freedom of speech put to the test as the persecuted whistleblower goes on pledging the t.v. stage for figures is inspiring and divisive julian assange himself also israel is not ready for peace. and thousands of them go on a hunger strike in israeli jails as new peace talks between the two a strange nations goes down a truly tried and failed path plus public taxpayer funded advertising campaign. in our world today taking of the golden shine if the olympics london's two thousand and twelve accused of being nothing but a major money making mission.

it's good to have you with us here when i see you today. live in moscow it was a debut destined to stir up a media storm the much anticipated show by julian assange finally burst on to t.v. screens all around the world but the controversy not only about the host but of course about his guests as well hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah whose identity was kept secret until the broadcast was the first person interviewed by the world's most prominent was from lower. rates the premier's impact. who are most american media juliana songes guilty without charge reckless traitor and a threat to our national security interests sleazeball named julian a song who is bent on damaging america how to describe just land his own t.v.

show the implication is a song is a russian agent whose anti-american mission is now out in the open for all to see and the accusations kept flying as the whistle blower's very own show premiered on tuesday but i saw it coming through and it's. about. getting in compared with the criminal and. interviewing. terrible radicals. but i think that's the sort of it's a. card. with a look at how the service grid. the guests over his first show was the head of hezbollah as ignited by the u.s. 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 walking. into us as well not only want to be able to tell people that he's one of those terrorists there is a small organization and. this but there were other people this is just how come hard for example if there was a just a trial. very different branches 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 that somebody agrees or doesn't agree with has what was ideas or all of their ideas ideology or their theology 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 nasr our 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 our son who's 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 violator of the espionage act because if we don't just keep tapping the dead men can't leaks that this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be shot i'm not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the deaf i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a what about freedom of information cherished as a core principle of democracy it's almost like leaving and letting genie out of the

bottle mr assad's has the internet and the governments 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 here as the court of public opinion then julian assange which 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 the us to form an opinion but what many find ironic is that our forces under attack by the u.s. government and the media for practicing poor for expand the freedom of information that america. i'm going to check our reporting from washington ip of the first edition of a show that's caused such a stir all across the world available for you just a click away. see dot com also there you'll find

a twenty minute interview with the wiki leaks founder yourself a chance if you fancy to have your say in the comments section read more about how the world reacted to the program our dot com. it is exactly one hundred days until the games kick off in london but critics say there's already been plenty of running for gold and we organizers pole vaulting straight into bed with whoever is flashing the cash despite the dubious backgrounds . laura smith reports on the mixed messages coming from the two thousand and twelve . twenty throughout. 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 who put in place wallets 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's sponsoring eleven million dollar wrapped around the stadium after through every dow's logo now waves appear on the wrap as for the game's official electricity supplier that's e.t.f. . green. one of the u.k.'s big six energy. providers self-proclaimed pioneer and owner of all the u.k.'s nuclear power stations and their hackers. convicted in france for spying and. or e-mail accounts

and an attempt to undermine our campaign against them. to this deal. which is what he did. then there's b.p. a major backer 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 the gulf of 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 scrapped so any claim to being a leader in sustainability was wiped out with that move so to call. this 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 greener world pure p.r.

gold the countdown clocks ticked past one hundred days till the olympics kick off but it's not just sports facilities that construction workers are 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 its milk provider to essentially get three food and drinks provided. games are going to be the dominant carrier. capris three companies that are well known for pushing out refined sugars in complex carbohydrates and trans fats into the community responsibility for child. it in and out through obesity seems very inconsistent with this which is designed to promote how physical activity stevia mcdonald's executives make no secret of the fact they see

a lympics as an opportunity to position themselves in healthier territory and there's the crux the critics lympics sponsorship masquerading as philanthropy when it's in fact the marketing which numbered zelin pick organizers are more than happy to swallow nora smith. we're coming to you live from moscow still ahead of the program here on our online outrage against web control but the actual bill on intellectual property through massive protests across europe it lands on shaky ground as a key he says it mustn't be voted through. more than a thousand political prisoners and incarcerated palestinians have launched a mass hunger strike throughout israeli jails it's one of the largest seen in the country and it's in protest over the state's justice system which the palestinians say is grossly unfair that as high level peace talks between both nations devolve into the same old promises with its reporters out its policy. 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 israel wants peace for itself proposed to me and america which initiated the peace talks is just going to bring them back to life and get a deal on a school card for washington the current climate of what they see as democracy rolling out in the arab world is a perfect time to an art discord that's been going scale for years is all these really some palestinians can see are clouds building well israel is basically divided between two schools of thought one of which says there is too much danger and uncertainty to take any kind of interference and the other school of thought which says. in the circumstances israel ought to try to do whatever to disarm hostility for the palestinians it's much starker

they've seen change among the arab neighbors that's not only possum invite but he's seen 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 on 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 or 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 immutable israel and a palestinian people running out of patience policy r.t. ramana. meanwhile israel's also powering on with its campaign against another.

iran says it sees the islamic republic's nuclear. missions and political rhetoric as an extra central threat and one that it will not tolerate in crosstalk later this hour here on r.c.p. to lavelle brings the two camps together with a rather predictable results. in president never said that he will attack or destroy israel he said israel my cease to exist as a political entity and the willful mistranslation in the way to what he said is clear to all 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 ceased to exist that's what they mean when they call israel a two one state israel must cease to keep the army after a good thing when the iranians date whoever is there i only want a world of you know we're in one of our movie in a world of google i would advise you not to tell viewers of this program if you

radiance of god refer to israel as a one bomb and. also you can only hear that you are. on google. cross talking about a fifteen minutes time moscow has accused the syrian armed opposition of inflaming the conflict to bury the peace plan by special envoy kofi annan and breach the truce for a minute or so after office also said there were reports that the free syrian army is using refugee camps in turkey as safe havens to plan their assaults on the government troops that's all of 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 announced it's working on a new set of sanctions against syria but washington also strengthening its calls for tougher measures previous restrictions have already seen the country's foreign

currency reserves flashed by half erica denise a director and founder of the french center for intelligence studies says that some western and arab states want the regime undermined any cost. oh go on unarmed groups didn't stop their attacks against the security forces because we want them to react so strongly. that the regina of the prison shower will be absolutely amazing because you can respect the ceasefire but i think it's a kind of game because they want to push for more international pressure on the region the derrius different kind of position and in syria you love the real position which isn't on the one you choose it's a democratic one it's a classic one but most of the international position the western country are a country. made of a terrorist group and salafist groups and of course the use of. bases in turkey and

see if they even to go back into syria every day to create more than one tactic in the region. so quarter past the hour here in moscow you can always find lots more of the story on our website r.t. dot com also worth checking out there are he was the occupy wall street protesters worst nightmare now he may be running for new york mayor as republicans push the most senior n.y.p.d. officer for the big apple's top job plus currently the world's second best of women's tennis player maria sharapova not only skills on the court but also according to published that he has said that it's game set and match to her lustrous long looks as you can see here sharing her newest photos with facebook users that are in so much more of our city because. these are the images. from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the

day. we're not far off from the world of day here on r.t. but for now the controversial and counterfeiting trade agreement or act may soon prove to be dead in the water of voters do you want it this summer but the n.e.p. responsible for monitoring its progress has already said it should be rejected and the international bill is aimed at enforcing intellectual property rights and fighting internet piracy twenty two countries in the e.u. signed up for the u. however europeans rose up against it saying it would give big corporations unprecedented control over their personal data political commentator luke samuel says the treaty exposes the rather democratic decision making process in the e.u. the real problem with that specifically is how it shows that you're opinion it's effectively allowed to do politics without any reference to national populaces so

the fact is that this is a piece of you law it's a trade agreement that will. 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 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 it's 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. coming up next hour here on our to your special interview artie's tom barton speaking to rick fox finger but founder of the swedish pirate party he says that internet freedom isn't something governments should take lightly. or 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 of means censorship of the net and that is not acceptable not to the generation growing up not to the people who understand what the note is about and that it's the greatest equalizer of 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 view of the european commission's or that this is no big deal everybody will be free to keep sharing governmentally approved things and that's not what they should be seeing they should say you because you still have freedom of speech. so twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital washington will be trying to talk its allies into raising one billion dollars a year to assist the security forces in afghanistan it's all going down at

a crunch nato ministers summit kicked off today in brussels the alliance is officials are meeting to finalize troop withdrawal plans from the violence ravaged country it comes at a crucial time for nato sun members having recently announced an earlier pullout of forces for the selfish interests of american parties are still determining washington's policy in afghanistan that according to media benjamin a co-founder of the antiwar activist group code pink. unfortunately we've seen during the primary campaign of the republicans are aligned with saying that we should be staying we are i was twenty four a team and that is to bring the obama administration. into our concession as well we don't have any challenger is not coming from the war progressive mission saying out now and the race the american conflict seems to be muffled i think severe is always the theory that should things fall apart in afghanistan and even

more a very are a delicate that would be blamed on the administration many republicans would use that as a hammer to hear the obama administration at the head with during the coming months . to get into some other international news in brief for you with the r.t. world update reportedly seen attempted a military coup organized by high ranking officials claim to overthrowing the country's leader according to unconfirmed information of the royal family had to be taken by helicopters to safety it's a fishelson of sorts of keep the incident away from the media due to a volatile volatile situation throughout the our region. violence has flared up once again on the volatile border between sudan and south sudan as the latest clashes leave at least twenty two people dead as comes after an african union mediator urged the u.n. to take action to stop fighting between the countries over an oil rich region the

south sent forces into the disputed area last tuesday claiming it was in response to attacks from sudan which accuses its neighbor of occupying the home of the by the. in just a moment it's case he with a business but for now a real life sleeping beauty but one thirty pm g.m.t. we invite you to discover the mysteries of the congo out of ice cave in of russia some astonishing sight which acts as a magnet for thrill seekers despite the risks to poses. something lies beneath. thousands of meters of ice time to rock. the lovers. that is allure for many.

but dangerous even to those who keep it such a distance. so you prefer no straight over to a god you've written. all morning and afternoon watching the numbers go up and down and if anything positive for us no actually i've got to say. the russian markets were awful for us in the last hour but right now they've chosen to read pay and i've got to say just over such a fraction down quite disappointing for them they've managed just so far today but they've lost the fight as we can see with. just slots negative the my six point two percent in negative territory distaso let's have a look at the stocks and see how they're starting to see how they're getting on i was still managing to hold on to gains gas problem point seven percent. could go

lately changing for the over one percent down they reported a net profit loss of a sixty seven million dollars in the last quarter of twenty eleven so we can see investors are saying that disappointment if we get out of cars with the group was doing any better and is still posting mixed performance because of cost occurrences that we've got it lurches us dollar and savior of the euro dollar hasn't really a march let's talk about europe because there's no use to talk about and it is back in the spotlight and this is because of bad loans they've been talking about that have been surging so lots of bad loans that the lending to the wrong people the wrong companies all the words they're not going to get the money back now because of this it means that the government may have a hard time persuading investors that they can clean up the country's banks without damaging public finances as the rank of spain has recently said the spanish banks a ratio has its eighteen year high in february that means compared to

a good life as of regular. as we can see the see that point four percent of the dollars point eight percent down this our own. so let me just tell you there's another spanish bond auction happening tomorrow as well so investors are really looking towards that if we look at me or prices i do believe they are down at this hour we have u.s. president barack obama really turning his attention to investors themselves investors that control the oil market is he saying the sorts of at manipulating. all the time we cover here on the business to do with international partners about the iranian involvement coming up exist so it's interesting for the planes before elsewhere really so ok that is indeed the markets for now and in other news. is coming under fire for is that environmental record in russia now two years after the major leak in the gulf of mexico russian joint venture has been responsible for

seven hundred fifty separate oil spills annually and also to massive ones but a spill is a spill and that's in the country's biggest spilled and why siberia 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. and let me just tell you as well that u.s. stock futures are actually pointing down at the moment because of corporate data coming out later on are not you can say to rio great don't you wish you would be in the hot seat in the next hour. many many thanks indeed older than yours. or if you're going to do so with us here in our studio time for tempest a flare in just a moment but can only mean one thing crosstalk is coming your. one

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