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newspapers accused of editing secret documents provided by wiki leaks to suit its own political agenda and website in. the paper a. russian security services make their first arrests in connection with last month's moscow airport. the name of the. boehner has. several of the spotted accomplices are already in custody all the details are coming up in a couple of. protesters gather for the biggest rally against president mubarak the blame for his enormous wealth and abuse of power shifted to western companies accused of funding him but 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. guardian newspaper is facing accusations of double standards from wiki leaks its founder julian assange has threatened legal action against the british daily over its tell all book about the online whistleblower the newspaper's also accused of editing secret cables it obtained from the site well it's 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 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
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agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we each. left. wing 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 position. in such a way the reader of the guards. in the reader of the killer would never know how those people who own selves view of those 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 facing problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are.
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stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who do few institutional allies hatami cautious and weak all editing that seems to match the guardian's liberal agenda as it suggests their reign in 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 within town 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
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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'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 princess who 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 easynews is difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism the people who understand the guardian declined to give
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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 as 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 line but certainly in this case it has to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication of the book portraying the newspaper's dealings with wiki leaks in it deeply unfavorably lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t. london. three suspected terrorists have been charged with involvement in last month's bombing in moscow russian security services say the suspects were arrested in the southern republic of and will soon be taken to the country's capital for
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questioning. so far security forces have detained three of the suspected accomplices of the suicide bomber two of those three are relatives solve that man a sixteen year old brother and a twenty two year old sister of 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 dear 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
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investigators were meeting with the russia's top senior security officials are with the state duma deputies behind closed doors they rebuild their information on this group of terrorists now a manhunt is on for some seven people who are believed to have. orchestrated russia's top terrorist claimed that he was the orchestrator of the gen-u. responding. made those claims in a video message posted on an extremist web site dol kumar it was known to be not only russia's most wanted man he was also on the international least of terrorists he has links to al qaida earlier he claimed responsibility for the mosque or metro bombings in twenty turn and for the near ski express train for mean a year earlier well how ever 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 quiet autonomy asli in the north caucasus and a group which carried out this particular attack might not be directly linked to the model but of course it will be only facts and further investigation that will reveal whether those claims are justified. reporting there was still ahead on the program 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 apache helicopters code named. snuffy top in just a few minutes. it is easy to.
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our. stock we are going to. hear what it. will sell lots of beer low. they will wear uniforms that will damage is the black memo that. but very little damming the white. and they are the key to our problem our own great. egypt has seen what's believed to be its biggest anti-government rallies across the
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country since the protests began over two weeks ago it comes despite attempts by the authorities to introduce constitutional reform to help manage a peaceful transfer of power the demonstrators are demanding the immediate resignation of president hosni mubarak and that refusing to wait until september when his term ends with reports a rampant corruption has made the barretts family among the richest in the world it's growing 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 u.k. international relations expert mark colvin told r.t. that the corrupt scheme that kept the back in power is now one of the reasons he's being pushed out of office. barak and his family have been able to benefit from two billion sources the world has been enormous amount of american retrieve aid direct grants from the u.s. taxpayer to egypt over the years and also carol that's our interest of the case
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with. the aid and the foreign investment goes through the hands of his supporters. a lot of work inside egypt corruption serves two purposes those are the one hand the westerners pay to get favors to get business that access in egypt but also now when they want to question about her quickly suddenly we begin to assume leaks into the media all assets that he's supposed to have. expensive property. and that means. we. want. to embarrass and help the protests because corruption is a central issue in. international relations expert mark allman there. russia is to reinforce its military presence on the killer lines in the pacific ocean present to meet him if it has ordered the deployment of additional defensive weapons to the territory. the arms to be additionally deployed to the coral
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islands should be necessary sufficient and modern enough to ensure the security of the xylophones as an integral part of russia undoubtedly we want to expand good relations with all our neighbors but everyone has to understand that these islands are part of russia's territory and are fully covered by our sovereignty we will take every necessary step to reinforce our presence there. well the order comes just two days after japan demanded russia renounce its claims over the islands and return them to tokyo which considers its own dispute has long been a bone of contention between the two countries and kept them from signing a formal world war two peace treaty russia is planning to avoid defensive weapons by the end of the month. brief look at some other world headlines now in our world update for you a series of car bomb explosions in northern iraq have killed at least seven people wounded around eighty others it's happened in the city of kirkuk two car bombs were aimed at police while the third device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces group or so far claimed
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responsibility for the attacks. a south sudanese government minister has been shot dead in his office in what appeared to be a personal dispute officials say jimmy let me miller was killed by his driver who may also have been a family member in the city of juba and then also killed a guard protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself it comes days after referendum results confirm that 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 parliament is expected to approve a new cost cutting plan which could see medical center was slashed by a third meanwhile most of the capital's public transport gradual halt of striking unions protested against the planned restructuring of their last making companies. talks aimed at easing tension between north and south korea are broken down officials at the meeting reportedly failed to reach
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a consensus on the agenda for higher level talks pyongyang and seoul broke contact late last year when the north responded to artillery fire near their territory by shelling a south korean island. the white house seems to be trying to win over wall street with many high profile business leaders installed in top government positions but as artie's lauren mr reports it has many questioning whether what's good for business is what's good for american. 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 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
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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 nil there's no worker 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.
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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 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
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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 i guess oh yeah definitely definitely profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to lauren lyster r.t. new york. just there's always more news and analysis on our website it's all on all the time dot com here's what's. right no trouble in the air find out how over two hundred passengers were forced to spend several unexplicable high above ground as the plane circled the side. of the towards a never ending song russia cancels daylight saving time more about the pros and cons of ulti 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 air and i was given this close up look at what they can do. around a military air. base in central russia and that's is the common fifty two also known as the alligator and the russian air force receiving the latest batch we ourselves were able to take a good names back to one of those monster. bases this thirty luna cannon can pierce through armor but obviously that's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank missiles early 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 brave office massive was she can see one of the main differences of this 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 core of wake up watching one where the one you claim you know this base is much easier to. work together in battle and collaborate for the toilets to force could 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 camos designed euro and is meant to provide extreme. with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the you lower parts of aircraft this is definitely one predator really hard to get you got it was going
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off party central russia. that temperatures up to date for the moment just ahead though we explore the caucasus nature reserve which is a unesco world heritage site but first a look at the financial update from dmitri that's coming our way in just a moment here on alt. welcome to business r.t. with me dmitri medvedev go live from moscow fighting inflation was the first order of business for president medvedev had a meeting devoted to economic issues on tuesday prices rose nearly ten percent on an annualized basis in january the central bank has already said it's ready to
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impose new mass measures to draw cash out of the economy to prevent it from overheating this includes further raising bank reserve requirements and it appears netsky in all raising rates but alexandria senior economist to be capital says it will have to make them 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 one buy buy fifty but it was probably the first option because central banks so far as increase the reserve requirement for banks 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
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a signal that the central bank is taking this very seriously. second look at the markets now u.s. markets off lots to negative this is threatening to stop the dow's seven day winning streak there they are the figures the dow is down point one percent so is the nasdaq but coca-cola is up because it's showing their oppressive profits in the final quarter european stocks at the close several companies coming under pressure after fourteen bad results shares of drug makers out of the event is spelled love to the company reported a plunge in fourth quarter earnings and said profit put twenty eleven is also likely to drop five to ten percent but persia moved down following the release of its twenty ten results to. second straight session of losses for the russian markets both the r.t.s. my sakes ended the session losing around half a percent energy majors were a big drag on the industry you just take
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a look at the. exceptions here lukoil almost completely recovered at the close on the losses bucking the trend was gas probably two point three percent at the close of day to be managed to restore some of its losses of the preview. t. sessions but just some of them. we see russian stocks declining slightly in life in line with oil price and correlate to the will price this is most likely temporary i think the russian stalks are quite a structure for however i think that the mystique themes are going to be played by investors first there's the food inflation the real rates are deeper and they could see if you could have inflation circuit ten percent which is expected for this year and the market is expecting that's robel strengthening it's hurting exporters but it's benefits in domestic domestic players. russian shareholders of c.
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and deny they are in talks to sell their stake to anyone you know you're free in a part in the consortium that owns half of russia's third biggest oil producer says no negotiations are taking place the partners have objected strongly to b.p.'s proposed asset swap it out of exploration deal with russia's biggest oil producer ross and yet they say that deal compromises to peace competitiveness and goes against the terms of their lights there's been speculation rosneft could buy out the partners to clear the way for the deal with b.p. . speaking about oil prices losing four west texas crude they're losing the early against the w.t. eyes down point three percent how brant is up one point three percent and it's over the one hundred and one dollar per barrel mark already. in russia prime minister putin has called on the government to speed up work and tax breaks for new fields when a person is also the oil majors to maintain annual output at the post soviet record
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level of roughly five hundred five million metric tons in the coming years. china's vast market of rapidly expanding economy has made it an essential destination for global business however john hammond senior partner its 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 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 persevere successfully and they can. and they can do business here profitably. along the stock exchange in canada's tier max group which owns the toronto stock exchange ottenburg an all share deal the new exchange is set to
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become the largest platform for trading mining companies and this comes at a time of surging commodity prices and with the combined six thousand seven hundred nestlings 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 globes exchanges here in russia the mikes and the r.t.s. earlier announced plans to move to. pump manufacturer had draw like machines and systems has 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 billion were solved and that a fifteen percent discount to the original rate. i'll be back in one hour's time with an update bill is next with the headlights.
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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 chemicals that whether it's on a sonic boom say tractor uring mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq
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or egypt's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for landing 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 the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style seinfeld's that's not on the rise. in. markets finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds.
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