wiki leaks strikes again this time by starting to publish over two million e-mails from syrian politicians government departments and companies dating back years. meanwhile violence in syria continues to escalate with dozens more killed look at why people far from the front line are now struggling to survive. and greece slams the british prime minister for threats suggesting he could block greek immigrants and other eurozone citizens from entering the u.k. . britain should be looking through its own banking scandal passing judgment on others more premium london in just a moment. hello

this is r t live from moscow it's eight pm in our money was kevin now in the top story for you this hour wiki leaks is publishing close to two and a half million e-mails from syrian government officials from as far back as two thousand and six the leaks almost a hundred times bigger than the release of american diplomatic cables that rocked the u.s. military leadership and made wiki leaks founder julian assange an enemy of the state so first following developments. there's going to be some very anxious people in the syrian government right now more than two million emails are in wiki leaks possession and they're going to be released in chunks over the coming weeks now the message from julian a song was that 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 and a 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 give it 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. a territory adjourn the sixth. and journalism is resentful of that to an extent that's partly what's happening in my view and so you see these two 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 is not just to protect itself you can either look at julian assange as a bomb villain. catch robin hood and the press if they want to be balance need to be doing both of these but too often and there's only a token disbursements to fairness and balance and frankly it takes no courage to reinforce public sentiment against a man julian assange to who's running 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 fight and why the fight for

wiki leaks indeed is so important we've spoken a lot of times to kristen have he's described now as a second public face and i think really the emphasis is always been 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 stories 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. meantime iraq's foreign minister is blowing out qaeda members raul castro and the uprising against syria's president at the news briefing he said militants from the terror network were flowing into syria violence has worsening with over one hundred people killed in the last three days the port say fighting is intensifying in homes were troops are clashing with rebels clarks a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper he believes the west is boosting violence in syria by forming a virtual alliance with the terrorists. the un secretary general has already said

that al qaeda was behind the terrorist bombs that took place in damascus some of the worst but bombings that took place there so we don't just have to believe president assad it's coming from all of the sources now so i think it's very important that you know when presidents at first came out and said it was foreign terrorist group trial in response much violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got the iraqi government the u.n. secretary general saying this and that what's happening is of course we've got this kind of unofficial alliance between western allies and radical islamic terror groups and of course in the west and its allies don't want the violence to stop that's the sad reality and i think it will 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 on the new constitution eighty seven percent of syrians voted for it we want to see a more pluralistic government in syria more clear a list of political system and 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 lay down your

arms support peace and reconciliation. russia's refuting closer to syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country foreign minister sergei lavrov denied the allegations of a news conference with his german counterpart at his ridiculous career ports. 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 is german counterpart 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 rate at the point 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 that really is the only way out of the massive violence in syria no matter how lucrative other options or rumors may seem to be. well as diplomats and politicians struggle to find ways to contain the escalating violence in syria citizens that are simply trying to survive to people far from the front line as much as bombs and bullets that threaten their lives but a lack of basic goods and soaring prices to. come from or for port. syria that is now being called a civil war there was more bloodshed and killing in syria today the newest massacre in syria while bullets and body bags may lead to 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 highly under growing

crisis. life into a hard 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 or oil 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 that's about sixty dollars used to be in for a month but now you need twice as much as i'm going 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 and that's huge and with shortages spreading across the country

even those supplies are guaranteed. a few weeks and for a week. we want to live we want to eat but we have no. 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 wall. for 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 now by 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 now 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 lisa catherine of in moscow. syrian politician and opposition member quoted joe miller says angry the country is being fueled by the burden of sanctions and western support of the uprising is a quick preview of a full interview coming away just a bit later this hour. the result of. syria is a little difficult situation in social and economic terms it has been isolated which primarily hurts the people of syria rather than the assad government therefore the attitude of the worst in isolating syria is pure hypocrisy. and their claim that the embargo is damaging the assad regime is on substantiated what we believe that once we manage to bring about national reconciliation and restore

unity we will be able to end the blockade all the way it has happened time and again throughout history both in syria and in other parts of the world. greece is furious at the british prime minister over his remarks that the u.k. could restrict greig's from entering the country the move could also prevent other eurozone citizens coming to britain to escape recession greece's london should be focusing on its own financial troubles as artie's laura smith explains. there's been speculation about mass 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 this 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 your resume issues the the greeks are referring there to this scandal that's recently broken about barclays bank rigging these interbank 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 are 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 this david cameron has to be very careful here because the u.k. is not part of the euro zone 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 euro zone together under these circumstances. george country girl says david cameron's i do is both offensive and illegal. everybody would be insulted because this was. what police did with demagogic statement because the prime minister knows that it is called though the european know what he has said yet remove most of people is one of the fundamental truth of the european union it is not the discussion in the states to grow keep it in movement of citizens of other

european states to dorie this is that middle of the future of europe but the same time we are feeling the deep sentiment of international relations exactly because they are treating what's next instance of second order this is one of the fundamentals if you are going to be new if we do not cut good movement of people this is of course going to who the european union is the time when it's really going at it is more than ever needed i think that we are going to see divide between the european insult but this is the future you see. more travel trouble little later as well on our team when we try to check in all of israel and if it is claire because there port security is no fair things to personally belts of those wanting to visit the holy land with the report of my coming up. next it was an independent state with a difference in philadelphia as members of the occupy movement from across the united states gathered for a key demo the rally was met by a heavy police presence with several arrests made out his gun and teacher cans been

following the protests against corporate greed inequality and debt. 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 and that liberation of independence was first read aloud the u.s. constitution was adopted so far u.s. authorities have 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 malcolm harris with the rest in new york the judge demanded twitter to hand over his wits and user information off to buyers took it as a message whatever you say may well be used against you and maybe 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 is 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 that is too many people in the u.s. are unhappy with business as usual 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 check on in philadelphia. more top stories from around the world truck supplying nato in afghanistan the pakistani border the first to do so since those transit routes were reopened this week the killing of focused on the border troops last november led to

islam about shutting them off only when the u.s. finally apologized this week did pakistan really. disagreements over deadly american drone strikes and islam about the alleged taliban support still hamper their relationship. pentagon's reportedly lining up a forty million dollar investment to upgrade the infrastructure at the guantanamo bay military base in two thousand and eight president barack obama promised to close the controversial facility used to hold terror suspects over the last decade many without trial however critics of get most existence of the construction and execution of the project is expected to take several years. and is released a final report into the fukushima nuclear plant tragedy calling it a quote profoundly manmade disaster it highlights serious deficiencies by both the government and the company in charge vicinity croak of the operators says there was nothing it could have done to counter the earthquake and tsunami which led to radiation leaks in march twenty eighth. airport security can be

a little overzealous at times but in israel it's taking off to a whole new level beyond the scanners pat downs and bag searches guards even asked to inspect person just personal emails these days for any traces of pro palestinian activism as artie's paula slee reports even a tourist family tree can get the turfed out. they come in the millions to touch the hoody now and many of the frustrated seeing little more than the airport instead of touching the holy land they are 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 headed my passport over and the young 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 spy in a 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 when i refused to block my g. mail account that's. all be hiding something. i was asked very plainly are you a terrorist and i didn't know whether it's. the 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 your safe. see what they can find your contact list they

can find. where are your plans where are you heading to everything but the thing is that if you're a terrorist and if you're smart you wipe your laptop before you cross and you have a dummy account so that no one will ever mailed it saying let's focus on the beauty of it all but also remember aware of the problem two operators are telling potential tourists what to say. we encourage all of our groups to sure. only we're through the worst broke but deleting facebook profiles and 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 propellants to 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. you say with israel two were security forces hit by human rights abuse scandals were reporting on lying tonight israeli soldiers of course pushing a nine year old palestinian boy to the ground before kicking him the full story the pictures you see there online. also the war of words in ukraine or a law to recognize russian as an official language in some regions sparked protests and clashes in p. have. occurred twenty minutes past eight o'clock at night even for instance the no i see natasha there had a touch of house wall street reacting to that interest rate cut by the european

central bank today while u.s. equities started their trading session lower but they're now mixed all the details in just a minute but first let's talk about the cut itself the e.c.b. had cut the interest rate by twenty five basis points to a historic a low the sentiment turned sour in the european equity markets will see the figure in just a minute following a press conference of the e.c.b. chairman mario drawee he said the downside risks to the euro zone are still very high charles robertson from renascence capital in london told us the e.c.b. move is a long overdue it's not going to make that much difference it's a psychological boost if anything but the markets of pretty well priced in a twenty five basis point rate cut now. i would have thought they should have cut already last month and then followed up with another cut this month. european equity markets ended the day with losses as you can see there around

a quarter percent for the food see and the pussy was losing despite the fact that the bank of england pumped another fifteen billion pounds into the economy and now moving on more in the euro zone spain is investigating a failed spanish lender bunk kiya and its former chairman he's suspected of altering the balance sheets and covering up the financial mess ahead of the bank's i.p.o. late last year traders of last three mortars of their money after buying here revised twenty eleven earnings from a three hundred million euro profit to a four billion euro loss. and saying with the eurozone 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 of russia's loans are actually cheaper and have less strings

attached cyprus reportedly needs around ten billion euro deep spending cuts forced by the e.u. bailouts have caused while in protests in greece spain portugal and italy and now on to the currency markets and what we're seeing there is that the euro is actually shedding value against the dollar and all that's exposing the russian ruble was trading mixed with the currency basket it was losing value to the dollar and gaining to the euro and now on to wall street it had started a whole fourth of july trading session with losses the nasdaq has managed to rebound as you can see it's now gaining less than a quarter for sound but of the dow is still trading in the red the nasdaq is gaining mainly thanks to a moderately i'll beat unemployment data as it came out earlier today and here in

russia the r.t.s. and the mindset finished the day old lower and that's after posting pretty hefty gains on wednesday the my cigs gave into the downward pressure mainly at the end of the trading session it was staying in the block most of the day and on to crude prices a lot of that with not least and they are actually higher this hour and as you can see brant is trading above one hundred one dollars a barrel and that's a mainly on fears that norway's oil output could be sharply cut after a spat of oil called for law couched in a bid to end an employee strike and you're all up to date now i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with all the latest good things for this is our t. is coming up to twenty six minutes per se the clock motos good news as well from a twenty four seven about to dot com.

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