right. from steve. santagati dot com. flares in bahrain rubber bullets and tear gas rained down on anti-government protesters meanwhile a call to laze its verdict on problems human rights activists until next month. the world's largest islamic body suspend syria with the randian members speaking out in support of damascus. and ecuador's the president said to decide the fate of julian assange she is waiting for an asylum ruling that says u.s. hackers try to crash the wiki leaks website.

this is article and she live from moscow at eleven pm my name is kevin lowe in the taking to our top stories in just a second but as i'm speaking to you literally within the last five or so seconds we've got some breaking news i want to bring up today with big story britain's the guardian newspaper reporting this morning that ecuador's president has agreed to grant wiki leaks editor julian assange political asylum been holed up you may recall in the country's london embassy since june waiting for the latin american state to make his decision is wanted on sex crimes charges in sweden but has been fighting extradition for months he a whistleblower believes from stockholm he could be shipped straight off to the u.s. to be tried for exposing america's secret diplomatic cables so the latest we've got now britain's guardian newspaper reporting now we want to confirm that as well of course rafael career didn't mention that last night did say there would be some sort of decision made either way within the week but the guardian to say seems to go in with we will be very much across to keep you up to date within the next. you

can bank on. fresh clashes a flare up in bahrain anti-government protesters were met with tear gas and rubber bullets with reported injuries and arrests meanwhile of course delayed the verdict in the retrial of twenty human rights activists until next month however problem compared to now bill radke i was not among them with his verdict set to be delivered on thursday his prosecution galvanized the shiite rebels in their eighteen month long fight for equal rights from the sunni monarchy currently serving his latest three month sentence for making anti government comments on twitter and taking part in a legal gathering geo political analysts project having simple leaves despite calls from u.s. lawmakers police washington is calling on bahrain to suppress the rebels. in bahrain i believe that they're getting their marching orders directly from the pentagon the bahraini royal family which is to quell and to suppress dissent and the reason is because the pentagon simply cannot afford to have

a genuine uprising or any form of political instability in a country that is housing its naval fleet it's very important because right now after the election or right around the u.s. election through the war drums against iran they're going to start beating those again and start hyping up a conflict with iran the fifth fleet is a really important piece on the chess board for the united states so obviously bahrain is going to do whatever washington said but this is in direct contradiction to hillary clinton who's parading around with the friends of syria and the arab league and talking about them about democracy while the u.s. is running out. arm of syria so it doesn't make it there's no there's a lot of hypocrisy is coming out of washington when you look at the situation in bahrain which is very ugly. world's biggest global body outside the u.n. suspending series membership the organization of islamic cooperation will also hold them urgency summit to agree a resolution on the country runs the only member of the block to vote spoken out against sidelining damascus but several men become trees like qatar and saudi

arabia are pushing to mobilize the syrian rebels long standing regional rivals city dominated riyadh and shiites around have taken opposite stances on syria this is serious opposition steps up calls for a libya style intervention reports that fight to topple gadhafi are among rebel ranks talk to everybody who should visit to the university of amman told me that by supporting the rebels western states are only adding up to the conflict now. there are bulls as you have seen are made up of the front bands there are outlaws smugglers there are muslim brothers there are other supporters and then the from places they cooperate or they compete against one another sometimes using guns so the purpose here is to destroy the country and many syrians and arabs have come to see that for what it there's. syria is supposed to fall into chaos and

fragmentation as has happened and somalia before and iraq so the united states has been engaged and employment thing that design of clear youth of chaos in syria so what we have here is an armed rebellion that is being supported financed and politically covered why these people the dollars mainly money earned from selling oil in the service of imperialism and these people have been raising and waving the flags of freedom and democracy but we have seen some of their cross at these they have committed in syria i would say at least more than half the population are solidly behind. the regime now and these people. may have grievances and they may have things that they want to change the regime but they are definitely against the fragmentation of syria and the funding syria's streets with blood as has been happening through something as you have seen. americans have

been delivered a surveillance slap in the face saw through her veil that the u.s. government's been spying on its own citizens software called trap claims to be able to detect behavior associated with would be terrorists by using c.c.t.v. cameras censorship and technology campaigner and swore to spend a bit more to me the n.s.a. is able to use cameras all over the country to zoom in on someone and track them wherever they go there's actually you know they they say explicitly the cameras can pan tilt and zoom in on particular faces so that wherever you are in the country at any of these high risk locations where there are military bases or corporations or government sites they can zoom in on you track what you're doing at all the pictures across the entire country or the entire globe it all goes into a big face recognition database so that you know if they see the same person at multiple places they can track them wherever they go and in fact there are reports that they've been talking to companies like facebook and so on so not only can they

track even the real world but they can track your face wherever you post online and that can capture thousands of innocent americans millions of innocent americans the notion that all of this is happening totally unaccountable by a private corporation that's building these big databases of where anyone is at any time and being able to zoom in on them it's really quite frightening there's no evidence that this is helping keep us more secure the government has repeatedly failed to show examples of where collecting all of this vast warrantless data has actually prevented terrorist attacks instead what we do have are clear examples where it's been abused used against the constitution the fourth amendment protections we have in the united states and used to go after political enemies as opposed to actual terrorists. is the largest province in pakistan and plays host to the crossroads of serious international economic interests throw in then energy resources intelligence agencies and homegrown terrorism the region soon finds itself a focus of growing global importance and concern that is going to teach you can report. baluchistan. you may have never heard of it or maybe caught

a glimpse of it in a hollywood blockbuster but the place is a hawk this nation for intelligence services from around the globe hotbed of insurgency home to various terrorist organizations kidnappings assassinations terror that's part of everyday life in baluchistan looking at its location as part of pakistan bordering afghanistan and the rand you may think well no surprise they enjoy his place but apart from being a dangerous place the lucious done is a big geo political importance where major world powers have interest and china one of them a lucius that is sitting at the crossroads of oil and gas pipelines coming from central asia iran's and elsewhere the iran pakistan pipeline that took menace then of ghana's then pakistan india pipeline not to mention that baluchistan itself has its energy resources besides it's water port and it's right here is the access

point of chinese chinese commercial shipping to the indian ocean and on to africa. but all the violence and instability there doesn't make it an easy place for a business investigative journalist very draitser tells me some world powers might be interested in keeping it that way first of all we have various indigenous terrorist organizations that operate inside of below tristan the liberation army. republican army lashkar e tayyiba just to name a few june is an organization that for decades has been focused on the stabilization of iran now the confluence of these various terrorist organizations of course is not coincidental this has a direct relation to the interests of the united states in the western powers of the blocking the chinese the stable. as in pakistan and part of waging their covert

war against iran in hopes of not just in circling that country but to collapse it from outside the us government denies having any connection with june dollah and baluch terrorist organizations although cia memos leaked recently say these really mossad recruited john dollar members quote under the nose of u.s. intelligence officers end of quote as far as other terrorist groups like the baluch liberation front there are a few people in u.s. congress who expressed readiness to support the separation of baluchistan from pakistan like dana rohrbacher from the house of representatives comedian foreign affairs any bad anything that's coming up right now that the pakistanis don't like about our attitude is because by the actions taken by their government as far as who could benefit from instability in baluchistan most experts say it's extremists of all kinds mainly al-qaeda and its affiliates and as well as the taliban they

certainly have an interest in maintaining instability but some also see baluchistan is a key square on the geopolitical chessboard the united states knows they cannot compete with china economically or industrially so they have to stun china's development through these various subversive tactics they're willing to engage with various terrorist networks that they've had for many many years if not decades in order to try to make the chinese stall in their economic development so according to you hype wars are real and creating instability is one of the instruments to gain advantage but wouldn't it backfire and that terror violence instability could it backfire in terms of terrorist reciprocation against the united states this is entirely possible but that didn't prevent the united states in the late one nine hundred seventy s. from financing and supporting the mujahideen against the soviets allegations that some global powers may be stoking violence in

a place like baluchistan for their geopolitical interests are quite disturbing and raises the question why the pipeline wars are a reality in washington i'm going to check out. around the world now this tuesday night a series of deadly attacks have hit afghanistan multiple suicide bombers have hit the town of the ranch it's in the southwest of the country with the death toll now being put thirty six over one hundred people were injured meantime a separate bomb blast in the northern province of. killed at least ten people including children there. ballance continues the french city of swearer more than one hundred youths from a deprived neighborhood clashed with authorities buildings and cars were set alight well police shot at sixteen officers were injured president francois hollande has vowed to get the situation under control over sending reinforcements violent riots in france have become a common occurrence in recent years the sense of unease persisting in many poor neighborhoods. more than hundred kurds have clashed with police in the southeastern

turkey protesters threw stones and petrol bombs at security forces who responded with smoke grenades and water cannon violence comes twenty eight years to the day since the kurdistan workers party began its insurgency against turkey demanding an autonomous state. to the athlete from the democratic republic of congo along with three of the country's coaches vanished in the united kingdom after the end of the olympic games the men disappeared from the olympic village with their luggage and the reportedly not answering their phones either authorities in london are also looking for a seven hour flight from cameroon then go missing two they were reported to be trying to stay in the country to continue with their boxing in plane that they will have to give up the sport if they return. more for you online of course r t dot com some stories that it's night might interest you the scales of israeli justice are out of balance and wrong as must be made bright that's the call from activists after an israeli soldier who killed a palestinian mother and daughter was given just one month in jail. and what was

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t.v. as not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time and. this is a see if you're watching about fifty minutes ago you know we started the i was some breaking news it's being reported britain's guardian newspaper is saying that ecuador's president has agreed to grow wiki leaks editor june the sun's political asylum story we've been following a lot it's big news let's talk to our tease laura smith she's our correspondent in london hopefully we've got on the phone now how the laura begin to me what do we know at this point apart from what i've just said. well you know much of what you just said we understand the guardian news was reporting that they had spoken to an official in ecuador who claims to be fairly familiar with the negotiations that have been going on of course with the ecuadorian government about the asylum seeking saying that ourselves will be granted asylum now what we knew previously

was that. the ecuadorian president went on state television last night to talk about this and he said that he would be making a decision on the asylum later this week he said he would be consulting with advisers on wednesday and then after he had done that he would be making making a decision that is not beyond the realms of possibility that that decision has in fact already been made and they're just waiting for the ideal moment to release it because we know that chilling assertions being inside the airport or an embassy here in london now for almost two months he was the first went there on the nineteenth of june so as far as i'm concerned it's high time a decision was made what was your son say to your son or just recover for is pretty fully. well he faces and has always fit that part of the in line with these allegations of sexual assault that he's undergone from sweden that he will be extradited first to sweden but then on to america where he says that he will be put

on trial for espionage and he also faces the death sentence when he gets that so he decided unilaterally we will we understand his legal team had no part in advising him to seek asylum but he decided that he would go to the ecuadorian embassy and see if they would offer him some kind of some way out of going to sweden and then eventually on to america. why i could or exactly. well this is something that we we think stems from actually the program that he made for t.v. during that program one of really fast i'll carette to do. and during that program they appeared to develop. or they appeared to come to some kind of mutual understanding can you share a little bit of that lined up so let's. talk. on archie ok. then we know that those who don't know anything have

nothing to fear we have nothing to hide your wiki leaks have made us stronger as well as the main accusations made by the american embassy due to our excessive nationalism and defense of the sovereignty of the ecuadorian government julian you are a good example of what the press is like as well as these associations like the into american press association which is simply an association of newspapers in latin america many books have been written about your wiki leaks in latin america for the last one by two argentinean authors. a country by country analysis and in the case of ecuador shows how in a shameless way the media did not publish those cables or news which affected them . thank you president. as he. has been a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and be welcomed to the club of the

persecuted. thank you. thank you. thank you. that's something we have to avoid every day. we understand it was during the making of that program that i saw which could have posited the idea of. ecuador but we think that the reason that he did it but because. i think eight. people love the idea so we are expecting a definite result later this week and then we'll know whether these remains in fact and that you and i thought had been granted asylum in ecuador or laura thanks for bringing some today there's as i just broken so thanks for that much appreciate this case more common the talk to kevin zeese he's ninety more activist an attorney and member of the bradley manning support network he's been on this channel a fair bit kevin it's good to see you tonight so is this the end of june in this

sunday's troubles if what we think is going to be reported that the guardian is true. well it's really a big step in the right direction for joining us on you know it doesn't solve all these problems which are just standing and he needs to get safe passage out of great britain you know england has to agree that they have negotiated their good or it sounds like they were been trying to negotiate a great deal prior to making those decisions on millions or even done by the. next challenge save that as i say it is no small challenge that either actually i mean the rest of the day will be allowed safe passage out of the u.k. so ecuador's apparently grant him asylum it's not done and dusted is it it's not a done deal and once he's in the air you have to or the u.s. military or the universe around us are just plain with military planes and bringing down sweden and william down united states force in the land and outside her door

so this is not a done deal it's a big step and it's a good sign that our country will stand up to do its onj and say that we recognize that you're being mistreated there's which are news and in and pushes for to try to find a political sound form just from our correspondent know why ecuador. why has that got involved here is it simply because they stuck up for a poor friendship when they doing a program recording a program for this channel is it really down to that why they give the guardian article indicated this was negotiated before he appeared on our present appear on r.t. on a sonic show so this was a one term negotiation early on in the process there was talk of being assigned to who or look like that was going to happen and then changed them playing i changed ecuador has been very friendly to wiki leaks news stories they publish a great deal of leaks in ecuador that both helped and hurt the government they learned that to be published so they've been open to that so i think it's a combination of the report but also a recognition that this is

a human rights issue to allow transparency. in what governments do and allow people to know what the what the facts are and again if this is true what would the repercussions be for ecuador. why would your story picked some fights with the united states over military bases the president's famous for saying he be having allowed military base in ecuador if he can have one in florida so i think he kind of twisted the knows the united states that they are already and i think is one of the so-called leftist leaders in latin america the united states is concerned about so it is a conflict it already exists and so i don't think there's just one war aspect of it but they're already in conflict there would already united states you know think of washington post editorial board meeting to among others also call for a trade sanctions against ecuador if it does. asylum legally is that. well you know it's him it legal or not it can be done in the united states will do it again it would pressure on every door to try to change his decision but my sense is

this is a done decision i think that he's a big deal make sure to watch out for you know his government's survival the united states has been well known for organizing coups in latin america we've tried against multiple presidents succeeding. well presidents and so on he need to worry about that this is just you know an ongoing struggle between us empire and latin american countries and it's been a long term one so this is one more chapter that kevin assuming any of this is true if he does get to ecuador if he does manage to get out of britain. so many hurdles as you say the cross well up at the end of it will u.s. drop its case against. you know i doubt it i mean they recognize that korea will not be president for future presidents can change decision and so i don't think this is necessarily end of it it will give julian a great response to me in her door but you know even though he's got to worry the united states courts have upheld the idea of kidnapping people for u.s.

courts and that's not all the growth it is for example the court of the other way is that how the defendant before the court so i think mr resigns want to keep an eye over his shoulder for a long time to come the future so wiki leaks. well we lose you are going to lose the good our important provision. to be a major source of news and no one else who are assumed to be able to you know it is really there that's a very important step aside certainly these person and you know iconic figure and. my sense is that we're hearing is who the uber alles of the your c.e.o. of other wiki leaks copycats i mean more and more citizens media activists want to see this kind of trees grows or sort of the trees grows into a big that wiki leaks has opened the door to a new form of citizen media that would be your very important future kevin zeese thanks so much for coming on the short notice there antiwar activist and attorney and member of course of the bradley manning support group as i said earlier on thanks so much and. writes will follow up with more that little bit later of course

as we get more details let's catch up on the business now that's coming to twenty five minutes past eleven at night moscow time to be trees and other business they're still dimitri tech giants tumbling down today tell us more well groupon is down twenty six percent in just one session and a release that second quarter earnings report and it's pretty disappointing so basically these huge companies like groupon or facebook which had very significant i.p.o. over the past year now they are failing to show that they can bring profit to their investors a second ago otherwise the markets are reacting and how they're doing of the markets in the u.s. hopefully hopefully they'll be out in the just a second but me tell you though did they just flat there's a technical we have which eyes they are flat right now and they used to be positive and that's on the back of a better than expected u.s. retail sales coming out and in europe we've also seen a pretty positive session with germany and france also releasing better than

expected g.d.p. data or oil right now is also up when it comes to currencies the euro and the dollar pretty flat to the russian markets had a pretty positive session today. on the back of oil prices finally let's get let's get here now russians are moving more and more into debt deeper and deeper burning cash the way they are spending because basically they have learnt from previous crises that inflation and ruble devaluation can eat up your savings therefore they're spending more and right now loans to people as opposed to corporate loans are developing three times faster than an oblique over ports. what a feeling of self and all folding cries is a spook in russia a slumping old prize a ruble come up like in the wind is what the russians doing about it well they go shopping but they are born with more money than ever to do so present card debt is

expected to rise almost eighty five percent this year it is already thirty three percent and that is adding writable market minimum twenty four percent interest when a crisis threatens europeans historically tighten their belts postponing big purchases such as cars and houses by the law of the russians this july for example more than two hundred fifty thousand new cars were sold here in russia more than pre-crisis peaks in two thousand and eight mortgages already per se and this figure is expected the true poll by the year end despite the fact that the russian conceal must pay a minimum twelve per cent annual interest three times higher than in the u.s. for example. as for average shopping while sales in europe creasing here in russia volume for the pros top of this year seven per cent it could be we are seeing a distinct russian consumer confidence but what is sure while economizing europeans

look for low cost suspicious russians sure lower prices even more lower shelf and continue to aim high perhaps at the cost of common sense that some of the global business are to moscow. from the business team to morrow. i think something traditionally much causes my brings us the latest scandal around the financial headlines and. top stories too. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would but

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