from hero to zero the media on both sides of the atlantic why not to smear julian assange as heard by his new show which airs its secular edition here on our t.v. later this hour. democracy is no longer a swear word the message from to meet him it's very different his last major kremlin speech as president. is now to continue political reforms and the fight against corruption in his appointed prime minister more details just ahead. plus fueling the fire n.g.o.s are accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria by publishing unconfirmed reports provides which helped broker military intervention in libya.

it's three pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you five on nice in a way with our top story and the media that once praised julian assange telling him a hero for his work as a whistleblower has now drastically changed its tune after the did view of his talk show on r t some say it's journalistic jealousy others believe the u. turn is political or smith reports from london. it was one of the biggest stupes only time ninety two thousand leaked detailing the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up she said exclusively with one hundred bullets newspapers and she did an assault was its heroes and no match with no fixed address and backpack full of secrets contacted some of the big mainstream players in the media markets and they were only too happy of course to take you back or for the greatest perhaps the greatest leak of classified. information in history the guardian has benefited

hugely by the deal they made with us the leaks contains the material for dozens of stories in the new york times and the guardian in hunting their reputations as protectors of democracy and press freedoms but then the guardian newspaper what about start with the original media partners called him an important figure a most interesting and unusual and here but now in the pages of the very same publication we make you feel it's yes from here you sit here right. now and nothing more than journalistic jealousy a useful idiots in the guardian but not in the new york times with partners like these who needs enemies it staggers me to absolutely least you know me sort of for that so many journalists who really i think job should be challenging authority their job should be preventing governments working in the dark so you can be so

critical of somebody who's probably done with the most major issues in giving journalism a service and challenging power in recent years i thought says one reason he chose r.t. to podcasts his program is that other channels would let the people he wanted to interview say the things they wanted to say some say the resulting backlash on both sides of the atlantic is a way for publications of questionable integrity to whitewash their images it really makes american media outlets feel good to be able to point to other media outlets and say oh work over there those are tools and instruments for state propaganda because when they do that they get you forget about an obscure b.-o. their own role in disseminating state propaganda most notoriously in the lead up to the iraq war where for example the new york times did more than almost anybody to convince americans about the need to attack iraq based on a lie but even since then the model of the us media is very much to show faith all the oil to each of us government. so it's really there's really a lot of irony in

a parker saying this criticism in a further irony for the guardian it's backlash seems to have seriously misjudged its readership comments in response to the article overwhelmingly supportive of our stars and his show and accuse the paper of bearing a childish grudge but best. at worst it is a crucial political viewpoint taken by the mainstream media they don't like what we can cables have revealed they don't like what julian represents because it really does threaten with respect to the mainstream media perhaps this latest and unintended scoop shows how so-called liberal media outlets like the guardian and new york times are anything but demonstrating instead an intolerance of those who don't play by their rules no respect r.t. london. you can watch the second edition of julius launches talk show here on r t

in less than half an hour this time we'll be speaking to philosopher and left wing commentators and david horowitz conservative writer and campaigner there's heated debate on a range of issues including wiki leaks they were the as it's seen in the u.s. and the conflict between israel and the palestinians and don't forget if you've missed a previous program you can always log on to a song archie dot com. a car bomb in the center of the syrian capital has wounded three people well several security officers have reportedly been killed in a separate incident in the city the syrian crisis shows no signs of abating to spite around u.n. observer missions in the country the world body has already just eleven unarmed monitors who are expected to be joined by hundreds more in the coming weeks meanwhile foreign agencies such as n.g.o.s have been quick to push their own versions of what's happening in the conflict zone their reports are often unconfirmed as the ngos aren't held accountable for what they say but that hasn't

stopped nato being swayed before and weighing in with deadly force as archie is more important reports. it was billed as a necessary humanitarian intervention requiring nato warplanes to green bombs on libya before the u.s. led attack on moammar gadhafi forces. came unconfirmed allegations from western funded non-governmental organizations a year to november would you serve you right in front of a big old information that you'd be good. at these with. and to also give you a history according to a new report by the center for the study of interventionism and many western n.g.o.s exaggerated the circumstances in lieu. to expedite the campaign led by america britain and france some admitted mistakes and after the damage was done it

would revert to the way we have to go no to that we had no way out of them either that employed a mercenary force that is a record of things unfortunately we have seen. a very close relationship building up between certain big powerful n.g.o.s i'm thinking of human rights watch a mystery international they're supposed to be an objective body which monitors standards equally and of course doesn't take sides we see these organizations as i say entering into an excessively cozy relationship with for example the united states government but also with the after western allies over libya and over of the missions. currently the most pressing issue is syria after more than a year of violence critics say western funded n.g.o.s appear to be following the same pattern the equivalent if you like of the libyan leader for human rights which

is called the center for human rights and has played exactly the same world they've made statements to the human rights council alleged crimes against humanity they call for safe havens and armed intervention in america and they are quite moderates who are trying to secure a military intervention against syria along the lines of a run. or at least approved last year in order for me to be arrested this year this infamous connie two thousand and twelve movie came from california based ngo invisible children it said the film aim to end the use of child soldiers and promote peace in the ugandan civil war but according to u.s. embassy cables posted by wiki leaks invisible children provided uganda's authorities with intelligence in two thousand and nine that led to the arrest of several regime opponents. i'm willing. to believe. that was not the one

time but invisible children provided information. we now know in terms of their relations with the ugandan government we know that. for the. problem in uganda. they knew which supported their position in terms of supporting the bill to approach to come here and help promote. the bill was passed it was signed by the president and it proved that way for the introduction of u.s. troops. n.g.o.s are not currently held accountable for the information no matter how much collateral damage falls may cause left on regulated critics believe some non-governmental organisations will continue behaving the way for conflict rather than the t.v. spot salutes and bring up or not parts of the new york. still have for you this

hour words of warning. as israel insists it's not joking when it comes to a strike on iran there are fears it's not fully prepared for any with toy story. china's prime minister is continuing his european tour which is now stopping in sweden beijing is looking for backing from north to say its first bid to gain a foothold in the arctic region and its vast energy resources francis long from the investment firm line simeon holdings in hong kong says that although not all our technicians are keen to work with beijing they will have to accept it. but i think in the key question the nordics six explosion i think space we give. them. came for resources in the arctic ocean. of. the arctic powers like. norway. we were

not one to people would countries succumb expression in lot a strong china as it is now china's navy is the immunity to petro. as of now but. that will stop china's premier in trying to exercise some get rich even to the arctic ocean because china now is the second largest economy and he has a stake in just about every economic issue and will for europe. growing least eight percent a year. and china outpace europe economically soon or later maybe sooner and i think the global community to do better in except. for china's economic superpower and except work with china rather than outpost

china. south sudan's president says the attacks on his state by rival dan i'm out to a declaration of war sudanese warplanes bombed a town in the south on monday killing mccloy injuring ten people thousand military say eight more bombs were dropped overnight on the president's comic comes during a visit to china to seek funding for a new oil pipeline survive its neighbor has been fierce fighting for weeks and the struggle over a border dispute which has been simmering in south sudan gained independence last twenty years ago the split decades of civil war there has to made it one. half a million lives political analysts charlie at says china has a chance to market it's. typically there is a conflict like these you know it's usually washington are you going to have problems getting in it here's a golden chance for you know asian powers emerging economies to make you know an important diplomatic intervention that will show there be another world order is

changing otherwise you see leave it again for it to go back to the security council where you know again france and britain and the yourself to form some going to resume against one of the other social exert edition and for writing somebody it's back to square one and whether it's china india or malaysia could become more potential these records and even jointly do something to end this conflict which is a market anything anybody in the west has not. because the companies are going out of the game or together each watching as a bystander because of u.s. sanctions on sudan since the gulf war. because the germans are judges and the western emphasis on the water crimes committed by president bashir here is being called a lack of access for western corporations so it's interesting that even south sudan we just created. western suborder an intervention of the international level using greece and you go into china on your money here to resolve the problem you're not going to ask you know washington are the europeans for it so i think china i would

say historically more will come. then for some countries which have were looked upon sudan as nothing but to the you know a piece of land with a lot of oil and he decided. coming out here an artsy a later this hour space has heard now from the international space station are combatting can buy they actually save the spread of microbes which could corrode equipment and danger details are just. the first israeli officials say they're serious when it comes to attacking iran over fears the islamic state might be developing nuclear weapons. right having an undeclared nuclear capability itself israel is trying to persuade the international community to apply more pressure on iran which insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only as our correspondent course there reports it's fear israel has failed to provide enough protection for its own citizens if a regional war does break up. the rule of any family lives in missile range of gaza

for years they complained to the government they had no shelter to protect them from because some rockets fired by her masts but disappointed in the going town wasn't a top priority for tel aviv far from it prompting yakov to eventually build a shelter himself to protect his family we went through some very tough years we used to worry all the time every time we left the house we were in danger when we went to the store to school or to work it took a direct hit on our courthouse five years ago before the government finally woke up and the ultimate shelter opposite the one he really built himself now across is also close to city to gaza there are bomb shelters in the street on sports fields and in children's playgrounds with a kidney disguised like this one but that won't be assure the rest of the country in the event of a conflict with a much bigger threat of iran if the us probable government. or should go after war

. difficult poor girl who civilian population. for a showoff walk of all kinds. of records forever ago action we've got one point seven million people if you've got insurance. we've got three and a half million people if you haven't got a guess misc israelis themselves are skeptical about the country's ability to defend itself many still remember iraqi scud missiles landing in the center of israel some twenty years ago and escaping government report issued months ago suggests the homefront is woefully unprepared. government. doesn't want to restrict doesn't want to put the public into panic but i think the public itself. believe in a strike is imminent other words people. have gone crazy the experts say any israeli military strike is very likely to draw any rein in retaliation the target

of which is no secret this is the city that iran has threatened to pummel with missiles in response to any israeli attack but many of the public bomb shelters here are gusty and neglected and whereas in previous times of tension tel aviv distributed gas masks many of those masks remain in storage on the way they're talking about it so much that's why i think there won't be a war because we are talking about it i don't think there will be a world because i think the government is. doing nothing to prepare citizens for the situation if someone we bore me i don't know i need to one. which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a government really. impaired to be a war. they would do things differently or at least prepared a public policy r.t. tel aviv. well to get the latest updates as well as extensive background on the

conflict mark onto our team dot com here's what else can be found there right now if you attack find out how a computer virus has hit the technology running key parts of your brand's oil facilities. all the speculation over who's going to become france's next president continues from world wide we have all the analysis and background on the true runoff contenders. plus the great olympic selloff spain gives up its ticket allocation for the twenty twelve london olympics with the brits first in line to snap them up. and there's just been president elect reports in advance to meet her midriff to

take over as head of the ruling united russia party and it is also expected to be appointed as prime minister under putin let's start crossfire charges arena galoots following these developments why is was you know putin endorsing medvedev as head of united russia. well in russia the president is not supposed to belong to any one party so was it put in said that as immediately after the inauguration which was supposed to take place on the seventh of may he is going to step down from the post of the chairman of the united russia and he proposed to me it's very it's to take over and talks to put forward his candidacy for the polls to close course the party is get to vote on god and that is what has been put inside maybe a united party should have another session and the second problem maybe one or two with your out some of the issues for example google beats next leader so these are these are the facts. that we're dealing with right now it seems like admitting to

getting out like it's not making the political headlines in russia today. should get you in ancient china used to say the biggest problem is despising your enemy here but we have declared war on corruption we know who our enemy is and we will not back down the first time in russian history we've created the right and legal tools to fight this well armed enemy and we will carry on this fight. and that of course most part of the speech made earlier by by meeting with better still want to call him russian president as he still has some weeks to go before he step down from that post that was a speech that he made before the state council just earlier today basically underlining that the be achievement and all the problems which where you place which she was dealing with over the last four years that which he has made of course he talks about poverty the fact that some families are still forced to live out the poverty line you talked about education and corruption of course one of the

biggest problems in russia at the moment but he also mentioned that democracy is no longer something to be afraid of the left for some people might sound absurd but it looks like some people may still be afraid that democracy is not coming is not really happening in russia this is what misread it had to stay on the matter. democracy is no longer a sure word but on its prestige has been recovered and its prospects for our country you have been restored and i believe that the political diversity and direction public involvement in politics is that will only help russian democracy develop and improve each of you are going to be will become stronger got so much more effective you know she's thirty years is that that direct involvement of people in civil society and politics is something that needs to be vetted encouraged everybody to take on are just still so he said that the civil society russia still has a long way to go but he did praised he did state that style lot of the issues which

russia was dealing with over the last four years already well on their way for example the inflation rate is the low was a positive in four years it looks like russia has made it successfully out of the world crisis for the moment and he also said that this is the first year there is a long time when russia was in the past the problem seems to not house move forward in fact he said that russia is not dying out as opposed to some of the more real prospects out there. and of course he said that's at this point russia has gone through this because the work product changes and the cubans it has it has been through over the past point six years. regards he's a really good following these latest developments in russian politics for us from central moscow thanks for that. it's twenty two minutes past the hour let's take a look at some other news and grief from around the world egypt's military rulers have approved an amendment that would to a laws that say that would bar top mubarak era officials from running for president

and cover senior officials who worked under hosni mubarak in the decade before he was ousted in february last year the country's former spy chief omar suleiman was already disqualified from the presidential race along with two leading islamist candidates. a security guard has recalled the moment anders breivik stead the bomb attack killed eight people he told the oslo court he watched on c.c.t.v. as a parked car exploded killing seventy seven people in the bomb and gun attack last year but tonight criminality a conviction would carry a maximum twenty one year prison sentence unless he's judged insane in which case he'll get indefinite psychiatric custody. trainers president have strong ties with north korea despite an international outcry over the north recent felt rocket launch wouldn't how made that show of friendship in a meeting with a workers' party delegation headed by a top north korean envoy on monday the u.s.

says it has all the allegations with china and the missile launchers seen in applying military so last week was of chinese origin south korea of course there are signs that north korea may be planning a very near test. astronauts at the international space station have been attacked by microbes it's believed they got there through cargo and supplies taken on board the current equipment could be in danger if the spread of bacteria is. explained. but there are no reported problems on board the international space station at reports any failures when it comes to equipment either but some of the concerns are about the future potential failings of equipment because of these microbes and fungus that we're talking about a moment of tenchi corrosive element to them so it could prove problematic when it comes to nestle on board or even to electrical equipment take it for us as

a wire now as you protected by these could corrode away that protective layer that will cause some problems this information coming from the vice president of the russian academy of sciences so his words carry some weight but you also warned the accounts of a similar problem on the mir altering station actually this post the. crows of come up on transit with these modules either. by the action or some cosmonauts or even with some fuel and food supplies and come up to the international space station and if there are similar micros that noise corrosive so used during site. experiments. from these they've proven that some of these microbes can survive some of the very harsh conditions of space. let's check in with what's happening in our financial world daniel bushell joins us then i understand markets not looking too good out there they don't like sundays socialist victory in france is presidential first

round and it's a vicious row with germany france while all along was to renegotiate france's euro membership and stop the painful spending cuts members have to make. foreign minister. has just said those terms all negotiable he's pictured there top of lazy israel between the two linchpins of the single currency and e.u. markets slumped on news of poland's victory was also made several election pledges that are seen as bad for business for over three percent on monday they're now winning back just some of those falls so oil is down because of all the bad news risks are flattening out of global growth crude currently on the one o four is just holding on to one hundred three dollars a barrel russia's top all firm though is reportedly in talks with italy's any to drill in the black sea rules and that's looking for foreign expertise to tap new hole to access deposits comes off to the firm agreed to explore the arctic with any and america's the euro is once again losing to the dollar following earlier games

the russian ruble is also gaining against the main currencies russian markets mixed as to some positive corporate quarterly results that check those now gazprom raised earlier games is currently posting higher than expected production for one who calls started drilling i did field in iraq and retailer dixie says first quarter revenue almost doubled year on the year russia's president has pledged not to burden business with new types in the speech today he added all states in companies will be reviewed and dropped on necessary. also promised to minimize firms paperwork saying it just gathers dust at the tights office. and russia's new richest man i wish it was plentiful pay three billion dollars for control of the country's number two mobile operates a megaphone also agreed to pay dividends for the first time out of an expected initial public offering in london this summer and you're up to date more news and figures on the website altie dot com such business all right danielle thanks

a lot for that update. we're going to take i was sort of break you're in our team i'm back with the headlines and then it's julian assange just second episode here on r.t. . wealthy british scientists i. sometimes. find.

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