in england, julian assange is facing his own troubles. he is fighting extradition to sweden where he is accused of sex crimes; charges he denies. >> and while the world's media wait outside court, inside, julian assange has been granted bail. >> smith: assange now lives in the family home of a supporter three hours northeast of london. he must report daily to the police. a grand jury in the us is investigating his connection to the leaks. >> smith: you're tied up here in this house, and you've offended a lot of people. >> yeah, but history is on our side. when you expose powerful organizations, they will... there'll be ad hominem attacks and there'll be all sorts of attacks. and yes, in our case... in my personal case, they've been rather hard. but it's not an unusual circumstance. >> smith: what's next for wikileaks? >> wikileaks is continuing to step up its publishing speed. we are still involved in getting the majority of these cables out and it does good. we can see the effects all around us. >> smith: last september, daniel domscheit

to grave i didn't put on trial as julian assange has to a london court to appeal his extradition to sweden exactly what will happen to the wiki leaks founder ends up in the us the power of his celebrity allows for a fair trial. if there is no question that other countries. torture itself. with which they do it it is forbidden in the u.s. constitution but is this country using cruel and unusual punishment for everything torture while condemning it abroad. ron paul is going rogue the texas republican says he'll step down from running to hold on to his congressional seat in two thousand and twelve to step off his presidential election bid you know what he told our teeth about that this is. and president obama says the check stops here the august third that is so exactly who's to blame in this political game of chicken over the debt ceiling and the budget shadow we're going to think. it is tuesday july twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. and christine for a sound you're watching our team. starting off tonight a look at how time can change everything fifteen months ago i walked a couple blocks

more on the julian assange extradition case coming up on the alona show stay with us. we've got. the biggest issues good voice ceased to face with the news makers. welcome the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none from mercy to be live in washington d.c. now and i will get details on julian assange just latest appeal from extradition to sweden what the chances are that he'll be getting sent here to the u.s. also take a look at the latest developments in the relations ahmed wali karzai being assassinated the u.s. cutting some aid from pakistan we're going to ask what all of that means for now longest war and a new piece of legislation in congress sounds like it's meant to save your kids from child pornographers but is it really just a mask for a massive move to force i as these to record your data and take away your privacy julian sanchez is going to join us on that what we're going to have all of that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. now if you haven't noticed yet it's

well you know its founder julian assange continues his fight against extradition to the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower overt sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him laura amatus covering the trial from outside the court building. today is the second day of was expected to be a two day hearing that holds the appeal of june in a song say but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given a bit to evidence on the hall full of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a visit to. defense i phone left the court last night's completely tight lipped he didn't ways to any of his supporters who were standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has high especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to taken on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and s

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wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations which are supporters say are just a pretext to hand him over to the united states. also as the french parliament you said you to vote on continued intervention in libya palaces highlighted inconsistent scenes in paris is trying to get tempers to find ways out of the down . and global markets are on the decline in europe falls to four month lows as e.u. leaders demonstrate little action to prevent the contamination of sovereign debt problems find out more and this is our thing in twenty minutes. very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow recent shots rescuers are searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship as the bodies of dozens of children could still be among those trapped under water almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in republic of on sunday our correspondent for the latest from. here now some holmes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this i

court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden off that we can leaks founder julian assange will go i have. a few minutes he's made a fury over the phone happened scale gripping britain goes international as the u.s. senate takes aim at grover murdoch's media empire. speaking aid in washington russia's foreign minister has reiterated the need for cooperation over the u.s. plans for european missile shield it comes amid a widening cast between america and russia over the issue washington maintains a shield to protect against attacks from rogue states such as iran as artie's gun education reports are told to happy to take advantage of post soviet bitterness to see through. u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian news for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that

wiki leaks founder julian assange marches a fresh field against extradition to london's high court all of it allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post to the u.s. . the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks even as a telephone criminalising criticism of his west bank settlements. and the record sell off is coming to russia's state fact that he's reported the government is getting ready to its current it's probably. trying to get more investors to the russian economy the more joins you can something about twenty minutes. just after three pm here in moscow you with artsy rover sushi. flags are at half mast across russia as the city mourns the victims of its worst boat accident in three decades more than eighty people have now been officially confirmed dead while dozens of bodies remain trapped underwater so although after an overloaded pleasure cruise a sign from the volga river the republican star on sunday rescuers are say the chances of finding more survivors are remote parties from darkness following the

well you should hear clearly ought to be a lot of data granted put on trial as julian assange has to a london court to a killer the extradition to sweden exactly what will happen the wiki leaks founder ends up in the united states will the power of his celebrity allow for a fair trial. if there is no question that a country in that league agent tortured soul food truck over her shoulder it's forbidden in the constitution but is the u.s. using cruel and unusual punishment dare we say torture while condemning it abroad. ron paul is going road texas republican says he will step down from running to hold on to his congressional seat and two thousand and twelve to step up his presidential election bid here what he told our team about that decision. and president obama says the checks stops here well august third that is so exactly who's to blame for this political game of chicken over the debt ceiling and the project shadow elites point the finger. it's tuesday july twelfth i'm christine for zero in washington d.c. you're watching our team. well fifteen months ago i walked a couple blocks

wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an early decision to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations supporters say the case is just a pretext to how devoted to the u.s. . the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home or the death of a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow that nato has plans to leave a stable country behind when its troops withdraw. next question the official aim of make his intervention in libya is supposedly protecting civilians in our latest incident. the labor conflict is entering its peaceful month with concerns growing that a protracted destructive civil war has been kickstarted by a western russia the regime change to name a son a french intellectual and join the list founder and chairman of pair network and the axis for peace conference has been working here maybe you're trying to find out the truth thank you very much three for being with us thank you where have you been in libya and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. a

wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an earlier decision to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations his supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . and the half brother of afghan president hamid karzai has been assassinated in his own home the death of a powerful politician allegedly linked to drug trafficking deals a blow to nato has plans to leave a stable country behind when its troops withdrawal. takes forty five pm moscow time humans got the sport. pretty happy with this this is sports there's plenty ahead in rooting. host argentina finally claim their first win in three attempts up a couple of american picking their quarterfinals place in the process. top of the pile russia's volleyball squad returned home after winning the world league finals in poland great timing ahead of next year's olympic games. and spin city the heavyweights of motor sport go head to head with plenty of nerve jangling option the european truck racing championships in europe. but we start today with news of the first scandal to hit thi

the wiki leaks founder julian assange. allegations but his supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to you are. just too common these days in cycling yet another doping scandal yeah. especially common but especially so in the tour de france. too close to home for us a russian writer has been the first. two for substance so. details of the moment will try and. find. pretty happy with this this is sports there's plenty ahead in getting. host argentina finally claim their first win in three attempts up a cup american picking their quarterfinals place in the process. top of the pile russia's volleyball squad returned home after winning the world league finals in poland great timing and of next year's olympic games. in spin city the heavyweights of motor sport go head to head with plenty of nerve jangling action up the european truck racing championships in europe. but we start today with news of the first scandal to hit this year's edition of the tour de france and it involves a russian alexander testing posi

the world's most famous whistleblower julian assange continues his bid at the high court and london to file extradition to sweden has one of their for questioning over sexual assault allegations by his supporters fear sweden will be only a staging post to the u.s. . with an estimated two million drug addicts in russia manny question whether there is a way out of the narcotics labyrinth that's to renegotiate talks to the head of russia's federal drug control service the three went off to see how the problem is being tackled. the problem of drugs and drug trafficking seems to not go anywhere no matter how much we fight it and the head of russia's federal drug control service. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. in trying to drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to officials there more than seven thousand people have died in russia from drug related causes since the beginning of the year at the same time there are others who are. actually more than one hundred thousand and that is actually. why is there such a huge differen

the wiki leaks founder julian assange on will be back in london's high court today to fight extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioning of a sexual assault allegations and supporters fear that if handed over to swedish authorities it won't be long before finds himself behind bars in the u.s. party's image reports. seven months since today in our souls was released on bail he returns to the high court to appeal his extradition if he fails will be sent to sweden within ten days but many believe his feet won't touch the ground next stop america i think. the worry is that sui which in the past has extradited people to america with a minimum of fuss when they were asked was show us a possible. to get water awaits him in the us is this. really ought to be. used earlier a notorious neo conservative group helped the swedish prime minister friedrich reinfeldt win reelection last year and there's another glaring link in the shape of lawyer thomas bloodstream his firms representing the two women bringing the sex charges against him in two thousand and one he was minister of justice and

wiki leaks founder julian assange has a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court with allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post. interview show spotlight this time all going off talks to start off the presidential commission of a children's rights about how moscow is working to protect russian children adopted by foreigners and taken abroad. hello yellow welcome to spotlight the show. and today my guest in the studio is. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov is on an official visit to the united states among other things he's trying to strike a deal with americans concerning the child adoption process just recently several american families have been blamed. toward children adopted in south moscow wants to have a right to examine the living conditions of adopted children what problem does the russian children almost when faced here's a presidential commission for the children's rights by the. number of scandals where american parents badly treated the children they adopted in russia. and washington to come up with a solution a document designed b

and wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an early decision to extradited to sweden over sex crime other gratian but his supporters say the case is just a pretext i'm limited to be us. next to question if we should labor of nato intervention in libya that it's supposedly protecting civilians in our latest interview. the libyan conflict is entering its before month with concerns growing at a pretty tract a destructive civil war has been kickstarted by western russia through asia and change to my son a french intellectual and join the list founder and chairman of pair network and axis for peace conference has been working here in libya trying to find out the truth thank you very much terry for being with us thank you where have you been and what have you discovered what have you found in your time here. and first of all it's quite obvious that the us c. wanted to counter the war at the same time with libya and syria. that we share was made public by john bolton in two thousand and two the plan was passed over to france and britain who decided to bring it to l

and wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him to sweden over sex crime allegations which its supporters say is just a pretext to hand it over to the u.s. . and russia wants to take a customs union with kazakhstan and belarus one step further than planned to see a free trade zone created between the union and the one that's in twenty minutes from business r.t. . welcome from moscow if you just joined us it's ten pm here now my name is kevin owen you're watching the r.t. international news channel first the first funerals have been held in russia's republic of tire the start as the country mourns the victims of its worst boating accident in decades rescues a continuing to search for bodies tonight including those of dozens of children who gathered in a play room just moments before the heavily overloaded ship sank over ninety people have now been confirmed dead our correspondent tom barton has the latest. operations continue here from the volga bank south of khazan with divers and other teams going out to try. recover more bodies from the su

high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden of the wiki leaks founder julian assange on trial will go ahead. and if you are over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international now as the u.s. senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media. oftentimes plan to sell shield over europe has been labeled as the main irritant behind a widening chasm in a russian american relations foreign minister sort of get off the u.s. has to offer moscow some concerns over the project maintaining the shield only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's actually taking advantage of post soviet business to see it through. reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course out for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russia for illegally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia's security there have been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has been

of next, a discussion with julian assange on the history and impact of wikileaks. then we hear from legal experts on the key decisions of the supreme court term that just ended. after that, it forum looks at ways to make u.s. courts accessible. and here is the even now with wikileaks founder julian assange and editor julian. also, we hear from slovenian philosopher slavoj zizek. -- wikileaks founder and editor in chief, julian assange. >> good afternoon. i am the founder of the front line club. the co-founder, actually. co-founded with my wife, who is hidden amongst you somewhere. we are very excited to be doing this today. this is the last event we have done with the front line club, and i would like to thank you for coming to this fantastic place. i would like to thank dan, our branding man, because i am standing in front of 100 logos, which are all new. thanks for our new look. we are not shy of our new look. i would like to thank the front line club staff, who worked extremely hard to put this on, particularly flora and millie. so thank you all. i am extremely

first the wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's going against an earlier ruling to extradited to sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if he is sent to stalk oh he'll end up in the hands of the u.s. government. is the latest from outside the court building. the cheering us on has hired an entirely new legal team full this appeal he started the old laws old laws and he's got people who are much more have much more experience in criminal law and they're much more concerned with the ins and outs of e.u. law or and specifically the european arrest warrant they're all queuing that the european arrest warrant enough case is invalid because of essentially discrepancies between the allegations made and the testimonies of the two alleged victims that are full of charge is that they range between are no full coercion to sexual assaults right down to rape they're also saying it's important to remember that no charges have been brought against after all she's wanted for questio

and wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court fighting an early decision to extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations but its supporters say the case is just a pretext to hand him over to the united states. thirty one i am next an r.t. financial guru most kinds of names and shames who he thinks is behind the world's financial turmoil and this time it's got something to do with the fridge don't know ismay keep watching the cars report on air in just a few. max kaiser this is the cause or report let's get all the details from stacy herbert pax europe declares war on ratings agencies a chorus of policymakers from europe and across the world have denounced moody's drastic downgrade of portuguese debt as an act of financial vandalism accusing the anglo-saxon rating agencies of driving states into bankruptcy and destabilizing the global system yeah that's right they call it financial vandalism or upping the rhetoric and we we've been talking about financial terrorism for months and months and months now they're upping their rhetoric they're going to get to the point now

wiki leaks founder julian assange is back in a london court where he's appealing against an earlier ruling to extradite him to sweden the world's most famous whistleblowers want the questioning of a sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear that if sent to stop it will end up in the hands of the u.s. government. has been following the case from right outside the courthouse. we saw wrestlers arrive at courts his own cheese day he was flanked by his lawyers and his assistants and he was silent obviously reserving his energies we were all asking him how he felt about how today was going to go but he didn't answer any of us but he had a haircut he's now wearing glasses and he looked that he much older than his forty years and certainly much older than him but he did this carrying that we're seeing this week essential to last until wednesday but even then the rulings expected to be reserved so we might not hear what decision the judge has made for days or even weeks and insights even if that this appeal is rejected and i saw it says that he vows to take this case higher up the justice

and it's julian assange onj who is marginalized and attacked financially by the likes of visa and master card well david cameron cleaves with rupert murdoch please reconsider your bid for b. sky b. don't do it please. but what you describe here is the wealth disconnect between rich and poor which has been growing for a couple of decades is spilling over into almost every single aspect of the law there's two sets of laws for copyright there's two sets of laws in banking there's two sets of laws almost on every piece of the jurisprudence spectrum that you could imagine and that is clearly a breakdown in the social contract i don't know how else to describe it it's a complete separation from the club to crabs that are running away with the wealth versus everyone else that's stuck there eating dirt like in haiti we're all becoming like haiti all right stacy her well that's all the time for we have thanks so much for staying over and going through some of this stuff for us thank you thank you max and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herb

wiki leaks founder julian assange just fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him for sweden of a sex crime allegations which is supporters say just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. . and as the french parliament is due to vote on a continued intervention in libya analysts highlight inconsistency in paris is a frantic attempt to find ways around the. world wide news live from the heart of moscow this is r.t. rescuers are searching through a player and the volga river cruise ship as the bodies of dozens of children could be still among those trapped underwater almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in the republic of tatarstan on sunday our correspondent now has more from the. scene holmes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it's a lot of the crews on leadership. well of knowing the crew on the ball daria. paying their respects now to the ship itself. we still hope that our daughter has survived as you have said an air pocket or some othe

wiki leaks founder julian assange two launches a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court all the made allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post to the united states. the mideast quartet meets in washington hoping to jumpstart the stalled israeli palestinian peace talks even as television criminalizes criticism this month by a. very warm welcome to you this is our team live from moscow i'm rover sushant flags are at half mast across russia as the country mourns the victims of its worst boat accident in three decades more than seventy people have now been officially confirmed that while dozens of bodies remain trapped underwater it's after an overloaded pleasure cruise in the cold river and the republic of qatar stand on sunday rescuers say the chances of finding more survivors right now he's talking is following behind scuffles. there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the river boat station in cars than it was to be the starting point of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the pole good thing they've come to life i was i'm surprised

wiki leaks founder julian assange launches a fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court amid allegations that sweden is nothing old misstating us. with our take world news twenty four seven welcome to the program flags are at heart from last across russia as the country mourns the victims of its worst both accident in three decades almost sixty people have been officially confirmed dead seventy bodies remain trapped on that often overloaded pleasure cruise that sank in the form of a part of the start. of school so chances are on the ball survivors. course those events anger the grieving relatives of these this was just this tragedy such shock waves around the country and indeed around the world this day the floods the firing of havas here in russia the way i live in stay with the fans will be cancelled and that won't even be it's time to chase on the t.v. as people pay their respects to those involved in this tragedy now the los i think it is silence house near this thing where it all happens fifty nine people. and they think there's a large number of bodies there are so

also wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradited to sweden over sex crime allegations which is supported just a pretext to how devoted to the u.s. . and russia wants to take the customs union with exxon one step further prime minister putin wants to create a free trade zone between union and europe more on that in business in twenty minutes time. hello there thanks for joining us it's nine pm here in moscow you're watching the r.t. international news channel with me kevin zero in and rescuers are searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship as the bodies of thousands of children could be among those still trapped under water over ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure cruise that sank in the republic of tatarstan on sunday our correspondent tom barton has the latest from. some homes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the cruise almost ships full of knowing the crew on the bulgaria. paying their

also wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting a decision by a british court to extradite him over to sweden on sex crime allegations which a supporter say are just a pretext to hand them over to the u.s. . and joining in the hesitation on global markets russian stocks and choose the session mixed with the obvious down point one percent nice mix up point three percent electricity shares leading the gains more in markets and the business news in twenty minutes i'll see that. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. reception rescuers are searching through a playroom in the sunken volga river cruise ship the bodies of dozens of children could still be among those trapped on the water almost ninety people have now been confirmed dead after the heavily overloaded pleasure in the republic of parts on sunday now across one. brings us the latest from. here now some holmes glowing in a memorial tribute to those that died this is a large river with many craft traveling up and down it a lot of the crews on those ships would have known the crew on the boat garcia. paying their respects no

legal crew to take on credit card companies visa master card just last week we showed you how julian assange poked fun at master card by spoofing one of its very own commercials people servers and. two hundred dollars in. donations lost due to banking. fifteen million. that it cost to the whole sort of. five hundred thousand dollars. watching the world. series so. priceless. there is well the jokes are now over the now wiki leaks is getting serious as you probably remember when the whistle blowing organization first released its massive stash of diplomatic cables from the us visa mastercard suspended all methods of payment to wiki leaks through their companies so the group sent out a press release through its twitter page so you have those credit card companies have been engaging in a us to backed financial blockade and then they explain that they're suing visa master card the press release states the company is a coordinated action on december seventh last year to block all credit card transactions to wiki leaks constituted a serious violation of the competition rules of the e.u. furthermor