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startup t.v. dot com. wiki leaks strikes again this time by starting to publish over two million e-mails from syrian politicians government departments and companies dating back. meanwhile violence in syria continues to escalate with dozens more killed we look at why people far from the front line and now struggling to survive to. agree slams the british prime minister for threats suggesting he could block greek immigrants and other eurozone citizens from entering the u.k. . if the jet britain should be looking for banks to dandle befall prompting judgment on me in london in just a moment. if
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you just joined us hello welcome mrs arty live from moscow it's now eleven pm here my name is kevin owen wiki leaks is publishing close to two and a half million e-mails from syrian government officials was far back as two thousand and six the leaks almost a hundred times bigger than the release of american diplomatic cables that rocked the us military and leadership and made wiki leaks founder julian assange an enemy of the state sara first reports. 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
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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 give it about the media's role in this story because obviously you seen a lot of criticism and backlash actually against you in assad and yet these 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 yes i think julian has somehow. a territory adjourn the six. and journalism is resentful of that to an extent that's partly what's happening in my view and so you see these comments against you these people feel that they have the right to patrol
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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 or 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 a song to 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
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indeed is so important we've spoken a lot of times to kristen have he's described 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 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 what an important service that provides. meantime iraq's foreign minister is blaming al qaeda members for joining the uprising against syria's president in a news briefing he said militants from the terror network were flowing into syria violence there is worsening with over one hundred people killed in the last three days reports say four things intensifying in homes with troops and clashing with rebels middle east expert paul sheldon foote from california state university told me a bit earlier the west is told out of need is not to back down. western nations are the ones promoting the war on terrorism they are promoting the terrorists and as
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you've noted that's revealed over and over again bringing them to conclude an iranian crime is to me a terrorist. or a list of terrorists and yet we use them new neighborhoods where using terrorists there are there were adults it's terrible if anyone in any arab leader or anyone else is awake during what happened to libya they should know it's better to fight to the loyalist man against nato than to roll over and be killed. russians have shooting claims that syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country full of ministers some day lavrov denied the allegations in a news conference with his german counterpart but he's winning coalition 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 counterpart asked him point blank whether russia is ready to give the political asylum to the syrian president now russian delegation laughed it
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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'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 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. used to promote some politicians struggle to try to find ways to contain the escalating violence in syria citizens that are simply trying to survive for people far from the front lawn it's not just bomb some bullets who threaten their lives now but a lack of basic goods and soaring prices but is lucy cuff an off campus that sort
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of the story for you. 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 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 to the 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
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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 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 in 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
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after the uprising that amount of money is enough for just two eggs now take sugar for example the price of a vat like this has tripled in cost them out of money one used to spend on it now by 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 now there used to greece is furious at the british prime minister over his remarks that the u.k. could restrict the greeks from entering the country the move could also prevent other eurozone citizens coming to britain to escape recession at home greece's london should be focusing on its own financial troubles as it is laura smith
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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
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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 with. a leader who's
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from one of the governing coalition parties should talk with the british produce a stroke your populist note just to try to keep a hold of his own party. why i do believe that it was a statement that was pointless there was no reason 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 do 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 leave their country so i can't see the point of saying something like that cameron is losing his party it seems that the democratic party is going really better so maybe it's like a populism or trying to say something i knew this kind of statements think greece his popularity even the more general picture here if i was the greeks. we can ignore the story and suffer unemployment tough times over because the next generation of greek diaspora as far afield as the strayer what do you say to those
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people should they stay or go. i said i do believe that the greeks stay here we have to help our country and now we have a strong coalition government that's 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 them the effect in the euro zone would just time trying to help the eurozone to stay the way t's and we are 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. next another prince a goodwill reportedly averse to may just some insert new infrastructure for the military base in guantanamo bay but promises to close the controversial facility used to hold terror suspects of course will people be buried by the government as well looking at the two sides of the story here is what is going to future kind of washington. forty million dollars will be spent to lay out this underwater fiber
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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 ninety even signed an executive order to close it but not only did he 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
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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 many 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 in 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. right you can reaction now from u.s. law and attorney eric montalvo who indeed helped secure the release of one of the tourists prisons youngest detainees earlier eric hi tell us if you would what you think about this report what it tells us about the future of the facility. well
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what's interesting is how the u.s. is approaching the the law once again on the matter if you look at the lease or you look at the terms of how the negotiation occurred in tonga or cuba has requested that the u.s. leave on a number of occasions and if you look at the terms of the agreement they don't comport into real estate law because there's this rule that you know most law students can't stand as a rule against perpetuities you just can't have something that goes on forever and a lease there has to be a defined beginning in a defined and and so where we stand as a nation is we're on foreign nations soil and we're basically dictating to them that we're going to do these things without their consent so from a sovereign g. standpoint you know there's a lot of concerns as to what are we doing as a country and why are we in cuba to begin with then you layer that on to the idea
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that the president said he was going to close guantanamo he signed an executive order to do so and then you have the other issue of you know what's actually going on down there on guantanamo so and the current financial state of the united states and the impact of spending money where we don't need to spend money and you have a situation where we're getting ready to spend millions upon millions of dollars on a place that we're supposed to be closing down and we probably shouldn't even be in there in the first place i want to pick up on the america on what's going on maybe a human rights group to come pavey isn't as we know calling for the closure of guantanamo why is it still there. well you know this is sort of the mystery of. you know the decade here i mean you have this situation where you have people being detained for unlimited period of time without any hearing which is antithetical to anything the u.s. stands for. and we don't have
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a good answer. for years into the obama administration we still don't have a good answer you know more than most. oh indeed i think we've lost a lot and that's such a pretty you have a lot of good questions lined up to ask or if they were trying to achieve them later and maybe record some more of that interview bring it to a little bit later so it's a pity because he has got inside knowledge of what goes on there all right let's move on from the airport security could be a little overzealous at times but in israel it's taking off to a whole new level these days but on the skyline is the part of the bag searches dogs even asked to inspect passengers personal emails from the traces of pro palestinian activism and reports and even a tourist family tree can get them to. 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
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states was one of the disappointed i hated 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 stay 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 and when i refused to block my g. mail account that's the i c h o b hiding so. i was asked very plainly are you a terrorist and i didn't know whether it's serious. israeli airport security was as serious as it could be he didn't believe her story of coming to visit family and taking part in an interfaith conference he also knew should be involved in campaigns calling for boycotts and disinvestment from israel. a day later she was
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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's there they can find your contact list they can find out where 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 the laptop before you cross and you have a dummy account so that no one will ever access your mail but 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.
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don't. go in only we're through the worst 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 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. more will brief tonight trucks supplying nato in afghanistan across the pakistani border the first to do so since transit routes were reopened this week
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the killing of pakistani border troops last november led to islam about shutting off only when the us funny apologized this week did pakistan reload passage although disagreements over deadly american drone strikes and islam about alleged taliban support still hamper their relationship. was a warning from amnesty international that libya's first post gadhafi election this weekend risks being the rail because the country's in the grip of hundreds of armed militias human rights watchdog fears libya risks repeating the violations that led to the uprising and gadhafi is down for last august it's scathing report details of widespread violations including arbitrary arrests beatings and torture with four thousand people being detained out of the reach of the authorities. japan has released its final report into the fukushima nuclear plant tragedy calling it quote profoundly manmade 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 which led to melt and
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radiation leaks back in march twentieth eleven. ok you clean let's wait for the clock twenty three minutes past eleven o'clock here in moscow i like to be precise natasha. reportedly turned turning down an easy you bellowed offer from russia because the terms were better for. absolutely well the e.u. bailout itself is nothing more than a loan but in addition to paying the interest rates the borrower also has to agree to the austerity conditions while cyprus instead of doing that is basically exploring other options all the details in just a minute but first let's check out what's going on on wall street where equities are actively trading this hour and they are a mixed as you can see choppy trade for the dow with traders are disappointed by the latest services sector report that shows that the sector has slowed down to the lowest level for twenty times now on to euro or equities close the end there read
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this afternoon the much anticipated e.c.b. rate cut didn't help ignite the markets europe's achieve banker mario drawing he gave a press conference to comment on the decision and it seems like his movie outlook on the eurozone economy overshadowed the cut itself charles robertson from running some capital in london told us the e.c.b. was a long overdue. it's not going to make that 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 cut already last month and then followed up with another cut this month. now say with the eurozone spain is investigating a failed spanish lender bunky and its former chairman he's suspected of altering the balance sheets and covering up the financial mess he had of the bank's i.p.o. last year traders of lost three quarters of their money after banking a revised twenty eleven earnings from we three hundred million euro profit to
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a four billion euro loss. and more on the euro zone now from 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 not only cheaper they 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 some parts of italy and then now on to the currency markets let's see what's going on there and as you can see the euro is lower against the dollar after a fairly heavy losses on wednesday the ruble examined the day mixed it was lower to the dollar and the trading higher to the euro and now on to the russian markets the r.t.s. and the my six finish the day lower after posting gains on wednesday then why six actually gave into the downward pressure toward the end of the trading session and has spent most of it in the bois crude prices let's see those and they are mixed to
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sour as you can see right brant is trading above one hundred one dollar mark u.s. stockpiles drop by four point three million barrels that twice as much as analysts expected as normally that would be reason enough for the oil to go higher but at the moment the u.s. crude stockpiles are still close to the highest level in the past twenty two years while you have to date now i'll be back wall hopefully tomorrow but in the meantime you can always check out more stories that are called slosh business of course in such things as much of the money woes but does get short shrift because report a few minutes or less to the headlines next week over now and this is international .
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