barack or closes the next round julian assange with the f.b.i. now harassing its contacts in an apparent attempt to gather in the world's most famous whistleblower. feasted union where the men put in is looking for some of china's economic fortune cookies while moscow and beijing continue to read from the same page when it comes to world politics. and egypt's muslim brotherhood sides with moves for a million man protest calling for mubarak's execution hoping it will also sweep aside their presidential election rival before anyone even votes.

hello this is r t it's two pm here in moscow now my name's kevin zero in with the top stories for you this hour and the latest installment of julian assange as show is premiering on this channel today with the f b i also apparently among the ranks of loyal viewers the agency said to have been given the green light to launch a surveillance mission on the prominent whistleblower and everyone in contact with him a number of his guests indeed have been stopped and interrogated by agents was one even offered the chance to turn f.b.i. informant artie's got a teacher can has more on the story. u.s. officials say there is no indictment against julian assange but apparently the u.s. is going after him after all in their quest for evidence they might hear watching the sunday shows here on our t.v. or else of how would several of the shows and guests end up interrogated about the weekly leaks founder in this week's episode features one of them that's jeremy zimmerman an internet freedom advocate who's based in friends at the airport

traveling from the united states to friends he was stopped by self identified f.b.i. agents and questioned about julian assange the week in leaks website says mr zimmerman was threatened with arrest and imprisonment when he asked about his rights this all happened after his interview with mr off where they talked cyber security and freedom in the face of ever expanding government surveillance here is a bit of it don't miss the whole thing here on r.t. running all day no doubt some sites technology enables those also billions of communication then there is do do the other side of the coin is what we do with it we could admit that for which you go to tactical one there are some indeed some legitimate use investigators investigating the bug. but guys and so on may need under the supervision of the judicial authority to be able to use. such tools

but the question is where to draw this judicial supervision where to go to the control that the citizens can have over the use of those technologies and this is a policy issue so there was jeremy and a bit earlier internet freedom activists mari mccarthy the co-founder of the icelandic digital freedom society he too was stopped at the airport and questioned by u.s. officials about julian assange he says he was later followed and approached by three u.s. officials in washington late at night and asked to become a new warmer sounds like something from the moon. as far as the number of people detained or arrested shortly before or after the show might be breaking some television record among other guests there was the president of the bahrain center for human rights and i believe our job was beaten up at bahrain international airport and held in prison for almost a month after recording an interview with julian assange so what can we expect as if now the duke

a court has authorized mr songes extradition to sweden his lawyers have less than two weeks to contest that decision in sweden he's facing quite thin allegations of sexual assault which reportedly had to do with consensual but unprotected sex but his supporters are saying it's not a songes unprotected sex that they're looking into but rather a way to get him to sweden where it would be arguably easier to hand him over to the united states judging by the reports about people being interrogated one might say that the u.s. is building a case against julian assange. well i can tell you that the latest episode to do new songs you show is here on our t.v. starting from eleven thirty g.m.t. that's twenty five minutes away the first edition of his latest program this week. free from prejudice and stereotypes are president putin's defined russia's ties with china as he looks east for the next three days than he was

a seeing eye to why a major international disputes right now such as the syrian conflict concern over u.s. expansion in the asia pacific region. is in beijing for us. well it's not only just a visit any just official visit it's a state visit the first one since the report and became the president so unless you have some certain details about its protocol because as we know any president of any country can perform only one state visit to any country during his captaincy certainly this outlines how important this visit is and for some experts this has already been a declaration of intent and the declaration alpha live in which it was shown that the foreign policy of russia with his new terror will not change and i first went to europe now he goes to china basically the relations between moscow and beijing have been very strong over the past several decades the trade turnover has been reaching one hundred billion dollars in its turn over every year so definitely this is russia's closest ally not only in terms of economic ties but also on very many

international issues as well just in particular. the syrian issue within the u.n. security council russia and china seem to have a unified position are certainly this in this visit will be interesting with a lot of on its agenda and certainly we'll be following this visit over two days as it's here and we'll be bringing all the latest details lottie's you was every time we get new information we will indeed are expecting media conference as well hopefully within the hour soon as that arms will cross to it but now let's cross live to beijing based political scientist dr keil chung is joining us from london well from beijing dr hello the u.s. militarily expanding in the asia pacific region announcing it now wants to shift the bulk of his warships to the pacific region by twenty twenty going to be reacting to the move. in china and changing the united states military maneuver and expanding spending you know people who are in military presence in asia simply to green in iran china are taking very

seriously. so president putin's visit to china at this crucial juncture is it significant as enhanced enable or what is the purpose do you think of the u.s. relocating its forces it is my reading u.s. is losing more and more in the low the green explorer and our nation is in trouble and all around the whole. the obama president obama last november and even in australia are they where they have been sitting is becoming is another crucial region the u.s. interest in is hanging more because the u.s. is in march and more and more big trouble they are coming into the region

particularly trying to put the u.n. to china's growth or its and more growing influence around the region around all us is feeling in fear of china and more growth in all its international relations and china of course is the fastest growing economy i guess by jack more influence on the international arena why doesn't the u.s. want to improve closer ties in with china like that obvious question you know in the run along now america yep. ah mark. you know that i am not much concerned about the cultural exchange what i am look uncertain about american sought power in their trade union to china and the zaire president hu jintao has to love them for their own talk or was deeply concerned about how the ratchet westernized nation are going to china a society which the american national times the idea is much more crucial issue

that everybody particular in chinese government should pay attention to to deal with the thought of power in their trade in me as they say it was their dividing china and therefore the destabilized chinese the economic growth and overall political unity here. and that russia and china are of course on the same side when it comes to major world this need to mention the just talk about there the syrian conflict right now but also right in north korea why are they singing from the same shape what binds them. you know. at this particular time out the polling when you are these are losing in school world dominance global agree on the whole wall don't china russia russia china relationship i think is the most important global. conflict or the

way china and russia are related to each other or will bring them out the real change. to all the fixation of the whole room to unilateral darlin and by the west by the united states how together with russia and china up. i think they have a little of a responsibility to make it happen to do more to polarize not that long on international relations not for the by the tainted by one crowbar superpower saw the russia china relations i think it's now are you now highlight and personifies how important it is how crucial these two nations global leadership the strategic cooperation through the prince was through the shar line cooperation or a nation including the syria issue and the united nations security council meetings

these two nations completely wishing to join leadership is the only power to deter or change the course what is taking place at the moment in syria or iran and in routing the korea around the world all right thank you for your thoughts much appreciated their base political scientist art keel chubb thank you thank you now to talk to of and subramanian from the peterson institute for international economics thanks china as all that's needed to run the u.s. economy is a preview of what's coming up in about twenty minutes time. at the moment china's g.d.p. for example is smaller than that of the united states that's true but if you measure it in terms of parts seem power it's as big as the united states one second china is already the world's largest trade. treaty china is

a net creditor to the work it finances the u.s. and the u.s. is a debtor that's today and over the next ten fifteen years all these numbers are going to go all in china's favor so the china is going to become an even bigger economy than the u.s. . we mentioned syria just now and the u.n. chief has rejected calls from syria's rebels to impart impose a no fly zone over the country to help bring the president assad that the mindful of the statement from the fighters saying they're no longer committed to the international truce plan proposed by special envoy kofi annan the rebels claim dozens of government soldiers were killed in clashes in attacks on security checkpoints over the last few days violence comes amid growing voices from the u.s. and its allies for the action it follows reports of plans to set up refugee camps along syria's borders run by the military but that something which will only bring more bloodshed according to middle east blogger karl shero. i think it will

actually increase the likelihood of revenge killings kind of sectarian tension along mixed areas where. revenge operations will start to happen and it will suck more and more people in i think syria now it is at that tipping point where the conflict can be pulled back from our sectarian civil war to kind of some form of political framework but once there is actively groups on the ground in syria and whatever kind of formula they are in there they are likely to increase the prospect of bloodshed. shekel r.t. dot com a website we've also got the latest news not dates for you as well as many of the stories you could have missed there right now no promise land for the migrants the israeli government says go all the way to africa as the prime minister calls for a mass deportation while human rights groups describe the expulsion as a moral authority dot com also from us post revolution in libya is seen shooting in

violence once again a militia group uses armored vehicles to capture the main airport in tripoli the stories breaking this day as a military chaos drags the country back into bloodshed we've got the latest online . as cairo braces itself for the largest rallies seen in months calling for the execution of ousted president mubarak the muslim brotherhood presidential candidates looking to use the protests to wipe out his rival even before round two of the vote the islamist joined the calls of revolutionary groups for a million man march on tuesday to capitalize on anti barack sentiment. reports from an egypt which could again be sliding into instability. revolution renewed but

these protesters never expected to be back in time risk where just a year after they ousted the dictatorial president hosni mubarak he's now serving a life sentence but after thirty years in power toppling the system he built is proving to be an even harder task than talking the land everything is like collapsing from at all just economy so this gave me the impression is that probably be one will not you know rise again they are already exhausted or too exhausted to go to the square and protest again but it's really impressive they went again and the op now protesting dalia has been involved with egypt's revolution from the beginning she works to monitor civil and political developments in the country or lack of them many egyptians are dismayed that little if anything has changed under the ruling supremes council of the armed forces or skaf in fact we see that.

is continuing mubarak's regime and offering only very minimal concessions to that evolution whenever he has to these demonstrations erupted after the notorious court decision that not only sped mubarak's life but acquitted his sons and six former security officials protesters say the second insult is the heavily criticized presidential runoff election a straight choice between the old guard in the form of an ax mubarak man and the religiously conservative muslim brotherhood i don't think you support your politically stable in the next four years we are now in a surgical operations way in which you would see things. for me happy things but i think we're being more stable and. successful others believe more time is needed even though it may be a bumpy ride people did not go to. queers and streets again to protest

those two big punches in the face more than they think this is their last chance to win beggs their country but until then the revolutionaries plan to fight on which brings us back to real. protesters here of describe their renewed revolution to me rather like a train but it term and not have it the rails either by religious hardliners or by the regime but they're equally desperate to stop it running out of steam lest egypt go off on the wrong track altogether tom watson r.t. to free a square cairo. elsewhere around the world and briefly pakistan successfully tested a cruise missile designed for the live earth nuclear and conventional warheads according to the country's armed forces the technology is capable of hitting targets seven hundred kilometers away and it's invisible to radar. and initial series of tests began in april when an advanced ballistic missile was launched. by

juries president goodluck jonathan visited the site of sunday's plane crash which killed at least one hundred fifty three people he's promised an inquiry after all onboard died with emergency crews fearing around forty lives could have been lost on the ground as well the exact cause still isn't known but the pilot reported engine trouble and there are claims the plane is too old to be in service it's nigeria's worst air disaster in almost twenty years. credit ratings giant started and poor's has predicted a one in three chance of greece leaving the eurozone after the country's general election later this month the left wing spirits of party which is tied for first place in the latest opinion poll has vowed to cancel the country's bailout deal if elected comes after an inconclusive election result in may greece has been under strict terms to cut spending provoking mass protests from the public. they say don't they are pictures worth a thousand words but of the art world you're also talking of course millions of dollars too if it's the genuine article with forgeries on the rise though it's

getting increasingly hard for buyers and auction houses alike to spot the fakes as artist laura smith reports next some don't find out until it's far too late. very important works of art go under the hammer every day in london's west end but how can i love as be sure of what they're buying according to scotland yard a staggering fifty percent of our salt is fact what we're looking at these days is a very considerable increase in faking of twentieth century art i've seen a number of provincial auction houses and and of those. so fakes. are considerable scale and i think it's something that we will accept a lot of forgeries are also sold on websites but it's not just internet bias we can be taken in by the fall which is brush the latest auction house to come into the

spotlight with christie's which is involved in a high court battle with russian tycoon victim axel berg he paid more than two and a half million dollars for a painting he thought was by prominent russian artist buddies course i need to find out later that it appears to have been signed for several years after. the case will go on for nineteen days and according to experts will probably cost more than the painting itself which is one reason why more of these claims don't go to court but another buyer of russian art when confronted with lemons make lemonade eager to see a cork discovered his art collection meant to fund his retirement was mostly forgeries now he's displaying the paintings as a warning to others. when we have gone money where ashamed to talk of us because i'm trying to be the first who says don't be ashamed of showing us because we believe your people who no one would down we've moved now the

time has passed and we realize we made a mistake and it's important to publicize the mistake because the quantity of russian figs with such. the british national. sharing is a long sight to take with. one attempting the painting is genuine and one proving it well which sometimes even signed by the thing person and his collection is just the tip of the iceberg. a lot more. could be quite high profile prosecutions in the u.k. and germany of so-called must. feel there are still some excellent fakes hundreds of excellent fakes have been placed on the market and maybe that's just a very small bit how croft's method is clear it doesn't matter whether you're buying off the internet or a reputable auction house buyer beware. of

the business use no recourse or. coming up to twenty two minutes past two in the afternoon. just when we thought we'd do some positive news for you today. this brings the doom and gloom when you go that's what i feel like the weatherman has always been accused of having bad news but it's not my fault it's the yours and of course we have another negative reports this time it says that basically private sector exhibits in the seventeen nation the euro zone asking track that at its fastest pace in over three years for the month of may and of course as you can see here in the figures us reflected in the wars when it comes to the footsie of course it's closed today as the british are celebrating the jubilee but when it comes to the dax you see that it's headed towards one percent in the red now also investors are waiting to hear what will happen when the seven major economies hold their emergency call in france called later and the day and they'll be discussing the how

to handle the debt crisis and we're going on to russia other markets we are tracking the losses overseas you can see that then why sex is dropping a third of a percent the arts. and what we have affect investors here as well besides europe is the fact that while prices are headed south and once again also about that a little bit later let's take a look at oil prices as i said the currencies i should say they were they would go it's a draw against the u.s. dollar when it comes to the ruble it's going against both major currencies of which we haven't seen in a couple of days now now when it comes to oil as i've mentioned crude was on the wrong size earlier and that was on reports that we will see u.s. stockpiles dropping for the first time and eleven weeks that report hasn't come out yet so investors are really reacting to that report to go from the eurozone because analysts predict that this will curb some demand for energy so there we have it but and other news we know that russians car market grew by twenty percent last year making it the seventh biggest in the world and that's according to the latest

research by after that analytics the u.s. and japan in that order claim the top spots and the list. and the speed between the owners all be is now getting a new twist this time the minority shareholders of the for the man b.p. paid compensation worth fourteen a billion dollars and this of course has to do with b.p.'s failed arc to deal with roles that have and what they're saying is that. losses as a waltz and invited into the exploration project that was of course later by the russian co-owners of the venture earlier on the courts rejected similar lawsuits saying there were unfounded and the renewal of the claim followed news of a possible sale of b.p. fifty percent stake in seeing k b p. now the construction of russia's second subsidize lindsay europe is facing new difficulties this summer one of the members of the project paul garia is thinking of holen out and it says that the country

might quit the sounds from project if the proposed transit fees and operating ratio are not sorted out which it says it's on the except the ball. could break the timeline of the project if it doesn't sign the necessary documents by the middle of november but analysts say the porsche could still be fulfilled with that ball garia if it goes through the territory of its neighbor romania which has shown as there's a new project a long time ago. and there we got haven't that's on the vessels for this hour already now coming up in the next let's talk sport first to one of the world's strongest where there will be seeking russia's bade the limping. gold in london with a medal if you do i know we're also going to bring in our viewers a look at the meteoric rise of china is still there a new story rise of china on the world stage that's all coming up and while we're talking about china i feel i can talk to you as well as i. can also also expecting the media conference to start in beijing president because meeting. going to be

streaming it all lot along with all business news as well at r.t. dot com this is our it's now twenty six minutes past two in the afternoon. but.

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