street in the palm of your. call. from moscow here's a look at the top stories a nervous wait for join us on the doorways up a death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he's eventually transferred to the west before delivering its verdict on a spree for political asylum. as opposition forces in homs staged a mass offensive against syrian government troops despite a cross brokered truce we reported how intimidation to join the ranks of the rebels man to death for some who refuse. and the military backed election commission delays a result of the presidential runoff in egypt the move has outraged many in the

country to see it as part of a coup aimed at keeping the army interim rulers in power. just fighting his battle against extradition to sweden and for political asylum for ecuador r.t. discusses the future of his wiki leaks project with the website's press spokesman kristinn hrafnsson that's next. thank you very much for joining us can you tell us how you came to join wiki leaks well. joining us ours was working quite a lot in iceland in the winter of two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten and after actually here year we could produce tremendously important leak in two thousand and nine with exposed the corruption within the iceland banks. so it's major school. will have a light on why the entire banking system in iceland website in two thousand and eight i met him and the period when he was doing some work among other things one

supporting the project the icelandic modern media initiative. and we befriended he . showed me the collateral murder video i was at the time working for the state television and of course offered my help and it became. basically a joint project to with between the eyes and the state television and we can use. join then we can use pool time in the summer of two thousand and ten and how's it being feel you've been described as sort of the second public face of wiki leaks having stepped into this much more spotlighted role say to speak at such a difficult time with wiki leaks. have you been finding it i've been finding extremely interesting and it journalist would find it interesting to take part in the in the biggest leaks in history. basically transform.

politics from certain areas and it's been a total game changer it's a paradigm change is saying is agendas but it's like working in what do you perceive is the other journalists response because we've seen a lot of the. wiki leaks and julian assange. well i mean there is a very mixed feelings among journalists and we have worked with a lot of excellent journalist who understand the importance of we can use we also work with other journalists who have to go back and we have. a very strange most of the. people of the world. it is hard to say what exactly forces are so but they have many of them have been. dishonest and spiteful in their in their. covering of weekly so. i have no idea. but it's extremely strange as it is disappointing to experience that for me as a journalist for more than twenty years but it's

a fact ok i want to talk to you about wiki leaks as a how do you think there's a concern there that the focus is moved away somewhat from the really important aspect of it which is these incredible leaks. to actually this sort of idea about wiki leaks as a whole in julian assange so that's maybe a shadowing more important aspect of it now does that concern me well i mean the focus has. always been an independent panel thing that we have not been able to always. decide upon how it was handled i mean. for example the first probably the day to power. in the collateral murder video. release in april two thousand and ten i was surprised by the fact that the biggest stories were actually on the leak itself and secondly on julian assange.

the fact that this is a video that is exposing. a war crime got much less attention and still hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but it's the media for you. the media will decide where the focus is and that's the reality we live in a way to see the future of wiki leaks always very hard i mean we have. we have been starved of ninety five percent of our funds julian assange is facing a legal battle. we know that in virginia there is a secret grand jury trying to find those of bringing cases against julian and or possibly others in the organization. people that are. and are supporting we can use our being harassed when they. tell us even us citizens so we it's hard to see where the world if you choose to. believe that

despite. everything we look back at the accomplishments we can do so they are. great in this period to say this is a battle between wiki leaks in big corporations government. is a battle. against corruption. and lies and secrecy. and he thinks going away and. well it's hard to say but let's hope that. rupert murdoch was right in the early fifty's when he was on a tour in australia. he. wrote in that authorial. in the race between truth and secrecy truth will always win. i hope he'll remember these words himself but somehow i doubt if you're an effective

journalist and i thing which is the thing that is being one of the world's strongest when it comes to the legal rights protected to whistleblowers what you think is that other countries are following say well iceland is on the path of changing the laws to to make it a. very strong. shield for journalists and whistleblowers. it's a long term project but after the year economic collapse in no time two thousand and eight when everybody was agreed was caused by lack of transparency and lack of information so this is a. nation was. ready for for a total overhaul of the legal system it will take some time but sometimes shock like that and i from the entire nation spectacular show total meltdown economy. creates the right atmosphere for

a. decider for improvement in this nature one of the positive things like can come out of such situations but i suppose the shocks can also work the other way because the scene of this is the u.s. and some extent by sort of almost taking steps backwards and there's a sense maybe that these big corporations that are now under threat that the sort of transparency wiki leaks could bring fighting back against this now. now with that is certainly the trend i mean the situation comically are worse stream with dire i mean it was a. spectacular meltdown i mean the banking sector. was ten times the size of the local economy at ten times the g.d.p. of iceland when it. all collapsed over a few days you can imagine the consequences. in other places like here in britain i mean there was a bailout. basically the taxpayers had to shoulder the burden to keep the banks like they were too big to fail. year situation is not all over all over yet what

we're seeing of course is this trend. which we saw most serious of. a crack down it was a point with. totally contrary to the slow and gradual improvement in the legal environment that we've seen. over the years. of longo and some more protection i was introduced here in u.k. of similar one of us but still we received basically a systematic crackdown on whistleblowers especially in the us a very serious one were all. from one nine hundred seventeen the espionage act it's been used to. haunt those who were basically blowing the whistle blowing the whistle on. illegalities corruption which is hurting the general public and costing the taxpayer money ok so we think

that the legal protections afforded to potential whistleblowers can't necessarily be relied on at the moment which is an organization that permits these anonymous leaks what can you actually offer a whistleblower when they come to you how much genuine protection can you offer then. we'll have you know the a track record of. is impressive in that respect i mean nothing no nobody that has contributed material to weeklies has been exposed by anything that we can use has done so. hopefully the states like that we have we are still working on reopening the electronic drop. which allows people to submit information to us with. it being traced to them in any manner and we we wouldn't not be able to do it ourselves even let's hope that they will that will open soon meanwhile we've had

a formation delivered to us and published it anonymously but. it is a very very important channel to have for whistleblowers. thank you very much. we have a vote before forbes will give him a note so we have a lot of illegal call groups of the blue collar jews and sluices also our views in the whole mood right enough to my mind it was like many of that knowledge that wasn't forced marriage it's the smadi when i was fifteen yes you can liberate other women and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effect of social changes can be the afghans themselves

afghan men and women we believe are going to spawn and not to have a cross post without a sufficient it's chemical for the shop and get a construction up and stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. the movie.

business meeting on a global scale. hundreds of deals billions in investment. the international economic forum in st petersburg on r t. well for the first science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. today children play war in the old case maybe. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi

troops on their way to moscow and. the funders of breast cancers were dying one by one under siege the sun. was coming. down the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell mother i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.

the nervous wait for joining us on deck with more ways of the death threat hanging over the world's number one whistleblower if he's eventually transferred to the us before delivering it's worth it honestly for political asylum. as opposition forces in homs staged massive transfer against syrian government troops to spy on a red cross brokered truce we reported on how intimidation joining the ranks of the rebels has meant death for the refuse. and the military backed election commission delays a result of their presidential runoff in egypt the move has outraged manning the country who see it as part of who aimed at keeping the army and to rulers in power . or surveyed next from honest here with us and though the ice hockey season is now

officially over but the russians continue making the headlines that's right and i should say one player in particular and that's a pittsburgh penguins you get a molecule who's become the n.h. shell's most valuable player this season and as the russians continue to rake in the wars of more of vats in just a moment stick around. hello and welcome this is an artsy with me over a long cos thread and here is what's coming up. back in action hero to once it's well resumes on thursday with portugal vs the czech republic a preview of full for quarterfinals coming up shortly. from chelsea to china did it fall by swaps the champions league winners for chinese super league strugglers and big spenders shanghai sheinwald. and king

a molecule in the pittsburgh penguins star you get a mulligan is named the n.h.l. the most valuable player for the first time. lots of football first still wear a battle all form a finalist is you this thursday night's christianity when all those portugal take on the czech republic in the quarterfinals a few roads once it's all in warsaw all kate partridge previews that match for us plus all the other last eight clashes. so the group stage guillotine of euro two thousand and twelve has dispatched co-host ukraine and poland not to mention world cup finalists holland and early prospects russia but how will the remaining teams fare in the knockout stage after days break the focus is back on the quarter finals where history could help decide the prospects of the eight that made the cut. first up of the national stadium in warsaw on thursday it's group a winners the czech republic versus group b. runners up portugal captain christiane there are now though he of the cough tear and dizzying step overs is coming off the back of

a scintillating personal performance and two goal haul against the dutch and now goes up against the czech side who went through with a negative goal difference. however the czechs did precisely the same ninety six when they reached the semifinals and they did so by beating portugal one nil in the last eight the equally magnificent remained carol to bosky producing the now trademark lob over the advancing vetoed by a to send the portuguese packing this time though the bookies are backing paolo bento skipper to grab the goals. meanwhile the victors this time around will face either group c. winners and defending champions spain or group d. second place is france who do battle on saturday at the dumbass arena in donetsk and encounters spain coach. is relishing not surprisingly the last time little her face in a blur was in a friendly in paris ahead of france's embarrassment at the twenty ten world cup ominously goals from that and said he almost handed the future world champions

a to know when but a subsequent french national outcry change of coach to lauren blow and a twenty three match unbeaten run also means isn't taking france lightly as the spanish uniquely seek to retain their title while the men that put the french two first place in group d. old enemies in england take on group c. runners up italy in kiev on sunday surprisingly for two giants of european football these two rarely play one another the upcoming quarter final. it will be their first competitive contest in almost fifteen years and the only time the two have previously met at the european championships was in the group stage on june the fifteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty england needed to be the italian host to progress but it was the sooty who triumphed one nil thanks to a goal from now ireland assistant manager marco todd. yet most memorably for england fans was qualifying for the nine hundred ninety eight world cup with a battling goalless draw in rome against ten man italy again huddle side knew a points would see them into the finals which they duly claimed however ian wright

then christine very both missed late chances in a dramatic finale while bloody and bandaged paul ince produced a valiant performance for the three lions in two thousand and twelve one goal might be all the difference with wayne rooney and mario balotelli taking domestic rivalry on to the european field. and whoever emerges as a victory will take on group b. winners germany against group a runners up greece after the two go head to head the amber colored get danske arena on friday greece have lost five and drawn three of their eight encounters with germany but before writing off an on dos santos team remember you know greek history in two thousand and four after knocking out defending champions france one nil in the last eight and you lost how do you stay us was again the hero scored in the fifty seventh minute winner in the final as his side beat portugal one nil in lisbon to win the european title one of the biggest shocks in football history a superbly drilled side by then coached or told

a hard call stifled portuguese flair and the tactics remain the same allowing greece to be russia on route to the last eight however against germany they face a powerhouse three times the champions three times the run is that the germans have effectively made the euros their tournament they won in group b. the so-called group of death with three victories the only team to do so and with a midfield engine driven by bastian schweinsteiger plus three goal mario gomez staking a claim for the golden boot it would probably take a second trojan horse to breach their defenses but then the dutch are out the italians haven't won since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and the english have never lifted the trophy history is there to be made. r.t. kiev ukraine staying with football and the neymar goal was not enough for holders sound source to prevent cell paul arrivals corinthians from moving into their maiden copa libertadores vital going into the match santos trailed one nil from the

first leg of their semifinal double header however that's all i was even the boys after neymar first sports and all slaughter and then finished off the goal with nine minutes before the break that's why we are all left with a simple sippin after borg or just opposed but sometimes hopes of a comeback came to an abrupt end as the law was given enough time and. space to clinically left foot of by alex right after the restart so every reason for corinthians to celebrate as the five time brazilian champions hang on for a one all draw to win two one on that could get. elsewhere dizzy had drogba has left chelsea and joined chinese superleague side shanghai shanghai while the ivory coast striker signed its and a half year contract with the big spending club reports of the earning app to three hundred thousand us dollars a week the thirty four year old spent eight years at chelsea scoring one hundred goals in two hundred twenty six appearances he went out on a high scoring the size of the penalty in their champions league final victory over

byard munich just last month. now in ice hockey more accolades have been showering on russian star you gainey moloch in that very penguins forward has been named the n.h.l.'s most valuable player the twenty five year old collected his maiden hart memorial trophy at a ceremony in last vegas he also picked up his second or ross trophy as the regular season scoring leader the two thousand and nine stanley cup champion boasted fifty goals and fifty nine assists molecule was also named the most valuable player at last month's ice hockey world championship after guiding the russia so their third ground in five years. and basketball and the n.b.a. now where miami heat could be just one game away from claiming their second sidle following a one hundred four ninety eight home victory in game four of the final series against oklahoma the star trio of le bron james dwayne wade and chris bosh all made become contributions in miami's game for victory over oklahoma on tuesday james

turned in a gutsy performance with twenty six points and twelve assists the score is now three one to the heat as the next match takes place on thunder support given duran knows that his side have nothing to lose at this point as no team in history has ever recovered from a three one deficit and the best of seven final series. three one with a chance to. take it back to oklahoma city. tomorrow we can with three games in a row here. we can win the series no but next game we're going to take you to position the time a game of. go through so you know some of course is you know do it and come on and. there are less than two weeks to go until one of the first insurance events in the world sport gets on their weight that's when it's well for swords of friends begins in belgium in just sends a sign one of the favorites this year is team sky's bradley wiggins who has been

preparing from a training camp in spain that is a year old wiggins is aiming to become the first ever british winner of the events and says it's something he has dreamt about since he was twelve years old however wiggins says defending champion his trade in evans is the one to catch. but i still think. he's the winner last year he could climb and win sprints on small mountains so he. is still the man survey for the shoes too and he wants a fight so we never gives up. so for me and i. have finally ending cricket's are you brought saying is eyeing a return to the sport at that once it's once the world cup later this year the big hitting batsmen it was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer earlier in two thousand and twelve and spends more than a month in

a boston hospital in the united states historic it is to play at the i.c.c. events in sri lanka in september the thirty year old has already returned to light training and says his recovery is on the right track. sections of grooming training. so i'm just getting back into the groove. just be like a normal was you know breathe normally normally which is a lot of excitement and fun for me at the moment i'll be back with another obviates less than a couple of hours from now but our you tube channel is available to you at any time and can be found at sport news so take a look when you get a chance and thank you for watching.

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