joining us on just lawyer has confirmed to r.t. that sweden has rejected ecuador as an invitation to question the weeklies found in its london embassy that's despite of two years of trying to get his statement over sex crime allegations the whistleblower has been holed up in ecuador's a diplomatic mission for the six weeks now seeking asylum asunta denies of a sex crime claims and believes they just a pretext to hand over to the u.s. they he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive secret diplomatic and military files that's not his lawyer jennifer robinson says america's given no assurances that they're not interested in prosecuting him even though it could be done easily. i have received confirmation from from mr self that that request that was put to sweden to question him in the ecuadorian embassy has been denied but we don't have any explanation for that and we have never had an adequate explanation from sweden as to why they haven't used it to legal assistance to question joy in relation to these allegations he has been

later this hour r.t. has more insight on the syrian crisis here's a preview of an interview with a man who took part in operations in the region in the past. it's the game it's not a movie where the good guy the good guy boy can. make everything and quite in the city ok just two or three bad guys and after i would at the end of the movie. the beautiful woman the mother in the they have a lot of to learn it's not really since story it's middle east it's very savage. and. what they would be to the window would be the window. after the swell you were over there were about. to three months ago and getting. revenge getting in someone is the border of iran it's between iran and you have. been one problem which is not so far so normal one to be involved. in watching our new life in moscow still ahead of the program questionable justice israeli court clear is a military over the killing of a u.s. activist crushed by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three we talk to an eyewitness who says this was no accident. th

julian assange lawyer has confirmed to us that r.t. that sweden has rejected ecuador's invitation to question the wiki leaks founder in its london embassy that's despite two years of trying to get a statement over sex crime allegations there was applause been holed up in the ecuadorian diplomatic mission for six weeks now seeking asylum a science denies the sex crime claims and believes they're just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive leak of secret diplomatic and military files sound his lawyer jennifer robinson told us america is given no assurances that they're not interested in prosecuting him even though it could be done relatively easily. we have requested the a straight in government to ask the very same assurances that we're now seeing ecuador ask in accordance with their obligations in investigating the political asylum application but it is a great shame this is to my knowledge the first time in history than a straight in citizen has sought refuge with a foreign government

in just over an hour r.t. has more insight on the syrian crisis and we hear from a man who knows firsthand what operating in the volatile region is like. it's not a game it's not a movie where the good guy the good go boy can. make everything and quite in the city getting just two or three bad guys and after i would be at the end of the movie. the beautiful woman the mother in there they have a lot of to learn it's not really since story it's middle east it's a story wrong and after this wow. what they will be the good the reader will be the reader. after this well you will if there were about. the plans of go around killing. people and putting in someone if the border of iran is between iran and you have. even one problem which is not so far so normal one to be involved. as he was facing up to a new era of becoming progressively poor and increasingly desperate it's forcing big companies to rethink their strategies and how they can sell their goods to people with nothing to spare are just us are silly in our repor

asylum ecuador excuse me has granted a songe asylum but as we can see it looks like this is just the beginning of another chapter of the assad saga so where do we go from here r.t. correspondent christine for south has been following this story closely and joins us now live from the white house to weigh in so christine what is next for julian assad and. well as i think we're going to find out a lot more in the future next coming days ahead or right now it's a very good question as laura smith mentioned earlier in the show you know julian is gone it might be safe and welcome to ecuador but the question is how does he get from london to ecuador a whole lot of people wondering that as you mentioned also he has been told time and time again by british authorities that if he sets any foot off the premises that he will be promptly arrested a lot of people wondering today as well what joy he was on will do once he gets to actual will he continue to run wiki leaks will you be able to get funding for it people wondering as well if we didn't will continue to try to extradite him and it's also the u.s. will get involved remember i'm sure to mention it a few times during t

reputation for changing his stance on issues it's hard to know exactly where he stands on anything as r.t. has gained extra counties here to tell us more. mitt romney is now officially broke obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough you know throwing rocks verbal rocks not only at the president but also of nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney told did not fail to once again highlight his animosity towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense he referred to president obama's hot mike moment when the president told me that amid a bit of that he would be more flexible to discuss the issue after the election mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone and of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geo political enemy that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on the website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a l

and up next r.t. has a border and one talks in bonn ship to find out what the latest technological innovations are ready to use discovery missions. oh and welcome to technology update even though moscow is located some seven hundred kilometers away from the nearest city it's still a major port city in fact those in the know sometimes refer to it as a five seaport as a result the moscow river and the inventions it's inspired have played a central role in the everyday life of the capital when the river is free of ice but there's a newly in this parade of ships chugging up and down moscow's watery boulevard their purposes very much of the activity in the city was enabled by the moscow canal which link the capital's river with the mighty fold with the help of the longest river in europe captains and barking from moscow can take their vessels to any of five possible outlets the white and baltic seas to the north as well as to the as a black and caspian seas to the south. but if one staying within the capital i

online right now r.t. has world news when you want to including a painful point about and like meals as a passage on a canadian that bites into a shop and which which contained a needle. in a better reduces the ex-military top out breath waiting to prevent any invasion of hair if you take ten events the details ahead. spain's regional leader squaring up to madrid and boycotting the latest tough deficit targets the euro zone's fourth largest economy is desperately trying to fill its budget gap and do something pose the deepest concent decades but as i ask you reports people are refusing to accept measures we are taking them to the brink . still probing us as we barely have anything left this has been the message over the past few weeks of hundreds of thousands spain yards who have hit the streets in anti-government demonstrations. stare into measures unacceptable especially with so many already in the streets it's going to be on the ice and then strangling on country it's crucial that we react if we don't do be

leaking the biggest document dump in human history he could face the death penalty if convicted r.t. has been covering this story since the leaks first came out on the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks and we will bring you the latest in-depth coverage as bradley manning's trial plays out. well we're going to take a quick break but coming up times are tough in the u.s. perhaps no city knows that better than camden new jersey their solution to solve their debt crisis lay off a police force so is this really what things have come to that story next. the climate of american power continues. i think. might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a popular drink a starbucks has a surprising. mr . r. t. is the state run in an english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. he just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i'm just you know lived through it. i'm a confession i'm a total get a friend that i love rap and hip hop music and pretty much. that he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very

cities today r.t. has been covering this story from day one we have correspondents in all the movements hot spots around the country to bring us the latest thousands and thousands of people it's unlike anything that i've. kind of circle a bit of hibernation last year the movement marches on today the nation's capital most of the next wave of the ninety nine percent movement as thousands gathered in d.c. as freedom plaza marched to the capitol building calling for an end to the wars and an end to wall street's dominance of our economy right now more than it does it require you're on the streets of los angeles is financial district we can hear the jets of occupy usa but let's not forget the occupy movement is not dead in fact it's very much alive and will continue to cover the stories of the occupiers and their fight. for a better and stronger america. the bad judge tom head to head a county judge in lubbock texas told local television station that he would join the resistance against a united nations takeov

an informed decision and one made in the name of human rights in washington christine for south r.t. has been a lot of talk on capitol hill as of late regarding privacy from cyber security the concerns range from warrantless wiretapping to domestic drones it seems everywhere you turn someone or something is keeping a watchful eye but there are at least a few in congress that want to take action to defend privacy congressman ed markey of massachusetts have drafted two bills one would stop routine cell phone tracking by the government the other would require the federal aviation administration to add state privacy protections for licenses to operate general drones steve teche a policy analyst and telecommunications expert at the reason foundation joined me earlier to discuss the legislation take a look. well we've got several things going we've got legislation concerning drones we've got concerning. wireless wireless phones and the government's ability to get records from arms on the wireless phone companies. the domestic market the other side are skewed that's the wireless bill well essen

similar to detention and that was our to correspondent laura smith with an update from london now r.t. has been covering the story since the release of the collateral murder video which put wiki leaks in the public eye as never before and we will continue the story as it develops truly innocent as mother arrived in ecuador on monday and as we speak an artsy crew was in appledore following the developments from inside the country there's much more information coming out so stay tuned. well the food and drug administration coming under fire for how they administer drugs in executions apparently when it comes to killing people they don't look into the drugs potency or effectiveness the f.d.a. reportedly gave dream pharma the green light to sell a drug called sodium field pendle to several states now this drug is raising questions of constitutionality and whether the use of it can be considered cruel and unusual punishment to discuss this room and daughter author of the book anatomy of justice a murder case gone wrong and joined me earlier take a listen. the supreme court has said that lethal

blowing case artes man iraq takes us on a timeline of the events that led up to where we are today r.t. has been following the story since day one so let's break it down two thousand and ten visits our studio here in washington after wiki leaks exposes the now famous collateral murder video the video depicts a u.s. helicopter pilot shooting civilians in iraq among the victims a reuters photographer and his driver let's have a look at an interview from julian's visit. that's right we believe in releasing source documents to the world together with analysis to put them in contact with some people to understand them because the source material is what helps keep journalism honest it's independently verifiable independently checkable research and the checkable in the same way as a scientific paper is checkable its source material is released the public. in august of two thousand and ten as wiki leaks continues to release classified documents regarding the war in afghanistan sweden issues a warrant for assad as arrest on rape charges in late november of the same year wiki leaks and builds and bu

conditions similar to detention and that was our correspondent laura smith with an update from london now r.t. has been covering this story since the release of the collateral murder video which poll wiki leaks in the public eye as never seen before and we will continue on as this story develops fairly innocent as mother arrive next door on monday and as we speak in our crew is in ecuador follow me to the developments from inside the country there's much more information coming so stay tuned. for another cyber security bill up for debate today in congress this time it's the cyber security act of two thousand and twelve the bills aimed at regulating the internet has stirred a lot of controversy recently but this one has the white house standing behind it and this bill appears to have some very positive provisions let's take a look at a few of them ensuring that all the civilian agencies not the national security agency are in charge of our nation's now cyber security systems the next one they're ensuring data isn't shared by with law enforcement except in very specific limited circumstances and ens

and our web team right here at r.t. has really been on the nuts and bolts of this story from day one andrew blake wrote the story stratfor e-mails reveal secret widespread it transpires surveillance program and to break this all down i sat down with him a little earlier he broke the story last friday and started off our interview by talking about the amount of media attention being drawn to this issue take a look. the way that this story has quickly spiraled out of control in just three days is almost play make believe but what's actually happening is science fiction so it kind of makes sense so we have to back up to two thousand and four this company releases abraxas put together this thing called trouble here and not a lot is known about it right now and it's still not the way it's been all week and we're people trying to dig up information we don't really know that much but we do know abraxas has this program called trap wire the vice president of intelligence there said it's more sophisticated than anything actual recog

r.t. there has just recently been another report also government sponsored the levi report there found exactly the opposite that these outposts in fact are legal in the country of nor how is it possible to have these contradictions my report. it's lying on the supreme court of justice for israel decisions for their kids for forty five years old morse that international law applies in the west there and all the good clues range and recommendations are based on these fact in my report but the levy. committee decided that international law doesn't apply in the west bank and all their recommendations. based on the. to my opinion you current found it in this report and would you agree that the west bank today in somalia is not israeli soil and if so what legal grounds does israel have for legislating laws regarding land that is not under its jurisdiction while opinion into the opinion that was written by the supreme court of justice or for israel for ever and ever is that israel has no super and in the west bank the occupation is a temporary one until a peace agreement will be achieved between. the

r.t. to a german left wing politician young but i can now he says his government has revealed its toothpaste nature when it comes to the conflict in syria. could be the something true of the. human rights. repression within the comforters sure enough official be taking the other sides with the reposts i want to inform of you see it from their involvement with this question from the ground. and they invite three and petitions the time they're off to try him here so officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody some people. on the basis of which are two areas of the clue i mean we now have been invited to the forefront of this. from my mob i mean how can you train some people are smart i mean we left part of the link in germany we have context left politicians some people in syria i would know what i would pick but obviously these are different people. and you can see the full interview with the german left wing politician in about twenty minutes from now here on r.t. . israel has got to run one hundred international pro palestinian activists from crossing

r.t. we hear what the president has to say the very shortly you're watching r.t. live from moscow. a mission free accreditation free transport charges free. range means free risk free. to free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media dog r.t. dot com. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the. ten years on a project federal wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trenches they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look around and it opens their eyes that their chairs what can be achieved by using your imagination. which. phone watches you know every single day. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning most of us. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. on our cheek. or. lose. some. c

r.t. that has crumbled why the rebels are pleading for a national when they claim to have the people support. when anybody talks about an all fly zone they are talking about a regional war they know quite well that the syrian army will not allow any foreign power or foreign armies to interfere within the syrian land and that any attempt to create a safe zone or north fly zone will be. the tool by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any need for nation will turn into a large regional war in syria is a part of a huge alliance and for instance the iranians just last week made it clear that if any foreign power tries to interfere in syria they would not just watch their strongest ally fall it's even workers are being attacked have seen rebels kill people in the street slaughter them with knives and then mr clinton comes and gives them money they lost in the massacres they are losing in any poll as we speak and as usual whenever the they find themselves in a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention and if they claim that they have popular support as they have been say

there has been a rather different decision in the case of the enemy of the state now below rajab in bahrain he coincidentally met julian asuncion for an interview shown on this channel on r.t. air in may he has however been given a three year prison sentence by a court in bahrain for being involved in and for calling for illegal anti government protests when the sentence was given though he was already in prison serving a three month term for posting anti-government comments on twitter there has been many comments of support from his family and friends but there have also been criticisms delivered via social networks criticisms of u.s. policy in relation to bahrain and overall in the arab spring those criticisms include allegations that if it weren't for if the u.s. had supported a little more he wouldn't have been locked up as he was he wouldn't have been treated like this hypocrisy is a word used quite regularly in saying that the walls of the u.s. have supported protesters in other countries like egypt and libya in the arab spring they have remained silent over bahrain the u.s. is fifth fleet is based in bahrain. this also raises questions over bahrain's sunni governmen

r.t. britain has backed off its threat to raid the ecuadorian embassy in london this according to a statement from tito's foreign ministry there with her all comes just a day after the organization of american states sided with ecuador and a blow to britain for thirty five nations to make up the new world declared embassies diplomatic safe havens it also means joining our songs the man at the center of the storm is safe for the time being inside the ecuadorian mission parties laura smith now with more of the decision by the americas it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually got what it wanted out of me saying essentially they the foreign minister made speech a. in which he condemned britain for what he called an assault on could all sovereignty and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempts to put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian our sons but also to continue talks between ecuador and

r.t. aquittal has scored another point in his diplomatic row with britain over granting asylum to julian i saw nj is that a full member bloc of american nations has declared their solidarity and support for the country condemning the u.k.'s threats to storm its embassy in london to get to the whistle blow up laura smithson britain them brings us the details. it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually ecuador got what it wanted out of the meeting essentially the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called an assault on sovereignty and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempts to put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian our sons but also urged to continue talks between ecuador and britain to try and sort out their diplomatic problems the usa and canada are members of this organization and they were very much against this meeting from the very beginning

assange one of them was a tariq ali he was a guest on one of assigned his exclusive programs here on r.t. he hasthis to say regarding the current situation of a songe will he get asylum if he is granted asylum what will he even be allowed to leave the u.k. . i think we have now in different parts of the world including the western world clamp down on dissent and we have. the british home secretary referring yesterday to activists not activists meaning. back to us soon they'll be given the label of terrorists you know cyber terrorists some are already calling them out and from there there's a very small to relabel in rebranding people rent them from speaking out about the culture in which we live in the worst world today the official culture is deeply hostile to whistleblowers to hackers where in the public interest and democracy everywhere is being hollowed out just think if a similar situation was going on in big. all moscow or some other capital and of dissident in moscow or beaching had to can refuse the british embassy. and the irrational government of the chinese government or some other go

r.t. egypt has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region the government has closed the crossing for during the recent violence in the sinai area where sixteen soldiers were killed by militants is also shutting down smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza a vital lifeline for many. this report. these tunnels have been operational for civil years ever since gaza was first put under blockade back in two thousand and six for many gazans they are essentially the only lifeline they have with the outside world and that's why you'll hear many gazans saying that they feel that they were living in a massive prison we're talking here about everything about goods about items about people even food and fuel that are smuggled through this extensive underground network of tunnels into gaza carlow has voiced its suspicions that some of the militants who were involved in sunday's deadly attack were smuggled through these tunnels from egypt into gaza but it is still a highly unusual move to seal off the tunnels particularly under the presidency

r.t. will be talking to a german left wing politician yun. he says his government has revealed its two faced nature when it comes to the ongoing conflict in syria. officially they don't take sides something sure of the search for human rights for. repression within the country sure enough but officially them are taking any other sides with the rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with us from the ground and others to. invite three and put it to. the time they're after. here. and officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody selected people and don't know on the basis of which criteria look lou i mean we now have been invited for a final discussion by moderate i mean how can you train some people and other smart i mean we the left party blinking in germany we have context left politicians some people in syria i would know what i would pick but obviously these are different people. and you can see the full interview with the german left wing politician a young man akin in about twenty five minutes

cyber attack which struck many hours ago and has made r.t. dot com unavailable around the world on twitter a group calling itself anti leaks is claiming responsibility for the attack they linked in their tweets to the topics june songe and wiki leaks they also made a joke about the show hosted on r.t. saying that they wanted to see him smoking cigars and drinking whiskey but that they weren't able to because of this attack those and other tweets indicate that they wanted to stop artie's coverage of the granting of diplomatic asylum to the wiki leaks founder by ecuador's embassy in london d.o.'s or distributed denial of service attack is where attackers used remotely control computers around the world to flood a website with too much traffic for it to handle until leaks has previously attacked wiki leaks is site itself with d.d. o. s. as well but they say that their primary target is julian assange tim self describing him as a new breed of terrorist the group says they're based in the usa there's much speculation as to who anti leaks actually

r.t. britain has announced today that it is a broadening its support of the syrian opposition just for my me just bear with me here i want to listen to what foreign secretary william hague had to say ok now in the absence of diplomatic progress the united kingdom will do much more we will exploit our support to the syrian people and the syrian political opposition with an extra five million pounds and non lethal practical assistance this will help protect an armed opposition groups human rights activists and civilians from some of the worst of the violence. so here we have the british foreign secretary saying that millions of pounds are will be heading over to the opposition or alternately the armed opposition in syria and we do apologize here on r.t. we're just we're just trying to reestablish our connection with mr walker if i do try to you can hear me now as we're just making a very good indeed as we were just listening to william hague millions of pounds now are being sent to support the armed opposition who we hear were increasingly being aided by radical islamists from abroad is tha

has given up nothing. well it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come for you in just a few minutes actually out of cairo's new broom in action a report on the egyptian president's latest government sackings and what the move could mean for the future of the country's a powerful. mosque where people celebrate the most sacred days in the muslim holy detail theater. now the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and provoked a massive international reaction the groups and he putin stunned in the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by motivated by religious hatred but dozens of people have been detained during protests both for and against the group a number of gatherings are backing the band was staged here in russia but also in spain france britain and other countries foreign governments also had their chance to have their say the u.s. calling on russia north or he's to review the case this story now to. regarding please that you

r.t. television. washington has tightened this cruise on a roll on once again was new sanctions against the country as well as others tightening targeting banks rather in china and a rug the size they helped to run evade international penalties and policy direction the national iranian american council believes it's order a citizens that bear the brunt. i think what we have in place is constitutes economic warfare and it dovetails nicely with the cyber warfare and the covert warfare that we are now engaged in with iran but what they wanted this bill to do was to actually sanction every single financial energy inside of iran to make it legally impossible to send any goods to iran or for iran to send anything out to the majority of what the bill does is actually impose these restrictions that are blocking medicine from getting into iran that are blocking food and humanitarian products from getting into you are on their isolating iranian students who want to study abroad and so when you actually add them all up the hum

r.t. dot com. syria's president bashar al assad has been shown on state t.v. praying in a mosque his first public appearance since bomb blast killed top officials last month in the capital damascus meanwhile you want to serve a mission a mandate for syria expires later on sunday as government forces try to push the rebels out of their key strongholds fierce clashes are continuing in the country's commercial hub aleppo with a shot of us army turning increasingly to air power to push back insurgents trying to seize the city the new mediator lakhdar brahimi was confirmed by the u.n. this friday and as expect this to give a new impetus to peace efforts meanwhile russia says the u.s. will violate international norms if it goes ahead with imposing a no fly zone over syria a move that helped rebels to overthrow the gadhafi regime in libya and he's accountable of course has the own going violence in syria has proved with yet another be provided rather with yet another base from which they can stage. blossom gone for a daily occurrence here in damascus but once the exp

r.t. dot com. the u.n. security council has decided not to extend the u.n. observer mission in syria after its mended expires on sunday the mission has been seen as key in helping establish peace in the conflict torn country artie's anastasio should brings us the details from new york. regardless of russia's insistence on prolonging the observer mission in syria the united nations security council decided not to go ahead with this we have to remember of course that the conditions for these were very important first of all the u.n. security council wanted to see an end to the violence on the ground and the stopping of the use of heavy weapons and of course we have to keep in mind that just recently there was an explosion close to the u.n. mission headquarters and of course this impact of the decision what's important is the security council plans to set up really another form of you on presence on the ground in form of a more civil mission a civil office russia however regrets that the mission comes to an end of the observers take a listen to what the russian

r.t. dot com. has fired two vets military top brass over their failure to stop an invasion of swedish parachuting teddy bears all these people are explains why the first flying in minsk. but would seem this if you don't have to go down to the woods in bellary see if you are looking for a big surprise the teddy bears are literally power shooting in the sky now those bez on parachuting in for a picnic they were parachuting in bearing a messages of free speech against human rights abuses now it's understood that the swedish group calling themselves studio. were behind this stunt they believe rented a light aircraft in lithuania flew it across the border into bellary swear they dropped the bundle of b. all means if you will as funny and his life hard as this all seems it has resulted into a valorous a senior generals losing their positions we're talking about the heads of the belarusian air force and as offenses as well as the general who's in charge of border control the russian president alexander lukash

us not just fate any longer has a country may still have to face harsh consequences for its gesture president rafael correa exclusively shared his view on the issue with r.t. spanish channel has a preview of his interview coming your way next. normally such a decision shouldn't have any consequences that is if all countries respect international law which clearly says that the state has the right to drive to some of them how many times is sweden granted asylum but unfortunately in this particular case we see that some countries are displaying their colonial and imperial ambitions there is this interesting it turns out that if ecuador grant asylum to someone it's certainly much of consequences there is definitely no fear but let's face it some leader might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example on its roots and invades our embassy to arrest the stone age you mention how big of a precedent this would set. nuclear talks between iran and the un atomic watchdog have once again had an impasse with no date set for further negotiations this limit republicans stuck with crippling sanctions and continued accusations of pursuing an atomic bomb

r.t. . but first the syrian delegation has walked out on the session of the nonaligned movement in tehran after the egyptian leader mohamed morsi called the syrian regime oppressive in his speech morsy out of the assad's government had lost its legitimacy and called on the attending nations to support the rebels well let's discuss this now with sara flounders from the international action center joins me live now from north carolina in the states now syria's foreign minister has condemned these comments as inciting further violence in the country what do you think. well it really is a policy that us and the western imperialist powers to incite the violence but they have lined up a number of countries created a great deal of confusion and it's really an effort to create a great deal of this century among countries that are meeting. right now and. what about the meeting itself was that the u.s. made every effort to stop a tie this meeting. and to make it impossible so the fact that so many countries have met. and are determined to find ways to cooperate itself. but do you think these comments cle

r.t. spanish channel has a preview of what's to come. normally such a decision shouldn't have any consequences that is if all countries respect international law which clearly says that the state has the right to grant asylum how many times has sweden granted asylum but unfortunately in this particular case we see that some countries are displaying the colonial and imperial ambitions of their ethnocentricity it turns out that if ecuador grants asylum to someone else it certainly might have consequences there is definitely no plea but let's face it some leader might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example or practice on these threats and invades our embassy to risk the sand but can you imagine how big of a precedent this would set. a nuclear talks between iran and the unit i watched or one skate had an impasse with no date set for further negotiations the islamic republic stuck with crippling sanctions and continued accusations of pursuing an atomic bomb the allegations were fueled by to rand reportedly stepping up it