hello this is r.t. from moscow the main news tonight libya heavy anti-aircraft fire is being heard right now over the capital tripoli substance by the head of the country's armed forces saying he's ordered an immediate cease fire and international aerial offensive against colonel gadhafi forces which is now in day to be criticized by the arab league calling civilian deaths. and barack obama says america's goal of a military intervention will be a limited one foot as u.s. cruise missiles take a leading role in coalition operations many and drawing comparisons to the

beginning of two thousand and three iraq. meanwhile russia has called on allied forces for a friend using indiscriminate force it stressed states unacceptable to use the un security council mandate for purposes other than protective support. change the subject now here on our team next we look at the real julian assange and wiki leaks to assess whether it's the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics. the website wiki leaks what's account. class. saying it's chilly in such filth ben i think that that is where the tension and what's hot in the bag which makes this utterance that. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the fourth of the institute to 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. is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics. warts 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 it whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. kunis january twentieth a decision with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown sheena's 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 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 when the deeply dubbed 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 that's rudolph 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 kenya leaks he began posting material concerning choosier from diplomatic cables in arabic and french the cables were made public by julian assange of twenty ten. at the first time with just seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got

others. the sensation as they 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 benignly for human rights violation. discontent with a president who would look good in power for too long had been brewing into his ear for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohamad was easy set himself on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the tunisian government. after when the. i came and. did what he did. i think tunisia was nature 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 for the people. they were actually right and not trusting the government in thinking that there is something corrupt. daniel don't steinberg films 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 the week in these projects that 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 the week i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and seven and in november with all in seven i first got in touch with julian. he was

already working on getting exit on the i saw i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics johnny young register the weekly leaks go to a 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. fear of real democracy. it is way overdue and so threats to democracy are coming from your side of the secret keeper. and that they need to be exposed during the first few years of wiki leaks and resource was treated as a project created by internet fringes we can lease lives off donations but they were inconsistent at the time. or two years or one and a half years we tried to build up we can exist as a project me published

a lot of documents and try to get funding and it was very difficult for us so we have all put in our private funding into the project i'm trying to sustain it but that really didn't work out so well at least not an infinite amount of time. this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and then modernize during the cold war so we have reconstructed it with 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. we're digitally this type was actually in submarines and so they are jorma jubal submarines from the beginning and the alarming case of fraud of the alarm starts and alarmists actually.

today behind these thick walls and heavy doors there are services carrying thousands of websites some of them store weekly leaks data. this is the cabin up and you feel down to see these things to watch it because it's sort of a swedish laws provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers malls or its security system. who fell through the coming fire while you're a failure or feel sick it must be hell to make to make me feel guilty there could be a problem the. assumption is team had to be very careful about the security of their service after this video was posted on their site surface to sixty five.

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 q three years after the tragedy with the leaks published the video sparking a massive international right now where it shows you errors in the internal the additional mechanisms it's real and it shows you that reports about what it was insurgent was not an insurgent would appear in the media following the beds 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 was. wiki leaks itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the small crew ports 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 and ninety two thousand reports and almost every instant serious incident here with a three all feel it with a target advocation number of people killed the soon as the afghan dossier was made public a son's and his team soared to instant frame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common accusation was that the names of afghans collaborating with allied troops and details concerning american agents could not be redacted from the reports the taliban were quick to pledge to kill all those who had helped the u.s. army. there was a peaceful mostly be a great up i mean where we're looking at finishing seriously. and you hold back the end of the report for for the better with they had sort of a chill it's their third grade and they can take it i thought it through your

fridge the white house across the resistance in real or published white house. except that with. 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 in a leadership a little bird has taken over the party leadership. we're wrapping up breakfast and discussing how to move all for the next couple of 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 wiki leaks in august of last year they will not us know as they are low today they have received aid from thousands of 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 the wealth in. brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online one that went offline during that hectic week of information was. similar projects have been 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 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 new leaks and largely mimics what assam's has been doing it

with the leaks a few leaks have already been made public. and what about 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. and so the big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. in the summer of twenty ten songs gathered a 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 but decided against getting involved in wiki leaks risky business. at

what is clearly the newspapers running a triple risk 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 the. material which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first week so a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop. finish the show and 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 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 car and so they simply turned away from us. after the publication of the afghan dossier with

the lease website and its founder a song could become the world. main 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 the floor is yours but. it's unlikely the julian assange speaking before the journalists of this seminar and phone call could a full scene 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 . first create a removal called clear cutting. second explosives are used to blasting a deeper than the material. heard the remains are removed by machinery.

finally on mortgage soil is deposited in vallecito. modern troubling news on our team. will. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm of russia. we've got the future covered. by aug twenty ten q in a song should become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savor the glory of being alone find i'm the sole 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 stone come in august twenty ten. investigators would like to restart

blish then 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 the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police. primarily to discuss with the police to tell the police or to have been through and to get advice or try with two 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 a bag 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 swedish authorities put a 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 weeklies that's why they were counting 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 everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with the difference that you suspect a person happens to be songs. of the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface assumptions friend and colleague daniel don't show it berg 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

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 of 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 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 it 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 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 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. daniel had all the reason in the world to fear a zone it was enraged by his betrayal persones had even threatened his former friend. he wants if i would ever put him 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 about it. on december the first twenty ten interpol issued 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 but the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. to all people around the world. a. lot it

might. be no way. 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 elma publicly handed over to his son to discuss with information on personal bank accounts but i want you and know it the wiki leaks got it up again. in order to. investigate it and they can put this edition on if. yes brian bush works as a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information faffed he 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 some of our go to court all of them have 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 just 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 lorries to be a direct consequence of the wiki leaks effect. not really

comparable because on the one side the 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 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 it is just natural if you're working on a team or maybe five or 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 the person tells you or

you don't have them all. after his rift with the songe where growth a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leads but begs 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 bag wants to ditch spy schemes publicity and the self advertising which is sound seems to like so much this image is what julian wants to create because it characterizes him more like our. somewhere between echo and freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing this is what people think they should put on april so this is exactly one

of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more as all and. then all the actual information. that there. was a sense 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 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 just as being every day about the new government had me under. me i would be. just it's just it seems if you did that it was. each of these cubans 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. indonesia. is the first victim. of this you can fix astrobiology his friend an assistant. but 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 and found it was like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past. pirates but maybe cause 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 the truth

maybe it was. the leaks that have been published and by and by would play the role we don't know we cannot measure the big it was but it does help at the confederate and come and. be in the family have been early and close and i'm going to write it sure we. are not for this and. 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's president hosni mubarak could be forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its

goal the revolution you know on the 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 .