julian assange says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistleblowers aiming to shed light on the crimes of the. hundreds of supporters turned out say his statement was due to hundreds of police officers who were getting caught it in their desire to arrest him more coming up in just a moment. and other news of the verdict belfour punk band pussy riot and to putin's dunton russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars crowds rarely baby in support and against the women. bahrain's prominent human rights activists now bill read that in jail for three years while the equal rights movement against momentum in the gulf states. and the un's a new peace envoy for syria admits his first task is becoming security council

divisions there says reports suggest you came teligent of helping rebels attacked the regime. you're watching r t live from moscow with me to mom would say first julian assange has called for the u.s. to 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 embassy surrounded by british police who were ready just repay him into custody if he set foot outside the building or does laura smith was a to hear what he had to say to his supporters. what's happened to the soft news be nothing left in a rally that was several speakers who came on the floor today in a sound sort of whom are packed his longtime supporters including tara cali the

renowned station list but of course there was a serious message behind all this that the old 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 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 heard swarms of police coming up the fire escape inside the door an embassy building here and don's and 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 repel 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 i would 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 pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful. i'm very lucky to be joined now by one of those whistle players craig murray who has the full bush's ambassador to as

pakistan and a whistleblower himself he blew the whistle on government abuses involvement in craig thanks very much for talking to us now what do you think julian assange case tells us about the treatment of whistleblowers. i think of course and labor has a long history of whistleblowers being smeared and charged with crimes under later today it was all 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 through. with other charges be often sexual charges because were destroyed for 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 officers law and in its attempts to back down because it's found to solve so diplomatically isolated it most certainly did say about both in person and in writing to the government of ecuador. 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 to ditch the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office and what do you say to william hague. william hague really has made a full of himself he. first time he wants gave a media 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 a threat to storm vehicle dorrian embassy. decision to grant a son's political asylum is being closely monitored in the u.s. washington has not admitted it's planning to request a sundress extradition but a number of american politicians aren't holding bag some going thirty five to demand his son to be tried and executed artie's merino port blair reports from new york. the 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 equating julian a songe to 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 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 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 do 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 julia sondra many do as the publisher similar to the new york times chilliness orange is 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 wiki leaks published

instead the u.s. government it is presumed is all to me hoping to go after julian are songe 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 under house arrest in london the world's top was a blow i invited prominent activists thinkers and news makers to voice their opinions on things that matter one of them was i could was president rafael correa while some had never previously appeared on international television watch every episode of julian as one does the interview show on our website at our songe dot altie dot com. on friday three women from russian punk group pussy riot two were jailed for two years each for the n.t. putin stunt and the country's main orthodox cathedral the women performance was

ruled to be whole it is them motivated by religious hatred the decision drew crowds of people outside the core drilling both in support of and against the bad artie's peta oliver has the details. but you have already in prison have you move seriously you possibly have another edge the end of any delusion if one would assume i'm never going to find him because i knew but obviously from you she would usually. after their trial hit headlines around the world a global audience who's watching as maria. and you kathleen as some would say of each found out their fate for their performance the punk rock prayer in russia's main cathedral outside the court 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 the public order offenses calm damned by some celebrated by others their performance in this cathedral lasted for a little more than a minute and a half but it's perhaps made pussy riot the most recognizable russian music act in the world. 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 they use elsewhere a church in russia was daubed with the slogan down with religious fanatics and in ukraine a topless member. the group then in town across with a chain saw an offer from playboy for a photo shoot 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 will 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 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 group of 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. moskos. now obviously the pussy riot sentence provoked a massive international reaction a number of gatherings backing the band were staged across the globe including in spain france britain and other countries foreign governments had this say with the us calming on the authorities to review their case while denouncing the sentence as disproportionate larry jacobs managing director of the world congress of families says the coverage of the pussy riot trial was hyped by the western media. i don't really expect immediate studiousness airlie. always reports recently of the us and western europe we have seen some of the same issues so it's politicized the issue that made it about objection and about supposedly

a political statement but again. you know we have plenty of opportunities to make political statements and that we need to be responsible for our actions and there's no question that they were that they were guilty of any group is free to protest. if it's again on a place where they. know they're not violating someone else's rights in this case they certainly violated the rights of the church they trust and other vandalised and so you have to expect a consequence is. right here with our t.v. coming up in a few minutes they don't maybe nearing the one of either pacific as washington's going presence in the region to patients on banking. also as well as another around the world might be end of the holy month of ramadan odyssey looks at how celebrations are going in russia.

a prominent human rights activist has been jailed for three years and by her a now be found guilty of inciting anti-government protests from his speeches and online pace for eighteen months protesters in the gulf states happen calling for democratic reform and an end to what they claim is one of this discrimination crane's royal family has been accused of brutally suppressing the 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 here pm allies speaks for itself this is according to you political analyst patrick henningsen. no feel rajab 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 our 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 i'll put 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 in a lot of pockets and in some of these petro 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 cats a large 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 send duns friends of bahrain why isn't hillary have a friends of bahrain meeting to send weapons to the democratic protesters in bahrain. prodigy was working twenty four hours seven days a week to provide you with the best stories and pictures from around the world find them on our website at our top com and here's a quick look at what's waiting for you oh 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 gather uses g.p.s. private data about the war in. the online witchhunt present an enemy with a hacksaw finding the time to make it level for ever faithful has just become a little harder online auctioneer each day has banned the sale of all forms of magic. the

new un 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 e.u. and observer mission mandate for syria expires later on sunday president assad has made a rare public appearance at a damascus mosque seen forming prayers his outing comes amid reports quoting oppositional socials that british intelligence is aiding rebels to attack regime forces apparently the turks are being used to pass information and moscow is strongly opposing u.s. calls for a 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 in donations what is gay and she can report they're not telling the full 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 web. 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 web site 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. 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 they're very sick straightness groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are all qaeda 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 versus our 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 accuse iran of training program militia in syria and aggravating the conflict but analysts. says that the statement is nothing but a sign of desperation. the united states is the pot calling the kettle black essentially doing whatever it can to foment the chaos to to turn sunni's against shiites to turn 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 it's 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 arabians which is the ultimate enemy in the region where the u.s. establishment. 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 utech comes a yes is the fall of the city to rebel forces loyalists the former leader moammar gadhafi of being blamed 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 dessen tess. thousands of protesters rallied

in china and hong kong against japan's claim to a contested island purchases sheltered empty japanese slogans burned flags and take japanese restaurants and cars the demonstration was bought off to japanese activists raise their flag on the disputed tokyo controlled territory china claims . now muslims around the world are celebrating the end of ramadan it's a day to break their fast to go to mosque visit and congratulate their real relatives and friends and give to charity in the past month has been a time of spiritual reflection and improvement achieved through fasting and devoting more time to prayers and reciting the koran. this is also a big day for millions of muslims in russia artie's jacob greece looks at how the holidays being celebrated here 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 greatest mosque in moscow is the one just behind me which is currently being referred to see intentions of thousands of people not unless aligning the surrounding streets to listen servants also be giving praise to god this is coming on the end on the back of the holy month of ramadan no faster and this question will this day shelf theater now actually translate 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 now those have been somewhat bar by what transpired late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there to pass 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 english or tear where suicide bomb i carried out an attack killing at least seven police man the blast struck as a group of officers arrived at the funeral of their colleagues shot dead in an assault on saturday they were offering their condolences when an attacker entered the courtyard of a private home and exploded over a dozen very girls were wounded in the blast. by the geo political faceoff between china and america in asia pacific is causing widespread tension in the region the u.s. is concerned with china's increasing influence so is developing military ties with its neighbors artie's alexy or chefs explains why the obama administration is things 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. is becoming. a crucial region the u.s. . is having you along. because the u.s. is in march and. they are coming to this region. trying to. china. and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty

percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade the official reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the u.s. is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces modernization creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the u.s. than in the philippines seeing that the u.s. or so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have at in store for china so all the treaty allies from japan south korea australia the philippines you're being mobilized right now to encircle china and keep it subservient to the u.s. dictate in interests with a deeply checkered historic background of the u.s. military presence in the region many concerns have been raised the united states has for many many battles and pivot towards asia should be considered something of

great alarm for the. people of the continent fearing full scale conflict in the region beijing is looking for a helping hand and it has look no further than its closest neighbor during the recent state visit to china hu jintao seemed glad to know he had russia's support with pledges to boost already strong military ties all but making this point clear while washington the must stay vigilant in the face of china's growing military beijing has an openly criticize the new u.s. agenda in the asian pacific region all the statements by the officials so far have been mild declarations of dismay and warnings of a destabilizing situation but experts both in china and abroad believe this is just the calm before the storm and that beijing in fact is growing less and less tolerant of washington's behavior. reporting from beijing in china. they said using id for your viewing pleasure if you've missed anything one major

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