anonymity is impossible because you're dealing with third parties the payment processors like pay pal visa master card basically how it works is that when you donate to the freedom of the press foundation you'll get one charge on your credit card that goes to the freedom of the press foundation but on our site you can go as you can see on the screen right there there will be sliders next to all these organizations names the default is split evenly in between them but you can change however much you want to go to each group and then are back and. those numbers are anonymous anonymously dumped into a sort of bucket for each organization and so at the end of each bundle we can cut a check for each organization for how the donors. had seen it fit very cool thanks for playing i hope everyone does participate and it's definitely something we need to support and i want to ask you a personally about when pay pal and his credit card has made that kind of political statement i mean it was one of the first times that i had noticed that corporations were going against their bottom line to make a political stateme

in a british court of involvement in a cyber attack on global online payment companies pay pal visa master card would target it after it blocked all funds meant for whistle blowing site wiki leaks the twenty two year old who has maintained his innocence is now facing a jail sentence on his door smith is following the case. the crime is basically a revenge attack against those companies that blockaded wiki leaks pay pal master card fees and other online payment companies they banned wiki leaks from taking payments through their organizations which essentially brought with to its knees and anonymous the act the online activist organization then this put this block on them as well a distributed denial of service attack christopher weatherhead has been convicted of participating in that attack now this is a crime it's a crime that's called conspiracy to impair the operations of computers but it is ultimately a crime of protest would anonymous were doing was saying you know you can't as big organizations cut off wiki leaks from their funding without seeing some kind of retribution and this was the r

a british court of involvement in a cyber attack on global online payment companies pay pal visa and master card were targeted after it blocked off funds meant for whistle blowing site wiki leaks the twenty two year old who has maintained his innocence is now facing a jail sentence live now to our it is laura smith who is in london laura what exactly is the man accused of christopher weatherhead has been found guilty of. yeah he's already been convicted as we know but he is waiting for sentencing and the crime is basically a revenge attack against as you mentioned those companies that located wiki leaks. master card fees and other online payment companies they they banned wiki leaks from taking payments through their organizations which essentially brought with you to its knees and anonymous the active online activist organization then this put this block on them as well a distributed denial of service attack christopher where the head has been convicted of participating in that attack and now this is a crime it's a crime that's called conspiracy to impair the operations of computers but it is u

one of the things he may talk about could be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. and as a sound remains look within ecuador's diplomatic mission washington hasn't stopped its prosecution of the whistleblower us as we can expect a lot of kristinn hrafnsson. well we know about the ongoing. investigation and the secret grand jury in alessandro in virginia there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we believe as a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite witch hunt against whistleblowers. that has no first place in history it will continue to work as we have done despite the difficult situation that has been in the ecuador embassy now for six mont

various corporations and got them to cut off them cut off from their financial support from visa master card and pay pal. and we started talking about ways to solve this problem we just didn't want to become a precedent where if the u.s. government didn't like a certain organization that they could unofficial the censor it without ever going to court but so what came out of this idea was this much broader. much broader idea that we want to support transparency journalism general we're not only trying to help out wiki leaks which is in dire need of support right now because they have been cut off for two years two years but we also want to support a variety of other transparency organizations because you know with government secrecy at an all time high there's no real magic bullet that will end up killing over excessive secrecy but we think we can get at it with the sort of death by a thousand paper cuts approach and so right now we're supporting wiki leaks but we're also supporting three other organizations and we're going to have bundles of organizations every two months that we shift in and out so tha

one of the things he may talk about could be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. there well the battle for transparency has long been a struggle for wiki leaks with the ongoing investigation in the us and the block on donations by credit card companies but as a spokesperson for the whistle blowing web site kristinn hrafnsson told r.t. the fight will continue. well we know about the ongoing. investigation the secret grand jury you know sandra and junior there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for with police is a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is. the opposite witch hunt against whistleblowers. history will continue our work as we have done despite the diffic

one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. also ahead for you this out worldwide the rebuke united nations security council says that israel will support new settlement construction with al to build more homes in the palestinian territories details just ahead. flying north with me in this old soviet work course of the helicopter is dr ron amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a world of us as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis a

one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. absolutely well you can catch the live broadcast of streaming it right now as a mention of the speech on our website r.t. dot com we'll bring you the highlights a bit later. the u.k. has revealed the staggering cost of its involvement in the war in afghanistan more than seventeen billion pounds and as britain proposed to withdraw its troops the defense secretary says the final price tag could be around twenty billion pounds all this of course coming amid public spending cuts in an effort to try to reduce the country's budget deficit artie's polyploid is on top of the story. seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of the so far eleven year war in afghanistan now it was a very deal that the same time as a clear timetable was announced for troop withdra

lawmakers prompted several companies like master card visa and pay pal to stop processing donations to the website the lack of funds eventually caused the site to suspend publication now the freedom of press foundation has named three other groups will also be supporting mock rock news the national security archive as well as the uptake all of which promote transparency is behind the group. well the list includes known whistleblower daniel ellsberg actor and activist john cusack civil liberties liberties column is growing wheat greenwald and the electronic frontier foundation trevor tim who will serve as the organization's executive director you might remember him from his appearances right here on r.t. to express disappointment to the huffington post at the lack of support many major media outlets gave wiki leaks stating quote if this happened to one of the other papers visa or mastercard didn't allow people to take a subscription to the wall street journal there would be an uproar the freedom of press foundation is also practicing what it preaches it's making its operating costs tran