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sports in about fifteen minutes time we talked to the author of south america and the rise of the new left it's all about the future of the world's most famous whistleblower 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 eyestrain 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 jolene 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 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 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 of antagonizing against the u.s. even possibly the u.k. well ecuador's stands to lose. economically because it exports a lot of flowers. also mangoes pineapple and most of horton li 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 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 a 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 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 sentiments there i think brazil is a little reluctant for the reasons that i said i 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 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 a 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 soundtrack 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 this is a pretty esoteric issue people have more bread and butter concerns and yet in the past few days you've seen protests in front of the british consulate in quiet kill the british embassy in 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 which 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 crittur 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 pop received 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 sausage or do you believe that they have no interest in bringing in central 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 julius and 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 us on 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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well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. the headlines on r t russia and china lead the way in the asia pacific summit strengthening economic zones in the hope of jump starting the global financial recovery. international paymasters get to work in athens checking the books as the greeks shrug off the government's pitch for more austerity with renewed protests. also friends of iran calling it the biggest threat to global security. all diplomatic ties to toronto throws back accusations that canada is being manipulated by israel. by time for the sports is you know.

this is indeed sport today we've got plenty of head few including all this. off the mark russia when the first competitive. beating northern ireland in the opening world cup twenty fourteen call. net loss reassure the u.s. open after a three set defeat to victoria azarenka in the women's singles. capital contest small school plays host to world class boxing tonight. set to put his w.b.c. heavyweight title on the line against well shot. but first up over russia have gotten their twenty fourteen world cup qualifying campaign off to a winning start northern ireland side going down to no in moscow and what was fabio

capello's first big game in charge of the russians richard vaughan port fate was there for us. fabio capello got exactly the star he was looking for in his first competitive match as head coach of a russian national team is his only ease to a two nil victory against northern ireland or russia dominated both position and territory throughout 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 not for. the blue the ball and the field. was difficult to find this piece because the. players in front of the goal in the few of those there is the figure before in this piece but despite this being capello's first competitive match in charge of fans failed to turn up in numbers with the stadium only being around half full at best however for those who did turn and face or a very good at russian performance as they really dominated the game from start to

finish well in particular along the glory of was very impressive christine really made a number of key passes and created a number of chances for teammates in particular alexander kids or call of the long island it was a very difficult game really because we just had didn't have enough time on the ball possession to really trouble you go i can play it in russia goal was a virtual spectator for most of the match and russia only won praise from michael moore neil northern ireland head coach first of all russia a very strong team we knew that. from obviously than ours is that we did. i think the team is very similar to the team under the care i didn't see any particular differences in the style of play. we knew. would cause us problems playing narrow from way the areas of abio capello brought in a number of new names into the starting line up for my sort of picture five zero in he made his first competitive sample the russians and then she scored a goal on his debut as well as

a long awaited return. of and to be to combat of who's been in excellent form so far for sponsored mosque and all those new faces really didn't. meanwhile for. me he didn't have the greatest time of the european championships of course in poland and ukraine and he had a number of good chances here but didn't manage to find the back of the net but that's something that's not really worrying does any strike at the moment as long as russia keep winning i had some chances but there's no entropy want to talk about my own performance it's better to discuss how the team played tonight we are here to play for our country and not for ourselves and we will give all for sure we managed to win and get all three points enough the most important thing overall this was a decent performance by the russians yes we could have perhaps won by a larger margin but we'll certainly take three points in the first competitive fixture of the world cup two thousand and fourteen campaign however as i said we'll be getting off to israel and surely that will be a much tougher test but certainly fabio capello's side will be looking to make it two wins out of two in tel aviv on tuesday. d'arcy. let's talk tennis

swimmer yes sure obvious quest for a second grand slam winner of twenty twelve is over the russian beaten by world number one victoria azarenka in the semifinals of the u.s. open the russian starting brightly with an early three love that said it's worth mentioning take it sixty three the french open champion then broke in the opening game of the second set before her game started to unravel in particular her serve. as a ranker who. in the final of the extreme january winning are three six six two six . as a ranking faces through time champion showing a williams in the decider that's after the american breeze past at least our iranian straight sets a six one six two victory secured in just one hour four minutes with the thirty one march away from a fifteen career grand slam pick. to boxing where the w.b.c. heavyweight champion of the world vitaly klitschko belt on the line here in moscow

later on saturday dr iron fist up against challenger manuel char robert downey in the preview. even those who don't like him have to face the facts to tell you the school has already become one of boxing's greats for six professional votes forty four wins with forty of them claimed by no chaos the second best result in history after the great rocky marciano dr this true self has never lost by decision and he has yet to ever even if he can this and despite his illustrious career it has never let came to the russian capital until now on saturday night the forty one year old is set to defend he style once again in must kill against germany's money . prevent the dungeon 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 its hearts. chars 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 halves. that's the only thing that's good about where the hero when he part of it but he will look how he must be here but even at his eyes i think it's obvious he's lost. 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

says life chance will do much more than actually he can do or are capable of doing that's why we're expecting melcher being very good. if he's going to move forward he will challenge. thousands of course just to give belcher no chance to even hit him once and especially once so tonight mosco is the place to be defined out even dumb and boy is firm and now to resist the iron fists of the crisco. r.t. moscow. looking forward to that one to the southern hemisphere rugby championship now where new zealand had to dig deep to see off tournament new boys argentina on saturday the all blacks eventually winning out twenty one five in wellington but that scoreline is a deceptive one the home side also going up against their twenty eleven world cup winning coach graham henry who is now heading the puma's be inspired visitors doing their part amid stormy weather conditions rigo ranchero stunning home crowd with an

early try for a five three lead and extended half time break juta a power outage took the wind out of the argentine sails though on the course wasn't helped either one julio for as wilson been for a deliberate knocked on new zealand tries from julien severe jane making the difference after the us twenty one five and how it ended the all blacks the unbeaten in three rugby championship game was. finally the paralympics in london wrap up this weekend the event hailed as a success after officially being the most well attended in the history of the games in the english couple were among cos rev did a spot of mingling. is it typical every day seen 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 didn't expect such a huge turnout at the second part of the summer games but also hinted picks are great success from a police view you know so the paralympics seem to be just so i think everybody

wants to be part of that. but too many now he's just i think he's just wanted to. you know he's just affected everybody a snap of you know i've never known anything allowed. to mays and. to be honest i really don't know because so many before. people know about it but you know not ready to put that much interest in it but since his playing here it's just brought everybody in and it's 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. hold them so that people see that all these athletes in wheelchairs the numbers we. had just all generous people

we can show that whole world that they're not disabled on but it's not completely adapted to an active life of. athletes from other countries are capable of that and realize that we're going to again and again they still 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 faded in comparison to the global exposure of the paris. biggs the big news we're almost back to the rafters only a day to day says the british ensuring their home games are the most watched in history on call serve artsy and the london. is your sport i'll see you again in just under four hours time with more.

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