why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because a report on our. asylum to nowhere ecuador grants joyous honorable little refuge while blasting britain for using blackmail and threats in its desperation to seize the whistleblower. pound protesters foresee riots get their final day in court as a verdict looms in the trial over the controversial mock prayer in russia's major cathedral at grab the global attention. plus the un security council draws the international monitoring mission in syria rebels they are pledged to step up their fight and threaten to join forces with al qaida.

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me maureen and josh join us on has got political asylum in ecuador but now no way of getting there britain's got out of its way to make abundantly clear it would take drastic action to prevent the whistleblower from taking that asylum from now right now of safe passage all the way to threats to raise the door an amnesty and taken by force artist or smith who was at the embassy on a day of drama reports. it was the day they'd been waiting for julian assaults holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy for two months and his supporters who turned out to cheer for him rain since his legal battle against extradition to sweden first began more than eighteen months ago also that are in large numbers the police who didn't wait long to make their first. rests obviously. when the

decision came it was the one they wanted. we decided to grant asylum to julian a song i caught. up with a seller's called it a significant victory and his mouth was full so. shining like it will automatically encourage the government. but not everyone was pleased the u.k. foreign and commonwealth office called the decision disappointing and foreign secretary william hague said it changed nothing it does not change the fundamentals of the case we will not allow. safe passage out of the united kingdom nor is there any legal basis for us to do so hague also denied any suggestion that british police would storm the embassy so for an territory under international law to arrest but that's not what ecuador inferred from

a letter it says was delivered through the british embassy in quito in response played hardball. when it was no national law 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 and they called a summit to try to deal with this threat so that this fact doesn't go unpunished. the scary part the part that i found completely incredible and outrageous is the british press. sorry about that type of ledge there well britain's threat to rain to their quick doreen and the same matter a wave of criticism and the u.k. self is beefing up security at a number of its embassies abroad targeted by protesters in australia a group of demonstrators have occupied a british consulate and greg barnes a top earlier a spokesman for the australian lawyers alliance says their right to be angry

which again is that all policy is diplomatic community let's forget about o.o.c. the sa much of a peripheral because that's what the british would be doing look at the legislation of the british government is relying on the rule and not in addition to stop the libyans and that. was it for strategic reason within their image this is not a matter of national security i think i mean you try and that we can hide who's minister responsible effective action action these pass through them all it's just an appalling wrist. which this is it's mob rules more we're doing things the right why in the world criticize any of the governments around the world if i do this i'm stare. i just scratch election and it would effectively shine when it comes to the united states britain microstructure will do whatever it takes to deal with

labrador says the key factor in a decision to offer a refuge to julia sands was that he might not get a fair trial if he ended up and the us at packing that was a little off to america to say his support is the ultimate objective of authorities in both britain and sweden was wearing a fortnight reports on what could be in it for washington. 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 julia saunders 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 equating julian a songe to are terrorists and that was in the aftermath of him 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 then 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 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'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 julia sanji 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 ultimately hoping to go after julian assange 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. if you'd like to hear more of now me wolf thoughts on doing the predicament or the increasingly belligerent role of the government will

be showing her full interview here on our t.v. later in the program and that's coming up next hour in fact. now author and political analyst nicholas that goes last says the u.s. is now likely to make trouble for ecuador. i think that this is going to seriously exacerbate diplomatic tensions between ecuador and the us let's not forget even without this songe matter on the table relations have been a bit tense since the rise of rafael correia a kind of a leftist populist korea booted out from its military base a strategic military base a located on the ecuadorian coast let's not forget the equator is this very small country very impoverished i think that this recent development with the songes are only going to exacerbate things and my concern personally is that the republican

right in the u.s. congress could make some trouble for ecuador and rescind trade privileges i watching until after moscow still down in the program and the cow blow for mom raise our position as a key activist gets a three year sentence for organizing protests and find out why some experts think the verdict is a sign of panic and paranoia among the country's rulers. the members of all girl punk band pussy riot finally discovered their fate today when a moscow judge set to deliver a verdict in their trial the trio face up to three years behind bars on whole hasn't charges for their controversial performance in russia's main cathedral participator all over is outside the courthouse but we've entered the endgame of a trial which is gripped headlines not only here in russia but around the world the three members of the feminine punk collective pussy riot thanks three years in jail each for taking part in a demonstration inside russia's main cathedral at

a demonstration took the form of a so-called punk group prayer and which they called on the virgin mary to reach russia over to me at no later on friday the judge will deliver a verdict at three pm of moscow time. we could also see a sentence handed down as well of the charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred though it's worth noting that the judge in this trial has been given bodyguards as a precaution for her own safety you know this goes back to it and incidents of april of this year in which a previous judge who was involved in this case was threatened in her office by a man with an axe saying it's he wanted these three women on trial released so these bodyguards have been assigned to the current judge us a precautionary measure now this is a. case which has squished opinion so widely here in russia and the fun of a bit more about that my colleague. looked at some of the background on this case

it was a prayer directed at virgin mary but it was heard all around the world to see why it's performance of the christ the savior cathedral outraged some invigorated others and left almost you know when indifferent along with the patriarch are russian who condemned the flashmob thousands of orthodox believers especially of the radical kind were just short of demanding the women be burned at stake the whole question was. it was blasphemy desecration of the church it was sacrilege i think they belong to some sect which conducts the tanach rituals they use. but their supporters see them differently to the defendants their lawyers and hundreds of supporters to dancing and singing was an artistic way to express the women's disagreement with the government particularly with president putin that's why they say the women ended up on trial and on trend. madonna the red hot chili peppers sting franz ferdinand just some of the

celebrities who have voiced their support for kong collective this point a very limited number of seats inside the courthouse even a member of british parliament managed to get in to observe and make their own judgment of this. something that just sets abilities like that. but i don't think that they that they do the job they so it was the space they sort. of i don't think they were. as part of the our group by not rushing as war this wasn't the first time to survive has attracted attention but there's the book when you go participated in one of the group's performances an orgy moskos biology museum just three days before giving birth because he is said to be the woman seen here performing a sex act with a frozen chicken in a supermarket both incidents were also meant to be forms of political protest but neither worked with over. the actions of the right moment

initially they were forgiven for their best attempts to disturbance i mean the museum the incident in the supermarket. now we just won't use to it but we don't want to go to jail ever pozole from playboy for a cover photo shoot and all for to perform along with bjork from of the singer herself and a contract with a record company who believe pussy riot are now worth tens of millions of dollars these are just some of the offers the group has received in the week leading up to the verdict so if their goal was to be heard and to become famous then it's safe to say that with the rise players have been answered in moscow is going to go. all this and other stories are always available on our website r.t. dot com and here is what's also in line for you right now paralympic scandal disabled parents of athletes are outraged by discriminating rules that stop them sitting was their children and will share areas. plus terrifying statistics as

suicide rates in the u.s. army reach a new peak with an average of more than fourteen people killing themselves every month. and the international observer mission in conflict torn syria will be scrapped when its mandate expires in three days the decision by the un security council is a disappointment for russia which sees the mission as key to finding a political way out of the war in a situation reports from new york. fretfully for russia we have to see the united nations security council did in fact decide to not prolong the mission the mandate of the observer mission in syria of the united nations now there were two conditions for this mandate to keep for them to keep functioning on the ground and these were and end to the violence as well as ending the use of heavy weaponry and of course we know that this unfortunately has not occurred as of yet the united nations will however maintain a presence on the ground in a different format this will be

a civil mission that they will put in place the details of which are being discussed now russia's position in all of this is quite simple we're story of the monday is coming to an end we believe that those members of the council who insisted to. continue the. commitment to ending course still it is. working towards a political settlement. 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 new. political process in syria it's important to keep in mind that russia of course has been calling for a peaceful political process in solving the syrian crisis and this of course comes as we're hearing armed groups on the ground threaten to combine forces with al qaida if the west does not help them out and this would of course be catastrophic development in the crisis we're hearing from our united nations sources that

filling the shoes of kofi anon will be a lot of dark brahimi a seventy eight year old veteran diplomat among his previous titles is the foreign minister of algeria and curiously it's an interesting selection for several reasons first of all we do know that in the past this man has served as u.n. envoy to iraq and afghanistan where of course as we're well aware the conflicts and the violence continue and also his daughter actually a former employee at c.n.n. . is married to a family to a royal member of the jordanian royal family and of course this is important in the in the sense that we know that this is a country that's been accused of supporting the armed groups on the ground so this is quite an interesting twist we're going to out we have to have to wait and see what kind of approach this man takes but we do know that he has already said that he would like a different official title from kofi annan because he doesn't want to be seen as somebody just filling his shoes he believes that kofi annan is approach was

a failure and he wants a different mandate and a different name so we're going to have to wait and see how this man works in the crisis from now on when he takes the position what mandate officially expires at the end of this month russia is inviting members of the syria action group to meet in new york on friday the meeting will call an international powers to appeal to all the conflicting sides in syria for an end to violence moscow also wants new ceasefire deadlines to be set both for the government and the opposition political analyst dr marcus papadopoulos i work doubts the foreign states would traditionally that this here reynolds wolf persuade them to lay down arms. if you know the history. 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 1980's against the soviet army let's see how western islamic extremism came together in bosnia in the

ninety nine in the nineteen ninety s. and the same also in kosovo so this one this one comes a surprise to western politicians that points around it will of course come as a surprise to a domestic audience in the west who are largely intrade a story that the assad government is this genocidal mass murdering machine and the arms and the opposition. innocent bystanders so it won't come as a surprise. largest correspondent inside syria boyko has more updates first hand analysis and experience on her twitter stream she's currently staying in the capital damascus says the city is highly militarized but with the conflict in syria now lasting for eighteen months people are getting used to it so check out our team's general stream as well for more tweets on the developments in syria from our arabic and spanish correspondents for their.

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show. you're watching r.t. bahrain's opposition leader in the bill read job has reacted to a three year prison sentence by the finally vowing i will never give up his punishment for inciting and taking part in illegal protests was unexpectedly harsh for job has already been imprisoned since july serving three months for sending critical tweets about the royal family and laying out all of his case a wave of outrage among human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the government's crackdown on protesters accusing the marquis of violating. basic freedoms and torture hunted out for a lecture and university of the frank thinks there's no light at the end of the tunnel for opposition. what does jail sentence of three years for mr n a b a result indicates is that the bahraini government is increasingly paranoid because three corners of the bahraini population want the two hundred and twenty

nine year monarchy to end that they want a democratic republic and are not going to give up on this go there is no free speech in bahrain that the u.s. navy's fifth fleet is based in bahrain and because of that basing rights in the ports of bahrain and also the tarmac right at the shaikh isa air base the u.s. navy is due to our project is able to buy our project u.s. military might in the entire middle east and i had to maintain you have had germany in the region. well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world. minor strike in south africa turned into a bloodbath after police opened fire on a machete wielding crowd thirty have been killed in the made as security officers tried to disperse a thousand strong gathering the unauthorized drawing erupted last friday after rock

drill operators demand a higher salaries and better working conditions. norway's police chief has resigned after a report concluded that the murder of seventy seven people by anders breivik last year could have been prevented the in a pan of inquiry also suggested police spend an unacceptable amount of time trying to catch the killer findings of the report contradict another document presented by the police which concluded security officers showed no hesitation breivik carried out a bombing in oslo in a gun attack on the island summer camp. a ship has been wrecked off the chilean coast after huge waves crashed against its hole triggering a risky rescue operation twenty four crew members were airlifted from the vessel by navy helicopters and taken to hospital powerful waves have also read have

a along the coast of the breached the sea wall spilling into the streets and disrupting traffic. turning now to katie is go latest from business and the balance wrong on the trading floors here in moscow so what's the latest there absolutely doing a laying we're going to see what's happening with the l.c.s. and the mice it's just now because as you say the most of all they are indeed just now also be able to see what sentiments like are so far really they are mirroring what's happening in asia at the moment and also the finish of wall street as we can see just the l.c.s. up four tenths of a cent of them i say it's around two tenths of the senses so far so good in the early trade here we're going to see how the ruble is getting on as well and it's now managing to get the basket of cars is now stronger against the u.s. dollar and the european currency as for the euro those going to change of fortunes is dogs as managed to regain a little bit of strength what is just that and the asian markets are still managing

to gain as i just said the nikkei that has you the closing figure out just now and that's really falling off of the u.s. rather that i mentioned japanese exports is they're getting a bit of a boost from the weekend yeah that's helping them out and financials there are also some of the biggest gate is in japan china as if the losses though in the sessions of the biggest ones alamy i'm cool with china and also heavyweight china mobile they both posted some of the disappointing figures today but so far it's a positive day it's a china they'll be closing shortly and the u.s. housing permits reached the highest since august to. so the night a month before the bankruptcy of the lehman brothers as well as that we've got the german chancellor's comments as well that came out and they should will do whatever it takes to keep the euro in tatts and her nation dull support the european approach to resolving the debt crisis that was the general sentiment going on on wall street was that liking the sounds but as we can see just there was

a positive as for the oil prices that actually declining not affecting the markets here most fall though and that's a climbing for the first time in four days trimming regain some speculation that its rise to a three month high yesterday was seen as excessive as bit of a correction. that ukraine has made the first big step to wait itself of russian gas the country has taught a consortium led by exxon mobil to develop its own gas shell for the backseat tempted into the project is expected to provide ukraine with five billion cubic meters of gas to give up to around twelve percent of what the country bought from russia last it. the biggest gas deal involving foreign investors in the history of silver in ukraine this is how experts have been describing the latest agreement between ukrainian government and the exxon mobil consortium on development and exploration of the natural gas field in the black sea coast of ukraine the offshore gas field combined with other potential deals which

the ukrainian government is now discussing with the british investors within this trauma center by john and many stan could in large the natural gas extraction in ukraine in the next twenty years by four times which would make this country all but independent from the gas imports it's been having from russia currently key of is on a contract with moscow until twenty nineteen buying russian gas in a certain amount of a certain price and it's been looking actively for both the discount and lowering the amount of gas it has been buying but so far when the stand negotiations to not brought any success another way that ukraine is trying to implemented to diversify its natural gas resources is getting a loan from the china investment company and there's already been an agreement on that three point six billion dollars on buying new technologies which would allow ukraine to buy less russian gas certainly this raises many concerns among european

consumers whether there would be any more disruptions of the russian supplies into the european continent which go through ukraine but both sides in the negotiations have been holding over the past several years have been saying that regardless of how much gas ukraine buys from russia the transit of russian gas through ukraine to europe will not be hampered will not suffer in any way besides russia is already building several other pipelines to deliver its gas to europe so this should not be a concern according to both countries' governments and both countries gas monopolies companies. and they say yes ask you that and all the west ukraine is to say next marina i'm going to talk about the n.s.a. gets to the european market is going to want a mosque as well all right carrie. thanks very much indeed for the update and of course i will be joining you next hour in the meantime there already is a big show crossed out this coming your way very soon in just a few moments after bringing the headlines stay with us.

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