the final hours of julian assange jersey asylum bid turned into an international showdown with britain's threatening to storm that with the words london and deceit and take the whistleblower by force. a powerful saudi based islamic group cancels syria's membership blaming solway damascus for violence nor in the rebels' style terror attacks. clash of the tidelands nature and your board maps the extent of america's military buildup in asia as china eerily chords allies of its own.

in the russian capital watching r t a marina joshua welcome to the program now we're not a british colony that sequitur was replying to a british government threat to storm its london embassy and take joined us by force the whistleblower sought refuge there in june scaping imminent extradition to sweden find out whether his asylum bit has been accepted at around twelve pm g.m.t. marina for now with more on the standoff. the government of ecuador will announce its decision on julian a songes application for political asylum on thursday twelve g.m.t. seven am local time that announcement was made by ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino who during a press conference also said that britain has threatened to storm ecuador's embassy in london to arrest julian a song which mr putin has said that ecuador had received from britain quote

a written threat that could assault our embassy unquote if a songe was not handed over to british authorities julian assigned has been in the ecuadorian embassy since mid june of voiding extradition to sweden british officials say that they have an obligation to extradite mr assad and it is would be only right that they gave ecuador the full picture of their circumstance now ecuadorian officials say that britain did deliver a message to their foreign ministry in a written context and also contacted their investors in london so here we have a decision that ecuador needs to make on the future of julian assange engine in the meantime ecuador is now saying british officials are threatening them over julian a songe an over gaining custody of him now ultimately julian

a songe if he does end up in the custody of british officials will be extradited to sweden where swedish officials want to question him on sexual assault charges assad which the forty one year old australian then we can leaks founder believes that if he ends up in the custody of sweden he will ultimately be extradited to the united states. clearly has not made friends with washington and. recent years after disclosing very confidential and classified memos and cables from the u.s. government and many cables and memos which were quite embarrassing for the government. the u.s. government has not made comments in recent days over a songe but ultimately many experts believe that if julian a songe ends up in america he will forever stay in the custody of u.s. officials either indefinite detention or prison

a life in prison some believe he could face up to capital punishment so of course within the next day or so there will be a lot of developments in the case and saga surrounding julian a songe and all the countries that are now involved reporting from new york marina port r.t. well before any rate on the embassy the british government would have to revoke diplomatic immunity or risk an act of war but a lawyer and. bulling ecuador is a tactic that will backfire on the u.k. . under international law it's a complete violation so it would clearly cause a rupture in relations we don't know what could happen beyond that in terms of any kind of violent physical interaction that could occur if if you know the united kingdom or to send its security forces team to ecuador as embassy i mean that that's a direct physical threat could be responded by

a quid or as defending their own territory as as would be the case in in one's own country it could cause for tensions between other latin american nations it would mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level that could happen so i don't know where the u.k. thinks they're going with this i mean there's some speculation that maybe the u.k. things that this kind of intimidation in pressure against ecuador being a small country in south america will have some kind of effect and not just hand over julian assigns but i think that if that's what they're thinking then the brain so have got it wrong on latin american sovereignty and integrity and dignity today because that certainly is not going to be that position that ecuador is going to take or latin america as a region i'll just remind you the decision on the sand as asylum request is scheduled at twelve pm g.m.t. today we'll be covering that and the immediate reaction right here live but also on our web site r.t. the call we can fight even more opinion and analysis as well as four episodes of the sun interview shell all that is available at our dot com.

there hasn't been anything yet. it is to get maximum with. the source material is what helps your words and. we want to present. something new. the syrian government find itself further isolated after being expelled from another international body the organization of islamic cooperation has suspended syria's membership the arab league did the same last year the move is supposed to send a strong message to damascus which the group sees as the only culprit behind still it is in syria this isn't comes despite the latest explosion in the capital city of rebels have openly admits they were behind the attack or use of saddam boyko who

heard the blast reports on how the opposition is becoming more familiar with terror tactics. blasts and gunfire a daily occurrence here in damascus but once the explosion right next to the u.n. headquarters was something out of ordinary it took place at a have only guarded army garage and you can probably see a fuel tanker on there which the explosive device was planted still standing over there in terms of the damage it was relatively minor a few shattered windows in this hotel and in the building next to us but this explosion definitely attracted a lot of media attention because of the proximity to the u.n. borders now the free syrian army already claimed responsibility for this blast of and though they said that they never intended to target to you in observers and that they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case this explosion of really underscores how easily available and how why. adly used explosives have

become these days in syria in the beginning of the syrian uprising the rebels relied primarily on small arms but over months they have become and precisely more sophisticated in bomb making and many experts attribute that to an influx of foreign fighters in particular iraqi insurgents who bring with them a lot of bomb making expertise the iraqi government even went on record to say that they have sold information that al qaida was crossing from iraq into syria to carry out those attacks on the top of that reuters news agency published a story a few days ago in retreat quoted an f.s.a. field commander who was saying that thanks to you of the expertise of iraqi insurgents they've been able to increase the debt to nation range of their bombs up to seven kilometers also the use of mobile phones to sad those bombs off something that is very common in iraq and that was extremely rare in syria is now becoming

more and more widely used what many in the west fail to recognize is that terrorism is not necessarily a derogative term it's a descriptive term to denote a guerrilla warfare a tactic that justifies the use of terror the use of violence for achieving political goals and at the same groups that must terror tactics and bomb making skills on iraqi civilians on the u.s. soldiers in iraq and now applying the same expertise here in syria are reporting from damascus in syria. more on what's happening on the ground in syria next on his twitter stream or there you find firsthand interviews and experience from the world zone along with exclusive videos and images and check out our t. is general stream for war and tweets on the developments in syria from our arabic and spanish correspondents there. now the conflict is going elsewhere in the region

four gulf states including saudi arabia and qatar have ordered their citizens to leave lebanon immediately over concerns of massive tarion kidnappings share clan in lebanon claims it is holding over thirty sunni muslims with links to the syrian opposition the group says it will release them only after syrian rebels free one of their relatives captured earlier this week in damascus political analyst kemal was the blames the gulf nations for the escalation of the sudanese and qatari and turkish been flaming the situation in syria they actually prevented every to find a solution for the crisis spelling to lebanon and all the sudden they worry about their safety of their country and lebanon is very tense today all all across the country and we have over three to four thousand actually situated in the

northern part of lebanon and they have been engaged in a war against faction in the north a free syrian army in lebanon actually been supplying what then to. opposition in syria from lebanon lebanon been a base for the free syrian army causing this double izing fact on syria especially from the homeless area because we have jason border and the lebanese government hasn't been taken the right approach to stop the madness. i want to know if you live in moscow still the guy on the program did or just a key opposition leader in bahrain awaits his fate important anti-government activists continue to be snatched and detained going crackdown. and palestinian products struggle to reach the international market thanks to his reign the occupation and trade barriers. now and they were poor has shined

a light on just how far the u.s. is prepared to go to contain china's growing power in asia the paper compiled by a washington based think tank is a rough road map to america's asia strategy it calls for china's chief original rivals to be propped up and armed and once the cream of the u.s. navy stands to the region but as alexia's just in our reports it's a risky plan. they are courting each other at official meetings but it's a different story under the table with the u.s. employing a return to asia policy ties between washington and beijing are getting tense. becoming. the u.s. . is having you along. because the europeans in march. they are coming to the region. trying to.

find out. and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade there's a reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces modernization creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the u.s. than in the philippines that the u.s. or so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have at in store for china so all the treaty allies

from japan south korea australia the philippines you're being mobilized right now to encircle china and keep it subservient to the u.s. dictate in interests with a deeply checkered historic background of the u.s. military presence in the region many concerns have been raised the united states has for many many battles and pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the. people of the continent fearing full scale conflict in the region beijing is looking for a helping hand and it has look no further than its closest neighbor during the recent state visit to china who seemed glad to know she had russia's support with pledges to boost already strong military ties all but making this point clear while panetta says washington the must stay vigilant in the face of china's growing military beijing has an openly criticize the new u.s. agenda in the asian pacific region all the statements by the officials so far have

been mild declarations of dismay and warnings of a destabilizing situation but experts both in china and abroad believe this is just the calm before the storm and that beijing in fact is growing less and less tolerant of washington's behavior. reporting from beijing in china. and you can follow the latest twists and turns in the u.s. china relations on our web site our team also online for you right now america's hypersonic innovations from the after fifteen seconds of a test fly out of the brand new wave rider a plane lands with an agent failure. alex ferguson's in playboy the famous man's magazine hopes one of its future of bunnies will be released on friday offered a member of russia's posing rival punk band chance to appear on its pages.

about rain another prominent opposition activists has fallen victim to the government's crackdown citing a sieve tweeted that he's the latest to be arrested he now joins dozens of other human rights campaigners the taint for their political views all of them now bill a job opposition leader who. is on trial for comments he made on twitter against the country's prime minister is awaiting a court decision later on thursday many senior jobs cases a sign that the bahraini regime will not make changes in the country after an journalist afshin rattansi believes the crackdown will continue. we must remember was given this three month sentence for twittering about an area north of modern in bahrain this is the center of thousands of people hundreds of people. position symptoms for trying to heal the people injured

or killed by this bahraini dictator there is no reform process in bahrain this is a complete sham and i mean all great if you do there's going to be able that. begging letter to the king of bahrain this dictator but even they seemed to say that there was some going to reform bruises there isn't i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world a group of pakistani militants the military airbase in the north of the country sparking a prolonged gunbattle parts of the base forgot to buy flying with at least two soldiers confirmed that the base is said to host high tech jets and its ties to the country's nuclear program tac showcases the potency of the countries as long as groups despite repeated military offensives against. hundreds of students have taken control of several high schools in chile's capital demanding education

reforms police used water cannon to disperse the crowd authorities spanned more than one billion dollars on education but protesters claim that's not enough demonstrations have rocked the country for over a year with activists demanding their right to free education. explosions have rocked the popular red sea resort city of a lot in israel it's thought rockets were fired from egypt's sinai peninsula where sixteen egyptian soldiers were gunned down in a salt border checkpoint earlier this month that prompted gyptian missile braiding individual targeting islamist militants cairo has been repeatedly criticized for poor security in the area. israel seizure of palestinian lands brings with it the added acts of a harsh economic blockade any products produced there are not only prevented from making their way to the outside world but they are kept from the israeli market as

well aren't you supposed leader has more. this tiny bottle of olive oil is at the heart of an economic battle it may be small and expensive but it's one of those products that defines where people stand in the ideological battlefield of the middle east from palestine to europe and beyond each purchase is seen as a shot in an economic war. other people are not sufficiently aware that israeli settlement products are competing with palestinian products abroad also when we tell the customer that there is a difference between settlement products and israeli products they understand we're living under occupation and they can choose what products to buy or not and more and more consumers are choosing not to buy israeli products the region ating in the settlements in palestinian territories they are seen by many as the foods of the occupation the work of movement. by god movement by god. distributors to carry benicio and products the problem is all in the name and it's

difficult to make a product stand out from those famously the settlements. are products can't say made in palestine because we're under occupation and not yet a state they can say made in the west bank or made in gaza or a palestinian product and for some companies like this palestinian pharmaceuticals company in the west bank it's even worse it can't even sell in its own backyard a lot of the love that we have just love to be distributed in israel because. it's with. but it will be rejected by the security is being restricted to the palestinian market is causing a lot and creating economic difficulties for the farmers. everyone here grows olives and so the local market is very small in the competition big we don't get much money for either it is part of a bigger problem when the demand is there the occupation means more often than not

farmers are prevented from gathering water or even getting to the land it me. more than half of palestinian crops go to waste but there is hope in a corner of the remote city of janine this private company is helping farmers overcome their troubles and get into international markets can be our lives are processed priest and stored as is an order comes through the oil is pumped up here from where it is boxed and bottled to international standards it appears demand is growing especially in the us we find that as much as our submission of the jobs and obs are excited to find anything in specialty goods in the marketplace they are calculating ok what backlash am i going to get from zionist bloggers in the marketplace this snag is that these products sell for almost double the value because of the cost of getting them to market the hope for producers here is that the supporters around the world won't begrudge the few extra dollars for a bottle of olive oil and rather they'll see it as a gesture of support policy r

t janine in the palestinian autonomy. and other business is whether to ask out of a vast or george soros is once again changing his of us missed revenue what's that all about. he absolutely is in fact he's really down on the financial sector and is quite bullish on gold all the details in just a couple of minutes but first let's check out the equities the bulls seem to have an edge on the asian equity markets. at the moment the nikkei is managing to gain more than one and a quarter percent as you can see the hang saying is putting on the just slightly more than a quarter percent this hour the yen sliding to a one the month low against the dollar is really supporting the exporters on the at the nikkei and that's also higher crude is also supporting energy stocks there one of the main gainers on the nikkei as well on that wall street overnight stocks

finished mixed then asked that posted moderate gains thanks to stronger july industrial production numbers and the overall boss housing market data that came out that day as well the dow and the want to negative the volumes remain pretty low on wall street mainly thanks to the vacation season being in full swing and also gone from any substantial news coming from europe expecting a lot of data on the u.s. economy due out later on thursday that includes july building permits weekly jobless claims and a business activity survey. moving on to the currency markets let's see what's going on there the dollar as you can see is easing against the euro at the moment to though it's pretty much what i already mentioned that it's reached a one month high against the japanese yen on wednesday the russian move will and the ones they session recur to the dollar but stronger to the european currency

will bring you the latest as soon as the russian markets reopen in less than two hours time and here's how they ended the previous session with a loss says it was a bit of a. correction following the pretty bullish start of the week roughly one percent each for both the my six and the r.t.s. of those of my six lost a bit less crude is still gaining after endings and when the ones they session at the highest level of three months that's on the u.s. energy department report that showed a larger than expected drop and weekly crude supplies this hour brand is topping one hundred and sixteen and the water dollars a barrel a legendary investor george soros is losing faith in the banking sector his fund this cup position than j.p. morgan goldman sachs and citi group in recent months he is no longer taken stakes in the financial sector beat in the states and globally instead he's buying into

retail heavyweight wal-mart and facebook and he's once again bullish on gold which source was dubbed the summit asset bubble and that's all the latest from the business desk this hour we'll be back in fifty minutes as always but you can check out our site r t dot com for all the latest as well absolutely there's more information there is always well thanks for that and i'll be back shortly with a recap of our top stories so stay with us for that. good

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