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redefining the boundaries of journalism extraordinary strikes back with a new show listening to shine a light on the grime untouched by the mass media. syrian opposition shows its muscle faces its anti regime rallies see a renewed vigor. not necessarily defending the traditional slogans of change. glass waterboarding stress positions and segregation in secret memo shows the u.s. was against something cruel interrogation techniques random war crimes.
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are you watching r t world needs twenty four hours a day. the world's most controversial and polarizing whistleblower to date is premiering his very own show here on the team today a program called world tomorrow with julian assange is just a few hours away and sometimes promises to push the limits by giving voice to he's annoyed to other mass media had about the man and his revelation shocking even the little superpowers told us just what prompted him to start his own program. well the wait is. wiki leaks founder julian that still is his exclusive new show is to be broadcast here on r t today choose day i can't tell you who the first guest is you just have to cheat and find out what i can tell you is that they are all opinion all through this twelve states series there are some distance and there are some who have very rarely been interviewed to network television the first
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guest is particularly controversial and according to you know when i speak to him highly charismatic now i want to talk to. the head of the broadcast of the program the secretly casing where he filmed we told all about the show how he chose the guests because he spends a lot of time himself in the interview with guests he talks about his disenchantment with mainstream media and why he chose in our team to broadcast this show and also why he feels that he's in a unique position to make an interview show that's what he had to say. the majority of. that work. is not just because. it's because my thought i would be someone who.
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so i want something. good so why are you. pulling out. i'm doing with me. ok i understand that they're not dealing with. someone. trying. so i can speak greek. because. this is a we could anniversaries so personal and professional it's five hundred days this week since the investigation into the allegations of sexual assault since we didn't began and he has been under house arrest virtually for looked at that time and yet
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still new charges have been laid against him formally and we did see the case in the supremes cool finished on the second of february already so it's nearly ten weeks since that case finished and still no verdict has been handed down by the supremes court is also five hundred days this week since the wiki leaks bank accounts were brazen and that's of course made it very difficult for them to raise any funding and really the whole future of the wiki leaks operation under threats this is why this is so unique it was conceived by julian assange during this incredibly difficult time in his life when he was virtually under house arrest as he still is having to report to the police station every day he told me that he's somebody who's always traveled you know he's always met a lot of people and then he found himself in a position where he couldn't go to people so he wanted to find a way of making people come to him and that's how they say well the research in my freezer.
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was used to go around the world. the greatest. and so it's quite isolated. country. this. to me so. i actually have. well the whole about interview is coming your way in about twenty five minutes time better be sure to be around at eleven thirty g.m.t. today when we'll be airing the first episode of the world tomorrow with julian such . hasn't been easy to get on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact of. the source material is what he journalism on we.
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we want to present. something of. the u.n. human rights what he has admitted that balance in that he's dwindling in syria after a cease fire came into force last week after it says nations are still shaking the fragile truce and hostilities give way to mass rallies there are fears that some activists with different calls for freedom and democracy are being discredited by the own militia may find some of the images in the report. but this is the immediate things of the syrian revolution and shaman man with kalashnikovs appealing to the international community just dog the killing of children by the blood there is the army. of doctors a few weeks later of the same man this time posing as soldiers going around
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knocking of it's yours. later we see them again already dad shown on you tube as civilians were savagely killed by troops yet still western policy makers insist on calling the people within fighters rather than charity united states of america. and the definition for the. united states of america. and who are fighting really for the. three of you know. this is the case and if you talk about syria we have. no. organization of course this is also the syrian opposition.
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goals and ways of achieving them are strikingly different these kurdish women are against the entrenched discrimination of their ethnic group others in the crowd call for free elections and stopping arbitrary detentions still the main slogan they're rallying under is for peaceful change. we think that bashar al assad has stepped down but we are totally convinced it can be achieved turn on violent means the only way for this democratic revolution to proceed is peacefully all sides have to stop the violence small rallies like these almost the wicklow kerns in damascus but based time even syrian state t.v. came to film a while the armed rebels grab all the attention the syrian opposition has many faces and there's a growing concern here that basically the radicals for the last may be hurting because of the more moderate forces that the gunfire has essentially drowned out more legitimate calls for democratic change while the organizers of this rally
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received a permit from there it didn't last long an hour into the approaches a group of us thought supporters appeared from nowhere sending demonstrators running on this occasion nobody was hurt or getting. the markers she is about the rule of the majority on the majority of the people support bashar al assad these people may be carrying with him out there from from go. force that supporters there is indeed little difference between peaceful protesters and the rabble and it looks like the west is making this famous think by betting on the armed opposition international powers to make activists like these guilty of association with the gun charging militia when people start seeing violence. it gets much much worse obviously a lot of other folks will start to come in as i see all the girls as just not promote democracy but quite the opposite and promotes chaos even grimaud in the
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long run. syria has long prided itself on tolerance but when it comes to politics come off very quickly not only of syrians you have to agree to disagree but more importantly they have to learn how to do it in a nonviolent way and the work of art the democratic syria and fast team of u.n. monitors has started its mission to stabilize the troops u.s. based professor of middle east studies on this as an operation and provide the world community with more time to decide on the next step and i think steps in syria. it's not clear what they can do they will report back to the u.n. security council and the opposition has been calling for a timeline they want this to be referred back to the u.n. almost immediately they say they have they're claiming that it's not working and it's falling apart but i think the international community doesn't know what to do
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next and they're likely to give this more time and hope that they can if they can begin to bring some calm to syria there were reports that opposition number of free syrian army people have talked that they're going to try to use this to rearm get guns in and antitank missiles some of them are saying from iraq and really whether the coup sides can be brought to the figo shooting table that's going to be the important thing is if there is any will from either side to negotiate an outcome of this rather than hope for a win. still ahead for later this hour crying tears of anything but. this braving the man behind still seventy seven people across the most simple way last chance something motion to remind us who thinks its. revenues this week of protests can just stop when you saw the security door backs up debate the response. bringing. privacy.
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waterboarding and stress positions stressed some controversial torture techniques used by the u.s. against terror suspects a secret history which runs them war crimes shows the bush administration was warned against using them as i know now explains many people president obama isn't it enough to make up for america's post mistakes. america's so-called war on terror produced images and accounts that ignited a world of questions about torture and the u.s. treatment of suspects american people need to know or using techniques within the law. two years after george w. bush left the white house let's talk about waterboarding the former commander in chief it made it his stamp of approval for the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding dubbed into humane and illegal under u.s. law and the geneva conventions well as waterboarding legal in your opinion as
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a lawyer said it was legal so that they saw within the. torture. and the churches to judge whether people were going to do the bush administration also chose to disregard the judgment of a top adviser who warned that the cia's interrogation of terror suspects equated to felony war crimes according to a secret memo obtained by wired magazine in two thousand and six state department councilor philip zelikow warned the white house that controversial interrogation techniques such as waterboarding stress positions and cramped confinement are prohibited under u.s. law and under american law there is no precedent for excusing treatment that is intrinsically cruel even if the state asserts compelling need to use it i think there needs to be an accounting in the united states of what was going on over the last eight years and name of america there is a precedent because of the second world. united states actually executed japanese
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soldiers who had. used torture. against american prisons they took action against the japanese when the u.s. has been on record as opposing. other countries so there is a clear legal case to say that you know action must be taken we're still evaluating two weeks before taking office u.s. president barack obama steered. we are of saving america's historic commitments to international justice obviously we're looking at past records. and don't believe that anybody is for the law on the other hand i also have a belief that the year before that's rose as possible looking backwards last june obama's u.s. justice department dropped a ninety nine out of one hundred in one cases against cia interrogators over the use of torture i'm afraid but the current ministration wants to keep those options open they don't want to label these techniques just as crime pure torture because
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that would prohibit them from using them why we named legal definition however slightly grainy he needed surgery option will largely stick nukes once again and that is what is frightening here scholars attorneys and human rights experts around the world have called for the prosecution of senior bush administration officials who designed in order torture tactics however critics say the unspoken agreement within countries proclaiming to pioneer democracy is to never turn on your own the problem is that in the west we you know we make great claim about our great democracies but there is a kind of stitched up between the elite. but they will not press charges and they will not take legal action against the crimes of the previous administrations through the use of torture rendition and secret prisons america's moral position around the world has are undoubtedly shifted and while the u.s. will likely continue marking the beacons of freedom and democracy critics say the
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more important question to ask is who's even listening anymore for an i.r.c. . the head of november's elections our special report looks at the accuracy of the country's voting system that's coming your way. bush will. always buy one vote for kerry. so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons he can flip a vote then. a courtroom under armed guard will open its doors for the second day later on tuesday with a norwegian mass a killer and his bravery expecting to deliver
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a prepared statement experts say to help resolve the main dilemma of the great insane or criminally responsible i mean one of the truthers thirty three year old of cincinnati keeping a fascist salutes and shedding tears after his own propaganda video. meeting killing seventy seven people in last summer's car bombing in oslo and a shooting spree at a youth camp outside of the capital. he's pleaded not guilty saying the attacks in self-defense to protect a new way from islam really now fear that the blanket coverage of the trial turned into a showcase of rethinks extremist ideas concerning former european confirmed. that is the way through all the justice system work seen in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views on just hopes that the overall we would turkey people will reject him for what they are signs of
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a if you want i'm a man who who is deluded and and a racist was on a focus is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway he's just he was particularly successful but i think he's a he's one of. many maybe too strong body he's certainly not unique in name means whatsoever unleashed groups are actually working together to promote these kind of lone wolves who in many senses follow the the same pattern as the some of the muslim fundamentalists do. well you can fly in the lake as updates on this disturbing story or traffic but it's very beginning on our website r.t. dot com there's also plenty more that to catch your eye is a taste of british a good suspended from the labor party for the edge of the second attempt in pam brown it's a principle bombing from the bush. blasts russian culture vultures come to pray
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themselves by many tricks need not like this. week. i agree internet users are protesting against a new web security bill pending in the us congress they fear the cyber intelligence sharing and protection that's all since but make privacy thing of the past comes out of the stop online piracy act was recently home to wave of outrage where freedom activist trevor tim hopes will make us all then from past experience. before we were trying to stop sopa congress wouldn't return the calls of the liberties community they would return the calls they were just trying to shove it through congress without any debate whatsoever once they saw the power of the
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internet users can organize and really make a difference in the legislative procedure i think they understood that you know they have to be more understanding now what we're seeing is that the authors of the bill are trying to disassociate themselves with soap but they actually talk about the intellectual property clause last week which is a good sign unfortunately they didn't go nearly as far enough and we're running a weeklong protest this week actually i'm trying to convince congressmen to vote no on this bill until they take up these privacy destroying provisions and hopefully make it a bill which can affect cybersecurity positively but not encroach on the privacy rights of americans or look at some other stories making headlines around the world this. got a stone and what it says into the intelligence plane is also a name for a series of recent coordinated attacks across the country and this writing took place in kabul of the weekend but the militants of those assaults on. district
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twenty six insurgents were killed with these services and three civilians and sometimes in their lives. the un report says at least seven people have been killed in clashes on the border of sudan and south sudan comes just days on. from raids on disputed border. after it was seized by the south fighting between the two countries has escalated since sunstone pendants. the world bank has us back so young came became his mission nearing treating the aids as its new president morning of rights experts think countries were not given the choice many have criticised the decision king's international community for ensure the national post but fears over kim's lack of experience in the fields . that took seven thirty g.m.t.
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artie's a kaiser report takes a look at how the money to decisions in the far east influenced the global economy . in the story amounts. were one hundred bodies are found every year from people committing suicide they think that by murdering their currency by self inflicting wounds into their own currency supple cook who. somehow this is a noble monetary policy but the result this is throwing the target law the economy under the bus somebody needs to stage an intervention and these japanese policymakers they are suicidal hallmarks. so what's happening in the world of four legged creature has more from our business desk what's the latest data carrie well right now global investors are pricing in fresh concerns about economic growth fueled by yet another bunch of disappointing
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data coming from china are not helping is the current sentiment about europe with the markets that way any ability of spain to withstand the crisis and this is evident if we look at the asian markets this morning they're open for business as you can see the hang sign is down about six tenths of a percent the nikkei has just recently in the last few minutes slipped into negative territory start talking about china first of all there's a few sentiments going on recently reporting a six percent decline in direct foreign investment for march is also an issue with reactivation of two nuclear reactors this is been delayed also if we talk about japan as they say they've recently gone down that's largely because of the you. know much more positive but others say they are indeed down so they seem to be not really responding to that. if we talk about the stocks that are doing it particularly well it's also expected that is still managing to get
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a what's helping out is that it's the u.s. dollar remaining more or less steady with the yen in other words the yen is weaker exporters love it there is talk about the u.s. the yesterday was a mixed finish as you can see a bit down jones management finished for half a percent the nasdaq down about three quarters of a percent so it's a mix spin it as i mentioned the retail sells which helped us stocks to rise fall in the biggest decline of the year is earnings season and fifty groups hope to leave the ranks higher after porting a fixed income trading revenue. for the fourth quarter if we get over to the russian market so i can tell you it's less than two hours now ahead of the bell here and they've managed to finish it in the rare as it is yesterday as you can see that this sense moves down while the supplies in. prize and a week starts for the u.s. equity. if we look at a car is we see that the euro has a recently. down now the our dollar is down one thirty one at sixteen as you can
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see that is very choppy trading indeed for the trade is a favorite pair we're going to be watching that one very closely because of all the problems going on in europe as you can see the euro the ruble is mixed against the u.s. dollar and the euro there it's higher against the year low against the dollar. that is moving into the markets now after back in about fifteen minutes german that due to apologize or getting what i had of myself how can i possibly forget about it well prices they are also likely just a fraction of their hundred two dollars per barrel got the bread over one hundred eighteen dollars per barrel at this hour i was got the embargo due to take place in june of the talks over the weekend we're going to be monitoring the situation as i say fifteen minutes. ok thanks for that update. stay with us for an interview with the sarge are talking updates of the headlines.
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