web site more on that ongoing attack with artie's tom. the group calling itself anti leaks claimed responsibility for the attacks yes they say we're behind them on the r.t. website those attacks started many hours ago and made artie's website unavailable around the world in their tweets they linked to the themes julian assange and wiki leaks those and other websites one gleefully joking that they would have loved to watch. smoking cigars and drinking whiskey but they couldn't because artie's website was unavailable those indicate that they wanted to stop artie's coverage of the granting to do it in a sanch of diplomatic asylum in ecuador embassy in london and to leaks has attacked the wiki leaks site itself before with d.d. o. s. attacks though they claim that it is the man doing the sanj that is there it is their real target they call him a new breed of terrorist a d.d. o. s. attack or distributed denial of service attack is where the attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a particular website with too much

dozens of people in a double attack showing no remorse for his actions throughout this trial and as artie's tests are so he reports the case became a catalyst for more far right activity all across europe. there's no doubt about his guilt far right militant unders brave massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies and immigrants and is long over this case once again highlighted europe's deepening divide over immigration had integration and the subsequent radicalization of ideas . would come and see the people more racist certainly not to but there has been some sort of. for people to express their hate and to indulge into violent behavior. it's a bit of so physical violence including murders last week a twenty nine year old suspected brave it simplifies or was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons and police uniforms it is flat and they believe he was planning a brave slaughter. while in norway police are investigating a threatening email sent to newspapers and politicians from a person who claims to be brave and

this is also a big day for millions of muslims in russia artie's jacob greece looks at how the holidays being celebrated here millions of muslims around russia have been waking up very early indeed before sunrise putting all some of the best clothes as is tradition on this holy day also the be flocking to nearby mosques and the greatest mosque in moscow is the one just behind me which is currently being referred to see intentions of thousands of people not unless aligning the surrounding streets to listen servants also be giving praise to god this is coming on the end on the back of the holy month of ramadan no faster and this question will this day shelf theater now actually translate as the breaking of the fast so we can expect many things to be taking place in moscow and around russia with friends and family now those have been somewhat bar by what transpired late saturday evening in the russian republic of dagestan there to pass government stormed a local mosque they shot and injured eight people in total also there was a bomb misses found containing forty kilograms of t.n.t. of exp

and commenting on the increased support for ecuador attorney and artie's a spanish host eva go enjoy that are only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let us on. the pressure is very important to continue to try it will aware. position and its stubbornness in england in this specific case and also to show each time that these types of meetings and resolutions happen and we see the u.s. position in particular is showing that the united states government is behind all of this and is behind the persecution of the signage and so it's really important that comes out and people understand that governments understand that and that eventually hopefully the british government will back down actually. what with all the twists and turns in julian assange just long running saga as well as expert opinion and analysis it's all always available on our website and if you've missed the exclusive interview with the ecuadorian president rafael correa it's also there at r.t. dot com. all right an hour quarter past the hour moscow time as iran faces growing pressure from the west reg

homestretch both republicans and democrats will hold their national conventions in the coming weeks artie's a new york task what is gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will notice. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the president on election eve and so what are these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're growing your eyes i say convention internet stuff why are you into politics they're all crooks yes but we have to choose right all crooks what do the conventions do do you think what do they do if they were so out of money that's what they do day good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around certain condit so yes i think they do too so we really need more hype. in today's world yeah do you spend a ton of money on it just basically or do they are an advertisement on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's. business as usual so we don't do this where you got to start to start and i think that i mean you just said the key word business i think there's a lot of mon

homestretch both republicans and democrats will hold their national conventions in the coming weeks artie's in new york to ask what these gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will notice. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the presidential election fever and so one of these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're throwing your eyes i say convention into that stuff why are you into the politics of all crooks yet but we have to choose right all crooks what are the conventions do do you think what do they do they were so out of money that's what they do good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around certain condit so yes i think they do too so we really need more hype. in today's world yeah do you spend a ton of money on it just by sheer or do they are an advertiser can prize you on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's business as usual so we don't do this where you go from start to start and i think that i think you just said the key word business i think there's

and arab league envoy after kofi annan quit here's artie's peter offer. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think but considering the situation in syria but it's that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the u.n. as the envoy to afghanistan as the united states invaded the country following nine eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit but our personal life is personal contact we might see a different approach from him but he's daughter of forme

artie's an associate tricom reports. according to a major daily israeli newspaper the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his defense minister would like to strike iran as early as before the u.s. presidential elections taking place in november this year now amid escalating media reports and expert predictions that such an attack could in fact be around the corner the peepers front page article on friday offered by its senior commentators and reportedly based off of conversations with israel's defense minister says that if it were up to benjamin netanyahu and his minister of defense israel would cause a military attack on iran sometime within the next several months importantly israel's security cabinet ministers have been resisting such an option for now what's important here is while israel is weighing this option we know of course that iran continues to insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes exclusively and we have seen the obama administration be careful in urging israel to stick with dipl

russia's main cathedral are the three women found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred artie's peter all of our joining us live right outside the courthouse so peter the judge has ruled guilty as charged what's been the reaction what so what's going on where you are now. well i was talking to you just a short while ago and i was saying the police were telling us over thirty people had been detained here today oh that number certainly got up just a little bit as soon as that news filtered through that the judges sentence them to two years in prison a group just behind me and right in front of the courtroom broke through the barriers they were then the police of a stop put up here they were then taken some of them kicking and screaming on to buses just behind me to my left being detained there these are people that i've seen over the last few months covering the trial that have been vocal supporters of that group we are hearing from the police so they're from both sides both those opposed to pussy riot and those who support them being detained on friday however they recognize som

state department calling on russia's authorities to review the case artie's marina porton iowa has more from new york. in both political and public reaction over the pussy riot verdict now around the globe there has been several protests on friday in support of the three russian band members that were convicted of hooliganism paris brussels london and tell of evil are among the cities where demonstrators gathered to denounce the trial and the two year sentencing those that are in support of these three women and members of the pussy riot say that the decision that was made by moscow's court was emblematic of russia's intolerance of dissent on a more political front the u.s. embassy in russia has called the verdict on fair portion it there was also reaction coming from amnesty international which said that the decision was a bitter blow to freedom of expression in russia also political figures in europe have begun to weigh in on this developing story we heard from the high representative of the european union catherine ashton who has said she's deeply disappointed by this verdict calling

dot com down 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 a d.z.o.'s or distributed denial of service attack is where attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a website with too much traffic for it to handle and to leaks has previously attacked wiki leaks as sites itself with d.d. o. s. but they say their primary target is to innocent himself describing him has a new breed of terrorist the group says they're based in the usa but there's much speculation as to who and the leaks actually are. reporting right there ok into where we go time for the r.t. world update now or start and start our police are killed more than thirty workers striking outside a mine officers opened fire when the group chartered them with machetes since fears of the strike began last week when miners demanded higher salaries and better working conditions the shooting is one of the worst in south africa since the the end of the apartheid era. iraqi police and hospita

yesterday in an insider shooting episode bringing the total to a dozen soldiers in just over a week and artie's got edge to count on reports this is a problem that multibillion dollar the fans projects just can't solve. the ads for military hardware in the us local like hollywood blockbuster trailers whether it's for a tactical armed drone which can fit into a backpack. or for a special robot like clothing for soldiers they sense what the user wants to do where the user wants to go and then explode we like to call these men tom an assistant but many ask why with all the high tech gear the u.s. can't win against man of simple means from some remote afghan villages a u.s. marine general estimated that eighty percent of his troops casualties in afghanistan were caused by homemade bombs components of which often cost no more than a few dollars. jake dilla better served in afghanistan at the beginning of the war the arabs and the armored humvees are cost millions of dollars and they're destroyed by something that costs the price of a pizza and we don't have any effective weapons to combat that animo

detained sixty people outside the court who've been rallying very thin support and against the group artie's jacob graves joins us now live from the scene with more so jacob it's a case that's caused a storm in russian society we're hearing people outside the court are refusing to leave tell us more about that. sure still actually seeing some smaller sporadic protests taking place behind me but now there's been a real feel to this trial since it began we've had again outside the courthouse drug court. proceedings today and deed off the verdict was announced in particular even those in favor of pussy riot supporting them from their sins have preached charles tension five months ago and those who stood against him think they're guilty of blasphemy in the charges against him of hooliganism and it comes the protests we've seen today were has been a point music being played out just outside the courthouse as well see support of pussy riot has been over sixty arrests already made after assembling illegal demonstrations also breaking the peace now it's hose who because of those sixty arrests there

face harsh consequences for its just her rafael correia exclusively shared his view only issue with artie's spanish channel his full interview is coming your way later this hour but here's a preview. normally sutured decisions shouldn't have any consequences if all countries respect international law which clearly says that the state has the right to draw into some of them were many times as sweden granted to certain but unfortunately in this particular case we see that sim countries are displaying the colonial indian pure relentless. yes there is this interesting it turns out that it could do a grunt just saw them to someone so it's certainly much of consequences there is definitely new but let's face it it's really a might be reprisals which would be terrible if the u.k. for example. roots and invades or if it's a risk to some extent you mention how big of a precedent this would since. nuclear talks between iran and the un atomic watchdog have once again hit an impasse with no date set for further negotiations the islamic republic has stuck with crippling sanctions and continued accusatio

artie's or lower smith right there were commenting on the increased support for ecuador attorney artie's spanish host eva golinger says that her only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let our science go. the pressure is very important to continue to try to whittle away. physicians is stubborn it is an england in this specific case and i want to show each time that these types of meetings take place in a resolution is happening we see the u.s. position in particular is showing that you know its economy is behind all of this it is behind the persecution of the signs and since really important that and our people understand that governments understand that and that eventually hopefully the british government will back down have to wait and see. but all the twists and turns in julian assange has long running saga as well as expert opinion and analysis always available on our website if you've missed our exclusive interview though with the ecuador and president rafael correa it's also there at r.t. dot com. or at a quarter past the hour here in moscow this is the weekly

from the army draft with moderates feeling like they are the ones shouldering the country's burdens artie's policy has been following the protests and she tweets that police use some kind of pepper spray to disperse the crowds the security forces may not be in short supply but as paul reports the government's action on welfare is definitely thin on the ground. in the middle of the west bank on land palestinians and the international community is not there is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped pay for. the government has invested here just as it did with this it but we don't know the reason for the social protest if people find her inexpensive to live in cities should not point fingers at sidley. but for. appointing and calculations made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and it includes investment in infrastructure as like housing electricity like energy like. also roads like water about fifty percent of the budget and certain mance are financed or subsidized by government or activities th

the announcement a stressing the whistleblowers fears of being politically persecuted are justified artie's laura smith has been following the developments all sides the ecuadorian embassy in london. the reaction from us and his supporters here was unequivocal when his asylum was finally granted by ecuador there were cheers there were chance there was a big contingent from the ecuadorian community actually saying hundreds of ecuador that's still behind me still chanting but not everyone was as pleased and a statement from the 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 binding agreement to extradite i thought to sweden and that the decision to grant him asylum on behalf of ecuador was regrettable he also confirmed and reiterated that they would not be granting julian assange safe passage and that there was no legal basis for them to do so let's just hear a little bit of what he said in his statement it does not change the fund

and arab league envoy after kofi annan quit hears artie's peter oliver. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think considering the situation in syria but it's that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the un as the envoy to afghanistan as the united states invaded the country following nine eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit but are he means personal life in his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him brahimi is daughte

homestretch both republicans and democrats will hold their national conventions in the coming weeks artie's in new york to ask what these gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will notice. in the u.s. republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the presidential election. so what are these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're growing your i think invention into that stuff why are you into the politics they're all crooks yes but we have to do is right what are the conventions do do you think what do they do they were so out of money. but they do good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around saying count it so yes i think they do so we really need more hype. in today's world yeah do you spend a ton of money on it just by sheer do they earn every choice we can prize on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's business as usual so we don't do this where you go if you start to start and i think that i think you just said the key word business i think there's a lot of money on the table in

and arab league envoy after kofi annan quit here's artie's peter offer. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think considering the situation in syria but it's that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the u.n. as the envoy to afghanistan as the united states invaded the country following nine eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit but are he means personal life his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him brahimi is daughter

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 a d.d. o. s. or distributed denial of service attack is where attackers use remotely controlled computers around the world to flood a website with too much traffic for it to handle until leaks has previously attacked wiki leaks his site itself would didio us as well but they say that their primary target is julian assange himself describing him as a new breed of terrorist the group says they're based in the usa there's much speculation as to who owns the leaks actually are those are bar and an update r.t. dot com is up and running after that hack attack. well looks like the space race is taking on a whole new meaning once a symbolic of a country's political prowess the space race seems to be becoming a commercial race since nasa retired its space shuttle program last year about a dozen companies have stepped up to develop space shuttles to explore the front final frontier most notabl

as disappointing by russia which sees the mission as key to finding a political way out of the war artie's an associate should reports from new york. regretfully for russia we have to see the united nations security council did in fact decide to not prolong the mission the mandate of the observer mission in syria of the united nations now there were two conditions for this mandate to keep for them to keep functioning on the ground and these were and end to the violence as well as ending the use of heavy weaponry and of course we know that this unfortunately has not occurred as of yet the united nations will however maintain a presence on the ground in a different format this will be a civil mission that they will put in place the details of which are being discussed now russia's position in all of this is quite simple. monday is coming to a member we believe that those members of the council who insisted to. continue the . commitment to ending course still it is. working towards a political settlement in the studio however we're looking forward to the form of doing a u.n. presence in damas

sparked panic in a nearby village that's adding to an increasing influx of refugees to the country artie's polis lior is there. i'm standing at the zaatari refugee camp on the syrian jordanian border which is the first legal camp that has been established by the jordanian authorities in the desert what happens is that the refugees come to the border they are picked up there by the jordanian police and both here to zaatari camp now depending on the levels of fighting in syria anywhere between a thousand and three thousand people are fleeing across into jordan each day the current figures stand at some one hundred and fifty thousand refugees who are currently in this country now the united nations refugee agency is preparing itself for the long haul and to this end has begun building wells in jordan where water scarcity is a huge problem the condition in the camps is alarming we're hearing from human rights groups they're talking about a crisis in the making we know that the camp is overcrowded people here are complaining about extreme weather conditions about does it storms and we've also h

world leaders were outraged but did wiki leaks actually help some countries become more transparent arty questions more how can you go from one city to have so much money you know i mean in so many jobs available for people to almost nothing left the question many people here in the u.s. are asking how can the world's leading superpower actually be so divided at r.t. shows you two sides of america where the haves and the have nots live in two entirely different worlds. it's thursday august second six pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. we begin this hour with an update on wiki leaks whistleblower julian assange assad remains held up in the ecuadorian embassy in london awaiting ecuador's decision on his pleas for political asylum his mother is now in the country to discuss her son's fate with president rafael correa artie's eva golinger caught up with a saunders mother for an exclusive interview her first question to christina saunders how does she feel about the work her son has done. when he told me that he was doing some. repressive regime to be. going

has released alarming data suggesting unemployment has surged again in almost every state later today artie's financial gurus max kaiser and state herbert pull no punches about those stay believe are responsible for konami car trips the full show is coming your way at nine thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview of. g.d.p. just not calculate anything having to do what's a sustainable economy and life affirming qualities the only thing that contributes to g.d.p. in the u.k. in the u.s. in the g twenty countries is suicide if you commit suicide fast like they do in india the farmers are committing falcon's of suicide a month because of monsanto that's considered a growth story the emerging market it's a happening contrary they're committing suicide really fast there's the u.k. people are committing suicide at a more leisurely british pace like oh darling i think i'll tell myself ok that's considered g.d.p. but not quite as aggressive as in the united states oh yeah well in their case it's more homicidal suicidal so you've got those massive shootings and then you've got people killing themselves near

and arab league envoy after kofi annan quit here's artie's put it all over with more. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think considering the situation in syria but it's that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the u.n. as the envoy to afghanistan as the states invaded the country following nine eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit better he means personal life in his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him but he's daughter a form

just left hip artie's adriano stero takes a look at the high profile hollywood crowd that backs both parties and she asks the question does that really help get the young vote out. with the republican national convention finally in full swing the g.o.p. faithful are out in full force while waving banners wearing pins and hats one thing is very clear the convention floor looks more rickety than rock and roll than that should be a surprise according to the pew research center voters between the ages of eighteen to thirty have voted consistently democrat in the past for national elections this is in stark contrast to americans sixty five and older who citing the economy have become increasingly conservative but why bother well young people are becoming more politically active than their older counterparts and will of course one day be taking their place at the voting booth but not to worry however republicans have a plan for that musicians like kid rock three doors down and dave navarro are slated to perform this week but who else does the g.o.p. have in their back pocket in order to ad

which sees the mission as key to finding a political way out of the war reporting from new yorkers artie's anastasio truckin . regretfully for russia we have to see the united nations security council did in fact decide to not prolong the mission the mandate of the observer mission in syria of the united nations now there were two conditions for this mandate to keep for them to keep functioning on the ground and these were an end to the violence as well as ending the use of heavy weaponry and of course we know that this unfortunately has not occurred as of yet the united nations will however maintain a presence on the ground in a different format this will be a civil mission that they will put in place the details of which are being discussed now russia's position in all of this is quite simple well we're sort of the monday is coming to an end we believe that those members of the council who insisted the continue not to show a commitment to ending course still it is. working towards a political settlement in syria however we're looking forward to the form of doing a u.n. presence in damasc

has released alarming data suggesting unemployment has surged again in almost every state later today artie's financial gurus max geyser and state her report no punches about those they believe are responsible for konami car tips the full show is coming your way about fifteen minutes time but here's a preview. give you serious not calculate anything having to do what a sustainable economy and life affirming qualities the only thing that contributes to g.d.p. in the u.k. in the u.s. in the g twenty countries is suicide if you commit suicide fast like they do in india the farmers are committing thousands of suicide a month because a month's out oh that's considered a growth story the emerging market it's a happening contrary they're committing suicide really fast there's the u.k. people are committing suicide at a more leisurely british pace like oh darling i think guilt by itself ok that's considered g.d.p. but not quite as aggressive as in the united states oh yeah well in their case it's more homicidal suicidal so you get those massive shootings and then you've got people killing themselves

actually tanked less than predicted a spark of optimism however gets the cold shower treatment from artie's max keiser and stacy herbert the full program is coming up later today. what happens when the government throws money to the oligarchs and the monopolies the oil companies and the bankers because when they stop giving them money they can pull the old atlas shrugged that we like. you know we're not going to work anymore we're in a gatekeeper position we're wedged into the economy if you don't give us more money we're call systemic collapse which is ridiculous because the government if they want to give away money they should give it away to the entrepreneurs' they should give it away to consumers it is a consumer economy after all why not help the consumers know that never go to georgia born young eton oxford you know friend of cameron georgie porgie in his bubble and fraud putting. products labeled made in palestine are a symbol of pride for their producers however due to israel's economic blockade palestinian farmers struggle to get their goods to the rest of the world but as artie's

minister so clearly this story taking place in russia has ignited a wave of reaction around the globe artie's main important reporting for us there now the pussy riot trial has spawned a wave of hysteria on the part of the western media claiming the sentence to be a violation of freedom of speech but as gerard minded professor of political science at brook university points out this outcries based on stereotypes and money . the pussy riot women did was according to my highly inappropriate behavior it was wild i mean or if you want to protest your leadership if you want to protest even a party out you can do is outside the church it should not be in a place which is sort of here to election version of this and believes what to me because you're right it's an extremely good selling story here you have three young women it's considered pretty they have small children and they are now fighting the beast and mr putin who has a very very bad reputation among the west public so that's a story he can sell pretty well for many of the media it's it's simple right secondly for many europeans and even mo

all right into the arty world out there we go for you right now we'll start with saddam it's where a plane is on its way there which was reported to have been hijacked it's now safely landed at the airport the spanish airline it belonged to says the incident was sparked by mis communication between the pilot and the control tower and the aircraft is now being searched by security earlier it was reported that hostages were on board and i'm saddam scramble two fighter jets to accompany the plane to its ship port. egypt says it will extend its offensive against militants in the sinai peninsula the campaign was launched off the militants attacked and killed dozens of border guards a month ago but the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of arms into the area near its border with there over strictures on weapon deployment under a current peace treaty a sign our region has seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. a military outpost on pakistan's afghan border has been attacked by taliban militants eight soldiers reportedly killed it comes

speaking out for her son artie travels to ecuador to speak with julian assange and his mother she talks about his asylum case and why he founded the website wiki leaks the exclusive interview coming up. what's commonly use for war and mass destruction could soon be a helpful tool in citizen journalism and breaking news events well tell you about the plans being made to make drones a friend of the people instead of all the drones you could control from your smartphone. how can you go from one city to have so much money you know i mean in so many jobs available for people to listen i think. that's the question many people here in the u.s. are asking how can the world's leading superpower be so divided our t.v. shows you two sides of america where the haves and the have nots live in two entirely different worlds. it's thursday august second five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t we begin this hour with an update on wiki leaks whistleblower julian a sancia sondra me and held up in the ecuadorian embassy in london awaiting ecuador's decision on his plea for poli

for quite some time now yet though to hand down a sentence in a short while will be catching up with artie's i do apologize we do have right now standing outside the courtroom as we show you these live pictures here let's cross live to. the latest from outside from here in central moscow peter thanks for standing by for us a little bit of a technical difficulties here and there the judge has ruled guilty as charged what's been the reaction. well in finding the three women guilty the judge said that they had committed a gross violation of public order that they disrupted the calm of the citizens and it offended orthodox believers the church also went on to say that they clearly expressed hatred based on religious affiliation in their protests which took place in russia's main cathedral in february of this year the church going on to say that the reason that they picked christ the savior in her opinion was that they wanted to cause the greatest amount of offense which they possibly could which is why they picked the main cathedral in the country and in describing her finding she said that vide

ski in a trial which offered a rare glimpse into the lives of the super rich more on the case from artie's laura smith. the court decision found against. that means essentially that not a cent of the more than five billion dollars in retribution that he was asking for will be paid to him by our mortgage. arrived at the court earlier this morning looking pretty upbeat himself was not there he said to reporters that he believed in the legal system that upbeat mood for him didn't last very long as the verdict was read he was holding his head in his hands obviously very disappointed by this but whatever the outcome really this case is been a huge amount of fun really for spectators this opened up this kind of seedy underworld of of formally of russia's mega rich talked about what went on in the dark days of ninety's russia in what we used to call the wild east so it was almost vost sums of money changing hands off shore bank accounts illicit payments made under the table. five star hotel ski resorts and deals enormous deals involving enormous sums of money done with just a handshake with no do

american troops in afghanistan still falling victim to homemade bombs ultimately built for pennies artie's guy nature can reports. the ads for military hardware in the us local like hollywood blockbuster trailers whether it's for a tactical armed drone which can fit into a backpack. or for a special robot like clothing for soldiers they sense what the user wants to do where the user wants to go and then explode like a call these men tom an assistant but many ask why with all the high tech gear the u.s. can't win against man of simple means from some remote afghan villages a u.s. marine general estimated that eighty percent of his troops casualties in afghanistan were caused by homemade bombs components of which often cost no more than a few dollars. j. still a better served in afghanistan at the beginning of the war the arabs and the armored humvees are cost millions of dollars and they're destroyed by something that costs the price of a pizza and we don't have any effective weapons to combat that animosity that rage against american presidents there's no such thing it's sort of like if th

with russia's foreign minister in moscow to look for a political solution to the ongoing crisis but as artie's lucy coffin of reports western media came up with a rather different picture of what was actually discussed i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the talks that was grossly missed interpreted and exaggerated in some of the news headlines. recommending resignation as a condition before conducting any dialogue means that you can't attend to the matter of. dialogue can discuss any problem we are ready to talk about anything even this question can be discussed but a resignation before any mechanism is in place for the syrian people to express the . opinion. the democratic approach. plus you can hear right there which he was talking about is the need to remove any kinds of precondition such as for example the requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between the the syrian delegation and the russ

their fate so far syrian officials are reportedly trying to trace who is behind the abductions will artie's looks on a boy who reports from damascus. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be abducted in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on their pilgrimage to the sayed is a not one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter it was. visited the mosque the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take them to the airport and on the way to the airport boss was told by i'm known gunmen and they were taken hostage now visited this area there's enough they were who just a few days ago and from what i've seen there i can tell you that local residents have been subjected to. threats of duction and that's just a nation for quite some time these area houses predominantly iraqi refugees tens of thousands of them most of them are shia muslims and they've been ta

well arty's financial guru max kaiser is spoken to a former head of risk at the bank of scotland who now has turned into a whistleblower and is exposing financial fraud you can i watch the program the cars are reporting about where thirteen minutes are not. what percentage of those working in regulatory oversight in compliance in the industry are clean that is to say they're not corrupt when i was working on wall street for example at paine webber an op and i am curious and every every year at christmas time i would bribe our compliance officer as did every broker at these firms there was no that top line up there was crooked you give a big enough christmas bonus any over over looks margin requirement deficiencies the overlooked fraud he overlooks all the tricks of the trade there's two points the first is you have to have no professional qualifications to be a chief risk officer a chief compliance officer or a chief internal auditor and so that's one thing the second thing is if you report to the executive what's going on the second you stick your head above the parapet and the mess

all right into the arty world out there we go starting with south africa that is where the president has ordered of the shooting dead of thirty four striking mine workers by police jacob zuma called the events shocking and unacceptable police opened fire on a crowd of protesting miners armed with machetes demanding better working conditions it's one of the worst incidents since the end of the apartheid in the one nine hundred ninety four. school occupations continue. by police pupils at one prestigious school use the entrances of protests across chile and demanding radical educational and funding reforms the government has consented to. the actual. curiosity rover is preparing to make its first big leap by zapping a rock with a laser that's just one of the ten tools it has available to help study the red planet and its ability to support life. to find out whether new yorkers are excited about curiosity it's adventures. human technology. so what this week let's talk about that i hope. in the universe do you think we will see. if we learn. i hope so i hope so maybe you will become a bi

russia's foreign minister in moscow to look for a political solution to the ongoing crisis however as artie's loosely call funnell now reports western media came up with a rather different picture of what was actually discussed. i want to play to you something that the syrian deputy foreign minister had said during the talks that was grossly missed interpreted and exaggerated in fact in some of the news headlines all over the net recommending resignation as a condition before conducting any dialogue means that you can't attend to the matter at hand the dialogue can discuss any problem i don't we are ready to talk about anything even question can be discussed but a resignation before any mechanisms in place for people to express their opinion is a democratic approach. plus you can see here right there which i was talking about is the need to remove any kinds of preconditions such as for example the requirement to present bashar al assad stepping down before some sort of a peaceful solution could be negotiated that is not what was reflected in the news coverage of the talks on tuesday between t

iran well if not you may have company on the streets of new york we're going to have the latest from artie's the president. thousands of protesters have been rallying in tel aviv a furious at the ever growing cost of living there this week these are earlier this week the israeli government passed a tough package of cuts and tax hikes to try to save over three and a half billion dollars in the next year's budget the protest movement has been on the rise in recent months of galvanized by some people even setting themselves on fire out of desperation saturday's social justice demos are joined by groups calling for old alter or that ox jews not to be exempt from the army draft moderates feeling that they're shouldering too much of the country's burdens you can get live updates on what's happening from our correspondent on the ground there via twitter paula sleeper cells as a demonstration do close pulleys used pepper spray to disperse the crowds security forces may not be in short supply but as paula reports the government action on welfare is definitely thinning. in the middle of the way spend

to can watch artie's exclusive interview with christina songe that's on our website r t dot com anti-war activist and journalist don de bar believes assad is correctly taking up his time to weigh up washington's plans well they're not interested in questioning him they're interested in you know obtaining control of his person and i think he correctly assesses that that's so he can be forwarded to the united states the process that's being used to bring him to the united states is a ready for two and those who are whistleblowers have come under particular attack from this administration from the obama administration in fact much greater attack than even the bush administration was able to muster on whistleblowers earlier so the outlook is not good for a songe as one of the preeminent whistleblowers of our time this country in general is hostile to the idea of free speech and particularly disclosure of state secrets particularly when they reveal that the government has been doing illegal things so i don't think that the prospects for a fair trial are very good at all so far right national

safe place to invest with billions worth of business deals having already been signed with details artie's pretty rotha. i'm no stranger to china this is her sixth trip to the country since she came to power in two thousand and five and there's going to be some big business to be talked about during this current trip and it's not just politicians that are there on this visit a group of around twenty in the delegation including people like siemens and volkswagen who are all there to show that the eurozone still is a stable market to invest in but china has its own vested interest in seeing the eurozone stick together europe is china's biggest export market so there will be support there from beijing to keeping the monetary union together but just expect some kind words they shouldn't be any talk of cash coming forward from china to help the ailing eurozone now there is talk of a special relationship between germany and china not unsettle some people in brussels who feel a little left out and when you look at the figures you can see why some nations would be feeling like they're not getting

where they claim he's already been secretly indicted artie's laura smith is in london and has more on a soldier's plight. we put in a call to the presidential administration in ecuador who said that he denied that there has been a decision any kind of major whether to grant. asylum in ecuador now that of course is not to say that he will be granted asylum just a denial of any decision having already been made and what was being recorded earlier with an unnamed official. saying that a decision had been made in that the decision was to grant refuge to. television address by president. saying that he would be making a decision about this plea this week that on wednesday he would be taking advice from various people and that following that he would be making his decision so we are expecting a final decision to be announced on thursday or friday later on this week so we do know that and we also know that could do it sees this as a humanitarian act the president's foreign minister in ecuador have said that they see this as an act that would protect his right to life and freedom expectations

and artie's got more stories for you from around the world all mine such as the scales of the israeli justice which are out of balance wrongs must be made right that's the call from the activists after an israeli soldier killed a palestinian mother and daughter was given just one month in jail. and what was meant to have been a spectacular show in spain turned into a catastrophe after a rogue firework ignited thousands of dollars in a church bell tower you can see the extraordinary video on artie's you tube channel . it's the largest province in pakistan plays host to the crossroads of serious international economic interests their own energy resources intelligence agencies and homegrown terrorism and the region soon finds itself the focus of growing global importance concerned. and explains. baluchistan. you may have never heard of it or maybe caught a glimpse of it in a hollywood blockbuster but the place is a hot destination for intelligence services from around the globe hotbed of the insurgency home to various terrorist organizations kidnappings assassinations terror that's part

home stretch both republicans and democrats will hold the national conventions in the coming weeks artie's in new york than to ask what these gatherings accomplish and whether anyone will notice them. in the us republicans and democrats are about to hold their conventions to kick off the presidential election fever and so one of these conventions even do this week let's talk about that you're growing your eyes i say convention internet stuff why are you into the politics of all crooks yet but we have to choose right all crooks what are the conventions do do you think what do they do they were so out of money that's what they do good for media purposes because they can create a lot of hype around certain condit so yes i think they do too so we really need more hype. in today's world to hear do you spend a ton of money on it just by sheer do they are an advertiser can prize you on the news and then it stops at a certain time and then from then on it's business as usual so we don't do this where you go from start to start and i think that i think you just said the key word business i think th

actually tanked less than predicted a spark of optimism however gets the cold shower treatment from artie's max kaiser and stacy herbert the full program is coming up later this hour. this happens when the government throws money to the oligarchs and the monopolies the oil companies and the bankers because when they stop giving them money they can pull the old atlas shrugged that we like. you know we're not going to work anymore we're in a gatekeeper position we're wedged into the economy if you don't give us more money we're call systemic collapse which is ridiculous because the government if they want to give away money they should give it away to the entrepreneurs' they should give it away to the consumers it is a consumer economy after all why not help the consumers know that never go to george osborne yeah i'll do eaton oxford you know friend of cameron georgie porgie in his bubble and fraud putting. products labeled made in palestine are symbol of pride for their producers however due to israel's economic blockade palestinian farmers struggle to get their goods to the rest of the worl

countries who are suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy but as artie's testor australia reports breivik so ideas are fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam there's no doubt about his guilt for a right militant unders brave massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies and immigrants and is long over this case once again highlighted europe's deepening divide over immigration had integration and the subsequent radicalization of ideas. last week a twenty nine year old suspected brave exemplifies it was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons and police uniforms in his flat and they believe he was planning a brave extol slaughter. while in norway police are investigating a threatening email sent to newspapers and politicians from a person who claims to be brave and in command i would my soldiers to give all due respect to our people our culture and our ethnicity and warn all advocates of multiculturalism they gave this war we are now so deeply in physical violence is. a line that we dra

has released alarming data suggesting unemployment has surged again in almost every state later today artie's financial gurus max kaiser and state her report no punches about those they believe are responsible for economic hardships the full show is coming your way next our. g.d.p. is not calculate anything having to do what a sustainable economy and life affirming qualities the only thing that contribute to g.d.p. in the u.k. in the u.s. in the g twenty countries is suicide if you commit suicide fast like they do in india the farmers are committing thousands of suicide a month because a month's out joe that's considered a growth story the emerging market it's a happening contrary they're committing suicide really fast there's the u.k. people are committing suicide at a more leisurely british pace like oh darling i think helped out by so ok that's considered g.d.p. but not quite as aggressive as in the united states oh yeah well in their case it's more homicidal suicidal so you get those massive shootings and then you've got people killing themselves ordinarily so it's a combo play. was the e