agents and questioned about julian assange and the weekly 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 arsalan 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 some sites technology enables those also the ends 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 these judicial supervision where 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 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 an informer sounds like something from the movie 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 not build our job was beaten up at bahrain's international airport and held in prison for almost a month after recording an interview with julian assange so what can we expect of the finale court has authorized mr songes extradition to sweden his lawyers have less than two weeks to contest the. 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 song just 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. you can watch the latest edition of julian assange uncompromising interview series in fall here on r.t. next hour. it's a partnership widely seen as a counterbalance to the influence of the u.s. president vladimir putin's high profile visit to china is expected to foster already strong ties aside from obvious economic interests the neighbors also see i don't i and major international disputes such as the syrian conflict while also

sharing concerns over u.s. expansion in the asia pacific region the next year says he is in beijing for us it is the first state visit to put in as russia's president to china something that each president of any country can do only once during his presidential term i definitely many experts have already been saying that the fact that i did approach and chose china as one of the first destinations i have to becoming russia's president for the third time means that russia and china will continue to be very strong strategic partners the main focus among all the media and everyone here was at the fore invective of the relations between beijing and moscow and certainly the two leaders have reconfirmed that they have unified stances on most of the issues they touched upon the growing concerns in the asian pacific region namely certainly the growing military presence of the united states here and that's where a lot even if we don't know who both said that they have a unified stance as. well as mentioning the events in north africa and in the

middle east basically we do understand as well that russia and china have a unified position on the syrian conflict and that is not going to change according to both leaders all this very close cooperation between china and russia has certainly gaining some concerns in the west in the united states particularly because china is growing stronger every year both economically and militarily so definitely this is raising some concerns but now we have confirmed from the both leaders that this cooperation will not die down and will only increase and always strengthen in the years to come. we have more later this hour about china i want to former i.m.f. an economist tells us how beijing's monetary muscle is helping it punch its weight against the u.s. . if the united states gets so much economic trouble right that it will have to borrow money and if china has the money to avoid the u.s. china might say well we don't like your military presence in the pacific naval

presence and you have to get rid of them so it can all be our can always be they have reached for political and foreign policy objectives. the u.s. and its allies are preparing for syria's transition of power the white house says president asad handing control to the opposition will help bring an end to the fifteen months of bloodshed but a number of western and arab states have long been pushing for regime change that has maintained his nation's real war crimes from outside meanwhile reports have a merchant just think britain is planning to set up camps in syria where troops in agents will help the rebels fight against the government mid-east blogger prasar believes that would only make matters worse. i think it would actually increase the likelihood of revenge killings kind of sectarian tension along the mixed areas

where. kind of revenge operations would start to happen and it will suck more and more people in i think syria now it is not that tipping point where the conflict can be pulled back from a. 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. here with r t still to come this hour for you poured in the caucasus. now there's a resurgence of russian influence in the region which only natural that america would want to do something in return every clinton promises to boost american military support for georgia during her visit we bring you expert analysis on what might be washington's ultimate goal. but painting by numbers we'll tell you what portion of action sold our works turned out to be fake and why most

collectors conned out of their money to keep quiet. punishments for violations during public rallies could get tougher in russia a draft bill is getting social and political groups fired up peter oliver brings us the details. the ruling united russia party proposed these changes to the law that would see an increase the fines against those people taking part or all get icing on the sanction protests that's being debated at the moment just behind me in the state duma building as it sounds at the minute if you will call taking part in an unsanctioned protest you could face a fine of around sixty euro full fifteen days in prison now should this proposal go through we could see those fines rice sharply to as much as seven thousand euro this is because they stole amongst opposition political parties as well as online

in the blogosphere now those who are in favor of these changes to the law we're talking really about the ruling united russia party here defended by saying it brings russia into line with the rest of europe though if we look elsewhere and what type of fines and what type of sentences can come into into play take from for example where if you take part in all through ice demonstration of protest and you wear a mosque or anything that would cover your face to the try and hide your identity you could face a fine of forty five thousand euro close up history years in prison in switzerland not fine could go as high as seventy five thousand euro the reason the united russia has deemed that these changes to the old need to be made a comes off the back of the wave of county government protests that we've seen really since december of last year when the parliamentary elections they were held note for the majority of these protests of being peaceful affairs however in spring of this year we sold them to nasty and we had seen some protesters attacking police offices

a number of police officers were injured during those demonstrations and lawmakers saying that these changes need to be made in order to make sure that russia's cities in the streets of russia's cities are safe and those trying those police officers trying to keep those streets safe kept safe themselves. don't forget all of our coverage is available for you at our t.v. dot com here's what else here's what else you can discover while you're there in ten years for tweeting a kuwaiti mazz thrown behind bars for insulting the prophet muhammad on twitter. darkeys facebook page to play our international award nominated application that lets you occupy wall street where ever you are.

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it's fourteen minutes past the hour you're watching r t live from moscow now way to go to egypt where crowds are gathering in cairo's tahrir square we can sing live pictures of people conferring on the square to call for the execution of ousted president hosni mubarak so a retry. while we're hearing that revolutionary forces are pledging a million strong demonstration it looks like there are tens of thousands of people so far on our talk where it's course a huge space egypt is the myth are expected to use the rally to score points for their presidential candidate who's up against mubarak's last prime minister in the run up to our correspondent talked barton is in a car on reports the protest mood shows no sign of abating and could see the country slide back into anarchy. 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 time than toppling the man everything is like saying from at all does economy create so this gave me the impression is that probably be one will not you know rise again as they are already exhausted or too exhausted to go to the square and protest again but it's really impressive they went again and they all felt this thing dolly 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. is continuing mubarak's regime and offering only very minimal sessions to that evolution whenever he has to these demonstrations are up to down

for 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 history. choice between the old gone out in the form of the next move beret man and the religiously conservative muslim brotherhood people did not go to squares and streets again to protest those two big punches in the face more than they think this is their last chance to win begs that country others believe more time is needed even though it may be a bumpy ride i don't think egypt would be politically stable in the next four years we all know surgical operations which you would see through the. series but i think that would be most. successful but until then the

revolutionaries plan to fight on which brings us back to to real. protesters here of describe their renewed revolution to me rather like a trade but it term and not to have it de rails either by religious hardliners 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. the u.s. is boosting its military support for the caucuses country of georgia the pledge came as secretary of state hillary clinton visits the nation which is eyeing nato membership global risk advisor daniel wagner believes america has a wider agenda that stretches beyond georgia's borders. secretary of state clinton is looking to achieve in the caucuses what america's 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 caucuses 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 that 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 influence there. looking

now at some world news in brief this hour there's been scuffles in ukraine over a new language law which if passed will officially allow russian to be used alongside ukrainian in some regions around nine thousand people both for and against the proposal rallied outside parliament with the bill won and the national majority its opponents are mainly nationalists keen to keep ukrainian as the only official language supporters are mainly russian speaking said this is who make up around half of ukraine's population. queen elizabeth diamond jubilee celebrations are drawing to a close tens of thousands of cheering people gathered in front of buckingham palace to see the royal family on the balcony accompanied by an. military fly past that followed a carriage procession and a special thanksgiving service in st paul's cathedral the queen's without her husband the duke of edinburgh after he was admitted to hospital on monday four days

of events will culminate with the queen of broadcasting a message of thanks later on tuesday. they say a picture's worth a thousand words and in the art world you're also talking millions of dollars if you pay for said treasures over experts now claim roughly half of all work sold today are fake arches laura smith caught up with one russian collector who's happy to share the forgeries he was tricked into by. important works of art go under the hammer every day in london's west end but how can our lovers be sure of what they're buying according to scotland yard a staggering fifty percent of all art sold is fake what we're looking at these days is a very considerable increase in faking of twentieth century i've seen a number of provincial houses and of those. so fakes.

are considerable scale and i think it's something that we we will accept a lot of forgeries are also sold on auction websites but it's not just internet bias he 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 backs oberg he paid more than two and a half million dollars for a painting he thought was by prominent russian artist buddies costello death only to find out later that it appears to have been signed for several years after the s. death 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 see a course discovered his art collection meant to fund his retirement was mostly

forgeries now he's displaying the paintings as a warning to others most of us. when we're gone dark of our money where ashamed to talk of it i'm trying to be the first who says don't be ashamed of showing us because we believe you who no one would doubt now that time has passed and we realize we made a mistake and it's important to publicize the mistake because the quantity of russian figs is such the. it discredits national art. lets you call for showing each of his pictures alongside two different city fits one attesting the painting is genuine and one proving its board sometimes they're even signed by the same person and his collection is just the tip of the iceberg i think there's going to be a lot more of this recently quite high profile prosecutions in the u.k. and germany of so-called master forgeries and what those cases of revealed is that

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 at a reputable auction house buyer beware norris myth r.t. . let's check in with daniel bushell at the business says daniel a giant cable linking the world's emerging powers what's that about supply high speed internet in undeveloped parts of china russia africa and brazil google is in talks to help thirty four thousand kilometers of fiber optic cable to the united states construction all the billion dollar project is due to start next year it may be toyed experts say to existing sub see oil pipelines putin is in china to sign off a four billion dollars investment following topping the vast resources of siberia they named the region's forests and farmland as two major opportunities countries

plan to double trade turnover in five years they announced now the u.s. service sector unexpectedly grew for last month sending wall street slightly worrying new figures show by the end of the year u.s. government did with top seventy percent of g.d.p. that's a record orders boy german industry have dropped at their force this rate in months according to a new survey that's pushed frankfurt to close down for a second day puts the figures from friday. the queen's jubilee also first second day of the world's oldest buying power she's on trial for corporate tax fraud protesters are up in arms they bear the brunt of spending cuts while the rich are getting away with it they say no it's alleged when i listened to a perfume or headed rival unicredit he helped deprive all saudis of hundreds of millions of euros through a tax avoidance scheme involving britain's buckley's buying. boss is also in the dog. data is hurting the oil prices suggests people will use less crude so low

sweden brand just slightly down this hour russia closed ok the market's here about a terrible year overall investors now think the country's the an economy deserves better it's hard enough trying to make it come as is to open a plant in lithuania to supply its heavy duty lorries to europe initially two thousand vehicles will be made there while it sounds out the market experts say has a strong chance of success is beaten off the foreign competition in russia already and also wrigley wins the grueling paris truck race and fully the ruble gained against both currencies today the bad news from europe's also pushing the euro down on the dollar and europe today news in interviews on the web site. all right daniel thanks for that update we'll see you back same place same time next hour in a few minutes here on r.g.p. we explore china's financial strength in our interview straight out your reminder of our top stories.

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at eight thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories on our team u.s. interest in julian assange just takes a sinister turn as his contacts are ransom interrogated in an apparent attempt to fish out information about the wiki leaks founder. moscow and beijing continue to cement their strong ties as day one since president china reaffirms their shared stance on a number of international issues. and as thousands gather at egypt's tahrir square live pictures here for what's promised to turn out to be a million man protest calling for mubarak's execution the muslim brotherhood's accusing capitalizing on people's anger to sweep aside their presidential election

rival. coming out of former king economists at the i.m.f. gives his prediction about who will be holding the reins of world power in the not too distant future stay with us. i'm sitting down with arvind subramanian leading economist fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and the center for global development his book is called eclipse living in the shadow of china's economic dominance and here you see president obama vowing to the chinese leader. is a really dominating i mean maybe the u.s. would say that the u.s. is still the richest country in the world it is the most powerful economy at the moment china's g.d.p. for example is smaller than that of the united states.