which brightened. from plans to. start on t.v. dot com. wiki leaks founder julian assange has a nervous wait for the ecuadorian government's decision on whether to grant him political asylum after he sought refuge at its london embassy. egypt's ruling military brass to clamp down on the sentiment on first tens of thousands in cairo protest against the generals who did eight presidential poll results expected this sunday. on syria and turkey trying to defuse tensions after a turkish jet was shot down on friday both countries searching for the missing pilot.

here watching our weekly news review i'm kerry johnston welcome to the program. ecuador's president is considering it was. his claim for political asylum but has not said when a decision will be made but we can expound it has been at the country's embassy in london since tuesday attempting to avoid extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes that could also ambassador to the u.k. has been recalled to the capital key to brief the government. is protected inside the embassy of british police a day of rest and reaching bail conditions once he steps outside the world's most famous sought asylum from the ecuadorans because they're sympathetic to his troubles also wants to avoid ending up in the u.s. here's the death penalty. as more. held under house arrest and oppressed by the government in an effort to silence a proud. crissy message to the public but we're not talking about famous political

dissident suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about the western explain and freedom of speech the charges of ever being voted against julian assange yet he still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven see the latest dramatic twist in the case of julian assange is once again called the eyes of the world's media behind the ecuadorian embassy those julian assange takes refuge but away from the height and his supporters say that this is a dark a tale of a man who has been abandoned by his own country persecuted by the u.s. and failed by the u.k.'s legal system but he's not looking for consular assistance he's looking for political and diplomatic assistance and he's looking for a stroll in government to stand up for the son just fights has been

a long one eighteen months of legal wrangling in the resulted in the rejection of his supreme court appeal against extradition to sweden what this was about was once julian assange gets extradited to sweden he's in prison in sweden the next thing that happens is the u.s. assuming there's an indictment largest an extradition warrant in sweden eventually the u.s. gets his hands on him they stick him in a prison in the united states fears of what might await him across the atlantic may well have prompted his latest i think you'll end up actually going through some very serious charge probably life in prison if not the death penalty and it will be a start to kangaroo court against those who are sitting with the bradley manning case united states now has carried the records rather than we of course these on time founded concerns as a long list of u.s. biggest openly calls not only for songes incarceration even for his death this guy is a traitor a true. and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be and

i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot and here's why because of his work. this guy has made some powerful enemies you know the collateral murder video shows american helicopter gunships shooting reporters the iraq war logs the afghan war diaries all of this. has embarrassed the american british government freedom fighting in the twenty first century is a whole new ball game new rules new players and unexpected me even first on his legal team this was a complete surprise so we found out about it on twitter and say the man he revolutionized whistleblowing and three wiki leaks released groundbreaking stories has in another twist become the story himself and there are many now heaping that the next big release will be julian assange himself so r.t.

london. what we can exact of mr clark stokely says that political asylum in ecuador is the best chance for sars to continue his work making revelations about the u.s. . we're not so worried about him going to sweden actually but that's just small business were most worried about him getting extradited to the united states and it's being orchestrated by the department of justice and most of the mainstream media doesn't seem to know about it because no one is allowed in and this is been going on simultaneously as bradley manning's trial i would say it's a fifty fifty chance either it does or doesn't i pulling for it sounds like this is a very good option so that julian can continue to do the great work he has been doing for journalism ecuador would be a very good choice i think the likelihood of an extradition from ecuador is

a lot less than it would be from sweden or the u.k. . while under house arrest in the u.k. has produced a series of interviews shows with political figures from around the world bearing right hand on a t. . shirt yet the saves the day and since this will now decide on a solid this side of your case well that's on our website don't come. as egyptians await did ages of last weekend's the presidential election huge crowds are gathering to protest against military rule supporters of muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi field at cairo's tahrir square the generals have promised to crush challenges of the regime with an iron fist put to sleep has more now from cairo. as you can hear tensions are soaring here in tough his way away tens of thousands of people have turned out to demonstrate on saturday night they're chanting for the army to step down and indeed as they have been chanting for the past few days they calling for the muslim brotherhood candidate dr mohamed morsi to

be named egypt's next president they're also chanting things like we are strong and that we are preparing for war coming to an ominous threat that comes as the electoral commission says that it will and mounds the official results of last weekend's presidential polls on sunday three pm local time but there is confusion over this because we're hearing from other electoral commission officials that it has not yet been determined when these results in fact will be announced now as you can hear this growing anger in taffy's square and this is because many of the people here who are muslim brotherhood supporters are cautious of the fact that they think the electoral commission is delaying and non-singing was also because the army is trying to organize that it's candidate after much traffic the main to egypt's makes president and there are growing concerns that if indeed shafiq is announced they will be violence here in egypt the military is worried about those they have warned of potential violence they have warned political leaders on both

sides to put a lid on growing on waste but they've also said that despite these protests despite the growing anger they're not going to back down from we sent a constitutional and judicial changes that they made. kyra based journalist activists abraham says egyptians will continue to strive for freedom and democracy against all odds. with this election and how it was engineered from the first place how it was constructed who was in charge was putting all the woods is basically the supreme council for the armed forces so in the end that evolution is not over yet i mean no revolution ends in a year and a half and certainly not with skaf in power i believe that that with the next you know coming months there will be a lot of mobilization there's a lot of huge expectation on this coming president whether it would be sheffield or whether it be more see the have a lot to answer to and with the limiting powers that they have the basically announcing this decree it shows that their job is going to be very very tough yes

when people are won't have the demands met like minimum wage and public health and health care you know one education and we still have a pile of cash lying around people are not going to be happy and that's not what the sector why so many monsters and spent a year and a half of instability for basically people who want answered and then now we have no answers we have only power play cafe spoiling with you know playing with with the muslim brotherhood but the people are the ones who are out of losing because the they all are in india and they need their security they need their bread and they need to live a dignified life. but on the way in the program the cutting edge of cyber warfare american officials spilled the beans on last month's computer virus attack on iran with details in a few minutes. syria says the downing by its forces of

a turkish reconnaissance plane on friday was not from the time group has warned it would retaliate but didn't specify turkish and syrian search teams on the king for the two missing pilots both sides trying to smooth things there he said it's violence continues in the nation international nations expert mark almond duquesne university turkey says the incident with a turkish jet would be part of a nato build up to military intervention in syria. if the nato countries were really thinking about some kind of intervention to assist the rebels. well a person would want to do is to knock out there is a. kind of probing the flight testing of radar syrian responses may be possible one way of getting around the un and by russia and china on intervention in syria is to make it into an international crisis so long as the price of finally inside story of them classical him or her international intervention much of the global crisis situation is spreading outside the borders

of the country concerned can 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 the nato countries have totally gave their our of course we don't know yet exactly the circumstances of maybe an incident that could be resolved diplomatically without any problem but of course it comes at such attempts time even if nobody has proposed this incident it's likely to take why when so in terms of the crisis management of the syrian crisis but also are nato countries relations with the rebels against. and the u.n. peace envoy kofi annan hopes his ceasefire plan might eventually succeed in syria despite the escalating violence there but as artie's for national reports this goal could still be too far ahead. every evening cars images of spends time with his grandchildren but the stories grandpa tells the kids about bad and good people

aren't fairy tales they're real or. who's this mohamed were you see he's dead. what they kill him because he didn't want to bring down president bashar our set. garzon is the leader of a five thousand strong tribe his son and youngest granddaughter were shot dead by terrorists after he refused to join the movement against the syrian regime. when s.m.m. they came to me masked men carrying the al-qaeda flag with kalashnikovs and many other weapons they wanted me to demonstrate and bring my tribesmen with me then they came in the night and started shooting my house is covered in bullet holes from floor to ceiling. later cars and saw them on t.v. once arrested the militants confessed to many crimes and mentioned cars and two. we stormed gossamer his house we were shooting and set fire next day where arranged to

meet another victim but when we called him back for final details a stranger picked up when they had what is more hardeen. you want. yes. i will give you them all i'm sorry. how is it possible for me to mundine. bring you all the heads god. where is my danish bring me bashar like saddam will tell you where. the hell is this you have to he said government saying people. sure. you will get kidnapped two we found a man who didn't hours later in hospital fortunately alive he told us he'd been attacked gunman stopped his car took his money and mobile and shot him in the leg. they came asking to join to go home they searched and me and they took my family and loved the city i was told they were following me but what should i do here's

a came i don't even know why me was a little while my head dean is wondering why him mahmoud the last of the two matt knows exactly why people with guns visited his home and threatened him in his restaurants he used to feed syrian army officers and was also delivering center which is to their checkpoints. told me i cannot feed the army and i now have to see them for free free syrian army they also wanted me to lead an armed group just like many others mahmoud has fled his native it lip the city known as one of the syrian opposition strongholds which has seen several deadly terror attacks and now hiding in neighboring aleppo change in location every ten days and just like others he says he's already lost a lot but his ready to sacrifice the rest if it helps turn this dark page in this

country's history while the west continues to pile more pressure on the syrian regime in the hope of deposing president assad it's remains unclear what kind of people would take his place with open support for the syrian rebels and a rise in the use of terror tactics the question many are asking is that what kind of direction would these force take the country. or if national our team from syria. and moscow and washington seem to come closer in their positions on syria this week at the g. twenty summit in mexico both sides pointed out syrians should choose their own next government a statement by president putin and obama on tuesday it was their first face to face meeting since the russian leader returned to the kremlin and may their talks however expose more rough edges than resolve this seems less and russia still differ sharply on washington's plans for missile defense shield in europe moscow is once again reiterated its call for shared control of the system as

a solution to the impasse based on cooperation a former member of the rake of any station paul craig roberts believes obama doesn't have as much room to maneuver on the issue if you might like. i'm convinced that. does not warrant conflicts with washington he wants to resolve the issue of the missile bases that are surrounding russia he doesn't want conflict and obama. he doesn't want any conflict either but he is just one member of a government that more wants regime change in syria and obama is not exactly in a position to be able to stop that he will do what he can to get along with bruton but he still has to represent the agenda. world in general and regime change and so this situation i think is on

result. why that the g. twenty itself the heads of states have voiced fresh anxiety over the continuing eurozone crisis describing it as the single biggest threat to the world economy many leaders have said progress in dealing with the situation has been far too slow while greece's new coalition government is seeking a deadline extension by at least two years to cut its budget deficit that would breach one of the terms of the e.u. i.m.f. bailout deal can set ones to avoid having to further cut salaries and pensions because it was agreed within the coalition for better this week after two elections and goods produced by the now become explorer that. says it's too ready to celebrate. everybody says oh yes all this situation and then five minutes later it was like oh are back in the doldrums we're going to get as high as sugar rush of kong for the next couple of it is all right no experience and you know come

thursday friday and everything i started thinking well you know i did movies are you doing and we're still in the same hole and really four because they're trying to do two things simultaneously on the one hand bro and on the other and back on their. civil list and on their governments in order to comply with the call for austerity measures now you can't do it you can't do the same thing and do lots of things at the same time it's either one of them i mean if you squeeze the people the few people are going to scream and when these scream governments fall and that's what we're going to be seeing in the near term future if this government ease austerity measures which have been ineffective over the last two years and so there's no reason to think that they're going to be there for the next six months. well we've got the world covered for you at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's online today. crackdown opposition leaders are injured as police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse antigovernment protesters. there's no

place like home but to what lengths are you willing to go to to get there one woman decided to die and. come. to me and where sectarian fighting has left more than eighty people dead over the past month according to officials buddhists have been clashing with the muslim minority who've been trying to rest in a bunker and to be turned back. eric draitser to stop computers and dot com these days and why the geo political agenda behind the conflict. many of the conflicts that we see in myanmar and elsewhere in the world but in particular in that country are the product of a proxy war an economic proxy war that the united states and the western powers are

waging to prevent chinese economic development in myanmar we see the presence of 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. or international news stories in brief for you now paraguayan is facing critical isolation and it's latin american neighbors withdrawing their ambassadors from the country and move comes after the president was ousted from power and an impeachment trial on saturday the thirty nine four vote in the senate saw him removed. of violence between farmers and police last week in which at least seventeen people died u.e. sworn in the president for the week a friend of his promise to prevent the country from becoming a regional outcast. in bolivia the army is patrolling the streets as

police across the country continue their strike against a young rest began on thursday around thirty police wives season elite units headquarters close to the presidential palace talks between the government instructing officers stalled early on saturday agreement in sight two thousand and three rolled over wages at a gunfight with soldiers which killed nineteen people. and in sudan the growing protests have turned violent as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the country's capital police used tear gas and battens disperse the writers who threw stones at offices and burned tires in the streets activists report a large number of arrests in the country's economy has been struggling since south sudan ceded a year ago taking with it three quarters of sudan's oil production. now unnamed u.s. officials have admitted american responsibility for last month's computer virus

attack on iran the state of the art cyber weapon named flame is said to have been created by america and israel to spy on inside the taj islamic states nuclear program what is going to chicken has the latest. 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 of a loss of ryan fashions we typically associate with more fry 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 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 else or elec trani 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 even but i mean they're necessary to see has it 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 worm

which they can that really reverse engineer take apart figure out how it works turn it around send it your way a leading moscow. they 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 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 the obama 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. the administration just announced a one hundred ten million dollar program to solicit proposals from 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 rope 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 cyber space 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 get whether it's what you don't want them to tell you but in light of the recent revelations about he was being engaged in the fiber pact one might ask what the

message that the center of all the government even the dems cyberattacks have heard them all but it felt like one hell of a happy person i'm going to check out reporting from washington hard to. get back to the headlines in just a couple of minutes stay with us. we

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in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. the move. to the.

wealthy british style fund it's a small time to kind of please go toward them. margetts why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture.