tonight ecuador gets overwhelming backing from fellow american nations in its route with britain over julian assange condemning efforts to undermine the sanctity of embassy. there is definitely no fear but that's nice it might be reprisals which would be charitable party spanish channel exclusively to ecuador as president about the hurdles his country may face for backing one of the world's most famous whistleblowers. and egypt's new leader extends a hand of friendship to china and iran in a gesture seen as the country breaking away from washington's influence.

pm saturday night here in moscow you're most welcome this is our team my name's kevin irwin here with the top stories for you in first ecuador scored another point in its diplomatic row with britain over granting asylum to julian the sunshade thirty four member bloc of american nations has declared solidarity and support for the country condemning the u.k.'s earlier threats to storm its embassy in london to get the whistleblower laura smith is in britain and she's got the details. it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually got what it wanted out of the meeting essentially the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called an assault on your sovereignty and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempts to put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian assange but also urged to

continue talks between ecuador and britain to try and sort out their diplomatic problems the usa and canada are members of this organization and they were very much against this meeting from the very beginning and they all say that he expressed reservations about the resolution that was passed in the end but it goes to show that particularly in its own region ecuador is not acting alone and it's now got huge international backing across the americas but we've seen no movement in britain and stance so far they still remain committed to arresting julian assange and adds to fulfilling this court order which says that he must be extradited to sweden whatever happens and in fact we've seen further proof in recent days that britain is not going to abandon its plans to arrest him we had a policeman photographed outside the ecuadorian embassy one of the many policemen who is guarding the embassy twenty four seven holding this piece of paper a piece of restricted information that says that doing that so i should be arrested

essentially at all costs whatever it takes even if he emerges in some way in a diplomatic car even if as some have posited here merges in some kind of diplomatic crate or bag that is not going to put the british police off arresting him that they're really very intent on arresting him and fulfilling this court order so that's a position that hasn't changed in the last few days and i see no reason that it will change as a as a direct result of this but as i say the international pressure is growing meanwhile due to messages of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. that is laura smith there well for ecuador it's not just about the sound his fate in the longer is the country may still have to face harsh consequences for its gesture rafael career exclusively shared his view on the issue with r.t. spanish channel has a preview of his interview coming your way in fact a bit later this hour. 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 but unfortunately in this particular case we see that some countries are displaying their colonial and imperial ambitions there and this interested it turns out that if ecuador granted asylum to someone else it certainly might have consequences there is definitely no but let's face it some leader might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example or practice on these threats and invades our embassy to risk the sand but can you imagine how big of a precedent this would set. nuclear talks between iran and the un atomic watchdog of once again had an impasse with no date set for further negotiations the islamic republic stuck with crippling sanctions and continued accusations of pursuing an atomic bomb the allegations were fueled by turan reportedly stepping up its uranium enrichment program which it

insists is peaceful jumble of data from the national iranian american council says the country had no other choice. western sanctions have been escalating the pressure on iran has been escalating and to expect a country to sit on its hands well it's having these pressure tactics level at it is completely unrealistic so for iran i think when it looks at this situation it had several opportunities regarding how does it respond how does it escalate in turn and it could have taken far more provocative actions i think actually installing these centrifuges was probably the lowest grade retaliation to the western sanctions and some of the threats of war at the end of the day it's still the judgment of the united states of israel of all of the western intelligence agencies that you run has not begun to actually build a nuclear weapon they have not made that decision yet and so all this talk about

war zones of immunity and so forth is completely premature and counterproductive to actually resolving this conflict. over the hoping to get a look inside a radio military base is one thing you will find is the s. three hundred missile launch still ahead we look at the defense system once coveted by iran and how it's being developed and sophisticated weapon here in russia. plus greece fails to get the reassurances it long for despite its charm offensive in europe aimed at winning more time for the ailing economy. next to see the opponents presidents have clashed with his supporters his crowd surged in cairo and alexandria anti-government protesters accuse president morsi and his muslim brotherhood party of overstepping their authority and parliament morsi is currently trying to establish new foreign policies that seems a way of moving away from american influence egypt's leader heads to china next week seeking investment then it's a trip to iran which is one of the west main forms right now michael hughes from

you will start to use coalition told me he predicts a significant rebalance of power. the unspoken link here is israel you know it's egypt can leverage this relationship and vice versa to put pressure on israel to stop you know this loose talk of bombing iran you know there's a connection for morsi starts looking like a geo political genius if you can pull this off if he can get israel though to step back on the whole bombing iran thing better be pretty amazing they find a partner in iran and they don't have to rely. on israel and they can offset counterbalance the gulf monarchies they're trying to rebalance and shift away from the west and they need the immediate cash from the west they need it from the i.m.f. and the united states and the gulf monarchies but long term they want to get in bed with china who can fill the gap so they have to rely on the west any more. access

to the mediterranean in some suez canal priority which the u.s. gets currently. you know because other than that it is hard to see that china's going to get much but those two things are pretty big they want they want port access and they want to look i want to align themselves with the nonaligned and align with egypt you know taken away from us is a win for china for the background and analysis to egypt to the transformation to be found on our website all to dot com if you get a minute as well we got plenty more lined up for you there to the university of wild west why colorado students can now pack guns as well as books in their school bag that's revealed from us online. norwegian mass murderer and his bread big heads for a decades long stay in jail where it turns out it really might not be so bad after all but we get a sneak peek inside the. missiles and bloodshed not a war zone but a football match looking out here at russian hooligans go on the rampage putting

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a ride to tomorrow's water world today. again russian energy giant gazprom has joined the club of companies literally coming under attack from greenpeace six environmental activism bush one of the firm's floating oil rigs in the arctic in protest against plans to drill in the area but despite warnings from platform workers activists moneys to latch on to the rig suspending themselves off fifteen hours now they claim they were then sprayed with water from above them retreated to quote avoid risks in the freezing conditions environmental campaigner chris williams says several nations are getting increasingly interested in a slice of the arctic energy reserves and that will keep greenpeace busy. the oil that is below the arctic is up to twenty five percent of world reserves there are countries vying for control of optical oil those countries i think are pretty

determined to start drilling the russian being the first one is now provoking protests from greenpeace shell very keen to drill and have been given allowances from the obama administration to begin an exploring the process it'll be interesting i think to find out whether greenpeace i would expect them to also be protesting just as vigorously western oil companies when they start drilling as they have been now occupying the cast from oil rig. you're watching r.t. live from moscow coming up home grown product struggled to break through a strict economic barriers palestinian farmers see their crops go to waste because of israeli regulations we're reporting on that tonight and we're also reporting from new york as well to ask people there are hope all they'll get two hoots about the democrats and republicans increasingly dominating the t.v. screens these days. but now no sign of relief for greece after its p.r.

blitz city europe to try and win more time to enact the painful reforms promised to its credit is the greek prime ministers met the french president after seeing the german chancellor a day earlier but both of the e.u. keep a masters of hell back from giving greece that breathing space it says it's a virgin they need angela merkel's on the rising pressure at home with a parliament leader saying neither the time nor the content could be really goes asset management specialist philip von brunn believes no matter how hard greece tries it will not be able to pay back what it owes. greece is bankrupt i think there's no discussion about that today and it hadn't been two or three years ago even with the hardest possible work and a lot of cut and extremely austerity. greece won't be able to pay back the huge amount of their they have loaded to their shoulder there's only one

way of rescue and greek gaining of competitiveness increase and this is the exit from the euro zone and politicians always argue there are enormous costs involved with the exit of chris that's perfectly right but what is the amount of costs in war with greece staying within the euro zone. britain may not be using the euro but its finances continue to feel the pinch from the euro zone despite this new numbers show the economy had actually tanked less than predicted but a spark of optimism however the cold shower treatment was pulled from marty's mix kaiser and stacy herbert the full program coming up a bit later. this is when the government throws money to the oligarchs and the monopolies the oil companies and the bankers because when they stop giving them money they can pull the old atlas shrugged that we like. you know we're not going to work anymore we're in a gatekeeper position we're wedged into the economy if you don't give us more money

we're call systemic collapse which is ridiculous because the government if they want to give away money they should give it away to the entrepreneurs they should give it away to the consumers it is a consumer economy after all why not help the consumers know that never go to george osborne yalu eaton oxford you know friend of cameron georgie porgie in his bubble and fraud putting. more from marx in the team later than colleagues labeled made in palestine are a symbol of pride for their producers however due to israel's economic blockade palestinian farm a struggle to get their goods to the rest of the world but that is paul asli a founder things are about to change. this tiny bottle of olive oil is at the heart of an economic battle it may be small and expensive but it's one of those products that defines where people stand in the ideological battlefield of the

middle east from palestine to europe and beyond each purchase is seen as a shot in an economic war. other people are not sufficiently aware that israeli settlement products are competing with palestinian products abroad also when we tell the customer that there is a difference between settlement products and israeli products they understand we're living under occupation and they can choose what products to buy or not and more and more consumers are choosing not to buy israeli products the region eighteen of the settlements in palestinian territories they are seen by many as the foods of the occupation the work of movement of lies within it by god movement by god. and distributors to carry been a c.m. product the problem is all in the name and it's difficult to make a product stand out from those from israeli settlements. are products can't say made in palestine because we're under occupation and not yet a state they can say made in the west bank or made in gaza or a palestinian product and for some companies like this palestinian pharmaceuticals

company in the west bank it's even worse it can't even sell in its own backyard a lot of the love to be able just love to be distributed in israel because. it's with. but it will be rejected by the security is being restricted to the palestinian market is causing a lot and creating economic difficulties for the farmers but. everyone here grows olives and so the local market is very small and the competition big we don't get much money for either it is part of a bigger problem when the demand is there the occupation means more often than not farmers are prevented from gathering water or even getting to their land it me. more than half of palestinian crops go to waste but there is hope in a corner of the remote city of janine this private company is helping farmers overcome their troubles and get into international markets can be our lives are

processed pressed and stored as is an order comes through the oil is pumped up here from where it is boxed and bottled to international standards it appears demand is growing especially in the us we find that as much as our specialty shops and obs are excited to find anything in specialty goods in the marketplace they are calculating ok what backlash am i going to get from bloggers in the marketplace this snag is that these products sell for almost double the value because of the cost of getting them to market the hope for producers here is that the supporters around the world won't begrudge the few extra dollars for a bottle of olive oil and rather they'll see it as a gesture of support policy r t janine in the palestinian autonomy. election season in the united states is entering the home stretch both republicans and democrats are set to hold the national conventions in the coming weeks artie's in new york to ask what these gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will really notice.

in the u.s. republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the presidential elections these and so one of these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're growing your eyes i say convention internet stuff why are you into politics they're all crooks yes but we have to choose right all crooks what do the conventions do do you think what do they do they were so out of money that's what they do good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around certain condit so yes i think they do too so we really need more hype. in today's world to yeah do you spend a ton of money on it just by sheer do they are an advertiser can prize you on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's business as usual so we don't do this where you go from state to state and i think that i think you just said the key word business i think there's

a lot of money on the table in american ballot there and that's a bit of a worry is the case that we were there for the truth what if they put money into the numbers and i want something out of a donor but i think the whole political process is crazy the amount of money they spend on ads and different things it's just ridiculous and it's not truthful the ads are generally false fake and just you know don't really serve any purpose it's a lot of waste of money for the taxpayers you know who do you think is going to get dirtier romney or obama. romney who do you think is going to win. why. because of mitt romney it doesn't appeal then like either you don't like either one or. you think he's going to end here thing you know are going to run a good job for you goes republican so i don't republicans sure you're going to vote for romney. no choice no matter what the conventions do or don't do the bottom line is the media is going to try to make them seem really really important so grab your popcorn and the media circus it's just about to start.

so in new york which is still reeling from a deadly shooting of course we're reporting on the a stay at least nine people have been hospitalized after of being wounded by police gunfire near the empire state building these latest pictures we have officers are responding to a shooting where a sacked employee killed a former coworker firing at the government and killing him but also hitting by standards in the process according to initial reports police say they had no choice but to open fire but investigators are still to figure out if the government pulled the trigger on the officers will keep you posted on all the world news an explosion big explosion two of venezuela's the biggest all refined he's killed at least twenty four people and wounded around fifty others this blast also damaged nearby buildings it was apparently caused by a gas leak authorities claim the situation is now under control with firefighters in the national guard if you're going to secure the site. trouble just keeps coming

up for greece this time though it's the wildfires no scared in the suburbs of the capital helicopters firefighters and volunteers have been drafted in to stem the blazes which have already ravaged thousands of hectares of forest searing temperatures and high winds bring wildfires to greece every year but many this summer of thought have been started deliberately. to keep the country safe you need the hardware to match today's ever more sophisticated threats russia thinks it's got the answer an r.t.c. corpus can often watching the new equipment in action. seek and destroy. planes helicopters and even you name it the s four hundred try and kill locate and hunt down almost any flying target. first the target is spotted and identified then the system starts monitoring it all following its course then the command makes the call to either eliminate the target or not after getting the green light the system opens fire one of the strong suits of the system is

a small village it can literally create air defense anywhere on the ground within minutes. of course preparation takes now more than five minutes and everything's done by three people one officer and two conscripting soldiers. this is still can shoot down an object as small as a soccer ball even if they're flying at supersonic speeds ejaz one hundred system consist of several elements one radar which monitors the skies looking for targets a second one which follows specific targets of command and the larger it's are for the gun as it's called here in the army combines the elements of the system can follow up to three hundred targets flying from was lowered just a few feet above the ground and up to nearly fourteen miles high in the skies we're just pretty much around six times higher than the average passenger jet. the first as four hundred systems are already in service and along with the older ass three

hundred and bonser s. protect the skies over moscow st petersburg and the central industrial region of russia it is planned that the ass four hundred will completely replace the three hundred it's production has already been and it is produced three hundred is capable of intercepting targets not higher than thirty kilometers which isn't enough since we're only covering a small area but when the altitude capacity is raised we can protect a larger territory analysts say recent conflicts have shown how vital it is to have reliable defense not only from threats from the skies but from space also and this is what the s four hundred was designed to do it can locate targets nearly six hundred kilometers away and has a firing range of up to four hundred kilometers that's around five times more than . it's a western analog the patriot there are no plans for exploring it just yet given rush o.j. and sworn unprecedented advantage against any threat from the skies for at least the next twenty years you go to school of our deep southern muschamp. about the

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