wiki leaks is in trouble in a press conference yesterday wiki leaks founder julian assange announced the site will no longer be publishing material so we can break through what he calls a financial blockade imposed on the site by american banks signs claim that ninety five percent of wiki leaks revenue has been destroyed as a result of blank banks and blocking funding to the site. and if this blockade isn't ended by the end of the year wiki leaks will go dark a sign said the us government itself found that there was no lawful grounds to add wiki leaks to a u.s. financial blockade but the blockade of wiki leaks by politicized u.s. finance companies continues regardless oddly though what banks are blocking donations from flowing into wiki leaks coffers are turning a blind eye to similar donations flowing into the coffers of known hate groups as in cut off the spigot of the whistleblowers open the spigot to the hate mongers so this is just another disturbing fold in the banks to morality that seems to be running the show in america and the world here offer their takes are founded by the

enough reasons anthony rand as i was going to join us for that one then join us songes announced that wiki leaks is shutting down its web site for now to fight the financial blockade that companies like these a master card and pay pal have put up against the whistle blowing organization so if the money doesn't start flowing again could it be the end of wiki leaks and one of the dangers here for the freedom of speech then the obama administration reportedly debated launching a cyber offensive in libya before they actually decided to go with the cruise missiles and the drone strikes so how much closer does that make us to having cyber war become a concert reality where you have all that for you tonight and more including it does have happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss the. rights of the mainstream media which so do to fully report on the arab spring while revolutions are breaking out in tunisia egypt is back on the revolution bandwagon while of course either ignoring or mocking the occupy wall street movement right here at home but now that t

first or how did this thing how did it come about the wiki leaks you know the banks cut off wiki leaks i understand that the government according to julian signs the government actually no big deal here a and b. . as much as as mark and i may be offended by some of these groups i think banks isn't isn't the bank's business to be a banker not to be a judge of morality of if it's legal to be a nazi. why not be able to get a credit card if it's you know legal to be wiki leaks and there have been no criminal charges against them why not allow them to take records. we have to go behind the green door to know what really happened but where they can stay is i've been working with lots of cars since the one nine hundred seventy nine about five thousand and thirteen retaliation and it's forms and this is the first time that we've seen this kind of shadowy ship but tween the government and the banks and the financial services industry it's put some precedents and regardless of the facts in this particular to spirit this is a very dangerous precedent that they have been sort of under the table al

the internet whistleblower wiki leaks is suspending operations to focus on raising money instead its founder julian assange said a financial blockade imposed by american financial institutions has cut off most of the websites funding bodies other bennett was at this news conference that i gave in london on monday. in order to ensure future survival which was to temporarily suspend all publishing operations in order to direct all. resources into fighting the blockade and raising funds because of this financial blockade sundra field in that press conference a little over an hour ago ninety five percent of their fund raising has dried up since that came into force early december stopped funds getting through stop that stop donations and they've been running on cash reserves and it just ran out of time really until that ran out and the companies involved are people like visa master card pay pal bank of america and they're all financial blockade all happened about a week or so after what's being referred to as cable gateway released all those. secret cables from u.s. embassies and the dip

the whistle blowing organization so if the money doesn't start flowing again could it be the end of wiki leaks and one of the dangers here for the freedom of speech then the obama administration reportedly debated launching a cyber offensive in libya before they actually decided to go with cruise missiles and the drones right so how much closer does that make us to having cyber war become a concert reality or have all that for you tonight and more including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss. so the mainstream media which so do it or fully reported on the arab spring while revolutions are breaking out in tunisia egypt is back on the revolution that wagon well of course either ignoring or mocking the occupy wall street movement right here at home but now those revolutions of taking place now they could off he's been killed the next question is of course what comes next and if unita elections is actually taking place. i fishel is in tunisia are counting votes in the first free election in the country's history people are now rushi

a leak plugged wiki leaks suspends its whistle blowing call it by american financial institutions refusing to accept donations by credit cards it's found val's to fight the financial blockade. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. twenty four hours a day the british parliament is preparing to vote on whether to hold a national referendum on its continued membership of the european union the debate was forced after more than one hundred thousand people signed a petition demanding a say in the vote won't be binding but prime minister david cameron is a staunch supporter of the e.u. and faces a rebellion and his own party some sixty conservative m.p.'s are defined government orders and will support the idea cameron asserts the dissenting tories to reconsider saying this is a delicate time for the. natural for arch m.e.p. from the u.k. independence party believes that far from being a uniting force the e.u. is quickly becoming a catalyst for conflict between nations. i want to europe where we cooperate together work together and so i'll agreements together not only europ

and it's a system that is down to wiki leaks no longer leaking until further notice this as money for the site goes down the drain so who or what is behind silencing and what's next for the whistleblower website. it's monday october twenty fourth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm liz gall and you're watching our team. the polls have closed and tunisia's first free election it's the first task for emerging democracies in the arab world and tunisia as are exercising their rights and that's made it ninety percent turn to the polls to cast their vote the election will decide the over two hundred representatives that will draw out the new constitution and choosing who will lead the north african country so what does this historical of that mean for the future of tunisia and will democratic practices acco throughout the rest of the arab world meanwhile in libya a revolution and its earlier stages is underway after the death of longtime libyan leader moammar gadhafi now the interim leader. says islamic sharia law will form the foundation of legislation in the budding government this marking fe

state department cables now wiki leaks says they are going on an aggressive a fund raising campaign to keep the organization afloat earlier i spoke to author and activist david swanson here's what he wants to say i certainly hope not but you're under greater threat i think from the u.s. justice system but. of course there was abroad but they deserve our support and our gratitude with out their information we wouldn't know half of the things we're protesting in these occupations without the information that apparently bradley manning leaked to wiki leaks there would have been much less pressure on me within the iraqi government to say no to a continued occupation of troops with legal immunity we owed them as much gratitude as we go principled activist movements and i hope people will put some money into it and you know why are these financial companies they're playing the plug on wiki leaks but some say they're not legally obligated and they're not legally obligated to in fact julian aside just calling it an lawful financial blockade. whether it's on lawful or extra legal it's immoral i

a leak plugged of wiki leaks suspends its whistle blowing the corner by american financial institutions refusing to accept donations bad credit cards it's kind of bells to fight the financial blockade. and the business of the movies ratings agency has downgraded its outlook for the russian banking sector from stable to negative or in that other majors is the news about twenty. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day the british parliament is preparing to vote on whether to hold a national referendum on its continued membership of the european union the debate was forced out of more than one hundred thousand people signed a petition demanding a say the vote will be binding but prime minister david cameron is a staunch supporter of the e.u. and faces a rebellion in his own party from sixty conservative m.p.'s a defined government orders and will support the idea cameron is urged the dissenting tories to reconsider saying this is a delicate time for the e.u. and nigel farage only pain from the u.k. independence party believes that far fro

campaign to keep the organization afloat david is wiki leaks do you think that they are in danger of extinct extinction now. i certainly hope not they are under far greater threats i think from the us justice system and allies and coerced allies abroad but they deserve our support and our gratitude without their information we wouldn't know half of the things we're protesting in these occupations without the the information that apparently bradley manning least two weeks and weeks there would have been much less pressure on the within the iraqi government to say no to a continued occupation of troops with legal immunity we owe them as much gratitude as we owe principled activist movements and i hope people will put some money into that and you know why are these financial companies they're pulling the plug on wiki leaks but something they're not legally obligated and they're not legally obligated to in fact julianna sergeant calling it and no lawful financial a blockade. whether it's on lawful or extra legal it's immoral it's discreet spall it's it's corporations with power they shou

and the embattled wiki leaks website has been forced to suspend its activities all the details of these stories in just a few months. all right well let's go now to the steps of kazakhstan where it is so use rocket is gearing up to blast off into space and we do have live pictures for you from the baikonur cosmodrome as you can see on your screens a rocket is on its vertical position it getting ready for that takeoff all the rocket will carry a progress cargo space ship into orbit and this unmanned field goal will deliver almost three tons of supplies to the international space station among them the food water and clothes along with oxygen spare parts and experiment hardware although it will take the progress three days to arrive at the i said so and there are currently three people in orbit a russian so gevalt called an american mike fossum and a japanese authority. they were due to have their supplies restart in august but the progress ship was lost in a crash well thankfully that didn't put the crew at risk as the station is well stocked again you're looking at live pictures from a

government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the size and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. . government so. obviously one of the issues is there aren't really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks space. the central asian country of kurdistan is electing its first president since the bloody uprising that toppled formally women back but this spring the front runner is the country's former prime minister wealthy businessman who promises to bring stability and prosperity to mention the current interim leader those of them by not running for the top job in production signal kurdistan's first peaceful transition to a new government in april twenty ten at least ninety people were killed in the capital in the rest of ou

and told wiki leaks website has been forced to suspend its activities tales from the stories in just a few. e.u. leaders reached a long awaited deal on thursday to try and save greece and the euro zone from collapse and measures include writing off fifty percent of greek debt. in banks. losses and expanding the baler for them to run true to europe after the summit in brussels french president nicolas sarkozy said a growing place to join the euro paid years ago was a mistake but are untrue pundits box cars or things that you risk if you could be an even bigger error. it's a debt problem that they're going to cure by adding more debt that one trillion euros the president of the e.u. herman van rompuy has already said that they can leverage up to five trillion euros that will be and they whine so they're trying to solve a debt problem with more debt you're guaranteeing economic collapse by adding more debt this is why this should be stopped in the next couple of months if you're going to be able to say that we staved off catastrophe for two months but if you were truly interested in sol

and the whistle is blown over wiki leaks as the site is forced to suspend operations as it struggles to find growing financial pressure. a russian cargo space ship is on its way to the international space station delivering tons of supplies for the orbiting crew two months after its predecessor crashed. a soyuz rocket sent the progress model from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan it should reach the us in three days delivering food fuel and other supplies for the three astronauts who are currently there are russian and american and the japanese astronaut there is only half of the normal crew there right now after a similar supply module crashed after a blast off in august temporarily suspending flights since the nasa shuttle program in july the soyuz is the only transportation to the space station. and you can get the back story on the stories missions as the space station's only lifeline at r.t. dot com more there for you to discover as well. the pyramid returns russia's most notorious financial ponzi scheme that robbed millions of their lives saved the money back this time in u

and the embattled wiki leaks website has been forced to suspend its activities over details on these stories in just a few minutes time. even leaders reached a long awaited deal on thursday to try and save greece and the euro zone from collapse ventures include writing off fifty percent of greek debt capitalizing european banks so they can cope in. future losses and expanding the bailout fund to one trillion europe after the summit in brussels french president nicolas sarkozy said allowing greece to join the euro ten years ago was a mistake everything you rescue fails to address the problem according to go over felt who runs two of belgium's leading business magazines. it's just buying time this is really not the bazooka everybody has been asking for i would describe it as a water pistol this of course prevents for the moment that we really get to a kind of. relation of the greek and upper level which is now growing in the direction of the eighty percent of g.d.p. but you cannot call this a structural resolution to the difference greek problems they are a little bit afraid to really

in the whistle is blown over wiki leaks as of this site is forced to suspend operations as it struggles to fight going financial pressure. a russian cargo space ship is on its way to the international space station delivering tons of supplies for the orbiting crew two months after its predecessor crashed. a soyuz rocket sent the progress module from the black north cosmodrome in kazakhstan it should reach the eye assess in three days it delivered food and fuel and other surprise for the one cosmos and two astronauts from russia america and japan there's only half the normal curve there right now for a similar supply module crashed after blast off in august temporarily suspending flights since the end of nasa shuttle program in july a soyuz isn't the only transportation system to the space station. and you get the backstory on the stories missions as the space missions only lifeline at r.t. dot com you can also get much more there to discover as well. the pyramid returns russia's most notorious financial ponzi scheme that robbed millions of their life savings in the one thousand nine hun

government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the saudis and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government so. obviously one of the issues is there aren't really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks based votes are being counted in the central asian nation of kyrgyzstan in the first presidential election since a bloody uprising toppled former leader coming back but last spring over eighty percent of the ballots have been processed and the front runner so far as the country's prime minister a wealthy businessman almost back at home by a who's promising stability and prosperity or an interim leader. will step down later this year to make way for the winner the vote is seen as both a democratic milestone and a vital c

depend not only on journalist at they built but on their computer skills as well and that for now wiki leaks might be a safer bet than any journalist out there let's find out more and how to change that and discuss this with me is christoffersen going fellow at the open society foundations and a doctoral candidate security informatics at indiana university christopher thing is so much for being here tonight thanks very much ok so you say that we have to assume that the government is monitoring communications if you're a journalist is that everything in terms of your text messages your phone calls all of e-mails even your skype conversations you might have this doesn't mean the government is monitoring you in real time you know all the time what it means though is that if you ever do anything that the government decides that they find interesting they forget they can get in by using the services provided by free company provided free by companies like google facebook twitter that are routinely saving this information by default we're sort of leaving this digital data trail behind and so

and the whistle blowing over wiki leaks as the sites forced to suspend operations as it struggles to fight growing financial pressure. schools of demonstrators supporting your compiled wall street movement have been arrested across the u.s. overnight riot police in denver moved in detaining activists who refused to leave their cab earlier police used pepper spray to disperse the crowds meanwhile at least thirty people were arrested in the states of oregon tennessee and california after police went into a fourth curfews removing protesters belongings it was make sure threatening demons in new york so after the city was hit by another seasonal snow blizzard however the activists say that they're ready to withstand the harsh weather conditions to make their point underdogs he's got to treat cattle for from washington the occupy protesters a serious determination to. the peaceful nationwide movement that turned violent overnight in oakland. police attacked protesters with tear gas stun grenades. flash bombs and rubber bullets we had been there for weeks we had been taking care of ourselv

would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks rights. the central asian country of kazakhstan these electing its first president since the bloody uprisings that toppled formerly the kremlin back here last spring the front runner is the country's former prime minister wealthy businessman and promises to bring stability and prosperity to the nation current interim leader from biafra is not running for the top job he's election signal first peaceful transition to a new government april two thousand and ten least nineteen people were killed in the capital and young arrest ousted back. to massive clashes in the south of the country that left more than four hundred people dead. a brief look now at some other news from around the world this hour. a powerful explosion has killed twenty nine people at a coal mine in one province and central china rival miners were rescued one more made his escape to safety through an end shelf a state owned coal mines administration has not confirmed the cause of the blast despite an improving safet

that's later but now whistle blowing web site wiki leaks is suspending its publishing op. gracious blamey a bill cade by u.s. based financial companies would have stopped payments from donors cutting of most of its funding and it sounded generous sirish told a press conference in london his organization would now focus on raising cash rather than publication either that report from london in order to ensure future survival. was to temporarily suspend all publishing operations in order to direct all. resources into fighting the blockade and raising because of this financial blockade asunder field in that press conference of ninety five percent of their fund raising has dried up since that look came into force in the early december stopped funds getting through stop that stop donations and they've been running on cash reserves in just a matter of time really until that ran out in the companies involved to people like visa master card pay pal bank of america and that all that financial blockade all happened about a week or so after what's being referred to as cable gate when

attorney general eric holder said the government is actively pursuing a criminal investigation of wiki leaks he meant it a grand jury in alexandria virginia has already heard from a few people involved in or tied to wiki leaks such as bradley manning supporter an outspoken critic of the wiki leaks investigation to the house. i think every american citizen who hears about this we can get straight through you know is it really should be concerned because i for one do want to wake up every morning and read only help where you see what sort of it is i want to media in this country that is a free press is healthy for the state and this new green tree behind me is chilling the prospect every day it's going to be. well now the government is looking into another well known hacker and human rights activist jacob apple gaunt twenty year old bomb was also wiki leaks volunteer and we've mentioned before on the show when the feds tried to get twitter to hand over his personal information well now the d.o.j. is utilized a secret court order called the twenty seven zero three d. order to obtain infor

and the clogged wiki leaks suspends its whistle blowing all of american financial institutions refusing to accept the nation's right credit cards its founder vows to fight the financial blockade our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day the british parliament is preparing to vote on whether to hold a national referendum on its continued membership of the european union the debate was forced off the more than one hundred thousand people signed a petition demanding a say in votes won't be binding but prime minister david cameron is a staunch supporter of the e.u. and forces a rebellion in his own party some sixty conservative m.p.'s are defying government orders and will support the idea cameron has urged the dissenting tories to reconsider saying this is a delicate time for the e.u. but jungle once a member of the folks at the u.k. out of you got caught up u.k. organization told me earlier that britain never signed up for what the e.u. has become. a faction is a hundred thousand people started petition that was

because of both the wall street journal and al-jazeera english both set up their own wiki leaks style platforms to encourage leakers when the wall street journal said there was a they had some initial stumbling they chose the right thing for encryption algorithms that were vulnerable to certain forms of interception and then their terms of service basically said that they could. hand over your information so the government really whenever the government asks for it those organizations receive criticism legitimate criticism and they've sort of learned from that but really what this tells you is that news organizations at least right now are not really equipped to be setting up these sites they don't have trained information security experts and house right they focus on what they're good at which is digging up dirt and publishing it but they really really need to go out and acquire this additional expertise because their information and their sources simply are not safe right now so in the meantime though you think that wiki leaks is probably the safest place for somebody to leak their

find their sources if you look at the case of james rising recently or obviously their reaction to wiki leaks we know that just from information's been published this government this administration has been far more vigorous in going after whistleblowers than any previous administration so this is. you know normally you would think of the republicans as being in a really anti this is going but president obama's has really. not know the whole story held anybody's back from going up to these guys. really what this means is if you are a journalist and you're contacting sort of whistleblowers inside the administration or or anywhere you need to protect this information because the government will get it eventually and depends i guess what's being put out there because we see you know we see the new york times we see many of the major publications in this country leak information all the time that they get from white house officials senior white house officials but it all depends on whether they want that information to be leaked to the public or not but so what do you suggest that we do in

the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks temporarily suspended publications on monday in order to raise funds and we're going to zation has been under heavy financial pressure after a boycott by finance giants such as the bank of america these are at it pay pal they stopped doing business with the site to after a long trail of secret u.s. diplomatic cables were made public the founder of the web site julian assange claimed the freeze was illegal and. promise to take the matter to court the president of the british national union of journalists donica de long says hitting out of wiki leaks will not deter others from publishing sensitive material online. these acts have been taken outside of any legal process side of any international political agreements yet they seem to have the ability to shut down a website that some governments find troubling. it's very unclear exactly what the motivations for the power behind them and it is it would steeply unsettling because there were of the very beginning of the situation questions about. tension members of the u.s. government had suggested or as

would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks rights almost all the votes have been counted in kyrgyzstan's first presidential election since the bloody uprising toppled former leader coming back what you have last spring leading the polls is the country's prime minister almost back. a wealthy businessman who is promising stability and prosperity going to him but leader of the central asian nation roza otunbayeva will step down later this year to make way for the winner can both be seen as both a democratic milestone and a vital chance to repair the country's dangerous north south divide in april last year at least nineteen people were killed in the capital the unrest that ousted if you will lead to massive after clashes in the south that left more than four hundred people dead. now to more of today's top news stories kenyan jets have a bomb to the southern somali town of ji lead killing at least twelve people and wounding over fifty they were targeting islamist. rebels but somali officials claim those killed were in fact c

says hitting out at wiki leaks will not deter others from publicizing sensitive materials online. have been taken outside of any legal process side of any international political agreements yet they seem to be ability to shut down a website. that some governments find troubling. it's very unclear exactly what the motivations for the power behind them and it is it's deeply unsettling because there were other very beginning of the situation questions about. potentially members of the u.s. government jobs suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting this and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government so. obviously one of the issues is there aren't really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks face almost all the votes have b

and the embattled wiki leaks web site has been imported suspend its activities details on the stories in just a few minutes. well you leaders reached a long awaited deal on thursday to try and save greece on the euro zone from collapse the measures include writing off the percent of greek debt that lies in european banks so they can cope with any future losses expanding the build up to one trillion euros after the summit in brussels french president nicolas sarkozy said allowing greece to join the euro ten years ago was a mistake according to got to be rather of britain's speirs alliance and the rescue deal fix the problem because greece is too far gone it's almost like one of those nineteen eighties comedy is where the somebody giving a. great speech who then keeps getting up and carrying on it's it's something which . the fundamentals were there to be seen twenty twenty five years ago they were supposed to be a sixty sixty percent debt to g.d.p. ratio before state qualified in the first place to join the euro and now it's being seen as an achievement if managers get to get down to t

its founder says wiki leaks is focusing on raising money.that's because the bank of america, papal, and western union have all blocked donations to the organization. and claims that has destroyed 95% of wiki leak's revenue. if the block isn't removed. wiki leaks will collapse by the end of the year. >>> a plea of not guilty from a man linked to an alleged assassination plot to be carried out right here in d.c. mansure entered his plea. he allegedly took part in a plan to kill the saudi ambassador to this country by setting off a bomb. no plot was carried out. the obama administration accuses agents of planning the whole thing. iran calls that accusation baseless. >>> one by one, rescue teams keep on pulling survivors out of the rubble from sunday's earthquake in turkey. late today, they freed first a man, then a woman from a collapsed building in the hard hit town. earlier today, rescuers found four others all trapped in that same building, including two children and a man who was able to call police on his cell phone. at last report, the de

government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the site and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government so. how does one of the issues is there are really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks rights. almost all the votes have been counted in curious terms first presidential election since the bloody uprising toppled former leader coming back last spring leading the polls as the country's prime minister on mars back out on by a wealthy businessman who is promising stability and prosperity of current interim leader of the central asian nation rose up by of or will step down later this year to make way for. winter devoted seems both a democratic milestone and a vital chance to repair the country's interest in the dan