live from the russian capital this is r t with you twenty four hours a day top stories now it is situation critical of japan's stricken nuclear power plant with a cooling system is failing in all six reactors in france of a nuclear meltdown rising to the highest level since the explosions a percentage again japanese officials confirm radioactive materials have leaked into the atmosphere and the radiation level probably exceeds the acceptable norm. of the death toll from friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami climbs to over three thousand with almost two thousand injured and over seven thousand still

believed to be missing. and in russian regions close to japan residents of emergency services are in pilot this part officials claiming there's no current radioactive danger in moscow is boosting its humanitarian aid and energy supplies to japan are increasing the number of rescue workers in disaster struck and. for more on the latest from japan in about half an hour from now with me here on arts in the meantime we delve into the story of the infamous we can fix website and its creator that's our special report next. the website wiki leaks got sick and tapping hundreds of thousand last year and. its name is chilling such still read i think that kind of thing where the tension and runs out of the bag which exist under attack. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state institute to get

information 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. enemy of democracy is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics through him words on india and long 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 it whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. june as january twentieth decision with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown genius to demand immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over twenty three

years after several days of tensions resulting in bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth this. is the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately dubbed 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 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 kinda leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange any person of twenty ten. at the first time with 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 when i used to leave the u.s. government was. really not supportive benelli for human rights violation. discontent with the president goodling getting power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after student mohamad was easy set himself on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the tunisian government. after when. i came back and the hum of the bar says he did what he did. i think tunisia was a major to. start 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 the government in thinking that there is something that is corrupt. when 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. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julia sons and we're here to make a short presentation about the we can extract what we do daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous website together he and a song 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 joel and he

was already working on we can exit the room and i saw i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the weekly leaks dot org 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 crypto dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. fear a real democracy. british way overdone and so threats to the obviously are coming from your side of right from the secret people. and if 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 but they were inconsistent at the time and for all twenty years we had for one and a half years we tried to build up we can these as a project we publish

a lot of documents and try to get funding and it was all very difficult 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 amount one and. this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and then modernize during the cold war so we have reconstructed it to update us authors of welcome you know 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 germans you boot submarines from the beginning and the alarming case of trouble the alarm starts and alarm is actually. one.

today behind these thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cow going up and you feel down to see these two these two to be critics over swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunker's malls or its security system they'll only float through the roof becoming like well you know if they were being taken it must be a big deal to make it a material there for the wrong. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their servers after this video was posted on their site your characteristics did not. arrive.

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 three years after the tragedy wiki leaks published the video sparking a massive international right now one that it shows you errors in the internal judicial mechanism it's north and it shows you get reports about what who is insurgent who is not an insurgent would appear in the media following events where people are killed cannot be trusted several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets published the afghan dossier or what. we can mix it so it's called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the spot reports about the course of the campaign the zone said they had received

the classified information from a man employed at the u.s. department of defense. it covers a six year period of war nor any twenty thousand reports and almost every instant seriousness that he was going i wasn't all think it would be hard and locations number of people. as soon as the afghan dossier was made public a son's in 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. go its appears the mostly period of beat up where we're looking at seriously here where we did hold back the reports. with i had to sort of but it's the first that raided i think of them through your courage the white house got

while still resistance interview real or published the white house. except that with. every week once a week we're meeting and just if eight years the party leadership we've just had a half day meetings as well and leadership a little barry has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to live over the next couple years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own that's why they need 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 in to support we collate in august of last year they will not us know as they all 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 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 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 leaks and largely mimics what

a song 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 turning our documents from time to time but there's a big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. in the summer of twenty ten songs gather the circle of accredited journalists for wiki leaks these people were supposed to get the news before it would appear on the site i doing this for santa 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 but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. that

is 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 of historical 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 sense 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 breed them very carefully to find something anywhere near a scoop i think some you know audience had been looking forward to wild stories about u.f.o.'s or people devouring children when they found nothing of the car and so 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. 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. it's unlikely that julian assange on speaking before the journalists at this seminar in some home could have full seem 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 . wealthy british style.

market finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with months concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r.t. . by august twenty ten q in a song should become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder save of the glory of being alone fine to undersell adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the us authorities to prosecution against mr song's proved unsuccessful the wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally irreproachable

until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm and oldest twenty ten. investigators would later establish than curing 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 the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went through the police. primarily to discuss with the police to tell the police what we have been through and to get advice what shall we do 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 shine bag 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 swedish

authorities put the songs on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder who landed in britain many described the criminal prosecution against him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claim 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 weaker links that's why they were attending the seminar or 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 great britain everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with a difference that one suspects person happens to be doing them a song. but at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface a soldier's friend and colleague daniel berg said he could no longer work with him

he withdrew from the project along with many others it was all i'm really very sorry to see the project winding up a problem is that julian is intent on cracking down on any dissenters 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 moments after that negative trend had emerged within the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences bergen a songe also had a personal conflict when barack introduced the sons to his future wife. disapproved of his choice. i fell in love right immediately and i told you in as my friend a bottle and the only thing he had a requirement was that i should try to find as much. as i can get so that if he knows me something in my hands against him 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 us so much 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 he was enraged by his betrayal so much had even threatened his former friend . he wants that if i ever put in an engine. you would hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times a waltz others that estimable. on december the first twenty ten interpol issued a warrant for us on his 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 week will around the world. record it i'd see while being away. shortly after he was bailed a son 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 go film publicly handed over to his son to discuss with information on personal bank accounts but i want to do it with. the wiki leaks like it again. in order to. investigate it and making a decision on a. yes from bush works as

a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information fast 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 our 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 field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes. in twenty ten. government and once 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 authorities to be a direct consequence of wiki leaks affect. pretty comparable because on one side the people sell that are to us or lots of money or 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 something huge donations made to the organization. but there were other money trails no one knew actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think that that is just natural if you're working on a theme or maybe five to ten people but. there's no need to have secrets in all of

these new fields like that. 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 don't have one. after his rift with his songe berg wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leaks but greg 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 they'd want to ditch spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is on seems to like so much this image as what you're alluding to create because it characterizes. our. somewhere between

a hakko and we don't often from asian and the james bond out and times and this is very appealing this is what people think they show up on april. but this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more of all this all games. then actual information. that there. was a self administration was introduced at all universities in china zero after the revolution the 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 didn't succeed in all its goals. you are participating and your steepest thinking i just assumed

thinking every day about the new government had me under underneath i would visit the us to succeed only if it was. 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 web site kenya leaks. we can see that when early in the regime of. the first victim. of this a few critics astrobiology his friend an assistant summary bengoechea the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution. they want to walk in the old port town of visit pirates and use it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago and makes founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past. pilots. for freedom for transparency and so for human rights and for democracy internet

activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics via the internet the growth maybe was. the leaks that have been published by and really. i would later all we don't know we cannot. be. but it does help. and come and. be going off in the family and close member of the family what is sure we. are not for this and. certain things. later that same day the streets of kuzio swelled with crowds of people again. but this time around they were not protesting it was

a celebration in egypt's president hosni mubarak had been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its goal the revolutionary tsunami that rose in tunisia has already swept across several countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future . home. mom.