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your newspaper is accused of editing secret documents provided by wiki leaks. the whistle blowing web site is. the paper of. russian security services make the first arrests in connection with. the name of the idea the bomber has been read several of his suspected accomplices are already in custody all the details are coming up in a couple of men. for the. president. and abuse of power has shifted to western companies accused of funding for decades .
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from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day the u.k.'s guardian newspaper is facing accusations of double standards from wiki leaks its founder julian assange has threatened legal action against the british tell all book about the online whistleblower and use papers also accused of editing secret cables and obtained from the site. reports now 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 were 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
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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 deals they will basically want to cover the world and so view they cut out everything that was negative a bold girl position. in such a way that either of the guards virtually anybody there of the killings would never know how those people themselves view. the guardian reports early has been a is just another political liar an intriguer. but what it leaves out is his why did description of the opposition as lacking organization and featuring problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are.
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stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who would 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 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 in town the disappearance would influence because our professionals to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for contracts to the companies allegedly involved british gas and any italy's gas giant that this isn't necessarily the story that
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the guardian wants to tell that the that there are editorial pressures on them but it also could be simply the lawyers at the guardian are getting a bit jumpy and saying well look we can't accuse people of bribes because they're incredibly powerful and they're rich and this is one of the problems with the laws of libel and the lawyers at newspapers is that they are actually only afraid of the rich and powerful ordinary people they will say almost anything about them because these people don't have the means to sue the guardian prince andrew 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 this so much material and it is so a lot of the form that easynews is difficult to inaccessible it has to be
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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 thought alleges contains malicious libel wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning newspaper that takes a liberal lie 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 in it deeply under favorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your and it's artsy london. three suspected terrorists have been charged with involvement in last month's bombing in moscow russian security services arrested in the southern republic of. taking to the
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country's capital for questioning or to you catherine. two of those three are relatives of that man a sixteen year old brother and a twenty two year old sister at 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 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 of and was shot here to moscow now from the previous roof who also by the investigative committee would know the suicide bomber was twenty years old he was from the republican caucuses republic of english shared his name is lord now on tuesday investigators were meeting with the russia's top senior security officials over the
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state duma deputies behind closed doors they rebuild further information on this group of terrorists now a manhunt is on for some seven people who are believed to have. orchestrated all dull kumar it was 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 mass a message on an extremist web site where he's claiming responsibility for the idea of a bore me it is not the first time that make such kind of claims earlier he claimed responsibility for the most the metro bombings in twenty turn and for the near ski express train bombing a year earlier while wherever investigators are a little bit skeptical about this video message they do not exclude that. could have been there must remind behind the attack and still it is just one of the
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versions which they are considering this terrorist cells. operating quite autonomy in the north caucasus and a group which carried out this particular attack might not be directly linked to the market but of course it will be only facts and further investigation that will reveal whether those claims are justified. which over that was still ahead on the program for you this hour victims of corporate greed leading companies in the u.s. are accused of profiting at the expense of low income workers. and russia receives a batch of helicopters code named alligators find out how they end such a snappy title in just a few minutes from the. me is he has.
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to. say. download the official anti application to your i phone all i pod touch from the top story. one child's life on the go. video on demand all t's a minefield costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com well one 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 amount of damage done by obama's by napalm boy you come full circle whether it's
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a sonic boom so factoring in mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the search for purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be. in the war to protect involved 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. egypt is witnessing the biggest anti-government rallies across the country since the protests began over two weeks ago and it comes despite attempts by the
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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 now refusing who is under refusing to wait until september when his term ends media reports say rampant corruption has made the barracks family among the richest in the world it's claimed most of his fortune was accumulated through dodgy dealings with international companies his money is allegedly in swiss banks or tied up in real estate in the u.s. and the u.k. international relations expert mark ullman told me that the corrupt scheme that kept barack in power is now one of the reasons he's being pushed out of office. and barak and his family have been able to benefit from two main sources of world has been enormous amount of american military aid direct crops from the us taxpayer to the leaders and also carol that's our interest of the case. where the aid and the
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foreign investment goes through the hands of his supporters. that work inside egypt corruption serves two purposes on the one hand the west must pay to get business access in egypt but also now when they want to question about her quickly suddenly we begin soon leaks into the media. has to have expensive property in california saw and this all brings at the very people who are possibly clients for him to do what they want all out also in the barras and helped start the protests because corruption is a central issue in the rest. international relations expert mark. for russian scientists have died and the number seven the missing after a ship sank off the coast of south korea alexander had twelve russian citizens on board and got into trouble sixteen kilometers off the port of it was reportedly damaged after it collided with another ship a helicopter and several patrol boats are involved in these search and rescue
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operation one person has been found alive so far. time now for a brief look at some of the world headlines at this stage of the day a series of car bomb explosions in northern iraq of killed at least seven people and we did this attack happened in the city two car bombs were aimed at police patrols the third exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces no group has so far claimed responsibility for. the sudanese government minister has been shot dead in his office in what appeared to be a personal dispute it's believed jimmy was killed by his brother. driver in the city of juba and then also killed or gone protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself it comes days after referendum results confirmed will become africa's newest independent state. doctors and other health care professionals have clashed with police in athens during a demonstration against the government's austerity measures it comes as the greek
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parliament is expected to approve new cost cutting plans which could see medical center was slashed by a third meanwhile most of the capital's public transport ground to a striking unions protested against the planned restructuring of their loss making companies. 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 the agenda for high level talks. late last year in the north artillery fire near the. south korean. prosecutors and father rick. quest for the immediate trial of prime minister silvio berlusconi on charges of sex crimes and abuse of power he's alleged to have paid for sex with a seventeen year old girl and uses influence to secure her release from custody on theft charges but is going to strongly denies any wrongdoing and says prosecutors are trying to destroy his career and probably already faces the resumption of three trials for corruption and tax fraud eczema. the wide toes
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seems to be trying to win over wall street by also in them to help tackle corporate tax them with many high profile business leaders and government positions it has many questioning whether what's good for business really is what's good for americans to list it 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 through cheap exports based upon an artificial depreciation of china's currency overlooked in washington is the us corporate jungle it's become the
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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 with free rein to boost their bottom line fueled by this mindset so we do look allies two ways of the deal there's no will work or movements to you know couldn't sauce 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
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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 had his 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 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
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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 i guess you know your death and death and profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to lauren lyster r.t. new york. and remember there's always more news and analysis on our website that's online all the time all of. his the. line for you right now looking at a couple of stories for you trouble in the run up however two hundred passengers were forced to spend several hundred stricken hours high above ground as that plane circled aside. and looking towards a never ending summer russia cancels daylight saving time you know more about the pros and cons of all to don't call.
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the russian armed forces have received a brand new batch of the country's state of the art attack helicopters dozens more fifty two choppers code named alligators went into service within the year when i 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 with the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take a good names at one of those monster. bases this thirty leaving a cannon can pierce through armor but obviously it's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with antitank missiles air to air missiles bombs all of them installed on the wings here and make this aircraft
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a real predator in the skies now the cockpit is the brain office nasa was she then we 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 a wake up watching one where they can see what you claim you know this case is much easier to. pull together in battle and collaborate for the pilots of course would you and attack or defend them stop. you from we already noticed this unique rotor system officially it's called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark come off design bureau and is meant to provide extreme. with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower parts of the aircraft this is definitely one predator really hard to get you go to school off or
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to central russia. this is all to come to life from the russian capital i'll be back with the headlines at half past the half way in about eight minutes from now in the meantime we've got the business news with dmitri stay with us. thanks very much bill the fighting inflation was the first order of business for president medvedev at a meeting devoted to economic issues on tuesday prices rose nearly ten percent in january and 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 of appears less keen on raising rates over alexander you fifty five zero senior economist at bt 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 towing flows concerns because oil
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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 hide by twenty five basis points or 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 first step it 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 very seriously. so it would have been markets now starting with the united states a lot too negative at this hour this is frightening to damage the dow jones seven day winning streak but what we're seeing here is coca-cola for example is gaining more than two and a half percent that has its profit troubles in the final quarter twenty one to
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europe now european stocks and the wednesday session lower several companies coming under pressure after reporting results shares of the drug makers out of the event this fell off of the company have reported a plunging fourth quarter earnings as a profit for twenty eleven is likely to buy ten percent and those receipts where moved down falling to release of its twenty term results in russia the markets had yet another negative session of. quite significantly on choose day but if they are just my six last round of a percent in the session and the majors were a big drag on the indices because oil prices were having you know. we see russian stocks dick working closely. with oil price and kuwait to the world . this is most likely temporary think the russian stalks or whether throughout the
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show every think that. females are going to be polluted by investors thirst is the food inflation real rates are deep when they could see a future of inflation three percent which is expected for this year in the market is expected to boost strengthening it's hurting exporters but it's been refusing the mystic the mystic where. russian shareholders of seeing a b.p. deny they are in talks to sell their stake to anyone you know partner in the consortium that owns half of russia's furred biggest oil producer says no negotiations are taking place the brothers have objected strongly to b.p.'s proposed asset swap an arctic exploration deal with russia's biggest oil producer ross neff they say that deal compromises the competitiveness and goes against the terms of their alliance there's been speculation roll staff could buy out the partners to clear the way for them to go with b.p. . oil price right now and prices are losing the
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early gains after another expectedly strong injuries report in the us which showed gasoline supply was at its strongest for twenty one years however we're still seeing branch crude quite strong up to a point eight percent more than one hundred dollars a barrel. and prime minister putin has called on the government to speed up work and tax breaks for new fields pollution is also the oil majors to maintain annual output at the post soviet record of roughly five hundred five million metric tons in the coming. china's vast market and rapidly expanding economy has made it an essential destination for global business however john hammond senior partner at corporate law firm c.m.s. russia believes china is overrated compared to some other emerging markets such as russia. we've heard from many of our clients they feel they just have to be there it's such a big market potentially they cannot afford to miss out and so they invested the
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feedback from many of them however is they find it very difficult to win contracts the front a very difficult to make profit in china whereas when they look at the businesses in russia which perhaps weren't given their priority. since the crisis the crisis two thousand there was a bad year but since then the business of picked up again and they're finding that they can do business here successfully and they can. and they can do this is it profitably. the london stock exchange of canada's cmax group which owns the toronto stock exchange are to merge in an all share deal the near 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 a number of companies it's just the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the globe's exchanges in here in russia my sex and the r.t.s. have announced plans to. russian manufacture hydraulic
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machines and systems as raised three hundred sixty million dollars after 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 was sold and that a fifteen percent discount to the original range of nine to twelve dollars a share. so when i'll be back in one hour's time with an update bill is next with the headlines on t.v. do stay with.
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