joyous sound said to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador as a diplomatic standoff between britain and the let an american nation continues. the pro-democracy activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online for the protests are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking for the arrest. at two year sentence for of members of the punk band pussy rival performing an anti-abortion stand in russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction in russia and around the world. the u.n. observer mission in syria expires later on sunday amid ongoing clashes between rebels and government forces the latest blow to international efforts to bring peace to the conflict ridden state.

you're watching our t.v. and i'm marina josh it's one pm in the russian capital joining us on just expected to make his first public statement since ecuador and now instead will grant him political asylum one suggested it could strip that would force embassy diplomatic privileges to move and the rest has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now the what american nation has warned britain of grave consequences if that happens laura smith has been following the standoff. it was the day they'd been waiting for julian s.o.s. 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 their first arrests obviously.

when the decision came it was the one they wanted. we decided to grant asylum to julian or songs. ourselves called it a significant victory and his mouth was full. 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 in territory under international law to arrest us

but that's not what ecuador inferred from a letter it says was delivered through the british embassy in quito in response ecuador 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 you in the sun but i must say to see british police surrounding that embassy was it an act of intimidation that should not be allowed it is not allowed under saddam more than stuck in the middle . who has a new home but no way of getting their parts and put him 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 a mixed couple of years who knows until i can reach a solution to this impasse but if he leaves the embassy he's liable to rest by the u.k. which insists it must still extradite him to sweden a position that could all winter except. respond to the united kingdom it would that mean possibly breaking relations on a regional level if it happens the browsing of asylum by ecuador stupid enough sounds has 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. no ecuador apparently willing to back down it's developing into an ugly diplomatic spats which could affect relations for some time norris may see outside the ecuadorian embassy and up to now that it's on his extradition to sweden is in limbo other countries who want to question the whistleblower also have to wait in line and number of american officials have repeatedly called for the handover of the we can weeks founder to the u.s.

to face potential charges for leaking classified diplomatic documents are just more important i 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 quavering julian assange too are terrorists and that was in the aftermath of releasing cables and memos that were classified that belonged to the u.s. government as a result the integrity of the u.s. government was compromised a lot of secrets were revealed and it painted the u.s. foreign policy in a dark light it's no secret that the administration of u.s. president barack obama has been earning a reputation for waging

a war on whistleblowers fiercer reputation than any of his predecessors many journalists scholars and activists in the u.s. have signed a letter of support for 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 indeed been 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 but i was speaking with what she wanted to clarify for me and her position is that she sees chilliness anja many do as the publisher

similar to the new york times julian assange is the publisher to 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 leaks published instead.

inciting anti-government protests through his speeches and online polls hearings to place and made an upsurge of protests across a column for democratic reform of the reported there they were brutally suppressed by police gas and rubber bullets in the crowd down with more on the verdict for the man behind much of the sandy and their reaction to the years out. there has been a rather different decision in the case of the enemy of the state below rajab in bahrain becoming to dental imette to 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 a locked up as he was he wouldn't have been treated like this hypocrisy is a word used quite regularly in saying that the us was the us 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. 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 what are they going to live from moscow and still to come friends or foe relations between china and the u.s. are chilling as washington's military drills raise the equation of beijing it's only trying to limit china's regional power. joy moscow's main mosque where people celebrate with the most sacred days in the muslim holy edo theater. 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 group's anti porton stunt in the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be holding his i'm motivated by religious hatred dozens of people have been detained during protests both for and against the group a number of gatherings backing the band of war staged in russia as well as in spain france britain and other countries foreign governments also had their say with the us calling on the authorities to review the case i just peter oliver has a story. but you've already been that you move through this thing you know the revenue division you from would want to bring in the pro venue but if we come. after their trial heat headlines around the world a global audience who's watching as media. and you can fit in as some would see of each found out their fate for their performance the punk rock prayer in russia is making to phaedra outside the court a large group gathered with both supporting the women and those opposed to them

turning up to voice their opinion the. the or the like you. could. 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 the 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. so 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 because the performance though took things to another level church groups burned images of the women and of madonna who had spoken out on the side of pussy riot i think they belong to some sect which conducts a tannic rituals they use elsewhere a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in ukraine a topless member of the group in cook down a cross with a chain saw and offer from playboy for a photo shoot and pussy riot merchandise deal law has led some to even question was this all an elaborate quest for 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 were achieved their goal after the two years 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 has to be honest usually for the thing that coughlan is on you get fifteen days from what i've heard so i really wish they would have gotten fifteen days than. standard punishment but the court didn't agree with my position with lawyers for the jailed women. don't expect the debates between supporters of. supposed to do with anytime soon. while also been following the trial of a punk band on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what else is waiting there for you this army spans three million dollars on the development of a nasal spray that a woman eight suicidal thoughts go online or the details. plus the chinese beauty queen is crowned miss world read about all the pomp and pageantry at r.t. dot com. syria's president bashar al assad has been shown on state t.v. praying in a mosque his first public appearance since bomb blast killed top officials last

month in the capital damascus meanwhile you want to serve a mission a mandate for syria expires later on sunday as government forces try to push the rebels out of their key strongholds fierce clashes are continuing in the country's commercial hub aleppo with a shot of us army turning increasingly to air power to push back insurgents trying to seize the city the new mediator lakhdar brahimi was confirmed by the u.n. this friday and as expect this to give a new impetus to peace efforts meanwhile russia says the u.s. will violate international norms if it goes ahead with imposing a no fly zone over syria a move that helped rebels to overthrow the gadhafi regime in libya and he's accountable of course has the own going violence in syria has proved with yet another be provided rather with yet another base from which they can stage. blossom gone for a daily occurrence here in damascus but once the explosion right next to the u.n. headquarters was something ordinary it took place at

a have only guarded army garage and you can probably see a fuel tanker on there which the explosive device was planted still standing over there in terms of the. damage it was relatively minor a few shattered windows in this hotel and in the building next to us but this explosion definitely attracted a lot of media attention because of the proximity to the u.n. have borders now the free syrian army already claimed responsibility for this blast even though they said that they never intended to target to you in observers and they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case the explosion of really underscores how easily available and how widely used explosives have become these days in syria in the beginning of the syrian uprising the rebels primarily on small arms but over months they have become increasingly more sophisticated in bomb

making and many experts attribute that to an influx of foreign fighters in particular iraqi insurgents who bring a lot of bomb making expertise the iraqi government even went on record to say that they have solid information that al qaida was crossing from iraq into syria to carry out these attacks on the top of that reuters news agency published a story a few days ago in retreat quoted an f.s.a. field commander who was saying that thanks to you of the expertise of iraqi insurgents they've been able to increase the debt to nation range of their bombs up to seven kilometers also the use of mobile phones to sad those bombs off something that is very common in iraq and that was extremely rare in syria is now becoming more and more widely used what many in the west fail to recognize is that terrorism is not necessarily a derogative term it's a descriptive term to denote

a guerrilla warfare a tactic that justifies the use of terror the use of violence for achieving political goals and that's the same groups that. tactics and bomb making skills on iraqi civilians on the u.s. soldiers in iraq and now applying the same expertise here in syria are reporting from damascus in syria. muslims all over the world are celebrating it all theater of the last day of the annual holy month of ramadan the ninth month of the little calendar down is seen as a time of soul cleansing and spiritual improvement the muslim population in russia is of course no exception it's a big day for them to make a grievous explains how this holiday is being celebrated in moscow millions of muslims around russia have been waking up very early indeed before sunrise put some of the best clothes as is tradition on this holy day also the flocking to nearby

mosques and the graces mosque in moscow is the one just behind me which is currently being referred to seen tens of thousands of people normally less lining the surrounding streets here to listen servants have also been giving praise to god this is coming on the end on the back of the holy month of ramadan known for fasting and this question will this day self be deal theater now actually translates as the breaking of the fast so we can expect many theses to be taking place in moscow and around russia for friends and family have been somewhat marred by what transpired late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there two masked gunman stormed a local mosque they shot and injured eight people in total also there was a bomb this is found containing forty kilograms of t.n.t. of explosives it took some time but the moment is have managed to fuse that bomb threats. meanwhile in the neighboring republic of yugoslavia

a bomb blast has killed at least seven police officers investigators have confirmed the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber explosive was detonated as a group of policemen and arrived at the funeral of a colleague who'd been shot dead in and salt on saturday over a dozen locals were injured in the blast and are now being treated in hospital officials say the remains of the bomber are identifiable and that a list of possible suspects as being drawn up. what unites us now take a look at some other stories from around the world a plane has crashed in a mountainous region of sudan killing about thirty people including at least one top sudanese official the passengers were on route from the capital khartoum to islamic first of all marking the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan state media claim poor weather conditions were to blame for the crash we'll bring you the latest details on this developing story as soon as we get them. two car bomb attacks have struck the capital of libya leaving at least five people dead

a man a injure the first blast happened near the country's interior ministry while the second one reportedly targeted the former military cavity for women remains highly restive after last year's nato backed the prising topple moammar gadhafi the country is currently governed by and unlike the general national congress. a group of japanese nationalists has landed on the one of the disputed islands in the east china sea to commemorate their compatriots who died in the area in world war two this amid a long lasting dispute with china which claims the islands as part of its territory the move triggered mass rallies in major chinese cities with protesters demanding that the japanese leave. the hit islands rocks lie file ceiling that are surrounded by gas reserves. the u.s. has been strengthening military ties with neighbors and asia pacific ever since

president obama assumed his post in the white house that includes nations which have better territorial disputes will keep power in the region china and washington's actions are making beijing question what its real aims are. reports. always they are courting each other at official meetings but it's a different story under the table with the u.s. employing every turn to asia policy ties between washington and beijing are getting tense. becoming. the u.s. . is having you along. because you're much more. they are coming into this region. trying to. china. and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in

the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade the official reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces modernization creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the u.s. than in the philippines that the u.s. or so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have at in store for china so all the treaty allies from japan south korea australia the philippines you're being mobilized right now to encircle china and keep it subservient to the u.s.

dictate in interests with a deeply checkered historic background of the u.s. military presence in the region many concerns have been raised the united states has for many many battles and pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the. people of the continent fearing full scale conflict in the region beijing is looking for a helping hand and it has look no further than its closest neighbor during vladimir putin's recent state visit to china hu jintao seemed glad to know she had russia's support with pledges to boost already strong military ties all but making this point clear while panetta says washington the must stay vigilant in the face of china's growing military beijing hasn't yet openly criticize the new u.s. agenda in the asian pacific region all the statements by the officials so far have been mild declarations of dismay and warnings of a destabilizing situation but experts both in china and abroad believe this is just the calm before the storm and that beijing in fact is growing less and less tolerant of washington's behavior alexi russia city r.t.

reporting from beijing in china. well shortly we'll learn about that they will live a unique community in russia scholar rochelle many but i'll bring you the headlines before that. all.

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