julian assange says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistle blow was 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 again to sit in their desire to arrest him more coming up in just a moment. and other news from the verde for punk band pussy riot and to putin's dunton russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars crowds rallied very thin support and against the women. bahrain's prominent human rights activist bill read job is jail for three years while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf states. and the u.s. need peace envoy for syria admits his first task is overcoming security council divisions that this report suggests you came telegin says helping rebels attack the

regime. you're watching r.t. live from moscow first julian assange has called for the u.s. just stop its witch hunt against whistleblowers and also thing to ecuador for granting him political asylum he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of the latin american countries london them the sea surrounded by british police who were ready to sweep him into custody if he set foot outside the building his lawyers smith reports from outside that embassy in london what's happened to this afternoon has been nothing less than a rally there were several speakers who came on before julian assange as the 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. they're all out to support you in essence and he

really wanted to speak to the people she thanked them he thanked particularly the supporters who are out here today in their 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 heard swarms of police coming up the fire escape inside the door an embassy building here in london but that they backed off at the last minute and presumably that is in response to the perceived threats by the foreign office here that they would not hesitate to break into the embassy try to revalue kids diplomatic status and break in there 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 that 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 will say one of the most important things he said was he called upon the u.s. to stop what he called the persecution of whistleblowers that's just terrible the fact the united states must run up its witch hunt against wiki leaks. the united states must assume it's a 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 film of bush's ambassador to as pakistan and a whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on government abuses. craig thanks very

much for talking to us now it looks i think julian assange case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers. i think of the post in play there's a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes on the later today it was a blowing 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. have a charges very often sexual charges because that destroys the personal reputation the foreign office now insists that it didn't mean to say that it would still the embassy to go in and arrest you in essence what do you make of of william hague's comments and of the foreign office attitude in general. the phone office's law and in its attempts to back down because it's time to sell so diplomatically isolated they 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. william hague nearly as major pulled himself it's not the first time. he wants me to interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with the third to storm could do in an embassy. i could his decision to grant a son's political asylum is being closely monitored in the us washington has not admitted its planning to request the songes extradition but a number of american politicians aren't holding back some going so far as to demand a son should be tried and executed artie's marina portnoy 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 quavering 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 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 even gauged in methods of torture like mafia tactics it's come to this the government same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to 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 naomi wolf what she wanted to clarify for me and her position is that she sees julia sondra many do as the publisher similar to the new york times julian assange is the publisher of 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 wiki leaks published instead the u.s. government it is a presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian and my son 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. while and house arrest in london the world's top with a blow when they invited prominent activists i think is i'm news makers to voice that they all opinions on things that matter one of the other was their goodell's president rafael correa the while some had never previously appeared on international television watch every episode of jenin as songes the interview show on our website at our sons' dot r t dot com. on friday three women from russian punk group of pussy riot to a jail for two years all the region's done to the country's main off the docks cathedral the women's performance was ruled to be whole again is them motivated by religious hatred the decision drew crowds of people outside the quarterly both in support of and again sabbat our d.s.p.

to all of a has the details. but it cover to prevent you move. from going to the usually new form would. bring in the programme you put everything. into the trial hooted lines around. the ensues watching as merrier. tolokonnikova 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 thank you 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 and elsewhere a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in

ukraine a topless member of the group in down a cross with a chain saw and offer from playboy for a photo shoot and pussy riot merchandise girl law has led some to even question was this all an elaborate quest for fame they achieved their goal of. which. coming really world famous by doing what they did and when they are released they will in fact travel the world become famous there were 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 polish went 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 and those opposed to fade

away any time soon. obviously the pussy riot sentence provoked a massive international reaction a number of gatherings back in the band with stage across the globe including in spain france and britain and other countries foreign governments also had their say with the us calling on the authorities to review the case and denounce in the sentence as disproportionately u.s. based journalist john de bar believes washington should look at its own problems before judging others. the united states has other double standards that bear on this case too 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 at 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 are known to 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 believe that is states which has more incarcerated people than the next three countries on the planet and that's only in absolute terms in terms of relative terms more than any other country on the planet the united states has all these people in jail and it's going to lecture other countries about how their legal process should work i just think it has no credibility around the world and i think it's shameful. you watching our team is still ahead for you in the program a rising ten we report and how it turns living in europe by changing their minds about its might and wealth and heading back to depriving motherland. both some as muslims around the world mud the end of the holy month of ramadan

obscene look at how celebrations are going in in russia. a prominent human rights activist has been jailed for three and i feel regev was found guilty of inside taking anti-government protests through his speeches and online posts for eighteen months protesters in the gulf states have been quoting full democratic reform and an end to what they claim is religious discrimination reigns royal family has been accused of brutally suppressing the rallies with police reportedly using tear gas and rubber bullets on on on protesters and the lack of criticism of the crackdown from the u.s. and its european allies exposes their fear of genuine that democratic movements this is according to generalists and all the apps and read tons of. i responses indicative of a policy that is from someone argued dying powers because the united states and nato countries deliberately try to see the arab spring and try and put it through

their prism the arab spring when it when they don't like it as we all know they will do everything they can to snuff out any type of democracy the united states wanted to export fifty million fifty eight million dollars worth of weapons some of them presumably will be used and some weapons also from european countries used against men women and children in bahrain the nation with the highest number of political prisoners but kept around the world meanwhile there have been grown pre's in bahrain and the queen of britain personally as some people have said it invited the king of bahrain this ruthless dictator as i said thousands of people hundreds of people arbitrary arrest twenty physicians sentence for trying to heal the people injured and killed by this bahraini looked into. our team is working twenty four hours a seven days a week to provide you with the best stories and pictures from around the world to

find them on our website at r.t. dot com and here's a quick look at what's waiting there for you oh big brother not only has his eyes only you but he's listening to you and it's legal american police are now allowed to track mobile phones and gather uses g.p.s. private data that court warrants. be on line which cursing an enemy with a hacksaw finding a charm to make you love off or whether faithful has just become a little harder online auction e-bay has banned the sale of all forms of magic. 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 courage you an observer mission mandate for syria expires later on sunday president assad has made a rare public appearance at a damascus mosque seen performing eat out for terror prayers is out saying comes

amid reports quoting opposition officials british intelligence is aiding rebels who were tagged regime forces apparently the turks are being used to pass information and most though is strongly opposing you was calls for a no fly zone over syria saying it could lead to a catastrophe well wasn't in support of the rebel is being complimented by internet size taking into nations but as you can report 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 the 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. my 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 various extremist groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are all either it's a full blown civil war where the degree of hatred is so high that people commit atrocities on all fronts i spoke with one of america's leading experts on counterterrorism and he told me the bloodshed will be even harder to stop as more outside forces get involved it isn't any more simply a question vs a whole. it's a question of saudi arabia versus iran and it's a question of turkey's increasing role in the middle east all these things make this more and more complicated 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. reports suggest the u.s.

and some of its western allies are seeking to build more direct links with the rebels trying to distance themselves from the syrian national council middle east commentator calls a role says no alternative to the current regime has emerged what we have is a center of sorry to regime that effectively has collapsed and lost its control over the country but the alternative hasn't been born yet and there's lots of interference and meddling by outside forces trying to shape what this alternative is going to be and things like the libyan fighters the fighters from the last years conflict in libya are moving into syria are one expression of those external factors now taking part in the syrian conflict but ultimately the story remains the same if you want something good for syria it has to be determined by the syrian people themselves not by external agents trying to orchestrate what the outcome is

going to be that would be a really catastrophic decision to try to set up their no fly zone bit with affectively that would lead to an escalation that quickly would become a kind of military confrontation full scale military confrontation and many critics within the state says that. now some other headlines from around the world two people have been killed and several injured by a twin car bombing in the libyan capital of tripoli comes a years since the fall of the city to rebel forces loyalists of former leader moammar gadhafi are being groomed meanwhile libya's general national congress declared the toppled leaders son saif gadhafi will stand trial next month on charges of ordering the killing of dissenters. thousands of protesters rallied in china and hong kong against you and screamed to a contested island protesters shouted anti japanese slogans to burn flags and take japanese restaurants and cause the demonstration that was about after japanese

activists raise their flag on the disputed tokyo controlled territory which means. the muslims around the world are celebrating the end of ramadan is a day to break their balls to go to mosque to visit and congratulate the relatives and friends and give to charity the birth mother has been a time of spiritual reflection an improvement achieved through fasting and devoting more time to prayers and reciting the koran. but this is also a big day for millions of muslims in russia artie's jacob grieves looks at how the holiday is being celebrated. millions of muslims around russia have been waking up very early indeed before sunrise to put some of their 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 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 question will this day self be del 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 with friends and family members of the 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 misses 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. well a criminal case has been opened in the nearby republic of english way a suicide bomb i carried out an attack killing at least seven police men the last

struck as a group of officers arrived at the funeral although it could be shot dead in an assault on saturday they were offering their condolences when an attack could enter the courtyard of a private home and explode it over a dozen locals who were wounded in the blast. for over two decades turkey has been trying to join the e.u. embarking on western style economic and political reforms but now with the euro crisis turkey is thriving on its own and as our fellow reports turkish migrants in europe are thinking of heading home. with about five and a half million turks living in the european union their presence is certainly felt in societies in europe but as the e.u. continues to be deep in the red the lure of their original country's economic promise is getting harder to resist and the residents living on this street known as little anatolia say that more and more of their compatriots are thinking of

cutting their losses and heading back home like the owner of this neck bar belgian born outside blom has been finalizing his plans and is set on relocating his family back to turkey. europe is finished the crisis is getting worse every year is going to continue for his greece then spain italy right now belgium there is a lot of stress lots of taxes bills to pay well in turkey every year turkey is very powerful life is good you can live well why would you want in belgium it's no longer like this and the numbers say it all the e.u. managed a one point six percent growth in two thousand and eleven while turkey was at about seven point five percent gaining recognition as last year's fastest growing economy in europe while it is expecting a slowdown this year the grass still looks good. are on their side and dependence on europe is not quite as it used to be the trade volume used to be very high with the e.u.

countries percentage wise that used to be around fifty percent now it has gone down to just over forty percent that means we're diversifying our trade more and more trade with african countries asian countries all around the world and this of course has spurred a lot of growth so we need people to be able to manage this we need qualified people personnel so we see that a lot of people are now coming you know second third generation immigrants are coming back home for this purpose but there's another reason why a growing number of turks want out of the e.u. you know with the crisis what's the result we're rejecting foreigners obviously now that there are fewer jobs less money what happens is priority is first given to the belgians and after the foreigners the turks the moroccans the russians my decision to go back to turkey is economic but also because when there's a crisis there is discrimination if you know of this community you have as this migration trend rises turkey is still officially knocking on the e.u.

store its candidacy for membership hanging in the balance for the last twenty five years thanks to a long list of requirements to fulfill and political opposition from some e.u. countries people are afraid that that you will come up with more and more excuses even if we do overcome them people say that the other excuse is in front of us not that it matters any longer for some turks. turkey doesn't need europe it's europe needs turkey in a few years you would see that i mean against turkey becoming part of the e.u. and right now turkey doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry either does or sylvia r.t. brussels. you know with our day had a few minutes that we discuss the impact of genius on just cases having on freedom of speech in the u.s. i thought a recap of our weekly and today's top stories coming up. my

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