the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks julian a song has another salvo in his ongoing legal battles this time threatening to sue the guardian newspaper for libel. security forces stop a haunt for those responsible for the moscow airport bombing that raft thirty six dead. three people believed to be directly connected to this use side bomb or have been detained all the details are coming out in a couple of minutes. also this hour you as president barack obama has labeled corporate tax a burden critics say it's simply a ploy to wound big business. and business the russian shareholders obtain p.v.p. deny they are in talks to sell out to anyone so ross they have to seal the deal with b.p. to explore for arctic oil join me for that and other stories in our business book

ten and twenty minutes. a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our team with me and you said no way it's two pm here in the russian capital twelve noon in stockholm wiki leaks founder julian assange may be in the legal fight against being sent to sweden over sexual assault accusations but he's also set for another u.k. court battle he's starting to bring a libel action against the guardian newspaper which helped release american war logs and secret diplomatic cables obtained by wiki leaks as launch is understood to be angry at claims in a book the newspaper published about the whistle blowing website the book says a song believed that informants mentioned in the lead for documents would deserve it if they were killed. as

a result of the leaks and there's war and that has found out this is not the only thing the guardian has done to cause cracks in their relationship with sounds. 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 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. live in. they don't want such things to be known for their own tales they will basically

want to cover the world and so view they cut out everything that was good to a boy or girl. in such a way the reader of the guardian. would never know how those people who sells the view. the guardian reports early have 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. courageous booed if you institutional allies hatami 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 talked 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 in town 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 them 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 they're rich and this is one of the problems with a lot of. 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. verging on rude 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 the only way it could be done there's so much material and it is so the form it's easy it is it's difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism to be able to 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 a legal action on the u.k. libel law 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 just 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 law right but that lead 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 a deeply unfavorable light it's a relationship that's going truly sour you are at it so it's he looked at. russian security forces have to tame three people suspected of helping organize the deadly bombing at moscow's main international airport last month there were arrested in russel's north caucasus republic of korea and are believed to be closely linked to the suicide bomber suspect let's get the latest on this development from our teams together in back to washington joins us live together you know who exactly are these people and what are they being accused of. all two of the detained people i

believe to be reported to be a brother and the sister of the suicide bomber how well the security forces have taken the blood tests should be off to the attack after they had preliminary information on who had carried out that attack and now that they've got the tests it appears to be that d.n.a. is identical of these two people handle the suicide bomber now these relatives are suspected of having known about the blind attack but they did not report to the police at the house all but these two people police bomb security forces found parts of explosives similar to the ones used at them i did that in them i did the ball me now as well the third person detained by police in the republic will be in which he's not in reality home the suicide bomber but he is suspected of having a company to this you sad moment. to moscow not going to investigate is not reported to mass media that it was a suicide bomber was

a twenty year old man from want to russia's north caucasus republics now we know he was from the republic of in bush well the name has not been disclosed on the choose date. russia's lawmakers were meeting with top security officials with the apas police representatives and they reported to the state duma deputies on the on this suicide bomber and that they also believe a group of up to seven people would have lost her mind if the pup walk a straight at the top of the knaves all those people busy have not been disclosed as of making her investigation and some of those people have not been yet the rest of. the chechen warlord and internationally wanted terrorists whom are of has claimed responsibility for ordering the attack have this information been verified . police unit in the most recent video message posted on extremist web sites russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov claims that he

was the mastermind behind the idea of the mobile me now this was just won in a series of these massive ship obviously targeted at the app a speech about russia's security forces are saying that they're looking into those claims but they they're quite skeptical about it as well as it may not be direct newmark in charge of but the idea of the mobile me they say that there are many autonomy us terrorist cells operating in the north caucasus and that they may not be directly linked to morrow so mark is just one of the versions considered also security acts but shortly after that video massa tried been posted on an extremist website in saying that the open market was all business just talking himself up by starting starting as another been large so close investigation may is going on but to. we know that to build a model is not just watched as number one terrorist he's on the international least of most wanted terrorist he had claimed responsibility for

a similar attacks in the prost he said he was the mosque behind the twin bombing on the moscow metro system a year ago which claimed the lives of forty people and it also he's also believed to organize the attack of an express train from moscow to set his book which also claimed dozens of human lives right up to being a good job a live from central moscow bringing us the latest in the investigation into the moscow airport bombing thanks for that. well still ahead in the program for you memoirs of a pentagon chief 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 also. find out why the legendary russian military helicopter the alligator is so formidable that in

a few minutes right here on earth. u.s. president barack obama seems to be trying to win over wall street by asking them to help tackle what he calls a burden some corporate tax but with his appointments of high profile business leaders to government positions it has many questioning where his loyalties lie is laura lester has more. for two decades jobs and dollars have flown out of the u.s. 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 d. or both destined to a blue view because of all this is decided by corporate boards inside the west which are now global corporates 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 my. so we do look allies two ways of the sellers are nailed there's no worker movement sue 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.'s responsibility is to do what's best for g.e. if that's also best 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 and 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 profits over people it is no you're definitely 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. in egypt constitutional amendments intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands protested in 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 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 the vice president announced the militant islamists linked to al qaida world monger thousands of prisoners who fled and gels during the in stable instability last month omar serve him and courted by the u.s. and israel is now amassing power but many experts say lack support of the opposition and egyptians. still in mind 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 mine and he did something very in some ways that undermined his credibility as a powerbroker with the protesters he organized a meeting 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 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. well with international focus shifting to the situation in the middle east russia is proposing to send a security council mission to the region but that 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 now because we are concerned about the situation in the middle east because we all know. how to start these

really but it's better than us and the situation in the region is quite fragile. is fraught with further possible complications. now 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 as 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. there's always more news and analysis on our web site r t v dot com here's what's lined up on line for you right now switzerland spends billions of dollars on its army and even has compulsory military service as the country is not involved in conflicts locals are pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces. and ra so will no longer be

changing the clocks twice a year to find out why and what benefits this may bring add to our website r.t. dot com. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been promoting his memoirs highlighting his years as pentagon chief in an interview with the channel fox news he not only defended the iraq invasion but also called guantanamo bay's detention center one of the finest prison systems in the world brian bakker 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 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

was 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 inc and at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world this hour prosecutors in italy have filed a request for a fast track trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi over allegations he consorted with prostitutes and abused his power he is alleged to have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl and use his influence as prime minister just cure her release

under pressure charges there have been violent protests demanding the resignation of the pm for the scone he strongly denies the accusations and has vowed to continue to govern. a spate of car bombs in northern iraq have killed at least seven people and wounded some of theirs the attacks happened in the country's northern city of who two car bombs were aimed at police patrols while the third device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces no group has so far claimed responsibility. a government minister has been shot dead in the south of sudan in an apparent family dispute jimmy laramie milla was killed by his brother in law who also service is driver in the region's capital juba the man also killed a guard protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself it comes just as southern sudan voted to split from the north.

a new bass of the legendary russian military helicopter the k a fifty two has been unveiled known as the alligator it's a quipped with state of the art weapons arts is a gorgeous can of checked out the military might of the flying russian machine. around a military air base in central russia and that is the common fifty two also known as the alligator of the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take back to one of those monster. may see this thirty billion or carom can pierce through armor but obviously that'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 the great office and that's what she can see one of the main differences of 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 a wake up watch when we're that close to what you claim you know this is so much easier to. put together in battle and collaborate for the oil its course but 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 tree blog comments designed bureau and is meant to provide extreme heat with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower yourself in here craft this is just really one predator really hard to get you go to school off or to central russia. now a man who by chance stumbled across

a stash of cash in northern russia decided he would take the honest option he. is driving from the studio vulgar to where you spotted bags on the side of the road you stopped and inspected them and found no less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars worth of rubles because by you amount being equal to two hundred month's salary you returned it to police who discovered the money belonged to the russian post-office you will receive a reward for his honesty. speaking of money is here next with the latest business stay with us. hello and welcome to our business update the russian shareholders of tanking b.p. deny they are in talks to sell their stake to anyone we have friedman a partner in the consortium that owns half of russia's third biggest oil producer says no negotiations are taking place the partners have objected strongly to b.p.'s proposed asset swap and arctic exploration deal with russia's biggest oil producer

ross sniffed they say that the deal comprises tanky b.p.'s competitiveness and goes against the terms of their alliance they had been speculation that could buy out the partners to clear the way for the deal with b.p. . and the russian central bank says it's ready to raise bank reserve requirements to draw cash out of the economy to prevent it from overheating russia is currently the only major emerging market that does not have capital controls that is rules on how much money can come here that leaves monetary policy is the central banks sold weapons to fight inflation but raising rates encourages hot money to come to the country to take advantage of the strong returns something the government is keen to avoid. russia is increasing we will bond sales the government is seeking 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 a round two billion dollars today 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 c.m.s. russia says he expects this 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 enough resources always on always to come across in the servers the most active search is not no different this year interesting lee respondents said the transportation would be a big search this year. which was a surprise when they actually when you look at the market you can you can see that i should be on a number of transactions which might be to come in the same time. now let's have a look at the markets the european stocks are lower this hour with several companies coming under pressure after reporting results shares of the drug makers

one off event is fell nearly two percent after the company had reported a plunge in fourth quarter earnings that said profit for two thousand and eleven is likely to drop or five percent to ten scituate and move down to two and a half percent following the release of its two thousand and ten results the russian markets are down in the afternoon both the r.t.s. and lies of the trading in the red energy majors are losing ground in lower oil prices look oil is currently shedding a percent or so as well so you have got stone point eight percent bucking the trend is gaining up the side on the on to the t.v.'s following yesterday's losses after investors dropped the stock due to uncertainty over the upcoming s.p.o. price. to other news the london stock exchange and canada's t.n.x. group which owns the toronto stock exchange are to merge or share deal the new exchange is set to become the largest platform for trading mining companies at a time of surging commodity prices with

a combined six point seven hundred listings it will also be the world's largest exchange by numbers of companies it's just the latest in the way of consolidation sweeping the globe exchanges here in russia the my six and r.t.s. have announced plans to march as well. it's all we have for you at the moment but you can always find most stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com let us.

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