we could be expelled or julian assange large launches another salvo in his ongoing legal battles this stock threatening to sue the guardian newspaper for libel. us president barack obama has waived all corporate tax burden while critics say it is simply a boy to big business. a passenger jet makes an emergency landing in the siberia city of novosibirsk after circling its original departure airport for several hours. you're watching r t eight in the morning here in moscow welcome to the program now

wiki leaks founder julian assange may be in a legal fight against being sent to sweden over sexual assault accusations but he is also set for another u.k. court battle he's threatening to bring a libel action against the guardian newspaper which helped release american war logs and secret diplomatic cables obtained by wiki leaks a love song is understood to be angry at claims in a book the newspaper published about the whistle blowing web site well the book says a song believe that informants mentioned in leaked war documents would deserve it if they were killed as a result of the leaks and as lore and it has found out this is not the only thing the guardian has done to cause cracks in their relationship with a song. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks in the guardian have rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners was a help published. abel's on the whistle blowing web site blocking out names to

protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we each. left. wing they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will basically want to cover the world and so view they cut out everything that was negative a boy or girl position. insert your way that either of the guards or than the virtually any that are of the leaks would never know how those people themselves view. the guardian reports early how many is just another political liar and

intriguer. but what it leaves out is his why did description of the opposition as lacking organization and freezing problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are very stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who do few institutional allies tommy cautious and weak. all editing that seems to match the guardian's liberal agenda as it suggests the iranian opposition is divided something which doesn't fit western narratives in cables about the activities of western companies in kazakstan the guardian fail to publish details of alleged bribery the actual cable talk of an internal investigation in a western company over five years during which former employees caused the company to pay five point two million to agents with the intended disappearance would influence because our professionals to allow the company to obtain business in

other words bribing officials for contracts to the companies allegedly involved british gas and any italy's gas giant that this isn't necessarily the story that the guardian wants to tell that they were editorial pressures on them but it also could be simply the lawyers at the guardian are getting a bit jumpy and saying well look we can't accuse people of bribes because they're incredibly powerful and they're rich and this is one of the problems with a lot of libel and the lawyers at newspapers is that they're actually only afraid of the rich and powerful ordinary people they will say almost anything about them because these people don't have the means to sue the guardian it was kharkiv verging on rule. in kyrgyzstan. although britain's prince andrew may have wished the guardian had edited information about his behavior in kyrgyzstan more thoroughly elsewhere some media commentators say the reason for the guardian's alterations was to help simplify the information it's still the way it should be

done there's so much material it is so a lot of the form that you see in these is difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism people understand the guardian declined to give us an interview but did send a statement saying they redacted cables for two reasons to protect sources who might be placed at risk or to protect the guardian from legal action on the u.k. libel law that being sued is something the guardian might have to get used to wiki leaks founder julian assange is threatening legal action over the newspaper's book which i thought alleges contains malicious labels wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning newspaper that takes a liberal line but certainly in this case is going to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication of a book portraying the newspaper's dealings with wiki leaks in a deeply under favorable light it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t.

did. it was president barack obama seems to be trying to win over wall street by asking them to help tackle what he calls burdensome corporate tax but with his appointment of high profile business leaders to government positions it has many questioning where his loyalties lie lauren lyster has more. for two decades jobs and dollars have flown out of the us and across the pacific meanwhile the american people have suffered high unemployment and a diminished standard of living looking for someone to blame politicians point to asian countries on the rise seemingly at america's expense the american people have also. borne the brunt of china's mercantile trade policies which promote trade surpluses to cheap exports based upon an artificial depreciation of china's currency overlooked in washington is the us corporate jungle it's become the

elephant in the room this is not the explain to the american working class and to the american middle class they are both destined to oblivion because of all this is decided by corporate boards inside the us which are now global corporations those who agree say it's right here the problem started that us corporations hijacked american jobs and investment dollars taking them overseas with free rein to boost their bottom line fueled by this mindset so we do look allies to ways of the mill there's no worker movements to you know cut us off from our maximization of profits and in the us it appears no lawmakers will try to cut them off either president obama after pushing to regulate the business community has taken to embracing it here in the interest of being more neighborly he wants to befriend the u.s. chamber of commerce if we had brought over a fruitcake when i first moved in we would have gotten off to a better start making up for lost time he appointed a j.p.

morgan wall street executive to be his chief of staff. and he tapped the c.e.o. of america's fourth largest corporation to head is council on jobs and competitiveness that's jeff immelt of general electric i'm confident that they'll generate good ideas about how we can spur hiring educate our workers to compete in the twenty first century and attract the best jobs and businesses to america rather than seeing them spring up overseas but optimism can overcome reality what's good for a company like g.e. isn't necessarily what's good for america g.'s responsibility is to do what's best for g.e. if that's also by. for america great and it's not too bad and that goes for any company but staring powerful corporate money and interests in the face you don't hear the president saying that this guy's running for reelection nor the mainstream media beholden to their corporate owners when you have journalists treading lightly

around corporate and governmental elites it almost defeats the reason for their even existing the people criticizing corporations it's all about the bottom line find themselves locked out of the conversation like these plant workers fighting their company to keep their medical benefits they argue when it comes to u.s. corporations the priorities are this so it's about profit over people i know your death and their family profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to it's quite often that what's good for business isn't good for america lauren lyster. new york. and still ahead in the program abused at home shocking statistics you feel that a woman dies every fourteen minutes in russia at the hands of their partners. the latest batch of a powerful military helicopter has been unveiled in central russia we'll find out what is behind its name the alligator and why it's so formidable well that's in

a few minutes here on our team. two hundred passengers spent several panic stricken hours in the air before their plane made an emergency landing in siberia well the plane had taken off from the city of camera all where it had to circle for a few hours before being diverted to a nearby well the c.b.s. let's get the details from marty's not the. well the talking about can you just tell us exactly what happened. going seventy five seventy two all from the airport on camera in russia but shortly after we called the pilot realized that the shots see on the plane wouldn't go up so he was forced to do circles. and circles around there were cameras which you could not perceive with the light as he was running out of fuel it was decided to make an emergency landing in the airport all the woodsy beers in siberia when not where in other plane has already been repaired in

order to deliver the passengers to their destination going to do bangkok in thailand now none of the passengers have been injured nonetheless ambulances and emergency service workers have been waiting on the ground in order to provide help if needed luckily no one was injured we just have to imagine the stress that people had to go through many of the probably having for more days in silence and then having to spend a couple of hours in the plane that was doing certain circles around the airport knowing something was wrong with it but it must have been pretty stressful but luckily once again no one was hurt. thank you very much a tell you for bringing us the details on this recent incident thank you. now in egypt constitutional amendments intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands protested in an apparent rejection of the proposals the demonstrators are maintaining pressure on president mubarak to step down despite the government announcing plans for a peaceful transfer of power well meanwhile the group human rights watch has

confirmed almost three hundred people have been killed since the start of the protests although there is no official death toll given where the vice president announced militant islamists linked to al qaida were among the thousands of prisoners who fled egyptian jails during riots last month omar suleiman courted by the u.s. and israel is now amassing power but many experts say lack support of the opposition and the egyptians. so when my took over as the head of the egyptian equivalent of the cia the general intelligence services in nineteen ninety three and that's a position he held until two weeks ago when he became vice. president each passing day diminishes the appeal of silly mind he did something very in some ways it undermined his credibility as a power broker with the protesters he organized a meeting two days ago with a hand selected group of people that he wanted to speak with i'm including members

of the muslim brotherhood and though the people who attended the meeting thought it was a talk to talk about talking in other words to set some ground rules for what would be happening but in fact immediately after the meeting he came out and told the egyptian people on state t.v. that they reached a consensus and it consensus that essentially been what the government wants which is protesters go home and everything more or less stays the same and so people who participated in those talks really i think felt had and that significantly diminishes so reminds credibility in egypt well that international focus shifting to the situation in the middle east russia is proposing to send a security council mission to the region the tally churkin russia's ambassador to the u.n. says it could help provide international support and move ahead a stalled israeli palestinian negotiations we are making this proposal now because we are concerned about the situation in the middle east as we all know all the

efforts to restart the israeli palestinian talks at an impasse and the situation in the region is quite fragile is fraught with further possible complications. well if it gets the go ahead it would be the first security council mission to the middle east in over thirty years the proposal comes as the latest round of israeli palestinian talks ended without a significant result of russia is a member of the middle east peace quartet the group met last week on the sidelines of the munich security conference and strongly backed the idea of strengthening the council's role in the go see asians. now russian security services are investigating claims by the country's most wanted terrorist. that he was behind the deadly blast at moscow's biggest airport last month in a video posted on an extremist web site omar of said he had ordered the bombing calling it a special operation

a chechen warlord who's on the international wanted list also threatened further such attacks across the country on january twenty fourth a suicide bomber blew himself up at the arrivals area of damage out of an airport killing thirty six people and injuring more than one hundred he was identified as a twenty year old man from one of russia's north caucasus republics some analysts believe that by claiming responsibility for the attack omar of this trying to talking as a self-styled bin ladin. he is a man who wants to put all the trappings of bin ladin is if you will a sort of grandeur to his actions and therefore it's not always clear how much authority he really has in fact from within his own group there was a rebellion i think august of last year where he resigned and then he would have made his resignation and younger members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear whether he directly is in charge of a barge number of these militant groups or whether he is simply putting himself in

the position of their amir in order to gain more authority him so. now a popular video game widely available prior to the attack that killed dozens at moscow's main airport brutally depicts a terrorist siege well r.t. spoke earlier with the man behind the grand theft auto series navid consol about the line between violent video art and reality. differently it's sad situation what took place in russia that the airport and disobedient game aspect of it happens i think coincidentally in terms of what's happening with games where people are actually jumping on top of controversies i think it's foolish for us to not recognize that controversy and when it comes to game selling when it comes to movies when it comes to anything when it comes to ticket sales is something that drives people to jump on such marketing campaigns.

well you could watch the full interview with the influential video game maker in the fifteen minutes time here on our team. and of course there's always more news and analysis on our website that's r t dot com and let's look at what's online for you right now switzerland spends billions of dollars on its army and even has compulsory military service as a country is never involved in conflicts locals are calling for the army to be abolished. and russia is abolishing daylight saving time due to the effects of changing the quarks twice a year on the economy and people's help to find out how when what benefits of this may bring go to our web site that's our dot com. now former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been promoting his memoirs highlighting his years as the pentagon chief while in an interview with a fox news channel he not only defended the iraq invasion but also called guantanamo base detention center as one of the finest prison systems in the world

well brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says it's because of rumsfeld that the world now sees america as complicit in the business of torture. he set up an interrogation regime that allowed a starting of course anchoring with abu ghraib it allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which was the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear

the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture in going at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. and a woman dies every forty minutes in domestic violence attacks in russia and meanwhile a lack of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims on able to report the abuse to the authorities well there are help set us for victims but they are far and few between as i discovered too often the victims end up suffering in silence it was a vicious cycle at the best we had clients he raised it happened so many times out on for as long as i could but when i realized that it could end up dead i found out about the center where they help women took my child and ran to save my life. it was at this help center. where he was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse. my child witnessed it and it's

twice as hard for me to understand that i told the aerated all of it i thought i was guilty for something that i've done something wrong. research conducted by n.g.o.s shows fourteen thousand women lose their lives to domestic violence in russia every year that means that every forty minutes a woman dies at hands of her husband tens of thousands more continue to suffer the abuse but the numbers are all approximate because often the victims choose to stay silent about their plight. as store go aspect is a plea here traditionally beatings weren't thought of as a problem beating means loving as the old russian saying ninety percent of the time women don't turn to authorities for help going to the police is used as betrayal by their husbands the woman is afraid to destroy the marriage whether it's because she can't provide for herself or for the sake of her children. unfortunately existing

laws make it hard for victims of domestic abuse to get adequate protection. we must change the legislation so that the government may be able to interfere with the personal lives of citizens in cases of domestic violence in syria times we had such laws but every individual has to be able to prove that they were abused on the wrong. it means many russian women choose to stay silent about aggression towards them sometimes until it's too late even goes quite easy. let's have a brief look at some other world headlines he was investigators say they have found no tronic flaws and he orders cars that had been recalled because they had faulty accelerators or profound the only known cause of the problems were mechanical defects that were fixing. previous recalls to recalled more than a twelve million vehicles around the world since all time two thousand and paid

a record fifty million dollars in fines to the u.s. government. the prosecutors in italy will file a request for the one minister silvio berlusconi to be tried for a consorted with prostitutes and abuse of power all the request for a fast track trial is expected to be submitted to a court on wednesday mr berlusconi is alleged to have paid for sex with prostitutes including a seventeen year old girl there have been violent protests near milan demanding the resignation of the prime minister berlusconi strongly denies the accusations and has vowed to continue to govern. a twin suicide bombing attack on four trucks carrying oil into pakistan has killed seven and injured dozens the tankers were delivering fuel to nato forces in afghanistan the explosions hit one fuel truck before the fire spread to the other three nato convoys in pakistan carrying supplies across the border with afghanistan are frequently targeted by militants.

now a new batch of the legendary russian and military held helicopter the alligator has been unveiled known as the fifty two it is equipped with a state of the art weapons r.t. correspondent checked out of the military might of the flying russian machine. airbase in central russia and that's these the common fifty two also known as the alligator and the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take. back to one of those monsters. facing this thirty we're going to carry them can pierce through armor but obviously that's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank missiles early air missiles bombs all of them installed on the wings here and make this aircraft a real predator in the skies now the cockpit is the grade office nasa was she can see one of the main differences this helicopter from all the other attacks choppers

in the world the crew which consists of two people they sit side by side just like you'd go to the core of the wake up watching one where the closest one you claim you know this space is much easier to. put together in battle and collaborate for the toilets and of course to put your will and to attack or defend the stuff. you from we already noticed this unique rotor system officially is called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark call most designed euro and is meant to provide extremadura guilty and with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower parts of the aircraft this is just really one predator really hard to get you got it was going off forty central russia. all up next all the latest business news with kareena.

hello and welcome to our business update the rest of central banks has its way to raise bank requirements to draw cash out of the economy and prevent it from overheating is currently the only major national market that does not have capital . controls rules on how much money can come here at least monetary policy is central banks sold weapons to fight inflation raising rates encourages hot money to come to the country to take advantage of the strong returns something the couplings . boys. now let's have a look at the markets asian stocks are down this hour the nikkei is trading flat negative with the car industry among the top. gaining after it has raised for this year hong kong stocks are trading in the red after. russian markets ended today's session deep in the red as crew continued to decline to around eighty seven dollars and the alcoa. quite significant from russia. now

russian equities have been stalling lately prices and high rates in china are dragging on the market as certainty as an uncertainty about how well some locals has placement will go these include russia second biggest bank b.c.b. and industrial. type the key thing the market's going to look for over the next few days obviously is how how these placements go through primarily with a view to the place that's the biggest stock placement so the market's going to be very just in seeing how that is absorbed. beyond we're going to be looking at fun flowed from asia over the last two weeks there's been about ten billion dollars worth of outflows from global merging market funds if that continues it's going to be very difficult for russia to keep its head above water mergers and acquisitions rose by a third in russia last year although activity still hasn't returned to pre-crisis levels david cranfield a partner at corporate law firm cns russia says he expects the strong growth to

continue in two thousand and eleven. we're expecting there to be more energy in the market than there has been it's certainly been running at about half capacity since the crash but. no huge increase energy natural resources always are always do come across in the surveys the most active sectors know it's no different this year interesting lee respondents said the transportation would be a big sector this this year which. is a surprise will they actually when you look at the market you can you can see that actually there are a number of transactions which are likely to come in that sector that's it for now join me in less than one hour from why here at.

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