the final hours of joining us on does asylum did turn into an international showdown with britain threatening to storm ecuador's london embassy and take the whistleblower by force. a powerful saudi based islamic group cancel syria's membership blaming solely to mask its for violence and ignoring the rebels all qaida style terror attacks. the heavyweight square up in asia new report maps the extent of america's military buildup and the region china eagerly core its allies of its own.

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie where not a british colony that's ecuador's reply to a british government threat to storm its london embassy and take joy in the sun by force the whistleblower sought refuge there in june escaping imminent extradition to sweden marina is reporting now with more on the standoff. the government of ecuador will announce its decision on julia 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 the right 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 avoiding 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 assange anjan over again in custody of him now ultimately julian assange 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. forty one year old australia and 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 porter r.t. well before any rate on the embassy the british government to have to revoke diplomatic immunity or risk an act of war but the lawyer and gone. door 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 seem to ecuador as embassy i mean that that's a direct physical threat could be responded by a foot or as defending their own territory 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 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 in they'll just hand over julian assigns but i think that if that's what they're thinking then the brits 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 for latin america as a region i'll just remind you that this is not a sound as asylum request as scheduled at twelve pm g.m.t. today and we'll be covering that and of course the immediate reaction right here live but also on our web site where you can find even more opinion and analysis of all four episodes of a sound as interview show all that is available at r.t. dot com. there hasn't been anything yet.

it is to get the maximum with. the source material is one hopes he sure was and. we want to present. something of. the syrian government finds 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 sand a strong message to damascus which the group sees as the only culprit behind it still is in syria the decision comes despite the latest explosion in the capital syrian rebels have openly admitted they were behind the attack on our jesus on a boy who heard the blast reports on how the opposition is becoming more familiar with terror tactics. blasts and gunfire a daily occurrences 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 tank or on the reach 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. have borders now the free syrian army already claimed responsibility for this blast of and though they said that they never intended to target the u.n. observers and stab they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case this explosion of really underscores how easily available and how widely used explosives . how 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 solid information that al qaeda 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 and 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. 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. reporting from damascus in syria. now there is more on what's happening on the ground in syria onix on this twitter streams that it check it out when you have a chance there you'll find her firsthand interviews and experience from the war zone along with exclusive videos and images so also take a look at our tears jalla stream for more tweets on the developments in syria where arabic spanish correspondents there. on the conflict is going elsewhere in the region members of shia clan have blocked near for growth and beirut they claim to have kidnapped over twenty sunni muslims was links to the syrian opposition the

group says the hostages will be released only after a syrian rebels free one of their relatives captured earlier this week in damascus for gulf states including saudi arabia and qatar ordered the earth citizens to leave lebanon immediately over concerns of massive sectarian kidnappings but political analyst kemal wasn't blames these nations for the escalation. this is the . issue now of the sudanese and qatari turkish been flaming this situation in syria. in syria now is spilling to lebanon and all the sudden they worry about their safety of their country and they have to actually care about the country. explode the war in syria and made very sure that war would not stop in syria i think a lot of the blame for what is taking place in syria fall in the hands of the

qatari and the turkish because they actually prevented every to find a solution for the crisis. oh you're watching are you like a lost girl still accounting program d.-day for just a key opposition leader in bahrain awaits his fate important as anti-government activists continue to be snatched and detained going crackdown. listing in product struggle to reach the international market thanks to israeli occupation and trade barriers. and they report 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 as a rough road map to america's asia strategy 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 for its it's a risky plan. always 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 a long war because. 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 seeing 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 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 us dictate 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 a 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 i can follow the latest twists and turns in u.s. china relations and our website r t v dot com also online for you right now america's hypersonic ambitions crumble after

a fifteen second test choir of the brand new wave rider plane and with engine failure. pussy riot playboy the famous man's magazine hopes one of its future bodies will be released on friday it's offered a member of the russian punk band the chance to appear on its pages. in bahrain and now there are prominent opposition activists has fallen victim to the government's crackdown side of tweeted that he's the latest to be arrested he now joins dozens of other human rights campaigners detained for their political views all of them followed the b.o.r. job i mean now an opposition leader who's on trial for comments he made on twitter against the country's prime minister is a. core decision later on thursday and zero jobs case is a sign of

a greater not make changes in the country author and journalist the fewer times he believes the crackdown will continue. to be we must remember was given this three month sentence for twittering about an area north of in bahrain this is the center of thousands of people hundreds of people arbitrary arrest twenty physicians sentenced for trying to heal the people injured and killed by this bahraini dictator there is no reform process in bahrain this is a complete sham and i mean all credit due to those congresspeople that were. 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. now significant other stories from around the world were the pakistani militants attacked a military airbase in the north of the country sparking

a prolonged gun battle parts of the base were got to buy planes with at least two soldiers confirmed dead the base is set to host high tech jets and this ties to the country's nuclear program attack showcases the potency of the country's islamist groups by repeated military offensives against them. 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 the saudis have said they will spend more of the one billion dollars in education but protesters claimed that's not enough demonstrations have rocked the country for over a year with activists demanding the right to free education. to explosions have rocked the popular a 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 an assault on

a border checkpoint earlier this month that prompted an egyptian a missile raid of that region targeting islam as militants cairo has been repeatedly criticized for poor security in the area. israel sees her off palestinian lands brings with it the added extra of a harsh economic blockade any products produced here are now only prevented from making their way to the outside world but they are kept from the israeli market as well or just policy or 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 that we generating in the settlements in palestinian territories they are seen by many as the foods of the occupation the work of mormon. 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 from israeli 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. any brother. but it's 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 this in order comes through the oil is pumped up here from where it is boxed in bottled to international standards it appears to mon does growing especially in the us we find that as much as this mission of the shops and. excited to find interesting and specialty goods in the market means they are

going to market what backlash on my 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 their supporters around the world would begrudge the few extra dollars for a bottle of olive oil and rather they'll see it as a gesture of support police here are janine in the palestinian autonomy. that's over to the business they're asking is there for us and the bull seem to have an agile the equity markets this thursday that's certainly true if you look at the way asia is trading this hour let's check out the number as they tell the story the nikkei is leading ages games the energy stocks there the main gainers on the stronger of crude oil though crude has just slipped on to read more on that in just a minute the yeah the sliding two one one one tie against the dollar on wednesday

was offering support to export hers on nikkei they were also one of the main gainers hong kong's hang saying is see more modest gains as you can see at the moment that's putting on around the four percent on wall street overnight stocks finished mixed to the nasdaq posted moderate gains thanks to stronger july industrial production numbers and robust housing market data as you can see the dow was down just a notch the nasa. was putting on around half a percent the volumes remained well of below average on wall street due to the vacation season being in full swing and also the lack of any substantial news coming from europe a lot of data is due out on thursday including july building permits weekly jobless claims and of business activity surveys so we will definitely keep you posted on all about moving on to the currency market the dollar this hour is strengthening

against the euro i already mentioned that it reached a one month high against the japanese yen on wednesday the russian ruble finished wednesday's session weaker to the dollar but stronger to the euro will bring you the latest as soon as it reopens of less than one hour and here is how the russian equities finished wednesday session a losses. bit of a correction there following a pretty bullish start of the week roughly one percent d.h. for both of my sex on the r.t.s. with a lot of losses were more modest on the my sex crude it has just slipped into negative territory over the past hour after ending wednesday's session at the highest level in about three months that's on the u.s. energy department report that showed a larger than expected drop in weekly crude supplies this hour brant is still topping one hundred and sixteen dollars a barrel. a legendary investor george soros is losing faith in the banking sector

his fund has cut positions in j.p. morgan goldman sachs sensitive group in recent months he no longer has stakes in the financial sector be then the states or globally instead of sources buying into retail heavyweight wal-mart and facebook the other pick by the same investor is gold which source once dubbed the ultimate asset bubble he apparently doesn't think so analysts say the move is yet another sign that the new wave of global monetary printing is on the way. and of course we'll see if source is right certainly when it comes to gold there are a lot of conflicting opinions on that and that's all the latest from the business desk here and that will be back in about fifteen minutes all right thanks very much indeed and the latest edition of our interest show spotlight is coming your way shortly right after bringing the headlines.

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