you know working for an established newspaper the new york times what do you think that says about the state of the media today is there any sort of significance we can draw from that especially when it comes to maybe investigative reporting well yes you can of course it's an electronic age we're entering but the you can't compare this to the pentagon papers it's not the same thing it's apples and oranges the pentagon papers was a major it was a it was not just a leak leak it was a flood obviously like this but after that beyond that there's no comparison the pentagon papers was a record of the decision making on the war in vietnam at the highest level. it was the secrets of the president the secretary of defense the secretary of state it was not tactical material it was nothing in it of any military security value it was full of major historical secrets and scandals this material that wiki leaks has

leaked to the press is on the ground military stuff it's the nitty gritty of the war it's it's it's values it's tangibility about the war itself but it's not high level decision making it's on the ground stuff but when you look beyond the information the source or the informant or whatever you want to call it felt more comfortable perhaps giving the information to julian assange is the founder of wiki leaks as opposed to giving it directly to a newspaper like the new york times or the guardian or is there anything significant about that to a bank well it will have to see i mean you could be a pattern of it if he could just as well just as easily have given it to a newspaper and it would depend on the person he probably was attracted to science because assad had had previously used that material about an american helicopter gunships shooting firing in an ambush in iraq and and so. absolutely and were

killed in that incident and maybe he felt that our science would will help him more . it looks like what's what's incredible about this is that the military who are who are now saying. is putting informants danger which he may have done the times and the guardian and and we're very we're very careful spiegel to take out the names of informants probably in the original documents there are names of informants and military are incredibly curious to have put this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently the all of this could have come from one soldier who obtained. when i was in vietnam the names of on informant would be would be it would be very carefully guarded you not many people would be able to get at that kind of material military

seems to have gotten very careless again because of the electronic age or maybe you put this thing all in within their system and anybody can look it up and anybody can download it it's incredible and you know we're talking about the electronic age and how kind of releasing information is so different today than it was you know thirty forty years ago but at the same time julian assange and then went to the new york times and the guardian very established kind of mainstream news organizations to release the information that he had received why was it important for him to kind of pair up with these traditional mainstream news organizations when it came to releasing the information as opposed to maybe doing it himself because this material if he just dumped this material out there on the internet let's say it's in comprehensible ninety thousand or ninety two thousand pages of documentation to the average person it's absolutely income perhaps what he had to give it to somebody if he was going to be effective. at the same time there have been rumors

that one of the new york times reporters who had access to this information that was in the documents perhaps notified someone within the obama administration do you think that could have possibly happened and what do you think is the relationship between these mainstream news organizations and the obama administration compared to maybe in your time between these mainstream news organizations and the administration and normal procedure in the old days something like this. with with the pentagon papers we kept it absolutely secret because we decided ourselves there was nothing in there of any military security value if we had gotten documents where we in other cases we thought there was a military security problem we will perhaps call we got contact the government find out what they would object to and and if we decide it was really there were really was a military security issue involved we delete that in this case they deleted the names

of the informants maybe they did that after talking to somebody in government i don't know but that's the responsible thing to do but you don't let government control what you're going to publish or you make that very clear you're going to publish the documents is there anything that legitimately argue that's going to hurt somebody ok take that out in the case of the pentagon papers we didn't have anything of any military which is why the courts upheld us and it seems when it comes to the coverage of this whole wiki leaks stories the news channels seem to be obsessed with who is joining us on general what was his motivation as opposed to perhaps the information that was actually in the documents what do you make of that kind of coverage and the scrutiny of the chilian astonish has been placed under well he was bound to get there and he was going to be under the heat the military and institutions are going to get we're bound to get angry over this and this is a major. embarrassment to these people that the leak on this scale would occur

particularly a leak that apparently could taint sensitive you know names of informants that could get people killed. so they were bound to go after him but that doesn't negate the validity of the information of the documentation people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and the science who distribute it. always have an axe to grind. and that's why they're there taking that they're that action that's where they're taking the risk so what you have to look at is how valid is this material could get some a bunch of kids make this up in a cellar or is this really military information good that gives you that maybe gritty the tank that makes the war more tangible nothing in there is far as i could see hadn't been previously revealed what that material does is it shows how

difficult the warrior's. how difficult the environment is through working you don't know who to trust and you're dealing with a corrupt with with a corrupt government is the american public got to remember has very little contact with the reality of the war but that we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted the being sent off to war as occurred in vietnam the soldiers in afghanistan are young men and women who joined because they they either want to be a soldier or marine or because they think they're going to get a college education and they'll survive it won't happen they won't catch a bullet they won't catch an explosive it won't happen to them so the middle class just as this except financially which they don't see directly because it's if it comes out of their taxes they're not connected to the war senator how do you sit home how do you personally feel about the war in afghanistan i do think. doesn't

obama's handling it well obviously there seems to be a growing public disapproval what do you think is the right thing to do at this point the sad thing is that we just were going to go into afghanistan as we did initially after nine eleven but really do it seriously instead bush went in there didn't really accomplish much of anything went off in a very rocky got bogged down in. the story stupid crazy war in iraq it shows he wiki leaks material just as the previous material has been published. if you put if you read about the fall of the war in the time prior to this leak you see how very difficult it will be it's going to be will be the united states will be darn lucky to pull off a success in afghanistan when you look at a wiki leaks and you look at the pentagon papers maybe it's not a fair comparison but in both situations the information was released to you in the

case of the pentagon papers and to mr astonished when it came to the wiki leaks to the information from the afghanistan documents how do you compare yourself to ham you know a lot of people are questioning his motivation for releasing the information do you have any thoughts on how he stacks up to you or i was in a different position than julian julian assange was leaking material in the case of my case i was receiving material that belonged in the public domain and it was already it was being you know it was already leaked and your opinion should have released the information. yeah i would have if i had been in his position i would have been very careful to go through that material and cut out the names of informants and that sort of thing if he released documents with the names of informants and that's pretty damned irresponsible because you can get people killed while mr c. and i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. sure

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. firefighters are battling blazes in many parts of rush hour called by the record breaking heat wave and dry spell wildfires have already claimed at least thirty four lives and left over two thousand homeless while smog continues to blanket several cities including months ago. chinese authorities claim they have retrieved

all the toxic barrels that swept into a flooded river and headed for russia it's not some of the drums have. all right you leave chemicals which are threatening pollution downstream. and the online whistleblower wiki leaks is following up its massive disclosure of american and afghan war cover ups exposed to a large encrypted file called insurance which some say can be deciphered if anything happens to the site or it's found. more details in all those stories coming up at three pm moscow time now it's over to natalia who will bring you the latest from the world of sports. hello welcome to watching the sports news in our two thanks for joining us this hour let's begin with a quick look at how top stories says sculls corals three girls in sunday's two one win over sing to rivals spartak moscow and live up to second in the process.

russia when their towns gold in the last event of the european athletics championships edging france and britain into second and third in the medal table. mark webber takes the lead in the formula one driver standings while russians. say korea my fifth place finish. and trails are stales what happened latest highlights from the sixteenth edition of the exe games in los angeles. let's kick off for the russians. to grinding out a two one win in a heated against spartak here in moscow the on the mound scoring all three goals and that i said it is risky helping out these capital rivals within their own goals this seventy second minutes. but says crowd were able to regroup following that episode that it's going from a free kick to tie proceedings. and then that's another one to make it to one in

the injury time so this guy are now up to second place in the league with thirty points while support on dropped to seven. the plan was to give a position into bloom counterattacks and who. should have used the reasons for taking however i wouldn't say that the plan was a one hundred percent success because by next koori and we had to change something and lay dormant the individual skills to follow blues made the difference first trick shot from cigna share each and then wagner who loves goal in injury time. i think that's part of the draw and we were just lucky to win today but it's hard to give comments about the match when you lose it in the ninety third minute beginning was tight we had possession and she will counter attacking both showing some scoring opportunities but unfortunately we lost. a say with the

premier league and in sunday's second game rostov moved into fifth place after a narrow win over the can might see of one meal how it ended in moscow are the really where the winning go thirty five minutes and. however it's need st petersburg who comfortably of the standings nine points of all says above are being defeated because saturday's action a brace from psycho eyed examiner kids are called helpings they need to sue me away and it was the first on the rebound after constantine's it out of shot and then that his second to sixty five minutes almost makes me cross that's happened in the far post by the russian international strike. formula one now a red bull's mark webber is the new drivers' championship leader the aussie taking over from marius hamilton off to dominating sunday's garry and grand prix in budapest weber's teammates a boston battell maintained in the early lead from bocas ation ferrari's fernando

loans of meanwhile provided a challenge for webber the australian alternately to get on the job the tells drive through penalty and hold and held out for a pit stop as he built a lead over alone that strategy also but they pay dividends with the thirty three year old now in the driver's seat at the top of all those ferocious pursued second place while the tel finished third and russia's vitale pits are off was fifth just behind saris. maximize your opportunities is always good and irrespective of obviously what happens to royals so you know i'm not getting ahead of ourselves as to what some big big events coming up are they all share the same amount of points but all of them will provide different challenges for us as a team and technically for the cars. now russian athletes have won most medals at the european championships in barcelona their last gold coming in the closing event on sunday night. bringing

a very advanced leading tally of gold medals to examine the mans full by a full hundred meters really small held on to hand the victory to his teammates while a well timed final lead from martin. had a joke at the bordley of belgium. and earlier on the day. for one of two bronze in the man's marathon while the gold went to swiss run the vic that old he made the designs and move off to twenty five kilometers building they are all frenchmen james and then held on to complete the distance in two hours fifteen minutes and thirty one seconds that's two minutes and nineteen seconds ahead of home favorite. montanus. so that means russia finished top of the overall standings and the gold medal table with them goes six so far as and eight braun's frog's came in second with eighteen overall including eight goals this two more than britain six although the u.k.

won medal and had. all nineteen. now all they do is tennis to all web site in belarus a day after attending twenty one gave a self a birthday present beating the top of a in the final in stanford california set up of all was clearly looking to continue her winning streak following victories mathis and strasburg however they belorussian and they did from the very beginning putting him more now and opponents to constant pressure three time grand slam champion occasionally performed well but held on to wrap up the first set six four in just the one hour and then broke the russian three times in the second set for an easy six four six victory despite the loss moves out to third in the rankings. and to give her a lot of. truth commission. it was one of the key for me. in

the return at some branch of my service through you know to be more growth. and over in this limbo on this bus able to champ get out of his denial and all russian singles final nineteen year old over the chunk of it taking have more experience come patrick to be three setter and eventually winning it all five seven seven five and six four so disappointment for vista in the office celebrated her twenty fourth birthday on sunday while. it's the second title of the season she was also aware that in won't trade back in march. all the european golf. stole the irish open title from hill's a very old jake harrington on the final day of the event harrington had to settle for second to strokes behind the way he closed out with a seven on the par sixty four and twice shy adelaide but fisher responded each time to earn five hundred thousand euros by two strokes with

a final round of sixty five and with his fourth european to a victory the x. y. and z. ninety year old moves thanks to six in the ryder cup race. now at the big. apple be secured the green brit classic title at the all white horse and west virginia a remarkable final round allowing him to catch up with the overnight leader jeff overton trailed by seven before the final day bottom of a round of eleven on the par fifty nine was able to close the gap and win by juan shot overtime had a chance to force a play of botha missed a point for a birdie on the sea of giving appleby his fast win since two thousand and six and he's also the fifth player on the p.g.a. tour to shoot a fifty nine avar. alice had to los angeles finally for the sixteenth edition of the igs games. at paris rose and i have the fans holding their breath after

a terrible accident in yesterday's bastardy competition but doctors are expecting to make a full recovery after he suffered a concussion and several fractures following this whole. meanwhile three of the crowds in the b. it makes freestyle part there's a new title to his two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight trophies despite and inspired before his main rival dennis universe and. was also victorious on the day of the competition in this skateboard street man's final american posting a score of ninety two off to being the third mad out on the course and that proved to be the winning score as the twenty year old added another gold to these two thousand and three and two thousand and eight titles. and tattered photos to not are participant adding a gold in his previous things games super rally division host hauling off brian deegan who is one of the most decorated participants with medals avar has competed

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to be a payoff dogs off to the afghan war displaces come as no surprise. also on our t.v.'s chinese authorities claim they've retrieved all the toxic barrels that swept into a flooded river and headed for russia there are fears that pollution is still a sweat. with news from russia and around the world you're watching are to you live from our studios in central moscow where it's three pm first stop thirty four people are now confirmed to have died in the fierce fires which are ravaging parts of russia over two thousand are now homeless or to starve for it is a few hundred kilometers south of the capital in the varanus region where entire villages have been destroyed in the past few days there are still many areas in

russia that are on fire. over the past couple of days we've really seen a huge amount of devastation caused by this these fires you can probably see behind me the forests the trees are all black where they've been but on the thick smoke is still hanging in the we know of course it isn't just for it is most going it's also facing the thick smoke today caused by these fires and not the images revealed around four hundred air is that it's still burning and emergency services and firefighters really struggling to get the situation under control we've heard that the russian army has been drafted in to help try and gain control of the situation but this is because of course by the extreme weather that we've seen recently i was russia's not unused to hot weather in summer this is the worst drought that it's seen a decade and it's left the land extremely dry and extremely susceptible to these toys that we've ravaged some of the areas that have righted she really has.