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the syrian regime expect to see it as part of the u.s. led campaign to increase terrans isolation. up next r.t. talks to the author of revolution south america and the rise of the new left about the future of the world's most famous was a lower julian assange. r.t. sitting down with nicholas kozlov author journalist and an expert on south america nicholas thank you very much for joining r.t. are it thank you you recently wrote an article in which he said that joining us and has certainly managed to discombobulate and disrupt a larger swath of the geo political system now of course referring to the fact that this man is an australian citizen wanted by sweden in many respects by the u.k. and by the us and now being protected by ecuador in your opinion what was the main reason behind the ecuadorian president's decision to grant joleen assigned asylum

well i think that korea probably thinks that julius anja is persecuted and so he's motivated on that score but i also think that rafael correa has his own internal political reasons for wanting to grant asylum to julian assange and ecuador holds presidential elections in february of two thousand and thirteen and i think rafael correa seems to be holding pretty solid margin of a pretty positive margin but i think that he might want to shore up some support and and i think that this issue plays to national sentiment in ecuador and wounded a sense of wounded pride because ecuador is a small country it's pretty impoverished and the united states says intervened on many in over the years in ecuador and on many occasions and in the political sphere

or in the military sphere and even the cia has launched destabilization in ecuador going back to the early sixty's and so i think korea is playing on this nationalist sentiment because ecuador and still like to be bullied they don't like to be pushed around. what does ecuador have to lose by backing a songe i mean obviously in doing so there's a bit. and tag and izing against the us even possibly the u.k. well ecuador's stands to lose. economically because it exports a lot of flowers. also mangoes pineapple and most importantly petroleum products the united states and so these are very vulnerable industries in the event that washington should retaliate and already there are there are business groups in the united in washington that are lobbying the obama administration to

cut off the preferential trade preferences the duty free trade preferences for ecuador and goods and there was one business representative who was actually quoted as saying that this a sancia fair plays to our favor and so these efforts seem to be led by the petroleum industry which is upset by korea's nationalistic oil policy this is actual actually a conflict which predates the songe affair but going back several years. you know chevron has resisted the ecuadorian. while the ecuadorian traditional system which says that it should pay damages for environmental pollution in ecuador and amazon because before it was chevron you know chevron bought up texaco and so this is been a very tense state of affairs in ecuador going back some time and so

according to reports the. chevron is leading this lobbying effort to rescind the or maybe not leading but it's at least participating in efforts to ricin these trade privileges for for ecuador and in this sense i think the songe affair is. it's like it's like a pawn in this wider geo political game so it's not going to necessarily help korea and it may actually give the oil industry and these other industries an excuse to slap on. trade restriction ecuador's neighbors in latin america have strongly condemned threats coming from the u.k. on the issue of at what door granting julian assange to political asylum how strong do you believe their support is on this and how much weight will it carry when it comes to the standoff possibly escalating. well i think that the different countries in the region have different agendas and one interesting facet of the

story is the falkland islands believe it or not because argentina has been locked in this diplomatic battle with britain over the falklands for some time and cristina fernandez de kitchener has been whipping up diplomatic support for her claims and she's been quite effective in in rounding up support in her corner. argentina once or explore for oil lucrative oil and gas in the falklands and so argentina sees this as an opportunity to whip up support against britain so i don't think that argentina has any particular regard for julia signs per se and in fact a lot of the cables that he leaked were quite unflattering towards argentina because they cast cure sinners in an unflattering light so i think the countries in the region are all playing playing this out for their own political reasons and they have their own constituencies to appease and so i think that this

. argentina wants to appease the nationalist sentiment in argentina and ecuador wants to appease nationalist sentiment there i think brazil is a little reluctant for the reasons that i said they said before because brazil is very interested in pursuing this under the radar kind of strategy it probably calculates that it's better to not alienate the u.s. so i think brazil will go up to a point with its rhetoric but not maybe not go so far as to join with the alba countries the more radical countries like venezuela and ecuador so how would act with automatic short range safe passage for a science because after all as soon as he steps out of the embassy. onto the territory of britain he will be arrested well i don't i don't really see necessarily. way out there's been talk about diplomatic pouch is which is seems

really arcane to me but it's to be sure there is this custom of diplomatic pouch is where you can bring that through the airport in they could put him in a bag but it just seems very arcane and far fetched to me if a sound does end up on ecuadorian soil what kind of consequences will it have for the country and ordinary people living there well at first i wasn't really sure how this issue would play for korea politically just because i think a lot of ecuadorians are very poor they confront just a daily battle for survival and so at first i thought this was this is a pretty esoteric issue people have more bread and butter concerns and yet in the past few days you've seen protest in front of the british consulate in quiet killers and the scene pito and it's just been a kind of a bizarre and surreal sight to see indigenous people dressed in traditional clothing with

a handkerchief of julian assange and which is very surprising to me so maybe this suggests that maybe this issue resonates that maybe korea struck a chord and a lot of ecuadorians are. resent the bullying of the united states and they don't like getting pushed around and so they're going to take the to this issue the u.s. state department has said that it believes that the issue surrounding julian assange is a bilateral issue between ecuador and the united kingdom and that the u.s. has no role to play in the matter and that other countries should not get involved how plausible is that i find it completely implausible that the united states is not involved in this in some way and then the other day the united states said very ridiculously that could or should not bring this matter before the organization of american. states that this is a matter between ecuador and britain but that's just completely preposterous it's

totally legitimate for ecuador to raise an issue of its own sovereignty at the organization of american states and i think this just points to us i see because the u.s. wants to get its way in the oas and has done so historically and now it's saying no you shouldn't bring this issue before the oas international media keep stressing that the u.s. has not made any moves to requests a songes extradition do you believe that washington is actually planning on getting a saw inch or do you believe that they have no interest in bringing in stanched america well i think that there's this grand jury that in virginia that's that's empowered to side on it that was a sealed indictment. but well we don't know but i think the state department and many parties in washington would love to see julian a songe brought to justice and many republicans and even some democrats like dianne

feinstein so the power elite in washington will probably stop at nothing to get its hands on julia songe for releasing the cable gate scandal and embarrassing the state department but openly they're not going to say why i don't know this is well i think that they don't want to look bad in the international arena they don't want to look vindictive so they're saying this is a matter for sweden these other countries to work out but i think probably behind the scenes united states is aging on britain i find it rather difficult to believe that britain would not have made these threats without having been pressured by washington. so given the fact that a number of whistleblowers are being persecuted by the u.s. government as a matter of fact the obama administration is considered to be waging an unprecedented war on whistleblowers how do you think that will play in this fight

against extradition for julian the songe and impact the entire whistleblowing movement well i think you'd have to say on balance that this exerts a rather chilling effect because who the hell wants to see diplomatic refuge if they can avoid it and i think a lot of people might be interested in whistle blowing but not if it means that you're going to be stateless and you have to seek. protection in a foreign embassy nevertheless i'm interested to see that in september there's a new whistle blowing organization that's being launched in iceland and which has international support so maybe in a sense what goes around comes around people will see that there's been persecution of wiki leaks and then it actually might ricochet and they'll be more whistleblowers as a result because they'll see that there's this crackdown and so now there's more of a need than ever some experts say that the united kingdom and in fact all the

players involved in this circumstance surrounding killing a songe have managed to dig themselves into a hole on this issue diplomatically speaking what would you consider to be the smartest way out for all of them well i think. i think that i personally hope that cooler heads will prevail i think that that. it's rather absurd that sweden did not did not. question join the songs in the ecuadorian embassy to begin with and i think a lot of this crisis could have been avoided if sweden had just gone there and just proceeded with the questioning but now that it's escalated beyond that point i think i hope that cooler heads can prevail and that britain doesn't go invading the territorial sovereignty of another of another country thank you very much for your time all right thank you.

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hello welcome along to the world of sports has what we call coming up a winning start to russia victorious in their first competitive match of the fabio capello breaking northern ireland to nil in their opening world cup twenty fourteen qualifier. game of march maria sharapova is out of the u.s. open tennis all three set the flame to victoria azarenka in the semifinals. the gloves out there ready for tommy klitschko puts his w.b.c. heavyweight title on the line as he takes on manuel sharkey or not later on saturday. the first football in russia have got their twenty fourteen world cup qualifying campaign off to a winning start they beat northern ireland to know in moscow in fabio capello's first game in charge they defies you in scoring on his competitive debut before i

coughed penalty sealed the win twelve minutes from time which was that. fabio capello got exactly the star he was looking for in his first competitive match as head coach of a russian national team as his only eased to a victory against northern ireland while russia dominated both position and territory throughout perhaps could have won by a bigger scoreline however battalion was more than happy with the team's performance it was difficult because the beach was. difficult the blue the ball of the field it. was difficult to find this piece because the. players in front of the goal in the few of those there is if you would define this piece for what is by this being capello's first competitive match in charge of fans failed to turn up in numbers at the stadium only being around half full at best however the.

idyll be looking to make it two wins out of. if we don't see moscow

well russia top group on goal difference from portugal who secured an hour a two one win in luxembourg well as a by john israel drew elsewhere it to me were held to a two two draw in bulgaria but france the netherlands england and germany all open their campaigns with victories. now in tennis maria sharapova his quest for a second grand slam win of two thousand and twelve is over she's been beaten by world number one victoria azarenka in three sets in the semifinals of the u.s. open the russian started brightly enough with an early break to lead three love in the opening set she eventually took six three the french open champion men broke in the early game the second set before her game started to misfire in particular leaving a lot to be desired as a banker picture up over in the final of the straight and open in january securing a three six six two six four when i. was three times serina williams in

the final race after the american breeze passage in straight sets the six one six two victory was secured in just one hour and four minutes as the thirty year old looks for a quick. victory. now to boxing where the w.b.c. heavyweight champion of the world vitale klitschko put it belt on the line here in moscow later on saturday though to iron faced his up against challenge a man welsh. has the preview. even those who don't like him have to face the fact the school has already become one of boxing's greats forty six professional boats forty four wins with forty of them claimed by no chaos the second best result in history after the great rocky marciano dr iron fist to self has never lost by decision and he has yet to ever even if he can miss and despite his

illustrious career it has never let him to the russian capital until now on saturday night the forty one year old is set to defend he struggled once again in musk ill against joe nice money will sure. be done in boy with a flawless record of twenty one wins in twenty one belts he's on the eve of his first major title shot despite the pressure the twenty seven year old soon turned his open training session into master class winning kids hearts. of human well charice feeling confident i can see it it was far from trainee he was just playing with the kids no worries he just does what he wants to do and it looks like he's good at babysitting how about his boxing skills we'll see on saturday night his younger that's. the only thing that's good ever. be here when he parts of the body will look how he was because even if he's talking

is false or no not. considering his size. his level of boxing well is more than enough to fight through. whatever he wants wherever he is younger brother who holds the rest of the world's major heavyweight belts is not underestimating char who may have the chance of a lifetime to shine. any person that. feels this way that is seize life chance will do much more than actually he can do or capable of doing this where we're expecting melcher being very aggressive he's going to move forward and it will challenge kelly. kelly knows it of course will be sure to give belcher no chance to even hit him once it was better once so tonight most skill is the place to be to find out if you don and boy is firm enough to resist the iron fists

of the crisco robert artie moscow. now if they go for alessandro had dinis top of the leaderboard after day two of the russian challenge cup the italian made light of an otherwise tough course scoring eight under sixty nine despite a wind each airline menacing clouds descending on the jack nicklaus designed golf course first behind the leaders or the leader actually is mark culo an englishman chris lloyd who were tied in second two shots back on six under par. the course is very very nice course i play a here from three years. and i like the course too much busier a little bit different conditions we had to get in. a little bit you know and and soft but the course is always good like too much playing this course finally the

paralympics in london have been the most attended in the history of the games thousands of fans have been going to events all across the english capital but why is the event caught the imagination of the locals were trying to find out. this is a typical every day scene at the main paralympic venue in london with thousands of spectators from across the u.k. making their way to the coveted event many of them admit that even the locals did not expect such a huge turnout at the second part of the summer games but also been in pics are great success from people with severe you know so the paralympics seem to be fierce just so i think everybody wants to be part of that. but i'm really now he's just i think it's just want to. then you know he's just effected everybody a snap of you know i've never known anything loud it's just amazing. to be honest i really don't know because i mean before. people know about it but you know

not really took that much interest and i. just brought everybody in as the latest paralympics edition draws closer to conclusion of the athletes continue to inspire for countries like russia or china to name just a couple the overall medal count is paramount but for nations with a smaller number of participants it's more about taking part in a meeting like minded people from all over the world. so important to let people see that all these athletes and the amputees and visually impaired just ordinary people can show the whole world that they're not disabled completely adapted to an active life moreover what athletes from other countries are capable of and realize that they prove the point again and again all this makes me feel happy meanwhile on the nerves and guests of the british capital continue to inhale the paralympics

atmosphere knowing that such experience comes once in a lifetime the london games were not without controversy but those few shortfalls that they did in comparison to the global it. bolger of the paralympics the bank is more almost back to the rafters on a daily bases with the british ensuring their home games are the most watched in history on call serve artsy and the london consensus and that is all from the world a school for now but there's plenty more later on i'll take the world where that is next.

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