julian assange is granted asylum. the country's foreign minister said there was. a political prosecution. threat to stall. in london to arrest the wiki leaks at. the ecuadorian embassy. in london police detaining several supporters of julian assange. and. the state and one of a recent. job jailed for three years for taking. government gatherings.

just after seven o'clock in the evening moscow time this is he with me rule. breaking news story for you this hour julian assange has been granted political asylum by ecuador the country's foreign minister made the announcement stressing the whistleblowers fears of being politically prosecuted are justified laura smith is following developments outside the ecuadorian embassy in london for us. there's a lot of supporters a lot of just passes by one wonders whether they were actually on their way to learn the wii and have for a long time very interested in the story very interested to know what's happened we say that's the reaction hair on the ground we haven't spoken directly stupid as always but we do understand that he's released a statement calling this asylum decision a significant victory we have also had a reaction to the very very strong statement by the acts of jewelry and the foreign

ministry when they granted asylum to judy and i saw the foreign and commonwealth office here in this country has now reacted to that and said that it is disappointed in the just as it decision says on the door with us always having exhausted all options of appeal to bristow thirty's under a binding obligation to extradite him to sweden which was decision doesn't change that says far as the forming part of home wealth office here is concerned nothing has changed of course things have changed for ourselves and they have changed and that's just a part of that statement that we heard earlier from the ecuadorian foreign ministry building million of them and no national or could be used in this way in any intrusive way in any diplomatic facilities any place in the world it shouldn't be used to threaten or blackmail the sovereignty of any other country good enough and they call this summit to try to deal with this threat so that this fact does not go unpunished when we already heard from britain earlier this morning that they

wouldn't be growing saying julian assange are safe passage and that is absolutely essential if he is to leave the embassy here behind me and gets to ecuador because as things stand and we now know as the risk of him and still says that they stand he is lovell for arrest the moment he steps sets post outside that door he has breached the terms of his bail conditions which meant that he was supposed to say i've been nice to fix the trust that wasn't the i quit or it embassy and obviously he's been staying here for two months now so it's very unclear as to how he will actually leave the embassy staff. people suggesting he hides in a diplomatic crate i mean these are the kinds of suggestions that people out here are seriously considering we don't know what is thinking now but certainly as far as the british government has has said and feels nothing has changed very intransigent very intransigence on both sides and from looking at the ecuadorian foreign ministry statement i don't think they'll be backing down either very diplomatic spat potentially developing. what is

a lower smith reporting right there on the floor is keeping us up posted throughout the day here on r t you can check out the latest updates via twitter feed and the latest tweet says around ten police officers have now entered at the ecuadorian embassy promising more details on that shortly i don't see london bureau you can also see pictures of police dispersing us on just supporters right near the embassy plus of course all the best video from there on our web site on t.v. dot com. oh i tell us discuss further the developments around the song with a bit of. an icelandic and the parliamentary group has been a longtime supporter of a song joining us live now from a reykjavik good to see you today the decision to grant asylum are you surprised. well no not at all what i am surprised about is the threat oh the u.k. authorities against. oracle

through two thousand year old tradition. by threatening to storm into the ecuadorian embassy to get hold of her son's. house frankly didn't believe it when i first saw it on twitter last night and then i watched the development more and more police started to arrive so the embassy last night and you know the night. turned out frankly i actually think it is more damaging to the whole diplomatic corps of things than the entire cable get. you what you say has broader implications here because ultimately julian a sergeant solver's called today's announcement of victory but also saying that it will have a broader impact perhaps on the activities of wiki leaks and the bradley manning case perhaps as well. yeah i i haven't seen. but i think in general what ecuador very detail.

and statements on a very serious minister. extremely well not even a week and a subordinate to keep in mind that our sons with the help of the poor in the forty's offered to go to sweden tomorrow. for questioning in sweden would land. guarantee that he would not be extradited to the united states and i don't understand why this was just brought these are not. more flexible because certainly as you say as you say you know the swedish prosecutors were cordially invited to the ecuadorian embassy in london to question and they turned that down we spoke to a former cia governor earlier and he was saying well the reason they turn it down was because frankly they don't have a case against him i do apologize we're running very low on time here what is next for solyndra do you think the u.k. might carry out its threat and raid the ecuadorian embassy to arrest him. if they

do i think it would be the biggest diplomatic scandal in the history of the world long time and i do simply don't see if they do it is a very serious mistake. and i do think there are ways for sons to get out of the embassy to have with or their ways if limited ways to grant them for example do. so you hundred seventy four door so not everything. leaks this is the very folks there who are. in the fight for freedom of information expression and speech that we are currently battling with all fronts and particularly when it comes to getting information into the cup with some roots right also i mean within within minutes of the announcement being made of all of us being granted asylum for ecuador we got his mother christina songe on the phone very quickly and she made it very clear that this is one big win so far for the company to get a young daughter member of the icelandic parliament joining us live from reykjavik

thank you very much for coming on and see. last summer i mentioned just now we did speak to julian assange his mother christina she said that ecuador is decision ultimately put western nations to shame. standpoint for the shining right for the rich that they were automatically encouraged by the government. to put it current now if the u.k. is going to continue being a lackey for the e.u. if preaching in national public i. find them to build in an international court that i can and shine for what. i think it could hang me hate in china it's a great idea and please if you if we do it that sean or some put the whole shine i was on julian assange just mother right there well i mean time u.k. m.e.p. gerard batten says that the security of the ecuador embassy should be upheld while it remains unclear how julian assange could leave the building without being arrested. this has been the case for centuries you respect people's ambassadors and

their. territory because otherwise you like yourself open to attacks in other countries and we all know that we don't like that when it does happen when it has happened in places like china and iran in the past and i think this whole thing has got blown out of all proportion we shouldn't be where we are and i do think a lot of people are very suspicious about why sweden wants him back. on these charges which actually wouldn't amount to right charges in the u.k. in fact seen legal opinion which said they wouldn't even be an offense under english law apart from put him in a big trunk and label him in his diplomatic bag i'm not quite sure whether that would work but otherwise we might see him holed up there for the next couple of years who knows until they reach a solution to this impasse well besides sweden the u.k. and ecuador the country watching the developments around most closely predictably of the united states for nine hours joining us live from new york good to see you again marina so what response do you think we get today's developments so how do

you think the politicians going to react on capitol hill. well thus far u.s. officials have not made any public statements but we can presume that a lot of discussion is taking place now behind closed doors while julian songes mother is calling this a victory for her son many see this as a small defeat for the u.s. and that is because many believe the u.s. was hoping that julian assange would be extradited to sweden so that sweden would subsequently be able to extradite julian assange to the united states we have heard in recent years it's no secret former and current u.s. government officials equal even julian a songe to our terrorist and that was in the aftermath of him releasing cables and memos that were classified that belong to the u.s. government as a result the integrity of the u.s. government was compromised a lot of secrets were revealed and it painted the u.s.

foreign policy in a dark light the u.s. government called julian a songe a threat to national security and his actions through the website he founded which with which is the leaks many supporters here in the u.s. believe that eventually the songe were to be brought here and put in the custody of american officials he would not receive a fair trial and he could be held indefinitely in prison or even face capital punishment we've heard of members of u.s. congress called for the espionage act to be used against julian assange but of course none of that could happen at the moment now with ecuador making their announcement to grant julian a songe political asylum but this story of course is just beginning it continues to develop but the u.s. i would imagine is is talking about recent developments right now behind closed doors well i'm i'm i'm sure you're right there probably are talking about these developments behind closed doors interesting what you saw you know how a. very old you know thousands of pounds of secrets the washington official said

he's british national security when actually what he. do you want to reveal secrets the show widespread corruption merino wool question for you want us to quote you here from new york a soldier's cases raise numerous concerns among journalists and activists being prosecuted for simply doing their job so what do you think of the consequences of today's news for international journalists and. why i think those journalists and even news publishers that were supporting julian assange and are very happy it's not so much supporting julian assange as the person many journalists were supporting him because he stood for freedom of information and freedom of the press which is pioneering you know movement and law here in the united states it's no secret that the administration of u.s. president barack obama has been earning a reputation for waging a war on whistleblowers fiercer reputation than any of his predecessors many

journalists scholars and activists in the u.s. have signed a letter of support for julian a songe one is including naomi wolf she's a journalist and author she said she believes that julian assange if he ends up in the u.s. he will be prosecuted and the consequences will be grave for all journalists for for years and decades to come let's take a listen to what she had to say. publish classified information first of all this is a white house now to wait houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what whistleblowers want to release specially you know torture that they even gauged in methods of torture like mafia tactics it's come to this the government same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to be you and we're going to

threaten you and we're we're threatening you with with serious legal penalties like prison time if you do your job. very when i was speaking with naomi wolf what she wanted to clarify for me and her position is that she sees julian assange to many do as the publisher similar to the new york times chilliness songes the publisher the one that made the information available he is not the leaker she noted why isn't the u.s. government going after the new york times for publishing what wiki leaks published instead the u.s. government it is presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian signs either way she said that this is this would be a dark day for all journalists in the u.s. if he would be in the custody of america prosecuted held indefinitely or possibly even face capital punishment while mirna certainly many saying that is this is being as it has for months now it has been is simply a case of shooting the messenger what about all the names to all the people that

were named in these widespread deals of corruption these people unveiled in these wiki leaks and yet why have they not been pulled up on capitol hill where the prosecution it's all very very bizarre talk about shooting the messenger he's a marine important i live in new york this is not the end we have heard of this we'll be talking later. or not it's get some more reaction on the on this from the u.s. so to julia saunders asylum deal medea benjamin who is and i merican activist and co-founder of the social justice movement code pink now joining us live from washington. it is good to see you today thanks for coming on the program assigned to support his claim he's been secretly indicted in the u.s. and ecuador seems to be taking those fears quite seriously now if there is indeed a case being built against him what does this asylum deal mean for it. well this is absolutely critical i think if you look at. it and it is television's committee senator dianne feinstein who said he should be tried

under the espionage act which could lead to a death sentence or life in prison i mean we have. i do apologize i do apologize misspending with this i'm so sorry this is rory sushi in moscow i do apologize we've just got a very very bad connection with you at the moment we're we're going to work on this here at r.t. you will get it we'll get it solved we'll come back to you medea benjamin thank you for your patience also to our viewers as well so to apologize for that let's let's just remind you now of our top story in our breaking news story for you this hour here on. julian assange has been granted political asylum by ecuador or two months after taking refuge at the country's embassy in london as foreign minister made the announcement saying that whistleblowers fears of being politically opposed to q-tip for releasing secret u.s. files are justified he added neither the u.k. nor sweden provided any guarantees that assad use human rights would be respected

if he was extradited to stockholm and that further prosecution in the u.s. remains a real danger that's for britain the foreign office said that ecuador's decision changes nothing one of the obligations to extradite assange to sweden will still be carried out earlier the u.k. said that even if a songes given asylum won't be granted safe passage from the country in turn sweden has now summoned acquittals ambassador calling the asylum decision and except. now thursday has also been a big decision day for another pariah who actually appeared as a guest on julian assange choose r.t. program grains most prominent human rights activist in the bill her job has been sentenced to three years in prison for organizing and taking part in the legal gatherings and reports. there has been a rather different decision in the case of the enemy of the state now below rajab

in bahrain he coincidentally met julian assange for an interview shown on this channel on r.t. in may he has however been given a three year prison sentence by a court in bahrain for being involved in and for calling for illegal anti government protests when the sentence was given though he was already in prison serving a three month term for posting anti-government comments on twitter there has been many comments of support from his family and friends but there have also been criticisms delivered via social networks criticisms of u.s. policy in relation to bahrain and overall in the arab spring those criticisms include allegations that if it weren't for if the u.s. had supported a little more he wouldn't have been locked up as he was he wouldn't have been treated like this hypocrisy is

a word used quite regularly in saying that the walls of the u.s. have supported protesters in other countries like egypt and libya in the arab spring they have remained silent over bahrain the u.s. is fifth fleet is based in bahrain. this also raises questions over bahrain's sunni government's commitment to human rights and reform for eighteen months now protesters have been trying to get a larger say in the politics of the country most of those protest has come from the country's seventy percent shia majority so far though despite warm words that they want dialogue the government has given up nothing. adi's to bottom reporting that while a patrick henningsen has a jail political analyst to believe the tough the chaos of human rights in bahrain is beneficial for western states you have to relook at the situation from a western point of view and wonder and really scratch our heads and say what really

is the stance of the west in particular washington and 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 open this particular minority royal family in power this is the sort of tyranny that is commonplace in a lot of pockets and in sort of these pressure monarchies these are artificial states they're really created in order to secure certain interest for the west this is a neo colonial structure the other cattle are bahrain saudi arabia they say they're in the center of this and these are the same countries that are fomenting supplying logistically and financially the rebels and the terrorists in syria you know why why isn't saudi arabia send suicide bombers into bahrain why don't they hillary clinton send guns friends of bahrain why isn't here we have a friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in

bahrain. and there we will of course be following up both these developing stories are there unfold all day today here on our correspondents keeping an eye on events both in bahrain and in britain will bring you the live updates all day long alongside of the latest analysis and reaction you can always get all of it and so much more any time on our website c.n.n. dot com. now syrian rebels are threatening to turn to al qaida if western allies fail to help them bring down president assad the opposition claims that they are ready to provide a base for the terrorist group in the flashpoint city of aleppo in recent months reports of foreign jihadists flocking to syria via neighboring countries have certainly raised some alarms for fears that radical islamists coming from abroad will eventually try to exploit the syrian uprising for their own interests but the announcement about a possible alliance between rebel fighters and al-qaeda came after anti assad

forces admitted they were behind wednesday's blast in the capital and as artie's works on a boy he reports from the scene where the syrian opposition is becoming increasingly familiar with tactics of tara blasts and gunfire daily occurrences here in damascus but once the explosion right next to the u.n. headquarters was something ordinary it took place at a heavily guarded army garage and you can probably see a fuel tanker on there which the explosive device was planted still standing over there 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 them though they said that they never intended to target the u.n. observers and that they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case this explosion of really underscores how easily available and how widely used explosives have become these days in syria in the beginning of the syrian uprising and the

rebels allowed primarily. on small arms but over months they have become and personally 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 quoted an f.s.a. field commander who was saying that thanks to you at 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 that's the same groups that. tera tactics and bomb making skills on iraqi civilians on the u.s. soldiers in iraq and now applying the same expertise here in syria it's not going to r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. ok it's time for the only brewster's are. good to see you again not the best news though a face becoming yet another day i mean how much is it losing though don't tell me what's six percent five point nine of those actually yes six percent roughly that's because the valves of the open locked up shares the world frozen on before facebook

versus the now have two hundred seventy one million more little things to worry. that's exactly the number of shares that have been locked until today when the largest social media network went public in may now early facebook investor such as the global for example that's the investment firm founded by the russian billionaire uni milner they now get a green light to start selling part of their holdings and apparently that's exactly what they're doing but in general we've seen a bit of an upswing a positive couple of twenty five minutes i'd say that's because cisco has reported better than expected results and it's up more than eight percent this hour and also based fears incessant of the economic data coming in the housing sector is feeling well but the u.s. jobless market is not doing so well it's added some more claims over the past what is a week now let's move over to europe but there we're also seeing positive sentiment on the dax it's up twenty seven percent welcoming china's basically hint that it

might loosen up its monetary policy and provide more stimulus to the market the london is flat right now. in commodities we're also seeing a continued game especially in light suites now up almost ninety five dollars per barrel brant is a bit down that's for wednesday's first days in the three reports that we've had in the united states which showed that injuries are declining and therefore supply might be tightened down. when it comes to currencies these rising oil prices are not really helping the russian ruble it's lost twenty five copecks in the end versus the euro which has seen a massive boost after this jobless states out in the united states where better start to ditching the dollar. and in russia there's the cause that managed a positive session a very very moderately positive just a quarter of a percent and the main drivers were well blue chips actually financials and gas

prom and the world. now meanwhile global investors are getting rid of financial stocks they're changing those of four different f.m.c. g. companies such as wal-mart's facebook actually moving into gold here i'm talking about george soros the financial guru now david kuo from u.k.'s investing advisor the motley fool explains why why would i want to invest in the bank when i can invest in something that is easier to understand and wal-mart is one i think another one that source is interested in is general electric g.e. i mean these are not easy companies to understand so why would you want to make life difficult here so my interest in you know they are like sausage machine what you have is a sausage machine you put in sausage meat at one end and hopefully sausages come out we are similarly with that you put money in one site our money and then

hopefully you can convert that into item or profit money or you can go to do that but what they're finding out now is they put money and nothing comes out the other side people are very disgruntled. well with decision if you ask me that george soros is actually moving back into facebook rather than financial shares bizarre actions indeed we know more than i do to me many thanks indeed we'll see you next hour just one of the headlines here but if you do stay with us we'll be back with the kaiser report. wealthy british style. is not on the tightest.

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