asylum to nowhere ecuador grants julian a political refuge blasting britain for using blackmail and threats all in his desperation to seize the whistleblower. and the u.s. based hacker group claims to be behind an ongoing illegal d.d. o. s. attack on our website apparently in an attempt to disrupt the coverage of a flight. punk protesters pussy riot at their final day in court as a verdict looms in the trial over the controversial remark in russia's major cathedral that grabbed global attention. plus the un security council withdraws the international monitoring mission in syria rebels that have pledged to step up their

fight and possibly join forces with al qaeda. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. political asylum in ecuador but now no way of getting that 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 an outright denial of safe passage all the way to threats to raid the ecuadorian embassy and take him by force laura smith as she was at the embassy on the day of the drama she has this report. it was the day they'd been waiting for julian assange is holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy for two months and his support. says who turned out to cheer for him rain

or shine 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 death first arrests on obviously. when the decision came it was the one they wanted. we decided to grant asylum to julian assange. i thought that was. a sellers' called it a significant victory and his mouth was full so it. sounding 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 that could or 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 to actually go in and try and extract julian assange which i must say to see british troops surrounding the british police surrounding that embassy was it an act of intimidation that should. it is not. stuck in the

middle julian assange has a new home but no way of getting there and putting it in a big trunk. not quite sure whether that would work. for a mixed couple of years who knows. if he leaves the embassy he's liable to rest by the u.k. which insists it must still extradite him to sweeten a position that wouldn't accept it or respond to the united kingdom it went back mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level it happened the crown saying of. the spell the end of this tale already. and in fact it appears to be the beginning of something else with neither the u.k. norway. is developing into an ugly diplomatic spots which could affect relations but. no arrests made outside the ecuadorian embassy.

now britain's threat to raid the ecuadorian embassy was met with a way for criticism and the u.k. itself even beefing up security at a number of its embassies abroad being targeted by protesters and for example in australia a group of demonstrators have occupied a british consulate there and bonds the spokesman for the australian lawyers association says these protesters have every right to be angry. let's forget about all policies diplomatic community let's forget about all serious on much of a peripheral because that's what the british would be doing but to look at the legislation of the british government is relying on the. ship to stop and i think the libyans. wish it austria charizard within their english. vision or a matter of national security i think i mean you try to find out who can hide minister responsible and act action action these past. holding first.

which is it's the moderates who are doing things around why in the world criticize any of the governments around the world if i do the show i'm stare. i just write for my action and it would effectively shine when it comes to the united states were not destroyed when they were trying to deliver. now i could or says the key factor in his decision to also refuse to julian a silence was that he may not get a fair trial if he wound up in the u.s. and packing the whistle blow off to america saying his support is the ultimate objective oath of authorities in both britain and sweden audience more important i have details on what ultimately could be in it for those on capitol hill. julian 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 fearsome 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 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 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 treat 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 chilliness orange is the publisher of 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 a 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. if you'd like to hear more about naomi wolf thoughts on julian assange predicament or indeed the increasingly belligerent role of governments will be showing full interview here on our in about. twenty minutes from now. now and a rogue us hacker group claims to have launched an illegal denial of service attack on our r.t. website of war that right now to an r.t.s. of tom barton talking to bring us up to speed on this what exactly is going on of course i can rory the group calling themselves anti leaks attacked r.t.s. websites with a d.d. o. s. attack they have admitted on their site yet we're behind that attack that made our

t. site unavailable around the world in the tweets they linked to. the subjects julian assange aren't and also to wiki leaks those tweets as well as others one saying that they were hoping to watch julian assange smoking cigars and drinking whiskey but ironically they added artie wasn't available or rather tongue in cheek tweet there indicate that they wanted to stop artie's coverage of julian assange being granted asylum in ecuador is embassy in london a d.d. awareness or distributed denial of service attack is where the attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a web site with traffic and to leaks has previously attacked wiki leaks is site itself although they claim that their real target is julian assange the man who they call a new breed of terrorists. the group the group is

a rather shadowy group they say on their twitter account that they are from the usa apart from that there's been much speculation as to who the group actually are with guesses ranging from a group of young adults as they have set themselves right up to the possibility of u.s. government agencies indeed tom i've been i've been monitoring the r.t. facebook page and there's just an absolute war of words going on between our viewers in our and those who are part of our facebook page or as you were saying speculating who are these of anti these are they a bunch of teenagers or are they a bunch of bubble gum chewing kids with too much time on their hands or certainly always going to be updating this story as it goes on r.t. as tom barton many thanks indeed. well another story which and he leaks is linked to its aggressive attack on our website by the members of all girl punk band pussy riot will finally discover their fate today with a moscow judge are set to deliver

a verdict in the trial of the trio is charged with hooliganism for their controversial performance in russia's main cathedral and outside the courthouse as are to use all of our we can across to him live now and see what is going on peter we are expecting the long awaited verdict in the next hour i what's happening where you are right now i mean are there any i mean it looks like while it looks like a media frenzy where you are right now. well yes by far and away the largest group that are represented here outside of the court where that verdict will be delivered the media just behind me you can see that groups from all over the world t.v. reporters and camera crews from everywhere what they're talking to who they're talking to right now is based much a mixture of pro pussy rights pussy riot supporters and a group of people who align themselves with the orthodox church you want to see the full three year sentence delivered to these three women on trial now it has been fairly peaceful up until the past half an hour to forty five minutes or so and we

have seen more and more pussy riot demonstrators if you will arriving on the scene some of which i recognize from from previous demonstrations that have been held who were involved in heated confrontations and debates with the other side now but they are the police have been doing a job of trying to keep everybody separated there were a small group of around ten to fifteen people from the liberal democratic party of russia just over just to the right behind the camera where i am right now the police are making sure that nobody was confronting them but they dispersed within the last five minutes or so saying they did tell me though their leadership to tell me that they weren't here to to protest against the trial and one way or the other that they were here to show their support for the also. church is what continues to be an incredibly divisive trial here in russia right up to the point where the verdicts going to be delivered in less than an hour that's going to should be getting under way. the three women of course on trial charged with hooliganism

motivated by religious hatred and they are facing three year prison sentences each thirty extra should be begin being read in just under one hour's time the judge though he will be reading that verdict was assigned bodyguards on thursday as a precautionary measure now that it comes after an incident in april whereby a previous judge there was involved in this trial was actually threatened with an axe by somebody who said that the three women should be set free so they're very visible security operation here to make sure that nothing boils over but certainly tempers flaring ever so slightly i can actually well listen to watching two people arguing very ferociously just off camera right now this is certainly something that is going to continue throughout the day but to explain a little bit why this case has stirred up so much so many tempers we can hear from my colleague warning though this package this report does contain scenes of

a sexual nature. it was a period of wretched virgin mary but it was heard all around the world to see why it's performance of the christ is free because he drew outraged some invigorated others and left almost you know when indifferent along with the patriarch are russian who condemned to a flash mob thousands of orthodox believers especially of the radical kind were just short of demanding the women be burned at stake the whole question was sort of . it was blasphemy a desecration of the church it was sacrilege i think they belong to some sect which conducts 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 their will. 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 punk collective on 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 his own judgment of the state something he just said civilities like you like that but i don't think that they think they're paying for the job they so it was for the space they saw as. i don't think they were. a part of the our group by now which translates from russian as war this wasn't the first time pussy riot has attracted attention but there's nothing like when you come a participant in one of the group's performances an orgy moskos biology museum just three days before giving birth because it is said to be the woman seen here becoming a sex act with a frozen chicken in the supermarket both incidents were also meant to be forms of political protest but neither were. the actions of the right

moment initially they were forgiven for their best attempts to understand and i mean the museum the incident in the supermarket. now we just won't use to it but we don't want him to go to jail ever puzzle from playboy for a cover photo shoot at 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 their eyes bearers have been answered in moscow it had to go. so you can track the. story on our website more updates and images from in front of the court and on dot com there have been. riots. protests in churches all

across the world but some demonstrations of support have gone beyond just wearing mosques members of ukrainian feminist movement showed their disapproval of the trial by. cross in central kiev the group is notorious for its. protests. all of this and many other stories always available on our website on. can see what's standing by for you there right now for example of paralympics. disabled parents of athletes are outraged by discriminating rules for sitting with their children in a wheelchair and. terrifying statistics. in the u.s. army reach a new peak an average of more than forty people killing themselves every single month. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the international observer

mission in the conflict torn country of syria will be scrapped when its mandate expires in three days and the decision by the u.n. security council is a disappointment for russia which sees the mission is key to finding a political way out of the war reporting from new york now is on. truckin. regretfully 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 mean team 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 sort of the monday is coming to

a member 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 in syria however we're looking forward to the form of doing 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 a catastrophic development in the crisis we're hearing from the 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 approach was 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 why not mandate officially expires at

the end of this month. and russia is inviting members of the syria action group to meet in new york on friday the meeting will call on international powers to appeal to all the conflicting sides in syria for an end to violence moscow also wants a new cease fire deadlines to be set both for the government and the opposition and this summit all reports are suggesting the syrian rebels now have high tech u.s. made at and t. aircraft missiles political analyst dr matas public should be concerned about exactly who is being armed. if you know the history. and islamic extremism though they don't get on with each other they certainly get intervent of 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 the west and islamic jihad stream islam came together in bosnia in the ninety's in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and the same also

in kosovo so this one this one comes a surprise to western politicians their points where it will of course come as a surprise to a domestic audience in the west who are largely ensure the story of the assad government is this genocide all mass murder. and the arms and the opposition. bystanders so it won't come as a surprise. now bahrain's opposition leader at our job has reacted to a three year prison sentence by defined leave quote i will never give up his punishment for inciting and taking part in a legal protests was unexpectedly harsh has already been in prison since july serving three months for sending critical tweets about the royal family the handling of his case sparked a wave of outrage among human rights groups all around the world they have repeatedly criticized the government's crackdown on protesters accusing the

monarchy of violating basic freedoms and even torture calling carvel a former lecturer at the university of iranian things there's no light at the end of the tunnel for the ongoing opposition. jail three years for mr not to be a really large indicate that the bahrain government is increasingly paranoid because three quarters of the by really population want the two hundred twenty nine year monarchy in that they want a democratic republic and not going to give up on their goal if there is no free speech in 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 safety the air base the u.s. navy is. projected able to board project u.s.

military might in the entire middle east in order to maintain u.s. jimminy in the region. ok tell me join katie pilgrim there she is being so patient at the r.t. business desk it's good to see you today i understand the river you've got your finger on the pulse of the global markets all shaken as always very yes we're going to die. try and get into the european markets worry because they are dancing today almost a five month high and that's because of optimism policymakers will take steps to protect the region's banks and as investors await a report on american consumer confidence later in the day we got bank here the troubled land and it jumping over six percent and that's when speculation they will soon receive a bit of cash in bailout funds i would get on to the exchange rates because the common currency if we check that out we'll be able to see it's reactions all of this rather you to game this hour out of the russian cars is losing out to the basket of currencies down against the u.s. dollar and the european cars here as well. as determination to keep the current c.

it together in line with the e.c. be approached but moves on to the exit markets here in moscow will be able to see how the r.t.s. the myself is performing they do remain in positive territory modestly demonstrating their resilience really and that's again the forwarding oil price is losing all of the gains we had an asia earlier on as we do see you go over prices as well i did mention them they are indeed following all of the reports are that washington could release all of its four reserves to the prices and that's how the markets look rory are back in fifty five minutes poised to tell you more well i'll be waiting patiently for you see that c. is just a word here on our trio we come back with the headlines and then an exclusive art an interview about how the world deserving in the on the whistleblowers that's coming up in just a moment. continue

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