wealthy british style. sometimes. the. markets financial scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy is cause a report on r t. one thirty am in moscow these are your archie had long as the. u.s. stifles libya's opposition and hopes of recognition as the country's legitimate government washington also holds off dispersing more money to the rebels. and nato planes colonel gadhafi has tiny's often pledges to force him to stop fighting but in a defiant address the libyan leader says foreign forces will never reach or. russia

launches an official countdown to the next winter olympics that take off on its turf the crowds are out to celebrate a thousand days to go until the opening ceremony. and enigmatic figure giuliana saunders managed to do what few people have dared reveal top government secrets but used who is the man behind wiki leaks we investigate coming up. the website which links once again telling hundreds of thousands. saying it is chilly and such feel better think that adults are the children 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 third is 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 kate secrecy is the

biggest. going to be able to research is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics good words 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. june as january twentieth a city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown genius to demand an 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 to pass this. the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately dubbed the jasmine revolution of the two missing and coup also has another name for 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 rebel 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 and the twenty tam. at the first time with the first seventy seven thousand documents and then we've got others. the sensation as i said it was surely fernie

very very interesting to note the true facts that the us government is waiting when i used the ninety two leave the us government was. really not supportive and i leave for human rights violation. discontent with a president who would look good in power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohamad was easy set themselves on fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the tunisian government. after when the. i came and what happened was it did what he did. i think tradition 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 troll people. they were actually

right and not. 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 js. yes my name is daniel smith this is julian a son's we're here to make a short presentation about what we can fix project what we do 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 that we can do it i heard about we could leaks in september of two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian. he was already working on we can mix up on the guy so i asked if they

needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the weekly leeks 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 cryptome dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy as the figures for a. british way overdone so threats to democracy are coming from his side of the 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. or two years we were one and a half years we tried to build up we can fix as a project we published a lot of documents and try to get funding. very difficult for us so we have all put

in our private funding into the project and tried to sustain it but that brain 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 equal structure with data centers 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 these type was actually in submarines and so they are german jubal submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble the alarm starts and alarm is actually. one.

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 cow going up and you feel down to see is this still going to be getting sort of a swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunker's malls or its security system. through the roof becoming higher while they were being taken it must be a big deal to make it a material will there be a role that the. assumption is team and be very careful about the security of this service after this video was posted on their site surface you see. 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 three years after the tragedy when he leads published the video sparking a massive international right now where it shows you errors in the internal judicial me it isn't it's real and it shows you that reports about who is insurgent who is not an insurgent would appear in the media following events where people are killed can often trust them several months later in the summer of twenty ten the site and its partner outlets publish the afghan dossier or what. we can mix itself called the afghanistan war diaries they contained eighty thousand on the small to 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 and ninety three thousand reports and almost every

incident serious since the us military i wasn't walking over with a current. number of people. as soon as the afghan gosia was made public a son's and his team soared to instant frame but scathing criticism soon followed the most common i can say sion 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 appear to mostly be here but you know where we're looking at seriously. if you hold back the reports. earlier when they had this sort of patient if that were able to frame it for the aerial your approach the white house got lost their resistance in remembering. we obviously white house.

except that with. every week well so we were meeting in this cafe here is the party leadership we've just had a half day meetings as well in 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 years. swedish internet pirates have no office of their own and that's why they meet in this cafe in stockholm the movement is 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 that went offline during the 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 web sites where the people themselves translate them after receiving them via email russian pirates have launched a similar site called leaks and largely mimics what a sound 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 it is a big question though is how are they going to send their stuff. in the summer of twenty ten songs got 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. 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 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 and first glance many of them were unlikely to arouse interest you have to break 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 wiki leaks website and its founder a song had 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 julian again welcome to stockholm and the floor is yours but. it's unlikely that julian a song speaking before the journalists of this seminar and some call could a full seen that in a few months he would be in jail with no would have imagined that his close companions would desert him although this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall. would be soon which crisis if you found someone from finest impressions.

to find stocks on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style as i told us that this. is the hot. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the cause a 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 savor the glory of being alone fine to on the sole adversary to the world superpower. all attempts by the u.s. or thought is to launch a prosecution against mr ozon proved unsuccessful the wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally every protocol until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish

than during his visit to sweden mr saunders mchugh young women. he spent the night with both of them a short while later both young women are kings the wiki leaks founder of sexual assault. they went to the police primarily the discuss with the police to tell the police what they have been through and get advice or try with you 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 try to beg a son has always had a weakness for women we were at a conference and would have asked 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 had 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 wiki leaks actually my two clients are very much in favor of the weaker links 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 in great britain everywhere in the world and the this is a case like any other with a difference that you suspect a person of the song. of at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface some his 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 it was thought i'm 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 bergner saunders also had a personal conflict when begg introduced his sons to his future wife sandra disapprove the face choice. i fell and. cried immediately and i told my friend about it and the only thing the apple requirement was that i should try to find as much. on her as i can get so that if she annoys me something in my hands again. 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 us. 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 so much had even threatened his former friend. he once 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 while it's others that asked them out. on december the first twenty ten into polish and a warrant for a soldier's arrest and we 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. so all the people around the world. hate me. a lot it

might seem while being away. shortly after he was bailed a song 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 the private accounts in swiss banks on january the seventeenth two thousand and eleven a former employee of the julius by a bank rudolf elmer publicly handed over to his sons to get sex with information on the personal bank accounts but i want it and they know it but wiki leaks like it again. in order to kill i think investigation and making that decision only. 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 names on it some of our go to court all of them had to pay money back and the year two thousand and eight the german state court because of this of the more than one billion of europe that. the method proved to be effective even depositors whose names were not on the desk feel of 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 dismissed 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 tories to be a direct consequence over the wiki leaks effect. of pretty

comparable because on one side the people or 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 a 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 a natural if you're working in the team or maybe five or ten people at that time there's no need to have secrets you know at least it feels like that. when you ask someone what's happening to the money in australia and how much money is there. and that

person tells you or you don't have to know. after his rift with assad berg wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leaks i would beg 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 peg wants to get spy schemes publicity and the south advertising which is sound seems to like so much is immense as what julian wants to create because it characterizes him. somewhere between the hacker and the freedom of information and the james bond or modern times and this is very appealing you know this is what people think they should donate so this is exactly

one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about this all. than about the actual informational there's not there. to. serve her true self administration 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. you are free to over evolution you can succeed in all its goals. your purpose your vision and your sleep but thinking that just as being every day about the new government had me under underneath i would be. this it's just it's the journey

it is evolution. each of these 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 kenya leaks. you can see. indonesian. is the first victim. of these a few critics astro van and his friend an assistant some. were the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution. they went to war in the old port town of bizet or pirates and used it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago the founders liken themselves to such pirates of centuries past. pirates maybe cause 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. maybe it was. the leaks that have been published. and i would play it for all we don't know we can look. how big it was but it doesn't help at the. government though it is instead of about the corruption of the family and close number of the right sure we. are not very different and. to hide certain things. later that same day the streets impunity 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 has been forced to step down under the pressure from millions of people another internet revolution had achieved its

goal the revolution 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. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.