newshour was on both sides of the atlantic lash out at their former favorite truth teller as julian assange just records show premieres today here on r t. the top flop in russia president elect for dinner putin picks alcoa a leader and to meet him is very different face him as head of the country's ruling party headed his giving his final kremlin speech of his term before handing over power to prove in under two weeks. not so chargeable n.g.o.s are being accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria with a move similar to those that led to intervention in libya.

at five pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live from he's now it with our top story downgraded from hero to trader in the blink of an eye whistleblower julian a song was held by major media as a real freedom ambassador now there labeling him a nut job after his show debuted on r t a second episode of which airs here today norah smith reports now on what's behind a songes image assassination. it was one of the p.t.s.d. and only time ninety two tunnels that critics know detail of the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up shed exclusively with a handful of newspapers and julian assange was its hero a nomad 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 put you back off one of the greatest perhaps the greatest leak of classified information in history the guardian has been afraid of usually by the deal they

made with. the leaks contains the. dozens of stories in the new york times and they're going to end in hunting their reputations as protectors of democracy and press freedoms but then the guardian newspaper one the best stars of the original media partners called him an important pick up a most interesting and unusual in there but now in the pages of the very same publication even if you will it's yes from hero to direct. a film and nothing more than journalistic jealousy a useful idiots in the guardian a nut job in the new york times with partners like these who needs enemies it staggers need absolutely least you know we sort of for that so many journalists who really i think their job should be challenging authority their job should be preventing governments working in the dark seem to be so critical oh somebody has

probably got more than most major issues in giving generous mrs this and challenging power in recent years i thought says one reason he chose r.t. to podcast his program is that all of the channels wouldn't 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 to publications of questionable integrity to whitewash 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 do that they get you forget about an obscure p.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 while teaching the us government and so it's rare there's really

a lot of irony and accuracy in this criticism in a further irony for the guardian in. and backlash seems to have seriously misjudged its readership comments in response to the article overwhelmingly supportive of a soldier and his show and accuse the paper of bearing a childish grudge at best it's the angry at worst it is a 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 is represents because it really does threaten read respectable 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 and r.t. . you can see doing those launches second show here in just about twenty five

minutes from now we'll who are going to go to political extremes for some ideological fireworks you can also log onto a song started our karma to watch the program are not. president elect loads were put on has paid to me there needs to replace them as the leader of the ruling united russia party who takes over the country's top job from innovative in two weeks here is our arena with more. he is going to step down from his post as the chairman of the united pressure and he proposed meeting with the latest candidacy for that post that of course will happen after the inauguration which is to take place on the seventh of may of course the person who is going to be heading the united russia will house to be elected during the session of the united russia that will also happened in the second half of make now pitching with that it has met with the members of the state council and given them a speech on the cheapness and shortcomings off his presidential term she mentioned among other things some of the issues which we still need to be worked on in russia

those words are education increasing the life span in the over the next six years and us forest fighting corruption should be given in ancient china they used to say the biggest problem is displacing your enemy which we've declared war on corruption we know who our enemy is and we will not be the first time in russian history we've created the right legal tools to fight this well armed enemy as we will carry on this fight. but there's some other things prove ment's he's also mentioned the nano is this the level of inflation which seems to have gone down to the level where it was four years ago right before the financial crisis so does look like russia has made it out of the economic slump a lot better than a lot of other countries is also talked about the demographic problem which doesn't seem to threaten russia as much as before it also of course which we've had it has returned to the issue of freedom versus long freedom he said that some russians

have been associating i'd say marcus lee and freedom with chaos and absence of any bodily comfort he said that that is a mistake and he has encouraged people to take a more absence part in a civil society which to me relates democracy is no longer a swear word its prestige has been recovered and its prospects for our country have been restored i believe the political diversity and direction public involved. politics will only help push democracy develop and improve but we will become stronger and more effective as far as most visitors plans for what he's going to do after he is no longer russian president we can assume that you will most likely be the chairman of the united russia party and a lot of forecasters are saying that he is the most likely candidates for the prime ministerial closed. on the way in a few minutes here on r t why israelis should be grateful. if someone with me i don't know let me join. their leaders say the threat to attack iran is no hot air

but have nothing prepared for their own citizens in tehran. and it may look like 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 yellow sea and find out what's driving them. 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 privately unverified reports to deliberately encourage foreign action that's an important i explain the agency's hold sway with groups like nato which is weighed in on their findings before the consequences. it was billed as a necessary humanitarian intervention requiring nato warplanes to rain bombs on libya before the u.s. let its half i know mark a gulf these forces. came unconfirmed

allegations from western funded non-governmental organizations here the november december when everything friday and saturday we got information that even the gadhafi denies the mess and that. these mercenaries seem to have come to. pollute and kill also 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 those who would say we have to go together we have no other than the people that employed mercenary forces or that unfortunately we have seen. a very cozy chose for lucian ship building up between certain big powerful image i'm thinking of human rights watch a mystery international supposed to be an objective polje which monitors standards

equally of course doesn't excite us 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 dollars over libya and over other missions. currently the most pressing issue in 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 of two like a libyan leader for human rights which is called list of damascus centrifuge has played exactly the same role they've made statements to the human rights council they alleged crime. you know the two they say things. armed intervention in our country and they are quite sure. who are trying to secure a military intervention against syria along the lines of. or at least approved last

year in order for connie to be arrested this year this infamous connie twenty twelve movie came from california based ngo invisible children it said the film a into any 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 willing to. believe that was not the one time. provided information to the. authorities what else do we not know and terms of their relations with the ugandan government. we know that they paid for the airfare. prominent politicians. they knew which supported their position in terms of supporting the bill to approach to

come here and help promote it so quote. the bill was passed it was signed by the president and it paved the way for the introduction of. n.g.o.s are not currently held accountable for the information they publish no matter how much collateral damage small stocks may cause left on regulated critics believe some non-governmental organisations will continue behaving the way for conflict rather than advocating peaceful solutions bring up or not artsy new york well for more stories head on to our dot com you can read about how the u.s. based a man cannot stand for another decade beyond the twenty fourth. according to a new draft pact between washington and kabul american military forces may be using what the agreement is crimes as a plan from afghanistan. and asteroid mining romo ships will harvest

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thousand pounds president says attacks by neighboring sudan amounts to a declaration of war salva kiir is now in beijing seeking help in setting its oil and border disputes with the north while it has as kuwait it sent south sudan split from the north last year after two decades of civil war separation led to disputes over oil south sudan now has most of the reserves all the pipelines run through the north on monday certainly as warplanes bombed a town in the south killing at least two people try to surging restraint on both sides in india's offer of mediation moves which political analyst. says for some hope. if you believe there is a conflict like this you know it's usually washington are you to be an example of scaring you but here's a golden chance for evolution followers emerging economies to make you know an important people might intervention that will show that you know the world already is changing other ways if you leave it again started to go back to the security council where you know again france and britain and the us out of the farms i'm

going to resolution against one of the other side it's not exactly an insulating sovereignty it's back to square one and whether it is china or malaysia will become more potential peace real concern even jointly do something to end this conflict which is not benefiting anybody the west has no stakes and because the western oil companies have been out of the game altogether it's watching a bystander because of us sanctions on sudan since our floor and because the genocide charges and the u.s. . emphasis on the war crimes committed by president bashir there is been total lack of access for certain populations so it's interesting that even south sudan we just created. western support any intervention at the international level is increasingly turning to china and your money here to resolve the problem you're not going to ask you know washington all the europeans for it so i think china i would say historically. peace broker then but some countries which look 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 responded to gain a foothold in the arctic region and energy resources china's prime minister is now in sweden for talks france's long kong race investment firm says that while not all arctic nations are keen to work with beijing but have to eventually accept chinese involvement. but i think in the key question of where that the nordic sixty explosion the arctic stays with china at them back in there in fighting for resources in the arctic ocean. china will find the path because the arctic powers like. norway denmark they were not one to people would other countries expression not a strong china as china is now china's navy is not really not big enough to

petro the ocean as of now but. there will start china's premier in trying to exercise some people make it rich even to the arctic ocean biggest china great now is the second largest economy and it 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 do to prepare in accepting the emergence of china as an economic superpower and exhibit work with china rather than our coast of china. israel says it's not playing games with its 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 repair its citizens for retaliation may suggest other writes its policy or explains. the rule very 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 hamas but disappointed in the group 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 work it took a direct hit on our course house five years ago before the government finally woke up and bought him a shelter opposite the one he really built himself now across his halls close to city to gaza there are 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 of iran it could have spoiled liberal government. or war there for a poor pair of the civilian population for a show of orchids of all crimes. we have got one point seven million people that haven't got insured. 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 landing 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 put the street doesn't want to put the public into panic but i think the public itself probably does not believe in a strike and. 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 he ran 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 masks remain in storage where you don't know why they are talking about it so much that's why i think there won't be a wall because we are talking about it i don't think there will be a war because a government is. going in not doing nothing to prepare citizens for the situation if someone will bore me i don't know all i need to one. which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned up its sleeve if a governmental really. impaired to start a war they would do things differently or at least prepared

a public policy r.t. tel aviv. so more world news for you this hour a series of blasts have rocked syrian capital with several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and three government activists claim three intelligence officers died in damascus another person is believed dead after an army truck driving near the iranian embassy camas u.n. cease fire monitors are in the city the government blaming rebels for the attack. while in classes of erupted between protesters and security forces in bahrain overnight if all of the funeral of a man that was bodies 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 responded with tear gas and stun grenades. it was ruling generals have approved earlier by parliament banning mubarak era officials from running for president the move could affect the former prime minister. who wants to stand if

the law is published and comes into force before the election committee agrees a final list of candidates on thursday will be disqualified rather hoping to run the country's former intelligence chief vertigo's part as well as to the as the us . now thousands of military personnel along with naval craft including submarines and destroyers are taking part in the first ever joint russian chinese sea drills currently underway in the yellow sea off the greeny korean peninsula but even though the war games are purely peaceful nato is keeping a watchful eye on these backi reports. if. games room doors do admit are all going to grow and the real conflicts this destroyer with is the first line of defense to the rest of the convoy one hundred fifty meters long and armed to the to you everything from guns to repeat all the missiles this was designed to boost serious threats to cruisers and submarines but in the

resubmission. they are going all going to grow out of has been and a very different kind of war you want to get to the point it's of the coast of somalia and it's more than providing it's metal 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. will import two helicopters scrambles the criminals were detained and in keeping with international agreements handed over to the yemeni authorities. experience gained world proved useful during chinese maneuvers countries train their sealers in counterterrorism tasks become one of the exercise in general is important to improve interaction in the asia pacific i think which is what you suppresion towards to support aeration but what's 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 the success size is about more than simply practicing maneuvers it's a chance to restart their own on their traditional stomping grounds. are key on board destroyer of the old in the growth of in the yellow sea. now saima from the latest business news katie joins us katie the situation in europe now look good out there understand no absolutely no and it is all because of the situation in france we have the success of france so our lands in the first round of the presidential election as because he favors more government spending to support the economy and that is in contrast your sarasate approach encouraged by e.u. ministers and germany as well now the french germans policy and his desire to renegotiate his country's a membership in order to avoid the painful spending cuts is causing

a bank clash and is coming from germany as foreign minister now he says the term simply are not negotiable and now there seems to be around a rock scene so let's check out those figures to have a look at the footsie on the sat and i was about to tell you that they've been rebounding they've just slid into negative territory now so it seems that caution is really at the forefront of investors' minds at the moment the european debt crisis it's not over now investors in the. region there now awaiting a news coming for america consumer confidence and home sales if we look at the european currency we can see it so lightly out this grain is also a concern because we have g.d.p. contracts as well if we look at the ruble almost at this hour we can see it's danica's us dollar and the euro and the markets here in russia we've got the r.t.s. and the my stakes both of posting a loss is that see how the individual share music getting on them i searched this hour and we got gas probably down hours after announcing higher than expected

production for the first quarter still down investors not impressed we got lou call down as well they started drilling in iraq as well we got good news though the dixie latest quarter this is the right would you believe it they were posting a healthy gains earlier on today that's because they were reporting first quarter revenue doubling they just lost the fight there just dipping into the red in the russian markets will be closing up in just over an hour's time to see if they ever would pull themselves back out at those oil prices and they are indeed this hour we've got u.s. uprising growing and that's because so much of mont is set to increase because some of them are to the u.s. people going on road trips out of the market to look for that i would call more stories for you want to ross that right here russia's top oil firm rosneft is reportedly insured with its own is to join in the black sea and we're also looking

for foreign expertise to attack new hot access to polls as it comes after the firm agreed to explore the arctic with a ny and america's exxon mobil. and other stories for you russia's president has pledged a not so burdened business with new taxes in a speech today he added all state stakes in companies will be reviewed and dropped if found necessary to meet also promise to minimize good work saying it just gathers dust at the tax office. ok that's markets now the next hour have the figures for the u.s. markets all right katie looking forward to see you then shortly here in our to the second edition of whistleblower julian assange just hard hitting interview series that's after the headlines in just a moment. but

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