this is all see coming to life for most go to headlines. the german catholic church presses charges against to riot copycats who just want to see this in cologne's cathedral and could now face an even longer jail sentence than by aspirants. brand new tools between tehran and the un's atomic war still come to nothing and made fears within iran that giving its assistance to the agency will come at a high price. and both america's rally to ecuador's cools down declare and this is diplomatic holy ground leaving britain a red faced but still no less desperate for the truth and a sound. and up next an exclusive interview to all see the accord or in president

himself shares his views on how the standoff with britain might continue and what price kaito may have to pay for backing truman a song. why did ecuador get involved in all this by standing up for julian assange the country's exposing itself to risk according to the media one of the reasons for the delay in granting him asylum was ecuador's fear of a possible u.s. response is this true. or not at all we just wanted to address the request in a very thorough and responsible way will look to the motivations for mr sanders asylum bid looked into the charges brought against him in sweden reviewed u.k. law as well as international law and of course we went over our own legislation then we made a responsible decision just as we promised originally after the olympics

specifically because they were taking place in london and not because of fear of reprisals which we knew might follow them we will always be guided by principles and values not to fear what consequences might ecuador face after granting asylum to julian assange which normally such a decision shouldn't have any consequences that is if all countries respect international law which clearly says that the state has the right to grant asylum how many times has sweden granted asylum a lot of people requested asylum in sweden and leave the noun this country is known for its willingness to give asylum and what consequences could there be but unfortunately in this particular case we see that some countries are displaying their colonial and imperial ambitions their ethnocentricity it turns out that if ecuador grants asylum to someone it certainly might have consequences what consequences are we talking about if we're exercising our sovereignty in line with international law. are you afraid of any sanctions that might follow there is

definitely no fear but let's face it there might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example acts on these threats and invades our embassy to arrest the sanj but can you imagine how big of a precedent this would set mr president some media have suggested that the decision to grant asylum to julian assange is nothing more than that what goes it down to improve the country's international image and what is this international image i don't know anything about it fortunately in our country seventy five to eighty percent of the power belongs to the people no matter what some dishonest and immoral media trying to say certain power groups use them to tell lies about what's going on they say the reason new freedom of speech in ecuador is there is no freedom of speech how would they be able to communicate this idea big contradict themselves or this will world knows that latin america including ecuador is going

through historical changes right now so we are finally witnessing social justice equality sovereignty and dignity there are some power groups that oppose these changes mind you these groups are very influential some of them own media outlets they constantly conduct smear campaigns trying to discredit our government i want to ask you a question how many days have you been in ecuador. no more than three i think have you feel that any of your reports have been banned or censored at the time you felt like there was censorship have you been told for example that you cannot publish certain stories has your excess to information been restricted in any way as of course not this is the reality but these ballot groups both national and international are constantly campaigning against us trying to discredit our government because ecuador in latin america on changing and changing for the better thing god mr president in your interview with julian assange in his programme on

our channel you said he's invited to the club of the persecuted do you feel like you're being persecuted i have prayed as i've said every day i wake up and have to guess what lies the media will cook up to deny it in ecuador there are six families that own the whole media business and there are several other major businesses that belong to them our new constitutional reform bend the media from being involved in any other business activities except for being the source of information as they called it infringing on freedom of the press we want to avoid the conflict of interest and that was considered infringing on freedom of speech and whatever is in line with laurent ethics but is at odds with the interests of the media dictatorship that used to exist in ecuador is considered infringing on freedom of speech we would like the world to understand what is really going on in ecuador the things that the needed us here would be unacceptable in such countries as the u.k. russia the us for example the murder case in the u.k.

if something similar happened in ecuador and the people responsible were brought to justice this would be called infringing on freedom of speech you have to understand that the median let in america have always been very corrupt it supported the pinochet regime the dictatorship in argentina and so on conflicting interests when every day occurrence there was even a clear pattern having become a successful businessman you set up your own channel not to keep the population in . but to protect your business interests now everything is changing and i've become the target of daily criticism of regular smear campaigns no one believes them though when julian assange has mother came to ecuador did you have a chance to talk to her yes of course christine is a wonderful person isn't she we gave her a warm welcome and it was a pleasure to talk to her deter visit to ecuador influence your decision to grant julian assange asylum in any way. no we didn't all decision was made in accordance with international law and was based on x.

but those traditions of humanism as well as the grounds that mr sanchez presented to support his request for political asylum we met with christine she's a very nice woman but it in no way influenced our decision. mr president it's hard to believe that julian assange had no contact with ecuadorian officials prior to requesting political asylum because he needed to be certain that there were dory an embassy would ensure his safety did you discuss this option with him before hand. no we didn't i didn't talk to mr sands personally but if i'm not mistaken at some point the situation became suit chance that he said he was thinking about seeking asylum in an embassy haps even in ecuador's embassy was sure he would be allowed to stay when he entered the embassy so i think mr sanchez discussed it with the embassy staff since he i believe entered after hours so they must have been expecting him any person seeking asylum in ecuador as embassies will

be safe we will see to the needs but after that we will consider granting them asylum with all due fairness if the person in question is a criminal we will never grant asylum to him but why do you think julian assange strolls ecuador and not another country only mr sands can answer that and the fact he did is the best response to this smear campaign and to the people who maintain we have a new freedom of speech the man whose freedom of speech personified requested asylum in ecuador it's the best response to organize how long do you think will julian assange should be staying in the embassy in theory indefinitely unless the u.k. goes ahead with its threats to raid our embassy to arrest him as you know the threat is in a written form and the u.k. hasn't revoked it do you think they drill a go as far as that i think it will be pure insanity on the part of the u.k. after doing so any of their embassies could be raided and what will they say then

what kind of repercussions would such development have we would immediately server our diplomatic ties of cause i think it would lead to a backlash in all the latin american countries but i maintain that the u.k. has more to lose after that how would you prevent the same from happening to the u.k. embassies around the world and i assure you the u.k. has more diplomatic missions than ecuador. if the u.k. doesn't give permission for julian assange just safe passage to aqua door how will he get there in a diplomatic the call no which would be impossible if he leaves the embassy he can be arrested by the you can't police i'm not an expert on this but i would think this even if you are in a car with diplomatic license plates you are still at the mercy of the driver and who knows what you will agree to in any case no one is trying to hide his son from the swedish prosecution which we need guarantees that he would not be extradited to a third country why do you think sweden refused ecuador's proposal to question a sound at the embassy even via skype as has been done before why this is widely

accepted legal in practice it has been done many times before and that's why the ecuadorian embassy proposed this to the swedish prosecution we invited them to come to the embassy and question mr sands in person isn't that what they've been trying to do all along they denied our offer so what are we supposed to think now percent of the so many countries and organizations have supported ecuador's decision to grant asylum to songe including nassau and most of the alba nations in what we did they express their backing this discipline we have enjoyed has been primarily due to britain's diplomatic clumsiness i hope you will excuse my language but i just can't find another word to put it is the british threatened us with storming our embassy to arrest mr son and this is what has united all the nations in south america and other continents in their desire to stand behind ecuador confronted as it was with such a barbaric prospect such threats are unacceptable had they been carried out this

would have constituted a violation of one of the fundamental principles of international law the inviolability of diplomatic premises it was this threats rather than our eventual asylum decision that has prompted such widespread support in our favor from the valley varian alliance of the americas and the union of south american nations what do you think could happen in the short term what. the possible scenarios i'm not an astrologist i'm an economist a lot will now depend on the u.k. in sweden our positions remains the same we are open to dialogue all we want is a guarantee that mysterious loony face those charges that were brought against him in sweden and will not be extradited to third countries or they could give him safe passage from the ecuadorian embassy in london will ecuador stand behind a sound no matter what consequences might follow once we granted asylum to mr sanchez he's under the protection of ecuador plans will do everything to make sure

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hello welcome to the sport and here are the headlines. guilty lawns armstrong is stripped of his seven tour de france titles and given a lifetime ban after giving up on his legal battle over doping charges. while speaking russian ahead of saturday's moscow darby r.t. talked exclusively to locker watching managers have an election about life in the country's top flight. and fast track world superbikes champion callers jay can't settle for second place in free practice as the high octane sport hits moscow for the first time. but first long's armstrong has been stripped of his seven tour de france titles and given a lifetime ban from cycling after he refused to fight drug charges from the u.s. anti-doping agency the agency alleges armstrong used banned substances as far back as nine hundred ninety six and has a raised fourteen years of his career the forty year old maintains his innocence

but said he'd had enough of contesting accusations he calls nonsense the american retard in two thousand and five after his last victory but returned between two thousand and nine and two thousand and twelve on monday he failed in his attempt to block the charges in a us federal court the cancer survivor will now focus on the work done by his own charity while the world and you don't mean chief rude the americans decision not to fight on. failure to rebut the charges those very serious charges mean that he's effectively acknowledging that they had substance and that allows usada under the rules that he always subjected himself to to impose sanctions which they will do and those sanctions a pretty onerous sanctions effectively a lifetime ban in. kabul and after twice leading his native croatia to the european championships southern village has returned to top management this time at the hands of lokomotiv moscow i thought is really the former defender is considered one

of football's top young coaches and he took the time to speak exclusively with r.t. about how he's finding life in russia. this is the job i wanted because i think myself ok i enjoyed my time big time like because i was the manager of my country and about. i see myself for. more the club manager more as a coach. and this kind of job it gives you. big opportunities to work with the players on the loose is the truth some players to do some extra with them because you have. time which is precious and also. that is the biggest difference but if you have to put on the scale. which i prefer. although i told you i would never have

a job close enough to the job that i was doing for six years for six years. this is this is if you're a football man this is it you know. what is in one hand very difficult it makes your job really difficult and really tough but in the other hand it's a great challenge is that the league is very even. ok you have better teams you have not that good team from paper but there are definitely there are no easy games you can clearly see that you have the needs. that the club did that to merge in the last few years and. they are the plus for themselves i don't so they are not guaranteed the points for granted also them after the need you can have not three not two not for you for maybe seven or eight. clubs that are very like even but the

bottom let's say the bottom eight if you can call it. jeffrey good and good enough. to spoil your plans for going away what i like the most and i didn't expect that is that it's very. it is physically in one hand but then the referee and everything major league very how can i say tidy. there are no harsh challenges there are no fights on the pitch and it's it's great for football it's great for football so i'm i'm i'm very happy because in one hand it's great to league and even the other hand it's tough but it's that's what i wanted to. it's a great challenge. they're not playing great

but. they are lucky as well you know they had some really good games but simply they lost a game because in football you are immediately invisible like when me. you took a you have to deserve it and everything so they hit the road but the minute i told my players and we we're not expecting that they're going to. throw their pens down and you know know they're going to fight like like one did lions and yeah. on the other hand they're confident they have a new manager who is really good and definitely the day they're going to be up for it big time. on the other hand they're not playing great at the moment so of course finances you know the highs. like normally in the situation like you like that so showed a chance. i'm not thinking about where should i be or where will i be a way would i like to be three four two years time i feel that i can say that i

would try and i'm concentrating on my daily job on the local and i would like to be here to stay here are a very long time because i really like a few of me and all of my stuff i enjoy. and the moscow dobby between locomotive and unama is the first of four matches in the russian premier league on saturday then off to the east so diverse is bottom clash it's the turn of media sinitta time to twice for much albion's remain in form terek will take on second place spot time and second bottom ross top post and learn young in the last day of the day. while in england swanzy host west ham in the early kick off in the first of games then aston villa take on everton manchester united play for them nor each welcome q.p.r. something sweet wigan sunderland face reading tottenham post west brom and leaders chelsea will have a new council in the light match fallen sunday champions manchester city go to

liverpool comes despite the reds three no i mean defeat at west brom manager roberto mancini is still wary of his opponents. every. that you play in our field is a really tough. for us it will be. a difficult game also because they come from. a game against west brom each. where probably a day in the south to lose but the football is strange for the setting that would be our game. and in the meantime you barcelona head coach tito villanova has claimed victory in his first meeting with counterparts as a marine year after basso came from behind to beat well madrid three to at the nou camp in the first leg of the spanish super cup a year on from the famous clash that's all marino poke a villain over in the eye christiane though now though finally headed way out in front ten minutes into an action packed second half only for barcelona to equalise

immediately after the kick off as having national no it didn't matter rodriguez then secular ramos trip andres iniesta in the penalty area allowing the you know messi to put bass in front after seventy minutes and then they asked then swiftly said gerry and then there's to make it three one. but with five minutes to go substitute and jumped on goalkeeper viktor bout this absolute howler pull a goal back three two so victory for villanova but very near as men head into next thursday's return leg with two away got was a little bit of a what all of it there's a lot it's always better to win for one than three two but i think we played a very good game you would try to dominate throughout and we achieved that we created a lot of chances and their two goals were teed up for specific players and it's no more these things happen especially because real ira team of great quality particularly with free kicks and haven't players that are good in the air in the

end we won the game three two and the competition stands in our favor we'll go to the byrne about to win it. but. living on to athletics where jamaica is yohan blake blitz the one hundred metres and you same boat cruise through the two hundred on a night when the olympic stars shown at the latest diamond league meeting in less than a live picture can bolster started not to compete in the one hundred meters and silver medalist blake while a personal best of no one point six nine seconds to win in the joint third fastest time in history a revolt has run faster american. icing gave a finish second chance to make it mr carter third while bolt comes to be won the two hundred meters and nineteen point five eight seconds and that alone stranding my team it took silver to make his nickel ashmead clinch bronze what olympics jump in kirani james of grenada won the men's four hundred meters in forty four point three seven seconds ahead of the dominican republic getting some toss while there was a photo finish in the women's one hundred meters as american calmly to jessa is to

make his shelley and fraser prize both clocks ten point eight six seconds that jetta was awarded the gold. finally to bikes of the most of our arty where reigning world champion call us check out was second in friday's free practice session for the inaugural moscow stage of the world superbikes championship the spaniards came in behind his difficulty teammate giuliano at the brand new moscow raceway on the outskirts of the russian capital current standings leader max biaggi could only manage a night while in the supersport county break our psyches kennan something or you let the first qualifying session had a honda right as some nose and broke parks local hero. commish motorsports was face champion checa was pleased with. what i got the way it was that i really enjoyed the track our team quickly got used

to the slow boring of the circuit there are lots of turns and we have no problems with it so i think we'll have a slight advantage over our opponents hopefully it won't rain this weekend and we'll produce our best time. and that's all the sport is but for. line. would be soo much brighter if you knew about someone from funds to pressure. these funds start on t.v. dot com.