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he's available in the clip we can see. you case guardian newspaper is accused of redacting secret documents provided by wiki leaks to suit its own political agenda the whistle blowing web site is also threatening to sue the paper over its new book about julian the song. russian security services make their first arrest in connection with last month's moscow airport attack the name of the dumbing down of a suicide bomber house when revealed and several of his suspected accomplices are already in custody. and as a diversion protesters gather for their biggest rally yet against president mubarak the blame for his enormous wealth and abuse of power is shifted to western companies accused of funding him for decades.
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at six pm in moscow this is our coming to you live first up this hour the u.k. has guardian newspaper is facing accusations of double standards from wiki leaks its founder julian assange has threatened legal action against the british steadily over its tell all book about the online whistleblower the newspaper is also accused of editing secret cables that obtained from the site are just more emmet reports on what's behind the bitter dispute. 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 website blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing
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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 saw the view they cut out everything that was negative a boy or girl position. in such a way the reader of the guards. in either of the killings would never know how those people who 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.
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very stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous buddha 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 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 with the disappearance would influence because our professionals 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
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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 lords 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 or was cocky 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
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translated into journalism the 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 newspapers book which i saw as alleges contains malicious libel zz wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning newspaper that takes a liberal line but certainly in this case is going to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication of the book portraying the newspaper its dealings with wiki leaks it deeply understate the bulls lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t. london. in other news three suspected terrorists are in char's with involvement in last month's airport bombing in moscow russia's security services say the suspects
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were arrested in the country's southern republic of. has more. two of the three suspected accomplices of the terrorist of the suicide bomber who are now in cost city are his relatives there reported to be his brother and sister and to blood test severability they have similar identical d.n.a. as the set up costs and is not his relative but he's believed to have a company of the bomber on his way from the republic of the shirt here to mosco now the brother in the sister are suspected of having known about the planned attack but not reporting to the police on time security forces found explosives in their house similar to the ones used in the idea of the mobile me from earlier reports all the investigative committee would know that the border was a twenty year old man from the north caucasus now we know the name of the republic but it's single shared here as a result of the attack which he carried out on january twenty four at moscow's main
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international airport thirty six people were killed and over a hundred people were injured. well we also know that it's been revealed by russia's top security forces to the country's lawmakers recently on tuesday that there is a manhunt for for a group of up to seven people who are believed to have organized the attack because their names have not been revealed to mass media event here investigation and they still have to be detained russia's top terrorist claimed that he was the orchestrator all the gen-u. responding that he said that made those claims in a video message posted on an extremist website but it is not the first time that go cool model makes such kind of claims to moscow's metro bombings a year ago he said that he organized a attack there is also believed up to the bombing of the netsky express train calling from moscow to something has broken two thousand and nine thousand russian
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security forces are saying that they're looking into those claims but they also say it might not not necessarily be the kumara the carriage. the attack there are many autonomy as terrorist cells operating in the region and one of those terrorist groups could have done that are not necessarily directly linked to the whom are security meanwhile has been tightened across the country following the bombing and we expect that syria is a man months could have been introduced to the existing anti terror law just as the country is police force in general is undergoing a major overhaul and these changes are believed to put an end to cop corruption and security lapses. here with our jane live from moscow still ahead on the program victims of greed looting companies in the u.s. are accused of profiting at the expense of the lower income workers. and russell receives a box of helicopters code named alligators find out how they earned such as not
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starts on t.v. dot com. it's just gone eleven minutes past the hour here with r.t. live from moscow egypt is witnessing the biggest antigovernment rallies across the country since the protests began over two weeks ago it comes despite attempts by authorities to introduce constitutional reform to help manage a peaceful transfer of power demonstrators are demanding the immediate resignation of president hosni mubarak and are refusing to wait until september when his term ends media reports say rampant corruption has made mubarak's family among the richest in the world it claimed most of his fortune was accumulated through dodgy dealings with international companies whose money is allegedly in swiss banks or tied up in real estate in the u.s. and u.k. international relations expert mark almond told r.t. that the corrupt scheme that kept mubarak in power is now one of the reasons he's
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being pushed out of office. barak and his family. has been an enormous amount of american really. direct. u.s. taxpayer to the. rest of. the cornerstone goes through the hands of. a lot of work inside egypt so as to coax. the westerners to get business that access in egypt could also know when they walk through quickly suddenly begin to listen to media. all afaik she's supposed to have expensive property in california and so on and this is all beings that the very people who in the past compliance for him to do what they want allow able to embarrass and helped start the protests and because corruption is the central issue in more unrest. international relations expert mark almond there speaking to
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us via broadband from a call. for russian sailors have died and another seven are missing after a ship say off the coast of south korea the alexandria had twelve russian citizens on board and got into trouble sixteen kilometers off the port of long it was reportedly damaged after it collided with another ship a helicopter and several patrol boats are involved in the search and rescue operation one person has been found along. there is of car bomb explosions in northern iraq have killed at least seven people and wounded around eighty others the attacks happened in the northern city of one of them caught on video which you just saw there two car bombs were aimed at police patrols while of third device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks. sudanese government minister has been shot
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dead in his office in what appeared to be a personal dispute jimmy there any millo was killed by his brother in law who also served as his driver in the city of juba the man also killed a guard protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself it comes days after referendum results confirm that south sudan will become africa's newest independent nation. military talks aimed at easing tension between north and south korea have broken down officials at the meeting reportedly failed to reach a consensus on an agenda of higher level talks going again so broke contact late last year when the north responded to artillery fire near their territory by shelling a south korean island. prosecutors in italy have filed a request for the immediate trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi on targets of sex crimes and abuse of power he's alleged to have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl. i don't use this influence to secure her release from
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custody on theft charges or the scone a strongly denies any wrongdoing and says prosecutors are trying to destroy his career italian premier already faces the resumption of three trials for corruption and tax fraud next one. stateside now the white house seems to be trying to win over wall street by asking them to help tackle corporate tax and with many high profile business leaders in government positions it has many questioning whether what's good for business really is what's good for americans to 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
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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 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 the old there's no worker movement you know could result from our maximization of profits and in the us it appears no lawmakers will. try to cut them off either president obama after
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pushing to regulate the business community has taken to embracing it on 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 and that goes for any company but staring powerful corporate money and interests in the face you don't hear the president
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saying that this guy's running for reelection nor the mainstream media beholden to their corporate owners 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 profits over people it gives no you're the definite profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to lauren lyster r.t. new york. there is more news on analysis on our website our team dot com here's what's lined up for you online right now and trouble in the air find out how over two hundred passengers were forced to spend several panic stricken towers high above ground as their clients circled aside an airport. looking towards a never ending summer rush that cancels daylight. savings time burn more about the
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pros and colleagues at our team dot com. there was an armed forces have received a brand new batch of the country's state of the art attack helicopters dozens more k. a fifty two choppers code named alligators will enter service within the year are to use your gorgeous canal was given this close up look at what they can do. ran 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. bases this thirty millimeter cannon can pierce through armor but obviously it's not
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the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank this else 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 is the great 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 war do you call a lake in the apache going where did you shoot when you claim you know this this is much easier. to work together you know and collaborate for the pilots force 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 trademark both e.-commerce designed euro and is meant to provide extremely room.
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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 go to school off or to central russia. business news is next here in r.t. went to me to stay with us. and welcome to business fighting inflation was the first order of business for president better at a meeting devoted to economic issues on tuesday prices rose nearly ten percent in january on an annualized basis 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 reserve requirements it appears less keen on raising rates but alexander if you were a senior economist would be to be capital so it will have to move through. we think that they will hike rates and the central bank is reluctant because of the capital
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inflows concerns because oil prices are high and if they hike rates this me we get more influence into russia. but we think they will move gradually and expect only fifty basis points for the first quarter so it's either to hide by twenty five basis point one by by fifty but it was probably the first option because central banks so far as increase the reserve requirement for max now how effective has that been oh well it's a first to have prayed so. taken alone it's really it's really minor but it's a very strong signal and one hundred basis points in reserve requirements for foreign liabilities is a signal that the central bank is taking this seriously. so look at the markets now start with the united states and they're a bit down this frightening to break the seven day winning streak on the dow jones industrial average let's take a look at some of the companies coca-cola is up two and a half a cent in early trading up to say quarterly profits more than tripled walt disney
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is rising four percent the company's reported earnings that beat expectations after the market. today switch to europe now stocks are lower this hour several companies coming in under pressure after reporting bad results the shares of the drug makers out of the event is fell almost two percent. one point up to the company had reported a plunge in fourth quarter earnings and said probable twenty eleven is likely to drop from five to ten percent per se when moved down two point six percent following the release of its twenty two and results two. russian markets are mixed this six flat flat too but slightly negative energy majors are a big drag on the indus scenes even though we're seeing some kind of recovery in the low in the oil price which has been going down for the sessions going up right now because of a sharp decline in u.s. infantry unexpected want to look while it is a recovering one one point it was losing something like two and a half percent but now it's down just will point one percent gazprom is up two and
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bt b. is managing some one point one four percent recovery after falling sharply through two previous sessions. in other news russian companies hydraulic machines and systems has raised three hundred sixty million dollars after cutting the price and 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 and as a fifteen percent discount. russian shareholders of b.p. deny they are in talks to sell their stakes to anyone in the part in the consortium that owns half of russia's first biggest oil producer says no negotiations are taking place at the moment partners have objected strongly to b.p.'s proposed asset swap an arctic exploration deal with russia's biggest oil producer was left they say that deal compromises to competitiveness and goes against the terms of their alliance there's been speculation was could buy out the partners to clear the way
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for the deal with b.p. . as i mentioned earlier was bouncing off the eight day low in after than expected drop in u.s. supplies brant crude for delivery in march is now trading above the one hundred dollars a barrel benchmark. mergers and acquisitions rose by a third in russia last year all the activity still hasn't returned to pre-crisis levels now david cranfield a partner at corporate law firm c.m.s. russia says he expects the strong growth to continue in twenty. bruce printing there to be more energy in the market than there has been it's certainly been running at about half capacity since the crash but. no huge increase energy natural resources always are always do come across in the survey is the most active sectors now it's no different this year interesting lee respondents said that transportation would be a big sector this this year. which was
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a surprise well they're actually when you look at the market you can you can see that actually there are number of transactions which are likely to come in and say . the london stock exchange and canada's t.m. ex group which owns need to run tow stock exchange are to merge an all share deal then 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 it's just the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the globe the changes here in russia of my sex ed in the r.t.s. have announced plans to much. now to find out the final closing figures of wednesday's session join me again in one hour's time headlines are next to stay with us.
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