so says close to wiki leaks tell r.t. that the ecuadorian embassy has blocked june assigned his internet access to stop him tweeting about cattle and issues his friend the british designer vivienne westwood told us it's vital he gets back online. really important that he's got access to the world but although it only shows that he manages to also to come this hour the austrian foreign minister revealed that the country was pressured by the u.k. to expel russian diplomats over the soldiers reported an attack and tens of thousands of previews have joined a silent march in honor of a murdered polish called five he was recently stabbed to death.

i welcome good afternoon it's just gone three pm here in moscow he watching r.t. international now our breaking news this hour sources close to wiki leaks have told r.t. why the ecuadorian embassy has blocked june the songes internet access and situ orcon is that side the embassy in london for she joins us live lasted just give us a few more details and about the reasons for the ban. well andrew indeed according to sources close to wiki leaks we have learned that the ecuadorian government had placed tronic jammers inside the ecuadorian embassy right behind me where julian assange has been holed up for over five and a half years now and the idea of this was to block him from being able to tweet as well as communicate with the outside world hold telephone conversations or have access to the internet generally speaking we also understand that he's back he's

been banned from having visitors inside the embassy and apparently all of this comes following a publication in the. press about julian assange just tweets concerning the catalan issue specifically the detention of cattle on independence leader a carlist which demands in germany earlier this week and our understanding according to this source close to wiki leaks is that julian assange should have he has to his team have been informed of having to delete a certain tweet that he had posted among others concerning the catalan issue the tweet in question reads quote in one thousand nine hundred forty the elected president of catalonia companies was captured by the gestapo at the request of speech delivered to them and executed to the german police have arrested the elected president of catalonia carlist which demands at the request of spain to be extradited now julian assange did not delete this tweet and it's our understanding again according to these sources that are close to julian assange and wiki leaks is

that the dorian government has informed him and his team about their discomfort with his expressing his opinions about the cattle an issue and following that information they did put those alec tronic jammers in place to have him stop communicating with the outside world and curiously all of this comes following a statement from a top official here in the u.k. describing julian assange as quote a miserable little worm let's take a look at this because of great regret the julian assange remains in the ecuador embassy it is even deeper regret that even last night he was teaching against her majesty's government for their conduct in replying to the attack in seoul three it's about time that this miserable little worm walked out of the embassy and gave himself up to british justice. well earlier we know that claims were made by the ecuadorian government who said that julian assange had signed some kind of

agreement saying that he wouldn't wheat or say anything about politics of ecuador as well as other. countries but again according to the source close to wiki leaks those claims have been false ok thanks nasty that was and see a chocolate ally for us outside the ecuadorian embassy in london or june the sarge is friendly british her british fashion designer fifteen west which is currently outside the embassy to a little earlier she told us she is worried that he's being isolated we're very concerned about the. plans of visitors at the moment and it's really important that he's got access to the world by all the exposures that he manages to do he's a weasel war heroics he exposed american war crimes they want to be concrete and you know is it is just my friend a nice brilliant armor fashion designer called live you. see him quite regularly

and are supportive whenever i can. so in other news this afternoon the austrian foreign minister has said that vienna was pressured by the u.k. to expel russian diplomats in solidarity with britain more than twenty countries kicked out russian diplomats over the country's alleged role in the soldier three poison attack or for more let's go to r.t. so she joins us live now is across this story for us so in this year what else then did the austrian foreign minister say about this well it appears that the u.k. has tried to put pressure on austria over their decision not to expel any russian diplomats now in a recent interview austria's foreign minister cameron can i saw said that the british ambassador to austria tried to put pressure on the e.u. member states telling them to take specific measures this was the to e.u. summit last week let's take a listen to what the foreign minister had to say. when the situation gets tough you have to keep channels open the u.k.

ambassador to austria issued a demolished on wednesday in order to encourage us to take specific measures on saturday to demolish was repeated on monday while i was in kosovo the chancellor and i spoke over the phone about our position which is now public it's our tradition to bring people together especially in difficult situations the austrian government has said it wants to be a neutral country a bridge between east and west the current can eisel also said that the chemical weapons body who are analyzing agents it allegedly used in the attack is not provided any evidence of russia's involvement and therefore refused to take action against russia now russia and austria maintain a good relationship the new austrian government is one of the few in europe that pushes to lift sanctions on russia and kremlin spokesperson dmitri peskov has said that in this situation any role any voice that will spend british counterparts to be more adequate in the situation is needed he's been talking about whether

a mediator is really needed in a situation like this but austria is an outside most western country sided with the u.k. expelling over one hundred russian diplomats including the us canada and australia as well now this whole diplomatic standoff now it's been ongoing for about three weeks since his daughter were found and conscious on a bench in seoul three now it was later revealed by u.k. authorities that they suspected the never agent was allegedly a type produced in the savior teenie and in this investigation though that is still ongoing of course and russia house repeatedly denied any involvement repeatedly that assistance and cooperation as well. ok thanks for the update there was artie in this a setting there or moscow has called the expulsion of russian diplomats a baseless sanction judging by what view is offered is up as evidence so far the allegations were based not on proof but on what was deemed

a highly likely assumption. following last week's brutal killing of an elderly holocaust survivor the jewish community in france is around and is sounding the alarm over the rise of anti-semitism in the country tens of thousands of brazilians took part in a silent march in honor of the murdered eighty five year old jewish woman who was stabbed eleven times in her apartment this case is the latest in

a string of violent attacks against the jewish community some say they don't feel safe. there are lots of reasons one being hate anti-semitism another being the rise of the slamming fundamentalists who greed growing hatred and ill feeling gives the impression that this state can't cope and. it's why i'm here with an operation this was not an ordinary criminal it was inspired by anti-semitism and the weak are intact children and people this is starting to make of real estate here she was jewish this issue is really serious. figures from both sides of the political spectrum and senior government official has joined the demonstration some received a hostile welcome from the crowd leading to scuffles. and also a right winger during the pen defied organizers request not to attend the event but parties have denied accusations of anti-semitism in the past. maybe nowhere as an

eighty five year old holocaust survivor show. narrowly escaped an arch you would round up of jews in the french capital in one thousand nine hundred eighty last week she was stabbed multiple times before her paris apart was set on fire two men have been arrested and charged a religious motive has been cited by the authorities son daniel has been left utterly shocked by her murder it's. unbelievable. listen. to a cold room. to five years parkinson she can move she has no money. why you kill. her you can do that. you have no answer. or france is home to europe's largest jewish community in a scene a surge in anti semitic violence reported incidents jumped twenty six percent last year there's also been

a significant in the desecration of jewish places of places of worship and burial sites around forty thousand jews are estimated to have left the country since two thousand and six with many blaming the growing hostility jewish community advisor libya off of each believes the government has failed to address the situation again and again the government runs institutions of schools trained to open to assist the jewish community as they are not capable really to provide. security to women who may do kids who gather because the poor the policeman. in france many jews are asking what will be the future because they cannot continue to march in paris and to get. on to get flowers. from the government because it's not enough it's not the bringing back to life. nor the level of missy's only me or so many young jews has been killed in the last years. the russian siberian

city of can measure of and has a third day of mourning after a fire at a local shopping center killed sixty four people including forty one children and with more facts about the tragedy surfacing including allegations of criminal negligence stories of unbelievable courage of also emerged. and i were putting together pairs of shoes that is when i smelled smoke heard them i wanted to talk to someone saying that people are running out of the sub people rushing down just terrorists there is an alarm. which we started to write you a people are employees of first of the day what is the cure is the exit i don't quite remember how i got out in the soon as i got outside i saw a man jumping out of a window from the third floor that. was

. all our coworkers had already stated when we looked at the escalator that it was full of people they started helping people to get out of there we have a bad door at the end of the storage room just started calling people to come to us live there were dizzy too muddy our guys lived there will cheer and help them to go downstairs everything i'm black and clouds of smoke surrounding it we breathed heavily but we saw the end just hose to save someone else do some people run upstairs in panic did you feel panic deep inside too of course we did there was no way to escape i don't know what would have happened to me not them i'm a father a son and a brother through so i can understand those people i wish my son would grow up the same be useful to humankind we don't consider ourselves rescuers we are ordinary people if you were in our place you would have done the same we had the loss of men

were burnt to death then you say here my are. my. there is worry about me sure it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to the market every day flowers employees candles. meanwhile the investigation into what caused the tragedy is advancing the two main versions of the malfunction of the fire safety system and also arson five people have been arrested among them two directors at the shopping center and also the developer of the fire safety system the blaze is one of the deadliest in russia in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to extinguish it a month section of the shopping complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof also collapsed as we mentioned earlier of the sixty four people who died almost two thirds with children as the school holidays had just begun.

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wrong she has gone from the hollies of photo studio some to the use of grief over the camera of the tragedy at the launch just exposure number russian diplomats from the west and putin's links to them is off to a rocky start with the really. again you with us he now whole shinton zante russian rhetoric has resorted to metaphorical expression the state department spokesperson said that russia was a big east from the deep sea and went to the streets of new york to gauge reaction and her recent comments to the media state department spokesperson heather nauert had some interesting words to describe the largest country in the world russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations elections. arms and how to

describe what it quoted and like as and if you just just want the beast from the deep sea yes russia has tentacles all over the world it's a beast from the deep sea it's rather creative now with metaphors like that you think that heather nauert was on par with herman melville and jules verne but she didn't think of it herself take a look at these old propaganda posters inciting americans to be afraid of the soviet union it turns out heather was just beating an old dead mccarthyist horse we decided to ask americans if they think that russia is really a deadly octopus what country do you think they were referring to. since if it ioannis ireland yes i. do what i what country you think it is no idea they called it the med learn. no i have no idea right there so what is that poster right if you lose like an octopus right what country do you

think that's supposed to represent. well it's in red so this means a communist country is a good russia. good guess russia what makes you think that because it's red do you think that russia might be like a like an octopus yes you don't think of russia's as a as a big octopus you know strangling and spreading out across the planet no i think america is more like the octopus donald trump assured us during his campaign that he wanted to improve ties with russia it's a good thing if we have great relationships or at least good relationships with russia that's very important and i believe someday that will happen well nothing paves the way to peace better than comparing other countries to wild oceanic beasts but r.t. new york. not taking a stand against the pre-ordained has led to tragedy for a teenager in the u.s. texas police accused the parents of a sixteen year old muslim girl of torturing their daughter the saying. no to an

arranged marriage with a man who is offering the family twenty thousand dollars young lady was abused by. the body she was beat groups do get used to it he was. just and it's really heartbreaking you. he was fifteen when her parents decided to marry her off to a man from another city after she refused though they allegedly tried to persuade her with force she ran away before the wedding and was reported missing at the end of january this year disappearing after she left school in san antonio body was found in mid march her parents were arrested last friday and charged with abuse of a family member however they were released on bail two days later police say other charges may be filed in connection with the case multiband her five siblings age five to fifteen have been placed with child protection services. while the parents

to deny any wrongdoing instated matter it's possible husband to be is also innocent father said all they wanted to do you wish to you were help the young couple build a family together we spoke to the head of an organization for preventing child marriages she told us though that some us states which do allow early wedlock are not helping matters either fortunately if you look at the data that exists currently the u.s. has the federal structure where states are different. unfortunately if you place like the u.k. like. a love marriage of. eighty eight in the world today six hundred fifty million women where married as children then you know that they all didn't run but of course there are cases where girls are found where they're not yet rights and it will to run unfortunately not as many girls are able

to make it to see. as the we we would like to see i think it was the problem of the voice over eighteen because then you're talking about issues of. i would say statutory rape because she's a minor but i think more children not becoming more way that our morals that this is that these are all great gas can get help and support. and other needs thousands of protesters have marched in the streets of ghana's capital and i'm seeing u.s. military expansion in the west african nation. that. was. when i controversial military cooperation deal was approved by parliament last week some of its members in disapproval the u.s. will invest twenty million dollars in equipment and training for the country's army deal also includes joint exercises and the right to use the nation's radio frequencies and runways some locals think it does infringe on ghana some point. to

be as gunmen citizens to demonstrate against the station by our president so. it's a sad and i commend for the u.s. government to bring the military to. the country. dogs is good for my country to be so. i decided to cooperate one lectures just to be present in the works for issue. told us why they think that ghana isn't getting a good deal but the question here is that the canadian military be allowed to use united states radio frequencies the united states of america the answer would be what we know about this is a one sided deal a one sided arrangement keep in mind as well that you are spoiled giants have been exploring all show or from god and reportedly have discovered many finds in terms of petroleum. and i daresay that these u.s.

oil giants are also concerned about protecting their investments in west africa and there who are they would also demand and desire in an increased u.s. military role. or sit in really is shrunk from its responsibilities in the world. instead of helping african countries develop their economic power. by investing in infrastructure and rio development group energy ports united states has increasingly relied on military kinetic warfare to try to terrorists and this doesn't work because the reason these terrorists are able to recruit is because of the poor economic conditions at virtually drive the young people into the hands of a terrorist small amount of money. the dollar is facing

a new threat china china has just launched back toward futures which will challenge the global global used petro dollar china is the world's largest oil importer until now it's been paying for its oil in dollars nearly launching high oil exchange will allow china and other countries to bypass the standard petro dollar it comes the same week as donald trump unveils billions of dollars of tyrus against china or economists mamdouh salim a says the broader implications of the petro un could be a game changer over the long term. or it will change it a lot because by definition the better you were is challenging the dominance of the the better. and in doing that it will impact adversely on the petro dollar and of course by the finish and on the american economy itself. currently

the petro dollar is the only currency used to price and sell oil china knows that and it wants to get the same benefit first by as stablish ing the yuan as an international currency. of course. and the better of the lot of suddenly it would take time but it certainly poses a challenge to get better a valid for the first time since nine hundred seventy three when the petrodollar was little. he was here i say thanks me company the soft name that's how things are looking so far today more news in just over half an.

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interest rates in the eurozone and in the states here plus trinity chavez spills the beans on the economics of global coffee all that ahead but first let's get to the story topping today's financial and business headlines volatility in the tech stocks is roiling markets around the world aside from the highest profile names in tech amazon alphabet netflix google and facebook which is based which are facing continued ethics over privacy and politics others are for. in fallout from recent events the corporation took a hit after suspending their self driving car development program following the killing of a pedestrian by a vehicle last week in arizona and yesterday tech heavy nasdaq fell nearly three percent and the n.y.s.e. is index of top ten tech stocks fell ten percent today amazon was a drag falling over four percent at one point during regular trading hours. and turner broadcasting chief executive officer john martin told

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