against wiki leaks to see how certain journalism of the government doesn't like they're attempting to silence but i think that sopa and pipa really are one of the another one of the other initial major battles in a war to come to keep the internet where much of the alternative media lives free free from the regulation and free from the censorship i fully believe that it's something that we're going to see play out in the next couple of years and i have to say that seeing the power of americans mobilizing on the internet to fight back in the past couple of months does give me some hope that we might actually win now finally i want to respond to respond to a very kind of you were joe johnson tweet us at us at the low to show appreciate your ability to not fall for the divide and conquer mentality of the elite keep being critical of obama dems and g.o.p. well we're happy that you feel this way joe i'm happy that you get it they have shown you guys some comments or people accuse me of being too hard on obama but not on the right and then another comment that says the exact opposite some p

but now rolling stone's michael hastings had the rare opportunity to actually sit down with the wiki leaks founder one on one while he's under house arrest in london and awaiting his final appeal attempt with the british supreme court which is set for friday february first of this year three days that hastings spent with a songe also happen to be during bradley manning's article thirty two pretrial hearing that was held at fort meade last month so what is a songe have to say for himself about the u.s. government's case against him about the western media as abandonment of him eruptions we've seen across the world in the form of protest and revolution and the future of wiki leaks he things learns that a songe actually has a few regrets so here discuss it with me is michael hastings rolling stone contributing editor and author of the operators michael thanks so much for coming on and i think just last week talking about mcchrystal now you got a son tell me about that why the sons agree to do an interview with you i've been talking to the wiki leaks people for about a month i felt the s

cold war part two perhaps now funny i didn't see those headlines when the major papers worked with wiki leaks to release information nor do i recall the allegations of a songe as a general electric stooge after he did interviews on imus and b c does the same goes also fair in love and war and i suppose when you're bleeding dollars viewers and ratings it's easier to throw mud at others than to clean it up at home. now last night the president delivered his annual state of the union address it was a chance to reflect on the current state of america by speaking directly to both congress the country and the world so how did the rhetoric stack up to reality well arty's christie infers out explorer sequestration in her port. for president obama america is back renewing american leadership can be felt across the thing that leadership though is not strong enough to win over china or even traditional allies like india south korea and japan who won't follow americans lead when it comes to cutting iranian oil out of the market as we've built our enemies. to the enduring power of our moral example

host it's the man who's exposed the wrongs of the highest levels of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by for us here my lord this really sounds like it could be the talk show to watch how did how did all of this come about. well it became clear to us that you in essence wanted to make this program it's going to be and also hosted by him and of course everybody knows about julian assange and his name has become famous some might say infamous as the founder of the web site wiki leaks which released the biggest mass disclosure of secret information coming out of the us in history and it's going to be broadcast it's nice to be on o t it's going to focus on his favorite topic which of course is control of a c he's going to be talking through the series to ten what he calls iconic vision and how it. basically we can be doing is discussing issues old today with people he says will shape looks like essentially he's going to be challenging them on his ideas for how to secure a brighter future. pa

exclusive series will premiere here in march and the world's media is already abuzz about who the wiki leaks founder said to interview our london correspondent laura smith has the details. basically we knew that i thought wanted to wanted to write and host his own interview show and we made it happen the show's going to be broadcast on t.v. it's going to focus of course on us ologies favorite topic control fifty two thousand and eleven was a solid as his name became one of the most famous in the world and indeed became a byword for for explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of us the script documents by his web site wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside a he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a brighter and better tomorrow that as i say is going to be focused on r.t. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers internat

and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this cause to twitter there is a light switch with rumors about the show and speculation about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this show will be fascinating it's going to be filmed where a song has been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under the spell conditions for the last four hundred fourteen days even though no charges have been filed the first episode is also going to be shot a week before his supremes court hearing to fight against his actual decision to sweden for questioning on alleged sexual assault charges so as i say no use of rumors about what's going to go on he says going to be a new type of television of course he's no stranger to bei

currently under the microscope microscope so it just goes to show how incredibly biased this whole wiki leaks grand jury really is violating individual's rights desperately turning to social media and scraping together any information that will help them take down wiki leaks so it's just another step towards the government's destruction of the will some going organization and the courts seem to be on their side. or here's a door some of the will get people to pay attention the moonlight bunny ranch nevada's most famous legal brothel has announced its support for ron paul for president or as they like to put it there pimpin for paul this includes not only honor dennis hof but also the lovely ladies of the ranch so we couldn't help but help ourselves we just had to hear the reasons for the support for ourselves joining me is owner dennis hof owner of the moonlight bunny ranch and the love ranch and cammy parker center for all thank you so much for joining me guys cammy and dennis i'm going to start with you dennis i guess give me all the reasons why you are in support of ron paul for pres

the wiki leaks founder exposed some of the world's secrets. tens of thousands of egyptians are. president. and half an hour's time but year after the revolution what does the future hold for egypt people about. the possibilities and. the british.

which of course brings me to wiki leaks of all of you to see. now the release of this video the collateral damage video showing an apache helicopter attack in baghdad ended the era when journalists were the ones to decide which leaks would see the light of day. when the video was released the establishment press balked we here at r t covered the story the day that are broken we put julian of songe on air at first the other outlets stayed away from him after all a sondre described as a terrorist but i buy our very own government but it seems that market interests took over and then everything changed before long julian assange became a media darling gracing the screens of the cable networks n.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. fox news media publications even partnered with we can weeks to catalog and help release countless previously secret documents now it's no stretch of the imagination to say that julian a songes a somewhat controversial figure has been driven off the internet deprived of funding placed under house arrest and all this as he fights ext

. >> they continue to withhold funds from wiki leaks. >> reporter: 16 anons were arrested by the fbi, charged with conspiring to intentionally damage paypal's computers. >> this is a message from anonymous. >> reporter: this summer, anonymous attacked the san francisco area's public transportation system b.a.r.t. b.a.r.t. had cut cell service within the transit system as a way of disrupting anti-police brutality protests. anonymous's reaction was devastating and vicious. >> we will not issue anymore warnings. >> reporter: onbart included the release of a naked photo of a senior bart employee. >> sometimes it makes you laugh, sometimes it makes you cringe,

two you know it's funny i didn't remember seeing those headlines when the major papers worked with wiki leaks to release information nor do i recall allegations against a songe as a stooge of general electric for appearing on amazon b c i guess as the saying goes all spare and love and war and i suppose when you're bleeding dollars viewers and ratings easier to throw mud at others and to clean up at home. well back to the real state of the union is the speech dripping with the rosy optimism president obama's third state of the union address laid out a vision of america in which everybody gets a fair shot at economic success and everybody including the wealthy plays by the very same rules as the average citizen a populist president tapping into the discontent of the occupy wall street movement brought about by a depressed economy corporate greed and unemployment woes and in foreign policy no sign of candidate obama the one who campaigned against the wars against the country's waning influence abroad this generation of heroes has made the united states safer and more respected around the

explosive control to see when he released the biggest ever set of us the documents by his web site wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called iconoclasts visionaries and power inside he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a bright and best a humorist that as i say is going to be focused exclusively on r.t. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was via wiki leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this particularly this morning of course to twitter there is a light with rumors about the show speculating about who might be interviewed by judy in athens and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this will be fascinating it's going to be films where assaultive been subject to strict bail conditions things like signing in to the police station every day being essentially under house arrest under the spell conditions for the last four hundred fourteen days

programs exclusively here an hour to me and we're hoping that he is going to be as exclusive as those wiki leaks releases and of course everybody is asking themselves whether that's going to happen and it's going to be filmed in the location where us has been subjected to bail conditions for the last one hundred fourteen days without any charges having been leveled against him severally it could be a very explosive charge lower we're already seeing a reaction out of almost every single news all around the world huge response to this announcement here on our three other program there would still weeks away from going on a. that's right hundreds of articles have been written prior to the announcement that it would be broadcast on archly and generously it's an issue that is very big on twitter at the moment as well we knew already on choose day that it was going to make the show but we're only able to reveal today wednesday that he is going to be broadcasting it on our t.v. and in fact of course i mean as himself as that is a huge name and just the timing of the filming of this series is quit

wiki leaks founder julian >>> lunar new year celebrations are bringing festivities to suburbs that lackgs. >> this preschool is located in millbrae. once pro dominantly white suburb, the population is now nearly half asian. downtown banners celebrate the lunar new year along with chinese owned businesses including this shop. the store's manager moved a family here from san francisco six years ago for the reasons many leave the city. >> this is safe and very convenient. and also... very quiet z most of the people live here is middle class. and we find everything good, here. >> data shows 62% of asian americans now live in the suburbs up from 54%20 years ago. the fastest growing racial group in the u.s. to live in the suburbs. but that means a decline in traditional urban neighborhoods like chinatown. david lee grew up in chinatown but moved to the richmond district. >> chinese community in chinatown now is senior and elderly z this is the dramatic change from chinatown i grew up in, which was largely family. >> san francisco chinatown has become a tourist attraction with housing left for

well if you have to dust off your old copy of microsoft and carter today you're not alone because wiki pedia seem to be down it's been lights out for some of the internet's most popular websites say in protest of the anti-piracy legislation that is making its way through congress the so-called sopa and pipa stand for the stop online piracy act and the protect ip act the hollywood backed house and senate bills respectively are designed to fight online piracy it sounds like an innocent enough thing well according to the music and film industries these bills are vital in fact to protecting american jobs opponents however warn that the legislation would effectively end up censoring the internet in fact google's own sergey brin even warns that the legislation would put the u.s. in the same league as china or iran as far as censorship is concerned now google didn't go black choosing instead to simply link to the information on its popular search engine but more than seven thousand sites including wiki pedia reddit dot com craigslist and wired dot com and others are all went dark in order to

host it's the man who's exposed the wrongs of the highest levels of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by for us here my lord this really sounds like it could be the talk show to watch how did or how did all of this come about well it became clear to us that you know songs wanted to make this program it's going to be with sen and also states by him and of course everybody knows about his name has become famous some might say infamous as the founder of the web site wiki leaks which when he's the biggest.

and we'll read some of your responses wherever we get all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website he's a traitor and should be executed or put in prison for life. and a martial law rules in these parts especially when it comes to alleged traitors u.s. prosecutors are getting ready to court martial private first class bradley manning for releasing classified documents to wiki leaks we'll show you how.

the wiki refers to a software that allows covers of editing. and maybe is not the easiest thing to use. it allows that. it allows people to edit live pages on the internet quickly. >> i looked this morning on alexa. >> it is a ranking website that will tell you which web sites are the most highest ranked. >> wikipedia was no. 6. does that mean much? >> very much. being in the top 10 means you're getting hundreds of millions of users per day. wikipedia has been there for several years. in the second half of the last decade there was wikipedia kept it out of that. it shows wikipedia is now bigger than this site or that site. it has now fallen into disarray. wikipedia's position is set for now. >> can you describe how many hours a week that you spend reading or working with wikipedia? >> i work with wikipedia in professional capacity. i spent a lot of time and doing research and writing articles that will eventually go on wikipedia. i spend less time just reading wikipedia all the time the way i used to. maybe that phase has passed. i am involved

for his online activities wiki leaks founder and notorious whistleblower julian a son is about to take center stage once again well the man who made government's trouble now gets ready to question even more on his new exclusive talk show premiering right here on our t.v. this march will share his unique view on what the world of tomorrow will look like keep political players visionaries in power insiders will be among the guests of the wiki leaks founder stay with r.t. to find out exactly who will be joining him in march. but it seems all is fair when it comes to pre-election fever political wrangling and russia has spread into the internet taking a viral dimension that's movable activists try cutting edge tactics to win the hearts and minds of the people or to get there to get a job or has been looking at what's going on on the on line battlefield. but why does it want is that you were right is that laws are going to look at the very suits and ties and slogans called out from the poor d m r the traditional election season fair but they're no longer considered politically in vogue. tod

one of the in the us for his mentor his whistle blowing activities wiki leaks founder julian assange is about to take center stage once again the man who made governments tremble now gets ready to question even more on his explosive talk show premiering riot gear on our team this march a songe will share his unique view on what the world of tomorrow will look like and key political players visionaries and power insiders will be among the guests of the wiki leaks founder the stay with arteta find out exactly who will be joining him. brings up today here on r t i'll be back with a recap of our main stories and stay with us. welcome back you're watching our t.v. these are the top stories the latest news of the week rather arab league on ice this year in fact finding mission is frozen after a violence escalates triggering pressure from the e.u. and top dogs as the u.n. security council. and revolutionary aftershocks deadly clashes entropy buildups and libya while in egypt. hundreds of thousands think first protest against their ruling military john to. us please take blogs off approach a

host it's the man who's exposed to wrongs at the highest level of government and the military the wiki leaks founder julian assange let's get more now from our london correspondent laura smith standing by here on r.t. laura many would say two thousand and eleven it was the year all of a song this really sounds like it's going to be virt show to watch how did this come about. and we certainly believe it is my my producers and directors worked tirelessly.

secret documents by his website wiki leaks he's going to be interviewing a series of what he called a visionary and power insiders and he's going to talk about how to shape the vision of a brighter and better tomorrow that as i say is going to be pulled off the exclusively on our t.v. and we are hoping that it will be as explosive as the release of those documents was when he leaks we can't see any reason why it wouldn't be. lower certainly the international news networks and basic small town news outlets around the world are certainly putting forth regarding this already we're getting a lot of reaction to julian songe coming to see but still still weeks away i believe it's going to be march this program goes to a. hundreds of articles from all around the world local newspapers international newspapers everybody seems to be talking about this particularly this morning of course the twitter sphere is a lot with with rumors about the show's speculation about who might be interviewed by julian ourselves and of course he is a massive name but that's not the only reason why this show will

and still ahead it's been a top story all over the wiki pedia blackout protesting against online piracy laws but how much of a protest is it when you can push a button for business as usual we'll give you our three cents but first a close in market numbers. you. well see british scientists. it's no time to. go to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports on our. all right at a time now for word of the day when we break down a financial term or concept for our very smart viewer but just perhaps not the financial expert and to the u.s. now today it is proprietary trading why well for one it was a center of a heated debate over regulation at a hearing on capitol hill this morning when as some of the headlines that came out of that regulators defend volcker rule ban on proprietary trade there it is right there and at the same time volcker rule shredded by republicans wrote another headline if we could bring that up and it pointed out again that the volcker rule

well it's quite true and it's very much linked actually to your lead story about america through wiki leaks we discovered that america the american government was putting pressure on the british government to pull the plug on press t.v. they've obviously passed that pressure on to off com and today press t.v. was pulled off the sky satellite platform but we need to get this in perspective it would be like the b.b.c. been pulled off broadcasting to the isle of man. press t.v. has more than a dozen satellites around the world it will continue and of course it's streamed live on the internet w w w dot press t.v. dot so it will continue but it again it shows how the so-called free world free democracies don't like the truth and they will go to extraordinary levels of censorship to stop what they see as criticism of the way that they run the governments but i don't see the argument you're making there you're saying that the us is pressuring britain to shut down press t v they probably know full well that it's available twenty four hours a day anywhere on your over the internet i mean what'

channel to air wiki leaks talk show kremlin t.v. to air julie to songes new show or my personal favorite we can expound or to launch a t.v. show on kremlin's mouthpiece. now for starters the name of the channel is r t it's not kremlin t.v. have you ever seen anyone refer to al-jazeera or the b.b.c. as british or qatari mouthpieces in a news article you don't hear people calling the wall street journal rupert murdoch's melt piece but hey if it's r t than just have at it now let me read you one more line became a guardian news article not an opinion piece but a news article about this announcement today it read the channel like the russian government has been very supportive of songe since his arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting two women in sweden in august of two thousand and ten i mean come on people they make it sound like the second that assad was labeled as a sexual predator we came running to his defense if you actually watch r.t. or watch my show you would know that we were one of the first networks to have joined us on j

wiki leaks founder julian assange will host his own interview show in just a few weeks and it's already got the world's media wondering who the whistleblower will go face to face with. with the u.s. economy still on the ropes president obama pledges another program for change during his annual state of the union address. and coming full circle thousands of egyptians angry at slow reforms are gathering in central cairo the country now marking the first anniversary of its uprising that toppled president mubarak. as russians prepare to go to the polls to elect a new president in the fall for the fourth of march we talk to the surprise candidate i want to russia's richest tycoons and the owner of the new jersey nets basketball team we hear all about plans for russia that is next. well hello mr prothero hello and thank you for the time always glad to oblige you do or think you can be the next president you're probably the most money i always aim high and whenever i launch a project i'm always in it to win it taking part in this presidential election is definitely the most important decision