the protesters pussy riot now just minutes away from a final verdict in the trial over the controversial. of course this was in russia's major. and worldwide attention. asylum to nowhere. political refuge. using blackmail and desperation to try and seize the whistleblower. and the u.s. based leaks hacker group claims to be behind an ongoing. ts web site apparently in an attempt to disrupt. plus the un security council with the international monitoring mission in syria rebels meantime pledging to step

up their fight and threatening to join the ranks of al qaida. there's a pleasure to have you with us here one day i'm live in moscow three members of the old girl punk band pussy riot are set to discover their fate at any moment as a judge prepares to deliver a verdict in the trial we can all cross live pictures right here these are coming to us from the courtroom the feminist trio were charged with hooliganism for their controversial performance in russia's main cathedral the prosecution has demanded three years in a minimum security prison for the women now let's move outside the courthouse to watch he's pretty all of it he is standing by to bring us the latest from outside the courthouse.

peter weir peter sorry peter i just just sorry just interrupt you peter for a moment we were showing live pictures live pictures from inside the courtroom you are outside where as far as i can tell it's a bit of a melee there with journalism journalists protesters demonstrators the verdict do you any moment now tell us what the scene is. peter is really in moscow in the studio can you hear me hello hi yes i can rory i can basically what we're seeing behind what you'd be able to see just behind me right now what's going on outside the courtroom is a a series of scuffles between those in support of pussy riot and those who oppose them now in the past half an hour or so we started to see these small scale scuffles escalates a little bit just a few moments ago there was a a few punches thrown aside from that it's been nothing but angry words in the old

show of but there are certainly an increasing amount of people arriving here outside of the court to other show their support all their condemnation for these three women who will find out very shortly if they are to spend three years perhaps in jail for that punk rock prayer that they delivered in the the main cathedral here in russia which they called on the virgin mary to greet russia of blood in me of prudent to get a look at just how many people have come out to the school in central moscow we have a look at the coming upon round a little bit here originally they were just lots and lots of journalists here but as i say in the past half an hour to an hour we've seen the scroope increase in size both for and against the women that are on trial both sides making their voices heard we have seen several people taken away by the police as well not too many arrests but a few people taken away into custody as everybody's come out is to find out what verdict will be given on these three women in the dock now the judge who's going to

be giving that verdict had to have bodyguards assigned to her as a precautionary measure. we go this goes by is of course an incident in april whereby one judge involved in this case was threatened with an axe in her office by a man who wanted the three women to be released so this is and remains a very divisive case here in russia spermy splitting opinions amongst the people here but to find out a little bit more about the background on this case we can hear a report from my colleague. i must warn you that this package this report does contain scenes of a sexual nature. it was a prayer directed at virgin mary but it was heard all around the world to see why this performance of the christ the savior cathedral outraged some invigorated others and left almost no one indifferent along with the page her garage who condemned the flash mob thousands of orthodox believers especially of the radical

kind we're just short of demanding the women be burned at stake the whole question . it was blasphemy desecration of a 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 punk collective despite a very limited number of seats inside the court house even a member of british parliament managed to get in to observe and make her own judgment of the state something he just said something like you're right that i

don't think that thanks to the g.o.p. base which forced the space they saw as. i don't think. thank you that's part of the our group by now which translates in russian as war this wasn't the first time pussy riot has attracted attention but there's nothing like when you go participated in one of the group's performances an orgy moskos biology museum just four days before giving birth because it is said to be the woman seen here before many a sex act with a frozen chicken in a supermarket both incidents were also meant to be forms of political protest but neither were pulled up with the rest. of the actions of the right. 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 him 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 their eyes players have been answered in moscow it all isco are to. now you can track the pussy riot story on our website updates on images of from in front of the court of dot com there have been pussy riot of copycats though protesting in churches all around the world some demonstrations of support have gone beyond just wearing mosques have a look right here fairly familiar face perhaps members of the ukrainian feminist movement freeman showing their disapproval of the trial by soaring down a memorial cross in central kiev of course this group notorious for its eye catching up bad arrested protests.

now the case has also sparked a major internet frenzy for that joined live in the studio by. the analyst also the host of the political sketch comedy why you should care to me thanks for coming on today how has this become such a huge craze on the internet well because it's something that's very cute and trendy and media friendly i think that's a big part of it because you know like you just you just talked about a few seconds ago with them and they always show their breasts and it's cute on the internet and with these girls they did something that sort of speaks to a certain audience a certain very like pop culture this is that the other audience will for example i believe this morning i saw a news that there were twelve protesters killed in south africa shot madonna doesn't care about that they care about things that are cute and attractive as you as you say to me at least one of the girls in pussy riot has allegedly be made an offer to come and pose in playboy so when you say cute i'm sure some of the male fans are quite an attraction was going there's also it's also the fact that it's

girls that something fun borum saying is that like. what they did was a lot more it had a lot more media potential than other things because there are a lot of problems in russia but i don't really think the main problem is freedom of speech and there are some people who know that i was saying some of the members of pussy riot not well i mean for example without sex with a chicken in a grocery show i don't know about you but that was. quite disturbing. that will go back to the chicken so again if you do protest if you want to say something say something about free speech you molested chickens in a grocery store dead well of course so the thing is these people who exactly are they speaking to i really don't think that they're trying to speak to the average russian or do they have a clear message this is just trying to get media attention is trying to draw some sort of extreme liberal left type people into it to make it explode but i mean certainly the internet has been the driving driving forces because then we've had these a copycat protests that are being staged all around the world so what about the

role of the internet will the internet is huge i mean just twenty years ago i mean t.v. cameras were very expensive very big you couldn't quite take one with you and now that we have the internet we have the ability to sort of do our little video and make it go viral all that stuff so i don't think that that maybe this event could have even admitted been possible twenty or thirty years ago barring the factor that was the soviet union that but on the other hand does the internet gives us the ability to give the illusion that there are millions of people who think something when they're just robots are the same person writing the same thing many times and i think in this particular instance this event is something that's happening like a huge thing in the western media but when you get even outside of moscow or even inside moscow this is sort of just you know it's nothing to me what about what would i mean let's let's let's try the opposite circumstance if for instance if a group of christians broken into a gay bar would be the reaction to that these people would never ever support their

freedom of speech because of this some sort of freedom of speech issue i've never seen any of these would be the gay lesbian transsexual activists ever get together and defend the rights of neo nazis because even though they're against us and they're evil they have the right to free speech never this is total hypocrisy and there are very believe me there are very very few people who actually believe in universal speech speech as his people are any of them as you well know it's him hear it out see we often. living the verdict live now here and see we've got our correspondents down in the courtroom in central moscow any speculation as to what the judge is going to hand down to the three members of pussy riot i think it'll probably be what they hinted at i've noticed it with a lot of these things in russia when they hinted something that tends to be what happens and i've heard the hinting on the internet is three years of a feeling that's what it will be but on the other hand i want just make sure why the time the russian authorities are very at fault in this because they allowed this to become a big thing they could just do the slap on the wrist use whatever fifteen days that you get for acting like an idiot in public just let them go well then again then

again as it seems you are saying is as we are at a time now as you were saying a moment ago the internet the internet makes a small story into that of a global story where everyone can jump into a. list and a host of why you should care thanks for coming in today my pleasure. whether we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow julian sanjeev has received political asylum in ecuador but now there's no way of getting there of britain's going out of its way to make abundantly clear it would take drastic action to prevent the whistleblower from taking about asylum from an outright denial of safe passage all the way to threats to raid the ecuadorian embassy and take him by force if he is laura smith who was at the embassy on the day of trial. it was the day they'd been waiting for julian assange was holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy for two months and his supporters 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 there 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 a song. that was as always called it a significant victory and his mouth was full so. 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 your son i must say to see british troops surrounding the british police surrounding that embassy was it an act of intimidation that should not be allowed and is not allowed under asylum or stuck in the middle julian assange who has

a new home but no way of getting there and putting it in a big trunk diplomatic bag i'm not quite sure whether that would work but otherwise we might see him holed up there for a mixed couple of years who knows and solution to this. if he leaves the embassy he's liable to arrest by the u.k. which insists it must still extradite him to sweden a position that wouldn't accept it or respond to the united kingdom it would that mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level if it happens the crown saying of asylum. has been spelt the end of this tale already full of twists and turns in fact it appears to be the beginning of something else with neither the u.k. no ecuador apparently willing to back down it's developing into an ugly diplomatic spots which could affect relations but. no arrests made outside the ecuadorian embassy and up to now britain's threat to raid the ecuadorian embassy was met with

a wave of criticism in the u.k. itself is now beefing up security at a number of its embassies abroad are already being targeted by protesters for example in australia a group of demonstrators have actually occupied a british consulate and greg bonds a spokesman for the australian lawyers alliance says these people have a right to be angry. let's forget about all policies diplomatic community let's forget about all see the saw much of a peripheral because that's what the british would be doing but have a look at the legislation that the british government is relying on the ruling not in addition to stop but i think the libyans and. austria cherish it within their english. this is not a matter of national security i think i mean you try to find out who can hide who's minister responsible and act action actually these pass through the way it's just an appalling wrist. which dishes it's moderate who are doing things the right why

in the world criticize any of the governments around the world if i do because i'm standing. with i just scratch election and it would effectively shine when it comes to the united states britain microstructure will do whatever it takes to deliver. now acquittal says would be a key factor in his decision to offer refuse to do the u.s. stance was that he may not get a fair trial if he ended up in the u.s. and a packing that was a blow off to america so say his supporters and the ultimate objective of authority is in both britain and sweden he's more in pornography thoughts on what could be in it for capitol hill. 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 equally even julian a songe two 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 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 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 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 presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian assigns 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 thinks capital punishment are if you'd like to hear more of what her name we will have to say particularly on that about julian assange and his predicament or the increasingly belligerent role of government so we'll be showing a full interview for you well shortly here on our t.v. . and leaks a rogue u.s. group claims to have launched an illegal denial of service attack on the r.t. web site more on that ongoing attack with artie's tom. the group calling itself anti leaks claimed responsibility for the attacks yes they say we're behind them on the r.t. website those attacks started many hours ago and made artie's website unavailable around the world in their tweets they linked to the themes julian assange and wiki leaks those and other websites one gleefully joking that they would have loved to watch. smoking cigars and drinking whiskey but they couldn't because artie's

website was unavailable those indicate that they wanted to stop artie's coverage of the granting to do it in a sanch of diplomatic asylum in ecuador embassy in london and to leaks has attacked the wiki leaks site itself before with d.d. o. s. attacks though they claim that it is the man doing the sanj that is there it is their real target they call him a new breed of terrorist a d.d. o. s. attack or distributed denial of service attack is where the attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a particular website with too much traffic the group sais that they are from the usa apart from that there's much speculation as to who and leaks really are guesses ranging from a group of young adults as the group have said themselves right up to the

possibility of u.s. government agencies. what i see is a coming to life in the heart of moscow and go back to our top story for you now at this moment the ongoing trial of the all girl punk band pussy riot here in moscow the judge has decided that the girls who are motivated by religious hatred they are guilty the girl's lawyers will appeal the sentence at this point here on r.t. we are on standby to understand exactly what the sentencing will be so do stay with us for the top news here on r.t. if i hear the live pictures are coming from inside inside the courthouse in central moscow of course it's all about the members of the pussy riot band performing their punk a prayer against president vladimir putin inside moscow's keilar and mark christ the savior cathedral this was back in february for the trial has lasted an hour for around half a year before the verdict was delivered again these are live pictures from inside the moscow courtroom the judge says the pussy riot is guilty and motivated by

religious hatred. during one minute. motivated by the feelings of hatred and enmity. shouted. blasphemous. to the people. and punched some imaginary anomie. around. them. by doing so they've demonstrated obvious disrespectful believes in workers who. disses of the above mentioned illegal acts deeply insulted their feelings and religious principles believe it wasn't really less useful than carrying out their disrespectful and reverent any ethical and moral foundation to

set themselves against the orthodox world. yes we see. you want to personally have attempted to find. and publicly disagree for centuries so much as a church teachings and don't treat. therefore it's all going to go some social to look in and along with other individuals have grossly violated you publicly withdrew was their actions and behavior and express contempt for society as you've said yourself against your society in the cathedral in defiantly which is the common. rules of conduct there's artie's peter all of us standing by outside the courthouse peter we've been showing live pictures the verdict being alast in the moscow courthouse the judge says the girls in pussy riot are guilty you've got more details to bring us up to speed here. well yes in the last few moments the judge has ruled that the three women were motivated by religious hatred as the news filtered out from inside the courtroom to the very large crowd that's gathered here

i spoke briefly to some people have come out in support of pussy riot saying that they weren't surprised at this verdict there has been a slightly tense atmosphere this afternoon right here as groups in support of pussy riot and those against pussy riot have come together we've seen several heated exchanges and the occasional throw and as both sides put forward their arguments now just shortly after the verdict was announced a a group that i recognize from covering these trials as being members of the nationalist stand also talks church groups seem to push their way towards the front of the crowd here we'll be keeping an eye to see what happens here in the outside of the court room. inside as they say guilty is the verdict on all three for all three of the women in the dark on the pussy riot child the judge ruling that they were motivated by religious hatred we are waiting now to see if what the sentence will sentences i beg your pardon will be that are handed down. of course all of

this is really developing by the second tier so we will be bringing you up to date as soon as we get all of the latest right here on r.t. or appear to you absolutely right let's run down this hour one more time the lawyer the judge says the girls in pussy riot are guilty are they guilty of charges of hooliganism of inciting religious hatred and the performance they did inside the iconic landmark of the cathedral of jesus christ as savior the song they did was blasphemous and insulting to the church of jesus christ if you were still standing by on exactly what the voting here is let's go back now to the live translation coming from the moscow courthouse to stay with us peter here we are. think it was mostly. divergent become of them and. so ministers know. profane words to the believes that she.

the other statement was may. actually go. with the words consisting of mathematical results are starting. and ending with. there are also that masks are just part of their image you know they say it's not about faces it's about ideas. first of february fifth when it came to the seat rule lever in the message. in the video please that was uploaded there were no words of hatred or in which she is just about political protest in there it should be used as members of the band. what is. the. positive about. christianity birds of the air discouraged by the

states. support for the. powers that be. the violation of. rules of conduct in the seadrill should not. circumcise consequences the fact that they turned back six of the is not a violation of the church rules because we're leaving the church leaving the building everyone turns their back on the altar they say that this act of protest was not motivated. by hatred during the season against any social group this was a stage to call for the. clothes she. put on the. couch the microphone which was taken away by someone started doing the action that

. they usually do or at their performance and then she. got off the stage. and left the cathedral. believes the prosecution is politicized. they want to. go karts the. voice of some of the voices of the russian population. in the. legs. to take into account thinking solutions to psychiatric examination she says that she's a member a member of the pursuer ride band.