Britain, Ecuador at Odds Over Assange

the diplomatic wrangle between ecuador and britain over julien are so much for waiting here in ecuador's government will grant the wikileaks founder of asylum but britain says it has every right to go into ecuador's embassy and taking solace in their custody for extradition for more we're joined by wikileaks spokesperson kristin were absent from the capital of iceland said christian year in constant contact with julie the sun how is he feeling right now about all this and what is the city well i mean if you see the same that the u s authorities the ultimatum set by the year the threat yesterday and you can use the word is handed a two year window into the sixty two of the storm the embassy and a woman of that this is totally unacceptable that and sentence and that yet the story is that your right to be all by this threat and we said is that goes against the grain of salt of the essence of diplomatic missions that have been in the indian players for hundreds of years and we're actually just as we continue to speak a sort of show a live shot up of the ecuadorean embassy or at least the entrance to the building where the ecuadorean embassy is housed we should note that you will see some people coming and going in and out of the building because i had the embassy isn't the only other residents it is the only officer in that building but you do see a number of police officers surrounding it up obviously in light of the security situation there we're expecting a this to an announcement shortly from the ecuadorian government when there's a song is believe will be the outcome well i believe that the so of course that the koreans we look at back a silent yet the marines have been taking the case is that being pressed very seriously they're taking their time to considered it that it's been about two months that this is the end of the embassy and sought asylum and in that time the year and the key to and has that the information that from a human rights lawyers from the government from the u s uk and sweden and so they're taking this request seriously and that in light of the day this is quite understandable that the u k authorities will use is intimidation tactics yesterday and just prior to their announcement of the decision while fifty five million u s troops in the process now there is the wikileaks twitter feed is actually calling on supporters to protest outside the embassy we've seen a couple of protesters here and there but i've seen in more recent hours i...

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