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u.k.'s guardian newspaper is accused of editing secret documents provided by wiki leaks to suit its own political agenda and website is also threatening to sue the paper over its new book about the. russian security services make their first arrests in connection with. the bomber has been read several of the complex already in custody all the details are coming up in a couple of. protests continue in egypt against president mubarak enormous wealth and abuse of power has shifted to western companies accused of funding him for decades.
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from the studios here in central moscow this is a 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 daily over its total book about the. newspapers also accused of editing secret cables it obtained from the site and that reports now on what's behind this base of dispute. they were better than exposing us 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 the newspaper of
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redacting the cables to see to its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian did not use one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we. left. wing they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will they basically want to cut the world and. they cut out everything that was negative a ball of the opposition. in such a way the reader of the guards or. any reader of the killer would never know how those people themselves view their only 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 teaching problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are.
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very stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous buddha 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 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 would then turn the disappearance would influence because artificial to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for contracts two of the companies allegedly involved british gas and any italy's gas giant that this isn't necessarily the story that the guardian
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wants to tell that they were 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 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 the only way it could 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
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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 saw 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 a book portraying the newspaper's dealings with wiki leaks in a deeply under favorable light it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t. . three suspected terrorists have been charged with involvement in last month's.
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russian security services say the suspects were arrested in the southern republican . 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 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 reports or by the investigative committee he would know the suicide bomber was twenty years old he was from the republican caucuses republican in who shared his name is. 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 the attack russia's top terrorist claimed that he was the orchestrator of the gen-u. responding to his that that 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 is also on the international least of terrorists he has links to al qaida earlier he claimed responsibility for the most the metro bombings in twenty turn and for the near ski express train for mean a year earlier while however investigators are a little bit skeptical about this video message they do not exclude that. could
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have been there must remind behind the attack and still it is just one of the versions which they are considering this terrorist cells. operating quiet 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. katrina which over there well still ahead on the program for her victims of corporate greed leading companies in the u.s. are accused of profiting at the expense of low income workers. the first russia is to reinforce its military presence on the strategically important kind of islands in the pacific ocean they've been internationally recognized as russian territory for over sixty years but japan has been trying to claim as its own the extra deployment of defensive weapons was announced by president dmitri medvedev. the arms to be additionally deployed to the coral islands should be
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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 in. the order comes just a few days before the visit of japan's foreign minister to moscow on monday tokyo reiterated its claims over the audience that have been in russian control since the end of world war two japan also condemned the visit of president in november but moscow said tokyo shouldn't interfere with its internal affairs the russian defense ministry says it will drop the deployment program before the end of this month. and political analyst told me earlier that tokyo is now trying to backtrack on its claims to the current islands and wants to normalize relations with moscow. those islands matter
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a lot in. a political deal between moscow and japan both sides are looking for the way just two to solve the issue and at the same time to to save face russia's initial reaction to the statement made by prime minister khan was a very strong and it seems that the japanese side didn't expect such a reaction the japanese foreign minister and my heart mate conciliate three statement saying that prime minister was expressing his personal position and i think this is something really unprecedented when foreign minister in a sudden ways trying to correct his prime minister so all in all it seems that the japanese side is looking for ways just. to come back to normalcy ass soon as possible and to go ahead on all tracks off russian ship winnie's relations. remember there's always more news and analysis on our web site is r t
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dot com here's what's lined up for you online right now trouble in find out how over two hundred passengers before suspend several panic stricken elves hired bob ground as their plane circled a siberian airport. and it was a never ending summer russia cancels daylight saving time you can learn more about the pros and cons of that at r.t. dot com. egypt has seen what's believed to be its biggest anti-government 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 refusing to wait until september when his term ends
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we do reports say rampant corruption is made of bricks family among the richest in the world to pay 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 us in the u.k. it's national relations expert mark ullman told r.t. that the corrupt scheme that kept the barak and power is now one of the reasons he's being pushed out of office. barak and his family have. been sources of world has been enormous amount of american. direct. the u.s. taxpayer to the. rest of the case. where the aid and the foreign investment goes through the hands of his supporters. inside egypt. and the westerners pay to get business that access egypt at all. so now when they want to question about her quickly suddenly we get into the media of the supposed
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to have expensive property in our hall and so on and this all means that the very people who are possibly compliers for him to do what they want. to embarrass him are the protests because corruption is a central issue in. that was international relations expert mark ullman there a little earlier. 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 our list of now reports it has many questioning whether it was good for business is what's good for americans to. 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
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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 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
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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 are 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.
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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 profit over people. definitely profit over people and some economists argue profit comes over america's prosperity to lauren lyster. new york tel now for a brief look at some of the world headlines a series of coal bomb explosions in northern iraq have killed at least seven people and wounded around eighteen attacks happened in the northern city of kirkuk to call bombs were aimed at police patrols one of the device exploded outside a building that houses the kurdish security forces the group is so far claimed
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responsibility for the attack. itself sudanese government minister has been shot dead in his office in what appeared to be a personal dispute officials say jimmy let me mina was killed by his driver and they also have been a family member in the city of juba and also killed the guy protecting the minister before turning the gun on himself comes days off the referendum results confirmed that will become africa's newest independent state. doctors and other health care professionals have clashed with police in athens through 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. noon. most of the capital's public transport ground to hold a strike unions protest against the plans we structure of the loss making companies . the russian armed forces a received a brand new batch of the country's state of the art attack helicopters dozens more
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k. a fifty two choppers code named alligators well and a service within the year pissing off was given this close up look at what they can day. brand of 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 us back to one of those monster. bases this thirty billion a cannon can pierce through armor but obviously that's not the only weapon this aircraft can be equipped with a deep tank this else sells bombs all of them installed on the wings here and make this aircraft a real predator in the skies now the cockpit it is the great office and that's what 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
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side just like a cold drink or a wake up watching one where the closest one you claim you know this this is much easier to. put together in battle and collaborate for the pilots to force. an attack or defend. you from the already noticed this unique rotor system officially it's called a coaxial rotor system and it's a trademark both e-commerce design bureau and is meant to provide an extreme. with these armored plates on the sides here and the in the lower portion of your craft this is definitely one predator really hard to get you. it was good of forty so. well that brings up today for the moment it's coming up to twenty minutes past the hour in the russian capital and coming your way in a few moments r.t. speaks to a world famous videogame creator about the fine line between reality and violent video that's in a special interview next. the
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parties sitting down with the man behind this video game one nine hundred seventy nine revolution as well as many more director producer and writer of documentaries and video games for over fifteen years as well as the mastermind of the groundbreaking ground theft auto franchise movie concert and the thanks so much for joining us thanks for having me the video games that you have created are among the most popular in the world and i want to ask you if you know any numbers in terms of how many break ups or divorces some of your games have cause for people who got so hooked they couldn't stop well actually when i was casting vice city one of the actors that came in and he said this and that was this for and we explained to him you know it's for granted by city and he just kind of took a step back and kind of apologized and said that he can partake in the casting and basically what happened was that he was playing grand theft auto three and he went up locking himself in his room while he was actually having
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a pretty tough. i mean his marriage he came out two days later from nonstop playing the game to find his apartment pretty much empty and his wife gone and so for that reason he didn't feel like he could you know be a part of the new cast for grand theft auto so it's definitely had an impact was the longest period of time you heard about when someone would sit down and play your game continuously but i think this guy kind of broke the record he said he went fifty hours straight and he kind of he was wife left and this new game that you're working on one nine hundred seventy nine is based off the history of iran and apart from the fact that you were born there why did you choose this space this new game off off this country in particular i came to realize that there is a number of different sides to a story and that this aspect of introduced in a game could kind of revolutionize how we play games it's not a matter of bad guys going after good guys or good guys going after bad guys it's a matter of or a whole bunch of people with being in a number of different colors whether they're you ronnie an american pro-democracy
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pro theocracy whether they want to just make money on the side by sneaking in alcohol or whether they want to make sure that everyone follows the religious rules of islam these are all different stories and to be able to actually convey that and let people interact as those players we just open up this entire genre of gaming but how much of a political context does this game have and especially if we talk about timing for example because of course you know the united states is building up this idea that iran is a very big threat to america and the fact that you're working on this game do you think you'll get some sort of reactions and feedback in terms of you know a political maybe message that you're trying to send out absolutely i mean i think right off the bat it's quite controversial because i am saying that there are no good guys trying to games or the real world in the real world in the real or in games the games that might exist but games are really a reflection of what we've seen in entertainment and when. we've seen in politics
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it doesn't really make a difference what somebody says is good awards but it's a matter of perspective you know if you're in iran and you feel that the united states is about to attack you and you were as a plumber and you have three kids and you just try to take care of your living you are going to view the united states as a bad guy because they're planning on attacking you i mean this is been pretty much what's been addressed in regards to the number of civilian deaths in afghanistan but on the other side you know you take a look at. some of the good documentaries that have come out of afghanistan you get to really understand what these u.s. soldiers are doing down there they believe in the cause that they're doing and they believe that they're trying to do something good nobody is to say that this person is right and this person is wrong it's just a matter of what the situation is dictated and the legions of people that are making decisions that has kind of caused these conflicts but the people involved in them might not be the true aggressor there's
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a number of different facets to it and that i'm not pointing to saying that americans are bad or iranians are bad i'm saying the situation is bad it's been quite a bit of controversy about this game call of duty modern warfare two there is episode in there where a terrorist attacks people at a russian airport obviously it's a game but we just saw terror acts take place in a moscow airport and now we're pretty similar absolutely what do you make of that it's funny because i played that game and i actually stopped playing that particular part it's it's definitely it's sad situation what took place in russia the airport and this video game aspect of it happens i think coincidentally many games seem to on the contrary build up a certain terror act or certain events i know there's a game out there that's called september twelfth and so on which obviously gets people to join in because of certain real events that took place in terms of what's
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happening with the games. are people actually jumping on top of controversies i think it's foolish for us to not recognize that controversy when it comes to game selling when it comes to movies when it comes to anything when it comes to ticket sales is something that drives people to jump on such marketing campaigns i want to ask you this technology is obviously moving very very quickly these days what is the most exciting thing in the world of video games we would you say can expect in the next decade and the next decade who are that i don't think i even i can just tell you that what's exciting me right now is the i pad basically all the tablets in general what can be played on that in terms of gaming is amazing terms of gameplay it's just going to get more and more detail and hopefully provide people with greater experiences then we can sorry thank you very much for your time thanks for having me.
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i am sick of nature and discover its beauty. and. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free and. see what nature can give you. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment
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in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom say factory or in mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or it's destroyed. in the pacific for 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 of protocol one has taken exception to that. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realms of russia.
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