long. history. here in moscow japan bracing itself for last night it struck a nuclear power plant a steam or reactors appears to be faltering skyrocketing fears over nuclear meltdown damage cooling systems is exactly what triggered monday's on tuesday's explosions. foresees going radiations reaching dangerous levels near the plant two hundred thousand people have already fled. and maybe two thousand five hundred people are dead safe and more than three thousand the missing since friday's

a mega quake count colossal tsunami. more than ninety countries are sending aid to japan to cope with the album of all of the tsunami the country has also a waltz the international atomic energy agency for its express seen in the attempt to stabilize the focus. more on the latest from japan in about half an hour's time but now let's delve into the story of the infamous wiki leaks web site and its creator. website. capping hundred seven thousand last. state is chilling such feel that i think that that kind of protection and what's not in the bag which exists under attack. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state institute get

information out about 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. going to be able to receive is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tools of manipulate global politics julian ward's on and on anger. what motivates julian assange 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. kunis january twentieth the city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown genius to demand the immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over

twenty three years after several days of tensions resulting bloodshed then ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth. the events that took place in the north african country in january were new to flee down to the jasmine revolution of the two missing in kuwait also has another name on 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 us robot 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 website kunal leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange in the autumn of twenty ten. eyck the first time with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've

got the others. the sensation as i said it was sure really very very very interesting to note the two facts that the u.s. government is waiting. to leave the u.s. government was. really not support they're going to leave for human rights violation i'm. just content with the president could look good in power for too long had been brewing and seen as he had for quite some time public anger erupted after student mohamed bouazizi sansom cell phone fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the community and government. after winning the. region. i came back and what happened was he did what he did. i think tunisia was a major to. change what's happened in tunisia and also in

egypt and it's happening in a few other places these diplomatic cables troll the people. they were actually right and not trusting in thinking that there is something that is corrupt. can you 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 own js. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julia son and we're here to make a short presentation about what we can extract what we don't daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site 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 seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian. he

was already working on weekend except that when i saw i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the weekly domain 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 cryptome dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. going to be able to market street. cred is way overdone and so threats to the r.c. are coming from his side apart from the secret people. need to be exposed during the first few years of wiki leaks the resource was treated as a project created by internet fringes wiki leaks lives off donations but they were inconsistent at the time. for twenty years or one and a half years we stuck tried to build up we can exist as a project we published

a lot of documents we try to get funding and it was very difficult for us so we have all put in our private funding into the project and try to sustain it but that really didn't work out so well at least not an infinite amount of money and. this is real clear shelter you built during the second world war and the modernize doing the cold war so we have equal structurally so we take us out 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. or digitally this type was actually in submarines and so they are jorma submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm starts

alarmists actually. today behind a nice thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cabin up and you feel down to see these two these two hundred big unique servers swedish laws provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers morals or a security system they'll only flow through hell through becoming higher while they were being taken it must be a big deal to make it a material thing you'll never be on. the. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their servers after this video was posted on their site traffic to see if they're tied. there are.

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 wiki leaks published the video sparking a massive international rao was that it shows your errors in the internal division within isn't. it shows you the reports about or who is insurgent and who is not an uncertain 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. we can leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the spot reports about the course of the campaign a zone said they had received the classified information from

a man employed at the u.s. department of defense. to cover this six year period of war ninety two thousand reports and almost every instant serious incident here with north. korea and location. as soon as the afghan dossier was made public a sones and his team soared 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. it was appears the mostly be ameliorated operating where we're looking at missions seriously. if you don't hold back and think how the reports are for for the earth they had this sort of patient it's the us that made it but make it better for the aerial if urged the white house across the resistance and rick perry or we

publish the white house. except that with. every week once a week we're meeting in this cafe hears the party leadership we've just had a half day meeting says we're under the leadership our little buddy has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to move over 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 stepped in to support wiki leaks in august of last year they were not as known as they are know. they have received aid from thousands and thousands of people so they 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 went in and brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online one that went offline during the 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 records of interest to people living in russia and countries of the commonwealth of independent states such reporters are either fed to translation websites or the people themselves translate them after receiving them via email russian pirates have launched a similar site called leagues in largely mimics water some has been doing it wiki

leaks a few leaks have already been made public. what the 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 churning out documents from time to time but it is so the big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. 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 by doing this wanted to secure the leaks and give them greater exposure accurate. 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 but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business.

clearly the newspapers are 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 u.s. embassy and they may have been worried by the uncertain prospects of relations with the russian leadership. 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 sent a 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 they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier wiki leaks

website and its founder a song could become the world's main news makers the australian spent most of his spare time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words julian again most welcome to stockholm and of course you think. it's unlikely that julian assange speaking before the journalists at this seminar in stockholm could have full seen that in a few months he would be in jail nor would he have imagined that his close companions would desert him this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall. the.

world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from adrenaline rush. we've dumped the future covered. by aug twenty ten julia songs have become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savor the glory of being alone find to undersell adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the us or thort is to north a prosecution against mr songs proved unsuccessful and wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally irreproachable until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish them during his visit to sweden mr saunders met two young women. he spent the night with both of them

a short while later both young women accused wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went through the police. primarily. discussed with the police to tell the police what we have been through and get the vice water we do and then they tell their stories with of them separately from each other and they tell the stories to the police the police officer realized they are telling a story concerning a crime. according to daniel don't show i beg a son has 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 the swedish authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder who'd landed in britain many described the criminal prosecution against 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 all for. it is unfortunately a rather common case of sexual abuse we have these cases all over again in sweden great britain everywhere in the war and this is a case like any other with the difference that we suspect the person of the song. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface. his friend and colleague daniel don't show it burke said he could no longer work with him he withdrew from the project along with many others it was what i really very sorry to see the project winding up the problem is that 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 song also had a personal conflict when berg introduced the sons to his future wife. disapproved of his choice. i fell in love quite immediately and up close to him as my friend and the only thing he had to recommend was that i should try to find as much . as i can get so that if she annoys me i have something in my hands again. and that was a really weird recommendation but 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 a form of insurance. daniel had all the reason in the world to fear

a zone and was enraged by his betrayal so much that even threatened his former friend he once said that if i ever put him in danger. it would hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times the wards others that asked them about it. on december the first twenty ten and a polish and a warrant for sunday's 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 and the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. the whole people around the world. let me. record it i see while being away. shortly after he was bailed assan shocked the world with

a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to share their secrets denounced the publication and 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 bank elma publicly handed over to respond to this with information on personal bank accounts but i want to. know what. you mean by it if you get it. in order to have it investigated and making a decision on it. 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 government of disks with information from anonymous sources on german citizens hiding their money abroad. there are seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german

names on it some of my to go to court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this and the more than one billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the desk feared possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes. in twenty ten and the limo goes government months again purchased from anonymous sources another disk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks it 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. at a pretty comparable because on one side the people sell that are to us or lots of

money for millions of money on the other side you have wiki leaks and so this is 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 you're actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as a point is just natural if you're working in a team or maybe five to ten people at that time there's no need to have secrets you know at least it feels like that. and when you ask someone what's happening to the money in australia and how much money is there. and the person tells you or you don't have to know. after his rift with the sound berg wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own web site called open leaks but

begs site is different it 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 and wants to ditch spy schemes publicist understand the ties in which you sound seems to like so much this image is what you're alluding to create because it characterizes him like. somewhere between a hacker and the freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing you know this is what people think they should own it so this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about

this all. about the actual informational. 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 but they were too busy debating how to protect the progress made in the january revolution. you're afraid that the only solution you can succeed in all its goals. your purpose the pacing and your sleep but thinking but you specifically every day about the new government had me and you know to make our business. it's to succeed if you do evolution. each of 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 kunal leaks. we can see that when early in the regime of an id. the first victim. of these a few critics astrobiology his friend an assistant some event the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they went to war in the old port town of desert pirates and used it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago the junior leagues founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past. the more pirates but because words from. 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 fire the internet is the proof maybe it was. the leaks that have been published. by

wiki leaks played for all we don't know we cannot mate measure of how big it was but it does help. in common though it is instead of about the corruption of the family and close member of the family sure we. are not partitioned and. to hide certain things. later that same day the streets of community 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 goal revolution is you know me that rosie has already swept across several

countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future.

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