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

this is r.t. live from moscow it's ten pm here now no alona show it's not half an hour of news with me kevin and instead first 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 one hundred times bigger than the release of american diplomatic cables which rocks the u.s. military leadership and made wiki leaks founder julian assange an enemy of the state sara first reports for me. 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 adjourned 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. the white cat is a robin hood and the press if they if they want to be balanced need to be doing both of these but too often and there's only a token disbursements to the fenice and balance and frankly it takes no courage to reinforce public sentiment against a man julian a song to who's running for what he believes to be his life thank you very much for that oh certainly it is another big skate for wiki leaks and i think it really puts

the focus back to why this fight like julian assange just fight and why the fight for wiki leaks indeed is so important we've spoken a lot of times to kristen have been since he's described as a second public face and i think really the emphasis is always being on the fight 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've seen once again with the syria files that just what an important service that provides. furthur with me tom iraq's foreign minister is blaming al qaeda members for all castrating the uprising against syria's president in a news briefing he said militants from the terror network were flowing into syria violence is worsening with over one hundred people killed in the last three days reports say four things intensifying in homes where troops are clashing with rebels i spoke to middle east expert paul sheldon foote from california state university he told me the west has told arab leaders not to back down. we're.

promoting the war on terrorism we are promoting the terrorists and as you have noted that's revealed over and over again bringing them back including the iranian government is to me a terrorist. or a list of terrorists and yet we use them your neighbor we're using terrorists there are rules. anyone or any arab leader or anyone else is awake during what happened in libya they should know it's very to. against. rover. russia's refuting claims that syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country foreign minister sergei lavrov denied the allegations of the news conference with his german counterpart but he's really good reports. of course the crisis in syria is no laughing matter and yet russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was certain that he heard a joke when during his visit to germany about a month ago it's human counterparts i 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 saying that no indeed they are 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 is to give up hope has 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. as diplomats and politicians struggle to find ways to contain the escalating violence in syria citizens there are simply trying to survive for people far from the front line it's not just bombs and bullets that threaten their lives but

a lack of basic goods now in soaring prices too. often off that side of the story. 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 while 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 fuel everything are very highly were under growing a crisis. if you do 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 now those sanctions may have been aimed at the government but of course it is ordinary syrians who are now paying at the pump four thousand that's about sixty dollars used to be enough for a month but now you need twice as much. to find i spend hours waiting. 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 and still have a few 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. 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 food 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 lucy catherine of in moscow. greece is furious at the british prime minister over his remarks that the u.k. could restrict greeks from entering the country that move could also prevent other

eurozone citizens coming to britain to escape recession at home to greece or as london should be focusing on the financial troubles instead as laura smith reports . 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 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 rational 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 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 that is really essential for keeping the euro zone together under these circumstances but there are supposed to

greet. from one of the governing coalition parties who says the british problem is too striking a populist note just to try to keep a hold of his own party. well i do believe that it was a statement that was pointless there was no reason of that comment and it's a difficult time for us to have a coalition government trying to get us out of the crisis trying to trying to move in a relation with the u.k. with that kind of statement is not helping at all and of course greeks are the last the least likely to live their culture so i can't see the point of saying something like that cameron's losing his party it seems that the democratic party is going really better so maybe it's like a populist more trying to say something i've used this kind of statements to increase his popularity even a more general picture here if i was the greeks. we can't ignore the story from

employment tough times although to become the next generation of greek diaspora as far afield as colored in the stroller what do you say to those people should they stay or go. i said i do believe that the state here we have to help our country and now we have a strong coalition government that supported by the majority of the greeks and i do think it's a matter of time we have to apply all the reforms we need some time and we don't need to create it on the fact in the eurozone with just time trying to help the eurozone to stay the way ti's and we're trying to create growth in my kountry so this is something we working on those statements they really don't have any point of being said. more trouble trouble a little later on this hour we try to check. everything to the clit while the country's airport security is now ferreting from the personal e-mails of those wanting to visit the holy land a report coming out.

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the pentagon will reportedly invest a major new infrastructure for the military base at guantanamo bay but promises to close the controversial facility used to hold terror suspects have been repeatedly made by the government said all about that is out his gun and she can. forty million dollars will be spent to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the guantanamo bay prison camp is located the base commander said it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time an infrastructure project like that may well suggest that the u.s. military's preparing for detentions and other operations at the guantanamo base for the long term when president obama was first running for office he pledged to shut down guantanamo in very strong terms in two thousand and nine he even signed an executive order to close it but not only did it not shut it down but the u.s.

is obviously renovating guantanamo in this case by improving communications and the argument is you don't make such an investment to pick up and leave guantanamo has made a black hole in america's human rights record indefinite detention torture around eight hundred people went through the camp within the last decade of america's war on terror the majority of them had nothing to do with nine eleven that's according to a former chief prosecutor guantanamo now the prison house is one hundred sixty nine detainees the government says eighty nine aren't those threats but president obama and congress have blocked their release as for the rest some of them have a shot at a military hearing but forty six don't have that chance because the government says they can't be tried for one reason or another the u.s. supreme court keeps refusing to take up one tunnel detainees petitions what has been striking to me was that the u.s. prides itself on the rule of law and human rights but at the same time has denied

due legal process to these detainees practice torture and not just think one tunnel but in secret prisons around the world human rights organizations have issued reports on all kinds of violations but to the u.s. it's been like water off a duck's back. of the globe tonight truck supplying money to afghanistan of course the pakistanis are the first to do so since transit routes were reopened this week we killing a pakistani border troops last november led to islam about chef. more only when the u.s. finally apologized this week did pakistan realize passage although disagreements over deadly american drone strikes alleged taliban support still hamper their relationship. was a warning from the international that libya's first post gadhafi election this weekend risks being did rails because the country's in the grip of hundreds of armed militias human rights watch the office libya risks repeating the violations that led to the uprising and his downfall last august it's scathing report details widespread violations including arbitrary arrests beatings and torture with

a room four thousand people being detained the reach of authorities. releases fine reported 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 of the facility tepco but the operator says there was nothing it could have done to counter the earthquake or tsunami that followed it which led to the melt and the radiation leaks in march twentieth eleven . airport security can be a little overzealous at times but in israel these days it's taking to a whole new level beyond the scanners and bag searches guards even asked now do inspect passengers personal e-mails for any traces of pro palestinian activism and salties policy or found that even a tourist family tree can get them to doubt. 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 handed my passport over and the young woman looked at me. 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 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 the mail account and when i refused to block my g. mail account that's. the hiding. 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 out. where are your plans where you're 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.

also. don't. go in we were to the west bank 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 propellers sitting in demonstrators was 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. and stay with israel two were security forces by human rights abuse

scandal reporting about it on one vow to go home tonight israeli soldiers. see a court pushing a nine year old palestinian boy to the ground when they start kicking him there are more pictures on our web site right now. also reporting tonight of the war of words in ukraine big story this week there were a lot of recognized russia there's an official language in some regions about protests and clashes you. get screwed with business so twenty two minutes past this thursday evening natasha is the u.s. secretary the only ones trading with what's been going on on wall street to bring us up to the exits quite well yes to of course for the president's day exactly while u.s. equities actually rebounding from the sessions low in fact the dow and the nasdaq a both trading in the block this hour the dow being flat to positive let's see the numbers there. we'll see the numbers in just a second and as you can see they are posting modest gains recovering from disappointing data that came out earlier in the day it showed that the services sector has slowed down to the lowest level since twenty that's definitely morning

traders now on to europe equities there closed in the red the much anticipated e.c.v. rate cut didn't help your chief banker mario draw you gave a press conference to comment on the decision and it seems like his gloomy outlook on the eurozone economy overshadowed the cut itself charles robertson from relays of capital in london told us the e.c.b. was long overdue. it's not going to make found 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 already last month and then followed up with another cut this month. and staying with the euro zone spain is investigating a failed spanish a lender one key 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.

and. late last year traders have lost around three quarters of their money after bank here revised twenty eleven earnings from a three hundred million new profit to a four billion euro was and more on the eurozone counts trapped cyprus has rejected the terms of an easy to bail out and has turned to russia for money the country's president told the european parliament russia's loans are not only cheaper they also 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 also in italy let's now check out the currency markets as you can see the euro was trading lower against the u.s. dollar and the russian currency the ruble closed mixed at last against the dollar

and actually gained against the european currency and. here in russia the r.t.s. and the my six as you can see ended their trading session in the red almost one and a half percent for the r.t.o. after posting pretty have to gains on wednesday with my cigs gave into the downward pressure pretty much toward the end of the trading session it was trading in the block most of the day and on to prove an important factor for the russian equity markets crude prices are mixed at this hour and brant is climbing above one hundred one dollars a barrel mainly on fears that norway's oil output could be sharply cut following a sound of oil haul for a lot out in the big q. and a strike by its employees and that's the latest from the business desk i'll be back with an update in less than an hour or so ok this is all to the global news channel from moscow thanks for being with us of soon we look into the syrian

conflict with the country's vice premier the important people talk to us we hope you can stick around to hear what he had to say is after the headlines next.

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