was threatened with arrest and imprisonment when he asked about his rights this all happened after his interview with mr all songe where they talked cyber security and freedom in the face of ever expanding government surveillance here's 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 billions of every communication then there is do do the other side of that coin is what we do with it we could admit that for which you could detect a good one there are some indeed some legitimate use investigators investigating them but goes nowhere but goes and so on may need under the supervision of the judicial authorities 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 the signal g.'s 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 which 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 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 of the from now court has also raised 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 don't miss the latest edition of julian the songes uncompromising interview series in full here in our next hour. thousands of egyptians are filling cairo's tahrir square right now calling for the execution of ousted president hosni mubarak revolutionary forces are pledging a million strong demonstration each of islamist are expected to use the rally to score score points for their presidential candidate who's up against mubarak's last prime minister in a runoff dumbarton reports from cairo. thousands of protesters have

surged into tough wrists where in the center of cairo they are furious about a court decision about former president hosni mubarak he has been given a life sentence many of them think it should have been harsher and that the trial was a product of the old regime the situation below me which is fraught with the beat of drums and the chants of protestors is even more tense because of the soon to arrive second round of egypt's presidential election and people here are doubling angry because they say there's no real choice between the two candidates one of the candidates is the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi he has told the protest camp in an attempt to try and gain support from them and mohamed morsi has said that here he was elected president he would try to put my back back on trial and have him executed many people though are scared that the muslim brotherhood may

hijack their revolution and bring in their own religious conservatism the other candidate who is mubarak's last prime minister has warned that the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages many people vote do not trust him seeing him as part of the old regime. your authority still to come this hour kept out of trouble sellout cast the russian parliament finishes a marathon session to push through a new bill to curb protest violations all the details we're not. painting by numbers we tell you what portion of auctions sold art turns out to be fake and why most collectors conned out of their money choose to keep quiet. but first 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 eye to eye on major international disputes such as syrian conflict while also sharing concerns over u.s. expansion in the asia pacific and like syria says he is in beijing for us. it is the first state visit to britain as russia's president to china something that each president of any country can do only once during his presidential term definitely many experts have already been saying that the fact that. china as one of his first destinations 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 for invective 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 only strengthen in the years to come. we have more next hour for you about china when a former i.m.f. economist tells us how beijing's monetary muscle is helping it punch its weight

against the u.s. . if the united states gets into so much economic trouble right that it will have to borrow money and if china has the money to provide the u.s. china might say well we don't like your military presence in the pacific naval presence and you have to you know get rid of them so it cannot be power can always be leveraged for political and foreign policy objectives. just to let you know that interview in fact is coming up in just ten minutes time so stay with r.t. for that the u.s. and its allies are preparing for syria's transition of power the white house says president said handing control to the opposition will help bring an end to the fifteen months of bloodshed a number of western and arab states have long been pushing for regime change but also it has maintained his nation's real war comes from outside meanwhile reports have emerged suggesting britain is planning to set up camps in syria where troops

and agents will help the rebels fight against the government middle east expert tarak alleve believes foreign powers are largely responsible for the country's dire situation. when the americans bear vassal states like group some talk about transition what they're effectively mean is regime change that is what they did in libya with dire consequences as we can see in that country today in syria the plan to bring both sides to the table and have a negotiated settlement is obviously the best way to move forward but the united states and britain and their other allies have absolutely no pressure on the other site to come to the negotiate a negotiating table and start a process of storms so it would appear to me that what we now have is an end game

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reza state duma has approved a new law that ramps up fines a hundred and fifty times for participating in organizing unsanctioned protests the final set a made a new record last eleven hours now the law has to be passed by the upper house of the russian parliament artie's peter oliver brings us the background to the highly debated proposal the ruling united russia party proposed these changes to the law this has caused a storm 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 you look elsewhere in what type of fines and what type of sentences can come into into play take front for example where if you take part in all through ice demonstration of protest and you wear a mask or anything that we 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 got fined could go as high as seventy five thousand euros the reason united russia is deemed that these changes to the old need to be made 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 to be peaceful of says however in spring of this year we saw them too 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. well look now at some world news in greece for you this hour it is second most senior military

killed in a drone strike in pakistan's northwest tribal region according to american officials a million dollar bounty was placed on. maybe a high profile al-qaeda terrorist who wants escaped from a top security u.s. military prison pakistan earlier condemn such drone attacks declaring them against international law and the country's sovereignty. there's been scuffles in ukraine over a new language law which is passed will officially allow russian to be used alongside ukrainian in some regions around one thousand people both for and against the proposal rallied outside part of the myth of the bill one initial majority its opponents are mainly nationalists keen to keep ukrainian as the only official language the supporters are mainly russian speaking citizens who make up around half of ukraine's population. queen elizabeth has rounded off her diamond jubilee celebrations by broadcasting

a message of thanks hundreds of thousands of cheering people gathered in front of buckingham palace so the royal family appeared in the balcony and watched a military fly past that followed a carriage procession and special thanksgiving service in st paul's cathedral between without her husband the duke of edinburgh after he was admitted to hospital on monday. now this day a picture is worth a thousand words and in the art world you're also talking millions of dollars to pay for said treasures however experts now claim that roughly half of all work sold today are fake laura smith caught up with one russian collector who is happy to share the forgeries he was tricked into buying. very important works of arts 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. so fakes. a considerable scale and i think it's something that we we will accept a lot of forgeries that will say sold on websites but it's not just internet bias we can be taken in by default which is crush 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 cause still a death and find out later that it appears to have been signed for several years after 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 it's another buyer of russian art when confronted with lemons make lemonade eager to see a cough 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 you 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 mistake because the quantity of russian figs is such. that it discredits national. was equal for showing each of his speeches alongside two different certificates one attesting the painting is genuine and one proving it scorched sometimes that even signed by the same person

and his collection is just the tip of the iceberg there's going to be a lot more of this to be quite high profile prosecutions in the u.k. i mean germany of so-called musta forgers and what those case of the field 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 as a reputable auction house buyer beware nora smith r.t. . coming up former king economist of the i.m.f. gives his prediction about who will be holding the reins of world power in the not too distant future.

i'm sitting down with our. leading economist fellow at the peterson institute for international economics and the center for global development. at clips living in the shadow of china's economic dominance. the chinese leader. is a really dominating i mean many in the u.s.

would say that the u.s. is still the richest country in the war that is the most powerful economy at the moment china's g.d.p. for example is. united states. if you measure. it's because the united states second. largest trade. treaty china is a big. it finances the u.s. and the. combination of the size of the economy the fact the big. trader and the fact that it's a creditor confers on it a lot of power 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's going to become an even bigger economy than the u.s. and even bigger treated in the u.s. and continue to be you know financing the u.s. so tax combination is what is making china very dominant let me give you one

example one example so take the fact that china you know finances the u.s. right or to so much cash three point three trillion dollars worth of cash if europe gets into trouble you know it happened which country in the world has the ability to be allowed to your the united states china because this three trillion dollars and when it has that power or that ability it can always exercise power what could be political ramifications that as far as crucial foreign policy issues for example over syria will the u.s. pay more attention to what china thinks about certain issues well if you take you down for example i think it's you know the u.s. wants china to be on its site and you know if china were to sit take north korea for example you know it's a great example you know if china were on the side of the u.s. . to be so much easier but the fact that china has an independent view on north

korea makes chinese american dealings with north korea that much more difficult in fact in my book i begin my book with a kind of fantasy scenario where i say that you know ten years from now if the united states gets into so much economic trouble right that it will have to borrow money and if china has the money to provide the u.s. china might say well we don't like your military presence in the pacific you're naval presence and you have to you know get rid of that sort economic power can always be leveraged. for political and foreign policy objectives. one of the reasons not to get all four kind of anxious about this is that it is a mutually dependent relationship you know so one country doesn't want to inflict too much damage on the other because it backfires on yourself but that being said there are areas where you know some countries you know china has more power and it could use that too and i mean like for example as i said you know or north korea or

iran or you know the fact that the so much financial power and economic power can always be used for political ends but isn't that a good thing in a sense that there it restores some kind of balance when there is not just one kid on the block ruling everything but there is a kid consulting with everyone else because it is dependent on another adult's good point but you know they can be two views on the straight one view was that after world war two the u.s. was able to determine how the global economic system would function right and it had a liberal view you know there should be more free flow of goods and services and so on which everyone benefited from and the country that benefited most from that was china you know the fact that markets were open some would say that if you have one big good guy maybe it's better than having multiple guys who kind of conduct.

the i.m.f. it's traditionally been dominated by europe and the united states it was set up that way and he here you have this massive debt crisis in years on countries and you have years on countries asking nine years on countries to contribute more resources to the i.m.f. to help them out do you think this current crisis could change the way the i.m.f. works sort of shift the centers of power but it's a very good question i think to some extent it's happening already it's happening already because you know the former. voting is still very much biased as you said in favor of europe and united states but the more the more europe gets into trouble the more it will need money from the outside you know. frankly. our creditors call the shots and at that stage we know europe starts weakening and it needs money from the outside and if china and russia and brazil have the money

to provide it they will ask for you know changing the system they will have more power if you don't do these things we don't give you the money so when you become weak you know it's inevitable that power shifts away from you and that's what the european crisis is actually galvanizing changes in the international institutions thank you.

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your authority live from moscow perhaps binds us interests in julian a song takes a sinister turn as his contacts are bronson interrogated in an apparent attempt to fish out information about to be convinced founder. moscow and beijing continue to cement their strong ties as my dear prudence visit to china reaffirms their shared stance on a number of teams from the street. and live shots here of the heart of cairo where thousands of egyptians have called for the execution of ousted president hosni mubarak revolutionary forces are promising a million man demonstration. up next on our to the story of a modern day outlaw and his one man crusade to protect america's border with mexico

. and the immigration bill goes down in the senate that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill say it allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant that's like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are in this country in this country illegally the u.s. government will have no idea who they are and where they are in this very dangerous time that is a very dangerous thing.