any time to. today's headlines on the week's top stories on our right now we are waiting for julian assange to his first public statement since being granted asylum by ecuador . tends to talk from the steps of the embassy but if he does hundreds of police ploy to arrest him for me in just a moment. and in other news of the verdict the punk band pussy riot and putin stunt in russia's main two years behind bars and the crowds certainly rally though both in support and against the women. prominent human rights activist and not feel about job jailed for three years while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf state. and the un observers mandate for syria runs out later on sunday

with a new peace envoy confirmed all us reports suggest that u.k. intelligence is helping the rebels to attack the regime. with the top stories of today and all of the week this is the weekly with me rory sushi julian assange will speak in public for the first time since ecuador granted political asylum in london has warned him though he would be swept into custody if he ventures outside the latin american countries embassy well let's get the latest now on ts laura smith is outside the embassy as she has been all week laurie's been mia new with breaking news for days now will finally see julie hopefully emerging from the embassy sanctuary for the first time in two months. although i wouldn't. believe. from ation that we had from wiki leaks was that he would indeed make this

statement which as you say is the first since he went inside the embassy and certainly the first since the ecuadorians granted him asylum on thursday he would make that statement on the steps of the embassy just behind me but of course the bit about the layout of the building is that the ecuadorian embassy is just one flat inside that building the rest of it is a shed load being of course that you've come outside to the steps and as far as we understand the shed looking on the steps are not diplomatic territories to the movement that he steps outside the inside door of the embassy that he is liable to arrest in the police on taking any chances we reckon there are hundreds of police you can probably see them behind me but they also stretch all the way around the corner just behind the camera that could be two hundred to three hundred police officers not taking any chances the toll so if he does come out on the steps he does face immediate rest for breaching the conditions of his bail of course the order to extradite julian assange is to sweden has been passed by the courts and still stands regardless of the station to extradite to grant him asylum by ecuador

or as the british government's concerns they're still under no obligation to extradite him to sweden and so having breached the conditions of his bail he is liable for arrest so where's he going to make the statement that's that's the main thing we do see cables being laid up on to the balcony that which seems to be the most sensible position of course won't leave him open to arrests so we just have to wait for that to happen as far as where he's going to say we've had some talk that he may be trying at least to strike a deal with sweeten to get some sort of assurance that he wouldn't be extradited from their own to the united states which of course is what he's always been afraid of ecuador apparently is pushing him to strike some kind of deal with sweden if that he does get an assurance that he won't be extradited to the u.s. then one almost gets the impression that the asylum deal is off. now laura as you as you say it's now we're expecting joining us are to make a statement while we're in a ball proximately fifty six minutes from now is a couple of. a couple of months ago he said he was going to make

a statement on the steps of the ecuadorian embassy where you are but he actually sent out a member always the legal team if you will or take us back for a moment it's been it's been the shoes legal battle up until now and it continues for a song doesn't it. it does it's been going on for almost a couple of years now really since he was first since he was first questioned in sweden it was law it was august two years ago it's been going on for a long time he's been through all the courts here in the u.k. until finally the supreme court's granted the request to extradite him and it involves a number of countries and getting more countries all the time of course it always involves britain and sweden julian assange has always been that he will be extradited from sweden on to the u.s. where we have evidence that a secret grand jury has been subpoenaed possibly to put him on trial for espionage there and that's what he is the most that he wouldn't get a fair trial if he was sent to the u.s. but now of course ecuador is involved and ecuador has granted him asylum and has

has construed from a statement made by britain that if they if they do try to take him to ecuador then britain will revoke the diplomatic status of the building behind me which would enable the police to storm and that's created huge anger inside ecuador and there's no sign on over the weekend of a friendlier atmosphere developing a toilet but president rafael correa in his weekly podcast said that this threat as they perceive it had come had been terribly offensive inconsiderate and intolerable so they really are using some very strong language and now lately rafael carette the president a back door has enlisted the support of more latin american countries including venezuela and cuba there was a strong statement issued from caracas over the weekend and bolivia and possibly colombia and argentina also supporting actor doing this so it's really taken on a much larger proportion of them for. regional support but worldwide. support

coming out coming out very fast and strong but out of a julian again we are expecting his comments in about fifty four minutes from now laura we will check in with you and see whether or not he makes a statement at the embassy or whether or not the british police scooped him up and taken into custody yachties lauriston with speak to you soon. well that was decision is being closely monitored in the united states washington has not admitted its planning to request a songes extradition but a number of american politicians are not holding back some going so far as to demand that assad should be tried and executed is more important reports 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 thing julian assange too 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 a 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 is saying 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 that 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 a presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian and i signed 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 meantime author and journalist tariq ali who spoke to you know salinger and want to visit an interview shows that was exclusively broadcast here on our t.v. he believes ultimately that whistleblowers worldwide are under its side. i think we have now in different parts of the world including the western world. clamp down on dissent culture in which we live in the way of steam world today the official culture is deeply hostile to whistleblowers to hackers who are in the public interest and democracy everywhere is being hollowed out just think if a similar situation was going on in beijing all moscow or some other capital and just to in moscow all be cheering had to quit refuge in the british embassy. be it russian government or the chinese government or some other

government not regarded in the pockets of the west said we can actually read your embassy and get this guy out you can just imagine the response there would have been in the media we can watch every episode of julius andres interview program including the one with tariq ali you can do so on our website at www dot r t v dot com under house arrest in london the world's top whistleblower invited prominent activists thinkers and news makers to voice their opinions on things that matter and one of them was the ecuador's president rafael correa our son had never previously appeared on international television let's see what all of them had to say on our website r.t. dot com. or to temper the hour moscow time it was friday the three women from russian punk group pussy riot were jailed for two years each for their anti putin stunt in the country's main orthodox cathedral the woman's performance was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred well the decision certainly drew

crowds of people outside the court are rallying both in support and against the band with details on this artie's peter oliver. but ignoring it is that you move the finish line you basically have enough education about any division if one would want to run in because i knew that everything we. have to their trial hit headlines around the world a global audience was watching as maria. pollack and he cut it in a somewhat sea of each found out their fate for their performance in a 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 allowing 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 common 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 rituals and elsewhere

a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in ukraine a topless member of. group me in down a cross 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 in a maverick quest for fame they achieved their goal of. becoming really world famous by doing what they did and when they are released they will in fact travel the world and 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 they call hooliganism you get fifteen days from what i've heard so i really wish they would have gotten fifteen days the more standard punishment but the court in a groove 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. obviously the pussy riot sentence provoked a massive international reaction a number of gatherings are backing the band staged all around the world including in spain france britain and many other countries foreign governments also didn't hesitate to have their say the u.s. calling on russian authorities to review the case and denouncing the sentence as disproportionate u.s. based journalist on the bar believes washington should perhaps look at its own problems before charging up its. what 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 that the united 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. that's a good to have you with us here on our team today coming up in just a few minutes for you. may be nearing the waters of asia pacific washington's growing presence in the region tries the patience of beijing. also as muslims

around the world mark the end of the holy month of ramadan we look at how celebrations are going on here in russia. a prominent human rights activist has been jailed for three years and bahrain job was found guilty of inciting antigovernment protests through his speeches and online posts for eighteen months protesters in the gulf state have been calling for democratic reform and an end to what they claim is religious discrimination graines royal family has been accused of brutally suppressing the rallies police reportedly using tear gas and rubber bullets on unarmed protesters a lot of criticism of the crackdown from the u.s. and its european allies are basically speaks for itself and that's according to geo political analyst patrick henningsen. not people right drug. use a canary in a coal mine this is a genuine democratic movement forward as i can see this is a real arabs bring moment and this is going to completely ignore discounted by the

west in favor of their strategic alliance with bahrain and one of the really scripture of what really is the stance of the west in particular washington of london when it comes to actual democratic reforms in the middle east certainly there's a there's a big park with the big story of contradiction going on right now the british show this particular minority royal family in power there are sunni extremists minority ruling over the jury this is the sort of seriously common pleas a lot of pockets and so these pressure monitor or official state they're really created in order to secure is certainly true. for the west this is a neocolonial structure the other catalogue the range of saudi arabia they say they're in the center of this and these are the same countries that are fomenting supplying logistically and financially the rebels and the terrorists in syria you

know why why isn't saudi arabia send suicide bombers into bahrain why don't they hillary clinton said and done friends of bahrain why isn't here we have a friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. now our team here at r.t. working twenty four hours a day seven days a week to provide you with the best stories and pictures from around the world find them at r.t. dot com here's a quick look now at what else is waiting for big brother not only houses i own you but well he's listening to his legal american police are now allowed to track mobile phones and gather uses g.p.s. private data without any need for a court warrant. and the online of witch hunt coercing an enemy with a head so finding a charm to make good of a faithful forever has just become a bit harder. now having banned the sale of all forms of magic.

the u.n. observer mission mandated for syria expires later on sunday and u.n. envoy confirmed this week is expected to add fresh impetus to international peace efforts president assad there was made a rare public appearance at a damascus mosque seen performing prayers. comes amid reports quoting opposition officials that british intelligence is aiding rebels attacked regime forces with the turks are being used to pass the information to moscow was strongly opposing u.s. calls for a no fly zone over syria saying it could lead to a catastrophe of washington's support of the rebels is being complimented by internet sites taking in donations but as artie's guy nature kind of reports they are not telling the whole story. parasite 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 the here in washington and supported by the u.s. government there 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 you'll see. i. think a line. 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 of sunni vs it's a question the whole 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 out. our eyes and ask. into the r.v. world update now will start in libya where two people have been killed several injured by a twin car bombing in the capital tripoli of the attack comes a year since the fall of the city to rebel forces loyalist a former leader moammar gadhafi are being blamed on libya's general national congress declared that toppled leaders son saif gadhafi will stand trial next month in charges of ordering the killing of dissenters. thousands of protesters rallied in china and hong kong against japan's claim to a contested island demonstration respond after a japanese activists raised their country's flag on the disputed controlled island china claims protesters shouted and japanese they burned the country's flag and

attacked the japanese restaurants i'm. a muslim is all around the world celebrating the end of ramadan it's a day to break their fast go to most specific congratulate their relatives and friends and give to charity the past month though it's been a time of spiritual reflection and improvement achieved through fasting i'm devoting more time to prayer and recite it. well of course it's also been a big day for millions of muslims right here in russia. looks at how the holiday is being celebrated. millions of muslims around russia have been waking up very early indeed before sunrise putting some of their best clothes as is tradition on this holy day also the flocking to nearby mosques and the greatest mosque in moscow is the one just behind me which is currently being referred to seen tens of thousands of people normal 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 festival this day shelf theater now actually translates as the breaking of the fast so we can expect many to be taking place in moscow and around russia with friends and family now days of be somewhat marred by what transpired late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there to mass governments stormed a local mosque they shot and injured eight people in total also there was a bomb misses found containing forty kilograms of t.n.t. of explosives it took some time but have managed to fuse that bomb threats. but a criminal case has been opened to the nearby republic of chechnya where a suicide bomber carried out an attack killing at least six policeman in the blast

struck a group of officers arrived at the funeral of their colleague who was shot dead in an assault on saturday and they were offering their condolences when an attack or end of the courtyard of a private home and exploded over a dozen locals wounded in the blast. while the geo political faceoff between china and america and asia pacific is causing well causing widespread tension in the region the u.s. is concerned with china's increasing influence so is developing military ties with its neighbors. explains why the obama administration is paying special attention to nations which have territorial disputes with china. they are courting each other at official meetings but it's a different story under the table with the u.s. employing a return to asia policy ties between washington and beijing are getting tense. becoming. the u.s. . is having you along. because the u.s.

is in march. they are coming to the region. trying to. find out. 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 wargame 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 there's a 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 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. fearing full scale conflict in the region beijing is looking for a helping hand and it has to look no further than its closest neighbor during the recent state visit to china who seemed glad to know he had the support with pledges to boost already strong military ties all but making this point clear. washington

the must stay vigilant in the face of china's growing military hasn't yet openly criticized the new us 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 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. reporting from beijing in china.

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