if you move from funds to oppression. don't totty don't come. breaking news at this hour on our excede julian assange is granted asylum by at her door the country's foreign minister said the whistleblowers fears of political prosecution all legitimate boss levee breaches a threat to storm apparatus embassy in london to arrest the iraqi be said. and to be the ecuadorian embassy crowds are cheering the decision despite london police earlier detaining several supporters of julian assange. and in bahrain another so-called enemy of the states and one of us on just recent interview reason that bill regev has been jailed for three years for taking part in antigovernment gatherings.

you're watching r t a live from moscow straight to our breaking news story julian assange has been granted political asylum by ecuador the country's foreign minister made the announcement a stressing the whistleblowers fears of being politically persecuted are justified artie's laura smith has been following the developments all sides the ecuadorian embassy in london. the reaction from us and his supporters here was unequivocal when his asylum was finally granted by ecuador there were cheers there were chance there was a big contingent from the ecuadorian community actually saying hundreds of ecuador that's still behind me still chanting but not everyone was as pleased and a statement from the foreign and commonwealth office they said that they were disappointed and the foreign secretary william hague later made a statement in which he said the ecuador knew the full legal context which affected

their binding agreement to extradite i thought to sweden and that the decision to grant him asylum on behalf of ecuador was regrettable he also confirmed and reiterated that they would not be granting julian assange safe passage and that there was no legal basis for them to do so let's just hear a little bit of what he said in his statement it does not change the fundamentals of our case we will not allow. safe passage out of the united kingdom norms the legal basis for us to do so he also denied that there had ever been any implication that british police would storm the ecuadorian embassy behind me in order to arrest julian assange that's not what the ecuadorians understood in a letter that was delivered to quito in fact in response to that letter which they say was a threat to violate their embassy in london ecuador have issued a very strong statement of their own to the situation here really remains as it was

before the asylum request was granted in the julian assange which is still in the building behind me he still doesn't know how he's going to get from here to the airport and from there to ecuador because the moment he said to us outside this building he is liable to arrest by the british police and it does look like that would happen and what is developing here is in no uncertain terms an ugly diplomatic spat with neither the u.k. or ecuador looking like they're about to back down. we'll hear more from our correspondent lara smith a. throughout the day plus a check the latest updates via our t's london bureau and twitter feed you can see pictures of how crowds gathered outside reacted to the news of a thunderous asylum being granted plus all the best videos from there at our website at r.t. dot com. know what area we talked to an innocent is a legal advice michael right now he says aquittal has done its part and now it's the turn of the international community to respect and protect the rights of asylum

. the scary part the part that i find completely incredible and outrageous is the british threats to actually go into the u.k. embassy and try and extract your innocence i mean i don't think that's ever happened in diplomatic history as for what's next well there is an obligation of the british to let someone with asylum through and into the asylum country if you can't you can't actually go after someone who's been assigned who's given given asylum and then send them to the very country that one of the persecuted in the united states so here is an actual international right to get walk out of that embassy get on a plane and go to ecuador but as you said and as the british have now. at least threatened they're not going to allow their right to knowledge for the peoples of the world and for the nations of the world to come to ecuador support because if they don't this is threatening the entire asylum regime all over the world u.k.

m.p. jared betton says of the possible assault on the aqueduct embassy in london violated the centuries old of principles of diplomacy making british embassy territories a potential target as well. this has been the case for centuries you respect people's ambassadors in the ambassadorial territory because otherwise you like yourself are 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 the same legal opinion which said they wouldn't even be an offense under english law and put him in a big trunk and libel him in his diplomatic bag i'm not quite sure whether that would work but otherwise we might see him hold up there for the next couple of

years who knows until solution to this impasse. besides read in the u.k. and at could all the country watching the developments around asuncion most closely is of course the united states marine apart my reports from new york. 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 assange his 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 quavering julian assange too are terrorists and that was in the aftermath of releasing cables and memos that were classified that belonged 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 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 julie the songe one including naomi wolf she's a journalist and author of all this is a white house now to weigh 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've been 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 do 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 when i was speaking with naomi wolf what she wanted to clarify for me and her position is that she sees julio sanji many do as the publisher similar to the new york times julian assange is 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 of the u.s. government it is a presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian songe 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. from a cia officer ray mcgovern says everything points towards the u.s. calling the shots and how the u.k. and sweden the handling the case. the shape of the world is now empire versus the

rest of you what i say here is that caesar has spoken she's or is the law caesar is the united states and the side trips overseas the u.k. in the first instance and now sweden and the other do the bidding of the empire it's doesn't require a conspiratorial attitude to see that the only way they could get a julian assange on it was by trumped up charges of sexual indiscretions and a country that is hyper sensitive to that and they haven't even persuaded a judge in sweden to make those charges they have had ample opportunity to go to the ecuadorian embassy in london and question and. they said nothing doing we're not going to do that now why is that the reason for that is that there is no case against truly innocent in my opinion it's all very transparent they want to extradite is to sweden and then to the united states to suffer the same indignities

the same torture that. bradley manning the person who allegedly gave those documents to julian of songe has faced. and i let's get more reaction from the u.s. to judy in a songes asylum deal of medea benjamin who's an american activist and co-founder of the social justice movement code pink joins us now from a washington thank you so much for joining as a media benjamin a sons and his supporters claim he has been secretly indicted in the u.s. and aquittal seems to be taking those he is quite seriously now if there is indeed a case being built against him what does this asylum deal mean for it. well yes i think there are many people in the united states that have already condemned him that includes the head of the intelligence committee in the senate dianne feinstein who said he should be tried for the espionage act that can carry

a death penalty or life in prison the vice president has called him a high tech terrorist and so there is a will grounded fear that if she lands in the united states he would be treated just like bradley manning is being treated now media of britain says it will still arrest the songe do you think it's london's own determination and will talking all is there any pressure from washington on this matter. i'm sorry i didn't hear the question i mean britain has said that nothing is going to change in terms of what happens to julian assange do you think that this determination from from from the u.k. has some kind of pressure from washington on this matter. well yes i think this is all coming from the united states that was deeply embarrassed by the revelations that came out in we keep leaks that include things that can be considered work

crimes so i'm sure it's a pressure from the united states is affecting the way the british government is acting but it's great to see that so many people around the world are applauding the move of the ecuadorian government and condemning the british government. a few months ago when a chinese dissident took refuge in an american embassy in china washington was fertile this is just sympathetic with the asylum seeker what's so different in this case. well there is nothing different in this case in terms of the well grounded international precedents for seeking asylum the only difference is this affects the united states which tends to have a position that we want to condemn the human rights abuses of other countries but not any way that affects us the things that have been revealed in wiki leaks are things that could if the u.s. was signed up to the international criminal court. former u.s.

officials if present weren't there and so the u.s. for that reason is taking a very hypocritical stance when it comes to the asylum case of julian assange. medea benjamin a social justice activist and co-founder of the code pink movement thank you very much for joining us live from washington. now so just to remind you our breaking news story this hour julian assange has been granted political asylum by aqua door two months after taking refuge at the country's embassy in london aqueducts foreign minister made the announcement saying the whistleblower his fears of being politically has a huge hit for releasing secretly u.s. files are justified he added neither the u.k. provided any guarantees that a son he would write respected if he was extradited to stock them and that further prosecution in the us remained a genuine danger as well britain of the foreign secretary william hague said

avocadoes the decision did not change anything warning that obligations to extradite a songe to sweden will still be carried out he also reiterated their sons' won't be granted safe passage of from the country in turn sweden has summoned the aqueducts embassador calling the asylum decision unacceptable. now and thursday has also been decision day for another pariah who actually appeared as a guest on joining us on bahrain's most prominent human rights activists now bill regev has been sentenced to three years in prison for guys in taking part in illegal gatherings artie's a tom barton reports. there has been a rather different decision in the case of the enemy of the state 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 and to 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.

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 protesters 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. but you're getting. political analyst i believe human rights here in bahrain is beneficial for western states. we have to remove 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 your pocket see the big story of contradiction going on right now the british

open this particular minority royal family in power this is a consort of tyranny but it's commonplace in a lot of pockets in sort of these pressure water he says are artificial states they're really created in order to secure certain interests for the west is a neo colonial structure the other two are bahrain saudi arabia they are 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 the friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. we will of course be following both of these developing stories today as they unfold our correspondents a keeping an eye on events both in behind and in britain and we'll bring you live

updates throughout the day alongside the latest analysis and reaction and don't forget you can get it all and much more any time on our website at ati dot com. the u.n. security council has decided not to extend to the u.n. observer mission in syria it's mended expires on sunday the mission has been seen as key in helping establish peace in the conflict torn country let's get the latest from our tease on us to see it should be new york on a c.e.o. so why has the council decided to withdraw its monitors. well so be it regardless of russia's insistence on prolonging the observer mission in syria the united nations security council decided not to go ahead with this and as you said on august nineteenth this mandate will expire we have to remember of course that the conditions for these were very important first of all the u.n. security council wanted to see an end to the violence on the ground and the stopping of the use of heavy weapons and of course we have to keep in mind that

just recently there was an explosion close to the u.n. mission headquarters and of course this impact of the decision what's important is the security council plans to set up really another form of you on presence on the ground in form of a more civil mission a civil office russia however regrets that the mission comes to an end of the observers take a listen to what the russian ambassador to the u.n. had to say. well we're sort of the monday is coming to an end we believe that those members of the council who insist that the continue not to show commitment to ending course still it is. working towards a political settlement in syria however we're looking forward to the formatting a u.n. presence in damascus. doing the job it is supposed to do in the light of the need to stop the violence and to stop political process in syria.

well russia continues to insist that a political settlement in the crisis is key russia keeps talking about the fact that it's important for the support and militarization of the armed groups on the ground and we have to remember that the countries the key players and negotiators of this conflict did agree to the six point peace plan in geneva which was drafted by kofi anon and this plan signed by all of the members including the west says that there needs to be a peaceful process which should include the formation of a transition government where the sides need to sit down for negotiations with each other to pick the representatives that will form this transitional government and russia insists that the west namely should not continue any sort of militarization of the opposition armed groups on the ground and this remains here at a time when we are hearing the armed groups on the ground say that if they stop getting and don't get enough support from the west they might join forces with al qaeda and of course that would create a whole different level of catastrophe on the ground right artie's an associate in

new york talking to us through that developing story. now let's take a brief look at some other stories from around the world eighteen people have reportedly been killed in south africa after police opened fire on striking workers at a platinum mine tension broke out as offices start to disperse the thousands of miners many will wilting machetes and spearheads on authorize a strike erupted last friday after rome operators demanded highest salaries and better working conditions. at least twenty two people have died and one hundred wounded following a wave of blasts in iraq more than a dozen bomb attack is aimed at both civilians and police were carried out in baghdad and other cities and near the capital this brings of the death toll to over one hundred fifty this month alone as al qaeda continues to ramp up the violence

following the u.s. troop withdrawal. french police have arrested five people in connection with rioting in the north of the country earlier this week more than one hundred user took part in the end rests in the city of armenians which broke out on monday clashes with police resulted in at least sixteen officers being injured and led to the president ordering reinforcements to be sent into the region. wide it's dimitri mag so with the business news that it's yet another bad day bad crucial day for facebook is the worst stock of the year well it's actually heading that i mean it's a harsh statement to make of course it's just the middle of the year but still it's down almost fifty percent since the i.p.o. price and down five percent in today's session now why is it crucial that's because facebook investors now have what two hundred seventy one million more little problems to worry about that's the number of shares that have been locked until

today when the largest social media network went public in may early facebook investor such as d.s.t. global investment firm which was founded by the russian billionaire u.t. miller got the green light today to start selling parts of their holdings which they got before the i.p.o. so that's pretty much what's happening today. now a big difference in the shares of electronics giant cisco group it's up almost eight percent this hour after posting better than expected results that houses also the housing market is looking better and therefore the dow jones the nasdaq moving into positive territory up points at some point expected in the europe this is the closing picture the dax is up point seven percent also void with optimism from a statement from wen jiabao in china who said that basically the country has room for monetary policy easing that's very much welcomed by investors now over on the

commodities markets all of this is also providing for growth and light sweet it's up eighty one cents an hour out of sync as this has been the case for the whole week brant is down just five cents this hour. and now let's move over to currencies the euro is shooting up it's almost at the highest points of for the day up seventy six points versus the dollar that's on the back of jobless claims taking up slightly in the united states basically means that there are more unemployed people over the past week and the russian ruble managed to lose value against the euro while the market posted some gains at the very close of the session up around the daughter of a percent with gas from being the biggest move up one hundred percent on the rise. now more and more global traders are ditching financial shares and moving somewhere else this is the case for example for george soros the legendary financial guru who reduced his stakes in the famous banks like goldman sachs and j.p.

morgan instead started focusing on wal-mart facebook and gold now david kuo from u.k.'s investing and the motley fool explains. why would i want to invest in the banks when i can invest in something that is easier to understand and wal-mart is one i think another one of the sources interested in is general electric g.e. i mean these are easy companies to understand so why would you want to make it difficult we're so interesting in a sausage machine what you have is a sausage machine you put in sausage meat at one end and hopefully sausages come out the other similarly when you put money in one side our money and then hopefully you can convert that into more profit money or you can go to do that but what they're finding out now is they've got money and nothing comes out the other side people are very disgruntled. so i mean just a reminder yeah george soros dumps financial shares and focused on facebook how bad

off financial assets right i mean look at what's going on facebook stock market right now i don't know if this is the i.p.o. went on the stock exchange it's not really doing well it's not a place that thirty eight dollars per share is now worth nineteen and just this is where i'm going shares department stores i understand buying clothes that's my forte so i think i'll stick to that or things don't go works out for you know if it . right every couple of our top stories here on our team in just a few moments stay with us.

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