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story and downgraded from hero to traitor in the blink of an eye was the lower julian a song that was held by major media as a real freedom embassador now there labeling him a nut job after his show debuted on our t.v. the second episode of which aired today laura smith reports on what's behind a song image assassination. it was one of the biggest stage and only time ninety two thousand leaks no detail in the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up shared exclusively with a hundredfold of newspapers and julian a soldier was its hero a nomad with no fixed address and a backpack full of secrets contacted some of the big mainstream players in the media markets they were only too happy of course to back off one of the greatest the greatest leak of classified information in history has benefited by the deal they made with. 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 one of the songs of the original media partners called him an important take a most interesting and unusual was near but now in the pages of the very same publication you think you've still it's yes from hero to direct. a film and nothing more than journalistic jealousy a useful idiots in the guardian a not job in the new york times with partners like these who needs enemies. it staggers me to absolutely least you know we sort of floored that so many journalists who really i think their job should be traveling authority their job should be preventing governments working in the dark seem to be so critical of somebody who's probably going with the most major issues in getting journalism is

service and challenging power in recent years i thought thirds one reason he chose article to podcast his program is that other channels would let the people he wanted to interview say the things they wanted to say something the resulting backlash on both sides of the atlantic is a way through publications of questionable integrity to what their image is 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 get out they get you forget about an obscure the old 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 boil teach in the u.s. government and so it's rare there's really a lot of irony in a caucus 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 about science and his show and accuse the paper of bearing a childish grudge at best it's the envy at worst it is. crucial political viewpoints taken by the mainstream media they don't like what the wiki cables have revealed they don't like what julian assange has represents because it really does threaten the perspective of mainstream media perhaps the thought of this latest and unintended p.c. shows how so-called liberal media outlets like the quality of the york times. and think about just demonstrating instead and intolerance just for you to explain. something. to you no songes second show here in the next hour and holding together two political extremes for some ideological fireworks you can also

log onto thought our two dot com program. in other news president elect has picked dimitri medvedev to replace him as the leader of the ruling united russia party who takes over the country's top job from a day to two weeks more on this charge to use a really believes question joins us live or you know why is was the american indorsing made better as head of the party what does he say. well it's a pleasure putin said seems to have become a sort of tradition and russia where the president is above the belonging to a party and of course he's not prohibited from being a member of any party but the presidents that russia has had over the last several years none of them have been members of any party and that is why he is going to step down from the post of the chairman of the united russia and he has proposed that mitchum is going to take over and that is does of course is still up for

discussion off the during the good russia convention which may happen in the second half of me so this of course comes on the tails of these of the statement made today earlier why is still president dmitry medvedev he still has two weeks to go on this post i was talking about it's basically the cubans and some of the shortcomings which he's had to overcome or deal with over the past four years is going to be to speech before the state council talking about how there is still some troubles that russia has to deal with for example the poverty level you talked about the necessity to increase education also among some of the goals which mentioned where the increase. day lifespan of russians over the next sixty years and of course he also mentioned that corruption should be gods on every single level. of peace because if you're sure that even in

ancient china used to say the biggest problem is displeasing your enemy you should here which we have declared war on corruption but we know who our enemy is and we will not give you the first time in russian history we've created the right legal tools to fight this well armed its enemy now as we will carry on despite. of course there's also some achievements for example here a little bit of said that russia's inflation rate is the same as it was in two thousand and eight right before the crisis so by the looks of it russia seems to have pulled out of the economic slump and it was doing rather well is also talks about the fact that at this point to maga demographic problem russia seems to be on its way to being solved that russians are not dying out as some of some of their more grim forecasters have been saying so these are the subjects that i didn't need to read it has touched upon. him when he believes democracy is no longer a swear word its prestige has been recovered and its prospects for our country has

been restored i believe the political diversity intellectual get involved in politics will only help push democracy develop just entering through that and we will become stronger and more effective but he did get. one of the most important issues of course which out which we did it's also mentioned was freedom she said that freedom is much better than on freedom and that was the adarsh that he has been repeating for the last four years and so you can emphasize it's during his statement before the state council and outburst you heard is there every single russian to participate more actively in civil society. whatever it is planned for the future a lot of talk about him becoming prime minister. well does this seem like it's a viable option for him of course now that we know that he is more likely to be heading the united russia party it is likelihood of becoming russia's next prime

minister also rather but of course that you get is obviously for that is yet to be resolved it is an issue which is going to be looked upon in the nearest future. right or to use a really go loose cover boarding on the latest russian political developments from central moscow. on the way in a few minutes here on r t why israelis should be wary. if someone when they need to one of. their leaders say the threat to attack iran is no hot air but have it nothing compared to their own citizens if to iran it's back. and in my would a war zone in southeast asia but it's not we report from the massive joint exercises between russian and chinese naval forces in the o.c. and find out but striving. but first far from helping an embattled nation n.g.o.s operating in syria are being accused of helping the push towards

military intervention some are peddling unverified reports to deliberately encourage foreign action. marina porton i.e. explains the agency's hold sway with groups like nato which is weighed in on their findings before with deadly consequences. it was billed as a necessary humanitarian intervention requiring nato warplanes to rain bombs on libya before the u.s. led attack on moammar gadhafi forces. came unconfirmed allegations from western funded non-governmental organizations here who move on. rising fast and a big old information. these mercenaries seem to have come. to. the distinction according to a new report by the center for the study of interventionism many western n.g.o.s

exaggerated the circumstances in libya to expedite the campaign led by america britain and france some admitted mistakes after the damage was done but he would. have to go noting that we have no evidence that gadhafi employed mercenary forces. 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 ministry international supposed to hear an objective boldly which quality of standards equally and of course doesn't play excites we see these organizations as i say entering into an excessively cozy relationship with for example the united states government but also with other powerful western allies over libya and over other issues. 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 league for human rights which is called the basket center for human rights but has played exaction the same role it made statements to the human rights council a village to crimes against humanity they call safe havens and armed intervention in that country and they are quite capable as a populist who are trying to secure a military intervention against syria along the lines of a robot associate or at least approved last year in order for carney to be arrested this year this infamous connie twenty 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 the us 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 that invisible children provided information for the ugandan i've already asked what are we not know in terms of their relations with the ugandan government. we know that they paid for the airfare. they knew. their position and trying. to come here and help promote. the bill was passed. and it paved the way for the introduction of. how much. less regulated. and

governmental organizations in new. york ny artsy new york. well more stories you can head to our team dot com and read about how the u.s. may stay in afghanistan for another decade that's beyond the twenty fourth pullout damn time according to a new draft act between washington and kabul american military forces may be used in what these three men described as a plan to defend the south. an asteroid mining that robo shifts will harvest mineral riches such as gold water and fuel in space within a five to ten years find out more on our web site r t v dot com. south sudan's president says attacks by neighboring sudan amounts to a declaration of war stomach here is now a brain in beijing seeking help in setting its oil and border disputes with the north island as kuwait it's in south sudan split from the north last year after

that place of civil war the separation led to dispute over oil south sudan now has most of the reserves but all the pipelines run through the north a monday sudanese warplanes bombed the town of the south killing at least two people friends urging restraint on both sides and india has offered mediation which political analysts around child. offer hope. to be believed it is a conflict ladies you know it's usually washington not a european company that's getting in there here's a good injun's flow you know you should polish emerging economies to me you know an important diplomatic intervention there to show that you know the world order is changing and that means you seem to be doing started to pull back to the security council being a lawyer in france and britain and the us and some so i'm going to reserve usually against one of the other social exit edition and slow going to somebody it's back to square one and whether it is china india or malaysia could become not but

introduce real goals or even jointly do something to end this conflict which is markedly different anybody the west has no mistakes and because the oil companies are going out of the game on. whether it's watching a bystander because of u.s. sanctions on sudan since darfur. before the genocide charges and the western emphasis on the want of crimes committed by president bashir is being pulled the lack of access for rest of corporations so it's interesting that even south sudan we just created. westerns of all going to intervention at the international level he's increasingly turning to china and your money here to resolve the problem and i'm going to ask you know washington all the europeans for it so i think china i would say historically more welcome. than for some countries which have looked upon sudan as nothing but you know a piece of land with a lot of oil underneath the saudi. basing is looking for backing from nordic states for its bid to gain a foothold in the arctic region and its vast energy resources china's prime

minister is now in sweden for talks presents long from hong kong based investment firm says that while not all our nations are keen to work with beijing they have to eventually accept chinese involvement. i think in the key question of the nordics explosion i think space with china in there in fighting for resources ocean. china will find. because the arctic powers like canada you norway. we were not one to people would other countries to come the expression a strong china china is now china's maybe it's not really in a big enough to petro ocean as of now but. that will start china's premier in trying to exercise some diplomatic reach even to the

arctic ocean because china great now is the second largest economy and he has a stake in just about every economic issue will for europe wallow in recession and china growing at least eight percent a year. and china outpace europe ecological is soon or later maybe sooner and i think the global community. in accepting the emergence of china as an economic superpower and we accept work with china rather than opposed to china. israel says it's not playing games with threats to attack iran the country's defense minister insists it's not just belligerent rhetoric to bully tehran into abandoning its nuclear program but israel's apparent failure to sense for accounting may suggest otherwise as pulse clear explains.

the rule very family lives the missile range of gaza for years they complained to the government they had no shelter to protect them from kasam rockets fired by hamas but this is a poor immigrant town wasn't a top priority for tel aviv far from it prompting yakov to eventually build a shelter himself to protect his family so 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 grow up it took a direct hit on our course house five years ago before the government finally woke up and brought him a shelter opposite the one he really built himself now across israel's closest city to gaza they will bomb shelters in the street on sports fields and in children's playground where they cleverly disguised like this one but that won't reassure the rest of the country in the event of a conflict with a much bigger threat or he ran it for this government or stopped a war there for a poor pair of the civilian population for

a show of walk at a poor quality. we've got one point seven million people that haven't got in there. we've got three and a half million people that haven't got the gas mask israelis themselves are skeptical about the country's ability to defend itself many still remember iraqi scud missiles the man in the center of israel some twenty years ago and a scathing government report issued months ago suggests the home front is woefully unprepared and the government. doesn't want to. doesn't want to put the public into panic but i think the public itself probably does not believe in a strike is imminent other words people who've gone crazy the experts say any israeli military strike is very likely to draw any rain 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 dusty and neglected and whereas in previous times of tension tel aviv distributed gas masks many of those mosques remain in storage i really don't know why they are talking about it so much that's why i think there won't be a wall because they are talking about it i don't think there will be a war because they think the government is. going in doing nothing to prepare citizens for the situation if someone will bore me i don't know or they need to one . which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned i conceive if a governmental really. impaired to start a war they would do things differently or at least prepared public policy r.t. tel aviv. well look now at some more world news for you this hour and series of

blasts have wronged the syrian capital with several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and anti-government activists claim three intelligence officers intelligence officers i should say died in damascus another person is believed dead after an army truck driving your brilliant embassy attacks thomas u.n. cease fire monitors are are in the city but the government blaming rebels for the attacks. violent clashes have erupted between protesters and security forces and rain overnight they followed the few role of a man whose body was found riddled with birdshot pellets a day after he was involved in a confrontation with police demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs that police officers who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. egypt's ruling generals have approved a law passed earlier by parliament banning mubarak era officials from running for president the move quoted five former prime minister ahmed shah really who wants to

stand if the law is published and comes into force before the election committee agrees the final list of candidates on thursday be disqualified another helping to run the country's former intelligence chief has already been barred as both to the islamist. thousands of military personnel along with naval craft including some marines and destroyers are taking part in the first ever joint russian chinese sea drills currently underway in the yellow sea off the korean peninsula but even though the war games are purely peaceful nato is keeping a watchful eye and he's vowed to keep reports. a floating fortress for war games we were on board the admiral been a god of in the real conflict those destroyer would act as the first line of defense to the rest of the convoy one hundred fifty metres long and armed to the teeth with everything from gaping guns to therapy dogs and the search was designed to pose a serious threat to cruisers and submarines but in

a few recent missions they are going to are going to grow out of has been and a very different kind of war they want against the poor it's ok coast of somalia and it's more than providing it's model the group of player it's captured by the vinogradov in the gulf of aden were handed over to yemeni police and received ten year prison terms for attacking civilian ships. poor two helicopters scrambled the criminals were detained and in keeping with international agreements handed over to the yemeni authorities the experience gained could world prove useful during grosser chinese maneuvers both countries train their sailors in counterterrorism tasks become on the pivotal to the exercise in general is important to improve interaction in asia pacific i think which is what is appreciating this is the fourth closer cooperation but what certainly not again is the fact that every move in our convoy is being watched closely by nato planes ships and submarines in the past few years the u.s. and its allies have been increasing their presence in the asia pacific region so

for russia and china this exercise is about more than simply practicing maneuvers it's a chance to restamp their own dorothy on their traditional stomping grounds. r t onboard destroyer admiral vinogradov in the yellow sea. now it's time for all the latest business news katie joins us at the desk so katie is the situation in europe still very much the focus for investors today definitely is all about europe still on the stuff but we are seeing some rebounding x.n. on the market for a lot. very much after the success of francoise hollande in the first round of the french presidential elections the markets didn't like resource the real red figures going on yesterday rather they all read bound to go right now there seems to be a vicious round going on between the french. foreign minister now the social presidential candidate wants to renegotiate france's euro membership and stop the

painful spending cuts members of forced to make but. just said those terms simply on the go should call and that's how the route and the city of rome to the situation of the moment see how the. performing right now as i say they are managing to rebound if we talk about the dax yesterday is sort of biggest hates it is managing to rebound but it went to the lowest level in almost the wee amongst investors right now they're awaiting news coming from the u.s. we've got american consumer confidence coming out and home sales as well as we see those figures and later on in just under two hours time if we get over to the euro java see how the european currency is performing and is gaining ever so slightly at the moment while staying still remains an issue still in the forefront of investors minds at the moment the spanish central bank says that g.d.p. contracted in the first quarter so that's

a concern because the ruble gaining against both the u.s. dollar this hour as we get to the russian markets right here moscow with that is a mixed picture we did have some positive results come out today but if you check out the individual. with the a sea of red right now for some of the biggest companies here we've got gas problems down it's suffering one point three percent edging towards one point four percent announcing a higher than expected production of the first quarter so that's a surprise we've also got a loophole a seven tenths of a percent down dixie. while the two that's a retailer in a rush about to ease the suffering if we check out the oil prices we'll be able to see how. we're going to mix viewpoint just as there's all kinds of stories going on that they managed to reach the highest level in almost eight months because refineries are really up in their supply ahead of the summer season in the u.s.

where people really spend on gasoline they go on driving trips and all sorts of road trips across america circles of all the stories going on as well wolf there certainly was talk about russia's top here is reportedly in talks with it is to drill in the black sea yes we can for foreign expertise to tap new hotline how to access deposit now it comes out of the agree to explore the arctic and america's exxon mobile. underbrush russia's president has pledged not to business with new taxes in a speech today he added all state income families will be review and dropped if found the necessary to meet also promised to minimize firms paper work just tossed out the tax office. and move in our brushes a new richest man is not enough will pay but we put in dollars for control of the country's second biggest mobile operator like

a farm but also agreed to pay dividends for the first time ahead of an initial public offering on the footsie in the us. ok that's all for now and he's i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with. all right thanks kate looking forward to seeing you next next hour thank place same time now certainly in the lowdown on the intensifying spat between iran and israel with a key tel aviv lawmaker is coming up i thought oh the headlines and this short break.