as i saw it as his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed became a byword for for explosives control to see when he released the biggest ever set of u.s. the court 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 brighter and better tomorrow that as i say is going to be focused 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 cause to twitter there is a light with rumors about the show relation about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves 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 filmed where assault has 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 tearing to fight against his actually titian to sweden for questioning on a leg sexual assault charges so as i say no lose 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. while it's a sealed stay 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 our t.s.a. watch this space. correspondent laura smith right there well r.t. news executive nicholai a book which describes how the network signed up julian assange in britain they

were quite interesting discussions we said in our office after christmas sharing ideas about the show's possibilities and obviously it would be and it channels real right now to get our son but i think it's quite natural that his show will be on our t.v. i mean r.t. always tries to go beyond that to see other sides of a news story and sure the real reasons behind the news that you would see on mainstream channels when we talked to them was very calm and relaxed which you wouldn't 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 and over to you now to tell us what topics you would like to see julian tackle an expose on his new t.v. series on our see from march bringing out the numbers here the votes from our two dot com this hour just over a third believe that he should focus on who really rules the mainstream media

twenty nine percent think this is serious and should focus on the nato war machine agenda and well about the same number of would like to see julian expose how banks rule the world finally eleven percent want him to expose who can control the internet do you tell us what you want to see make your choice now at our c dot com . millions of new jobs manufacturing back on track war in iraq over bin laden gone barack obama has set out his stall for reelection using the annual state of the union address to do it but it's not easy gynae to chicken 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 americans social inequality in america is now at a level unseen since the great depression the top one percent of the wealthiest in the country are making a killing while the middle class is shrinking dramatically and that gap 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 iran 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 of ghana's 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. it is going to if you can report it right there will still to come for you in the program here keeping the business world's top here taking over the world's economic elite set out to tackle the eurozone recession and make some profit all along the way and while those worst

hit by financial troubles find themselves locked out. thousands of egyptians are in cairo's now iconic to rear square to mark a year since the uprising that toppled president mubarak but there's another reason it's a landmark day as almost thirty years of emergency rule is partially lifted although some police powers will stay in place in eastern hour he was in cairo to see the anger is causing concerns about are allowing the post revolution celebrations to go too far. 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 people have gathered we're hearing that hundreds of thousands more are making their way to times square what we're seeing in twitter

and facebook is people saying that's it it's official this is 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 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 tonto you so they've basically took mubarak out of that equation and now these 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 from notion has been talking to people and taking a closer look at why the revolution lives on. a year off to its historic revolution egypt response from calm protests have become a part of everyday life and no longer an event one of the revolutionists most

significant achievements. we could never believe we 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 is at its highest in decades and while the new the imac tent islam is dominated parliament debates the country's future resentment grows against michiru and the feeling they hijacked the revolution is what we want them to do what the military should do to protect its citizens. the country. want to be sure that they will not destroy our lucian's achievements they betrayed us. the military dominated egypt's politics since the fall of the monarchy sixty years ago some skeptics say the twenty eleven revolution did little to change this trend when mubarak toppled down people welcomed 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 after another claiming at least eighty lives since october there isn't any doubt left here scoff should go voice is not a contest is a good louder but fear is a growing must go out of the main living area. and to score a scary cuz aboon arabic or army lawyers campaign 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 against less than two thousand in mubarak's thirty years i believe that they're there i mean i believe that we don't want them anywhere here in this chair that's what i believe in the words and that's what most of what all i

you know believe and we will work in whatever scaf claim it to leave when the new president is elected in june but few believe the promises that once were broken so easily some also fear that the generals may stay on behind the scenes reluctance to relinquish the power they've had for decades with protests pushing them to leave though one thing is clear the fight is not yet over. r.t. cairo. and i do head over to r.t. dot com for the latest from egypt as well as a thoughts on what the revolution has really. broad here's what else we got lined up for you on our web site right now for example the u.s. is tightening the noose around net freedom but a former spy chief is coming clean about cyber snooping and even digital attacks on other countries. and big business it gets one over on the politicians as iran's is too little to stop western oil giants still trading with to run those details of

our party's going to come. but as the world's business top brass descends on switzerland some of the so-called one percent are saying that capitalism is widening the pit of inequality for the economic elite from around forty nations at the davos economic forum are out to save the financial system stem of the crisis and of course see all the few lucrative deals along the way lauren lyster is at the ski resort for us where she also met a few who are 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 they're 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 bailouts 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 there 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 and less of course mr schwab himself goes down to those igloos and maybe recruits if you so that we do hear those voices inside the fore. artie's lauren lyster reporting there from davos 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 dimitri medvedev also promised that an exciting political season will follow the upcoming presidential elections he's a pretty well of it now has more of this from central moscow. 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 but he has said he hinted that perhaps he could appear on the ballot paper again going to see me office now. that to me a putin has said should he be elected as president in march his elections then he will make to meet he may get if his prime minister something which may get if they accept it no if it is 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 leaders behind protests which took place following the pollen and tree 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 things that were being discussed one of them was the case of. 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 jail 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 president made dead 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. it is part of all of our reporting from the current president to someone who wants to be the next one of russia's richest man to help rock off has become the fifth registered candidate in the

upcoming presidential election it is the first time that he's run and he is considered a dark course in the race for the kremlin he did explain to us here at r.t. though why he decided to fight for the top job. you're doing well i make decisions quickly i guess the first develop within me over a long period of time and then when conditions are right i get a kind of signal that it's time for a change so when i realized that i had to change something i turned to politics back in april when i just joined the right cause i knew there would be a release on belong in a square in the ross way it would that's why i went into politics or do you mean you knew nobody i got the signal this happens to me you know see i foresaw the rises and i sold my s.s. in advance you from this time it was the same thing is it. he was i don't know i guess it's a bit more tricky it's a combination of knowledge experience being aware of the current situation in the

country and the world wide and intuition world added together all these things and able you to make the right move. and the interview with me here in full then i just over just over fifteen minutes now here on out russia says that one sided resolutions on foreign intervention will not solve syria foreign minister sergei laughed off once 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. because we fully support the immediate halting of violence in the country no matter where it comes from that's 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. well 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 the arms failed earlier syria agreed to extend the arab league observers 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 killed in the past ten months is over five dollars. when our correspondent sara furthur she is in syria and she's posting updates on the situation in her blog on r.t.

dot com for you to keep track of the latest right there well before we get to dmitri with the business news let's get to the r.t. world update now some other international news in brief and at least twenty three have been killed in a tribal region near the pakistani afghan border when soldiers clash with militants officials say six of the dead were pakistani troops who were attacked by taliban fighters during a search operation pakistan has been battling against groups linked either to the taliban or al qaeda in the area for several years. until rains are widespread chaos to southeastern australia several local reverse have burst their banks causing landslips and a flash floods over four thousand residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the state of new south wales alone with more heavy downpours and strong winds forecast for the area australia was also hit by a devastating floods last year which killed thirty five. chinese new year festivities in central thailand it turned into a tragedy when

a pyrotechnic display erupted are seen here into a huge explosion the accident happened because a rocket misfired and set light to a pile of unused fireworks four people died and many more were injured in the blast set more than one hundred homes on fire as well as dozens of cars. india's labor laws guarantee full time workers a range of benefits from decent wages to paid holidays but not everyone in the country's poorer areas is able to take advantage of those rights employers have found a legal loophole exposing many workers to exploitation through fear of losing their jobs without warning press written reports. it's got one of the fastest growing populations in the world and getting india's eager young workforce into skilled jobs is no mean feat business tycoon money shopper well thinks he has the answer a temp agency that trains and then touts its labor. existed all over the world

template stuff things that would but do know what we've heard somebody of the five minutes for the last five years filling posts and bringing home a paycheck it sounds like a perfect match but for indian firms there are extra more dubious benefits india's tough labor laws make it hard to fire workers plus permanent staff get decent hours holidays and a living wage none of which apply to hiring temps it's a cost cutting gifts keeping employers smiling all the way to the bank india has always been a famous destination for foreign companies to outsource their work at its cost but a growing trend here is for indian companies themselves to outsource their workforce to agencies like tim lee instead of hiring workers for themselves everywhere from malls to restaurants in india are using agencies to hire and manage their workers for the shopper while insists his workers do benefit vital training they are unlikely to get in india as many poverty stricken regions in the woman who

film you know who really cannot afford a very expensive education it's the going to be for people who have those skills but don't know where to go they don't have the grooming them because some pantry agrees she's in her old in one of the many nationwide team lease training centers to improve her english skills and enroll in a computer accounting course to make her stand out from the crowd to potential employers may obey them with your coffee i was very warned to nervous about sitting for job interviews i'm not fluent in english so i'm good teachers speak in english we get motivated and gain some confidence going but critics say jobs people like some end up in should be higher paid and permanent and because the agency keeps the jobless figures down many believe it's applied in india avoid. it's labor law to me is which lets firms get away with dire wages and sacking staff on a whim but she says the priority for those on his roster is putting bread on the table and that is really where we came in and said that look

a job is better than one job and employers were not hiring people because they were scared of him because they were low as we were saying look there are lots of kids who actually are not trying to move too often employers will use the law as a weapon in their hands to hit employers they're just warned an opportunity to get a job preassure either r t new delhi india i don't know less than ten minutes time here on r t we want to russia's richest men and a presidential candidate that it may help profit off they'll be coming up after dmitri with the business. story well as we've been reporting on see the world's biggest economic forum is taking place in the swiss resort of doubles this year the get together is being held under the banner of reshaping capitalism for years of financial turmoil and political protest the global elites will grapple with a 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 employees 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 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 if that degree of collaboration doesn't exist it's pretty hard to see how these problems are going to be solved for the long term. the fate of the euro is were weighing on many minds in the alps the head of russia's biggest lenders burbank having gaffe believes the european policy makers should not focus on keeping all the current numbers in the single currency. it was from go through. the euro will have

a say i think the situation would be improved if several countries left the single currency this is a key year for the eurozone in terms of making decisions and understanding the new reality separately i hope economic relations between russia and the e.u. become more closely integrated i think the current difficult situation in europe will encourage it to explore the growth potential of emerging markets like russia of the former soviet states and turkey. take a look at the markets this oil is falling by the second day it's raising early gains of just earlier said it will join europe in boycotting the way while this is being offset by rising u.s. stockpiles of crude yet the light sweet is still down eighty two cents this out to stocks now in europe they're trading in the red the way down by pharmaceutical and telecommunications company shares of ericsson tumbled more than fourteen percent at one point after the firm reported the sixty five percent profit decline for the fourth quarter. so also under pressure on

a more upbeat note chip maker holdings added three point six percent in london boy by robust earnings from apple apple is actually proposed for a nine percent gain at the opening trades in the u.s. . now in russia i could be markets are bucking that trend seen in europe pretty positive the idea is that if one percent of my six half a percent mostly driven by financial shares let's take a look at them to burbank indeed see some of the biggest gain is up two point three and two and a half percent respectively look while i ever is losing a third of a percent it's continuing its losing streak from yesterday. and the ruble is set to new highs for twenty twelve against the dollar the euro in the my six trading in the quality squeeze in the russian banking sector driven by tax payments and where prices have. supporting the currency here is also down against the dollar after european central bank was said to be opposed to restructuring its

a greek bonds and the dollar is stronger ahead of the fed meeting chanda chairman ben bernanke he will be sharing his views in a news conference soon. are the headlines are next on r.t. to stay with us.

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but it is a frustration along with celebration because of dragging. and with russians heading to the polls in march to elect a president we talked to the fifth registered candidate for the race one of the country's tycoons and owner of the new jersey nets basketball team next we hear from me about his plans for russia as he makes his first bid for the country's top job.