freedom of speech for on test as a persecutor was of lower goals an air of pledging a t.v. stage for the figures as inspiring and advice of as julian assange himself. provocation by rebels against the syrian army only brings more violence and undermines the troops says the opposition inside the country sending signals it's ready to negotiate the us. public taxpayer funded advertising campaign for some of the bush corporate from yours in all the world today. taking the gold shine off elan thanks london two thousand and twelve six used to be nothing but a money making machine.

a.t.m. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me we're in a joshua i'll come to the program now it was a debut destined to stir up a media storm the much anticipated show by doing a science finally burst into t.v. screens around the globe with controversy not only about the host parties guest as well as leader hassan nasrallah whose identity was kept secret until broadcast was the first person interviewed by the world's most prominent whistleblower are just going to check out the premiere. poor most american media juliana's songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball named julian assange who is bent on damaging america how did this guy just land his own t.v. show the implication is assad is a russian agent whose anti-american mission is now out in the open for all to see

and accusations kept flying as the whistle blower's very own show premiered on tuesday but i saw it coming there's two or. three for getting into. it with. terrible radicals with. i think some sort of it's a pretty predictable current. flipper if you look at how the service where. we have complete control of the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah doesn't it by the us is a terrorist organisation it was not starlost first interview with international channel in six years the reason why him could be found in the interview itself the united states is. probably costing us as we know we want to be able to tell people that one of the syrian terrorism terrorism.

is nations. is that they're one that people listen to us hyper mile for example if there was a just a trial then you'd only have played a very the defendant should have an opportunity to defend themselves some say in the court of public opinion as presented by the us mainstream media there is a tendency to simplify issues often at the expense of the full picture that somebody agrees or doesn't agree with has what was ideas or all their ideas ideology or their theology the american people need to hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonize. targeted as a quote carries by the purpose of demonizing somebody like massa rob or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until one nine hundred eighty eight is not really to stop terrorist ideas from infiltrating but for the american people to only hear one side of a debate only hear one side of an argument julian assange is now under house arrest in the u.k.

fighting extradition to sweden where he may well be extradited to the united states u.s. prosecutors were pointedly have a secret indictment ready for us on was made public thousands of leaked documents with embarrassing details relating to the wars in iraq and afghanistan as well as other issues in the u.s. has been under fire from capitol hill the white house and the media and we've got to apprehend mr science the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a as a violator of the espionage act because if we just keep patting the dead man can't leaks that this guy is a traitor and treasonous and he has broken every law of the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherish there's a core principle of democracy it's almost like leading a letting genie out of the bottle mr sanchez and the internet and the government and everyone else at their own game because he's gone to

a place where others have not been before and he's introduced the types of information the range of information that previously were not available if one views the need as a court of public opinion then julian assange is someone who presents to the jury that is the viewers argument evidence of voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to the us to form an opinion but were many find ironic is that our solution is under attack by the us government and the media for practicing poor for stand for freedom of information that america. which is around the globe. now reporting from washington. down to see the first show that's caused such a stir across the world you can tune in the next hour at five thirty am g.m.t. and also vote on to your son or daughter r t v dot com there you'll find the show itself as well as a twenty minute interview with we can weeks founder also feel free to have your say

in the comments section and read more about how the world reacted to the program. opposition activists inside syria say violations of the truce come from frogman the militia which will never have any authority in the country and that is western and arab states are piling their criticism on the us and regime accusing it of failing to implement a peace plan they have serious coordination committee has a man now says the government is facing constant provocation. it seems fire is being observed except for some violations by weak and for granted groups which are unable to seize control of the country these forces have no geopolitical future in syria they continue his deliveries in order to engage the army in fighting so that it stands against the syrian people we tell everyone that we are ready to negotiate with the government and everyone who has been staying himself with economic and political crimes and there are

a lot of such people as syrian government is not a corrupt and criminal structure which commits crimes the syrian government is my cousin they are all syrian people. washington has once again called for tougher sanctions against syria earlier measures have already seen the country's foreign currency reserves slashed by half but politically hours while have tape in damascus says it's the people who carry the name who are. sanctions for a civil aviation i see sanctions for transfer. currency when you see new sanctions on trade at least with the very hard to syrian citizens i do think they really concerned the government and if they do they only concern the government in the sense that they would create a sense of congress among certain segments of the population and this whole litany of sanctions has proved over the years to be nothing but

a tool to help hurt the weakest members of society. and those really tense right now and i think this is not the time for political posturing this is a time for everyone to sit down behind me which is unthinkable and think of the shape and the future of syria that we want. i serious find itself squeezed in the throes of the arab spring and we report from the one place in the middle east where the season doesn't change. if there is no proof there's a very long these for it's from. thousands of palestinians go on hunger strike in israeli jails as new peace talks between the two strains nation to go down a truly tried and failed past. plot to build on intellectual property the droop massive protests across europe lands on shaky ground as it keep peace as it must be voted for. that's exactly one hundred days until the

olympic games kick off and london critics say there's already been plenty of running for goal with the organizers pulling straight into bed with whoever is flashing the cash despite their dubious backgrounds laura smith reports on the mixed messages coming from the twenty twelve games. this supposed to be the greenest most sustainable games ever but a quick look at the list of partners and sponsors for london twenty twelve tells a very different story the way sponsors are chasing are the ones with the deepest wallets in the least conscience's this is basically an eleven billion hind public taxpayer funded advertising campaign to some of the worst corporate criminals in

our world today thirst up dow chemical which never accepted blame for one of the world's worst industrial disasters a toxic leak in bhopal india that killed thousands it spots around eleven million dollar wrapped around the stadium after a florrie dows logo now won't appear on the rack as for the games official electricity supplier that's easy yes. green. one of the u.k.'s big six energy providers self-proclaimed green pioneer and owner of all the u.k. sneakily of power stations and their hackers previously convicted in france for spying and greenpeace absent or e-mail accounts in an attempt to undermine our campaign against them. sort of thing that people look to aspire to this sort of ideal not. backing in an espionage which is what a.t.f. sadly is well known for then there's be a major backlash and so-called sustainability partner despite being according to

some one of the world's least sustainable companies there's been a deep water horizon oil spill off it off and they've continued their investment and really their lobbying around the tar sands in alberta continuing to devastate indigenous communities there and then they also completely scratched. so any claim to being a leader and sustainability was wiped out with so to call themselves the same is essentially. just bought an image that they want to project and has worked since b.p. became sustainability partner surveys say three times as many people now believe it's working towards a cleaner greener world pure p.r. gold the countdown clocks ticks past one hundred days till the olympics kick off but it's not just sports facilities the construction workers a feverish refinishing they're also building no fewer than four mcdonald's outlets

one of which will be the world's biggest in fact this event which stands at the pinnacle of health and fitness donalds will be the only brand is meal provider so essentially gives free food and drinks provided. that games are going to be don't carry. m capris three companies that are well known for pushing out refined sugars in complex carbohydrates and trans fats into the community responsibility for childhood in and out of the obesity seems very inconsistent with this which is designed to promote how physical activity is the media mcdonald's executives make no secret of the fact they see lympics sponsorship as an opportunity to position themselves in healthier territory and there's the crux say critics pick sponsorship more school raiding as philanthropy when it's in fact savvy marketing which no digs limping organizers are more than happy to swallow

norris myth r.t. . and one of the world's top female tennis players who is set to star in the twenty five money games has caused an online frenzy by drastically changing her looks. are you sure are one of only known for her skills on the court but for the arthur games out there match to her washing. long locks also online. he's the worst nightmare for the occupy wall street protesters and now he may be of running for new york mayor republican supports the top and wide media officer for the big apple's top job. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations your world today.

more than a thousand political prisoners and incarcerated palestinians have launched a massive hunger strike throughout israeli jails and it's one of the largest seen in the country as in protest over the state's justice system which the palestinians say is grossly unfair and as archie supposedly in our reports there's plenty more headache on the horizon for israel. israel's prime minister. and his palestinian counterpart scheduled to meet for the first time ever should be a landmark moment to bring peace right or wrong israel is not a river peace israel wants peace for itself not for promise to america which initiated the peace talks is just which bring them back to life and get a deal on a score card for washington the current climate of what they see as democracy voting out in the arab world is a perfect time to iron out discord that's been going stale for years yet all the israelis and palestinians can see are clouds building well israel is basically divided between two schools of thought one of words there is just too much danger

and uncertainty to take any kind of an earful and the other school of thought is. in this circumstance as israel to try to do whatever. disarm. for the palestinians it's much starker they've seen change among the arab neighbors that's not only passing him by but you seeing them being let down and so called by extremists we look at where the arab spring is likely to lead us it's most likely at this point it would seem to lead us to greater islamist influence around our borders and that means less chances fewer chances of peace rather than more of this war which is part of the border between israel and the west bank are the faces of the heroes of the palestinian people they've been smiling down from here for years and still nothing's changed but across the atlantic a washington can see

a fledgling democracies while all the time ignoring the trouble left in a week not least of all including an entrenched immovable israel and the palestinian people running out of patience policy r.t. . meanwhile these results of power beyond its campaign against another foe iran television says it's easy slotnick republics nuclear ambitions and political rhetoric as an existential threat and won't tolerate well in crosstalk later today peter lavelle brings the two camps together with predictable results. i mean president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel must cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the words of what he said is clear to all he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state must used to exist just as apartheid south africa ceased to

exist that's what they mean when they call israel or to bomb states that israel must cease to exist that he's already have to arrange a thing when the iranians date whoever said that the world of you know we're in one of our movie in a world of google i would advise you to tell viewers of this program that the iranians have not refer to israel as a one going to global you can also do you know you are not only here to. come on your show. on google. to convert and take our feeding trade agreements or act may soon prove to be down in the water a vote on it is due this summer by the am of people responsible for monitoring its progress has already said it should be rejected the international bill is aimed at forcing intellectual property rights and fighting internet piracy twenty two countries in the e.u. signed up to the remit however europeans rose up against it saying it would give big corporations unprecedented control over the your personal data political

commentator look samuel's as the treaty exposes the credit decision making in. the real problem to specifically shows that you're paying union it's a photo of lee allowed to do politics without any reference to national populaces so the fact is that this is a piece of. you know it's a trade agreement that will. be gracious on european countries to make it go in certain ways but it still is europe european all making the. back to be by proxy and what it shows is that the european union have affectively created institutions and procedures which have prevented these kind of agreements coming under any kind of democratic scrutiny whatsoever that's the real problem and it is true that countries have signed up to it but no point of national populaces had any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's why the really troubling aspect of it is the fact that it's fundamentally antidemocratic. but in today's

article for you tom barton speaks to you recall when you're founder of the swedish pirate party and his ass internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. he's woken up these rallies are huge i mean if you look at poland there are these rallies that have already been are absolutely astounding and people are frankly demanding their rights act and means censorship of the net and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not of the people who understand what the net is about and that it's the greatest equalizer that mankind has ever invented and that's not something we're ready to give up frankly we're discovering things that just shouldn't be the european commission went out the other side the other day and said this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep the sharing of governmental approved things and that's not what they should be saying they should say that you can you still have freedom of speech.

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russia we've got the future or however. you want to r.t. now washington will be trying to talk its allies into raising one billion dollars a year to assist security forces in afghanistan at a crunch nato ministers some a duplicate off later today in brussels the meeting comes at a crucial time for the alliance with some members having recently announced an early pullout of troops from the violence ravaged country of the south and interest of american parties are still determining washington's policy and he's there as media management. anti-war activist group code pink. unfortunately we've seen during the primary campaign of the republicans hard line with saying that we should be staying beyond twenty four teams and that tends to bring the obama administration into

a more hard line position as well we don't have any challengers coming from the more progressive positions saying our plan our and the ways of the american public seems to be muffled i mean there is always the fear that should things fall apart in afghanistan and even more than they are right now that that would be blamed ministration and the republicans would use that as a hammer to hit the obama administration on. during the coming months. i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world it's hard has reportedly seen an attempted military coup organized by high ranking officials aimed at overthrowing the country's leader according to unconfirmed information the royal family had to be taken by helicopters to safety the officials have sought to keep the incident away from the media due to a volatile situation throughout the arab region. african union mediator has urged

the un to take action to stop fighting between sudan and south sudan older an oil rich region the security council has already demanded the south moves its troops from the disputed area the country sent forces into the sector last tuesday claiming it was in response to air and ground attacks from sudan which accuse its southern neighbor of the finding economically viable region. the space shuttle discovery has taken its final ever fly it as it headed into retirement washington smithsonian institute closing a chapter in the history of space exploration spacecraft carrot top and jumbo jet made a few final fly bys over the u.s. capitol in early thirty years of service nasa is most travel troubles total of three hundred sixty five days in orbit circling the earth nearly six thousand times . for a time now for the business of age with katie good morning to you katie so how are

the numbers looking this morning well you know i was wearing a healthy that is the word there's lots of positives sentiments going on in the markets today and that is also the international monetary fund boosted its growth forecast for this year to three point five percent from three point three percent and that's a global call so we'll see how the asian markets are responding as you can see there enjoying it in the bit of a rally as i say. report that. bringing those stocks up also in addition to those storms involves a foundation. as well as an uptick in german economic sentiment figures as well as helping to boost its a modest today we'll have a look at the u.s. figures and see how they finished up in the early hours of almost stateside and as you can see they were benefiting from the i.m.f. because that. also you had its paws on those big as well over a disappointing figures coming out from the housing stock of factory production in

the u.s. investors does seem to be a tool. let me talk about some individual races well i don't want to get in as a five percent and america we had bank of america citi group. as well elizabeth the russian markets they too didn't have a very good say yesterday as well as the rest of the global markets it was a proud day today it's now listen two hours until the bell to see if they can get all the best among those folks a gas problem probably the most interesting one because they managed to lose almost two says. to the prime minister putin said that the gas prices simply doesn't pay enough tax levels is that the russian economy is set to grow four percent was better than i anticipated because the world's biggest energy exporter of course russia will benefit from higher commodity prices i mean tons of cars as we see the ruble it too will stop trading in less than two hours time i had

a mixed performance against the poskitt of cars as you can see that high gets us dollar against the euro and the euro dollar is. silly. i would be more ashamed the chinese. if we look at the oil prices you know i'm afeard also had a lot said yesterday there is present oil prices too involved ten percent is still rising demand and also full supply disruption of u.s. president barack obama. morons called quest a pulse the federal supervision old oil market because all that in the name in a set up by trade as i say interesting about the way that that is the markets for this hour i'm going to be looking at them what would i think about thinking that fred thanks very much in the cave for this and of course we're waiting for the russian markets to open a later but for now though thanks for this and to stay with the r t yeah a lot is coming your way including the interview with the founder of the swedish pirate party which is right after an update of the headlines.

cultures that so much going to be a huge decision on the market can the u.s. and its allies put a stop to the downward diplomatic spiral with iran and seek ways out of the current deadlock more talks are still. something lies beneath. thousands of meters over the ice and broke. the law. and that is a loser for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance.