it is. nine thirty pm in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team thousands flee syria as deadly clashes continue in the country despite the government claiming it's ready for talks with the opposition meanwhile the u.s. appears ready to declare president assad's rule illegitimate which many say could be the first step toward military intervention. libyan rebels fail to gain washington's recognition as the country's rightful rulers this after an opposition delegation made its case out of meeting at the white house and. the head of the

i.m.f. has been charged with sexual assault but a recent poll showing dominic strauss kahn to be the favorite for france's upcoming presidential race the arrest is likely to rock the french political arena. and thousands of troops parade in russian cities marking victory day but ukrainian veterans had to fight fascist once again in a brutal attack by neo nazi nationalism during festivities. and. coming up an enigmatic figure julian assad has managed to do what few of ever done and reveal government secrets but who is the man behind wiki leaks our investigation takes a lot of it up. the website that's kept upping. the last period through. its name is chile and such then i think that that is where the tension and much of the bag which exist utterance and.

he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the fall of the institute 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 biggest. is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics julian ward's on and on anger. what motivates julian assange does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame does he have it on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will its whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. kunis january twentieth a city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take

to the streets in downtown genius to demand the immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over twenty three years after several days of tensions result 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 but the choosing and cool 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 ice 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 kenya leaks he began posting material concerning choosier 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 a 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. to leave the u.s. government was. really not supporting ben ali 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 mohamed was easy satam cell phone fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the trinity and government. after when. reagan.

came and the hummingbirds did what he did. i think tradition was made sure to. to start to change what's happened in tunisia and also in egypt and it's happening in a few other places and it's diplomatic cables troll people. they were actually right in not trusting in thinking that there was something that was corrupt. steinberg shams 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 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 took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it

a reality which you weeks i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven when i first got in touch with julian . he was already working on we can make that point and i'm sol i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the wiki 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. get its way over good and so threats to democracy are coming from your side of the secret keeper 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 leaks lives off donations and they

were inconsistent at the time. or two years we were one and a half years we tried to build up we can expand the project we published a lot of documents to 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 of money i mean. this is nuclear shelter you built during the second world war and then modernize during the cold war so we have reconstructed it to a data center so welcome you know and i will show you to 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. were digitally this type was actually in submarines and so the or german

submarines from the beginning and the alarm in case of trouble of the norm starts alarmists. or. today behind lease thick walls and heavy doors the reserves carrying thousands of websites some of them store wiki leaks data. this is the cabin up and you feel down to see these two things to watch it because it's sort of a swedish noise provide better protection against attacks on wiki leaks than the bunkers malls or its security systems. flowing through the roof for the coming fire while you must be i think it must be. to make it a material there could be a problem. asuncion his team and to be very careful about the security of the

service after this video was posted on that site tracker to see. iraq. 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 to three years after the tragedy leagues published the video sparking a massive international right now where it shows you errors in the internal visually and isn't. enough and it shows you that reports about war who is insurgent and who is not an insurgent that appear in the media following the bit 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 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. that covers a six year period of war ready to go. at almost every instant seriousness the u.s. military. over with the authority and location. as soon as the afghan dossier was made public the sons and 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. it was appear to mostly derrida video where we're looking at the issue seriously. and did hold back within reports for every american they had this sort

of but occasionally it's not just that made it ok to date i thought that through your purge the white house got ross their assistance in or agree with your will or we published. if that arrest. every week once a week we're getting in this cafe here's the party leadership we've just had a half day meetings as well and leadership a little body 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 the 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 went in and brought wiki leaks the wiki leaks domain online and went offline during the 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 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 has been doing it with the leaks a few leaks have already been made public. but a lot of 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 with 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 a songe 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 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 but as for. tiriel which chiefly concerned russia was published by russian journalists in parallel with the site the first week saw a record number of visitors people were hungry for a sensational scoop additional show or 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 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. main newsmakers the australian spent most of his spare time travelling giving interviews and taking part in different seminars with those words again most welcome to snorkel and the floor is yours but. it's unlikely that julian a song speaking before the journalists of this seminar in stone called could a full seen that in a few months it would be in jail nor would he have imagined that his close companions would desert him over this visit to the swedish capital would lead to his downfall.

by august twenty ten julian assange to become the world's most popular media figure the wiki leaks founder savor the glory of being alone fine to undersell adversary to the world superpower all attempts by the u.s. authorities to launch a prosecution against mr ozon proved unsuccessful the wiki leaks founder had tried to be legally irreproachable until he decided to attend a seminar in stockholm in august twenty ten. investigators would later establish

them during his visit to sweden mr saunders met two young women. and 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 or try 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 show i beg 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 son on the international wanted list by which time the wiki leaks founder had

landed in britain many describe the criminal prosecution against him as politically motivated swedish lawyers claimed 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 leaks that's why they were attending the seminar or lecture from seoul and they still awful. 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 the difference that we suspect a person of the song. at the same time tensions inside the wiki leaks team rose to the surface songes 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 all i 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 bergen a songe also had a personal conflict when begging for jews to sons to his future wife a sound 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 as we try to find as much. on 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 for daniel had all the reason in the world to fear a stone he was enraged by his betrayal so much that even threatened his former friend. he wants. ever put any sources in danger. it 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 into polish and 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 and the criminal charges against him were never dropped. but thank you. the whole people around the world. for it

i'd see why 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 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 window film publicly handed over to a sony two disks with information on personal bank accounts but i won't do it and they stole it from the wiki leaks i think that again if you did it. in order. to investigate it and making a decision on it. 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 names on it some of my to go to court all of them had to pay money back and they were two thousand and eight the german state 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 feared possible criminal prosecution thousands of germans who preferred not to wait for a subpoena paid their taxes. in twenty ten angela merkel's government months again purchased from anonymous sources another disk with similar information on deposits of german citizens in swiss banks that helped her to return almost two billion euros to the state treasury many consider these tax stories to be a direct consequence of good wiki leaks effect. really

comparable because on one side the people sell that are to us or lots of money for millions of money on the other side you have wiki leaks and so this is not a profit 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 point it is just natural if you're working in a team of maybe five to ten people at that 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 any and the person tells you or you

don't have to know. after his rift with a sound berg wrote a book titled inside wiki leaks and launched his own website called open leagues would beg cite is different he 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 want to ditch spy schemes publish it and the south africa ties in which is sound seems to like so much this image is what julian wants to create because it characterizes him. somewhere between a hakko and freedom of information and the james bond or not and i and this is very appealing you know this is what people think they should donate to so this

is exactly one of the reasons why we left the project because it has become more about us all and. then the actual information. that there. was a. self of ministration 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. though to free to over evolution he didn't succeed in all its goals. they are pretty pleasing and steep but thinking that you see this in thinking every day about the new government had me and. me i would be. if it's just that siege on you to that

evolution. 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 website. you can see that when early in the regime of. the first victim. of this of who kicks astrobiology his friend an assistant some event with the ones who had prepared the ground for that revolution they like to walk in the old port town of bizet pirates and use it as a stopping place hundreds of years ago accumulates founders like in themselves to such pirates of centuries past they are not animal pirates but maybe because it's fun. freedom for transparency and so for human rights and for democracy both internet activists agree that julian assange invented

a truly effective method of influencing real politics fire the internet the proof maybe it was. the leaks that have been published by any leaks and by wiki leaks played for all we don't know we cannot make. big it was but it does help at the conference and come and he's instead of about the corruption of the family and close number of the family sure we. are not partitioned and it's. a hard 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 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 is you know on the the roads in tunisia has already swept across several countries and it's anyone's guess who shows it may reach in the near future.