of the euro zone's four biggest economies who held a meeting in rome where there's enough time to rescue the single currency also the

topic for debate with peter lavelle and his guest in cross talk that's coming your way later today here's a preview. just the other ways out but there's the costs of the course that attached to each way out so i think what you have is the one at this moment is they found the calculate these costs as this is a ten and they will choose the lower cost so i personally think. or any country is going to be the zone and the code is a mess the. precedent has been set if exact if you know you get is that you are you cutting down 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 see if these pieces of wise a wise portugal the wise as it is all these weak links will always be questions. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe twenty people including twelve civilians dead after a taliban attack on a lakeside hotel north of kabul and dozens of hostages were freed by afghan

security forces and several hotel guests jumped into the lake to escape gunfire president hamid karzai has warned the attacks were increasing there were 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. says lawyers for anders breivik tried to paint him as an extremist driven by political ideas rather than as an insane killer responsible for the deaths of seventy seven people in norway last year a lot of his trial his lawyers say he is saying despite opposite planes by prosecutors yesterday who said he should be placed in psychiatric care instead of prison judges will consider his sanity before they issue a final verdict in august the families of the victims walked out of the court in protest that breaks attempts to justify the massacre. i can turn now to the world of business marina kosar of a standing by with all the latest highlights from the economic forum in st petersburg tell us more. well basically half of our team is there at the same

petersburg economic forum covering all the events. as they call in the mess analysts and of course one of the main things that everyone is talking about is the european debt crisis also we heard yesterday from vladimir putin who emphasized the importance of europe to become a trading partner for russia more imports in the one and i'll leave it to daniel bushel of who was there talking to everyone there and hilda explain what was dominating talks on day two of the form. he's been covering this keynote for of all week but today was overshadowed by the news fifteen joint global banks have been downgraded by moody's credit rating agency throwing fresh doubts for the recovery of the global economy one of those caught up with citi group its vice chairman told me europe was to blame for world financial problems but rejected the credit rating agencies conclusion we don't

think they've taken into account the tremendous improvements made by the industry. we believe it is unwarranted. uncalled for and most like a review mirror view of the banking industry in the us there is growing fear those euro debt problems will infect countries further east russia's biggest lender told us he's confident its rating will be downgraded. to downgrade decisions were not unexpected in the markets didn't react to them so i don't think these actions will have any additional impact meanwhile our ratings 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 for the country's new economy minister says he's ready to russia's must a reserve if there is contagion to boost its war chest the joints of russia's crown jewels was confirmed here at the forum within the year seven percent of

a call to v t b bank and russian ways and whole of shipping tides and so of conflict will be sold by the government to private bidders the economist even said they may sell the blocking so-called golden share inflexion pay line aeroflot investors here tell us is a powerful symbol of russia's commitment to streamline its economy and keep it growing at the rapid pace we've seen in the post decade. and we'll continue our exclusive live coverage from st petersburg on saturday but for now let's take a look at what's happening on the trading floor is the u.s. is the only one trading right now and the figures there are surprisingly quiet falls there is that both the dow and the nasdaq are adding and that's despite the downgrades as daniel was saying just there and you know we have investors focusing on the fact that the european central bank said that it would take further steps ease loans gradual for banks or i'm moving on to europe where the mood was suitably

different pretty much similar as it was across the board and that is in the right is that the footsie lost almost one percent and the dikes went over one percent and they're right but in germany we'll also had the fact that confidence business confidence has won in the past couple of weeks that there would be help investors moving on let's take a look at the current sees the euro as a gaining against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it lost against both major currencies this friday when it comes to the russian markets as a side pessimism spilled over here as well the r.t.s. and the my socks were in the red in fact the i.c. has slipped we can have a look there will see for yourselves and there we go the odds he has slipped almost two percent and the mindsets will slowly heading towards one the half percent in there and then the other factor that goes into play and sing russian investors was the fact that capital outflow from of bonds investment into the russian shares that has now reached sixty two million dollars that's compared to thirty three million

in the previous week so not helping very much and that's surprising as well because we had oil prices that are going off once again as you can see there is still trading at close to a month lows they're trying to escape but it's not happening quite yet and that's brings us to the end of this business bulletin for now back to you mats all right thanks very much marina for that update and we'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes stay with us here on our team. even if.

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