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human voice face to face with the news makers. in indonesia oh she's available in hotels coming down the resort and spa. resort and spa only come a come down upon a mode of being turned on sentry and the resulting spawn sunny of beach hotel the wisdom resort use of dual club med ponies suffer till some in their own. resort and spa the ritz carlton hotel grounds many articles of each of four seasons hotel the sultan who took. the. top stories not melt down fears grow up to fuel rods were exposed at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan and that's despite the ongoing efforts to cool the reactor using seawater. the human cost of the devastation in japan is being felt with
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almost two thousand people confirmed dead following friday's mega quake and tsunami rescue teams from several countries including russia are helping search for the estimated fifteen thousand still missing. and in other news we could daffy's forces seemingly regaining ground in eastern libya concerned probe of what's next if the leader condemned by the global community takes over the country once again. very latest from japan in about half an hour's time up before that where we delve into the story of the infamous wiki leaks website and its creator. the website leaks what's kept upping. the last. say it's chilly at such a young read i think that helps her attention and writes i'm a big budget exist under attack. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state institute get
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information out of the real world today anyone can find out what information the government the military and bankers of kept under lock and key secrecy is the biggest. enemy of democracy is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics to in the words on and on anger. what motivates julian a song does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame does he act on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will its whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. coonass january twentieth the city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown humus to demand the immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over
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twenty three years after several days of tensions resulting bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth. the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately turn to the jasmine revolution of the two missing in kuwait also has another name in the wiki revolution. this man is a professor at one of the universities in tunis. as a political activist he prefers to be known by his nickname. he didn't take part in the attacks on government buildings but he said to be one of the main driving forces of the revolution. after registering his web site to leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange and the person of twenty ten. at the first time
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with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got others. the sensation as i said it was really very very very interesting to note the true facts that the u.s. government is waiting. to leave the u.s. government was. really not supported but only for human rights violation. discontent with the president good luck getting power for too long had been brewing into his ear for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohammad was easy set themselves on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the community and government. after winning the. week. i came the hum of course is what he did. i think tunisia was a major or two. to start to change what's happened in tunisia and also in
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egypt and that's happening in a few other cases these diplomatic cables for the people that they were actually right and not trusting the government in thinking that there is something that is corrupt. daniel don't steinberg shuns the public spotlight he's going to stay in the shade although in actual fact he's just as much a godfather of the wiki leaks project as julian assange has. yes my name is daniel smith this is julia sons and we're here to make a short presentation about what we can fix project danielle doane steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site sit together he understands took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reality with you weeks i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and
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seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian and he was already working when we can except that i'm the guy so i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young register the weekend german name in late december two thousand and six although young had already created something similar to wiki leaks several years before previously he used the crypto middle site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. it is way over there so threats true democracy are coming from the inside apart from the secret keepers and that they need to be exposed during the first few years of wiki leaks the resource was treated as a project created by internet fringes we can lease lives off donations and they were inconsistent at the time and for about twenty years we or one and a half years we tried to build up we can he as a project me published
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a lot of documents we tried to get funding and it was very difficult for us so we have all put in our private funding into the project and tried to sustain it but that really didn't work out so well at least not an infinite mind and. this is your clear shelter you built during the second world war and modernized during the cold war so we have reconstructed it so it takes us up there's a welcoming are and i will show you the facility. this bunker in stockholm was built to protect swedish army personnel from a nuclear attack telltale reminders of its original purpose can be seen all over the place. we're getting really these type was actually in submarines and so they are german submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm
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starts alarmists actually. today behind these thick walls and heavy doors the reserve has carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cabin up and you feel down to see these two days to watch if they can make sort of a swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers malls or a security system yellow only flow through the roof becoming a fire while they were feel they must be able to make it a material there for the wrong. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their service after this video was posted on their site traffic to safety. there are.
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back in two thousand and seven american army servicemen were caught on camera shooting dead a reuters reporter and his driver in a baghdad suburb after they mistook them from terrorists to three years after the tragedy with the league's published the video sparking a massive international right now one that it shows you errors in the internal visual mechanisms united states europe and it shows you that reports about or who is insurgent and who is not an insurgent that appear in the media following the events where people were killed cannot be trusted several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets published the afghan dossier was. wiki leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the spot reports about the course of the campaign the zone said they
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had received the classified information from a man employed at the u.s. department of defense. it covers a six year period or ninety two thousand reports and almost every incident serious and he was or wasn't if the with authority and locations of people. as soon as the afghan dossier was made public a son's in his team swords to instant fame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common accusation was that the names of afghans collaborating with allied troops and details concerning american agents had not been redacted from the reports the taliban were quick to pledge to kill all those who had helped the u.s. army. go with the p. is the mostly period. where we're looking at mission seriously and whether we did hold back to being out of the report or for the better because they had this sort of patience it's that maybe grateful to have thought it through if urged the white
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house got ross their resistance area or are we published. or accept that request. every week once a week we're meeting in this cafe here's the party leadership we've just had a half day meeting says we're under the leadership a little bit has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to live all for the next couple years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own that's why they meet in this cafe in stockholm the movement has held wiki leaks greatly by sharing its knowledge on creating a growing network of mirror sites as well as decoding and processing information. when we step into support in august of last year they were not as known as they are know today they have received aid from thousands and thousands of people so they
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are not. our aid doesn't make as much difference today as it did know that said however it was still the swiss pirate party then went in and brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online and went offline during that hectic week of information. similar projects have been launched around the world including russia. most people in russia don't speak english that's why we wanted to make wiki leaks documents available to all russians online so we set about spotting reports of interest to people living in russia and the countries of the commonwealth of independent states such reporters are really fed to translation websites where the people themselves translate them after receiving them via email russian pirates have launched a similar site called leaks it largely mimics what has been doing it with the leaks
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a few leaks have already been made public. informers will post their reports on the internet site we will know absolutely nothing about them we see the whole thing as a black box turning our documents from time to time but there's also the big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. recently in the summer of twenty ten a song together the circle of accredited journalists for wiki leaks these people were supposed to get the news before it would appear on the site if by doing this wanted to secure the leaks and give them greater exposure. the first russian publication to disclose wiki leaks data was the magazine russian reporter of the same time other magazines and newspapers had also received such invitations decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. that is
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clearly the newspapers running a triple race first they may have suspected that they might get involved in somebodies gamble considering that the material had not been properly assessed second they may have had their doubts about how that would affect relations with the us embassy and third they may have been worried by the uncertain prospects of relations with the russian leadership this is critical material which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first weeks or a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop. additional shower frankly when we saw the first set of documents since in response to our request we didn't know how we should go about them at first glance many of them were unlikely to arouse interest you have to read them very carefully to find something anywhere near a scoop i think some in our audience had been looking forward to wild stories about u.f.o.'s or people devouring children when they found nothing of the kind so they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier wiki leaks
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website and its founder a song could become the world. may newsmakers the australian spent most of his spare time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words again welcome to stockholm and of course yes. it's unlikely that julian a song speaking before the journalists of this seminar in stockholm could have full seen that in a few months he would be in jail nor would have imagined that his close companions would desert him over this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall . culture is the same of shark and jell-o. i go out every one of them was all worth a different interest to the right all across europe and the u.s. more and more people are getting the political right a new look and more times than not it is the.
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game. in. six. by aug twenty ten in a song have become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savor the glory of being alone finder and the sole adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the us or thor it is to launch a prosecution against mr song proved unsuccessful the wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally irreproachable until he decided to attend a seminar in stone come in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish
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than during his visit to sweden mr song to young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women a king for the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police. primarily to discuss with the police to tell the police what they have been through and to get advice or try with new and when they tell their stories both of them separately from each other and they tell the stories to the police the police officer realized they're telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't try to beg a son who's always had a weakness for women we were at a conference and would have passed and he told a lot of people at our conference that he has children on every continent swedish authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder had landed in britain many describe the criminal prosecution against
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him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claimed that it was a routine criminal case. it's nonsense it has nothing whatsoever to do with the wiki leaks actually my two clients are very much in favor of the weekly that's why they were attending the seminar or the lecture from seoul and they still are for. it is unfortunately a rather common case of sexual abuse we have these cases all over again in sweden in great britain everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with a difference that the suspect a person happens to be songs. of at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface songes friend and colleague daniel don't show it but said he could no longer work with him he withdrew from the project along with many others. i'm really very sorry to see the project winding up the problem is that
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julian is intent on cracking down on any dissent as a matter of fact now he's one of the kind of people that we've been trying to oppose so i quit at the right moment after that negative trend had emerged within the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences bergen a songe also had a personal conflict when barry introduced the sons to his future wife sandra disapproved of his choice. i fell in love quite immediately and i told you in as my friend about the only thing he had to recommend was that i should try to find as much on her as i can get so that if she annoys me something in my hands again. and that was a really weird recommendation of the loss of half of his team was not the most serious consequence of the split for a song much more important was an archive of three thousand unpublished secret materials which bergen the other defectors took away with them for bag this data is
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a form of insurance for daniel had all the reason in the world to fear astonished it was enraged by his betrayal so much had even threatened his former friend. he once said that if i ever put any sources in danger. it would hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times towards others that asked them. under some of the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for a songes arrest a week later the wiki leaks chief voluntarily showed up at a police station where they arrested him a week later he was released on bail but the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. the whole people around the world. to me. it's
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a lot like the. feet away. shortly after he was bailed a song shocked the world with a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to share their secrets he announced the publication on wiki leaks of huge volumes of information on private accounts in swiss banks on january the seventeenth two thousand and eleven a former employee of the julius by a bank and go film publicly handed over to a son to discuss with information on the personal bank accounts but i want to do it and know what the weekly budget again if will be. in order to feel. investigation and making a decision only. from bush works as a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information theft investigated the two thousand and seven purchase by the german
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government of disks with information from anonymous sources on german citizens hiding their money abroad. there were seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german names on it some of our go to court all of them had to pay money back and the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this of the more than run billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the desk field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes in twenty ten. government once again purchased from anonymous sources another dismissed similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks and helped her to return almost two billion euros to the state treasury many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence of the wiki leaks effect. that look pretty
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comparable because on the one site where people sell that are to us for lots of money for millions of money on the other side you have wiki leaks and so this is a nonprofit so there are people who their intention is different but exposing the bank secrets subsequently transformed wiki leaks into a completely nontransparent organization in financial terms but songs is the only person who knows everything about the whereabouts of the huge donations made to the organization. but there were other money trails where no one knew actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as a rule is just natural if you're working in a team or maybe five to ten people at the time there's no need to have secrets you know at least it feels like. and when you ask someone what's happening to the money in australia and how much money is there really and the person tells you or you
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don't have to know. after his rift with his knowledge where growth a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leagues i would beg site is different and will operate according to the black box principle the website will receive material from anonymous informers but will dispatch them to traditional media outlets for further publication it will be impossible to enter the website and read the information first hand. everything is simple and transparent peg wants to ditch spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is sound seems to like so much this image is what julian wants to create because it characterizes him like the superstar. somewhere between. freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing you know this is what people think they shop on april so
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this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all. the actual informational there's not there. was never a true self of ministration was introduced to all universities in china zero after the revolution so students didn't have time to attend classes in the first weeks following the coup of it but they were too busy debating how to protect the progress made in the january revolution. you are free to over evolution you can succeed in all its goals. your purpose your vision and your stupid thinking but you see this being every day what the new government had me and. me i would visit. this to succeed only if it is evolution. each of
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the students took part in the overthrow of the ben ali regime many of them took to the streets after they had read information on corruption scrupulously accumulated on the website kenya leaks. you can see that when early in the regime of. the first victim. of this a few critics astrobiology his friend an assistant some. were the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution. they went to war in the old port town of bizarre pirates and used it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago the founders liken themselves to such pirates of centuries past. pirates but. for freedom for transparency and so for human rights and for democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics via the internet the.
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leaks that have been published and by and by would play the role of we don't know we cannot may. be. but it does help at the. come and. about the corruption of the family and close member of the family sure we. are a new tradition and. to hide certain things. later that same day the streets of tunisia has swelled with crowds of people again. but this time around they were not protesting it was a celebration in egypt president hosni mubarak had been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its
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goal the revolution the tsunami that rose inching his year has already swept across several countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future . if.
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