succeed. >> that is a good printer to talk about the classification and talk specifically about julian assange. there's a point to which, letters of publication, we have not talked about ruptured relationships. bill and the "the new york times" fellow with assange pretty quickly. >> we fell out earlier than allen, although we are both in the dog house. >> the way he ran a fall of him was through a piece that ran in "the new york times" -- the way you ran afoul of him, through a piece it that you ran in "the new york times", and not linking to the wikileaks website. >> i am happyp to explain. i should state for the record i have never met julian assange in person. first, we had all of them involved with various grievances against "the new york times". the first one came after publication of the afghanistan war logs where he was upset that we did not link to the wikileaks website. readers of "the new york times" are intelligent enough to find the website without our help. so it was entirely a symbolic gesture on our part. the reason we did it was because assange had made it clear that they did n

when julian assange emerged less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops gunning down unarmed civilians and two reuters journalists videogame style he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti-war ally a human rights defender r.t. america interview decides on the day of collateral murders release and what keeps people on earth and more people in management of a civilization going to understand how the world actually works. in the fourth estate is to get information out about the real world and the second step is to comment on it and to think about it but we need sources can't get. through to the information out to the public a nomadic computer expert with the cache of two hundred fifty thousand classified cables assigned catapulted to the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country with a week's wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken activist with the potential t

wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange just ticks off the u.s. with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and love and he see as a you know tamil in my mind as it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be advising the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songs for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured the question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some. the documents from exactly wiki leaks and if the u.k. can secure asylum for bodies because off ski and ahmed zakayev bot

and we leaks founder julian assange is also set for another high court battle he's accused the guardian newspaper of malicious libel over its total account of the online whistleblower the british charity is also being blamed for adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to fit its editorial policy when all t. is laura m. it has more on the rift between the x. friends. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks and the guardian have rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners were to help publish cables on the whistle blowing website blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on it raining in dissident politicians and the guardian we. have. they don't want such things to be known for their own tales they will basi

just one in ten minutes past the hour the extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the end of february he appeared in court in london on friday as he continues to fight against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning over sex crime allegations he claims the case has been fabricated so the u.s. can use wheat in to get its hands on him. and he said now explores the cozy relationship between washington and stockholm. sweden a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top model and one bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature. films but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda of politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military and some politici

the big question now is there enough room in the british justice system to protect julian assange from the united states of sweden america and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's in no way are to stockholm sweden. journalists ron written or told r t earlier that sweden and the u.k. will face heavy pressure to comply with washington's interests on the case the world should know that the united states is the world's greatest terrorist in the wars that they conduct the torture they conduct so many horrible crimes have been revealed already in the united states continues with the same policies they make some excuses here or there and their former president. in his own autobiography that he gave orders for torture so i'm skeptical that just because one knows how bad the the devil is that that will curtail them from from prosecuting. on the other hand sweden of course or great britain if they if they delivered him that would be bad propaganda for them the people would be very upset most people i think would be very upset but again that's not the only determining factor for a government

and i think that was -- julian assange agreed. we took it from there. i think nick's judgment call has been borne out by events. there was the british media laws. we thought that would give car joint enterprise a legal robustness. we thought we would have a technological robustness if anybody tried to bring down this enterprise through a digital attack, it would be more robust with more than one organization. i think he rightly thought that it would be a task and we calculated there were 400 million words in just the cable gates alone. compare that with 2.5 million words in the pentagon papers. this was the biggest amount of data to any journalistic organization has ever had to tackle. it would be necessary to bring as many eyes as possible to the enterprise. that is how would started. it started well. as far as we were concerned, ought to december 22, i think it ended pretty well. >> going back to -- your contact when julian assange was brought in, what would you -- as an editor, will you thinking when you took hold of this amounts of data? digit and a

julian assange continues his fight against the swedish prosecutor. he faces long odds. arrest warrants from a country like sweden is customarily granted almost automatically. his defense team has raised three main arguments. geoffrey robertson told the court that he would not get a fair trial because of briefcases and sweden are held in secret. that what he is alleged to have done in sweden would not be criminal in britain, and he is ready to cooperate with swedish officials in london. julian assange is also afraid that extradition will deliver him in the end to the united states where some public figures have faced for him to call -- for him to face the death penalty. claire montgomery said montgomerymr. aassange -- assange repeatedly refused to testify in sweden. >> in britain, it is of vital tool in an increasingly- globalized fight against crime. the court will expect strong evidence the prosecution was militias or politically motivated or otherwise flawed. >> the defense called their witness, a retired swedish prosecutor. he told the court that he thought it quite

big for additional hearing in london wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the twenty fourth of february a songe appeared in court on friday i think continues his fight against being sent to sweden where he faces questioning of a sex choir in the negations which were previously dropped as the case is politically motivated and has been fabricated so the u.s. can seek his extradition from sweden all season he said now explores the cozy relationship between washington and stockholm. sweden a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our but flat pack furniture store dollar meatballs top model and long bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweat. it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato yo

we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in guantanamo bay and actually basically pursuit of some car. or knowledge charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just happen if if june in the sand is going to be diverted to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy and next hour we've got more another legal fight assad could have on his hands this time as one of the publishing partners of the guardian the british newspaper has recently been accused of redacted will be in line with it but it will. allow u.s. cities have long been a symbol of prosperity and success with local governments commanding the budgets of small nations but with the advent of the two thousand and eight financial collapse that's quickly becoming ancient history now faced with astronomical debt and rampant unemployme

now this week a week of leaks founder julian assange faced extradition hearings in london the verdict on whether he will be handed over to sweden for questioning over sex assault allegations is expected later this month and with the u.s. reportedly preparing its own a case against a son many are seeing a fear of conspiracy between the two countries and he said no it has more on the law lasted us swedish cooperation. so we didn't a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states of the country that gave us our but flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all politics through the back door like sweden's ties with nato you have the military and some politicians cooperate intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assange to terrorist susp

we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just happen if if june in the sand is going to be extradited to sweden and what i'm seeing in terms of how people are responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy. you're with the live from moscow our next hour we've got more on another big fight song could have on its hands this time with one of the wiki leaks publishing partners that of the guardian the british newspaper has recently been accused of rejecting the leaks in line with this editorial agenda. former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life at the helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs entitled known and unknown charts how he served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w.

it's the day that could decide whether wiki leaks founder julian assange is extradited to sweden where he's wanted on sex crime charges and i'm here at the cool to bring you all the latest. however sweden may be just a short stop for a song leaked cables on the cover an american agenda behind a swedish wiretapping law that might allow washington to press espionage charges on the whistleblower. and egypt bracing itself for the hardest protests in anti-government unrest began two weeks ago president mubarak has reiterated he won't step down until september and the country's military has vowed to support him . also russia warns japan against pushing forward its tops down from the greil islands a territory tokyo's wanted since the end of world war two. a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is r.t. it's four pm here in the russian capital one pm in london where the founder of wiki leaks is back in court for the last day of his extradition hearing julian assange is wanted in sweden on sex crime charges allegations he denies he claims the high profile case wa

now this week a week leaks founder julian assange face extradition hearings in london for the verdict on whether he will be handed over to sweden for questioning over sex assault allegations is expected later this month and with the u.s. reportedly preparing its own case against assad many are seeing a fair conspiracy between the two countries and this an hour has more on the long lasting u.s. swedish cooperation. so we didn't a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military and some politicians cooperate intensively with the united sta

the big question now is there enough room in the british justice system to protect julian assange from the united states of sweden america and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's in no way are to stockholm sweden. or yet another legal battle looms for julian assange you can find out about the bitter breakup between the former but the u.k. guardian newspaper clashes with its collaborator weaken it was even threatened with voluble by the whistle blowing web site that's coming your way in the next hour along with. the tactic in iraq we look at the plight of christians to flee their homes or to be continuously targeted by extremist groups. their stories next hour for you but in the meantime with the russian government trying to rein in the country's excessive drinking it seems our efforts may be missing the real root of the problem parties are going to find out how russia's youth maybe under the age limit but rough and over the drinking limit. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen yea

and then wiki leaks founder julian assange is threatening to sue the u.k. as a god in newspaper over its tell all book about the online whistleblower the newspaper is also a big hughes of redacting a good diplomatic cables that received from the web site in order to fill its own editorial policy. reports on what's behind the bitter dispute. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks and the guardian have rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners were to help publish cables on the whistle blowing web site blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we each. have. they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will

succeed. >> that is a good printer to talk about the classification and talk specifically about julian assanges a point to which, letters of publication, we have not talked about ruptured relationships. bill and the "the new york times" fellow with assange pretty quickly. >> we fell out earlier than allen, although we are both in the dog house. >> the way he ran a fall of him was through a piece that ran in "the new york times" -- the way you ran afoul of him, through a piece it that you ran in "the new york times", and not linking to the wikileaks website. >> i am happyp to explain. i should state for the record i have never met julian assange in person. first, we had all of them involved with various grievances against "the new york times". the first one came after publication of the afghanistan war logs where he was upset that we did not link to the wikileaks website. readers of "the new york times" are intelligent enough to find the website without our help. so it was entirely a symbolic gesture on our part. the reason we did it was because assange had made it clear that they did not inten

when julian assange and words less than a year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video games he was not as a hero of transparency. and anti-war ally and human rights defender can't see america interview dysfunction on the day of collateral murders willy's what keeps. him more keeps. things from going as we understand how the world actually works so. in the fourth grade he's to get information out about the real world and the second is the comment i didn't think about it but we need sources who can get. through the public eye nomadic computer expert cache of those one hundred fifty thousand classified as some kind of gauges the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country was working with wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes is a cyber terrorist and war time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken activist with the potential to radically shape geo political landscape by the people as time's man of the year our com

we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of. charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just is happen if if june in the sand is going to be extradited to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy. in just a moment as we're going to be talking about. bedfellows. with . wiki leaks. with. web site that's coming your way next hour long with. a rock look at the plight of christians forced to flee their homes after being targeted by extremists. with the russian government trying to rein in the country's excessive drinking it seems their efforts may be missing the real root of the problem. now finds out about russia's youth and how many are under the age limit but are often over the drinking. these teenagers just may be russia's

well yet another legal battle looms for julian assange you can find out about the bitter breakup between the former bedfellows the u.k.'s guardian newspaper clashes with its ex collaborator wiki leaks and even threatened with libel by the whistle blowing web site that's coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. along with. under attack in iraq we look at the plight of christians forced to flee their homes after being continuously targeted by extremist groups. with the russian government trying to rein in the country's excessive drinking it seems their efforts may be missing the real root of the problem. find out how russia's youth may be under the age limit often over the drinking limit. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to four so when they are brought to us the process has already been for for not always we can pull them out of this tough situation according to n.g.o.s there are anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand in the

the defense team wiki leaks founder julian assange on sale he'll face as secret child if sent to sweden to face sexual assault allegations he's now in a london court where the evidence on whether he should be handed able to stockholm is being heard a song that says the accusations are part of a conspiracy to punish him for running his whistle blowing web site from london artie's reports. this is the second day of the two day extradition hearing for today now stands at the end of which swedish prosecutors will be hoping that they can extradite songs to sweden to face questioning over allegations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two swedish women back in august of last year and julian assange himself has always maintained that these allegations are politically motivated he says that there is a directly follow on from wiki leaks release of the us embassy cables which were deeply embarrassing to washington and say they're for the us will do anything to get its hands on him a black box has been applied to my life and on the outside of the black box has been written the word

how does this all play into julian assange and the sex and spy programs and the push alternately for his extradition it's a hot potato as you can understand for the government here. now that they have been exposed through various wiki the leaks. as having. colluded with the united states the ways that they had never before admitted it was often suspected. it's an especially delicate time for them to go out and openly cooperate with an extradition process and reinfeld as i understand the prime minister has apparently declared that this is not a political issue we haven't completely through the judiciary and so on and so forth i think he is not entirely candid there. whatever happens as a result of the trial the united states will probably request that he be extradited for these crimes that they're trying to invent you know he was in the united states and that would be a separate process and that's the process usually is first processed by the immigration department and as i understand it then it can be appealed to a court of law and then the government can get involved it's stated rig

when julian assange emerged let's leave year ago with this video. showing u.s. troops going down unarmed civilians in two reuters journalists video games he was lauded as a hero of transparency. and anti war ally and human rights defender r.t. america interviewed his sons on the day of collateral murders released what keeps. them more keeps their marriage. as you understand how the world actually works. in the fourth is to get information out about the real world and the second is the common thread and to think about the. sources. of the problem and nomadic computer expert talking to cash over two hundred fifty thousand classified as so much capital pages the front page of virtually every newspaper in the country working with wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian assange is a cyber terrorist and work time he's guilty of sabotage. crimes against humanity he should be killed but to withstand a soft spoken as is this potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape by the people as time's man of the year but our commitment to our

julian assange is in legal limbo waiting to see if he'll be extradited from london to stockholm to face questions over sex crime allegations his supporters claim it's washington's attempt to ensnare him. with the week's top stories here with r.t. well eighteen days of unrest across egypt finally came to an end as the country's president eventually surrendered his powers to the military the army has since formed a supreme council and begun taking down the makeshift tents rather in cairo's tahrir square all of this in an attempt to return things to normal the council has now dissolved the previous parliament and suspended the constitution the president's resignation on friday was hailed by the u.s. president as a victory for democracy however. nature can report washington's a long term of support for the ousted president as many questioning the sincerity of obama's sentiment. hosni mubarak out from power is eventually parcher now without the help of washington he had a phone call from the white house that persuaded him to leave. the former egyptian president left cairo just hours after he

julian assange is the polarizing figure of the times. to his supporters, a champion of free speech. to many in america, a dangerous threat to national security. his defense team believe the swedish prosecution is connected to a malicious and politically- motivated attempt to destroy his reputation by them -- by branding him a rapist. >> for the past 5.5 months, we have been in a condition where a black box has been applied to my life. on the outside of that black box has been written the word "rape." that box is now, thanks to an open process, being opened. >> julian assange will be back in court tomorrow. this is bbc news. >> much more to come. stay with us if you can. shunning a new light on the sun, at nasa technology provides an astonishing sight and a helpful hand it to weather forecasters. first, cambodian troops have clashed for a fourth day over a disputed border area. a world heritage site may have been damaged. the cambodian prime minister is appealing to the un. >> and 11th century hindu temple makes an unlikely focus point for a border skirmish. it is a world heritage si

might says that he might take several weeks to deliberate the outcome of this the charges that julian assange is wanted for for questioning in sweden includes allegations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two women back in august in sweden he has always said as knowledge itself that these charges are politically motivated as in relation to the released of u.s. embassy cables on wiki leaks which are deeply embarrassing for the american administration human rights are understood to maybe be being violated sweden has in the past extradited people to egypt which has been accused of torture so that's one of the arguments and there's also some of his lawyers say a risk that the u.s. will seek his extradition in turn or even illegally subject him to a legal rendition to the u.s. and then from then on there's a risk they say of him being held in guantanamo bay or indeed elsewhere they will say they say arrest that he'll be subject to the death penalty and if they can argue that then his extradition looks like it won't take place because e.u. countries can't extradite jurisdictions tha

the arguments that the defense will be putting forward are focused around julian assange as human rights they say that his human your rights will be violated if he's extradited to sweden because sweden has in the past extradited people to egypt which is accused of torture they also say that if he goes to sweden there's a risk that the u.s. will seek either his extradition or they will try to apply illegal rendition to him to take him to the u.s. where he may be held in guantanamo bay or a similar detention facility and they also say that he is at risk of being subject to the death penalty if indeed he is extradited on words to america they are also fighting this on the grounds that he hasn't actually been charged with any crime the swedish prosecution wants to question him about these crimes but they haven't charged him yet and they say that the principle of extradition law is that suspicion of having committed a crime is not grounds for extradition you actually have to charge somebody now the swedish prosecutor's office says that. is protected from transfer eventually to the u.s. by str

where you leaks founder julian assange to appear in a london court to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes his defense says that if handed over to stockholm he faces the risk of being eventually sent to the us where he could get the death sentence sounds outraged at washington by publishing tens of thousands of its military documents and diplomatic cables sweden denies any intention to extradite him to the u.s. but as any so now we have found out stockholm may be far from impartial in this case. so we didn't a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our flat pack furniture store dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized. the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you