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the. three thirty pm in moscow these here are key headline dozens reportedly killed in libya with operation odyssey dawn in full swing as foreign forces push forward against the gadhafi regime the u.s. and britain and france are launching air and missile strikes on his forces this follows a u.n. resolution forcing a no fly zone over the country. washington claims its military involvement in libya will be limited but for america some americans it's deja vu with fears of a repeat of the iraq operation meanwhile the u.s. has confirmed its jets struck forty bombs on a major libyan air field. russia urges all sides involved in the libyan crisis to
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put an end to the violence calling any foreign military action regrettable government officials say the media ceasefire is the best but. not stars he looks at the real giuliana sanjian wiki leaks to assess whether it's the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics stay with us. the website once again tapping. the last. stand is chili and such read think that adults are to touch it and watch out of the bag which exists under attack. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state is through to get 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
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biggest. enemy of the markers or is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist tools of manipulate global politics. and words on a long and hear. 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 was all blowing revelations change the world forever. junius january twentieth a 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 bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the
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fifteenth is. that 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. 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 committee of from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange in the person of twenty ten. at the first thing with seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got. the sensation as i said it was really very very very interesting to note
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the true facts that the u.s. government is waiting. to leave the u.s. government was. really not supported 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 mohamed was easy set himself on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the tunisian government. after when the. week. i came back and what happened was it 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 cases these diplomatic cables troll people. they were actually
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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 is. yes my name is daniel smith this is julia sun's we're here to make a short presentation about the we can extract what we don't daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous website and together he and a song to create 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 we can make sense september two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian and he was already working on we can fix a on the right so i asked if they needed any help. and started working on the
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couple of topics john young registered the weekend 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. deal real democracy. it is way over done and so threats to the r.c. are coming from your side of the from the secret people. and with the need to be exposed during the first few years of wiki leaks the result was treated as a project created by internet fringes we can leaks lives off donations but they were inconsistent at the time and for about twenty years we had for one and a half years we tried to build up we can he as a project we published a lot of documents and try to get funding and it was all very difficult for us so we have all put in our private funding into the project and tried to sustain it but
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that brain that didn't work out so well at least not an infinite and i'm not i mean . this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and modernized during the cold war so we have equal structure to a data structures 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 jorma you submarines from the beginning and the alarming case of trouble the alarm starts and alarm is actually.
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today behind nice thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the south enough you feel down to see these these two hundred because it's servers swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers morals or a security system yellow to flow through the roads are becoming like well you must think you were being taken it must be a big deal to make it a material thing you know there could be a wrong. assumption his team had to be very careful about the security of their servers after this video was posted on their site circuitry sick to. their eyes. back in two thousand and
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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 round one that it shows you errors in the internal judicial mechanism it's north and it shows you that reports about what it was insurgent was not miserable that appear in the media following 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 fix it so 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 two thousand reports and almost every instant
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serious incident he was going. over with our location number of people. as soon as the afghan dossier was made public the sons and his team soared to instant fame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common i.q. zation 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 that mostly a bit of your program where we're looking at seriously right now did hold back any doubt in reports for for with they had that sort of agent if that's the raid of a container for the aerial you approached the white house across the resistance in her during. the white house and if that request.
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every week once a week we're meeting in just a few years the party leadership we've just had a half day meetings as well and leadership a little bird has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to move on for 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 were not as known as they are no joy 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
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leaks the wiki leaks domain online and went offline during that hectic week of information wars. 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 it largely mimics water sam has been doing it with the leaks a few leaks have already been made public. the thought of what the informers will cause their reports on the internet site. we will know absolutely nothing about
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them we see the whole thing as a black box churning like documents from time to time but there's also a big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. that way 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 sounds 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. that was 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 sake
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and 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 but his. material which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first weeks a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop. conditions the show or 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 breed them very carefully to find something anywhere near a scoop i think some in our audience have 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 had become the world. may newsmakers the australian spent most of his spare
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time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words again welcome to stockholm and of course. it's unlikely that you learn a song speaking before the journalists at this seminar in stockholm could have full seen that in a few months he would be in jail for it nor would he have imagined that his close companions were deserted over this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall. first create a remove hold hold of a clear cut him a. second to explosives are used to blast in a deeper than the piers. heard the remains are removed by machinery and. finally the fund. is deposited in vallecito.
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modern troubling news on our team. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from a realm for sure. we've got the future covered. by august twenty ten juliana songs have become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savored the glory of being alone finds on the sole adversary to the world simple power all attempts by the u.s. authorities 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 stockholm and august twenty ten. investigators would later establish than during his visit to sweden mr songs met two young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women
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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 we have been through and to get advice or try we do and then 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 general don shepperd beg a son has always had a weakness for women we were at a conference in budapest 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 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
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wiki leaks actually my two clients are very much in favor of the leaks that's why they were attending the seminar or lecture from and they still are for we can 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 we the difference they have to suspect a person of the songs. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface and 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 it was all i really very sorry to see the project winding up the 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
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oppose so i quit at the right moment after that negative trend had emerged within the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences we're going to saundra also had a personal conflict when berg introduced a son as 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. as i can get so that if she annoys me i have something in my hands against him 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 son's 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. then you had all the reason in the world to fear assume it was
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enraged by his betrayal so much that even threatened his former friend. he once that if i were to ever put in danger. it would hunt me down and kill me. and he even repeated that threat a couple of times a waltz others that asked him. on december the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for a soldier'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 but the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. to all people around the world. to me. to what 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 shed their secrets denounced
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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 sound two disks with information on the personal bank accounts but i want to. know if the wiki leaks fucked it up again. in order to. have it investigated and making that decision on a. yes 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 government of disks with information from anonymous sources on german citizens hiding their money abroad. there are seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german
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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 of the more than run billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the disk field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes in twenty ten uncle america's government once again purchased from anonymous sources another disclosed 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 over the wiki leaks effect. of pretty comparable because on one site where people or sell that are to us for a lot of money or millions of money on the other side you have weekly and so this
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is my profit so there are people who their intention is different exposures in the bank secrets subsequently transformed wiki leaks into a completely nontransparent organization in financial terms the song is the only person who knows everything about the whereabouts of the huge donations made to the organization. but there were other money trails and no one you're actually other than julian where it came from and what it was used for and i think as a natural if you're working in a team of maybe five to ten people at the 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 really and that person tells you or you don't have to know. after his rift with a sound bird wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leaks i
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would beg 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 peg wants to ditch spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is known seems to like so much this image is what julian wants to create because it characterizes him like the. somewhere between a hacker and the freedom of information and the james bond one time and this is very appealing you know and this is what what people think they should done it will. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all games. than about the actual informational.
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self of ministration was introduced to 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. beautifully that over evolution they didn't succeed in all its goals. they are perfectly easy and steep but thinking like this and thinking every day about the new government had me under underneath i would visit. this it's just that seemed to feel that evolution. each of the students took part in the overthrow of the ben ali regime many of them
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took to the streets after they had read information on corruption scrupulously accumulated on the website to nearly kes. you can see that when early in the regime of. the first victim. of these a few kicks asked about and his friend an assistant some event were the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they learned to walk in the old port town of bizet or 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 there are no more pirates but because words for. freedom for transparency and so for human rights and. democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics via the internet is the proof maybe. the leaks that have been published. by wiki
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leaks played for all we don't know we cannot know. how big it was but it does help at the con fair and common the let's. be corruption of the family and close language of the family sure we. are in a very different and. a hard to hide 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 president hosni mubarak had been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its goal the revolution new tsunami that rosie has already swept across several
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countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future.
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