william hague bill is made to pull themselves the. first time he wants gave a media interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do in an embassy now laura smith also spoke with paul with a member of the ukraine a panther party who believes that the actions of the british government have made the country will bad in the eyes of the world. it's such a turnaround from last week where we were all so proud to be british and now this week because of the actions of one full foreign secretary we have to hang our heads in shame i mean this whole secret made against the best legal advice of violating another country's you know territory in service of a european a restaurant which hasn't even been properly filled i find and on a on the case where there are still no charges of the light my feeling is that if if nobody in the british government has has the courage to stand up against you know this this

william hague nearly as major pulled himself he. first time he wants me to interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm vehicle door an embassy. ecuador's decision to grant political asylum is being closely monitored in the u.s. washington has not admitted its planning to request a sawyer's extradition bud a number of american politicians are holding back some going as far as to demand of songs be tried and executed my reports from new york while julia saunders mother is calling this a victory for her son many see this as a small defeat for the u.s. and that is because many believe the u.s. was hoping that julian assange would be extradited to sweden so that sweden would subsequently be able to extradite julian assange to the united states we have heard in recent years it's no secret former and current u.s. government officials equating julian assange to are terrorists and that was in the after

attempt to teach the vienna convention on behalf of the british foreign office i would say to william hague. where william hague really is made to pull themselves it's not the first time he wants gave a media interview in which he said that as a student who used to drink fourteen points of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do an embassy. well or a smith also i spoke with paul with you member of the u.k. independence party he believes that the actions of the british government have alternately made the country look rather bad in the eyes of the world. it's such a turnaround from last week where we're all so proud to be british and now this week because of the actions of one poor foreign secretary we have to hang our heads in shame i mean this whole thread made against the best legal advice of violating another country's you know territory in service of a european arrest from which hasn't even been properly filled out and and are not on a case where there are still no charges have been laid my feeling is that if if no

well william hague really is made to prove himself he. first time he wants media interview in which he said that as a student who used to fourteen points a beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm could do in an embassy. but let's cross to new york and talk to brian a social rights activist and legal research on this a story that we've been following this whole week now julian assange his lawyers said it if his client is not allowed to me for. launch a suit with the un's international court what do you see happening next. well i'm not an expert on extradition i mean what i really focused on is the u.s. investigations. as well as the criminal investigation and wiki leaks grand jury. now a son and his defense team have been saying that if still gives us guarantees that he won't be extradited to the us he would go to sweden for questioning do you think he can reach that kind of deal. once again my focus really has been specifically on the massive hole of government interagency in

the operations of wiki leaks itself now william hague just given a statement saying that the u.k. is not going to give safe passage to the he's actually going on to say that assad is everything that's being done to gazin is in compliance with international law what's your comment on that how do you see this playing out after this what i feel that summer which is given the swedish government plenty of time to question him he has not been charged with anything so i believe that they've definitely overstepped their bounds and they're not willing to cooperate this is a sure sign that they are working in cahoots with the united states government secretly but it's becoming very obvious to me and i believe most supporters well thank you very much they for your point of view activism autists stalky live from new york on this developing story that we're covering often in a songe who's just been given asylum from the ecuadorian. right so just to remind you our breaking news story this hour is julian assange has been granted political asylum by aqua dog two months after taking refuge at the

william hague bill is major pulled himself he. first time he wants media interview in which he said that as a student to used to fourteen pints of beer a day i think he must have done twenty eight pints of beer before coming up with a threat to storm dorian embassy and what's the future for julian assange is do you think what can happen going forward is. it's difficult because we're in a real standoff where the government of the u.k. have painted themselves into a corner they've said do you negotiate but they are stuck. the obvious eventual compromise is for both sweden and the united states to declare but they will not under any circumstances extradite julian assange to be united states to face with the leaks related charges and then for. science to go to sweden to answer the sexual allegations but at the moment there's no sign at all that i have united states will sweden or the united kingdom will do that so ok craig we're going to have to leave it there thank you very much as great mary says that there's been no real change and

table then what are you going to be left with no one has an alternative to that at the moment william hague today the. foreign secretary of the u.k. basically said we still want the kofi annan plan but we want to imply that there are consequences if it's not followed there are a lot of empty for going around at the moment but no one knows what to do yet indeed are talking about british foreign secretary william hague there as well while you are you revealed the u.k. plans to step up its help for the syrian opposition he was talking about giving norm lethal help as it was putting it he insists londoners are sending weapons but as it justifying this one sided approach while you talk about william hague. well i mean yes he's suggested he's going to offer non-lethal aid he hasn't given specific details of this yet but it does seem like it's going to be intelligence it does seem like there's going to be an awful lot of supports announced for the rebels over the next few weeks and of course this comes just after president obama has announced well it hasn't been announced but it has been revealed

foreign and commonwealth office called the decision disappointing and foreign secretary william hague said it changed nothing it does not change the fundamentals of the case we will not allow. safe passage out of the united kingdom nor is there any legal basis for us to do so hague also denied any suggestion that british police would storm the embassy so over and territory under international law to arrest but that's not what ecuador inferred from a letter it says was delivered through the british embassy in quito in response that could all played hardball. but it will be no national law could be used in this way in any intrusive way in any diplomatic facilities any place in the world it shouldn't be used to threaten or blackmail the sovereignty of any other country and they called a summit to try to deal with this threat so that this fact doesn't go unpunished. the scary part the part that i found completely incredible and outrageous is the british threats to actually. go in and try and extract you a massage but i must say to see british police surrounding that embassy was it an act

you got to see who who who said this it was opposition activists again and straight on cue william hague comes out and condemned syria before we actually know what's going on and so it's pretty clear that there's an agenda here is to blacken the syrian government's name and to use this as another pretext for intervention it's happened before it happened again among these massacres always seem to happen just want to point you and me to we've got to ask ourselves why it's all about the likes of william hague and hillary clinton trying to book pressure on russia and china to change their positions and so before we get any independent verification of what's going on we get these calls from these hawks to say look you know murdered his own people we've got to intervene and then when the dust settles and we went from asia it's not as clear cut as it appeared to be let's think back to who we were told that was the largest massacre we have told you know thousands dead hundreds dead hundreds of thousands of people killed and then we because it was a government sponsored later on we find that actu

foreign and commonwealth office they said that they were disappointed and the foreign secretary william hague later made a statement in which he said the ecuador knew the full legal context which affected their pointing agreement to extradite frost to sweden and that the decision to grant him asylum on behalf of ecuador was regrettable and does not change the fundamentals of the case we will not allow. safe passage out of the united kingdom nor any legal basis for us to do so he also denied that there had ever been any implication that british police would storm the ecuadorian embassy behind me in order to arrest julian i songs that's not what the ecuadorian understood in a letter that was delivered to quito in fact in response to that letter which they say was a threat to violate their embassy in london ecuador have issued a very strong statement of that own. no national war could be used in this way in any intrusive way in any diplomatic facilities any place in the world it shouldn't be used to threaten or blackmail the sovereignty of any other country and they called a summit to try to dea

meeting we've got to ask ourselves why it's all about the likes of william hague and hillary clinton trying to book pressure on russia trying to change their positions and so before we get any independent verification of what's going on we get these calls from these hawks to say look you know as has murdered his own people we've got to intervene and then when the dust settles and we can't have it when it's not as clear cut as it appeared to be let's think back to who we were told that was the largest massacre we have told you know thousands dead hundreds dead hundreds of thousands of people killed and then we because it was a governor responsible later on we find that actually the rebels were responsible for much of the killing then it wasn't clear cut so we got to be very very wary it's not a question of taking we with a pinch of salt i think going to take a lorry load of salt the very last thing the west wants concern is democracy the very last they want forcible regime change and we've already got a democratic solution on handing syria the constitution in syria we've got free demo

there are still no charges of bin laden and my concept of british justice is now so far from william hague's but this week for the first time ever i've been moved to write to a foreign secretary and i let him know just what i feel and my feeling is that if if nobody in the british government has has the courage to stand up against you know this this european arrest warrant then the best thing we can do. is pass it on to a nation which clearly has found some courage to stand up against this sort of oppression and it's quite right what a song says this is all about wounded american pride this is all about the americans having been discovered doing something wrong and instead of going in fixing a base throw bradley in jail for coming up on two years and then they go after the person who who made the information public and the attitude of the foreign office is evidently that this is changed nothing and that they've even you know they've they've started almost a war of words with that could tell who are who are responding very much in kind and how do you view this this attitude of the foreign off

not granting asylum a tool to issue a scathing indictment if william hague the foreign secretary who's in charge of the country at the may because the prime minister and deputy prime minister have gone on holiday that william hague and the foreign office of pool of course be in charge of negotiations with that and we can be saying he's made a complete mess of that and if he does that they suspect it's approved this decision to break into the embassy then they will be calling for his immediate resignation so as i say it just isn't very imminent we're expecting any second now absolutely right we are we are standing by here with breaking news live on our way to the speech certainly the comments coming from the ecuadorian president nor smith also the ecuadorian embassy in london many thanks to you and to you. well here and i'll tell you we will certainly be hearing much more from our correspondent laura smith all throughout the day plus you can check the latest updates via twitter feed . the london bureau you can also see pictures of a police dispersing a song just supporters near ecuador'

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 that a wise idea do you think that is a huge dilemma the british government has increased tenfold its assistance to non-lethal assistance to the rebels or to the civilians as mr hague really stressed in a sense the british government is taking sides technically in internal conflict. in a sovereign state now is that wise we don't know obviously medical equipment and medical aid is very much welcomed however we need to remember that only yesterday a turkish member of the parliament said that ambulances used to clear wounded persons from inside syria into turkey are actually taking ammunition and weaponry to inside syria and we been hearing similar reports here at r.t. and certainly not just in england sending money but now america is also expected to announce today that it is also widening its financial backing off of the opposition how does

disrespect the sovereignty of syria and we don't want the syrian people to determine their own future william hague suggested he's going to offer non-lethal aid he hasn't given specific details of this yet but it does seem like it's going to be intelligence it does seem like there's going to be an awful lot of support announced for the rebels over the next few weeks and of course this comes just after president obama has announced well it hasn't been announced but it has been revealed that there has been a secret plan basically allow the cia to assist the rebels as well the thing i find very striking about this is that there's a real historical amnesia that's taking place among western leaders where they don't really know who the opposition is there are a lot of concerns about the makeup of it there are jihadi elements there are a lot of people who the west would not like to be business with but they're stuck into this mentality that they're drawn to help anyone get into power they drive a sports any of the opposition in syria then they would support assad assad has become this bogeyman just like i

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on thursday, the british foreign secretary william hague said assange would be arrested if he leaveshe embassy. >> we're disappointed by the statement by ecuador's foreign minister today that ecuador has offered political asylum to julian assange. under our law, with mr. assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the british authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to sweden. we must carry out that obligation. we fully intend to do so. the ecuadorean government decision this afternoon does not change that in any way. in order to change the current circumstances in any way. >> britain has also tried to raid the embassy in order to arrest assange within a week. we will have more after the headlines. at least 70 people were killed thursday in a series of bombings and shootings across iraq. it was iraq's deadliest day of violence since more than 100 people were slain on july 23. the u.s.-led nato occupation force in afghanistan has confirmed the deaths of 11 people in a helicopter crash thursday, including seven u.s. soldiers. a nato spokesperson announced the new

the crossfire, and this could, for instance, include body armor. >> british foreign secretary william haguery country in diplomat lakhdar brahimi is expected to be appointed as the new u.s.- arab league envoy for syria. if confirmed, brahimi would succeed former u.n. secretary general kofi annan, who resigned last week saying both sides particularly the syrian government, had built to respect his ceasefire plan but his six- point plan was never fully adhered to by either side and the violence has continued to escalate. according to activists, more than 20,000 people, mostly unarmed civilians, have died in the last 17 months of fighting and tens of thousands have fled the country. on thursday, almost two dozen people reached neighboring turkey as refugee flows continue to rise. about a quarter of a million syrians have left the country for neighboring states over the course of the conflicts. heavy fighting in aleppo has raised fears of a larger exodus. the refugees are housed at nine camps in four turkish provinces along the syrian border. a syrian refugee in turkey said the opposition has n

british foreign secretary william hague said his government was legally obligated to extradite assange to sweden. >> under our law, with mr. assange having exhaust ed all options of appeal, we will not allow him safe pass acknowledges out of the united kingdom. >> ecuador says british counterparts demand they hand over assange. or police would enter the embassy. the ecuadorians call that an open threat and violation of diplomatic immunity. >>> the u.n. security council has decided to end its observer mission in syria. the decision represents the international body's failure to halt violence that killed more than 17,000 people. nhk world's widad franco has more. >> reporter: on thursday, united nations is stopping the peacekeeping operation in syria. they decided formally not to renew the mandate that will expire on august 19th. instead, the u.n. will have a much smaller liaison office in damascus. >> the mandate is over. as you -- the dismantling will starten a few days. there will be what is the most important thing, a u.n. presence. >> reporter: the mission was deployed in april of t

intervention even without the un's approval something that marina's just touched on the foreign minister william hague said that the need to enforce a no fly zone over the country is not being ruled no even without the security council's authorization. that has told me earlier that turkey's proposal for a safe zone is nothing but a cover for intervention. it's in this region obviously has to do with the refugees spilling over from syria into turkey and in the region in which they going which is a had a region where it's going to room is one of the main port cities there actually historically this was stolen from syria in one hundred thirty nine by the turks in a in a dirty game with the french against syria just a bit of historical context of that but this spillover into turkey has create all kinds of problems for tokyo and it really if we see the way turkey has employed is diplomacy and foreign policy in the region in the last a year year and a half two years we can see that nothing has come to the benefit of turkey it's very disconcerting white so he is taking this call this course because there's n

mentioned that there is no interest in nato for a negotiated settlement actually foreign minister william hague has said that name a nato enforced no fly zone over the country is not being ruled out they could possibly go rogue even without the u.n. security council do you think this is a possibility of course it's a possibility even mentioned france even mentioned this with respect to the refugee chaos that they're being demanded by turkey to be placed inside syria and run by the united nations that brant said of course if we do there will have to have a large about a military there to protect the refugees let's touch a been a bond that initiative proposed by turkey how safe is it to impose a buffer zone in syria where this is just a pretext for increase for military presence there it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the current three years seeing the united nations as your vehicle. now if you look at the calls for foreign military intervention in syria they've become more vocal lately you just mentioned france and also the u.k. reiterating the words of the u.s. are w