the founder of whistle blowing web site wiki leaks julian a song launches another salvo in his ongoing legal battles based on threatening to sue the guardian newspaper for libel. he was president barack obama has labeled corporate tax a burden critics say it is simply a poor to big business. and shocking statistics reveal that every forty minutes in russia a woman dies at the hands of their partners. is. raised . to drop out of the economy. as well it's that or that.

you're watching r t ten 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 his sexual assault accusations but he's 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 assad is understood to be angry at claims in a book the newspaper published about the whistle blowing web site well the book says assad believed that informants mentioned it lead to war documents would deserve it if they were killed as a result of the leaks as r.t.l. or emmett 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 and 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 were to help publish cables 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. have. when they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will likely want to cover the world. view because everything that was going through a boy or girl. inside you were a reader of the guards. only that of the would never know how those people

themselves view. the guardian reports ali had been a is just another political liar an intriguer. but what it leaves out is his why did description of the opposition as lacking organization and featuring problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are very stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who would do a 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 kazakhstan 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 would turn the payments 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 the that there are 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 the laws 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 princess who was cocky 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 could be done the service material it is so low that the form it easy to use is difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism people who 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 but 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 saw alleges contains malicious labels wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning nice paper that takes a liberal line but certainly in this case it has to be the wrong one and with the

guardian's recent publication of a book portraying the newspaper's dealings with wiki leaks in it deeply under favorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average artsy london. u.s. 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 artie's lauren lesser 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 into the american middle class deal or 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 two ways of the sellers are nil there's no work or 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 i'm 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 best for america great if it's not too bad and that goes for any

company but staring powerful corporate money and interest 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 leads it almost defeats the reason for their even exist 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 if you know your death and they're going to 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 an emergency landing that's put a few gray hairs on the heads of the people on board. were for ten

hours over two hundred passengers became prisoners only defective join us the details in just a few moments. the former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld who was one of the driving forces behind the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three has published an autobiography in which he defends his record. now a woman dies every forty minutes of domestic violence attacks in russia meanwhile a lock of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims unable to report the abuse to you authorities well there are help centers for victims but there are few and far between and as i. discovered too often the victims end up suffering in silence. it was a vicious cycle that the press we had fights he raised it happened so many times how it on for as long as i could but when i realized that it couldn't have it's i found out about the center where they help women my child and ran to save my life.

it was a this help center. where he was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse that would have been 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 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 the proximate because often the victims choose to stay silent about their plight. aspect is a plea here traditionally beatings weren't thought of as a problem beating means loving as they are all directions saying goes ninety percent of the time women don't turn to authorities for help going to the police is

viewed as betrayal by their husbands the woman is afraid to destroy the marriage whether it's because she can't provide for itself 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 underwood's to wait it even goes quality moscow. in egypt constitutional amendments intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands protested in an apparent rejection of the proposals or the demonstrators are maintaining pressure on president mubarak to step down

despite the government announcing apply. as for a peaceful transfer of power meanwhile the group human rights watch has confirmed almost three hundred people have been killed since the start of protests although there is no official death toll given all the vice president and the militant islamists linked to al qaida were among the thousands of prisoners who fled egyptian jails during the riots last month omar suleiman courted by the u.s. and israel is now a lasting power but many experts say lack support of the opposition and the egyptians. took over as the head of the egyptian equivalent of the cia the general intelligence services in one thousand in 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 were going to use to meeting with the hand

selected group of people that he wanted to speak with i'm including members of the muslim brotherhood and 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 that the 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 in minds credibility in egypt. with international focus shifting to the situation in the middle east russia is proposing to set a security council mission to the region ghana russia's ambassador to the u.n. says it could help provide international support and to move ahead stalled israeli palestinian negotiations. we are making this proposal because we're concerned about

the situation in the middle east as we all know. these really. and the situation in the region is quite fragile. is fraught with possible complications. 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 significant result and russia is a member of the middle east peace quartet along with the u.s. and the united nations the group met last week on the sidelines of the munich security conference and strongly back to the idea of strengthening the council's role in negotiations. don't forget there's always more news and analysis of our website that's our call and here's what's lined up right now switzerland spends billions of dollars and even has compulsory military service allows

a country is not involved in conflicts the locals are pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces. and russia will no longer be changing the year to find out why and what the benefits of this may bring have to our website that's our dot com or our you tube page. two hundred passengers were forced to spend. hours in the air as their plane circled a siberian airport. the plane had taken off from the city of quetta but was then it

diverted to nearby novosibirsk that has the details. over two hundred people were on the plane that was making circles around the airport where it departed from and the people in the plane knew that the plane was defective after it's all from the airport camera or the plane's chassis failed to go so course the pilot could not proceed with the flight and was forced to burn fuel flying around when the decision was finally made to make an emergency landing at the city of new c.b.s. another plane has already been waiting for the passengers in order to deliver them to their destination point to the city of bangkok in thailand ambulances and emergency service workers work on the ground in order to provide help to the passengers if needed luckily no one was injured none of them needed any medical help they only how they might be meeting after this flight is of course

psychological help as they must've been in the state of shock spending that much time there knowing that there was something wrong with the. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been promoting his memoirs highlighting his years as pentagon chief well in an interview with the fox news channel he not only defended the iraq invasion but he also called guantanamo base detention center as one of the finest prison systems in the world 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. is set up an interrogation regime that allowed a starting of course anchoring with a grave that 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 cia not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the u.n. described as a torture center but all sorts of. 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 and at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. a brief look at some other world headlines now prosecutors in italy will follow a request for a fast track trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi over allegations he consorted with prostitutes and abused his power he's alleged to have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl and uses influence as prime minister to secure her release on charges there have been violent protests near her lawn demanding the resignation

of the prime minister berlusconi strongly denies the accusations and has vowed to continue to govern. u.s. investigators say they have found no electronic flaws into yoda's cars to account for reports of sudden acceleration mechanical faults that were fixed in previous recalls are said to be the cause will close to one hundred deaths have been linked to be accelerated problems to yoda recalled more than twelve million vehicles around the world since all time two thousand and nine and paid a record of fifty million dollars in fines to the u.s. government. a suicide bombing attack on four trucks carrying oil in pakistan has killed seven and injured dozens of detonated his explosive packed vehicle next to one truck while it was inside a vital transport tunnel a second tanker near the tunnels entrance exploded minutes later in an apparent second attack the trucks were delivering if you will to nato forces in neighboring

afghanistan. now a new batch of the legendary russian military helicopter the k a fifty two has been unveiled known as the alligator it is equipped with a state of the art weapons. checked out the military might of the fly russian machine. ran a military air base in central russia and that is the common fifty two also known as the alligator with the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take. back to one of those monster. bases this story really carried on can pierce through armor but obviously it's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank missiles air to air missiles bombs all of them installed on the wings here and make this aircraft a real predator in the skies now the cockpit the steep grade off this massive was she can see one of the main differences of this military helicopter from all the

other attack choppers in the world the crew which consists of two people they sit side by side just like an orderly or a wake up watching one where the closest one you claim you know this is so much easier. to work together in battle and collaborate for the toilets and of course you can't attack or defend. you from we already noticed this unique rotor system officially it's called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark camos designed euro and is meant to provide extremely rude. with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower portion of your craft this is definitely one predator really hard to get you go if it's going off or to central russia. now in a few minutes you speak to the creator of a computer game depicting

a siege of the moscow airport but first kareen is here to bring us the latest in the world of business. helen welcome to business update and here's what we have for you this hour the russian central bank says it's ready to raise bank reserve requirements to draw cash out of the economy and to prevent it from overheating russia is currently the only major emerging market that does not have capital controls that has rules on how much money can come here that leaves monetary policy as the central banks so where to fight inflation but raising rates encourages hot money to come to the country and take advantage of the strong turns something the government is keen to

avoid. rush is increasing bond sales the government is saying to capitalize on investors' demand before high interest rates make it more expensive to finance the budget finance ministry plans to sell debt securities for an equivalent of around two billion dollars. marriages and acquisitions rose by a third of russia last year although activities still hasn't returned to pre-crisis levels david cranfield a partner corporate lawyer c.m.s. russell says he expects a strong growth to continue in two thousand and eleven. we're expecting there to be more energy in the market than the highest being it's certainly been running at about half capacity since the crash but. no huge increase energy natural resources always on always do come across in the survey is the most are it's absurd it was not no different this year interesting lee respondents said the transportation

would be a big surge this year. which was a surprise when they actually when you look at the market you can you can see that actually on a number of transactions which might be to come in and say. have a look at the markets asian stocks are mostly lower on wednesday the nikkei slots negative for the car industry among the top performance driven by toyota has been forecast for this year hong kong stocks are in the red with real estate issues among the top losers after an optimistic starts the index slipped below the waterline own concerns a further policy typing by beijing karen russell the r.t.s. climbed at the start of the trading session pairing yesterday's decline r.t.s. that of a point four percent in the first minutes with gazprom world cali and look oil gaining the my six is still closed but on tuesday it ended deep in the red as cool continue to stay quiet around eighty seven dollars in the capital it's quite significant progress. the russian equities have been stalling lately prices

and high rates in china are weighing on the market so so is uncertainty about how well some local share placements will go including russia's second biggest. and industrial major. 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 the b. to b. place that's the biggest stock placement so the market's going to be very interested in seeing how that is absorbed. beyond that we're going to be looking at the fund flow information over the last two weeks there's been about ten billion dollars worth of outflows from global emerging market funds if that continues it's going to be very difficult for russia to keep its head above water. that's it for not join me in less than one hour for more here in r t and stay with us for headline news up next.

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