america closes the net around julian assange with the f.b.i. now harassing his contacts in an apparent attempt to gather dirt on the world's most famous whistleblower. eastern uni and let him a putin looks 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 else even vote.

hello this is r t it's three pm now here in moscow kevin zero in with the top stories for you this hour the latest installment of julian assange g.'s show premieres today on this channel with the f.b.i. also now apparently among the ranks of loyal viewers to the agency said to have been given the green light to launch a surveillance mission on the prominent whistleblower and anyone in contact with a number of his guests indeed have been stopped and interrogated by agents with one even offered the chance to turn f.b.i. informant out he's going to shoot you can report. 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 and r.t. running all day know that suspect technology enables those also billions of every 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 judicial supervision where to go to the control that the citizens can have over the use of those technologies and this is a policy should so there was jeremy and a bit earlier in our 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

a few now i think u.k. 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. now looking like you know the latest episode of julian the sun as you show is here on our t.v. in less than half an hour from now. free from prejudices and stereotypes also president putin's defined russia's ties with china as he looks east for the next three days the neighbors a seeing eye to eye on major international disputes such as the syrian conflict

only show concern over u.s. expansion in the asia pacific region. reports now from beijing for us. well it's not only just a visit any just official visit it's a state visit the first one since like the reporting 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 of a live image which is which show that the foreign policy of russia with his new terror will not change and i first went to europe now if 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 this is russia's closest ally not only in terms of economic ties but also on very many international issues as well just particularly

the syrian issue within the u.n. security council russia and china seem to have a unified position are certainly this this visit will be interesting with a lot of on the agenda certainly will be following this visit here and we'll be bringing all the latest details to our viewers every time we get the new information. indeed we will of more through for throughout the course of the afternoon from some of the meeting that's been held today also a teetotaller vinda subramanian from the peterson institute for international economics he doesn't thoughts to he thinks that china has always needed to run the u.s. economy is a preview of what's coming up through the next hour than. 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 purchasing power it's as big as the united states one second china is already the world's largest trade. treat china is

a net creditor to the world it finances the u.s. and the u.s. is a debtor that's today and over the next ten three. 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. . the u.n. chief has rejected calls from syria's rebels to impose a no fly zone over the country to help bring the president the demand fall of the stable from the fighters saying they're no longer committed to the international troops plan proposed by special envoy kofi annan the rebels claim dozens of government soldiers were killed in clashes and attacks on security checkpoints over the last few days but violence comes amid growing voices from the u.s. and its allies for action it follows reports of plans to set up refugee camps along syria's borders run by the military but learned something which will only bring more bloodshed according to middle east blogger culture oh. 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 a full scale 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. still to come on just a few minutes paying the price for fakes the bar as an option has you found themselves seriously in the pocket of being duped by copycats holing a rise in forgery as we report for you. america's defense team has resumed touting its arms catalog around the asia pacific region with india the latest sales target leon panetta has to is largely seen by experts

as a red rag to china at the same time firing up hot spots on the world map has told another high ranking u.s. official to secretary of state hillary clinton to the south caucasus but dunhill wagners c.e.o. advisory firm country risk solutions believes america's those concerned a security and more about shifting power in the region ited states remains stead secretary of state clinton is looking to achieve the in the caucasus what america is trying to achieve more overall around the world and that is to continue to enhance its image and its ability to influence what's going on in the region the caucasus have been largely ignored by america for a great deal of time and now that there's a resurgence of russian influence in the region it's only natural that america would want to do something in return there are pockets of conflict in the region the concern the united states and the concerns of course other regional powers but let's not forget where the caucasus is located it's in russia's backyard it's only

natural that russia's historical relationship with the region and the various countries would be superior to that of america certainly at the present time mrs clinton's biggest influence is likely to occur in georgia let's not forget that georgia has had a historically close relationship with united states for a number of years now and that it was particularly close during the bush era georgia certainly seems to want to be heading in the direction of nato and i think that she is likely to see the most success and the most. in florence there. come a website with the latest news and updates for you as well as many of the stories you may have missed here right now that online no promised land from migrants the israeli government sends a go away my sense to africa and the prime minister calls for a mass deportation while human rights groups describe the expulsion of the moral also online post revolution livius the shooting and violence once again

a militia group uses vehicles to capture the main airport in places to we brought you in the broke yesterday as military chaos drags the country back into bloodshed you can keep abreast of what's happening there. from us. i. will. leave the street. she.

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going to be soon which brightened if you are about song from feinstein question. start totty dot com. as cairo braces itself for the largest rally seen in months calling for the execution of ousted president mubarak the muslim brotherhood's presidential candidates looking to use the protests to wipe out his rival even before round two of that vote starts the islamist join the calls of revolutionary groups for a million man march on choose day to capitalize on anti mubarak sentiments our correspondent tom barton reports from an egypt which could yet 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 talking the system he built is proving to be an even harder task than talking the man everything is like could lapsing 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 supremum council of the armed forces or skaf in fact we see that. care. 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 x. mubarak man and the religiously conservative muslim brotherhood i don't think these are poor or politically stable in the next four years we are now in a surgical operations way in which you would see things that are going on for me happy things but i think for most they are born. 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 then they think this is their last chance to win begs that country but until then the revolutionaries plan to fight on which

brings us back to rio. protesters here have described their revealed revolution to me rather like a train but it terminate not having 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. and the russian language activists of scuffle who security forces in front of ukraine's parliament in kiev they've turned to protest against a highly disputed bill that widens the rights for the use of the russian language in some ukrainian regions on monday the law was pushed through parliament by pro-government lawmakers in the first of two readings the opposition that gets most of the support from the ukrainian speaking western areas of the country strongly opposes the legislation its leaders have already voted hold indefinitely protests across the country. but the headlines around the world now and pakistan

successfully tested a cruise missile designed to deliver both 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 as an initial series of tests began in april when an advanced ballistic missile was launched nigeria's 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 on board died with emergency crews fearing around forty lives may have been lost on the ground as well the exact cause still is no but the it's been reported the pilot mentioned end engine trouble a couple of minutes before there are claims to the plane is too old to be in this it is nigeria's worst disaster. almost twenty. other headlines from r.t. credit ratings giant standard and poor's has predicted a one in three chance of greece leaving the eurozone after the country's general

elections later this month the left wing said it's a party which is tied for first place in the latest opinion poll is about to cancel the country. if elected now this comes offering conclusive election results back in may of course greece has been on a strict to cut spending and that's provoked mass protests from the public. you keep abreast of all our news twenty four seven with r.t. dot com. now this is a picture's worth a thousand words don't they but in the art world if you're talking millions of dollars of course if it's the genuine article forgeries though are on the rise it's getting increasingly hard for buyers norton houses alike to spot fakes and there's artie's laura smith explains some don't find out in turn 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 all art sold 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 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 baez who can be taken in by the full 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 back so he paid more than two and a half million dollars for a painting he thought was by prominent russian artist buddies cause still a death and 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 made lemonade eager to busiek off 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 it i'm trying to be the person who says don't be ashamed of showing us because we believe your people who know when we're down to leave move now the time has passed and we realize we made a mistake and it's important to publicize the mistakes of the world because the quantity of russian figs with such. that it discredits national. showing is a long sight to take with certificates one attesting the painting is genuine and

one proving it all which sometimes they're even signed by the same person and his collection is just the tip of the iceberg there's going to be a lot more this could be quite high profile prosecutions in the u.k. and germany of so-called master forgery. and feel there's still some excellent fakes from hundreds of excellent fakes have been placed on the market and maybe that's just a very small part of it how croft's message is clear it doesn't matter whether you're buying off the internet or a reputable auction house buyer beware. the old fashioned system to invest if you put the money under your bed was made now might be good advice i think is that the markets are very good and bad this week i was hoping you could bring me some more good news i know you go to air in the u.k. also trying to pull a russian market so if you know anything positive well actually i do and russia's

car market grew last year making it one of the biggest of the world but out of the way you kevin i personally prefer to hear bad news first so let's start with the international markets and look at the figures in europe and if you can see their. point eight percent this hour when it comes to the floods of course is close for the jubilee celebrations in the u.k. and the reason for such has some ism in europe is the fact that a report came out sure enough private sector exhibits a contract to buy the most that has been through in years for the month of may that's never a good thing for investors and they normally take this news don't take this news very well at all but they are waiting for an emergency conference call by ministers as well as central bank governors of the g. seven major economies and later it's their. of course watching to see what happens there are expected to be discussing the debt crisis and how to resolve it it will take a look at the russian markets they are pretty much tracking a losses overseas we can see that the my sex is setting point seven percent the

r.t.s. managed to come back ever so slightly but we've seen volatility across the board right now so it's no doubt r.t.s. will slip into negative territory by next hour as well moving on to currencies the euro is still losing the against the dollar as you can see there the ruble is still at the same level again against both major currencies and of course very important for the russian economy our oil prices and they are heading south this time in the early hours of the day we saw that there go in second consecutive day in a row heading towards and that was due to head over more that should show us for the first time in eleven weeks that after the report came out from the euro zone investors were concerned that this would curb energy demand you can satellites this trading at eighty three dollars ninety five cents per barrel while the brand blend this at around ninety eight dollars per barrel well in other news as i said about this car market group forty percent last year making it the seven biggest world

this is according to the latest research by after. it puts trying the u.s. and japan at the top spot in that order. and that the speed between the owners of. getting and twists this time the minority shareholders of the company demand b.p. pay them compensation amount to fourteen billion dollars this is of course over b.p.'s failed arc to deal with a rolls left and they say that b.p. suffered losses us it wasn't invited into the exploration project which was later on the blog by the russian co-owners of the venture earlier on the chords the coins . saying they were unfounded and the renewal of this claim followed news of a possible sale of the fifty percent stake in seeing k b p. also the construction of russia's second gas pipeline to europe is facing fresh difficulties this some

one of the members of the project bulgaria is considering pulling out and it says that it might quit the south stream project if the proposed transit fees an operating ratio aren't sorted out because the calls than an acceptable guerrier could break the timeline of the project if it doesn't sign the necessary documents by november the fifteenth but analysts say the project could still be fulfilled without bulgaria if it goes with the territory of romania which has already shown its interest in the project a long time ago there you have and with bad news there began with bad bit of good in the middle. well i don't know if this is good or bad but i know bush will be coming next. jeffrey to show you just if you will use away from the first showing of the latest brush new edition of julia is very old show here and fairly straight out of the headlines which is next.

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