julian assange says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistleblowers aiming to shed light on the crimes of the powerful. hundreds of supporters turned out to hear his statement as did hundreds of police officers who were against school to in their desire to arrest him for coming up in just a moment. and in other news of the verdict for punk band pussy riot and guten stanton russians green cathedral is two years behind bars crowds rallied very clear in support and against the women. but brains prominent human rights activist and i feel red job is jail for three years while the equal rights movement gave momentum in the gulf states. and to the un observers mandate for syria runs of late on sunday with a new peace envoy confirmed all as reports suggest you came telegin says helping

rebels attack the regime. you're watching archie live from moscow with me to say first julian a son has called for the u.s. to stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers and also think aquittal for granting him political asylum he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of the latin american countries london embassy surrounded by british police who were ready to sweep him into custody if he set foot outside the building laurence smith reports from outside that embassy in london what's happened to this afternoon has been nothing less than a rally that was several speakers who came on before julian assange and sort of move on packed his longtime supporters including tara kelley the renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this that they're all out to. supported innocence and

he really wanted to speak to the people she thanked them he thanked particularly the supporters who are out here today in the hundreds and he thanked them from have for having been here on wednesday night as well when he says that when he was in bed he hurts to movements of police coming up the fire escape inside the door an embassy building here and guns and but that they backed off at the last minute and presumably that is in response to the perceived threats by the foreign office head that they would not hesitate to break into the embassy try to refer you kids diplomatic status and break in that to to arrest him but he said he knew that there would be witnesses thanks to the supporters and so he knew that everything would be ok he also thanked that could do it for holding the constitution of you know the constitution which includes universal citizenship he thanked the staff at this very cramped embassy which he's been staying for the last two months presumably getting in their way quite a bit and he also one of the most important things he said was he called upon the

u.s. to still put he called the persecution of whistleblowers that's just terrible the fact the united states must renounce its witch hunt against wiki leaks. the united states must assume its investigation. the united states must know that it will not seek to prosecute. or else the court of. the united states must wage before the world that it will look as you journalists are shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. i'm very lucky to be joined now by one of these whistle players craig murray who is the full british ambassador to as pakistan and a whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on his government abuses involvement in torture craig thanks very much for talking to us now that what you think julian

assange as this case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers well i think of course and labor has a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today was a glowing because obviously it's quite difficult for states to convict people of telling the truth about state's misdemeanors so what you do is you. with the charges very often sexual charges because what destroys the personal reputation the foreign office now insists that it didn't mean to say that it would storm the embassy to go in and arrest julian assange what do you make of of william hague's comments and of the foreign office attitude in general. colophon offices law and even its attempts to back down because it's time to sell so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say about both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. at the very moment it was saying about fifty policemen moved into the building but not into the actual plant containing the ecuadorian embassy there's no

doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attempt to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and what do you say to william hague well william hague really is made to prove himself he. first time he wants media interview in which he said that as a student who used to fourteen points a beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do in an embassy. but let's cross to new york and talk to brian a social rights activist and legal research on this a story that we've been following this whole week now julian assange his lawyers said it if his client is not allowed to me for. launch a suit with the un's international court what do you see happening next. well i'm not an expert on extradition i mean what i really focused on is the u.s. investigations. as well as the criminal investigation and wiki leaks grand jury.

now a son and his defense team have been saying that if still gives us guarantees that he won't be extradited to the us he would go to sweden for questioning do you think he can reach that kind of deal. once again my focus really has been specifically on the massive hole of government interagency investigation julius on bradley manning and essentially the press whistleblowers so i can speak to that now let's say you have extensively covered the case of bradley manning julian assange has once again called for his release what do you think will happen to bradley manning now he's been in jail for two years without having a trial what's next for him well i think we've reached a sort of a bit of a no man's land so we're out of his little point anything could happen i mean certainly the government in its might almost every federal agency has investigated

wiki leaks there's a prejudicial prosecution certainly evidence of double jeopardy is coming up there is an important article thirteen motion hearing coming up in october so we hope that. justice will prevail but once again you know i think many people are also aware of the. the light of us government it's a long shot isn't it now is the case setting a president for all whistle blow us absolutely i mean even the government would argue that in the criminal prosecution of manning happening in fort meade i mean the government will hold the case trailblazing. particularly interesting is to see the coordination between the criminal investigation of manning with.

thank you right well under house arrest in london the world's top whistleblower invited prominent activist i think is the news makers to voice their opinions on

things that matter. one of them was as good as president. one of them was president rafael correa while some had never previously heard on international television watch every episode of jinnah son is interviewed on a website at asuncion dot r t dot com. on friday three women from russian punk group pussy riot were jailed for two years each of for their anti putin stunt in the country's main off the docks cathedram the women's performance was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred that decision drew crowds of people outside the court to rally in both in support of and against the band peter oliver has to details. but ignoring it is that you move mysterious thing you possibly have another edge the end of any delusion if i would never want to for any of the thousand years but obviously from you she would

usually. after 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 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 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 because the drill 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. i mean could down a cross with a chain saw and offer from playboy for a photo shoot pussy riot merchandise do 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 will in fact travel the world and become famous they have 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 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 part the court in a groove my position with lawyers for the jailed women said to appeal the verdict don't expect the debate between supporters of pussy riot in those opposed to fade away any time soon be to all of moscow. obviously the pussy riot sentence provoked a massive international reaction foreign governments have to say with the us even

calling on the authorities to review their case while denouncing the sentence as a disproportionate number of gatherings back in the band was stage across the globe including in spain france of britain and other countries get had mad nod professor of political science at in university believe that some media are using the pussy riot scandal to support their own stereotypes. the christian right. according to my. program was well i mean or if you want to protest your leadership role of protest even. you can do is outside the church but you know in a place which is appear to russian version least of all the media because you're right it's an extremely good so i'm still here you have young women it's pretty small. and they are now fighting the beast and mr putin who has a very very bad reputation i'm on the west public so that's a story you can sell pretty well for many of the media it's it's simple to sell

because you're right secondly for many europeans and even more still for people in the us still there are all stereotypes of russia being the enemy and the audiences at that their interest so by by addressing the the the problem between religious and political leadership and you see young women you always refer to this traditional. you know with our tea coming up in a few minutes egypt's new president could be facing a military coup after he made a fresh move to push the army from pa one that's one opinion we'll be hearing shortly. also as muslims around the world mark the end of holy month of ramadan our d.d. looks at a house full of places are going in russia. a prominent human rights activists has been jailed for three years and behind not be able read jap was found

guilty of inciting anti-government protests throughout his speeches and online posts for eighteen months of protesters in the gulf state have been calling for democratic reform and an end to what they claim is religious discrimination the phrase royal family has been accused of brutally suppressing their rallies with police reportedly using tear gas and rubber bullets on on protesters and the lack of criticism of the crackdown from the u.s. and its european allies a speaks for itself says here political analyst patrick henningsen. not be alright drop. us a canary in a coal mine this is a genuine democratic movement as far as i can see this is a real arab spring moment and this is going to completely ignore discount to buy 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 london when it comes to actual democratic reforms in the middle east

certainly there's a there's a big. a big story. contradiction going on right now the british show this particular minority royal family in power there are sunni extremist minority ruling over a shiite majority this is the sort of tyranny that is commonplace pockets and sort of these pressure water these are our official states they're really created in order to secure certainly. chris for the west this is a neocolonial structure the other cats a large range saudi arabia they say they're 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 send guns friends of bahrain why isn't hillary have a friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in

bahrain. right our team is working twenty four seven days a week to provide you with the best stories and pictures from around the world find them on our website at r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's waiting before you oh dear big brother not only has his eye on you but he's listening to you and it's legal american police are now allowed to track mobile phones and get their uses g.p.s. private data without court warrants. the own mind which on cursing an enemy with their hack so finding a charm to make you a lovable rever faithful has just become a little hot up online auction yeah e-bay has banned the sale of all forms of match . right the new u.n. envoy for syria confirmed earlier this week has admitted he has a tough job ahead with the first task overcoming divisions within the security council the current u.n. observer mission mandate for syria expires late on sunday president assad has made

a rare public appearance at damascus moscow seen performing. prayers his outing comes amid reports quoting opposition officials that british intelligence is aiding rebels to attack regime forces apparently the turks are being used to pass information and moscow is strongly opposing you was called flow no fly zone over syria saying it could lead to a catastrophe well washington support of the rebels is being complemented by internet sites taking into a nation that is guaranteed you can report of they're not telling the whole 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. oh but what the page 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 or 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 this week the u.s. defense secretary accusing iran of training program militia in syria and aggravating the conflict but analyst eric draitser says the statement is nothing but a sign of desperation. states is the pot calling the kettle black essentially doing whatever it can to foment a chaos to to turn sunni's against shiites to turn on the whites against kurds and so forth and try to destroy the syrian state in that way and then they'll turn around and say that the iranians are doing the same thing by forming pro assad militias this is unbridled hypocrisy as i already mentioned but i think we could take it one step further to show that this really demonstrates the u.s. is desperation in syria they know that they're outmatched diplomatically they're outmatched in terms of the foreign policy and so with the only thing they can do is

use syria as an issue to demonize the iranians which is the ultimate enemy in the region for the u.s. establishment. the egyptian new president mohamed morsi has made a fresh move to push the army for the from paula by dismissing two top military officials one of them is the defense minister who was defector the head of state in the period between hosni mubarak's ousting and most is in operation the announcement came during a major offensive that's underway in the country as a restive sinai region along the israeli border morsi has been broiled in a policy struggle with the military council vaal to restore security there but the regime the region's only seen more lawlessness often mover outs fall with al-qaeda groups targeting security forces and being smuggled from libya investigative journalist but becka boss says the morsi could approach a backlash from the ministry that could potentially end 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 there are prerogatives in terms of that constitutional amendment which transfer of powers from the presidents to dead now more civil why did that completely day 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 are elites are really freaking out with the morsi move because now they say that he just has become a dictatorship so there could be some counter coupes from foreign actors as well basically from the muesli brotherhood going to if you don't want any more frictions between skaf and the press that so we can say that for the moment this korea's muslim brotherhood won skaf zero the problem is the military even if the jury is reliant now or rearrange the control most forty percent of the egyptian economy

egypt has no money i'm betting in the long run that they will last egypt cool apps in terms of being practically defaulting and game maybe later do rearrange another egyptian military coup and go back to power. now some other headlines from around the world the people have been killed and several injured by twin car bombing in the libyan capital tripoli he attacked homs a yes since the fall of the city to rebel forces. from my leader. being blamed that name while libya's general national congress declared that toppled leda son saif gaddafi will stand trial next month on charges of audrie in the killing of dissenters. thousands of protesters rallied in china and hong kong against japan's claim to a contested i meant protest as shouted anti japanese slogan wearing flak. it was an attack japanese restaurant thing because the demonstration was sparked after

japanese like activists raise their flag on the disputed tokyo controlled territory which china claims. muslims all around the world are celebrating to the end of ramadan it's a day to break their fast to go to mars for a visit and congratulate their relatives and friends and give to charity the past month has been a time of spiritual reflection and improvement achieved through fasting and devoting more time to prayers reciting the koran. this is also a big day for millions of muslims here in russia archies jacob grieves look at how the holiday is being celebrated millions of muslims around russia have been waking up very early indeed before sunrise putting all some of the best clothes as is tradition on this holy day also the be 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 not unless the lining the surrounding streets here the listening 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 though fear now actually translates as the breaking of the fast so we can expect many things to be taking place in moscow and around russia with friends and family have been somewhat bar by what transpired late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there to mass government 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 the moment have managed to fuse that bomb threats. well a criminal case has been opened in the nearby republic of in goshen way

a suicide bomb i carried out an attack killing at least seven policemen the blahs struggle as a group of officers arrived at the funeral of their colleague shot dead in an assault on saturday they were offering their condolences when an attacker entered the school shot of a private home and exploded over a dozen locals were wounded in the blast. right you know with the odd tea in a few minutes away discuss the impact and julian assange has cases having on freedom of speech in the u.s. that's after a recap of our week and today's top stories. well

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