have a look at the main stories we're covering for you this hour syria gears up for a day of prayer and protests as washington promises to punish the government for human rights abuses fueling fears it's planning a repeat of libya. it's in france of battling it out over an immigrant influx sparked by the north african arrest and some e.u. countries clamping down on free movement. plus entice any young to the countryside close up to travel to the rules of the ball grad region where locals are pulling

out all the stops to get the new generation out of the city and into the fields. next our special report on the founder of wiki leaks in some. the website. tapping that's the last. thing it's chilly and such that they think that adults are getting much out of the big budget 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 of the real world today anyone can find out what information the government and 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. awards 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. coonass 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 then only had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth is. the events that took place in

the north african country in january were immediately dumped 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 in the urgent of twenty ten. at the first thing with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got the 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 support they're going to be for human rights violation. discontent with a president who had lingered in power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after students and i am a bit was easy sense of self on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the tunisian government. after when. reagan. came and the how many 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. 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 has. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julian a sun 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 we can it's in september two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian. 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 registered the we can 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 to be able to market. it is way overdue and is so threats to the r.c. recovery from here for the secret keeper. 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 leaks lives off donations but they were inconsistent at the time. or about twenty years we were one and a half years me tried to build up we can he said as a project we published a lot of documents we tried to get funding and it was all 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 nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and modernized during the cold war so we have reconstructed it would take us out there's a welcoming are unable to show you the facility and 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 going to this type was actually in submarines and so they are german submarines from the beginning and the alarming case of fraud of the alarm starts and alarm is actually. today behind these thick walls and heavy doors there are services carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data.

this is the cabin up and you feel down to see it through these two hundred because it's sort of a swedish laws provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunker's malls or its security system they'll only flow through the roof becoming by one human they are feel they must be able to make it a material there could be a 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 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 q three years after the

tragedy wiki leaks published the video sparking a massive international right now where it shows you errors in the internal visually and isn't it's no and it shows you that reports about war who is insurgent who is normal sort of 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 sports 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 ninety two thousand report and almost every instant serious inspect any worth for three. give away. and what occasions people

killed 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. there was a preview of the mostly be a meeting of the apartment where we're looking at mission seriously and whether they did hold back i think are the reports. they had that sort of i think it's obvious that maybe a little bit of the aerial you know purge the white house across the resistance in recovery or are we published right now except that with. every week well so we we're getting in this to feed years the party leadership we

just had a half day meetings those were under the leadership a little bird 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 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 can lakes in august of last year they were not us known as they are no today 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 one that went offline

during that hectic week of information was. 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 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 what to some has been doing it with the leaks a few leaks have already been made public. i thought 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. 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 assault 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. 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 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 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 those words again most welcome to stockholm and the four zero.

it's unlikely the 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 that so much of an oldish musician. that mark west has the arab spring continues to sweep the arab middle east where does this leave iran with a new and democratic regimes in the region now just east of. the world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from the realm of

russia. we've got the future covered. by august twenty ten q in a song to become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savored the glory of being alone fighter and the sole adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the us authorities to northrop prosecution against mr ozon 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 establish than 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 accuse the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went through the police. primarily. discussed with the police to tell the police what they have been through

and to get advice water with them 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 show it berg persones 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 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 whip in this actually my two clients are very much in favor of what we call leaks 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 everywhere in the world and this is a case like any other with a difference that the suspect a person of songs. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface songes friend and colleague daniel dominant bird 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 oppose so i quit at the right moment after that negative trend had emerged within the wiki leaks team. aside from ideological differences well going to saunders also had a personal conflict when vegan produced

a song as 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 to recommend was that as we try to find as much . as i can get so that if she knows me have something in my hands again. 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 burgundy 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 assume he was enraged by his betrayal persones had even threatened his former friend. he wants to if i ever put any sources in danger. here what hunt me down and kill me. and

he even repeated that threat a couple of times towards others that estimable. only some of the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for some his arrest we'd 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 big round the world. war i see. you know way. shortly after he was bailed a son shocked the world with a statement that it was now the turn for the banks to shed their secrets denounced 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. publicly handed over to his sons to discuss with information on personal bank accounts but i'd like to do it and they know what the wiki leaks like it again . in order to. investigate it and making a decision on a. bram bush works as a journalist for the financial times specializing in the subject of bank information faffed 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 them are to go to court all of them have to pay money back in the year two thousand and eight the german state because of this and the more they're run billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective

even depositors whose names were not on the list field possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes. in twenty ten i'm going to moguls government months again purchased from anonymous sources another disk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks it helps her to return almost to believe euro's to the state treasury many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence of the wiki leaks effect. not really comparable because on one site where people sell that out to us for lots of money or millions of money on the other side you have weekly 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. 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 that just just natural if you're working in a team of maybe five to ten people and there's no need to have secrets you know at least it feels like. and when you ask someone what's happening to all money in australia and how much money is there actually and the person tells you or you don't have a wall. after his rift with a sound bird wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own web site called open leaks 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 web site and read the information first hand. everything is simple and transparent clegg wants to ditch spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is sound seems to like so much this immersion is what julian wants to create because it characterizes him. like the superstar. somewhere between a hacker and the freedom of information and the james bond of modern times and this is very appealing you know and this is what people think bishop on it. but this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all. then actual information. that there. are several. administrations 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 that 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 you're steep but you simply think they just assume thinking every day about the new government had me and. me i would be. this it's just that see if it was it 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. you can see then only condition of. the first victim. of these few clicks astrobiology his friend an

assistant some. of the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution. they like to walk in the old port town of desert pirates and use it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago and makes founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past. pirates but maybe cause for freedom for transparency and so for human rights. for democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented a truly effective method of influencing real politics via the internet and the proof maybe it was. the leaks that have been public and. i would play the role we don't know we cannot make a. big it was but it does help at the fair in common though let's.

get out of the family had been early and closed down but of the family sure we. are not far distant 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'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 into his ear 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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