we want to present. something. redefining the boundaries of journalism whistleblower extraordinary julian assange strikes back with a news show promising to sign a light on the dirt and grime untouched by the mass media. the syrian opposition shows its multiple faces last anti regime rallies see a renewed vigor with the gunfire not necessarily defending revolutionary slogans for change. but water boarding stress positions and degradation the secret memo shows the u.s. was warned against using cruel interrogation techniques branding them war crimes.

but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and use the now always good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital now the world's most controversial and polarizing whistleblower today is grim hearing his very own show here on our t.v. in just over an hour's time from die hard liberals ideological stalwarts julie in the sunshine promises to push the limits by giving voice to views and ideas sung by the mass media well ahead of that though the man whose revelation shook even the world superpowers feels artie's laura smith what prompted him to go on em. great. wiki leaks founder julian that still has exclusive new shows is to be broadcast here on r t today choose day i can't tell you the best guess is you just have to tune in to find out what i can tell you is that they are all opinion all

through this twelve x. eight series there are some distance and there is some who have very rarely been interviewed to network television the first guest is particularly controversial and according to you know when i speak to him charismatic now i went to talk to. a head of the broadcast of the program at the secret location where he filmed we told all about how he chose the guests because he spends a lot of time himself in the interview with death he talks about his disenchantment with mainstream media and why he chose in our t.v. to broadcast it. and also why he feels that he's in a unique position to make an interview show let's hear what he had to say. the majority of what. work.

is because of the work that's because i thought i would meet someone. and so i wanted something to. put. the situation so why are you. doing with me. i understand you were. doing was. trying. so i can speak. i think. this is a we could anniversaries. personal and professional it's five hundred days based week since the investigation into the allegations of sex with souls in sweden began

he has been under house arrest chile for a look at that time and yet still new charges have been laid against him formally we did see the case in the future green color to finish 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 raised 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 threat this is why this is so unique it was conceived. during this incredibly difficult time in his life when he was but really 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 for. now i. was used to going around the world it's the place. where. the greatest place. so it's quite isolated. for those commissions. people. so. well be sure to be around in just over an hour's time or will be airing the first episode of julie messenger as much awaited talk show. syrian opposition activists say dialogue with the president also is possible only if brokered by the un the european union and the arab league

speaking on their visit to moscow the leaders of the national court an asian committee also said foreign interference into the conflict is unacceptable but as moscow admitted the ceasefire in syria is fragile and stressed the importance of large scale observer mission now with mass rallies renewing with a vengeance there are fears some activists legitimate calls for freedom and democracy are being discredited by the armed militia and they fry some of the images in the uk front of what was reported just for them. this is the need to face of the syrian revolution and shaban men with kalashnikovs appealing to the international community to still be killing of children but it blocks the assad army. a few weeks later the same man this time pulls in these soldiers are going around homes knocking on the doors of innocent people. later we see them again already dad shown on you tube as civilians were savagely

killed by troops still western policymakers insist on calling these people freedom fighters rather than charities united states of america. so. do i and the definition for their. united states of america. and who are fighting really for. this is the case and if you talk about. we. know there are going to ration of course this is also the syrian opposition but the faces goals and ways of achieving them are strikingly different based kurdish women are against be 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 to step down but we are totally convinced it can be achieved through nonviolent means the only way for this democratic revolution to proceed peacefully all sides have to stop the violence small rallies like these almost the wicklow curran's in damascus but this time even syrian state t.v. came to feel my arms rebels grab all the attention the syrian opposition has many faces and there's a growing concern here is that basically what the radicals for the last may be hurting because of the more moderate forces that the gun fire has essentially drowned out more legitimate calls for democratic change while the organizers of this rally received a permit from there it didn't last long an hour into the protest a group of assad supporters appeared from nowhere sending demonstrators running on

this occasion nobody was hurt by getting this democracy is about the rule of the majority of my jordi of the people support bush are all of these people may be here and. there from from go scary guns. course that supporters there is indeed little difference between peaceful protesters and the rebels and it looks like the west is meeting these things think a betting on the armed opposition international chorus make activists like this guilty of association with big gun charging militia when people start seeing violence. it gets much much worse. a lot of models will start to come in. all regards as just not promote democracy but quite obviously chaos in. syria has long prided itself on tolerance but when it comes to politics the gloves come off very quickly not only

a syrian city 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 see them ask syria. and the advance team of u.n. monitors has started its mission to stabilize the troops u.s. base professor of media studies joshua landis says the operation will provide the world community with more time to decide on the next diplomatic steps in syria. it's not clear what they can do they will report back to the un security council and the opposition has been calling for a timeline and they want this to be referred back to the un almost immediately they say 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 next and they're likely to give this more time and hope that they can they can prevent to bring some calm to syria and there were reports that opposition to the 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 two sides can be brought to the figo shooting table that's going to be important because if there is any will from either side to negotiate an outcome of this rather than hope for a win. still ahead for you this hour crying tears of anything but and i think the man behind that that seventy thousand people in last summer's massacre in norway there was this first statement to court a day after showing some of motion and only out a reminder of his unfulfilled extremist idea. and web users kick off a week of protests hoping to stop a new cybersecurity law that the debate with congress saying it could bring an end to the scene. waterboarding and stress positions just two of the torture techniques used by the u.s. against terrorist suspects now

a secret memo has been leaked which grounds the war crimes and shows the bush administration was warned against their use. explains many feel president obama isn't doing enough to make up for america's past 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 does talk about waterboarding the former commander in chief that made it his stamp of approval for the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding dubbed inhumane and illegal under u.s. law and the geneva conventions well as waterboarding legal in your opinion as a lawyer said it was legal so that they. could have torture. and the church has to says well the people where you have. 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 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 done over the last eight years in the name of america there is a christian because after the second. united states actually executed japanese soldiers who. used. against american prisons they took action against the japanese what made the u.s. . as opposing which. 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 going to be looking at their aspirations. and they'll believe that anybody is for but not on the other hand i also have a belief that when you before those walls as opposed to what looking back which last june obama's u.s. justice department dropped in ninety nine out of one hundred one cases against cia interrogators over the use of torture i'm afraid that the current administration wants to keep those options open so you don't want to label these techniques just as your torture because it would use you know we will definition however slight we agree they need and so to be option widens techniques once again there 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 that we are great democracies but there is a kind of between the. parties they will not press charges and they will not take legal action against the crimes of our previous administrations through the use of torture rendition and secret prisons out there a prisoner world position or around the world has are undoubtedly shifted and while the u.s. will likely continue barking the beacons of freedom and democracy critics say the more important question to ask is who is even listening anymore for an i.r.c. we are. now we do not mass killer anders breivik says he would carry out another

assault if he had a chance the words came in his statement to court on the second day of his trial the hearing was delayed after a late josh was dismissed from the panel for reading on facebook that breivik deserved to die. sentence a penalty which is banned in norway and is prepared speech the thirty three year old described his massacre as the most spectacular of this occasion attack on europe world war two the method of killing seventy seven people in last summer's car bombing in oslo and shooting in a shooting spree at a youth camp outside the capital however he's pleaded not guilty thing the attacks were an act of self to france to protect norway from it's not many here the blanket coverage of the trial could turn into a showcase for extremist ideas a concern shared by former m.p. ford. bodies the way the fuel the justice system works in the european union in norway he he will clearly i was opportunities to express his own views on just

hopes that the overwhelming majority of people who reject who for what they are signs of if you want i'm a man who who is deluded and a racist this is something that we've seen across the european union. in germany and in france in the united kingdom as well as in norway he's just he was critically successful but i think he's he's he's one of. many maybe too strong but he he's certainly not unique in name means whatsoever and least groups are actually working together to promote these kind of low wall the su in any sense is follow the same pattern loosely as some of the muslim fundamentalists. but you can find all the latest updates on this disturbing story and track it back to its very beginning our website r.t. dot com there's also plenty more there to catch your eye here's a taste of what's lined up a british lord is suspended from the labor party after allegedly serving a ten million pound bounty on the head of the president obama and george w.

bush. in part russian culture vultures become prey themselves of the family tricks night art lovers and to spend a fortune on a car. one . hundred. fifty years. when five forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find a belle the haunted retire. there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor i knows that. we have seventy acres and i can convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two

hundred feet from. the needs of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are a vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing this is what foreign interest problems with before we do the radical. change. in our flows are not toxic and we did a lot of there's a lot of mis understanding of what is actually in the flow of. time does it get come out here and lay out you come out here and live in my house for a week. i have no grades. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought

you knew you don't. charge is a big. direction r t why from moscow angry internet users are protesting against a new web security bill pending in the u.s. congress they fear the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or this well make privacy a thing of a past comes after the stop online privacy act was recently halted after a wave of out rates freedom activist trevor tim hopes lawmakers will learn from past experience before when we were trying to stop sopa congress wouldn't return the calls of the civil liberties community that would return the calls of the tech community they were just trying to shove it through congress without any debate

whatsoever once they saw the power of the internet and 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 with this is that the authors of the bill are trying to disassociate themselves with soap but they actually took out the intellectual property laws last week which is a good sign unfortunately they didn't go nearly as far enough and were running a weeklong protest this week actually 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. well look now at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour a religious prime minister says the country will withdraw its troops from afghanistan and turn to. your earlier than planned really a killer the deadline was because afghans will now be ready to take responsibility

sooner the plans will be discussed at a nato summit next month australia has around fifteen hundred troops stationed in the country has lost thirty two soldiers in the conflict. you are reported says at least seven people have been killed in clashes on the border of sudan and south sudan becomes just days after the country launched from raids on because you did border oil town of heglig after it was seized by the south i mean between the two has escalated since south sudan gained independence last july. the world bank has chosen a u.s. backed jim young family physician and pioneering really hiv aids as its new president and all some experts believe developing countries will benefit from the choice then you have a good sized decision accusing washington of dominating the influential financial post and fears over kim's lack of experience in the field.

but never business with katie she joins us live in the beginning of a beautiful partnership possibly who's getting together with us right now it's not brad pitt angelina jolie anything it's all ross and they've signed a deal with america's exxon mobile to jointly develop and you rich phillips in the car see the cast now the deal is in return for access to the russian mogul will open the u.s. domestic oil and gas bills to russian investment and this is for the first time at this is pretty exciting and chris weaver from troika dog explains the potential of the part. the arctic has its significant potential of two for for a major source of oil and gas in the future russia needs to open up this area in order to acquire secure new sources of oil and gas as existing for going to deploying over the next decade similarly for exxon mobil this is the only place on

the planet where a company like exxon mobil can also get access to significant reserves we know that the cost of developing your article is going to be very significant the exploration phase along with the several billion dollars and they told me cost of eventually bring in oil and gas to the surface is likely to be three or four hundred billion dollars. now some of the projects involve unconventional energy resources such as she's found in the rock christina you know from standard and poor's says it does make sense to be involved for russia to be involved despite its huge conventional resource base. it is estimated that in terms of conventional recoverable reserves russia has around one hundred trillion cubic meters in terms of guys but if you look at unconventional potential excluding hydrates it is estimated thirty can have anything between one hundred fifty to five hundred trillion cubic meters so that's

a huge potential they've seen that in part by the united states so they're trying to cover their faces start understanding how to develop this potential resource in the future that could probably see you know gobbling all tripling of its own reserves likely there are some in canada and the u.s. . now let's crack on and get stuck in to the markets started with the european ones which are well into their day around while the middle of the day really as you can see it's healthy gains are for the three amortized i can tell you that some places just come out of germany. and what that means is that german investor confidence now this unexpectedly rose in april and that's a straight monthly gain so as we can see investors demonstrating their optimism right there in the figures if you look at the russian markets they're pretty lackluster there it's not quite know what direction they're going is been pretty flat all of a long because the l.c.s.

around point one percent the my six point zero five percent down is just it's not really taking off to be honest with you we'll see with the situation see if they managed to get some fight within them if you look at the current series we see how the ruble is performing at this hour how is that performing mixed against the basket of currencies that we've got it hard against the u.s. dollar lower against the euro as far as the euro dollar is concerned the current path many traders are watching today because of those the bond yields are rising for the spanish and portuguese fronts is one thirty one forty six is pretty healthy that is the markets are full is the hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes and he said we'll be watching that partnership all right kate i'm looking forward to seeing you next hour with that update state regard to your of course for our exclusive interview with julia massages coming up after an update of our top stories just enormous.

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