for you right here from. the latin american. in other news of the punk band pussy riot and. behind bars the crowds rallying both in support of the women. human rights activist. jailed for three years. in the gulf. for syria. reports suggest that.

the week's top stories here. will speak in public for the first time since ecuador granted him political asylum a person has warned that he could be swept away into custody outside the latin american countries embassy that is certainly in the center of london. outside the embassy for now has this report. the original information 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 that 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 shared lobby and of course then 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 moment 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 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 that told to if he does come out on the steps he does face immediate rest for breaching the conditions of his bail of course the older to extradite to their sons to sweden has been passed by the courts and still stands regardless of the station to extradite to grant him asylum by ecuador to as far as the british government concerned 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

as far as what 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 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 all he's been through all the courts here in the u.k. until finally the supreme court 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 today in a sense is always been that he will be extradited from sweden on to the u.s. where we have. evidence that the secret grand jury has been subpoenaed possibly to put him on trial for espionage there and that's what he fears 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. 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 it that's created huge anger inside ecuador so it's really taken on much larger proportions than before. laura smith right there now ecuador's decision is being closely monitored in the united states i washington has not admitted though it's planning to request saunters extradition but number of american politicians are not holding back some going so far as to demand that our songs be tried and executed. reports in 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 torture that they even gauged in methods of torture like mafia tactics it's come to this the government is same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to beat 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 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 a presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian signs either way she said that this is this would be a dark day for all journalists in the u.s.

if he would be in the custody of america prosecuted held indefinitely or possibly even face capital punishment on his more important reporting there on the author and journalist who spoke to julian assange and one of his exclusive interview shows here on r c believes that whistleblowers all around the world are under attack. i think we have now in different parts of the world including the western world. on just a culture in which we live in the worst world today the official culture is deeply hostile to whistleblowers to those who are in the public interest and democracy everywhere is being hollowed out just think if a similar situation was going on in big dreaming all moscow or some other capital. in moscow or beaching had to can refuse the british embassy. the

russian government will be trying its government or some other government not regarded in the west and 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. he watching r.t. live from moscow or do bear in mind that you can watch every episode of julius arjun's program on our website for now the live pictures for you this is right outside the ecuadorian embassy in the heart of london any second now the world's number one whistleblower julian assange is due to step outside either on the steps perhaps on the balcony to make his first public statement since being granted asylum political asylum in the latin american country of ecuador we're keeping a very close watch on this here at r.t. as the british police have said there was a very good chance that he might actually be taken into custody but here we can see some cameramen on the balcony it looks as though perhaps viewing

a stange is preparing to come out of the ecuadorian embassy there in central london artie's laura smith is standing by as well as you told us a few moments ago she's surrounded by well over one hundred police there are many many journalists all the cameras are there and stay with us here on r.t. this breaking news still to come here or i to well a well under house arrest in london now the world's top whistleblower invited. one of the activists news makers to voice their opinions on things that matter but one of them was ecuador's president rafael correia some had never even previously appeared on international television so you can see what all of them had to say on our website of course that is artsy dot com. ten minutes past the hour moscow time on friday three women from of the russian punk group pussy riot they were jailed for two years 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 at the decision drew crowds of people

outside the court are rallying both in support of and against the banned. reports. did he give any reason that you move the finish line you possibly you know the edge of the end of any delusion if one would never want to find him because i knew but obviously from she would usually. after their trial hit headlines around the world a global audience who is watching as madea. tolokonnikova and you cut it in a some would say a bitch found out their fate for their performance by 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 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 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 side 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. the group mean could 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 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 has and 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 didn't agree with 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 of the moscow. obviously the whole pussy riot sentence provoked a massive international reaction but foreign governments also didn't hesitate to chime in to have their say with the u.s. calling on the russian authorities to review the case while denouncing the sentence as a disproportionate number of gatherings back in the band were staged across the globe including in spain france britain and other countries hard imaginal a professor of political science at innsbruck university believes that or some media is just using the pussy riot scandal to support their own stereotypes of what the pussy riot women did it was according to my. you know it was wild i mean or if you want to protest your leadership even past the hour you can use are also the church that should know that in a place we've just sort of year to election bush if that's the least possible to me

because you're right it's an extremely good selling story here you have three young women it's considered pretty they have small children and they are now fighting the beast and mr putin who has a very very bad reputation i'm on the list so that's a story you can sell pretty well for many of the media it's it's simple to sell books you write secondly for many europeans and even more still for people in the west you still know all stereotype of russian being the enemy and we'll be in society that their interests are so high by addressing the the problem. religious and political leadership and these women you're always refer to this tradition. you're watching the weekly on our two you know a prominent human rights activist who's been jailed for three years in bahrain now bill without a job was found guilty of inciting antigovernment protests through speeches and

online posts for eighteen months protesters in the gulf state are calling for democratic reform and an end to what they claim is religious discrimination. is wrong. the family has been accused of brutally suppressing their rallies with police using tear gas and rubber bullets on the protesters and the lack of criticism of the crackdown from the u.s. senate's european allies speaks for itself that's according to like geo political analyst patrick kennedy. and know people rajab is a is a canary in the coal mine this is a genuine democratic movement as far as i can see this is a real arab spring moment and this is been completely ignored and discounted by the west in favor of their strategic alliance with bahrain and wonder and really scratch their heads and say what really is the stance of the west in particular washington or london when it comes to actual democratic reforms in the middle east certainly there's a there's a big hypocrisy

a big story of contradiction going on right now the british open at this particular minority royal family in power there are sunni extremists minority ruling over a shiite majority this is the sort of tyranny that is commonplace in a lot of pockets and so these pressure monarchies these are artificial states they're really created in order to secure a certain interest for the west this is a neo colonial structure the other categories range 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 is and hillary have the friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. now our team is working twenty four hours a day seven days

a week to provide you with the best stories and pictures from all around the world you can always find them though a click away at our so you don't call me let's see what else is waiting for you there right now for example of big brother not only has i on you but he's listening as well and it's legal american police are now allowed to track mobile phones and gather uses g.p.s. data without any need for a court warrant. the online of witch hunt cursing an enemy with a hex or finding a charm to make your lover forever grateful has just become a little harder online or even has now banned the sale of all forms of magic. the u.n. observer mission mandate for syria expires later on sunday and you envoy confirmed earlier this week is expected to add fresh impetus to international peace efforts president assad has made a rare public appearance meantime at a damascus mosque. prayers. comes amid reports quoting opposition

officials that british intelligence is aiding rebels to attach regime forces apparently the turks are being used to pass information and moscow was strongly opposing u.s. calls for a no fly zone over syria saying it could lead to a catastrophe this is the rebels claimed responsibility for this week's blast near the hotel where u.n. observers were station socks on a boy there says the ongoing violence in the country has provided her with yet another stage for its own attacks. blasts and gunfire daily occurrences here in damascus but once the explosion right next to the u.n. headquarters was something ordinary it took place at a heavily guarded army garage and you can probably see a fuel tank or under 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 whole. 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 the u.n. observers and that they were aiming for the syrian army personnel in any case this 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 and creasing more sophisticated in bomb making and many experts attribute that to an influx of foreign fighters in particular iraqi insurgents who bring with them 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 those 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 and the expertise of iraqi insurgents they've been able to increase the detonation 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 at the same groups that must terror tactics and bomb making skills on iraqi civilians on the u.s. soldiers in iraq and now. plying this same expertise here in syria and it's not

like our team reporting from damascus in syria are straight to the libyan capital tripoli now to start off the r.t. world cup made its way to being killed on several injured by a twin car bombing by the attack though comes a year since the fall of the city to rebel forces loyalists a formal need of more market you're being blamed meanwhile libya's general national congress declared the toppled leader son saif gadhafi will stand trial next month on charges of ordering the killing of dissent. straight to our breaking news story here on r t the whistleblower julian assange and outside the ecuadorian embassy to address the public for the first time in two months this is breaking news on r.t. let's listen in and see what julian assange has to say. i.

can you hear me. i am here today because i cannot be there with you today but thank you. for coming thank you for your results. your generosity of spirit. on wednesday night after a threat was sent to this embassy and police descended on this building you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it. and you book the world's eyes with you. inside this embassy after doc i could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through its internal feyerick stay.

but i knew there would be witnesses and that is because of you if the u.k. did not throw away the vienna convention is the other night it is because the world was watching and the world was watching because you were watching. so the next time somebody tells you that it is pointless to defend those rights that we hold the remind them of your vigil in the dock before the embassy of ecuador. the. remind them how in the morning the sun came up on a different world and a courageous latin american nation took a stand for justice in the world. and so to those brave people i thank president caray for the carnage

it is showing in considering ending granting me political asylum. and i also think the government and in particular foreign minister ricardo patino. through apel the ecuadorian constitution and its notion of universal citizenship in their consideration of my asylum. and to the ecuadorian people for supporting and defending this constitution. and i also have a debt of gratitude to the stop of this embassy whose families live in london and who are showing me hospitality and kindness despite the threats we oversee. enjoy.

this this friday there will be an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of latin america and washington d.c. to address this very situation. and so i am grateful to those people and governments of argentina. libya. brazil. chile. colombia. el salvador honduras mexico or nicaragua. wasn't enough. per hour at best way a lot and to all oveh latin american countries who have come out to defend the right to asylum. had. and to the people of the united states the united kingdom sweden and us for

a good supported me in strength even when their governments have not. the. and to those wiser heads in government who are still fighting for justice your day will come. to the stuff the poet is and sources of wiki leaks his courage and commitment and loyalty has seen no equal. to my family and my children who have been denied their father. to give me we will be were a nightmare united soon the far. as

we stand under threat so does the freedom of expression and the health of all our societies. we must use this moment to articulate the choice that is before the governments of the united states of america. will it return to and reaffirm the values the revolutionary values it was founded on. or will include all of the press off the precipice dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world in which journalists fall silent under the fear of prosecution and citizens must respect in the dock. i say it must turn back. i asked president obama to do the right thing. the united states must renounce its witch hunt

against wiki leaks. the united states must the zone its f.b.i. investigation. the united states must buy out that it will not seek to prosecute house. or else support us. united states must play it before the world that it will notice you journalists push shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. car . they must be no more foolish talk about prosecuting any hero but i say sion big wiki leaks albeit the new york times. the us administration's war on whistleblowers must and.

thomas drake william vini john character and hava heroic whistle blowers must they must be caught in a compensated for the hardships they have endured as servants of the public record . and to the army private who remain in a military prison in fort leavenworth kansas who was found by the united nations to interview would months of torture us detention in quantico virginia and who has yet after two years in prison to see a trial he must be released all the all bradley manning mufti release the old car. if bradley manning did.