news outlets on both sides of the atlantic lash out at their former favorite truth teller as julian assange just second show premieres today here on our t.v. . the cops walk in russia president is a lack of fruits and picks outgoing leader to meet their needs to replace him as head of the country's ruling party betrayed it has also given the final kremlin speech of his term. not so charitable n.g.o.s are being accused of trying to incite foreign action in syria has moved similar to those that led to intervention in libya. and in business the russian market is her makes to finish us off her pretty lackluster day its european sovereign debt crisis that is taking center stage at once again join me in twenty minutes time for you to tell.

it's seven pm here in moscow this is our t. coming to you live from the snow way with our top story downgraded from hero to traitor in the blink of an eye whistleblower julian a song that was held by major media as a real freedom embassador now the labeling him a nut job after his show debuted on our t.v. a second episode of which is airing here today laura smith reports now on what's behind a song image assassination. it was one of the biggest scoops of all time ninety two thousand leaked detailing the bloody truths of the afghan war from the ground up shared exclusively with a hunt full of newspapers and sheeley in 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 and they were only too happy of course to piggyback off one of the greatest or perhaps the greatest leak of classified information in history the guardian is going to find it usually 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 what about the original media partners called him an important figure a most interesting and unusual. but now in the pages of the very same publication even though you've called it yet from here you sit here right. now that nothing more than journalistic jealousy a useful idiots in the guardian a not in the new york times with partners like these who needs enemies it staggers me absolutely least you know we sort of for

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 of somebody who's probably going with the most major issues in giving journalism a service and challenging power in recent years after one reason he chose r.t. to broadcast his program is that other channels wouldn't let the people he wanted to interview say the things they wanted to say and some say the resulting backlash on both sides of the atlantic is a way for publications of questionable integrity to whitewash the. images it really makes american media outlets feel good to be able to point to other media outlets and say oh we'll go over there those are tools and instruments for state propaganda because when you do that they get you forget about and 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 faithful loyalty to the us government and so it's really there's really a lot of irony in a park receiving 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 worst it's the entry had 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 side represents because it really does threaten will be a perspective of mainstream media perhaps i thought this latest and unintended scoop shows how so-called liberal media outlets like the guardian in new york times are anything but demonstrating instead an intolerance of those who don't play by

their rules laura smith party. because the julian assange has second show here in r.t. in about twenty five minutes but will bring together two political extremes for some ideological fireworks and can also log on to a son started dot com one of the programs might. the president elect's words him or putin has picked me three madrid to replace him as the leader of the ruling united russia party putin takes over the country's top job from iterative in two weeks here's artes are going to live with more. he is going to step down from his post as the chairman of the united pressure and he proposed me to make that if candidacy for that post that of course will happen after dinner argue ration which is to take place on the seventh of may and of course the person who is going to be heading the united russia will have to be elected during the session of the united russia so that will also happened in the second half make now

meeting with that it has met with the members of the state council and given them a speech on the achievements and shortcomings of his presidential terms you mentioned among other things some of the issues which we still need to be worked on in russia those course are education increasing the life span in the over the next six seven years and of course fighting corruption should be an ancient china they used to say the biggest problem is despising your enemy which we've declared war on corruption we know who our enemy is and we will not back down for the first time in russian history we've created the right legal tools to fight this well armed enemy and we will carry on this fight. but some of the improvements he's also mentioned among those is 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 it 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 makes with that it has returned to the issue of freedom versus long freedom he said that some russians have been associating to mark christie 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 active part in a civil society which we believe lives democracy is no longer a swear word its prestige has been recovered and its prospects for our country can be restored i believe the political diversity and public involved. in politics we only have democracy develop and improve but we will become stronger and more effective as far as this visit is plans for what he's going to do he is no longer russian president we can assume that he will most likely be the chairman of the united russia party and a lot of forecasters are saying that he is the most likely candidate for the prime

ministerial post. on the way in just a few minutes here on r t what israelis should be worried. if someone were. to one of. their leaders say read true attack iran is no hot air but have nothing to prepare for their own citizens to bomb iran. and it might look like a war zone in southeast asia but it's not the report from the massive joint exercises between russian and chinese naval forces in the go seek and find out try to. 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 that's going to pour ny 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 bring bombs on libya before the u.s. led attack imo market alfie's forces. came unconfirmed allegations from western funded non-governmental organizations here who move on what you said friday and saturday we got information that in the gadhafi forces they could have been manson. and that. these mercenaries seem to have come to your. pollution and kill. 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 admitting mistakes after the damage was done but it would revert to the way we have to do that we have no other than productive employee

mercenary forces a record of things unfortunately we have seen. very cozy chose relationship building up between certain big powerful engine thinking of human rights watch a mystery international they're supposed to an objective all to which modern standards equally 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 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 political leap for human rights which is called the center for human rights has played exactly the same role it made

statements to the human rights council they alleged crime. humanity they say faith in. french. and they are. trying to secure a military intervention against syria along the lines of one. or at least approved last year orders for connie 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 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 willing. to believe that was not the one time that invisible children provided information. we now

know and terms of their relations with the ugandan government. we know that. for the year for. a prominent new ground including politicians they knew were supportive of their position and the support of the approach to come here and help promote. the bill was passed it was signed by the president and improve the way for the introduction of u.s. troops into n.g.o.s are not currently held accountable for the information they publish no matter how much collateral damage false facts may cause left on regulated critics believe some non-governmental organisations will think you mean being away for conflict rather than the t.v. spots and some bring up more of my artsy new york. from our stories you can head to our tea dot com and read about how the u.s. may stay in afghanistan for another decade be on the twenty fourth and vine. that's

according to a new ground path between washington and kabul american military forces may be used in glad to have agreement scribe's are planned to defend afghanistan. and how to write in mining of robo ships will harvest mineral riches such as cold water and fuel in space five to ten years and more details on our website r.c. . south sudan's president says attacks by neighboring sudan amount to a declaration of war salva kiir is now in beijing seeking help in selling its oil and border just like a north but has as collated since south sudan split from the north last year after two decades of civil war the separation led to disputes over oil south sudan now has most of the reserves of the pipelines run through the north on monday sudanese warplanes bombed a town in the south killing at least two people china is urging restraint on both

sides in india's offered mediation moves which political analysts around the. sun hope. to believe there is a conflict like this you know it's usually washington or you will be interpreted to mean but here's a golden chance for you know you should polish emerging economies to meet girls in an important diplomatic intervention birdsville shouldered you know the world order is changing other ways you see leader getting started to go back to the security council you know again france and britain and you want to form some going to resume action against one of the others so what exactly difference aligning somebody it's back to square one and whether it is china in your malaysia could become more potential even jointly do something to end this conflict which is a remarkably forgiving anybody in the west has not. because the companies are going out of the game altogether it's watching a bystander because of your sanctions on the floor. because the germans are judges

and the. emphasis. on the one crimes committed by president bashir is being global lack of access for the rest of gulf regions so it's interesting that even so sudan we just created three. times are all going to intervention at the international level he's increasingly during 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 used very clearly what little come. then to some countries which have done is nothing but you know a piece of land with a lot of oil and he designed the former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko who is currently serving a seven year term for abuse of power has gone on hunger strike she's been refusing food for five days after another corruption probe was launched which she insists is fabricated sankoh was taken to hospital last friday which were the lawyer claims was against her will the former premier alleges prison guards punched her in the

stomach and twisted her arms when she refused to go which the prison authorities deny to mistake has been complaining of poor health and she was jailed last october and is demanding treatment in germany ukrainian court is now investigating whether to machine quote committed economic crimes in the one nine hundred ninety s. they found it guilty of she could get an extra twelve years behind bars. beijing 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 and france's long from a hong kong based investment firm says that while not all are think nations are keen to work with beijing they'll have to eventually accept chinese involvement. vig been the key question where did the nordics explosion. give china. in fighting for resources in the arctic ocean in china where you

find. the arctic powers like. norway. one to people who other countries expression a lot a strong china as china is now china's really not big enough to petro the arctic ocean as of now but. they're. china's premier in trying to exercise some diplomatic reach even in the arctic ocean because china 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 pace europe economically soon or later maybe sooner and i think the global community. in

accepting the emergence of china's economic superpower. work with china right it in a post china. israel says it's not playing games with its threats to attack iran the country's defense minister insists it's not just rhetoric to bully tehran into abandoning its nuclear program but israel's apparent failure to repair its citizens for retaliation may suggest otherwise and costlier explains. they were very family lives in midst of range of gaza for years they complained to the government they had no shelter to protect them from some 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 we went through some very tough years or 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 brought him a shelter opposite the one he really built himself now across israel's closest city to gaza there are bomb shelters in the street and sports fields and in children's playgrounds with a cleverly disguised like this one but that won't we assure the rest of the country in the event of a conflict with a much bigger threat of iran if it has more of the world government. quarter war. difficult poor pair of the civilian population for a show of walkers of all crimes. we've got one point seven million people with hiv in good images. we've got three and a half million people if they 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 this caving

government report issued months ago suggests the home front is woefully unprepared and the government. doesn't want to put obviously those more people the public into panic but i think the public itself probably does not believe in a strike is imminent otherwise people would have gone crazy the experts say any israeli military strike is very likely to go any rain in which elevation 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 masks remain in storage i really don't know why 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 government is. going in not doing nothing to prepare

citizens for the situation if someone will bore me i don't know i need to one. which has many wondering what exactly tel aviv has planned i could see if a government of the nearly. impaired to start a war. there would do things differently or at least prepare a public policy r.t. tel aviv. look now at world news in brief for you this hour a series of blasts have rocked the syrian capital with several people said to have been killed syrian state t.v. and anti-government activists claim three intelligence officers died in damascus another person is believed dead after an army truck driving north in the brilliant embassy attacks cartman. media attacks come as the u.n. cease fire monitors are in the city but the government claiming rebels for the attacks. by the clashes have erupted between protesters and security

forces in bahrain overnight they follow the funeral 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 earlier by part of them and planning mubarak era officials from running for president the move could affect the former prime minister jury 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 will be disqualified another hoping to run the country's former intelligence chief has already been barred as well as to beating its them its. 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 korean peninsula but even though the war games are purely peaceful nato is keeping a watchful eye as he's bosky klutz. a floating fortress for war games we were on board the admiral vinogradov 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 good wing guns to torpedo. the ship was designed to pose a serious threat to cruisers and submarines but in a few recent missions they are going to hold in a ground up has been in a very different kind of war the want to get into the poor itself the coast of somalia and it's more than providing its model the group of poirot's captured waited in a crowd of in the gulf of aden were handed over to yemeni police and received ten year prison terms for attacking civilian ships. for two helicopter scrambles the criminals were detained and in keeping with international agreements handed over to

the yemeni authorities the experience gained could world prove useful during rosser chinese maneuvers both countries trained their sailors in counterterrorism tasks and one of it was the exercise in general is important to improve interaction in the asia pacific i think which is going to suppression is a step towards closer cooperation but what's certainly not a game 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 tortie on their traditional stomping grounds. r t on board destroyer of middle vinogradov in the yellow sea. now some see what's happening in the world of business katie joins us ok the situation in europe still dominating the sentiment absolutely really is all about

a year today and the fact that the u.s. markets have just i tend to as well is also the forefront of investors' minds i can tell you this so. i mean us are indeed all. things that results and that's pushing the dow jones up nearly one hundred points now the gains are not quite as strong as for the nasdaq just then that's because it's tech heavy that particular balls after this do triple that course of the day is that company has been suffering recently has been down that ten days. as i say the biggest company for a market value on the on the nasdaq that also want to talk about the fact that u.s. home sales dropped sharply in february to hit the worst level in nearly a decade so that is really filtering through the markets as well so what's going on that as you say and he said it took about europe because there is sorry much going on now there's actually a bit of a raul going on as she lay on it some thoughts warhol logs that he wants to

renegotiate euro membership and stop the painful spending cuts members have to make. foreign minister. just those terms all the goetia all that so set up a bill using route between the two linchpin of the single currency so that it's own going out for a moment no one spoke about france let me just mention that the cap is now down to two point three percent this now and i got the foot on the just that we all seeing gains in europe so there is a sense of optimism at the moment if we checked out how the european currency is getting all will see the figure for this hour is want to do is there are six of the trade is a favorite path now the ruble has closed up for business right now so this is how the russian currency finished up today is stronger against the u.s. dollar as well as the european currency if we look at the closing figures for the

russian markets will say that it was a makes to finish it was a lackluster performance hand that's largely because investors remain. concerned with the europeans that price says they say lots of news coming out of the us as well today let's see how the stocks performed i just called what was indeed down one and a half percent they did an ounce a higher than expected production of the first quarter though we had lou call as well they ended up around hard the percent down in negative territory they started drilling rob we had dick says well the retailer now by price isn't healthy gains earlier on in the session but they finished on the back thirty eight tenths of a percent down there that's despite reporting our first quarter revenue doubling year on year so let's see those oil prices all important to the rush of that market i can tell you that us all supplies there are the highest level in eleven months now that refineries are preparing for the summer season to models of gasoline being

pulled off of cars that are in the u.s. ready those are a chance of us how the markets look we're talking about also let's stick with it and talk about iraq yes russia's top oil is reportedly in talks with its leaders in israel and that's all we've got time for him to tell you all about it later i'm going to leave you in suspense. all right katie thanks for that update we'll see you next hour coming up shortly for you here on our to the second edition of whistleblower julian assange of the hard hitting interview series of after the headlines in just a monitor. well

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