the man planning to leave his son just legal break from the ecuadorian embassy in london speaks out about the whistleblowers plight exclusively to us. the new un peace envoy begins the syria mission which is pretty cold and failed to finish made a fresh in fighting and terrorist activity. red handed texas police infiltrate the occupy movement charging activists sort of skewered crimes with undercover officers set up from the start. of those still ritzy meets morality greek lawmakers ball could cuts for the disabled and low income pensioners while foreign creditors reject that plan savings has to say.

hello nine pm in the evening here in moscow this is our team with me first this hour he's pursued to dictators shut down drug trafficking cartels and even exposed entire terror cells now he's representing julian assange renowned lawyer song has been speaking to r.t. about where the whistleblowers future of might take him next first shares with us some of what gore son had to say. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice that in a silence of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real end in sight at the moment for this. standoff. remains very very firm that word killing innocents to be extradited that would put his human rights a very real risk at the same time the u.k.

has said they're not going to grant gillian a sonde free passage and that if he sets foot outside the ecuadorian embassy he could be arrested for breaching his bail conditions so just where does that leave well in the interview with r.t. both those are garceau on a sound his lawyer said that they're going to continue to fight what he termed a terrible injustice and i'm glad. it's clear that good will grow to julian assange political asylum because he was facing terrible injustice and he exercised his fundamental rights and we think this right needs to be defended. we consider it prevalent and a legal solution is possible and that if both the u.k. and ecuador go to the international court of justice ruling that. now remember julian assange says never being charged he's wanted for questioning in sweden over rape and sexual assault allegations that one of the biggest criticisms leveled at good innocence is that his bid for asylum in ecuador granting him asylum is very

much just trying to evade justice now his lawyer tells us that he's more than ready to go they have all the ready to face the questioning as long as he's being given a guarantee that once he was in sweden that he'd face extradition to the u.s. and they have never received those guarantees you saw julian assange has told swedish prosecutors that he's ready to cooperate and ready to be questioned to submit himself to the procedures but only if he's guaranteed that it would not lead to a more complicated case in which is right to freedom of speech and information would be for. now as he said kill innocent and his legal team have always maintained that there's a very real fear here that where he'd be extradited to sweden that he could face a further extradition to the u.s. where some of the quiet that he could potentially be accused of espionage various work with wiki leaks that carries the death penalty in the us a very serious concerns that his lawyer makes in the interview you know i do not

think mr assange is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much more surprised that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security or the safety of american citizens or defense reading from a few both sides of course very very eager to find some form of resolution but just when and how this will come remains extremely uncertain indeed his lawyer told r.t. there is no time limit to resolve this situation like this one could be set to run rugby can catch the full interview with julian assange his lawyer but also exclusively on r.t. tomorrow so for a correspondent in london now ahead in the program dealing with danger washington bruce middle east of the region now the biggest buyer of american weapons but you flooded the nation surrounding syria. well we're talking about

syria when peace envoy lakhdar brahimi started his syria mission kicking off with talks with egyptian and arab league leaders his predecessor and former u.n. chief kofi annan quit because of the divisions of the year security council about ending the daily bloodshed previous mission isn't going to be any easier syria's largest city aleppo is witnessing escalating fighting as the rebels intensify their attempts to take control chief for the syria tribune talks told us there's often a connection between diplomatic events and a surge in violence. only if the country is backing their rebels and sending them what tins and money stop doing so we can have a peaceful resolution of the crisis. a little ibrahimi is capable of convincing these countries and i doubt it many as he has a chance if not then i don't see he has any from our experience every time there was an important meeting on syria whether in the un security council the arab league or anywhere else there there must be some. violence right before the meeting

and there is always the same pattern there is a huge massacre where a lot of civilians lose their lives and the syrian army is accused of doing it it's very clear those who don't want a peaceful resolution are the ones who benefit and at the same time those who want to blame the syrian army and the syrian government for all the atrocities are the ones will benefit the only thing that makes the syrian army mission more difficult is that the rebels hide between among civilians and it's very difficult for the syrian army to eradicate them without civilians being injured or harmed in many ways. has also been rocked by a car bomb that killed at least thirty civilians and injured forty others a few hours before but the blast of a jordanian militant leader who is linked to al qaeda threatened to launch deadly attacks to oust president assad and a worker from the syrian social club group told us he thinks the country's become

fertile ground for terrorists. it has turned into a more regional wider conflict krapp's even some sort of an international war on syrian soil. i personally. witnessed first hand. demonstration on the seventh of may two thousand and eleven. three mists. and shouting very clearly. only and that doesn't need any explanation does it so it is not surprising what we see here in the. and how these two are coming into syria because western powers have for a long time seen this conflict as the same or the same you know viewing point just like this. three decades ago. the problem we're having basically is that took so long to acknowledge that jihadist. you know element after i think it was too late. but so far the u.s.

has limited itself to calling for arming syrian rebels without taking any actual official action it's made no promises though about not selling weapons to neighboring states a recent report show that the middle east is a frequent and favored client of the american arms trade that is going to if you can take a look at where that perilous policy may lead. the world may be terrified of a potential war with iran but for arms producers tensions fear is good business so it is for the united states according to a recent congressional research service report within just one year the u.s. has tripled its arms sales tripled here's how it looks in numbers just around twenty billion dollars in two thousand and ten and over sixty billion dollars in two thousand and eleven sixty six point three billion dollars to be exact according to this report as far as the u.s. share on the global market is almost eighty percent of all worlds arm sales have to mention this congressional service research they arrived the numbers from

unclassified arms sales reports now who provided the spike in sales that is mostly the persian gulf state half of what the u.s. sold last year went to saudi arabia eighty four advanced and fifteen fighters a variety of ammunition missiles and the just tick support dozens of attack helicopters but why this spike looking at the graphics one might thing something is brewing here apparently many experts think the same with spoke with daryl kimball of the arms control association here's what he said we often see conflict emerge after a group of states in a particular region with tensions have bought or built weapons so this does not necessarily ensure security but clearly the insecurities of the region the doubts about maintaining peace between states in that region are driving

these wealthy countries in the middle east to buy u.s. weapons. there is already a war going on in the region the civil war in syria saudi arabia and other gulf states are actively involved in that war there funneling weapons to the rebels in the strive to bring down. iran's longtime ally in the region many experts talk about syria as a stepping stone to iran in a sense the war on iran has already started it the spiking arms sales could be a graphic sign of it it's hard to claim that arms sales is the end game for the u.s. although it does profit handsomely from the sales in february nine hundred forty five president roosevelt at a meeting in egypt with our little girl as he's been souled the founder of modern saudi arabia pledged to defend the kingdom in exchange for a steady flow of oil up to this day u.s. actions in the region have been consistent with that goal the u.s.

has armed the gulf states to the teeth turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations lack of democracy terrorists turning a blind eye to a lot of things the question is whether the world is ready for another devastating war in the region i'm going to check on r.t. . still ahead of the program the french fight back against the economic slowdown and its socialist president mixes the old of the view with his plan to fix the nation's fragile financial plight report ahead. but next infiltration of truckman duns dramatic revelations the kind of plot you get in a gangster movie is apparently happening for real in the american state of texas seven occupy activists they're facing two years in jail for attempting to block reporter in france last year but it's no the undercover police were not only evolve but actually set it up dusting the trucks as they went the seven occupiers are now being charged under an antiquated law designed to shut down pornographic theaters will one of the charge that activists go as he spoke to us of his predicament. it

seems that it was it was a set up from the beginning because as obscure as this law is for some reason one of the arresting officers knew it was a felony and while we were out there on the road this was this was a arrest they made under a tent they brought out of a larger attention covered us before they actually arrested us but before they brought out the ten before i was under the tent already knew i had a felony charge because the officer in the road delany felony felony to everyone who was out on the road it's more strange that they were so ready and so knowledgeable of the law that the judge was unaware when it came to the court definitely feeling like they are repressing our free speech. and they're really just wasting our time our our money and our time going through the court process and it's not it's not fair it's not justified and they're lying about it the whole way through as far as after the fact they're trying to cover their tracks. from

what we from what we believe it's simply meant to be a longstanding showing of fact in taxes and for occupy to be involved in direct action and other civil disobedience and now the judge is threatening to dismiss the case against the occupy activists unless the prosecution shows vital evidence that it has refused so far at least let's get more on the case now and where it's headed we'll talk to greg glad when he says attorney greg thanks for being on the line and appreciated now what's interesting here we talked about it just now is the very pliant is facing tell us a bit more about the words come from. well it's. it hasn't been reported in the case law very often and probably less than ten times it's manufacturing or at daft deigned criminal instrument and if you take something that's otherwise legal and somehow dabbed it or change it or manufacture something

just for the sole purpose of committing a crime and it can be the lowest level misdemeanor crime more serious crime but the fact that you've manufactured some instrument to carry out a speeding charge or. misdemeanor it elevates it to a felony now the. courts were asked you mentioned years ago obscenity charges it was a movie called deep throat that was being shown a lot in texas in dallas and houston and they kept arresting and charging the people with mr maner of synergies that obscenity promotion. and they finally and then they just reopened it and make some more money showing this film and they finally charged them with possessing a criminal instrument a movie projector. that went all the way up to the fifth circuit court of appeals where they found that you know the challenge to the over breadth and the vagueness

of the statute was not going to be knocked out on its face what they were going to limit what this statute applies to in three ways it only applies to a very narrow species of property that was specifically manufactured for a crime that can't be used for anything else so was a gun. and. well these things probably were manufactured for the for some for some kind of law but otherwise it's been limited is it's an incipient but it's aimed at incipient behavior and i had to go look up that word but it's the beginnings it's the manufacture and the adaptation for some future crime it's not how something is used in the commission of a crime ok and. and finally the obviously in this case the police officers were the only one i want involved in the incipient behavior that the that the statute is supposed to apply to. they're the ones that purchased the

materials designed the things manufactured them supplied and delivered them to the kids. so the judge threw the case out greg wimberly sawyer. i know you've got a lot say about this one time this would be the first case where lower falls with agency infiltrating is setting up activist groups in the u.s. that would it. well if you've got a war on something whether it's a war on a foreign country a war on a communist party or a war on. antiwar people going out i mean in this day and age there is something called fusion to be. kind of sounds like specter in fleming novels to monitor and ferret out domestic terrorism as war on terror so. infiltrating dangerous groups certainly you would want the police to indulge in that but when they start provoking them into doing

not dangerous groups like the occupy people provoking them into doing something that will marginalize them incriminate them and chill. their activity. that's not the way we're supposed to be spending our money in the grant money that went into setting up. fusion was not intended to be spent that way greg we're going to talk about this a lot more to talk about it all afraid we're out of time attorney greg ludden thanks ever so much for giving us a few thoughts we thank you for having me no worries. for greece in its quest for more bailout money with its critics is rejecting about two billion euros worth of planned cuts say they're not clearly enough defined and on top of that there's infighting within the government itself over where the best to make the savings at the roots of that is where austerity measures would target low income pensioners and people with disabilities something that not even the supporters that make up

the government can handle nonetheless negotiations continue with official promising to cut elsewhere and satisfy the country's e.u. and i.m.f. what it is now is not see speed all of the reports next the greek people are under no illusion however that those cuts will be any more bearable than the other. greek prime minister tony is in to sugarcoating his message after these painful cuts. there is no other way. it would seem that the greek public don't agree with the pm . this weekend saw large demonstrations in the country's major cities and when you look around those cities you can see the effects of the crisis on every corner this was once thessaloniki busiest market now like a ghost town. costus has run this coffee shop since the one nine hundred seventy s. he lays the blame for the current troubles on a political class who are looking out the greek interests if the politicians don't

care about the people they care more about what germany is than what the greek people need big people on the street and invariably the conversation will turn to talk of tax as pensions and wages have been slashed prices and taxes have soared when the cuts from from. and in the same time the very increase taxes it's very very difficult to pay some bills for the. water from the photo with unemployment at just under twenty five percent and fears that it's just a matter of time before it passes the thirty percent mark people take where they can find it constantine works in a factory that produces industrial lubricants a university graduate with degrees in nanotechnologies and biology this isn't the work he was trained for that counts i'm self lucky to have it. the situation is bad

but this work allows me to provide for my family and i enjoy it. as unhappy as the vast majority of greeks are with the current situation if the country is to remain in the euro zone an extra eleven point five billion will have to be cut from greece's deficit to make sure it receives e.u. bailout money that means more pain ahead for the greek taxpayer but despite their m. . towards his plans even the harshest critics of the government fear that a return to the drachma would open a pandora's box of fresh financial woes but here is the bottom line is we must stay in the euro no doubt we have to see is a simple as that going back to the old currency would be fatal. these are all other party greece. staying with the story but skipping countries french president francois announced his ambitious austerity plan which he hopes will put the french

economy back on track in two years' time the socialist politician who's battling sliding ratings right now introduced the most budget in decades with cuts in public spending and a dramatic hike in taxes among indeed the measures is a seventy five percent tax on anyone who earns over a million euros author and journalist barry lander told me things on land is going down the wrong road. is in trouble and he. would give the impression that he was going to be as you call him so normal president getting away from the super activism. proceeded you know he wanted to be kind of a president reside over a government. business but while he's talking about the economy it's going down the tubes unemployment is rising and we are getting more and more happy at a time when the economy is shrinking. point eight percent growth or two thousand and thirteen. minimal to cut all that was that thirty billion

euros spending in france is an enormous blow but that's just not thirty billion actually it's probably forty or fifty billion when you add in the kind of it's made by start. earlier this year so it's a huge slice out of the economy. i think instead of bringing growth to. people in the recession hopefully not it's not a very great right now and we'll use a brief this month or not at least twelve people have been killed by a car bomb explosion in a crowded market in a tribal area in northwest pakistan the attack apparently targeted a convoy of possibly security forces all the dead in shia muslims the shiite dominated area that is close to the afghan border has a history of sectarian violence. one of the co-founders of the pirate bay file sharing portals being deported from cambodia to sweden got for advice has been

living in the southeast asian country for years apparently avoiding a jail sentence handed to him in a controversial trial of the website the circumstances of his arrest were the subject of much debate they were followed by sweden granting combo you sixty billion dollars in aid. the u.s. will be transferred control of baghdad prison to afghan authorities that facility holds more than three thousand taliban insurgents and suspected terrorists analysts believe the handover is largely symbolic though is the fate of inmates remains unclear including fifty foreigners not covered by the agreement the u.s. military still wants to run a section of the jail which has been labeled afghanistan's. prisoner abuse and torture reported. true through the house when it's possible to time the touches of the business most markets close to some people. well the important story is the u.s. treasury deciding to sell eighteen billion dollars worth of venture ai g. stock the u.s. markets are the only ones trading this hour the move is really affecting the stock

of ai g. it's losing value it will reduce the government's takeover from more than fifty percent to thirty percent overall wall street is trading mix this hour let's see the numbers the dow at the moment is trading flat to positive the nasdaq is shedding just under half a percent investors a mostly on the sidelines as they were in europe let's see how it closed there traders are waiting for two key events that will help them determine their investment strategy on wednesday germany's constitutional court rules rule on the legality of the euro zone's permanent rescue fund known as the european stability mechanism and on the thursday all eyes will be on the u.s. versus a lot of people are expecting more stimuli measures on the currency market the euro was a lower to the u.s.

dollar and the russian ruble ended its trading session higher to the currency basket as you can see there crude one of the main factors supporting russia was trading higher most of the day but is mixed this hour of the w t i is in the brad grande is in the positive territory as you can see here in russia the equities ended monday's session above the line up around a third of a percent each independent gas producer new attack was one of the stalks under pressure on the news that gazprom will stop buying gas from independent gas producers who are reportedly managed to convince the gas monopoly to honor. egads purchasing contract between the two companies but according to that of mr daly gazprom will stop buying from other independents in an effort to support its own production our demand continues to fall but independent firms will still be able to use gas problems pipelines and sell gallons to its subsidiaries. the

international business leaders were all in flight of a stroke over the weekend for the asia pacific economic cooperation summit and it has as it has become obvious quite early on russia is now focusing east twenty comes to deals to meet him and. the business side of the event. the apec summit here in bloody vostok symbolizes the winds of change not just for russia but for the global economy so void yet another crisis of growth are needed and they're needed quickly china's outgoing president hu jintao says he's very much concerned with notable downside risks to a slowing economy this is coupled with the fact the e.u. is still in a deep debt crisis so russia's naturally turning to asia boosting trade in the pacific rim to twenty one percent. but the e.u. remains its main trade partner accounting for fifty one percent president wants to very much

a lloyd trade was. concerned with the recent investigation into gas dominance in eastern europe and. i think the main reason for this investigation is the difficult economic situation in the euro zone are mainly talking about eastern european countries and the problem is the back in the days when they joined the european union the liabilities to subsidise those economies but apparently someone in the european commission decided that we must assume part of this burden i mean that europe wants to maintain its political influence and things that we should pay a little to assist this but that is not a constructive approach. for russia the apec summit is not so much about the business deals it's about building bridges to asia on the sidelines of the foreign president vladimir putin held negotiations with new zealand to form free trade zones and although it may sound surprising as they're not exactly the most significant trade partners from moscow china has also done the same thing because

it sets a precedent for the deals and now is the right time because russia is a fresh member pledges to boost transparency tariffs and fight protectionism well this thing transparency would certainly be what we'll be looking for and that's all the latest from the business desk save back here after that. couple of minutes we've got a special report. but a hidden danger lurking on one of america's military bases in afghanistan here on r.t. . to.

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