east jerusalem which are illegal according to international law let's now talk to us a journalist tony goslingis joining me live now in bristol why has a firm with such a questionable reputation been chosen to provide security during the london games tony. well it's a great question bill because even the british foreign secretary william hague cite the israeli settlements are illegal under international war law and the biggest obstacle to the peace process so what is this firm that is actually supplying all sorts of equipment to the israeli army including helping out the checkpoints which is effectively you know pro apartheid a pro racism being involved in the olympics for you know it is absolutely outrageous and i think it will be really good to see at least some moral conscience in the coming week by the british parliament by saying no we're going to terminate this g four s. contract the trouble is of course this is a massive very powerful company and you know when you're privatizing security this is basically the privatization of the british police force is being sucked in by g four s. what

to contravene international law investigative journalist tony gosling things companies with doubtful reputations use the games to whitewash their images. i'd like to see a bit of spine from our parliament to say that these are not appropriate people to be doing that while a lot of people involved in the olympics as you probably know who aren't really appropriate such as the dow chemical company who when they bought union carbide really took on the responsibility for the deaths of four thousand people in a gas cloud in india and the maiming of countless more who were poisoned by the by the dow chemical company i think there's been a real complete kind of mismatch in this olympics with trying to bring in really is pretty essential a prostitute the olympics and give a lot of these poisonous very profitable and actually very dark nasty companies try she greenwash for them that is to say to sanitize their images so show it in them with the olympic event and that is not what the olympics are for starting to look rather more like the nineteen thirty six olympics than the good old london nin

down like prey the drama continues tony thank you very much indeed for your perspective on this tony gosling investigated. there in the u.k. thank you. don't forget his own interview program is being broadcast here on r.t. throughout the day and the latest edition is coming up later this hour for you and if you've missed any previous parts of the series always available on a special section of our website that is. dot com. julian assange. it is true he reeks of expose the world secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally. five hundred days now being detained without charge but that doesn't stop us. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. egypt's ousted president hosni mubarak is in a coma that's the latest from the country's security officials amid uncertainty every condition it comes as the results of the presidential runoff a due to be announced on thursday with both candidates claiming victory well for more on what's ahead for egypt i'm joined by slate subject he's

gosling. exposing of many wrongs to government level is being overlooked. welcome to the topsy turvy kingdom where we have people like tony blair who should be arranged for war crime crimes wandering the streets free and yet someone who's done more than anybody in the last fifty years or so to advance the cause of radical publishing is under house arrest and possibly going to be even worse extradited and possibly end up in a jail in the united states i think ultimately we've got another here again this has been going on and on for eighteen months now. house arrest i think we should just take stock for a moment as the supreme court doesn't seem to have done at all of some of the achievements of wiki leaks we had the collateral murder video released twelve people being murdered from a helicopter including two reuters journalists we had on the show cable great diplomatic cables for one hundred fifty countries which was let's not forget credited with fueling and starting the arab spring no less now maybe i mean i just think it's possible that maybe this is one of the reasons why a son is under attack essentially as a radical