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heavyweights. a new report. of america's military buildup in the region. while i live from the heart of the russian capital. with me will researcher welcome to the program britain's foreign office says julian assange will be denied safe passage out of the country even if he's granted asylum by ecuador the statement comes off of the u.k. sparked international raúl with a latin american country by threatening to raid in london and. by force very shortly here on earth he will be catching up with. she is outside the

embassy as all of this is. getting more exciting by the minute. but. there. are. more. than the. well we're suddenly been speaking to a many people regarding the ongoing case with julian assange one of them was a tariq ali he was a guest on one of assigned his exclusive programs here on r.t. he has this to say regarding the current situation of a songe will he get asylum if he is granted asylum what will he even be allowed to leave the u.k. . i think we have now in different parts of the world including the western world

clamp down on dissent and we have. the british home secretary referring yesterday to activists not activists meaning. back to us soon they'll be given the label of terrorists you know cyber terrorists some are already calling them out and from there there's a very small to relabel in rebranding people rent them from speaking out about the culture in which we live in the worst world today the official culture is deeply hostile to whistleblowers to hackers where in the public interest and democracy everywhere is being hollowed out just think if a similar situation was going on in big. all moscow or some other capital and of dissident in moscow or beaching had to can refuse the british

embassy. and the irrational government of the chinese government or some other government not regarded in the pockets of the west said we can actually read your embassy and get this guy out you can just imagine the response there would have been in the media. write a letter across and out are these are laura smith are standing by live in london outside the ecuadorian embassy good to see us as i'm sure you're with us here on this live broadcast everything's happening at a chaotic pace today regarding a science will know in a less than one hour if indeed ecuador will grant him asylum there is the u.k. then saying they might well taken by force lori can you can you clear up the picture and tell us what is the latest. but i think what is really happening today and late last night is that the asylum request and whether it's granted or not has really become something of a moot point because the foreign office here in the u.k. has already said that even if he is granted asylum in ecuador the government here

will not be granting him safe passage that means that the original status still stands that if a stones lead to the embassy behind me he is lovell to be arrested by the british police of course there is still a standing order as the government is quick to point out to send our sons to sweden to face allegations of sexual assault although of course we know that no charges have yet been brought the british government also the foreign office has sent a letter to quito to say that they may storm the embassy and take by force this is an unprecedented move in a move that a lot of the processes here all of them in play against you know the embassies on anyone's territory under international law in voluble they are the territory of the country concerned in this case of course ecuador that was construed by the threats from britain to storm the embassy and then take to been astonished by force the british say that they're using the embassy in a way that is incompatible with the vienna convention and say that for they are

within their rights to revoke this this embassy stay says this this invaluable status that the building behind me current currently has the foreign office says that it can give one week's notice but of course that it wants a diplomatic agreeable solution it's not clear what that solution might be the ecuadorian government the foreign minister that has responded and said that this is unbecoming of a civilized and law abiding states and that the move has been interpreted as an unfriendly intolerable and hostile act we've also seen arrests here outside the embassy today they're being around forty process to standing up to julian assange and standing up for what they call his his freedom of speech and three of them have been taken away by the police and out of scuffling and shouting when told as to. it'll become a head now but that's slightly more violent. as you as you were saying moments ago about the british foreign office are threatening to storm the ecuadorian embassy in london and take a silence by force i know that moments ago the president of the ecuadorian national

assembly called a special emergency meeting regarding the u.k. threat to raid the london embassy so it's just going situation going alternately from bad to worse here laura i understand that wiki leaks has also published a scathing statement with regards to britain's can you tell us more about that. that's right we haven't been able to get in touch with himself we know of course that he's building but we. we do apologize here and i was actually speaking to our. live just outside the ecuadorian embassy in london as we are standing by in approximately fifty two and a half minutes we should if everything's on show if you will have a live announcement from the ecuadorian president will ecuador grant the world's number one and whistleblower julian assange will he be given asylum in ecuador do stay with us here on r.t. for details on that for now though before any raid on the embassy of the british government would have to ultimately change the law it's considered to be

a sovereign state piece of property that the ecuadorian embassy in london belongs to ecuador so the british government certainly in a tough position right here and as we as we continue to report here on our t.v. that ecuador replied to a british government threat to storm the london embassy and take it by force now we have mr gold. with this comment that. 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 were to send its security forces into ecuador's embassy i mean that that's a direct physical threat could be responded by ecuador is 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 that 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 and they'll just hand over julian assigns but i think that if that's what they're thinking then the brits have 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 just remind you here are three of the decision on a side asylum request to show you all for a twelve pm g.m.t. today will be covering that and of course the media reaction right here live but also on our website it's where you can find even more opinion and analysis as well as a full episodes of a saunders interview show all that. dot com. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact.

the source material is worth helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. i do stay with us here and see for that breaking news story with us on whether or not he will get asylum requested by ecuador will know in less than one hour finale though another breaking news story in bahrain a prominent opposition activist in the bill at a job has been sentenced to three years in prison for organizing and taking part in the eagle gatherings he's already in jail this point for writing antigovernment comments on twitter let's get more details on this now cross over to our visa so involved who's been following out of jobs the legal battle tom and what exactly did he do to receive this latest sentance. well laurie yes just to recap it a bahrain court has given him three years in prison now below job for participating

in and calling for they say illegal or protests his lawyer says that he's going to try and appeal that decision and there's many people who have commented that it's a bit an unexpectedly harsh decision rajab was in fact already in prison when the sentence was passed serving a three month sentence for posting anti government comments on twitter we can see some of them here where he calls for the prime minister to be removed he says that the residents and older people should be left alone that everybody knows that the fact that the government is not popular there and people are the only going out to work and because of bribes when when will they be removed those that was just one of the comments that got him put in prison originally it's also perhaps worth noting that his ritual imprisonment came after an interview with controversial wiki

leaks founder julian assange to our other breaking story today. his father and supporters have been posting messages of support for mr rangel saying that they're going to continue fighting on for the cause which he stood for it's also raising serious questions about bahrain's or the position of its monarchy there it's a sunni western backed monarchy and bahrain currently hosts the base for the u.s. fifth fleet in the region and it's also it's cast doubt about that monarchies commitment to the reform that they say they want with protesters and to their commitment to human rights and this has this will most likely anger and to government protesters who have been protesting for the last eighteen months to try and get reform most of those protests as part of bahrain seventy percent sheer majority the ruling sunni government wanting to saving they want to have

a dialogue with them they want to greater political voice in national affairs and that is what mr rogers case all boils down to or about is are there bring us the latest on this story thank you very much indeed by all means i'm a patrick henningsen who is a geo political analyst i believe that human rights chaos in bahrain is beneficial for western states. so you have to look at the situation from a western one of you and look at the president barack obama who won the nobel peace prize in two thousand and eight and wonder and really scratch their heads and say what really is the stance of the west in particular washington london when it comes to actual democratic reforms in the middle east certainly there's a there's a big hypocrisy a big story of contradiction going on right now the british show this particular minority royal family in power this is the sort of seriously there is commonplace

in a lot of pockets and so these pressure monarchies these are artificial states they're really created in order to secure certainly interest for the west this is a neo colonial structure the other two are the rain are you ready as they say they're in the center of this and these are the same countries that are fomenting supply logistically and financially the rebels and the terrorists in syria you know why why is that saudi arabia sent through its like bombers into bahrain why don't they hillary clinton guns friends of bahrain why isn't the friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. watching our team now the syrian government finds itself further isolated after being expelled from another international body the organization of islamic cooperation has suspended syria's membership of the arab league did exactly the same same thing and that was just last year and the move is supposed to send

a strong message to damascus which the previous sees as the only culprit behind hostilities and syria a decision comes to spite the latest explosion in the capital by syrian rebels have openly admitted they were behind that attack some fighters even say they're going to collaborate with al qaeda against the syrian regime on a boycott as more and how the opposition is becoming all too familiar with terror tactics. blasts and gunfire of 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 heavily guarded army garage and you can probably see a fuel tanker under 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.s.

borders now the free syrian army already claimed responsibility for this blast even though they said that they never intended to target to you in observers and they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case the explosion the really underscores how easily available and how widely used explosives have become these days in syria in the beginning of the syrian uprising the rebels primarily on small arms but over months they have become and creasing 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 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. an effort to say it was saying that thanks to you at the extreme

of iraqi insurgents they've been able to increase the debt to nation. after seven kilometers also the use of mobile phones to sad those bombs of something that is very common in iraq and that it was extremely rare in syria is now becoming more more and. widely what many in the west fail to recognize that terrorism is not necessarily a derogative turn it's a descriptive term to denote a guerilla warfare a tactic that justifies the use of terror the use of while and for changing political goals for the same groups that must tear a tactic some bomb making skills on iraqi civilians on the us soldiers in iraq i'm not applying the same experts here in syria are to reporting from damascus in syria. the international community however failed to condemn the latest terror

attack in central damascus the un security council is reportedly rejected rushers attempts to push for an official response american national defense analyst jeff steinberg says as long as some of his members continue to militarize the conflict there will be no peace in syria it's becoming pretty embarrassing for president obama who tells us the fact that he killed osama bin ladden to wind up in a de facto alliance. and the end it factor is that massive amounts of weapons that were stockpiled almost as collectors' items by qaddafi in libya. at the open market or were captured by the united states and nato and are now finding their way into serious but once you fled the area with weapons it's folly to think do you continue strong with those weapons go to

basically what you've got is a kind of a foreign. moved. into syria it represents only about twenty percent of the total. rebel force but it's a growing sector. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow always a many other stories available for you twenty four seven dot com also right now for example. the fifteen seconds. of the. playboy. magazine one of its future.

we will join me for the business the united states has allegedly offered to partner up with india china's chief regional rival. develop missile defense the offer comes as the u.s. military moves in to asia and a well publicized effort to challenge beijing's regional dominance. reports it's turning out to be one 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. a crucial. u.s. interest is hanging a lot more because the u.s.

is in much and more. they are coming into these region. trying to. china. 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 fusel 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 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 hu jintao seemed glad to know he had russia's support with pledges to boost already strong military ties all but making this point clear while washington the must stay vigilant in the face of china's growing military

beijing hasn't yet 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 dollar and of washington's behavior. reporting from beijing in china. but now let's return to one of our top stories here on r.t. that of the ongoing situation in syria the syrian government finds itself further isolated after ultimately being expelled from another international body the organization of islamic cooperation has now suspended syria's a membership let's discuss it now i'm joined by dr marcos a political analyst from britain's politics first online magazine thanks for coming on today so the organization of islamic cooperation pins the blame on us

for atrocities carried out against the syrian people all the while it's the rebels claiming responsibility for the most recent attacks is that. first of all i don't think too much should be attached to this organization has very little influence it doesn't have really any. and also let's not forget that saudi arabia is probably lead in many and we know very well saudi arabia stands on the conflict in syria so i don't think too much importance should be attached to this organization and what its verdicts are it's largely symbolic. however you know the truth is that i'm not aware of any side in the history of warfare that doesn't commit atrocities or war crimes no country in the world is an angel included in the united states of america but i think it's fair to say that from credible objective sources it would certainly appear that it's the you know armed militants in syria that are commits

in most of the most heinous atrocities so you thought you know you talk about the armed militants as as you say committing that the atrocities rebel fighters now say they may join al qaeda to battle the regime if they receive no other help how would that affect the battlefield in syria well that i shouldn't come as a surprise this uprising in syria is largely an islamist one and of course al qaida is a natural it's a call for an islamist uprising and. i think it's it's a very very worrying development but also we shouldn't ashamed that al-qaeda and the men and the armed militants in syria they're not fighting together are already from credible sources that certainly is the code doesn't it doesn't it seem a bit bizarre to you i do apologize for interrupting but a bit bizarre there is the west with its ongoing war on terror for more than a decade now and yet also here a western country certainly in europe as well the funneling weapons to go position who are now saying they side with al qaeda doesn't it seem a bit peculiar that the western stance continues to support the opposition that is

now siding with al-qaeda. to a lay person it would sound it certainly comes across as peculiar but of course if you know the history you see that the west and islamic extremism though they don't get on with each other they certainly get into bed with each other when there's a common foe let's have a look at the west and islamic extremism in afghanistan in the one nine hundred eighty s. against the soviet army let's see how the west and islamic extremism came together in bosnia in the ninety's in a nine hundred ninety s. and the same thing so in kosovo so this one this one comes. surprise to western politicians that points around it will of course come as a surprise to domestic audiences in the west who are largely being fed a story that the assad government is this genocidal mass murdering machine and the arms and the opposition are all innocent bystanders so it won't come as

a surprise so let me let's bring in the issues let's bring in the issue if we can of the u.n. security council reportedly rejecting russia's initiative to condemn the latest terror attack in damascus an attack that the opposition has already claimed responsibility for it if that's true why why would the u.n. take that position well you know the western countries the u.n. in particular america britain and france they need in order bits of the shoot their . policy in syria they do need to back in their domestic audiences if they go along with russia and it's just an initiative which is a very fair and reasonable initiative an honest initiative. and you know western audiences domestic audiences will start to say well hang on if our representatives at the u.n. now can dance these terrorist attacks it doesn't exactly fit with the story about the opposition of this these innocent men and women that's our freedom crisis that's why russia and its initiative at the u.n.

in new has been occurring and it's very difficult to wade through all the smoke screens and the murky issues there whether it's you know the truth and the lie is that all of it's a very very messy subject now and it's not getting any clearer dr marcus papadopoulos a political analyst from britain's our politics first online magazine thanks for coming on r.t. today. but a recap of our top stories for you here on r.t. in just a few moments if you would please stay with us. wealthy british style. rights for. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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