founder of whistle blowing website wiki leaks julian assad launches another salvo in his ongoing legal battles this time threatening to sue the guardian newspaper for libel. he was president barack obama has labeled corporate tax a burden what critics say it is simply a poison to rule big business. and now the shocking statistics reveal that every fourteen minutes in russia a woman dies at the hands of their partners. eleven am here in moscow this is our welcome to the program we can 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 america of war logs and secret diplomatic cables obtained by ricky weeks assad is understood to be angry at claims in a book at the newspaper published about the website well the book says saundra believe that informants mentioned in leaked war documents would deserve it if they were killed as a result of the leaks and us are has found out this is not the only thing the guardian has done to cause cracks in their relationship with the sarge. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now we keep leaks in the guardian of rapidly falling out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications partners was 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. 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 through that of the guards. would never know how those people themselves view. the guardian reports allie has 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 preaching 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 kazakstan the guardian failed 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 artificial to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials to 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 are 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 or was cocky verging on rule. 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 the only way it could 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 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 thought was a ledges contains malicious labels wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning newspaper that takes the liberal line but certainly in this case to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication of a book portraying the newspaper its dealings with wiki leaks in it deeply and a favorable light it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average artsy london he 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 ortiz 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 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 so 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. there is no will 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 as 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.e.'s responsibility is to do what's best for g.e. if that's also. 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 definitely profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity too 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 but emergency lending that's put a few gray hairs on the heads of the people on board. who for ten hours over two hundred passengers became prisoners only defective plane join us the details in just a few moments. and 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 in domestic violence attacks in russia meanwhile a lock of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims are they able to report the abuse to authorities well there are help centers for victims but they are few and far between and as are going to school discovered too often the victims and up the suffering in silence. it was a vicious cycle that the press we had fights he raised it happened so many times i held on for as long as i could but when i realized that it couldn't have 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 really was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse that he thought of 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. 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. the existing laws make it hard for victims of domestic abuse to get adequate

protection. we must choose to sleep 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 their own it means many russian women choose to stay silent about aggression towards them sometimes until it's too 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 while the demonstrators are maintaining pressure on president mubarak to step down that's despite the government announcing plans for a peaceful. as for a power meanwhile the 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 the vice president of the militant islamised linked to al qaeda were

among the thousands of prisoners who fled egyptian jails during the instability last month omar suleiman the courted by the u.s. and israel is now a massive power but many experts say he lacks support of the opposition and the egyptians. saw him i 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 mine and he did something very in some ways that undermined his credibility as a powerbroker 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 a 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 send a security council mission to the region. in russia's ambassador to the u.n. says it could help provide international support and 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. how to start these really talks better than us 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 to

security council mission in the middle east and over thirty years old the proposal comes as the latest round of israeli palestinian talks ended without significant result 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 backed the idea of strengthening the council's role in negotiations. well don't forget there's always more news and analysis on our web site that's r t v dot com and here's what's lined up for you right now switzerland spends a billions of dollars on its army and even has compulsory military service as a country is not involved in conflicts locals are pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces. and russia will no longer be changing the clocks twice a year to find out why and what benefits this may bring up to a website that's our team for page.

two hundred passengers were forced to spend several panic stricken hours in the air as their plane circled a siberian airport while the plane had taken off from the city of but was then diverted to nearby novosibirsk. has the details. over two hundred people were looking up on the plane that was making circles around the airport where it departed from and the people on the plane knew that the plane was defective after it's all from the airport camera over the planes shots he failed to

go up so forced 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 a look at the no one was injured none of them needed any medical help they only help they might be needing after this flight is for 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 highlight of 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 brian becker from the antiwar as your 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 that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world as nothing but torture torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the cia not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black hole 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 can at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. well time for a quick look at some other world headlines prosecutors in italy will file 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 well 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. hopes that the long running trial of former liberian leader charles taylor would end of this week have received a blow after his maid lawyer stormed out of the courtroom taylor is accused of

arming rebels in sierra leone for power and profit while the former president refused to return to the court following a break in the trial at the hague that has so far lasted more than three years well the opening was delayed for six months following similar protests now a search is continuing for two swiss girls who are believed to be missing in southern italy their father picked his six year old twin daughters from their mother so me and switzerland more than a week ago then travel to france and then on to italy where he killed himself by jumping under a train at a station an extensive search involves italian french and swiss police. now a new batch of the legendary russian military helicopter the fifty two has been unveiled known as the alligator it is equipped with state of the art weapons are. checked out the military might of the flying russian machine. or be so sensitive that these common things to. your superior force.

people to take a glimpse at one of those malls to. receive this thirty three carat. armor but obviously it's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank this else sells bombs all of them installed on the wings here and make this aircraft a real predator in the skies now the cockpit is deep brain office and that's what 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 a lordly or other wake me up watching one where the close one you claim you know this is so much easier. to put together in battle and collaborate for the

toilets and of course you can't attack or defend the fuck. you from we already noticed this unique rotor system officially it's called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark carmel's design bureau and is meant to provide extreme. 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 got it was going offshore to central russia. now a heated debate on egypt's future is on its way in crosstalk but first it's a business update with kareena.

hello and welcome to a business update good to have you with me the russian central bank says it's ready to raise bank reserve requirements to draw cash out of the economy and prevent it from overheating russia is currently the only major emerging market that does not have capital controls that are the rules on how much money can come here at least moderately policy at central banks so weapon to fight inflation but raising rates encourages hot money to come to the country and take it back to the strong returns something the government is keen to avoid. greasing the ruble bond sales the government is seeking to capitalize on investors demand before high interest rates make it more expensive to finance the budget the finance ministry plans to sell debt securities for an equivalent of around two billion dollars today. china's vast and rapidly expanding economy has made it an essential destination for global business however john haven't seen your partner at corporate law c.m.s.

russia believes china is overrated compared to some other matching markets such as russia. we've heard from many of our clients they feel they just have to be that it's such a big market potentially they cannot afford to miss out and so they invested. for many of them however is they find it very difficult to win contracts they find it very difficult to make a profit in china whereas when they look at the businesses in russia which perhaps weren't given the priority. since the crisis the crisis two thousand there was a bad year but since then the business of picked up again and they're finding that they can do persist successfully and they can. and they can do business here profitably. and that brings us to asia where markets are mostly low while the nikkei finished the training in the red on wednesday with the car industry among the top performers if it bites me orders upgraded forecast for this year hong kong stocks are in the red with real estate issues among the top losers after an optimistic start index slipped below the water line on concerns of further policy

tightening by beijing. now let's look at how the russian markets are doing both the r.t.s. and my six the trading in the red energy majors are losing out there on lower oil prices both will call and roll stamped are losing points focus at this hour are gas problem is gaining. western equities have been stalling lately prices and high rates in china a wave of the market so is uncertainty about how well some local share placements will go including russia second biggest bank and industrial major pike 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 and see how that is absorbed. beyond we're going to be looking at 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. the number of russian billionaires jumped to one hundred fourteen lausd yes the economy rebounded from the financial crisis that's according to finance magazine which is set to publish its top five hundred ranking the wealth of the country's top ten richest people increased thirty percent to almost one hundred forty billion dollars surprisingly chelsea football club owner roman abramovich fell out of the top three for the first time since the magazine started to list last year's top dog was the. owner of mages to produce a novel if it's steel who leap frog we hope and remove it the scenes estimated wealth is nineteen billion dollars. that's all for me for now i'll be back in less than one hour with more hope each other.

well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by obama's by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's sonic boom six tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for landing purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva

conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in the war to protect and violent against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. question is that so much of a definitely a huge mistake to share the power of the final five to mark west dilemma democracy versus stability can each accountable are the u.s. and its allies alone. the world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia. we've got the future covered.

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