this isn't about criticizing one group or another wiki leaks saying that this isn't only embarrassing for the syrian government but also for the west western companies how they say one thing and do another but yet the message from julian assange really was that this isn't about criticizing one particular clique it's about looking now at the end of workings about what's going on behind the scenes in this conflict and it's only by understanding this that he says that we can hope to resolve the conflict so that was a sort of message there from the wiki leaks founder of course this is the latest that we've had as he's fighting against the extradition to sweden we're joined now by. the founder of the frontline club and also you actually had julian assange staying in your home state thank you very much for joining us i want to see a bit about the media's role in this story because obviously you've seen a lot of criticism and backlash against julian assange and yet the same people and the same media that were criticizing him and now going to be covering the story for

the next couple of weeks is going to be the headline news i think julian has somehow tried. a territory a journalist six journalism's territory and journalism is resentful of that to an extent that's partly what's happening in my view and so you see these sort of shrill comments against you these people feel that they have the right to patrol the information and they actually do very little to promote journalism's ethics outside the profession so there's a sort of professional competition going on and i think that it's it's rather unfortunate i think history will be very critical of this because ultimately journalism fails in its task it's task is not just to protect itself you can even either look at julian assange as a bond villain with a white patch or as a robin hood and the press if they want to be balanced need to be doing both of these but too often there's only a token disbursement to fairness and balance and frankly it takes new. herridge

to reinforce public sentiment against a man julian assange who's running for what he believes to be his life thank you very much for that certainly it is another big skate for wiki leaks and i think it really puts the focus back on why this fight why do you just fight and why the fight for wiki leaks indeed is so important we've spoken a lot of times to christian have been since he's described now as a second public face and i think really the emphasis is always being on the fact that you know wiki leaks does operate without julian assange and it's not just about these big stories and the big story surrounding the man himself but you know the most important thing is the information that wiki leaks provides and we see once again with the syria files that just bought an important service that provides . iraq's foreign minister is blaming al qaeda members for orchestrating the uprising against syria's president in a news briefing he said militants from the terror network were flowing into syria by that's across the country has been worsening with over one hundred people killed

there in the last three days reports say findings intensifying in homes where troops and rebels are clashing let's not talk to neil clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper who's been closely following developments on syria thanks for being with us now syria little regime officials have been claiming for months that the uprising in the country is a terrorist conspiracy does this high profile backing by the iraqi foreign minister on this claim put the syrian conflict into a different perspective this is the first time we've been hearing it from the outside so strongly very much so that in fact we would hear the u.n. secretary general has already said that al qaeda was behind the terrorist bombs that took place in damascus some of the worst book bombings that took place there so we don't just have to believe president assad is coming through all of the sources now so i think it's very important you know when president started first came out and said this foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda were much of the violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got iraqi. general

saying this and what's happening is of course we've got this kind of unofficial alliance between western allies and radical islamic terror groups to destabilize syria. but it's barely been a week since the crisis conference in geneva and serious descended into one of the bloodiest weeks since the uprising began one hundred or so people that last three days where does that leave the plan to try and get both warring sides together in any way or at least for the violence to stop we've got to understand of course in the west and its allies don't want the violence to stop that's the sad reality when this first kick talked you over a year ago there were peaceful protests in syria and people calling for democratic change we've got that we've got a new constitution in syria we've got opposition people in the government now is the new government in syria to there's no need for violence but in fact it's been to the west people like william hague the british foreign secretary it's been to saudi have been the turks and the turks as well who have been egging on the

violence because what they don't want to see is a democratic syria i'm afraid they want to see a violent regime change. all of the opposition groups though back there's a new idea for the syrian people to decide their future how does that tally with friday's meeting of the friends of syria group which of course backs the uprising but it doesn't at all does it and i think we got to be very clear now there's no reason for anybody to be using violence in syria we had to vote back in february and it was a nice all new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more pluralistic government in syria more clearly stick with the system that's that's what we want but we're not going to have that what we've got a responsible forces who are backing violent groups and what we want is i said many times if we want the west and its allies to say to the rebels now let go of your arms support peace reconciliation. can president asad as you see it realistically be part of any kind of transitional authority to get syria back to peace what it's not up to me it's not up to us not to william hague it's up to the syrian people

and the day what i want to see multi-party elections in syria on board on the road to that and if the syrian people majority they want to see present a sat continued to play a role that's up to them if they don't fair enough he goes. that's what it should all be about it's not about william hague yesterday i think it was again william hague said assad must step down well you know can you imagine if the syrian said to david cameron must step down that's not up to the syrian government to say that something to the british people to decide when they return goes in the same way it's up to the syrian people to decide whether president assad goes all right neil clark live with us on the line from the london contributor for britain's guardian newspaper thanks frank. thank you. but russia is refuting claims that syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country foreign minister sergei lavrov denied the allegations at a news conference with his german counterpart are. reports. of course the crisis in syria is no laughing matter and yet russia's foreign minister

sergei lavrov was asserting that he heard a joke when during his visit to germany about a month ago german counterparts asked him point blank whether russia is ready to give the political asylum to the syrian president now russian delegation laughed it off saying that yes they are willing to do so but only if berlin is ready to do the same fast forward several weeks later russia finds itself repeatedly refuting those claims as saying that no indeed they're not holding the door open for the syrian president he's not packing his bags with one hand and holding a ticket to moscow in the other and again it's a give up of house use this opportunity to reach a rate at the viewpoint of russia and that is that the only way out of the syrian crisis is for all sides involved in the conflict to sit down for a dialogue and dodging really is the only way out of the massive violence in syria no matter how lucrative other options or rumors may seem to be. as diplomats and politicians struggle to find ways to contain the escalating violence in syria

citizens there are simply trying to survive people far from the front lines such as bombs and bullets that threaten their lives but a lack of basic goods and soaring prices marches this account from the reports. the conflict in syria that is now being called a civil war there was more bloodshed and killing in syria today the newest massacre in syria well bullets and body bags may lead news headlines on syria but death is not the only toll of this war ordinary citizens who haven't picked sides in this conflict now live in daily fear for their lives and now they're also paying dearly with their livelihoods prices for food everything are very high. crisis. now serious currency has lost more than half of its value since the fighting began it used to cost about forty seven syrian pounds to buy one u.s. dollar before the war one hundred pounds for

a dollar one year later this inflation unfortunately is only set to get worse with the government now printing more cash just to stay afloat now was once a pillar of syria's economy but an embargo has cut revenues for the government by nearly one third of those sanctions may have been aimed at the government of course it is ordinary syrians who are now paying at the pump four thousand votes about sixty dollars used to be enough for a month but now you need twice as much. to find i spend hours waiting for and it's not just fuel for cars that's difficult to come by a single tank of cooking gas can now eat up about half of the average syrians monthly paycheck i mean that's huge and with shortages spreading across the country even those supplies are guaranteed. a few weeks and for a week. you want to eat but we have to know. this is how we have to live there's no other choice now according to the united

nations more than one point four million syrians are already at risk for hunger and those who still have access to food are finding that prices are soaring out of their reach now let me show you what i mean when it comes to the average syrian a carton of eggs used to cost about one hundred and ten syrian pounds before the. war after the uprising that amount of money is enough for just two eggs now take sugar for example the price of a bath like this has tripled in cost the amount of money one used to spend on it will now buy about this amount and even staple foods like rice i mean this is a really common food in syria probably enough to feed a small family for about a week like this has doubled in cost and when it comes to the arab spring the cost of food and fuel has played a critical role as prices rose so did anger in arab nations the same holds true in syria were simply surviving and making ends meet as now a daily battle in the end the price of bread may prove to be a bigger obstacle to peace than a loaded gun for r t i'm lucy catherine of in moscow. and syrian politician an

opposition member qadri jamil says anger in the country is being filled by the burden of sanctions and western support of the uprising more than him in our interview coming your way next hour here's a preview. syria is in a difficult situation in social and economic terms yet it has been isolated which primarily hurts the people of syria rather than the assad government therefore the attitude of the west in isolating syria is pure hypocrisy and their claim that the embargo is damaging the assad regime is old substantiated we believe that once we manage to bring about national reconciliation and restore unity we will be able to end the blockade while the way it has happened time and again throughout history both in syria and in other parts of the world.

greece is furious that the british prime minister over his remarks that the u.k. could restrict creeks from entering the country and the most could also prevent other eurozone citizens coming to britain to escape recession at home gray says london should be focusing on its own financial troubles as laura smith explains. there's been speculation about massive waves of immigration from not just greece but from other economies that are struggling at the moment david cameron in response to that said that britain could potentially close its doors to immigration from these struggling eurozone countries including greece he was under pressure really to say there was a lot of speculation about these kind of migrant issues and he said if the borders came under unusual stress then the legal position was that britain could take action and close down those borders greece has responded quite a it was the it was the pasok party one of the parties in the leading coalition at

the moment that said that david cameron should look to his own house he should keep his own house in order before commenting on these issues the greeks are referring there to this scandal that's recently broken about barclays bank rigging these into bank lending rates making them seem much more favorable than they were the greeks say that he shouldn't rattle the markets in the euro zone with talk of restricting immigration he should in fact look to barclays and the banking sector here in this country and get that in order for before he does the greeks of course already feeling humiliated by the fact that they have to rely on the european bailouts to keep their economy afloat and so of course they react very strongly to any comment like that david cameron has to be very careful here because the u.k. is not part of the year is and so any comment he makes of this nature looks like somebody who's just on the outside looking in greece have said that he's talking

about policing measures that violates all the principles in the freedoms in the rules essentially of the e.u. and also that comments like this damage the trust is really essential for keeping the eurozone together under these circumstances. lawyer george cukor gallo says david cameron's idea is both offensive and illegal. everybody would be insulted because these words. but released it could demagogic statement because the prime minister knows that this country the european no what he has said every movement of people is one of the fundamental rules for the european union it is another the discreation of any state to grow he built a new movement of citizens of other european states to his territory this is the needle for the future of europe but the same time we are feeling a deep sentiment of national humiliation exactly because we are through the last leg citizens of second order this is one of the fundamentals of the european union

he would not cut the movement of people this is of course going to through the european union in a time when it's really gaiety is more than ever needed i think that we're going to see a divide between the european rules insult but this is in the future you see. more travel trouble a little later on our table and we try to check him israel anything to declare the country's airport security is now factoring through the personal e-mails of those wanting to visit the whole the line. first it was an independence day with a difference in philadelphia as members of the occupy movement from across the u.s. gathered for a key demo the rally had heavy police presence and arrests were made are just going to can was out to protest against corporate greed inequality and death. for the occupy movement to gather here in philadelphia on the fourth of july was certainly

a symbolic move the area is widely known as the cradle of liberty where the declaration of independence was first read aloud at the u.s. constitution was adopted so far u.s. authorities have a big take occupiers from all of their camping locations all across the country and those were largely very peaceful protests more than seven thousand people have been arrested since the beginning of the movement last fall many of those demonstrators were charged and still face trial one of them alcohol carries with the rest in new york the judge demanded twitter to hand over his sleeves and user information off to buyers took it as a message whatever you say may well be used against you may be a scary tactics too many now might be aware of speaking their mind freely online and there's many goals and demands of the occupy movement and in covering it's clear that what they want as a society that is economically just and where there's

a quality where people under the law are held to the same standards that banks would not get away with debt and get bailed out and people would be told that they have to pay debt they would not get bailed out economic injustice the cozy relationship between big businesses and the government those are some of the things that they're focusing on one thing is clear. too many people in the u.s. are unhappy with business as usual in washington but most of them don't take to the streets there in silent protest they support neither of the candidates and say they feel money has more power in washington than their voices i'm going to shut down in philadelphia and. a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe trucks supplying nato in afghanistan have crossed the pakistani border the first to do so since transit routes were reopened the killing of pakistani border troops in last november led to islamabad shutting them off only when the u.s. finally apologized this week to pakistan real loud passage of the disagreements

over deadly american drone strikes and islam about alleged tell me about support still have for their relationship. the pentagon will reportedly invest forty million dollars into an underwater cable from the military base in guantanamo bay to an undisclosed link in south florida during his campaign president barack obama promised to close the controversial facility used to hold terrorist suspects over the last decade many of them without trial for critics of get most existence a construction and execution of the project is expected to take several years. japan's released its final report into the fukushima nuclear plant tragedy calling it a profoundly manmade disaster it highlights serious deficiencies by both the government and the company in charge of the facility tepco but the operator says there was nothing you could have done to counter the earthquake or tsunami which led to

meltdowns radiation leaks in march two thousand. airport security can be a little overzealous at times but in israel it's taken off to a whole new level beyond scanners pat downs and bag searches guards even asked to inspect passengers personal e-mails for any traces of pro palestinian activism as polls there now reports even a tourist family tree can get them turfed out. for. they come in the millions to touch the holy land many of the frustrated seeing little more than the airport instead of touching the holy land they were brushed by a port security and sent home with them goes a large slice of the country's tourism sandra tamale from illinois in the united states was one of the disappointed i handed my passport over and the woman looked at me and what is your father's name what is your grandfather's name and when i told her she asked have

a say in the waiting room sandra tomar we kept that seat warm for eight hours in that time she was interrogated seven times and then the question became focused on my e-mail and what i thought of you and your mail account and when i refused to block my g. mail account that's the i c h o b heidi so. i was asked very plainly are you a terrorist and i didn't know whether it's. last. israeli airport security was as serious as it could be they didn't believe her story of coming to visit family and taking part in an interfaith conference they also knew she'd been involved in campaigns calling for boycotts and disinvestment from israel a day later she was on a plane back to the united states. sandra's experience is not unique there are many more who have suffered in the same way it appears this experience could be merely the tip of the iceberg this is way beyond anything it's like asking

you to go back home and open the safe. see what's there they can find your contact list they can find out where where are your plans where you heading to everything but the think is that if you're a terrorist and if you're smart you wipe the laptop before you cross and have a dummy account so that no one will ever. your mail saying let's focus on the beauty of it all but also aware of the problem two operators are telling potential tourists what to say during. all of our groups sure. don't. go in only we're broke but deleting facebook profiles from setting up fake email addresses doesn't touch on legal questions there certainly is no basis in law whatsoever for them to

be asking people for their passwords and usernames and entering their g. mail accounts i find it incredibly difficult to believe that they had obtained a warrant for any of these searches. and so i think it would be very difficult to find a basis in israeli law for this kind of search israel strictness follows a series of run ins with international activists in recent years hundreds of propeller stimmung demonstrators were stopped from flying into the country recently as israel tightens its grip on who can and cannot step foot in the holy land police here r.t. tel aviv. now israel's security forces are hit by human rights abuse scandal we report online for you is rallies soldiers are caught pushing a nine year old palestinian boy to the ground before kicking him find the full story on their web site. also the war of words in ukraine where i want to recognize russian official language and some region sparks protests

and clashes in here. over to the business desk now where natasha joins us what's going on on wall street after the fourth markets open you know while the u.s. markets actually started their trading session lower but they are now trading mixed all the details in just a second but first let's check out the european markets where a few hours ago the european central bank had cut the interest rates to store a glow the sentiment though turned sour after the e.c.b. chairman mario draw he. gave out a press conference where he said there is still a downside risk in the euro zone and he his comments really sent the markets lower we'll see those numbers in just a minute but first charles robertson from renee since capital in london said the e.c.b. move was a long overdue. it's not going to make much difference it's

a psychological boost to for anything but the markets of pretty well priced in a twenty five basis point rate cut now. i would have thought they should have already last month and then forward up with another cut this month. and jay european equity markets are widening their losses in the last hour of trade the footsie is shedding more than a quarter percent as you can see there despite the fact that the bank of england pumped another fifty billion gallons into the economy now onto the equity markets the euro is actually staying in the euro zone. let's see spain is investigating a failed spanish lender bunky and its former chairman he's acted of altering the balance sheets and covering up the financial mess ahead of the bank's i.p.o. late last year traders of lost around three quarters of their money after buying a revised twenty eleven earnings from a three hundred million euro profit to

a four billion euro was and more in the euro zone cash strapped cyprus has rejected the terms of the e.u. bailout and has turned to russia for money the country's president told the european parliament russia's loans are cheaper and have less strings attached cyprus reportedly needs around ten billion euro deep spending cuts forced by the e.u. bailouts have caused violent protests in greece spain portugal and italy and now on to the u.s. markets wall street opened a lower as i said but is now trading mixed the dow jones is still under pressure but the nasdaq has managed to rebound it's gaining slightly less than a quarter percent this hour and here in russia. the the the markets here finished all lower as you can see that was trading in the black

most of the day ended up shedding value in the last couple of hours of trade colos the air around half a percent down and crude prices are actually higher at this hour brant is climbing above one hundred one dollars a barrel mainly on fears that norway's oil output could be sharply cut after. one of its main main oil companies there had called for along in a bid to and destroy it by its employees and that's the latest from the business desk. you're all up to date now i'll be back in about fifteen minutes see them all right thanks for that update and we continue our financial analysis with the kaiser report coming up after a short break and the have lots. wealthy

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. weekly lead strikes again this time by starting to publish over two million e-mails from syrian politicians government departments and companies dating back years. but in syria violence continues with dozens more across the country killed in the last three days. angry slams the british prime minister over threats suggesting he could block greek immigrants and other people from the euro zone matter in the u.k. . max keiser reports. by max kaiser this is a kaiser report you know banker bashing is becoming quite fashionable but we were first stacy well max take

a look at this our work that really captures the essence of the global financial system a clockwork libel war yes that's bob diamond there of course in the position of alex from clockwork orange and you know is bankers doing the ultraviolent on our global financial system whether it's rigging interest rates rigging municipal bond markets rigging rigging rigging that's all they know how to do it is it is violence it's a form of violence it's a form of ultra violence and this is the biggest concept that people have trouble getting their minds around this because they think these are victimless crimes they don't see them as being particularly egregious and yet they are really the twenty first century version of the pogroms we saw in the last century the the incredible devastation that was done using traditional means of warfare tanks and guns and soldiers this is violence committed by accounting fraud securities.