interview show and we made it happen this is going to be broadcast exclusively on r c it's going to focus of course on us knowledge it's favorite topic control fifty two thousand and eleven was a solid as his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed it became a byword for for explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of us the documents by his web site wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a bright and best a humorist that as i say is going to be focused exclusively on r.t. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this particularly this morning of course to twitter there is

a light with rumors about the show speculating about who might be interviewed by judy in athens and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this will be fascinating it's going to be films where assaultive been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under the spell conditions for the last four hundred fourteen days even though no charges have been filed the first episode is also going to be shot a week before his supremes court hearing to fight against his actual decision to sweden for questioning on alleged sexual assault charges so as i say moves of rumors about what's going to go on he says going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to being on the other side of the interview is table i've interviewed him myself but if you want to find out exactly what's going on you're going to have to stay here on r t my lips are sealed so for all the details and the guests we can't reveal at the moment that the secret

but we will be having exclusive trailers and previews here on r.t.c. watch this space. correspondent laura smith reporting right there will meantime news executive of nicolay book a chicken by describes how the network signed up with julian assigned in britain there were quite interesting discussions we set in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels the right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that the future will be on our t.v. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of any news story and the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream channel when we talk. to them was very calm and relaxed which you would expect of course from someone who's been under house arrest for more than four hundred days he was very full of ideas and some of them were born as we talked so i think this will be a very hard hitting show all right over to you now to tell us what topics you would

like to see julian assange tackled and exposed in his new t.v. series on r t beginning in march i hear the numbers from our web site r.t. dot com both a fairly divided this hour just over a third believe we should focus on who really rules the mainstream media twenty seven percent think the serious series should focus on the nato war machine agenda just under a quarter would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world while seventeen percent want him to expose who controls the worldwide internet do tell us what you want to see make your choice now that r.t. dot com. millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track war in iraq gone bin ladin gone as well bomber has set out his stall for reelection and using the annual state of the union address to do it but if not he's gone a can reports from washington the upbeat tone doesn't quite reflect reality.

his goal was to highlight his achievements and lay out new promises as far as the message policies he speech was full of heartfelt success stories about the economy and jobs creation but there is a lot of skepticism among american social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that is getting wider american jobs are being outsourced to other countries president obama's state of the union speech sounded motivational full of good intentions but the fact that almost all his major economic initiatives got bogged down in congress like the jobs act that he put forward last year is giving a sense to many that he might be saying all the right words but they may not be necessarily followed by demons on the foreign policy front he ran on promises to end wars but while he pulled troops out of iraq and started winding down the war in

afghanistan with a pledge to bring all troops home by two thousand and fourteen america's wars didn't stop president obama bombed levy last year to the tune of bringing about democracy also the u.s. may now be on the verge of an all out confrontation with iraq and in the speech he once again said all options are on the table washington is now actively building up its military presence in the persian gulf region new u.s. drone bases are popping up in the arabian peninsula so we see that while president obama went through with the promises to scale back on the record again is that he's been actively building up a platform for possibly new wars president obama certainly prides himself on his role in killing osama bin laden and a number of other terrorists but the means by which the u.s. is going about the task of chasing down terrorists raises a lot of red flags so some experts argue that what washington is doing is fighting terror and provoking terror at the same time but in president obama's presentation everything sounds just great on the war on terror front. he's got an extra kind of

courting there from washington d.c. ok let's look at obama's speech in a bit more detail discussing his words certainly about syria we talk to ali mohamed the editor in chief of the website syria tribune standing by for us in dubai thank you for coming on our team today obama said the assad regime or soon discover that the forces of change referring to the arab spring cannot be reversed it sounds like the things that. will definitely be toppled do you think that's the case. i don't really think so he didn't sound so. convinced to me let's remember that not five months or actually more than five months ago he asked. to step down directly but now he did not he was also expected to to adopt the arab league plan for syria he also did not he instead he used wider terms and he did not make any he did not hint on what the u.s.

could do to to make sure this will happen the fact that he said the forces of change irreversible is just a wide assumption because every syrian knows that. they can't you will never come and go back to how it was one year ago or ten months ago but at the same time the change will be decided by the syrian people. by the syrian people not by the u.s. and not by anybody else and it will it is not guaranteed that it will come the way obama as you say as you say that when it comes to change that's up to the syrian people but during his state of the union obama also said that america has a huge stake in the outcome of the syrian conflict what i want to take is that you think. i think this take his or failing to is clear a few months ago or maybe two months ago the head of the syrian national council

talked about a new series that will not support the resistance forces against israel and will not be an ally to iran that the stakes obama is are failing to i think. are and if i may just for a minute i would here because i mean i hate to keep drawing on his state of the union but a couple of things did sound rather contradictory in obama's words quote it's up to the people to decide their fate and quote america will support policies that lead to strong and stable democracies or possibly implying some sort of intervention i mean do you interpret that as such. of course obama did not only talk about democracy he also he also talked about open markets how come you want the people to decide for themselves and yet you want to support an open market how do you know it's what the people want. the same time the democracy is talking about. has not proven to be a good one so far let's let's talk about iraq with hundreds of thousands of people

since the intervention let's talk about libya with tens of thousands of. people since the intervention not to mention the destruction and everything so he is trying to portray a democracy that is. really for the good of the people but there is the american actions and the actions by their allies don't prove that well it's interesting you bring in america you bring in the allies you know right now the security council resolution being worked on by the u.s. by the u.s. or europe in the arab league calling requiring assad to go and hand over power to a new government syria rejects us where do you see this all heading what's the end game here there are many that are drawing a libya comparison to this. i don't think i mean we're still not talking about. security council resolution we still need to wait and see how it goes because as it appears the russians are still resisting such

a resolution at the same time the proposal the arab league proposed two days ago is. the sort of proposal they know syria will reject because syria has always been proud of its independent independent. decisions and syria will never they know that for a fact that syria will never agree to to to submit to what arab league the u.s. the security council or whatever decides for how it is going to rule itself so i think they propose this so the syrians can reject it and after. the they have some sort of an excuse to escape late at least on the diplomatic side dr ali mohamed the editor in chief of the website syria tribune live in dubai thank you for coming on r.t. today. but russia says that one sided resolutions of foreign intervention won't

solve syria foreign minister sergei lavrov wants all sides in the conflict to engage in talks with no preconditions his message comes on the back of the arab league's call for president assad to step down. we will because we fully support the immediate halting of violence in the country no matter where it comes from that by the way is the position also put forward by the arab league we're also calling for the peaceful regulation of syria's political situation because we believe that all sides involved in the conflict should support similar measures and were also against any military interference from outside we believe that our approach is balanced and just as opposed to the method of accepting the biased resolutions which condemn only one side provoking the other to build up to a confrontation. and in syria itself security forces are trying to storm parts of the city of hama reports say the troops are trying to reclaim the areas controlled

by the opposition after observer mediated talks to persuade the militants to lay down arms failed earlier syria agreed to extend the arab league mission by a month it was set up to monitor the regime's compliance with the league's plan to end the violence there the u.n. estimates that the number of killed in the past ten months is over five thousand. and our correspondent sara firth is in syria she's been posting updates on the situation in her blog on dot com for you to keep track of the latest and still to come here on keeping track of the business world's top tier they're all meeting in davos switzerland the world's economic elite all getting their choppers and private jets on issues to tackle the eurozone recession forced to make some profit along the way while those worst hit by financial troubles find themselves locked out of the. thousands of egyptians are in cairo's now iconic to

roost square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but there is another reason it's a landmark day as almost thirty years over most of the rule is partially lifted although some key police powers will remain off he said he said no your study by a cairo forester a nice ohio we're seeing thousands of people in tahrir square an impressive backdrop there behind you we're hearing though it did the whole assembly there it's more out of frustration than celebration is that how you interpret it. that's right and that's exactly what activists are warning and asking these protesters not to do not to let this turn into a celebration because according to them there's a whole lot of work that still needs to be done a year after the revolution began right here on top here i think it's fair to say just to give you a closer look tens of thousands of poor. people have gathered we're hearing that hundreds of thousands more are making their way to talk or what we're seeing in twitter and facebook is people saying that's it it's official business bigger than

the twenty eighth which was just to remind you the biggest day of protests was last year the twenty fifth is when it all began of course and people sat in on top here basically not leaving for eighteen days until hosni mubarak finally stepped down but the people here it's certainly clear this time there's still a lot of anger a lot of frustration and you can hear it in their slogans this time they're chanting about the army about the field marshal talking toey so they've basically took mubarak out of that equation and now he's put his officials that are leading the country they say they're making concessions but according to these people there's a lot more work to be done and in fact my colleague maria for notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why the revolution lives on. a year off to its historic revolution in egypt is far from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutions and a significant achievement. we could never believe would come out and speak out like

this there are several reasons for egypt's people to take out to the streets following the uprising that ousted mubarak last february the country's economy is struggling unemployment at its highest in decades and while the newly elected islam is dominated parliament debate the country's future resentment grows against men to rule and the feeling they hijacked the revolution is administered we want them to do what the military should do it protect its citizens and neutral the country. in want to be sure that there will not destroy our lucian's achievements they've betrayed us the military dominated egypt's politics since the fall of the monarchy sixty years ago some skeptics a. the twenty eleven revolution did little to change this trend. where mubarak toppled down people welcome to the

supreme council of the armed forces to lead the transition but the initial euphoria began to fade when the military council was still in place six months later after one bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters officer another claiming at least eighteen lives of tobar there isn't any doubt left here scaf should go i believe that they're there i mean our life i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in words and that's what most of what all i know believe and we will work in whatever happens as these are works week and discard are scared because the boon arabic for army lawyers contain they work to reveal the army's wrongdoings between our female activists attacking field hospitals and conspiracy theories under the military council twelve thousand people have been brought to military trials that are against less than two thousand and mubarak's thirty years. claim it and leave when the new president is elected in

june but if you believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the generals may stay all behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish their power they've had for decades with protests pushing him to leave the one thing is clear the fight is not yet over grief notion r t cairo. well do head over to r.t. dot com for the latest from egypt as well as thoughts on what the revolution has really brought and here's what else we've got lined up for you right now at r.t. dot com the u.s. is tightening the noose around net freedom but a former spy chief has come clean about cyber snooping and even digital attacks on other countries. and big business gets one over on the politicians as iran's sanctions do little to stop western oil john's trading with terror on details on that on sea dog. as the world's business top brass descends

on switzerland some of the so-called one percent are saying capitalism is widening the pit of inequality but the economic elite from about forty nations at the davos economic forum are out to save the financial system stem the crisis and of course a seal a few lucrative deals laura lister is out the ski resort for us where she also met a few who were locked out of the talks. it's certainly on the agenda talk of remodelling capitalism debate about capitalism and they can talk all they want though you have to wonder how serious people are about that discussion when many of the corporations that are present here are those that have benefited from this this type of capitalism so although klaus schwab the founder of the world economic forum has said that capitalism in its current form has no place in the world around us these are the corporations and banks that are represented here many of which have benefited from government bailouts in the case of banks from central bank easy

money policies in the case case of many banks and corporations so whether or not these are the right people to be having that conversation to be talking about reform i'm not quite sure you also have to remember that while the official genet agenda yes deals with capitalism the unofficial agenda of davos is very much about making corporate deals and that might in fact the official agenda as you can probably recall some corporations here shell out up to three hundred thousand dollars for a membership to the world economic forum in order to be here they're shelling out that kind of money presumably for more than to talk about capitalism there have been reports in the past every year of the deals that go on the networking of this some sixteen hundred business leaders including a thousand executives that are here at davos some of these sessions dealing with remodeling capitalism specifically talk about the occupy movement is identifying some of these problems with capitalism that they're supposed to be talking about here at this forum bailout inequality those being some of the issues however none

of the occupy activists have been invited they're building igloos not too far from where the davos forum is taking place they're very much highlighting this occupy movement that is swept the globe klaus schwab was asked about that he said it's hard to identify a leader that was his excuse we're not likely to see them here unless of course mr schwab himself goes down to those igloos and maybe recruits a few so that we do hear those voices inside the fore. artie's laura lister reporting right there where you watching r.t. live from moscow twenty two minutes past the hour here russia's president says he's willing to meet with opposition members including representatives of those who protested against what they called the unfair parliamentary vote to retreat many beautiful so promise that an exciting political season will follow the upcoming presidential elections peter oliver has more. one of the main points that president medvedev made today was that it's well he really isn't done with politics just yet now of course he will step down in the role of president in march after the present

new presidential elections but he has said he hinted that perhaps he could appear on the ballot paper again going to see me office. to me a putin has said should he be elected as president in march his elections then he will make to me to get if his prime minister something which meant that if they accept it now they get it as has said that no matter what happens in the elections in march he will remain in politics now he also said that he was willing to meet with the leadership of the opposition leadership and the leaders behind protests which took place following the pala mentary elections we saw in december here in russia now he said he wasn't willing to meet with individual protesters but that organizes those people behind the protests that he was willing to sit down with them and discuss their grievances. this was an address by the president to a group of journalism students at a moscow university plenty of things that were being discussed one of them was the

case of mikhail khodorkovsky the president saying that the holocaust the case shouldn't become a political football that shouldn't be politicized and also dismissed rumors they've been circulating that last summer he had planned to release the jailed tycoon he said there was no truth in that whatsoever. journalism students that he was speaking to and the subject of journalism and the media did crop up person it made good of saying that there was too many state owned television stations in russia and that they really need to cut down the number of those perhaps only having worn as the mouthpiece of the government and to have more private television companies and more private news stations in the country. now with the business. thanks rory as we've been reporting on and see the world's biggest economic forum's

taking place in the swiss resort of davus this year the get together is being elder under the banner of reshaping capitalism prompted by four years of financial turmoil and political protests the global elite will grapple with the thorny issue of how to create a fairer world when you see the compensation gaps that exist the unemployment levels that exist whole generations of the war potential employees that don't have jobs today the youth in different parts of the world yeah there are some fundamental issues that have to be looked at and quite frankly if we don't start with ourselves to understand our role from a business standpoint in dealing with these issues i don't know how they're going to be solved i mean to me this is a classic example of how it's a complex issue it clearly requires collaboration between the business community between governments and key policymakers and that degree of collaboration doesn't exist it's pretty hard to see how these problems are going to be solved but i want

to. market watchers claim this year is likely to be volatile for investors but emerging markets look appealing certainly when it comes to fundamentals which remain strong among the bric economies the risk aversion though comes from the euro zone crisis which is fueling a global recession joshua told him from russian telecoms major m.t.s. believes emerging markets are the only place to go for those wanting to capitalize on the growth. it's sometimes a challenge given the volatility that we see in global economies to get people interested in emerging markets however for the medium and long term we feel that investors need to look towards emerging markets because this is going to be the most natural place for growth in the world russia has what everybody needs resources to some degree intellectual capital and we feel that we're in a good position to capitalize on the long term. trying not to take a look at the markets oil is falling for a second day raising allegations of just really is that it will join europe in boycotting iranian oil this is being offset by a rising u.s.

stockpiles of crude nevertheless we're seeing a drop of eighty five cents for light sweet crude. the stocks now in europe the trading in the red way down by pharmaceuticals and telecommunications shares a ericsson tumbled by as much as forty percent after the firm reported a sixty five percent profit decline for the full force of banks also under pressure on a more upbeat note chip maker holdings added more than three percent in london boy by robust earnings from apple look at them in the second and now to russia equity markets. they have bucking the global trend banking and energy stocks are among the main game is a second look at what's moving them isaacson deeds burbank and be rallying on improving sentiment about the euro zone's a debt crisis that we're in for more than two percent however russia's world major lukoil the biggest private company is down hard four percent after dropping almost two percent in the previous session. and now the ruble is set new highs for twenty

twelve against the dollar and the euro in my sex trading liquidity squeeze in the russian banking sector driven by tax payments in the oil price have been supporting the currency the euro is also down against the bill off to the european central bank was said to be opposed to restructuring its greek bonds. so all the business news for now we will be back next hour with an update.

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market. find out what's really happening to the global economy mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. it is five thirty pm here in the russian capital you're watching the headlines the world's top whistle blow it is to get others to spill the beans on t.v. . show right here on. the wiki leaks founder exposed some of the world's darkest secrets and his new series will premiere. in march. president obama kicks off his campaign to stay in the white house using the

state of the union address to pledge saving the economy he stressed his successes and promises millions of new jobs but critics say his upbeat tone doesn't reflect reality. and tens of thousands of egyptians are going to risk wed so mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak's thirty year rule but it's along with celebration because of driving with. the we bring you the story of one father who stood up against a massive multi national corporation to defend his rights and property the story is right now. then why i was where i saw one when my why why.