and you can watch their full interview with frederico franco later this hour here on r t v also spoke to the ousted former president of paraguay fernando lugo on his views about the coup and you can watch that on our website right now. well we have struck back with a spectacular victory in its first battle against major u.s. financial companies which blocked payments to the on line whistleblower accord in iceland has ruled visa and master cards local partner broke the law by refusing to process public donations to the web site now the credit card giants were among several u.s. payments services that stopped accepting money transfers intended for ricky in twenty ten it came out to the websites release of hundreds of thousands of classified american cables and data for q leaks founder julian assange remains in ecuador its embassy in london where he's seeking political asylum in the south american country he's wanted in sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes he denies but believes his extradition there could see him handed over to us for he fears the death penalty for the leaks a

his country's exclusion from trade groups does not trouble him frederico franco gave r.t. spanish language channel an exclusive insight on why paraguay is ready to go it alone if necessary. what raises most doubts about the impeachment of fernando lugo is how quickly it all happened that this is why the regional stakeholders are questioning the extent to which this event was democratic do you agree it all happened very quickly i agree it all happened so quickly i even don't have the relevant card for a president we've yet to finalize all the formal stuff on my presidency we only had two days to prepare for my new office and i guess it was unusually quick for all of us both at home and abroad for them as i talked to parliament on the need to extend the transfer of power and given an international dimension as you have just mentioned they told me the main thing is that the regime change should be one hundred percent peaceful the fact that one hundred twenty out of one hundred twenty five m.p.'s voted for the impeachment clearly indicates that this decision was taken almost u

new kind of coup he was impeached by the country's senate and replaced by his former deputy frederico franco in a little over a day but brazilian argentina and venezuela have rusin ties with paraguay response and several regional trade groups have suspended the country's membership frederico franco will now lead a transitional government until elections in april next year and in an exclusive interview with our team here explains why the impeachment took place. on the fifteenth of june six police officers and eleven farmers were brutally murdered and the people responsible for this massacre promoted i don't believe this is ever happened in any other country but someone responsible for seventeen deaths would be promoted to the post of a police car so one guilty party became the police commander and the other a regional commander at that point the gypsum a c. was breached the president could no longer do his job this was something called serious mistakes while in office and this was the reason parliament impeached him. they're going to the full interview with federico franco next hour here on r

saying the president's ousting violates democracy fernando lugo was replaced by his former deputy frederico franco who are now leader transitional government until elections next april in an exclusive interview with r.t. the deposed leader outlined what he thinks was really behind you teach me. that this parliament is dominated by traditionalists conservatives and right wingers and even if jesus christ shows up out of the blue and tells them to change their mind. we were sabotaged all the way parliament gave us a budget with a deficit of eight hundred billion dollars so firms were in short supply for everything come in the truck propelled a deep crisis they asked us for fifty billion dollars for their politicians mind you these politicians are members of political parties who get paid for nothing so we said no that was the straw that broke the camel's back it was a politically charged trial disguised as a constitutional process as one m.p. said it all looked like a circus designed to depose a democratically elected president. you can watch that full interview with fernando lugo later today and als

hour here in our team we're also going to hear from the man who replaced him the new president frederico franco who gives his reaction to the coup claims. it's less than a day to go before a new international space station crew of three blast off to the final frontier tabbing mazzei has been to the launch site speaking to those who will soar to the stars. in the scorching heat of kazakstan right bay in the distance lies the rocket launcher that will be propelling at the thought used here may outdo the eye is that from by cannot cause muttering about the team have had a very very busy weekend they've had press conferences with cameras and photographers all of the celebrity like lifestyle for them just before their big day friends and family have been gathered here at baikonur cosmodrome just giving them support and saying that we're all behind you on your important mission what will they be doing up there well as always a research and scientific research is on the agenda they'll be looking at looking at how humans can live in orbit with the world's media watching and photographers clicking this

removed after a two hour impeachment debate in the senate and replaced by his former deputy frederico francothe new president will lead a transition government until elections in april next year but he says he won't stand there will hand over power to the winner by august twenty third next that franco explains why he believes his predecessor was ousted. what raises most doubts about the impeachment of fernando lugo is how quickly it all happened this is why the regional stakeholders are questioning the extent to which this event was democratic do you agree it all happened very quickly i agree it all happened so quickly i even don't have the relevant card for a president we've yet to finalize all the formal stuff on my presidency we only had two days to prepare for my new office and i guess it was unusually quick for all of us both at home and abroad for it as i talked to parliament on the need to extend the transfer of power and given an international dimension as you've just mentioned they told me the main thing is that the regime change should be one hundred percent peaceful and the fact t

june as a new kind of coup he was impeached by parliament and replaced by his former deputy frederico franco and they took over a day. brazil argentina and venezuela have loosened ties with part of one response and several rachael trade groups have also suspended the country had rico franco will now lead a transition government until elections next april the deposed leader fernando lu who called his ousting a serious violation of democracy. cording to the media all is quiet there that there are no rallies no death no blood of the president and the legitimately elected government don't want violence or blood therefore it is important for the media to reflect the truth of what is going on here now is a disruption of the democratic process and the people will forget this that there was nothing has happened no one has mercosur. that nothing has happened why is yunus or expelled us if nothing has happened and everything is all right but why is the european union sending a commission to our country so it can't be so that nothing is happening something very serious has happened a serious violation

we'll bring you that exclusive interview with frederico franco in fall in just over two hours here on r.t.e. let's go back to the business desk daniel bushell now joins us and russian oil becomes more expensive than brant what's happening yes western oil companies have started buying the so-called you are all. iranian oil is the yours price soaring iran oil output sliding as we can see from the graphic here with many of tehran's customers turning now to russia as a reliable replacement greaves explains. discuss the price this week in the spike in new rules blend joined by alexander and as our of oil and gas analysts from gas from. now nice to meet you how long do you think this good fortune for us can last. one so you wouldn't last for long like it was before but i think these time it could be different because the reason for that is different and what's the reason for it well unlikely last times when it was some one offs like shadow seaboard because of some storm these timely zimbardo full run which will last for months maybe years but soon as that embargo is over then surely the mor

and following that we'll hear from the man who replaced him the new president frederico franco who gives his reaction to the coup claims. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the globe at least twenty three people have been killed suicide bomber attacked a wedding in north afghanistan the dead include a prominent afghan m.p. and supporter of president karzai more than forty people were also wounded by the explosion so liberation turned to tragedy when the bomber struck at an entrance hall where guests were being involved from. the two pilots have died in a military plane crash in southwestern colombia fark rebels claim they shot the plane down but the government is insisting mechanical failure was to blame for fighting between leftist militants and the army has claimed the lives of at least twelve colombian soldiers since monday fark or the revolutionary armed forces of colombia and waging guerilla war for almost fifty years claiming to represent the world or. now political campaigns to highlight a candidate strengths but are frequently used to personally attac

and we're also hearing from the man who replaced him the new president frederico franco and his reaction to the coup claims. well a slew of new cuts have led to a fresh eruption of public anger and protest in spain rallies quickly turned violent when police charged and beat demonstrators ball firing rubber bullets more than seventy people were injured in the clashes yesterday cards driving the troubles include tax hikes and the promise of painful pension changes but the protesters say they're being made to pay for the mistake of politicians and bankers the measures were demanded by spain's creditors who plays madrid vital bailout for cripple anish banks more now on the economic and social crisis there a volunteer a founder of the lira s.p.t. dot com crisis planning organization thanks for being with us on the line from santiago again many of the protesters say it's greedy bankers and colluding politicians that should be punished for starting this crisis do you see that actually happening well they're right on the one hand because that really bankers i mean competent government have not b

paraguay fernanda new go and also then the man who took over from in controversial circumstances frederico franco the big names talk to this channel. resistance is not of politics but a culture. this could guess. on its own.

paraguay in response and several regional trade groups have also suspended the country's membership frederico franco will now lead a transitional government until elections in april next year exclusive interview with r.t. explains why the impeachment took place. on the fifteenth of june all six police officers and eleven farmers were brutally mowed the people responsible for this massacre promoted i don't believe this is ever happened in any other country but someone responsible for seventeen deaths could be promoted to the post of a police so one guilty party became a police commander and the other a regional commander at that point legitimacy was breached got to go president could no longer do his year i looked up this was something serious mistakes while in office and this was the reason parliament to be chalis. you watch the full interview with frederica franco next hour on r.t. we also spoke to the man who replaced as well fernando his views about the coup he made all too plain you can find out what hear the say about that on our website it streaming at r.t. dot com right now if you want to cat