role in wiki leaks aiding the enemy all of the whistleblower crap that a lot of people love about julian assad but united states not so much did catch a lot of people off guard today that ecuador was a place you know to go into the ecuadorian embassy in london to to seek political refuge but in the world tomorrow joining us on the show only weeks ago assad was speaking with president korea of ecuador and they actually have a lot in common. they're both. have a lot of opinions about press about free press about the and to to corporate sponsored journalism and they have a lot of similar takes on on it and have both opposed to us media purposes so it's not that big of a surprise that a songe wants to go to ecuador what i think is going to be the real surprise because we really don't know if they're going to take him in and he said this is still this is new information we really don't know where he's going to go from here and that's i think i mean what motivation is there for ecuador it's a grant that asylum being the nice guy maybe ecuador just wants to help out they're going to seems like they g

other stories we're covering today on our website we're asking what you think the future holds for julian assadis where your views stack up right now the majority more than a third think assad will safely get to ecuador and run wiki leaks from there less than a third though think the whistleblower will have to spend the rest of his life on the run a little fewer about a quarter reckon a son will be handed over to the u.s. and be sent to guantanamo bay and finally the minority ten percent say he will spend years in the ecuadorian embassy in london what do you think about to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. from the pitch to the pub excitement over the euro two thousand and twelve football championship is reaching its peak and so is the drinking this weekend season england play its second round match in with the country's bar is set to be packed emergency services are taking all the proper precautions as r.t. sarah for forts. and the days that tickets have been a better place to catch the game than down the lake. watching football in the pub can be absolutely fantastic it's a great big communal s

will file an extradition warrant with the court in sweden julian assad will be back in prison and that's an important point you know when he goes to sweden if and when he would have if he had gone to sweden they have no bail in sweden for pretrial he would have been put in prison right away then the u.s. would have filed its extradition during the songe would never get out of prison and would wind up in the united states and we can talk about what would happen to him here and he wouldn't have had any chance to apply for political asylum which my view is that as a as a persecuted person because of his political actions. which is to say revealing. really on his publisher's website hundreds of thousands of documents on the iraq war on the afghan war the collateral murder video and all the statement state department cables that he would have been he would have he he would have faced really incredible incredible repression in the united states which we can talk about well and let's talk about that but first the just the step from the embassy out of the u.k. china had a famous dissident a few

and from the florida talk show or time for the next installment of julian assad is an interview showon r t today watching question activist intellectuals noam chomsky and tariq ali on the revolutionary phenomenon that's taking the world by storm. but first the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved travel and economic sanctions against a number of russian officials the so-called magnitsky bill was given a green light by an absolute majority the senate has yet to vote on the measure it targets those people who washington's a specs were involved in the death of lawyer sergey magnitsky who died in a russian prison in two thousand and nine with his supporters saying it was due to neglect by officials who didn't provide him with accurate with adequate health care moscow has been saying if the bill goes ahead it will retaliate with similar measures against u.s. officials it's a spec so being implicated in human rights abuses. the u.k.'s top spy warns that a new terror threat is a brewing the head of m i five said uprisings in the middle east have created new militant training

and while julian assad ways of britain's supreme court decision on whether it will reopen his extradition case the cables a new bill that could prevent potential whistleblowers speaking out. cross talk next with peter lavelle stay with us here on r.t. . if you. still. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about moscow streets thousands protested in russia's capital for a wide variety of reasons but one issue nice many of them they are against the return of law to mere putin to the presidency do these protests truly reflect public opinion are protests now simply a ritual for the sake of protest. and. stir.

julian assad comes forward with his first public comments since asking ecuador for political asylum meaning his case is deliberately being slowed by sweden and the u.k. to give us time to drop charges against him. and tens of thousands rally on egypt's tahrir square against the military rule and the delay in announcing presidential election results this live video you're looking at from tahrir square this is the ruling generals blame the muslim brotherhood's claim of electoral victory for rising tensions. and your farm are up next with all the latest sports news stay with us here on r.t. . hello again welcome to the sport and here's a taste of what is coming up daring to dream great had to take on board giants germany in the second quarter finals of the european championships plus draw a new number one toronto there is handed a favorable first round tie of wimbledon at the world's best players arrive at s w nineteen. the last word on the door yanker no pedro reason for calling time when he's in the film scoring. that start there with the european championships where germany are expected to

julian assad was filming his talk show that airs weekly here on r.t.e. ecuador's president korea was in fact among his guests you can catch the next program tuesday eleven thirty g.m.t. and watch all the rest of them online at a special section on our web site that's a saudi dot r.t. dot com wire there you can also check out these other stories that are a click away right now the roof of a busy mall in canada is on terrio collapses leaving at least four injured and prompting a local state of emergency. lawsuits in england versus italy in euro two thousand and twelve and while both teams will be trying to make it into the next round it's getting the rousing at the pub that's worrying public health bosses in england who warn a thirst for football is only an excuse to stay with us. he . the official. from the. video. calls. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. home. both moscow and washington stress that syrians should be able to choose their own future in a democratic process at the summit of the g twenty in mexico presidents putin and obama agreed th

julian assad is taking his fight against extradition to sweden to the european court of human rightsis why he's still waiting for ecuador to decide on whether or not it will grant him political asylum something it's now expected to take up to two weeks earlier on friday a sponsor spoke out for the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london r.t. sorry for more fully escape avoid these that you're going to hear in the media at the moment relating to his decision what he said day is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in three to fall from that is that he felt really this was never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in sweden and the involvement of the u.s. . to. and the announcement was made by discreetly that i would be detained without charge if i meet with your next edition if you are going through prosecutor to come through u.k. the part where you can run this point that absolutely you know you procedure and you refuse to offer to explain it in any manner whatsoever to british court ret

meanwhile julian assad is just one of the targets of a possible clampdown on whistleblowers which is gaining momentum the british parliament is currently considering a bill which if it up to might to tear people from coming forward and revealing serious rule breaking and corporate wrongdoing sort of further looks at the possible downsides for those who want to speak out. the war on whistle blowing it's a war of attrition a good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind the battle against. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government furious exposing wrongdoing can preview risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a decade point that my whole lif

just to remind you the world's top whistleblower julian assad has his own interview program right here on our t.v. if you missed any of the previous series you can always catch up at our team doc. breaching rules during public protest may now cost a pretty penny here in russia as lawmakers approved a new bill supporting tougher punishment for violation now is yet to get signed off by the president but the bill's already caused a storm among politicians and opposition groups and even set a new parliamentary record for the time it took to be passed archies the house the details. the draft significantly increasing the fines for violating the rules of taking part in mass rallies from the current seventy year olds up to a maximum of seven thousand euros for average citizens or around two hundred hours of community service so that's why it's caused such a wee fierce criticism and anger both from the official and unofficial opposition many of whom are calling this draft draconian but its supporters say that it corresponds with western european standards and actually if we compare the figures

still to come is there any way to secure your online privacy julian assad with his members of a cyber movement who debate whether there is even such a thing as private data lots of different things for the same god gender inequality said women in the u.s. are against their male counterparts. but first the french socialist party and its political allies have secured forty six percent of the vote in the first round of parliamentary elections the result raises president francoise lon's chances of securing a majority in both houses in the second round which is set for sunday are these tests are sillier reports from parents. the result of the first round certainly is a very good moral boost for the socialist party in trying to get a majority of the lower house of parliament however nothing is certain definitely there's no time for complacency and they can't just sit around and expect the same results in the second round there are still the un people already the conservatives still trying to rally whatever support they can get most of dissipated a policy that is the one that he speaking abo

for a whistleblower to talk show or it's time for the next installment of julian assad his interviewshow here on our t.v. watch him question activist intellectuals noam chomsky and terry gilliam on the revolutionary phenomenon that swept across the arab world. but first the u.k.'s top spy warns that a new terror threat could be brewing the head of m i five said uprisings in the middle east have created new militant training camps up to two hundred extremists from the u.k. are now thought to have joined forces who with heavily armed terror groups in yemen somalia libya syria and afghanistan now joined by valentino soria counterterrorism and security analyst for the royal united services institute so western countries supported what they called move towards democracy in the arab countries but where they actually also counting on the fact that this could remake the way for to have them become terror training grounds. yeah i think that it's important to me why he said we need rain states well we've been seeing in the last year from the mentally with all these developments across the. wor

ecuador mo's the decision of giving julian assad's diplomatic asylum the whistleblower remains in scottin the country's london embassy he's out of refuge there almost a week ago after the u.k. supreme court decided on his extradition to sweden where he's wanted on questioning over sexual assault accusations sarah ferguson following aside his ongoing battle. he's a man he's described as being let down by his own country australia and having exhausted most of his legal options in the u.k. and going battle against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning a first sexual assault allegations and of course the fifth has always been that if extradited to sweden it would be very easy to extradite him across to the u.s. a country that still carries the death penalty for some of the crimes that they've accused him of killing innocent and his supporters have always maintained that the case against him is politically motivated and i can play in the silence not just the sunshine itself but also wiki leaks the revolutionary whistle blowing web site that has hugely embarrassed many western gove

julian assad gets together with activists from cypherpunk movement here's a taste of what's to come on tuesday. technology enables those surveillance of communication then there is to do the other side of that coin is what we do with it we could admit that there are some indeed some legitimate use investigators investigating the bug. but guys and so on but the question is where to draw these judicial supervision where to the control that the citizens can have over the use of those technologies and this is a policy should and when we get to those police issues and we were looking that earlier we have. to just sign something and don't understand the underlying technology which is why we see so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about wars are talking about technology as if they're saying that they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to root technology into that and so when we have no control over technology we have these people that wish to use it for for their ends for war specifically that's a recip

but first the wiki leaks chief julian assad. lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden where he's wanted on sex sexual assault charges britain's supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was walk for while for a sundress team was given fourteen days to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says is politically motivated sara firth reports from london. the truth shall set you free all. the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected in a split five t. decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in britain he's now on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he say a trumped up because in point you're a member of the jury and hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary that someone is being extradited just for the purpose of questioning. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable truths about the us government the afghanistan and iraq war logs gave shocking detail abo

and to the world's top with the blower julian assad loses his extradition appeal from the bridge into some you didn't like the assault allegation. it's six o'clock here in moscow you're watching our t.v. here is the weekly russia's warning that the u.n. human rights resolution condemning the syrian leadership for last week's houla massacre risk derailing the peace plan moscow called it premature because the investigation's ongoing and that it's putting pressure on the security council where russia is resisting foreign military action on sunday present assad insisted his troops had nothing to do with the slaughter of more than one hundred people in the city he blamed on drabble gangs for the attack and outside forces for instigating the conflict to trigger intervention washington which backs the syrian opposition and forcing assad out admits there are plans for military action so. from america's a syracuse university believes of the u.s. never truly back to the peace initiative. everybody in washington wants change everybody in europe and as well as the gulf countries and so but i was

and so i have for this hour thousands throw their support behind wiki leaks editor julian assad all of that the worst amnesties in the u.k. and u.s. receiving a flood of. mails urging the nation to accept the world's most famous whistleblower . serve time in the military or observe time behind bars find out why the decision is so difficult for a community in israel all that much more coming your way in just a few minutes. deeply divided leaders are gearing up for some of this thursday this as german chancellor angela merkel insisted there will be no doubt share in your stance that won't sit well with troubled states such as spain and italy and there's also no relief for greece or the country's most vulnerable suffering under a sterile as artie's grace now reports. dealing with the problems facing disabled greeks on a daily basis is all too familiar with the realities of eurozone branch of the new government will be. the second bailout. that means that you have to. public. spending. within a month actually up to further eleven point five years she points out it's been three months since

and as top most of lower julian assad will wait for doors decision on whether it will grant him asylum the final edition of his groundbreaking interview show is set to air right here on r.g.p. . it's five pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live on many so now with our top story and russia is stepping up efforts to help break the stalemate in syria and resolve tension over iran's nuclear program as president putin begins his visit to the middle east mediating a peaceful resolution in the israeli palestinian conflict is also in strong focus putin is now on the first leg of his tour in israel polis lior is following talks with the russian president has arrived in israel his first stop was in the coastal city of natanya where he inaugurated and one human to the raid on me it's estimated that some half a million jews fall through the grate on me against nazi germany in world war two now he's. also meeting with the israeli president shimon peres the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the palestinian president mahmoud abbas topping the agenda as to be expected are ira

seemed to go by the by but when the rumor came out that they were about to expose bank of america julian assad just quickly found himself under house arrest so when you start to expose the bankers the risk level for the whistleblower goes up do you think that again even to get the wiki leaks as an example so perhaps a safe deposit box can look go to school on that and come up with a better system where it where you think there's lots of issues but the wiki leaks model i mean one of them being the fact that it's sort of very centralized in the sense that it's all sort of based around the character of your innocence actually i think what a more robust model would be probably could do it maybe it's more what open leaks is doing which is decentralized you get a sense so the people who process the information perhaps the whole set a whole sort of network of individuals actually i think the best people to run it would be whistleblowers themselves because they understand the process they understand the culture the problems that somebody has which i'm not sure that the presumption assigns would necess

with journalists that bloggers and activists what do you think is in the stars so to say for julian assad's i mean is his time numbered as a free man do you think you'll be extradited to sweden his lawyers have very little time to do to appeal that last week's decision this is what it looks like and and what she meant later as i said is not limited to only u.s. government because you should also look at is as a rule or rest of prostitutes in the future you're going to see other governments asking you know one government asking another government to extradite someone who is a political activist someone who may even be a political refugee and again it's very ironic all one hand you have u.s. state department that hillary clinton that points a finger at china and says how dare you are dissidents and jailed them and on the other hand that's exactly what you're doing and not only your nationally now they are taking it on and you know. there's also a troubling trend the wiki leaks founder our contacts people has been interviewing those featured on his program that we broadcast here in order to ha

it's been a week since julian assad requested ecuador for a diplomatic asylum and took refuge in the country's embassy in london no decision on that has yet been made me while prominent americans including filmmakers michael moore and oliver stone plus renowned academic noam chomsky signed a letter supporting us on his bed chomsky is one of the guests on the whistleblower of show airing today on our team here's a preview. now moving over the middle east the deep concern in the united states and the other imperial traditional imperial powers britain france particularly concern is that now they may the middle east may get out of control and that syria's a much more serious than south america so i agree that's why they invaded libya and i have no doubt about it was to restart basically a crude. i agree but i think it's all over so for example if you take a look at what's happened in the arab spring of the countries that are crucial to western imperial power the oil producers they have been under a very tough and in saudi arabia kuwait the emirates the major oil producing regions it neve

whistleblower to talk show or it's time for the next installment of julian assad his interview show on our t.v. watching question activist intellectuals noam chomsky and terry go easy on the revolutionary phenomenon that's taking the world by storm. but first the u.k.'s top spy is war and a new terror threat could be brewing the head of m i five said uprisings in the middle east have created new militant training camps up to two hundred extremists from the u.k. are thought to have joined forces with heavily armed terror groups in yemen somalia libya syria and afghanistan middle east peace activist dr franklin lamb thinks nato bombing of libya opened the gates for al qaeda. when you've got an operation like nato on slaughtering civilians in pakistan afghanistan and iraq of course it's going to activate them and give them the opportunity as you know al qaeda has urged its leadership and surge of people to go to syria and get training and go to southern turkey and also in libya it was a rush to enter and to topple the regime i think that once the classic mistake i spent four months there

julian assad will appeal against his extradition to sweden that the european court of human rights while waiting for ecuador to decide whether to request to decide on his request for political asylum something now expected to take a week or two. and tens of thousands rally on egypt's tahrir square against the military with the muslim brotherhood calling for the announcement of the presidential election results while the ruling generals blame the movement for stoking tensions. are two of the alone to show up next stay with us. part it's time for show and tell on tonight's program and earlier this week we told you about the environmental conference in rio twenty years after the original earth summit was held there not always the conference been overshadowed by then like the g twenty but it's also been highly criticized for a lack of clear details and clear commitments so we asked you why you think the ability to commit to environmental protections and standards has changed in the last twenty years so to produce a person ascending to find out what you had to say. i'm on the streets of d.c.

well as as you were saying a moment ago at the latest from the british authorities saying that julian assad has now violated his conditions of house arrest however according to the latest our legal experts it says here that if a if granted asylum is entitle to protected passage out of the u.k. if indeed that is the case why in your view. has he chosen ecuador as the country where he would seek refuge. clearly it's also in response to some of the sure that he's received in the ecuadorians but really it's up to the ecuadorians now to actually assess the current situation as they promise that they're to do was leave the problem that they have is that they cannot seem to be interfering in terms of the judicial process. as you said there are still options open for today and. looking for example. on the european level which i think will probably be more fruitful way forward but it's important to remember that all of this is happening within a context and that is the context that also the u.s. and fear and. british human rights lawyer helena kennedy has currently heard from the swedish law that he

london well julian assad has become both famous and infamous with some americans thirsty for justice take a look at a few examples there's a good reason julian assange should be worried about being extradited to the u.s. the government is the only one wanting to get their hands on him as a long line of politicians and media pundits who are calling for his head take former republican vice presidential pick sarah palin who was quoted saying. should be targeted just like the taliban. want to be her bad side songe also made an enemy out of former arkansas governor turned fox mike huckabee he believes quote whoever non-government leak that information is guilty of treason and i think anything less than execution is too kind of a penalty. those feelings against assad's are also echoed by eric bolling and fox news commentator who says assad should be on the ground six feet underground he should be put in jail or worse hanged in a public forum i wonder if you would have said the same thing about daniel ellsberg back in the day meanwhile the editor of the weekly standard and fox news regular w

julian assad will appeal against his extradition to sweden that the european court of human rights while waiting for ecuador to decide on his request for political asylum something that's now expected to take a couple of weeks. and tens of thousands rally on egypt's tahrir square against the military this is a live video you're looking at here of the muslim brotherhood calling for the announcement of presidential election results while the ruling generals blamed the movement for stoking tensions. up next the alona show today's focus on counterterrorism training gone wrong in the u.s. stay with us. welcome to the lot of shell we'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey coming live to washington d.c. doubts and i are going to talk more about military and counterterrorism training gone wrong in america yet another power point slide catches the structures preaching for a total war on islam and then as u.s. drone policy threatening fifty years of international law and how much power should the executive really have bruce fein is going to join us to help us answer both of those questi

julian assange. but to actually prove that assad was giving the order i think would be very difficult for the authorities to do thanks for that clarification how do you think. has changed the culture of the internet. that's a great question i think it really has pushed forward the boundaries of what people can do online and it's important to note that anonymous suspense kind of spun out of this culture of trolling and pranking this is really where it came from its roots are in jokes and harassing people for fun this kind of internet subculture that comes from image boards and it's only in the last few years that it's taken a more serious direction and some people from that original part of anonymous many hundreds and thousands of people dislike the way that it's gone that it's gone and that kind of trying mission kind of ethos of robin hood style vigilantism but other people feel that actually this is the protest style of the future when we're living in an age where we live our lives online we all have online identities through social networks facebook and twitter we outsource so much of what we do to go

julian assange himself. the london while under house arrest in the u.k. assad was filming his talk show airing weekly here on r t ecuador as president rafael correa was in fact among the guests you can catch the next program tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and also watch the entire series as they are in so far at our songs dot r t dot com while you're on our website you can check out other stories lined up for you today including this group of a busy mall in ontario canada collapses leaving at least four people injured and prompting a local state of emergency. and england versus italy in euro two thousand and twelve both teams are trying to make it to the next round it's getting the rounds in the public worrying public health bosses in the u.k. who warn a thirst for football is only an excuse. israeli police have arrested eighty five protesters after they clash with officers and smash windows during a demonstration in tel. if some twenty people will be facing criminal charges there ali was called after the arrest of social activists a day earlier they're frustr

turning its back australian the government there turning its back on assad tell us what is your straightly in public think of julian assange. julie sidestreet popular industry he's opinion polls show that he has a higher opinion of support among the public than a the prime minister all the opposition leader and there was a poll conducted a few weeks ago which asked people would they vote in the election just said that he is willing to stand the senate in australia now in that poll it said that he would get the support of twenty seven percent of voters and that's more than the labor party got in a recent election in my state while so in a lot of the evidence is that more popular in the politicians who have to. pretend to be extradited to the us some of the campaigning paper green left we can joining us live from sydney here on our team many thanks indeed thanks. to forget her julia saunders and exclusive interview program is being broadcast here on r t throughout the day it's coming up in about an hour and twenty minutes from now if you've missed any of the previous episodes that are always available twenty four sev

sarah mentioned you can get the latest and final episode of julian assange interview show on tuesday we've also been following the case against assad since the very beginning so you can trace it back on our web site at our dot com here's some other stories you might also take a look at while there the u.k. government reportedly wants to sweep under the carpet claims of abuse committed by british soldiers at a secret network of the legal prisons in iraq. and russia parades its latest battle hardware out the international forum of engineering technologies twenty twelve take a look for yourself at r t dot com. some world news in brief for you this hour dozens of anti-government protesters have been detained in the park after clashes with riot police that is near cotman jews airport demonstrators demanded the prime minister resign and tried to block his motorcade as he returned home from a conference in brazil police tried to quell the crowd by beating them with bamboo baton and shields at least one protester was badly injured in the concert. in india a key suspect allegedly involved in the planning of the deadly mumbai attacks of two

assad. you're watching already live from moscow i'm to bomb would say julian assange has broken his silence of for the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he still awaits a decision on his request for political asylum and his interview in the weekly leaks editor said that even if his peers unsuccessful his dramatic move has a draw in the world's attention to what he describes as a conspiracy against his orchestrated by the u.s. our jesus our furthur brings us more from london. escape avoids these the words you're going to hear in the media at the moment relating to his songes decision what he said though is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in sweden far from that is that he thought really this was never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in sweden and the involvement of the us. or the very serious. to an announcement was made by discreetly that i would be detained without charge if. i meet with your next edition if you get one free for you to come u.k. party or a three month proo

there are many now he paying that the next big release will be julian assange himself surf city london. while under house arrest in the u.k. assad was filming his talk show airing weekly here on r t ecuador's president korea was in fact one of his guests catch the next program tuesday at eleven thirty g.m.t. and you can watch the entire series that's aired so far on a special section on our website r t dot com the while you're there check out the other stories we've got lined up for you including this our rules that are easy to maul in canada's ontario collapses leaving at least four injured and prompting a local state of emergency loss. thing linda versus italy and euro two thousand and twelve and well both teams trying to make it to the next round and it's getting the rounds at the home and surname public health bosses in the u.k. when the board of first football soviet excuse. israeli police have arrested eighty five activists after they clash with officers and smash windows during a television of protest most of them have since been released but some twenty will be facing criminal charges the demonstration was called after t

assad. twenty four hours a day seven days a week that this is our team julian assange has broken his silence over the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he still awaits a decision on his request for political asylum in his interview the week elise editors said that even if his plea is unsuccessful his dramatic move has drawn the world's attention to what he describes as a conspiracy against him orchestrated by the us parties as sarah for the brings us more from london. escape a voice this is the words you're going to hear in the media at the moment relating to a soldier's decision what he said though is that this is not about avoiding the sexual assault allegations against him in sweden far from that is that he felt really this was never about sweden it was the fear of what would happen to him once he was in sweden and the involvement of the u.s. . this issue is about a very serious matter in the united states announced was my by discreet that i would be detained without charge. immediately on extradition she's a country for years to come to the u.k. for

situation the same way we do they understand the threat to julian assange from the united states and the threat that sweden once they got the of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very controversial espionage act united states espionage act and i can seventy so i think down or stand the situation the same same thing same way we do i think we are concerned you know we see that in the media many governments in the world has been a kind of campaign against julian of saddam so we don't want to see the ecuadorian government isolated in the world or attempts to isolate them for doing what we see as the right thing which is protecting not only the rights of. an individual but everybody has an interest in this who wants to reform u.s. foreign policy who wants the public to have access to information about u.s. foreign policy that's what's at stake here a much broader issues are at stake in the future of national security journalism so that's why we want to raise your voices particularly as americans but we'll let you have any impact you think yes you've got quite a few famous names but y

we're asking what you think the future holds for julian assange here's where the votes stack up at the moment the majority more than a third think assad will safely get to ecuador and run wiki leaks from there less than a third however think it was a blowout to spend the rest of his life on the run a little less a quarter reckon assad will be handed over to the u.s. and be sent to guantanamo bay finally ten percent say he will spend years in the ecuadorian embassy in london what do you think. and castro. dozens out tens of thousands of egyptians have again filled tahrir square to protest against the military which is accused of staging our brutal power grab results of the presidential runoff will be announced sunday four days later than expected meanwhile the standoff between the ruling generals and the muslim brotherhood continues many fear the military could use the delay to alter the outcome or he's paula so here is live for us in cairo few joins us now from just near tahrir square with the latest so egypt's next president will be named tomorrow what's the mood in the square ahead of this announcement. well as you can hit tensions

situation the same way we do understand the threat to julian a song from the united states and the threat that sweden once they got custody of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very controversial espionage act we don't know everything about what the u.s. government has done a night or might but we know that a grand jury was impaneled in the united states to investigation of wiki leaks and bring charges we know that bradley manning's attorney believes his harsh treatment in u.s. custody was an attempt to get him to. testify against julian assange there is a recently that they have the opportunity to try to get him and u.s. custody they will do so this is totally rational the document that fear and i forget old julian assange is hosting his own interview series here on our if you've missed any of the ten episodes that have ed already there always available just a click away on our website at sons daughters he taught. i am julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks expose the world's secrets these documents is going to be attacked by the united states strongly condemn. illegally. h

australian government has turned its back it has neglected julian assange so so what next how indeed if it can how can the australian government help assad at this point. but we're asking for two things really and one is simple transparency we're calling on these trailing in government to provide information as to what if it's it has made in good faith if it says that it's done to assist mr sanjay not with the not with the not with the case in sweden which i think my now not run its course what we most interested in is how the issue will be resolved with the united states government there is evidence that it will be an attempt to prosecute mr assad through the grand jury that was impaneled at the end of two thousand and ten and i want my government destroy in government to make inquiries as to whether or not that's true and then to make representations to the us government that we will not tolerate him being prosecuted for these very serious charges which publishes quite frankly shouldn't find themselves subjected to so demands of these trillion government are actually very simple. but we haven't take we haven't had much luck to diet but