freedom of speech put to the test as the persecuted whistle blower goes on air pledging a t.v. stage for figures as inspiring and divisive as julian assange himself also. israel is not pretty for peace is that peace put itself was not put palestinians thousands of them go on hunger strikes in israeli jails as new peace talks between the two were strange nations go down a truly tried and failed. plus. public taxpayer funded appetising campaign. in our world today taking at the golden shine off the olympics london two thousand and twelve accused of being nothing but

a money making machine. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at our team sky. it was a debut destined to stir up and media storm the much anticipated show by julian finally burst on to t.v. screens all around the world with controversy not only about the host but of course it's gusts as well as bowler leader hassan nasrallah whose identity was kept secret until the broadcast was it the first person interviewed by the world's most prominent whistleblower. premiers impact. for most american media julianna songes guilty without charge for reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball me and julian assange who is

bent on damaging america how did this guy just land his own t.v. show the implication is a sergeant is a russian agent whose anti-american mission is now out in the open for all to see and accusations kept flying as the whistleblowers very own show premiered on tuesday but i saw it coming because doing. illegal got a. criminal. interview with. carol radicals and. i think it's a pretty. current. with a look at how. we have complete control of the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah designated by the us as a terrorist organization 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. going into us as well and we want to be able to tell people that he's one of the syrian terrorism there is that small organizations. is what they want that people listen to us high from ohio for example if there was a just a trial and yet the very thing is that if an invention have an opportunity to defend themselves some say in the court of public opinion as presented by the u.s. mainstream media there is a tendency to simplify issues often at the expense of the full picture somebody agrees or doesn't agree with hezbollah's ideas or all of their ideas ideology or theology american people hear the voice of hezbollah rather than simply have them demonize. targeted as a quote terrorist but the purpose of demonizing somebody like nasir rob or nelson mandela who was considered a terrorist until 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 a sign 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 assad's the founder of wiki leaks and bring him to justice as a as a violator of the espionage act because if we do all this will keep happening 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 this is

a core principle of democracy it's almost like leading and letting genie out of the bottle mr assad has beat the internet and the governments and everyone else at their own game because he's gone from 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 here as the court of public opinion then julian assange is someone who presents to the jury that is the viewers argument evidence voices which they almost never hear on mainstream media and it's up to us to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our function is under attack by the us government and the media for practicing poor full extent of freedom of information that america. around the globe i'm going to start now reporting from washington. where the first edition of the show that's caused such a stir around the world is available online twenty four seven sanj dot c dot com

for both of there you'll find a twenty minute interview with the wiki leaks founder you can also feel free to have your say in the comments section and read more about how the world reacting to the program at our dot com. it is exactly one hundred days until the olympic games kick off in london but critics say there's already been plenty of running for gold but the organizers pole vaulting straight into bed with whoever is flashing the cash despite the dubious backgrounds i think there are smith reports on the mixed messages coming from the two thousand and twelve. 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 with the ones we put in place well it's in the least conscience's this is basically an eleven billion pint public taxpayer funded advertising campaign for some of the worst corporate criminals in our world today first stop dow chemical which never accepted blame for one of the world's worst industrial disasters the toxic leak in bhopal india that killed thousands it sponsoring 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 e.d.f. . green britain. one of the u.k.'s big six energy providers self-proclaimed green pioneer and owner of all the u.k. sneak clear power stations and their hackers really have been convicted in france for spying and greenpeace that happens or e-mail accounts in an attempt to

undermine a campaign against them. sort of thing that people look to aspire to the sort of ideal not sort of grubby backing and espionage which is what e.d.s. sadly is as well known for them as b.p. a major backer and so-called sustainability partner despite being according to some one of the world's least sustainable companies has been the deepwater horizon oil spill of it all from mexico 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 in sustainability was wiped out with so. it's 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 clean you know greener world pure p.r.

gold the countdown clock ticks past one hundred days till the olympics kickoff but it's not just sports facilities the construction workers of the finishing 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 mcdonald's will be the only brand meal provider to essentially games free food and drinks provided. games are going to be don't carry. and capri. 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 city seems a very. which is designed to promote health and physical activity senior mcdonald's executives make no secret of the fact they see olympic

sponsorship as an opportunity to position themselves in healthier territory and there's the crux critics olympic sponsorship masquerading as philanthropy when it's in fact savvy marketing which london's olympic organizers are more than happy to swallow your a smith r.t. . and r.t. has come to live from the heart of. the program here online. trolls react intellectual property massive protests all across europe a rather shaky ground as a key. voting. more than a thousand political prisoners and incarcerated palestinians have launched a mass hunger strike throughout is really jails is one of the largest seen in the country and is a protest over the state's justice system which the palestinian say is grossly unfair and this as high level peace talks between the two nations devolve into the

same old promises artie's policy as the story of israel's prime minister. and his palestinian counterpart scheduled to meet for the first time ever a landmark moment to bring peace right or wrong israel is not ready for peace. for itself a proper listings america which initiated the peace talks is just going to bring them back to life and get a deal on that score card for washington the current climate of what they see as democracy working out in the arab world is a perfect time to an art discord that's been going scale for years in all these ways and palestinians can see clouds building well israel is basically divided between two schools of thought one of words there's just too much danger and uncertainty to take any kind of interference and the other school of thought which says. in these circumstances israel ought to

try to do whatever it can to disarm hostility for the palestinians it's much starker they've seen change among the arab neighbors that's not only possibly invite but he's seen them being let down and circled 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 all washington can see a fledgling democracies while all the time ignoring the trouble left in a week not least of all in building an entrenched and movable israel and a palestinian people running out of patience policy r.t. women are. meanwhile israel is also powering on with its campaign against another

photo that of iran until of eve says it's see it sees the islamic republic's nuclear ambitions and political rhetoric as an existential threat and one it won't tolerate later today in cross talk here in r.t. brings the two comes together with the predictable results. the president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel my ceased to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the west of what he said is clear to our he said basically that this has always been iranian policy that israel as an apartheid state must cease to exist just as apartheid south africa cease to exist if that's what they mean when they call israel or to bomb states israel must cease to exist but are going to have to arrange a thing when the iranian state whoever said that i don't want a world of you know we're in a war of our movie in

a world of google i would advise you to tell the viewers of this program that the iranians have not refer to israel as a one bombing of two bombs they can also do you know you can only hear that you. can do. google. crosstalk is coming your way in about an hour and a quarter from now moscow has accused of the syrian opposition of inflaming the conflict to bury the peace plan by special envoy kofi annan and reach the truce foreign minister sergei lavrov has also said there were reports that the free syrian army is using refugee camps in turkey as safe havens to plan their assaults on governmental troops as the syrian regime comes under fire from foreign powers who have hinted the government is not keeping its side of the bargain meanwhile the e.u. has and also it's working on a new set of sanctions against syria but washington also. strengthening its calls

for tougher measures by previous research and so i've already seen foreign currency reserves slashed by half but more of this let's cross live to arrogantly say the director and founder of the french center for intelligence studies are good to see you thanks for coming on our team today foreign minister says armed rebels are behind the violations in the truce i want some international players such as the u.s. france and the arab league all signal its president. to play and talk about a big divide here which point of view do you share with. the russians both of you because i finger an unarmed groups didn't stop their attacks against the security forces because we want them to react so strong. that the regina of the president bashar will be absolutely critical nice because you can respond to ceasefire but i think it's a game of the game because they want to do more international pressure on the regime so what about what about these so-called armed factions among certain areas

of the opposition who are who are allegedly are defying the cease fire whose responsibility is it to reign in the certain separated rebel groups i think it people left. in there in syria you are the real position which isn't the one the truth it's a democratic one it's a classic one that most of the international position western country are a country that supports are made of salafist groups and of course the use. bases in turkey city even to go back to syria every need to create more than one tactic in the region so i think it said absolutely important position not from the united states or france to support such groups but if we can let's address this rather large meeting that's happening in the city where you are you are today you're in paris we know that the french foreign minister has invited several of his fellow foreign ministers to talk where you are to boost pressure on. assad regime

what do you expect to come out from this meeting and how is it likely to help to resolve the syrian crisis i don't think this meeting is going to do anything to resolve the crisis because i think it is it doesn't any effect on the policy of the . president why because the regime is really strong the good security forces most of the population neutral because in the end it's better to keep the original of bashar and. thereby the. but also because of the support of russian of china and. i think bashar him is not to endure for the time being now the the opposition actually inside syria has expressed its readiness to negotiate with the regime and back to russia's stars that it's armed gangs are spreading violence g.g. turkey think these statements how to hold any water when it comes to be

international approach to the conflict yes i think the statement i mean the fact that external groups i'm interested. to destroy all that was civil niggas are the i mean the political negotiation between the democratic and classificatory. are real they want to increase violence and war because they want to create a new syria libya and syria i think this is a big mistake as well as for the terrorist group us all the foreign powers because this including syria is likely to be out of course it's absolutely different france named to the united states with the support of. the thing that can change the sense of history in syria but i don't think it's something you can you can you you talk you talk about some external players who want to change the history in syria you draw a parallel to that of libya maybe some of them expecting a type of libya style intervention we all know how well that one went if indeed

they did. and to cause some type of libya intervention what is the end game here what's the goal well i think you have free different interests and you have the u.s. wants because they want to support israel and region and they also want to weaken the iranian regime on the other side throughout the policy of the gulf states like qatar and saudi arabia it's a very different one but they are going the same direction different because they absolutely don't want to have a knee i mean move to control the region in the world they want to impose salafist regime everywhere and they don't want a country like syria where christian. druse allow we believe in peace together and the last i mean the last player is france. let's say europe and the french position is very specific because forestry commission we have very known relation we for labor union and jacques chirac and initially we were supporting because you don't prime minister hariri for years and they really believe that

syria was responsible well destination of i think this is why they are absolutely against absolutely not objective you are as you say as you say a certain number certain major players are against syria with no objectivity but i do apologize we're running very low on time here but i want to squeeze as much information as we can out of this interview here we do have a brand new observer mission set to be bolstered from six to over two hundred members how do you think this will be different from the previous one that many say bottomed out in the end yes but you know it's difficult to see because they try to compare with chrismation the arab league which was absolutely partial and again special regime this thirty seven mission let's nothing so let's that situation. united nations delineation but. we have to be very cautious because most of the people from the beginning they want to denounce the sharia. absolutely no i mean.

communication can sending a team and their colleagues from them a job that's a reason so i mean international pressure all the media reporting are going on the same direction just. all the time. all right and you say other director and founder of the french center for intelligent studies many thanks for joining us on our team today. but i do bear in mind you can always find lots more of the stories we're covering of course on our web site on dot com but also worth checking out while you're there for example he was the occupy wall street protesters worst nightmare and now he may be running for new york mayor as republicans push the most senior n.y.p.d. officer for the big top job plus. probably the world's second best women's tennis player maria sharapova whose are not only known for her skills on the court but also for courting publicize the office that's now said

a game set match to about lustrous long log sharing her newest photos with facebook users that and so much more at r.t. dot. these are the images. from the streets of canada. trying to rule the day. are you with r.t. not far from katie with the business but for now the controversial and counterfeiting trade agreement or actor may soon prove to be dead in the water a vote on it is jew this summer the n.e.p. responsible for monitoring its progress has already said it should be rejected the international bill has ended and forcing intellectual property rights and fighting internet piracy twenty two countries in the e.u. signed up to be agreement however europeans rose up against it saying it would give

big corporations unprecedented control over their personal data political commentator samuel says the treaty exposes the undemocratic decision making inside the year the real problem with access specifically is how it shows that you're opinion it's effectively allowed to do politics without any reference to national populous it's so the fact is that this is a piece of you know it's a trade agreement that will. not be gay sions on european countries to make you know in certain ways but it still is europe it's european law making effectively by proxy and what it shows is that the european union have affected 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 have national party who says have any say whatsoever in the provisions of this agreement so that's a really troubling aspect of the fact that it's fundamentally unfair democratic.

it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today and washington will be trying to talk its allies into raising one billion dollars a year to assist security forces in afghanistan this crunch nato ministers summit that's kicked off 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 but the selfish interests of american parties are still determined in washington's policy of what is according to medea benjamin a co-founder of the antiwar activist group known as. unfortunately we've seen during the primary campaign of the republicans are hard line saying that we should be staying beyond twenty four teams and that tends to bring the obama administration into our live position as well we don't have any challengers to obama coming from

a work aggressive position saying out now and the race of the american public seems to be muffled issue i have been a very severe is always the theory that should things fall apart in afghanistan even more than they are right now that that would be blamed on the administration and the republicans would use that as a hammer to hear your. administration on the head with during the coming months. danny boy you're pretty hollow ciano you've been watching the numbers all day anything exciting to report for not the six weeks saying i would say rory not really i mean it's been sort of a mixed day really all round me for the russian markets i must say they are managed to hold on to those gains but ever so slightly kind of lost the sparkle really in the last few hours or so just got to like gains for the r.t.s. and the license around a third of a sense in positive territory let's get stuff into the stocks and see how they're

forming at this hour and ok it's down a tenth of a. posting a net profit loss of sixty seven million dollars for the last quarter of twenty a levels that news is taking its toll is also got gas from down as well point eight percent the p.c.b. bank is how do you change of fortunes they are the biggest gainer today is so far the russians second biggest lens are now let's move on to the currency how the ruble is performing the books and currency the sultani we've got a mixed of a viewpoint there we've got it lurkers gaining against the euro this hour the euro dollar has not moved much tool really is just down to get the u.s. dollar right now one thirty seven tonight let's talk about the europe region at the moment i was waiting on the trade is the currency has a favorite there is a lot sooner spain is back in the spotlight and that's because of the amount of bad loans. which means the government may have a tough time just waiting investors that it can clean up the country's banks

without damaging property finances at the bank as frank has said just in the last hour or so that the loan ratio is at an eighteen year high when i say i'm talking about money that very likely to get out by is about right no go for the tax that is still in negative territory i just got to see unemployment in britain form an ever society to eight point three percent from eight point four percent not. every house moving on to oil let's have a look now or investors in the sport like they're said to be focused upon because us president obama is now turning his attention to all three saying that investors play a very part in the increase in prices at the expense of normal average household people like you and me you know i kind of like this week that hundreds for google the brand one hundred seventeen something on it to other news. is coming under fire for its bad environmental record in the rush up now it's two years after the

major link leak rather in the gulf of mexico b.p.'s russian joint venture has been responsible for seven hundred fifty separate oil spills in the country's biggest filth and west liberia now the regulator says this is due to the poor condition of the pipelines and has given the company one month to produce a plan to fix the problem seven hundred fifty well ok but is the markets but i will be back in about fifteen minutes of the latest because he was a pleasure to see you next hour. so i was going to do stay with us here in our just off of the headlines in a moment an interview with the founder of the swedish pirate party probably in just a moment.

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