the founder of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks julian of songs launches than another salvo in his ongoing legal battles this time threatening to sue the guardian newspaper for libel. security forces stop one hundred of those responsible for the moscow airport bombing that rafa thirty six dead. three people who are believed to be done directly connected to this used bomber have been detained told the details are coming up in a couple of minutes. and u.s. president barack obama has labeled corporate tax a burden while critics say it's simply a ploy to woo big business. it's

three pm in moscow this is our coming to you live our top story this hour wiki leaks founder julian assange may be in a legal fight against being sent to sweden over 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 a song is understood to be angry at claims in a book the newspaper published about the whistle blowing web site the book says the songs believe that informants mentioned in the leaked war documents would deserve it if they were killed as a result of the leaks and as laura 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 rapid. leaf

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 when 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 negative a boy or girl. in such a way the reader of the guards. in either of the killings 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 karoubi courageous buddha few institutional allies hatami conscious 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 be five point two million two agents with the payments would influence because artificial to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for contracts two of 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. 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 still the way it should be done there's so much material and it is so a lot of the form that easy news 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 under 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 newspaper 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 it deeply under favorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t. london. russian security forces have detained three people suspected of helping organize the deadly bombing our main international airport last month they were arrested in russia's north caucuses republican. and are believed to be closely linked to the suicide bomber suspect let's get the latest now from marty's you've got that in the church over because i mean that who exactly are these people and what are they being accused of. or to all be detained are believed to be a reality of some of the suicide bomb of a reporter to be a brother and a sister of that man the law taken from them reveals that d.n.a. zay dentical these relatives are believed to have known about the planned attack but they did not. report to the police explosive similar to the ones you stay in

the idea that a woman were found in their house that was not at the house and he's not a relative of the bomber but he's believed to have a company of the man on his way from the republicans in the churchyard to moscow from earlier reports by russia's investigators we know that it was a twenty year old man the pup the trade of the attack and was from the north caucasus now we know he was raised he was born and raised in the republic in the shed but as a result will be attacked the suicide bombing which he carried out on january twenty fourth thirty six people were killed and over a hundred people were injured now and choose day russia's top security officials held a major meeting with russian lawmakers when all they reported they disclose the name of the bomber to them and we also know that they believe a group of up to seven people would have been would have all been eyes the itself is that the names have not been disclosed to mass media as it may give investigation of those people who have not yet been detained. no chance of a warlord and terrorist morrows has claimed responsibility for ordering the attacks

he's russia's most wanted man but has this information been verified that he is the mastermind. of russia's top terrorist ople model made a claim sinnott video macit should be is most recent video message on an extremist web site where he says that he has added thirty six more lives on these deadly accounts it is not the first time that the whole model makes these sort of claims following terrorist attacks top to twenty ten bombing on the moscow metro he said he was the one who opus traded it is also believed to have organized the bombing albany of ski express train falling from moscow to something is broke in two thousand and nine look a lot of us not only russia's most wanted terrorist he's also on the international least of terrorists he has links to al qaida now investigators russia. richey forces are saying they're looking into those claims but they say it may not be

necessarily in water there may be a toll and i must terrorist cells operating in the region of the north caucasus and may be a group not directly linked to modify but have carried out the attack because it will be only facts and facts and further investigation that will reveal what those claims adjustor several security experts should be up to this video message was posted on the two that have been saying that the model is simply talking himself up by salt styling himself as an out of the law. live from moscow to get the. well still ahead for you in the program 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 where his records also. find out why the legendary russian

military helicopter the alligator is so formidable that's coming up in a few minutes right here on our team. 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 loyalists or has more. for two decades jobs and dollars have flowed out of the u.s. and across the pacific meanwhile the american people have suffered high unemployment and a diminished standard of living and 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 serve. says 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 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 two ways of the. there's no worker movement 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 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 power. powerful corporate money and interests in the face you don't hear the president saying that this guy is 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 at this oh yeah 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 r.t. new york. in egypt the constitutional amendments intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands protested an apparent rejection of the proposals the demonstrators continue their 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 militant islamists linked to al qaida were among the thousands of prisoners in the flooded gypsum jails during the instability last month of march so the month courted by the u.s. and israel is now amassing power but many experts say lack support of the opposition and it's still in 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 that 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 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 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 send a security council mission to the region the tally to 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're concerned about the situation in the middle east because we all know that if it's to restart these

really but the student talks better than us and the situation in the region is quite fragile. it's fraught with further possible complications. if it gets the go ahead it would be the first security council mission to the middle east in over thirty years there was a comes as the latest round of israeli palestinian talks ended without a 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. there's always more news and analysis on our web site dot com here's what's lined up on line 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 i will listen 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 to our website that our team dot com. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been promoting his memoirs highlighting his years as pentagon chief in an interview with fox news he not only defended the iraq invasion but also called won ton of obeys detention center 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 is 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 inc 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 at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. a brief look now at some other stories from around the world a spate of car bomb northern events have killed at least seven people and wounded some others one of the attacks which happened in the country's northern city of care who was captured on camera as you can see here two car bombs were aimed at

police patrols while a third device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces no group has so far claimed responsibility. but the 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 used his influence to secure her release on theft charges there have been violent protests near him alone demanding the premier's resignation further scone a strongly denies the accusations and is about to continue to govern. a government minister has been shot dead in the south of sudan in them parent family dispute jimmy laramie millo was killed by his brother in law who also served as his 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 batch 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 it's going to have 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 with the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take. back to one of those monster. may see this thirty millimeter cannon can pierce through armor but obviously it's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank this else earlier cells 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 an orderly or other wake up watching one where they close it would be fine 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. you from we already noticed this unique rotor system officially it's called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark multi-column of design 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 definitely one predator really hard to get you got it was going off or to central russia. a man who by chance stumbled across

a stash of cash in northern russia decided he would take the honest option he was driving from the city of volgograd when he spotted bags on the side of the road he stopped and spec to them and found no less than one hundred twenty thousand dollars worth of rubles well despite the amount being equal to two hundred month's salary for. him and it to police who discovered the money belonged to brush and post office he will receive a reward for his honesty. well i heated debate on egypt's future is on the way and cross talk first let's talk the business with kareena stay with us. it's twenty two past three pm here in moscow welcome to our business update the russian shareholders of tanky b.p. deny there in talks to sell their stake to anyone we have freidman 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 be proposed asset swap and arctic exploration deal with russia's biggest oil producer ross snapped they say the deal comprises tanky view piece competitiveness goes against the terms of their alliance had been speculation could buy our partners to clear the way for the deal with b.p. . fighting inflation was the first order of business for president video of that a meeting devoted to economic issues on tuesday prices rose nearly ten percent in january and a lot of bases the central bank has already said it's ready to impose new measures to draw cash out of the economy to prevent it from overheating this includes further raising bank reserves requirements it appears less keen on raising rates this would have an effect of drawing hot money to russia to take advantage of the high interest rate here compared to the west. but is increasing

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. china's vast market and rapidly expanding economy has made it an essential destination for global business john hammond senior partner at corporate law for c.m.s. russia believes china is overrated compared to some other emerging markets. we've heard from many of our clients they feel they just don't 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 the finding that they can do persist successfully and they can. and they can do business here profitably

. european stocks are lower this hour several companies coming under pressure after reporting results shares of the drug makers off eventis one point nine percent after the company had reported a punch in fourth quarter earnings and said profit for two thousand and eleven is likely to drop from five to ten percent and usual such rare move down to two and half percent following the release of its two thousand and ten results. there were some markets are down in the afternoon both reality as the markets are losing over half of the sun's energy majors are a big drag on the indices on lower oil prices look or they're setting a percent this hour so it's rawson after that's down point eight percent bucking the trend is gas probably gaining a percent on them isaacs and recently is following yesterday's losses after investors dropped the stock two to answer the upcoming s.p.o. price. russian public manufacturer h.m.s.

hydraulic machines in systems has raised three hundred sixteen million dollars to cutting the price in size of its i.p.o. in london initially the planned offer was for forty seven million shares but only forty three million were sold at a fifteen percent discount to the which all range of nine to twelve dollars a share. the london stock exchange and canada's ten mex group which owns the toronto stock exchange are to merge or share deal and you exchange is set to become the largest platform for trading mining companies at a time of surging commodity prices with a combined six thousand seven hundred listings it will also be the world's largest exchange by numbers of companies is just the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the globe six changes here in russia the onset of the demise it's an r.t.s. have announced plans to march. and that's it for me during my colleague denko next hour for more updates here on business.

well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's our sonic boom so factoring

in marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect one by against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. question is that so much different and there's a huge musician apparently trying to hide from the marquesas dilemma democracy versus stability can each accountable are the u.s. and its allies. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand

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