a day. joining us on to set to make his first public statements is being granted asylum in ecuador as a diplomatic standoff between britain and the latin american nation continues. the pro-democracy activist in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online but the protests are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further i dressed. a two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing and type wouldn't stand in russia's main cathedral bolds a strong reaction in russia at around the world. last fighting between rebels and government forces rage on in syria where the u.s. mulling over plans to impose a no fly zone the closest washington has come so far to suggesting military intervention.

it is am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rima joshie welcome to the program julian assange is expected to make his first public statement later on sunday since ecuador announced it will grant him political silence but we can he said of her has been sheltering in a london and a sea of the latin american nation for two months now after britain approved his extradition to sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes are just laura smith has been following the standoff. 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 reign 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 what's going on. when the decision came. it was the one they wanted. we decided to grant asylum to julian a song. called it a significant victory and his mouth was full of it and 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 over and 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 find completely incredible and outrageous is the british press to actually go in and try and extract julian assange but i must say to see british police surrounding that embassy was it an act of intimidation that should not be allowed and is not allowed under asylum stuck in the middle. who has a new home but no way of getting there and putting it in a big trunk and label him in his diplomatic bag i'm not quite sure whether that

would work but otherwise we might see him holed up there for the next couple of years who knows until i reach a solution to this impasse 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 mean constantly breaking relations on a regional level that could have been the bronzing of asylum by which or stupid enough to cause the spell 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. norway ecuador apparently willing to back down it's developing into an ugly diplomatic spat which could affect relations for some time laura smith outside the ecuadorian embassy and up to ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino said his country had decided to grant asylum to songe to protect him from the threat of political persecution he was referring to the possible extradition of

a songe to the united states to face potential charges for leaking classified u.s. diplomatic documents are just more has the details from new york. 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 equally even 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 fearsome reputation than any of his predecessors many journalists scholars and activists in the u.s. have signed a letter of support for julian a songe one is including naomi wolf she's a journalist and author 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 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 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 we can leaks published instead the u.s. government it is presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian about sanji 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 were in of ordinary reporting there were few weeks spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson hopes the british government will grant a son safe passage before the standoff escalates into a massive international diplomatic dispute. let's hope that the the the british government to me come to its senses and give them safe passage so the country it's the only right seem to believe they're on to is in this hard line position which is

to be assured of giving this to them so this is. the end of the legal team for julian when we get. the it's finished but as it goes forward as indicated that he will take the measure before the international court of justice. and force the government to give him as it's clear you see that this is the threat by the u.k. authorities who to go short of really have called for a. strong reaction especially in light of the american countries. be on my list and the way the stuff of william hague will take such an extreme step especially when the negotiations were ongoing in accordance with it were using the . between two countries and this should include doing what you nations all over the world and i'm pretty sure that the student must be. very secure in voluntarily areas getting effective that all government is ready to violate to the convention of the twenty two with this. guy just will be leaving.

also awaiting a crucial decision on his future this week was one of the guests on johannes obvious talk show here in r.t. leading bahraini human rights activist neville job on thursday a court sentenced him to three years in prison for inciting anti-government protests through his speeches and online polls hearings took place and then a surge of protests across the horn calling for democratic reform it's been reported that senior were brutally suppressed by police who used tear gas and rubber bullets and the crackdown was more on the verge of for the man behind much of the sand and their reaction to it here's our teens tom parker and i go there has been a rather different decision. in the case of the enemy of the state below in bahrain becoming to dental in 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 tom barrett reporting there and for wars dot com allison editor of patrick canning simple ways but rain is used by the u.s. and its allies to help secure its interest in the gulf. we have to relook at the situation from a western point of view and wonder and really scratch our heads and say what really is the stance of the west in particular washington and london when it comes to actual democratic wave forms in the middle east certainly there's a there's

a big car could see a big story of contradiction going on right now the british open at this particular minority royal family in power this is the sort of tyranny that is commonplace in a lot of pockets and so these petro monarchies these are artificial states they're really created in order to secure certainly for the west this is the neo colonial structure the other for the range of the radios they take care of the federalist and these are the same countries that are fomenting the boy logistically and financially the rebels and the terrorists in syria you know why why isn't saudi arabia offense through side bombers into bahrain why don't they hillary clinton stand on the friends of bahrain why isn't the friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. well we've also been following the protests in bahrain on our web site r.t.

dot com the timeline of the government's crackdown of the opposition and in-depth analysis of the political situation the gulf state also log on to watch the full episode of join the songes interview wasn't deliberate job about the aftermath of the arab spring. plus the u.s. army spends three million dollars on the development of a nasal spray that eliminates the thoughts that go online for the details. and these are the images in seeing from the streets of canada. the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and provoked a massive international reaction the groups and i put in stands in the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be whole again as i'm motivated by religious

hatred oliver has a story. to figure out a reason that you move the finish line you possibly you know that's the end of any delusion if one would never want to bring in the clothes on you but obviously it is . after their trial hit headlines around the world a global audience who is watching as madea. and you cut it in as some would say of each found out their fate for their performance the punk rock prayer in russia's main to phaedra outside the courts a large group gathered with both those supporting the women and those opposed to them turning up to voice their opinion the was amongst the crowd were prominent members of the anti-government protest movement who had allying the pussy riot cause with their own as the throngs massed tempers

flared and police announcements to keep calm were ignored as over fifty people from both sides were detained for public order offenses calm damned by some celebrated by others their performance in this cathedral lasted for a little more than a minute and a half but it's perhaps made pussy riot the most recognizable russian music act in the world. but where did they come from under various guises the three women who were jailed on friday have been no strangers to controversy in the past pussy riot grew out of a performance art group which had staged an orgy in a museum filmed a woman performing a sex act on a chicken in a supermarket and kissed on duty female police officers to cathedral performance though took things to another level church groups burned images of the women and of madonna who had spoken out on the site of pussy riot i think they belong to some sect which conducts a tannic ritual as they use elsewhere a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in

ukraine a topless member of the. i mean could down across with a chain saw and offer from playboy for a photo shoot pussy riot merchandise deal law has led some to even question was this all an elaborate quest but fame they achieved their goal of. becoming really world famous by doing what they did and when they are released they were in fact travel the world to become famous they have achieved their goal after the two year sentence for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred was handed down the online response heated up with many shocked by the length of the jail term my personal opinion is to be honest usually for the thing the cogon is on you get fifteen days from what i've heard so i really wish they would have gotten fifteen days more standard punishment but the court in a group of my position with lawyers for the jailed women said to appeal the verdict don't expect the debates between supporters of pussy riot in those opposed to fade

away any time soon peter all in moscow. dozens of protesters some of whom have been rallying in support of the group and some advance were detained in russia and abroad and amber gatherings backing the band were staged in spain france britain and other countries foreign governments also had their say was the u.s. calling on the authorities to review the case u.s. based journalist don de bar believes washington should look at its own problems before judging others. the united states has other double standards that bear on this case to first let's look at the one nine hundred eighty nine case of st patrick's cathedral where act up members came into the church about forty five of them were arrested before they could really voice their own protests and numerous times since the beginning of the iraq war around the united states people have tried to go into churches to speak to the congregations i know nick modern for example an activist in the united states has done it about thirty times to try to

say look your religious beliefs are so and so what's happening violates them please join us and they've been threatened with arrest arrested and worse so the united states does exactly this plea that is states which has more incarcerated people than the next three countries on the planet and that's only in absolute terms in terms of relative terms more than any other country on the planet the united states has all these people in jail and it's going to lecture other countries about how their legal process should work i just think it that has no credibility around the world and i think it's shameful. well you watching actually live from moscow coming up in the program cairo's new broom an action report on gyptian president's latest government sackings and what the move could mean for the future of the country's powerful army. and joy he knows from moscow's main mosque where people are celebrating all those most sacred days in the muslim calendar.

russia's as the imposition of a no fly zone over syria would be illegal and run contrary to previous u.n. agreements that's according to foreign minister sergey lavrov who was reacting to recent comments coming from senior u.s. officials the statement comes as flying rages on in syria between government forces and rebels fierce clashes are continuing in the country's commercial hub aleppo with bashar lost its army turning increasingly to air power to push back insurgents trying to seize the city meanwhile the u.n. has decided not to extend its four month old observer mission meant to oversee implementation of a peace plan which failed to curb violence at east commentator carl shower that so far no alternative to the current regime has emerged. what we have is. a story that effectively has collapsed and lost it's going through all over the country but don't turn it hasn't been born yet and there's lots of interference and

meddling by outside forces trying to shave what this alternative is going to be and things like the libyan fighters the fighters from the last years conflict in libya are moving into syria are one expression of those external factors now taking part in this syrian conflict but ultimately the story remains the same if you want something good for syria it has to be determined by the syrian people themselves not by external agents trying to orchestrate what the outcome is going to be that would be a really catastrophic decision to try to set up the no fly zone bit with affectively it would lead to an escalation that quickly would become a kind of military confrontation full scale military confrontation and many critics within the state says that. meanwhile washington is calling for the international community to a rebels in syria the internet is also full of sites where you can donate to the opposition but as r.t. is going to reports many of them don't tell the full story. ever thought about

adopting someone why not a syrian rebel as this headline says for just one dollar a day you too can help a syrian rebel oust president assad these days you have a good number of organizations which present themselves basically as charities where you can make a donation to the rebels in syria this is the website of one of the rebel groups there saying among other things they are seeking military equipment then there is another organization which collects donations based here in washington and supported by the u.s. government they're called syrian support group we try to reach out to them and ask how they plan to distribute that money we never heard from them another website one called adopt a revolution they also present themselves as a charity but it's organizer admitted that it's hard to see where the money goes as far as who the donors are he said they range from corporations to retired couples and students possibly those mentioned retired couples who've seen videos like this one where the rebels singing

a backstreet boys song oh we'll see. you. tomorrow oh but what the pitch for donors does not say is that not all rebel fighters are some romantic backstreet boys fans probably not these ones and this footage shows an apparent mass execution of assault supporters by the rebels in cold blood. reports on the ground show that very six treatments groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are all either it's a full blown civil war where the degree of hatred is so high that people commit atrocities on all fronts i spoke with one of america's leading experts on counterterrorism and he told me the bloodshed will be even harder to stop as more outside forces get involved it isn't any more simply a question vs a whole. it's

a question of saudi arabia versus iran and it's a question of turkey's increasing role in the middle east all these things make this more and more complicated and make it less and less likely there we're going to have a peaceful resolution instead we're going to have a winner take all solution one could say the danger is in simplifying things putting them black and white supporting people who kill can be called anything but charity in washington i'm going to check on. they jepson president mohamed morsi this week order of the country's top two military officials to stand down the defense minister and chief of staff were told to go during a major offensive that's under way in the country's restive sinai region along the israeli border it's recently elected leader who is embroiled in a power struggle with the military council vowed to restore security in sinai but the region's only seen more a lawless now since president mubarak was ousted with al qaida groups targeting

security forces and arms being smuggled from libya and that's it of journalists have escobar says morsi is move could spark a backlash from the military that could potentially and then a coup. we should expect some say to happen not immediately in terms of a counter cool by scott because the joint is still there even if their prerogative the terms of that constitutional amendment which transfer of powers from the presidents to dead no more civil why did that completely dave may have some cards to play in those for a get very good relationship with the pentagon i'm sure a lot of people in washington are horrified about the morsi move and they really are these really start to really freaking out with the morsi move because now they say that he has become an islamic dictatorship so there could be some jealous or kooks from foreign actors as well basically from the muslim brotherhood going to as you do you don't want any more free. between scott and the president so we can say

that for the moment this score is muslim brotherhood one skaf zero the problem is the military even if it is relying now or rearrange to control most forty percent of the egyptian economy egypt is has no money i'm betting in the long run did they left egypt cool apps in terms of being practically defaulting is good maybe later do rearrange another egyptian military cool and go back to paul. how muslims all over the world are celebrating it all fit for the last day of the annual holy month of ramadan the ninth month of the lunar calendar down is seen as a time of so and spiritual improvement the muslim population in russia is of course the exception and it's a big day for them as well i disagree as is standing by a mosque in moscow and going to tell us more good morning to jacob sell how do muslims in russia celebrate this holiday. moscow indeed around much of russia are

seeing millions of the nation's muslim community flocking out some of the central mosque now in moscow that means the building right behind me at the most currently under a for shrinks they seem tens of thousands flocking to this area lining the surrounding streets to listen to services and also of course give thanks to god probably being the most important part of this holy day it does also come on the back of the holy month of ramadan has such a time of fosdike now that means this after this we're going to see a lot of feasting taking place time just spend with family friends and relatives. a time of period of peace as well the holy month of ramadan that's somewhat modified by what we saw transpire late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there to moscow must stormed a nearby and local mosque and they shot and injured eight people in total.

the most jurors seedings are seeing taking place at the moment. all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us the spirit and telling us what's happening here in moscow on this important day for the muslims take a great reporting. and it brings us up to date here in r.t.l. bring the headlines very shortly stay with us.

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