contributor afshin rattansi in london afshin thank you very much for your time that is the first questioni mean why is this sounds describing this is a breakthrough with these cables aren't exclusive to wiki leaks. you know the newspaper i began my journalism career the guardian has already said these cables show that wiki leaks well is it even needed anymore do we need wiki leaks at all that's strange because this morning british people woke up to the dulcet tones of henry kissinger himself talking about how he loved mrs thatcher after death of course in the past twenty four hours these are incredibly relevant cables they weren't able to be searched and the mainstream media doesn't like what wiki leaks is doing which is dedicated as far as. anyone interested in journalism i think would would say is the powerless against the powerful these were documents that were very hard to they were unwieldy how do you actually search this it's all very well the government releasing cables but how do you actually search and actually collate and actually find things out from a lot of adobe p.d.f. files

support certainly washington's wink of annoyed that the taliban have a office in qatar it's all ok afshin things he thought and i should return as they are contributor thank you. but he looks at it julian assange might be holed up in an embassy in london but that's not stopping him from running for election in his home country australia has appointed a high profile political campaigner to spearhead his bid for a seat in the australian senate as such just spent the last nine months confined to the ecuadorian embassy in britain where he's avoiding extradition to sweden for questioning over sex crime allegations if his absentee election bid is successful he would be sworn in a senator in july twenty fourth thing but what after ten to camber of course to do that is campaigns by led by greg barnes a form a barrister and head of the astray and republican movement he told us the surge is working leads party into bring transparency to the government and insists that it has a realistic chance of victory. it certainly stands for in your strength which is effectively the house of review in your stri

dot com you can read the interview with ortiz contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader helped britain and the world to learn. israel's military prosecutors have decided the deaths of a dozen palestinian civilians in airstrikes launched on gaza during an eight day war last year don't warrant a criminal investigation it was decided the killings were merely unfortunate it was found that one attack that killed nine family members was the result of a targeting area. martin from the palestinian center for human rights i spoke to a little earlier she says international law is being disrespected. there were two cases which were closed in this way and we received notifications of those cases on the eleventh of april just three days ago the one case is the case of the family which is one of the most enduring images of the offensive in november where there were twelve civilians killed and a further six were wounded there were five children of the family that the second cases of the show a family home which was targeted and it's located on baghdad streets and you're in that target

contributor afshin rattansi believes the impact of the alliances policies around the globe has been all but positive journalists from all over the world seem to be covering the straight line that nato is this complex system of fine military generals and military armor when of course every time nato goes into a country it ends up in either disaster or blowback disaster as it has been in libya which is given power to however many militias and of course one only has to look at afghanistan to see what it's done there not many people actually covering the aftermath of the war in yugoslavia to see where the costs of always better off now than it was before the yugoslavia still if he started so perhaps the worst fears would be that the nato drone attacks on that killed so many children in the outback border regions and so forth will result in profound blowback different groups within nato countries seek to identify themselves with the dispossessed those murdered maimed or bereaved by nature's armies over the past ten to fifteen years. all right still ahead for you here on r t that of hunger fo

dot com read the interview with artie's contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader helped britain and the world to learn. well that's it for me build up my colleague will be here in the next as the news continues before that if you're a russian you don't have to dream of going to space space comes to you next l.t. visits the city in the urals region it would still mean that in this year when it was hit by a massive beach that's after the break. oh no lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal and to these for using vulgar already in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where wordless is just silly there's a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media connects up more and i was ation of society russian t

potential is not something that can make britain a safer place that's according to our teams contributor afshin rattansi. in any case the dragon missile system because of that idea sixty three brothers agreement means it's not under the control of the british government the united states controls this system military generals have been saying all around. the wars that britain fights these days for by conventional forces they're hugely under threat from budget cuts and of course having a loan submarine right now somewhere around the earth with a british flag on it to the teeth with nuclear weapons that's not going to protect british interests and the fact that so many scottish people want to get rid of that base along with its eight thousand jobs this is a very recent poll shows that if anything citing a nuclear base in britain makes britain a target for militants of any type of persuasion. in the meantime north korea has asked russia to consider evacuating its embassy staff in pyongyang in lieu of rising tensions and risks on the peninsula and follows reports that the north has armed a second b

contributor afshin rattansi says nato is conduct in the war zone is only helping the insurgents gain political ground. the american public may be thinking what was the point of this debris relatives of all the thousands dead they must be getting a very strange picture of afghanistan if the taliban on the mall obama is going to run afghanistan is it going to be a pullout of course lots of people are asking there hundred fifty thousand nato troops there now and already people are talking about fifteen thousand remaining on five different bases the continuous drone attacks and the atrocities committed by u.s. and nato are nice to have troops of course do catalyze protel about support it was only in the past week or so that a u.s. commando unit were thrown out of new york province after allegations of complicity in kidnapping torture and summary executing people in the province because i told the americans they better get out and of course those kinds of atrocities abound that i would not support. and artie's lucy catherine offers reported from afghanistan intends to cover the region exp

thursday for plotting a serial tunks and my colleague mark très i discussed the issue with a contributor afshinrattansi. it's as if the british government only just realised what's going on that there are these jihadi home grown as it were that are leaving after previous call previous battles in libya and moving in to work with the syrian opposition indeed which is name of a name i haven't come across that much in the news even counterterrorism coordinator his comments about homegrown jihadi britain and a host of e.u. countries although britain makes the most of them according to a recent king's college london survey it's as if the british government only just suddenly realised it would william hague writing a letter to british m.p.'s warning about this and we had of the commons foreign select committee as saying with his presumably signalled intervention of a kind because now the british government can make a case for we have to intervene in syria because we have to stop these militants coming back to being trained by elements of the free syrian army or whatever opposition movement there is in

contributor afshin rattansi told me their publication could have a major impact.these are incredibly relevant cables they weren't able to be searched and the mainstream media doesn't like what wiki leaks is doing which is dedicated as far as. anyone interested in journalism i think would say is the powerless against the powerful one doesn't have to doubt why the united states doesn't want these cables searchable because they detail very clearly a horrific time in u.s. foreign policy these are stories that reverberate even today and if we do what we have to do is look at egypt for instance because the ramadan war there the seventy three kissinger's role in trying to spark that off to try and destroy arab unity and we're living with those consequences today project k. is hardly going to cause is it a reaction like the outcry that sparked the collateral murder video showing the u.s. helicopter attacking civilians there in iraq i would actually just be there we can tell whether it'll have the same impact as the so-called collateral murder video because there will be r

dot com you can read the interview with artie's contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader helped britain and the world to learn. and european sentiment is it going mainstream in germany were the launch of a new party dedicated to pulling the plug on the struggling euro a group called alternative for germany says it has already received thousands of membership requests and the political establishment is concerned about the new comers popularity our correspondent peter oliver was at the party's first official convention germany's political new kids on the blog alternative for deutschland claim to be able to provide the german people with just not an alternative to the current political.

contributor afshin rattansi says the reclusive state has good reason to beef up its security. john kerry the united states government. spreading all this fear now and we must remember that it was the united states who started doing stealth fighters in guam just destroying the six party talks and also just remember the context of the united states in the fifty's killed twenty percent of korea's population twenty first century has proven time and time again that nuclear weapons perhaps someone's only terror against united states and nato posturing nature warfare of course iraq afghanistan because libya and libya will hang in imaginations of many developing world leaders because it proved because it was good after he got rid of his nuclear weapon program people are going to want wm the united states is ramping up its military facilities in southeast asia and obviously foreseen that china will become a superpower and over time kim jong un has repeatedly said that he said one month ago we don't want war we want to talk you just think of it the other way around north korea was prett

dot com you can read the interview with artie's contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader help britain and the world to learn. and hero sentiment is going mainstream in germany with the launch of a new party dedicated to pulling the plug on the struggling single currency a group called alternative for germany says it has already received thousands of membership requests and the political establishment is concerned about the newcomers popularity our correspondent peter oliver was at the party's first official convention. germany's political new kids on the block alternative for deutschland claim to be able to provide the german people with just not an alternative to the current political status quo the main item on their agenda though regards the euro something which they say is being kept alive artificially for too long it's coming time to pull the plug the euro is dead actually the euro is dead what we do right now is we put in and it's pressured surgery we give them. such things but actually it's already dead but i'll put it to should have directed nice that yet d

dot com you can read the interview with artie's contributor afshin rattansi on the lessons the iconic leader helped britain and the rest of the world to learn. wiki leaks is back launching a new website packed with the largest amount of geo political material ever published the project k. archive includes more than one point seven million confidential or formerly confidential diplomatic communications from former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger here are some of the revelations on wiki leaks right now some documents reveal that the u.s. backed road to excuse me dictatorships known for brutality against their people including franco's spain and when two ruled greece and washington had also close connections to the vatican in supporting the one nine hundred seventy who in chile that saw the bloody pinochet regime come to power and another scandal threatening to block in sweden's name its secret police were reported to have spied on leftist citizens under cia orders and we spokes person kristinn hrafnsson believes the whistle blowing web site has simply done the job of the u.s. go

thousand kilometers and the missiles potential ranges less than seven thousand and aussies contributor afshin rattansi says that even david cameron's own supporters down to the credibility of his recent statements. even a newspaper here that supports the ruling conservative party questioned what cameron was saying whether there was some extra intelligence here that no one else seems to know about or whether he had just misspoke and in any case the tritone missile system because of the ideas of super lawyers agreement means it's not under the control of the british government the united states controls this system that eighty five percent of people in scotland don't want anywhere near that area what we have here is david cameron maybe even going east seems to be saying that we need trident desperately to protect ourselves from north korea at the same time he visits a city where at one point there was a debate about whether areas of the city of drugs go had the sim a similar life expectancy to that of people in afghanistan one in four more than one in four of children in this country living in

contribute to afshin rattansi says the alliance's of global activities actually do more harm than good. journalists from all over the world seem to be covering the straight line that nato is this complex system of fine military generals and military armor when of course every time a day goes into a country it ends up in either disaster or blowback disaster as it has been in libya which is given power to however many militias and of course one only has to look at afghanistan to see what it's done there not many people actually covering the aftermath of the war in yugoslavia to see where the costs are always better off now that perhaps the worst fears would be that the nature of drone attacks on that killed so many children in the outback border regions and so forth will result in profound blowback this week a fire broke out in a psychiatric ward outside moscow killing thirty eight patients and staff only three people made it out alive r.t.c. got to be going up was at the scene looking at the possible causes of the tragedy. it was around half past one in the morning when a nurse of that

been grounded classes have been canceled universities and schools in the area are to contributor afshin rattansi in london says the u.s. homeland security department is in disarray and it's incapable of stopping attacks like the marathon bombings. the whole idea of terrorism now in the world is asymmetric warfare and as your correspondents have talked about the whole of boston looking like gotham city waiting for batman one thing these terror acts will definitely do will help the security apparatus of central government was a complete and utter failure perhaps there will always be a necessary failure because as the security analysts are fond of saying it only takes them to be right once and the. and the homeland security people they have to be right every single time this is not the way you combat terrorism or militancy the way to combat it is through other measures and this idea of this ridiculous homeland security department coordinating arm and security this will never stop attacks like this the way to stop attacks like this is something entirely different if it is a political act th

fewer hands and ultimately cause division that was dangerous to the stability of the nation itself afshin thanks for being with us tonight russian returns here. car bombs exploded in the syrian capital killing at least fifteen people and wounding over one hundred forty more the attack happened near the headquarters of the central bank on a busy road in damascus the blast caused extensive damage to buildings and was followed by an intense barreled shotgun fire it is the latest in a series of car bomb attacks in the capital the most recent one killing fifty three people in february it comes as pro-government forces continue their major push to force rebel militias out of the strongholds across the country their money locks and writer a german reporter who specializes in syria spoke to us about this is said that targeting civilians in the capitals become a common tactic now for rebel fighters. they are not in the military they are not even the security forces they are civilians in our case today a special case they very mean children the car bomb exploded right in front of a school where a l

for plotting a series about time and my colleague matras a discuss the issue with altie contributor afshin rattansi. it is if the british government only just realised what's going on that there are these jihadi homegrown as it were that are leaving after previous called previous battles in libya and moving in to work with the syrian opposition indeed which is name of a name i haven't come across that much in the news even counterterrorism coordinator his comments about homegrown jihad he's from britain and a host of e.u. countries although britain makes the most of them according to a recent king's college london survey it's as if the british government only just suddenly realised it would william hague writing a letter to british m.p.'s warning about this and we had of the commons foreign select committee here saying that this presumably signalled intervention of a kind because now the british government can make a case for oh we have to intervene in syria because we have to stop these militants coming back to being trained by elements of the free syrian army or whatever opposition movem

contributor afshin rattansi thinks what do you think you can a share your thoughts on wiki leaks and your files online with us right now if you like you can change this graph by the car on the screens r.t. dot com is the place to do it tell us what you think. is the late what you think about these latest batch of cables that's up one percent sixty four percent think it's going to expose more u.s. dirty linen all right that's. sixty four percent of you twenty three percent of you this is just on record if you believe it simply confirms that all countries have something to hide but a tenth of you think the whole publication is being blown out of proportion just to get attention of minority suspect wiki leaks is trying to juice the public with fake information five percent this hour r.t. dot com is where we need over. and also online as well r.t. dot com at the same unwelcome predictions if you're a nervous air traveler scientists say passages should brace themselves for a sharp increase in flight turbulence to explain why on our website also there are two online social networking could