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u.k.'s guardian newspaper is accused of redacting secret documents provided by wiki leaks to suit its own political agenda the whistleblower web site is also threatening to sue the paper over its new book about julian assange. russian security services make their first a rast in connection with last month's moscow airport attack. the name of the my dear the us you cite bomber has been rebuilt and several of you suspected accomplices are already in custody all the details are coming up in a couple of minutes. also this hour as a gyptian 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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or welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me and use in our way it's seven pm in the russian capital four pm in london where the u.k. is guardian newspaper is facing accusations of double standards from wiki leaks its founder julian assange has gleneagle 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 public case. the partners were to help publish cables on the
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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 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 negative of all the opposition. in such a way the reader of the guardian. in either of the killings would never know how those people themselves view. the guardian reports ali has been a is just another political liar an intriguer. but what it leaves out is his why
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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 booed if you 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 with the payments would influence because our professionals to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing
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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 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
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simplify the information it's still the way it should be done this so much material and it is so a lot of the form that you see in these is difficult to inaccessible it has to be 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 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 its dealings with wiki leaks it deeply under favorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t.
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london. in other news three suspected terrorists have been char's with involvement in last month's airport bombing in moscow russian security services say the suspects were arrested in the southern republicans. and will soon be taken to the country's capital for questioning well let's get the latest on the elements of margarita catherine mcgrath she joins us live because there are you know who are the people who've been charged here and how close are security services to bring everyone responsible for the dumbing down of the tragedy to justice. also prosecutors he forces have detained three of the suspected accomplices of the suicide bomber two of those three are relatives solved that. man a sixteen year old brother and a twenty two year old sister lot of showing that they have identical d.n.a. now this is back to having known about the planned attack but not reporting to the
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police security forces also found explosives in the house similar to the ones used in the my idea of the moment now the third man is not a reality if he's a he's believed to have accompanied the bomber on his way from the republic windows shared here to moscow now from the previous reports or by the investigative committee would know the suicide bomber was twenty years old he was from the republican caucuses republican who shared his name is. now on tuesday investigators were meeting with the russia's top senior security officials over the state duma deputies behind closed doors they reveal further information on this group of terrorists now a manhunt is on for some seven people who are believed to have. orchestrated the mastermind of that attack also there are underage people in that group and the security forces have also determined a circle of people or a community of people who were well aware of the plans by look to carry out
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a terrorist attack but did not report about. the just this tuesday russia's most wanted men chechen terrorists doc omar of said he ordered the bombing of douma data how much credibility is there to that claim. all dull kumar of is known to be not only russia's most wanted man he is also on the international least of terrorists he has links to al qaida and indeed a short while ago he posted a massive message on an extremist website where he is claiming responsibility for the mighty of the verb or me it is not the first time that makes such kind of claims earlier he claimed responsibility for. the most metro bombings in twenty turn and for the knee of ski express train bombing a year earlier while however investigators are
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a little bit skeptical about this video message they do not exclude that the model could have been must remind behind the attack and still it is just one of the versions which they are considering this terrorist cells. operating quite autonomy in the north caucasus and the group which carried out this particular attack might not be directly linked to the martyr now and to terrorist community and russia security forces have not officially responded to these massacres. that position that they may be no no dialogue with terrorists no calm and so on terrorists broke again and analysts abroad ever since the message has been posted on the internet have been saying that it might be just another in a series of attempts to talk himself up as another as the russian version of bin laden and that dog from time to time needs to. to ensure that finances coming in from our foreign terrorists from foreign terrorist groups so
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foreign experts are a little bit skeptical about this massive threat of course it will be only facts and further investigation that will reveal whether those claims are justified right live from moscow or to get the job of following the investigation into the terror attack. airport thanks for that. well still ahead in the program here on our team victims also corporate greed leading companies the u.s. are accused of profiting at the expense of lower income workers. and russert receives a bass of helicopters called named alligators find out how they are such a snappy title tossed a couple of minutes. it is easy to.
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despite attempts by the authorities to introduce constitutional reform to help manage a peaceful transfer of power demonstrators are demanding the immediate resignation of president hosni mubarak and then refusing to wait until september when his term ends media reports say rampant corruption has made more barak's family among the richest in the world it's claimed most of his fortune was accumulated turned dodgy dealings with international companies whose money is allegedly in swiss banks are tied up in real estate in the u.s. and u.k. international relations expert mark almond told r.t. that the corrupt scheme bechtel barkin power is now one of the reasons he's being pushed out. of barak and his family. has been enormous amount of american women. direct from the u.s. taxpayer to the. rest of. the aid
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and the interest goes into the hands of. a lot of work inside egypt to coax. the westerners to go free was excessive egypt but also now when they walk through quickly suddenly we begin this into a media. i will hold on to all of this all beings who are very very. well out. there and because of. international relations expert mark allman there speaking to us via broadband from. four russian sailors have died another seven are missing after a ship sank off the coast of south korea the alexandra had twelve russian citizens onboard and got into trouble sixteen kilometers off the port of long it was
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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 alive so far. as there is a car bomb explosion in northern iraq have killed at least seven people and wounded around eighty others the attacks happening in new york city. two car bombs were aimed at police patrols device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks. a south sudanese government minister has been shot dad in his office and what appears to be a personal dispute to me their new mill was killed by his brother in law who also served as his driver in the city of the juba the man also killed a guard protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself it comes just
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days after a referendum results confirm that south sudan will become africa's newest independent state. doctors and other medical staff have clashed with police in athens during a demonstration against the government's austerity cuts it comes of the greek parliament plans to approve new cost cutting measures to impose tougher monitoring rules for health spending we could see medical souder resell asked by a third meanwhile most of the capital's public transport grounded to a halt striking unions also protested against the planned restructuring of their loss making company. military talks aimed at easing tension between north and south korea have broken down officials at the meeting reportedly felt to reach a consensus on an agenda for higher level talks young and soul grow contacts late last year when the north responded to artillery fire near their territory by
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shelling a south korean island. prosecutors in italy have filed a request for the immediate trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi on charges of sex crimes and abuse of power is alleged to have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl and use his influence to secure her release from custody on theft charges berlusconi strongly denies any wrongdoing and says prosecutors are trying to destroy his career the italian premier already faces the resumption of three trials for corruption and tax fraud next month. 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 our g.'s long list or has more. for two decades jobs and dollars have flown
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out of the u.s. and across the pacific meanwhile the american people have suffered high unemployment and it didn't. 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 and to 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
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with free rein to boost their bottom line fueled by this mindset so we do look allies two ways of the mill there's 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 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
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the twenty first century and attract the best jobs and businesses to america rather than seeing them spring up overseas but optimism can't over. become 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 saying that this guy is 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 gets all your death would definitely profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to lauren lyster our new york there's always more news on the analysis on our website or to dot com there's we'll find
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out for you right now in trouble in the air find out how over two hundred passengers were forced to spend several comic stricken hours liable to ground as their plane circled last night we've heard more. than looking towards a neverending summer roster cancelled daylight savings time learn more about the pros and cons at all teen dot com. the russian 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 called named alligators will enter service within the year. 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
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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 the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank missiles 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 depraved 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 the lake in the apache one where the closest one you claim you know this base is much easier. to put together in battle and
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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 of both e-commerce design bureau and is meant to provide extreme. with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower parts of your craft this is definitely one predator really hard to get you go to school off or to central russia. here with our take don't forget to follow us on you tube and facebook up next since all the latest from the world of business with to me to stay with us. well welcome to business are fighting inflation was the first order of business for president that at a meeting devoted to economic issues on tuesday prices rose nearly ten percent in
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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 reserves required appears less keen on raising rates but alexander do you verse senior economist a b c b capital says it will have to move soon. we think that they will hike rates and the central bank is reluctant because of they kept telling flows concerns because oil prices are high and if they hike rates this may trigger more inflows into russia. but we think they will move gradually and expect only fifty basis points for the first quarter so it's either to hike by twenty five basis point or one buy buy 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. taking no needs really it's really minor but it's a very strong signal and one hundred basis points in reserve requirements for
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foreign liabilities is a signal that the central bank is taking this seriously. so whether the markets now are first better over to be united states where markets pretty much flat you can see that barely changed with the tech driven mass that this is frightening actually a seven day winning streak for the dow jones right now that everyone is looking at corporate results and most companies reporting better than expected results coca-cola is up more than two and a half percent on troubling of earnings in the last quarter twenty. go to europe now european stocks. this hour or not in frankfurt several. but he's coming under pressure of reporting results shares of the drug makers side of the event is after the company reported a plunge in for anything said profit for twenty eleven is also likely to drop a person or situation is also down following the release of its twenty ten results
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. closing picture for wednesday session in russia we see the r.t.s. down half a percent myself down point three percent energy majors were a big drag on the indices as oil was having you know you ride. was recovering at the end of the session from stronger losses in the beginning of the sessions down just by a notch at the close bucking the trend was gazprom up two point two six percent and b.c.b. managed to gain a few positions after falling four and a half percent the previous ish. russian by a factor i draw like machines and system has raised three hundred sixteen million dollars after cutting the price and size of its i.p.o. in london initially the company planned to forty seven million shares but only forty three million were sold and at a fifteen percent discount to be original range of nine to twelve dollars
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a share. russian shareholders have to deny they are in talks to sell their stake you may have been a partner in the consortium but owns half of russia's furred biggest oil producer says no negotiations are taking place the partners have objected strongly to b.p.'s proposed asset swap an arctic exploration do with russia's biggest oil producer ross and if they say that deal compromises the end k.b.p.s. competitiveness and goes against that of their own markets there's been speculation rosneft could buy out the partners to clear the way for you with b.p. . speaking of oil it's a balancing off an eight day low in after an expectation. another expected drop in u.s. inventory is rather brant crude for the livery in march is now trading above one hundred dollars a barrel. here in russia prime minister putin is called on the government to speed up work on tax breaks would you feel the prime minister is also the oil majors to
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maintain annual output at the post servia record level of roughly five hundred five million metric tons in the coming years. but other stock exchanges catheters group which owns the toronto stock exchange are to merge in an all share deal near exchanges set to become the largest form for trading mining companies at a time of surging commodity prices and with a combined six thousand seven hundred listings there will also be the world's largest exchange by a number of companies just the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the globe's exchanges here in russia for example to my six and the r.t.s. have announced plans to much. of an hour back back in one hour's time headlines and i started.
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