well the marathon time people will remind you we're talking about wiki leaks. but before let's see what russians think about censorship in the media only line publication of classified documents from anonymous sources that is what wiki leaks is all about recently their organization released hundreds of thousands of military documents that shed light on elements a war in iraq revelations of prisoner abuse and vigilantism prompted russia to call for a detailed investigation into procedures in iraq the russian public opinion research center asked such as us if mass media should be censored fifty eight percent of respondents said they should be and then another twenty four percent believe they shouldn't that russian media consumers see value in preserving secrecy to preserve security peter. all right and we started to allude to it in the first part of the program here we can weeks is this journalism joel you brought it up stephen i'd like to go to you first is this journalism and if it is what kind of journalism is it and is it the wave of the future and should we

cyber monday has taken on an entirely new meaning whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has dropped the first batch of two hundred and fifty thousand diplomatic cables that are shedding light on what the u.s. knows about other countries around the world aside as leaked information about not only intentions by the u.s. . yes but from other powerful leaders as well and here are just a few of the cables that were officially released by newspapers yesterday we'll start with pakistan cable explains that the us and london were deeply worried about pakistan's nuclear weapons program and their fears are primarily based on the fact of the government is facing severe economic problems and as government employees are suffering they might be more tempted to smuggle out nuclear materials to get the terrorists to make bombs now the cables also turn to saudi arabia what it's where it's been determined that saudi donors are in fact the biggest fight and series of terrorist groups it's also been revealed that the king of saudi arabia king abdullah asked the u.s. in two thousand and eight to attack iran

. >>> wiki-leaks does it again. hundreds of thousands of classified state department documents released on the internet. what the secrets reveal about international diplomacy. >>> u.s. and south korean ships sail into military exercises. what one senator says about north korea's threats of an attack. >>> crime does make news so does a drop in crime. tonight a dramatic drop in an east bay city that makes note. and make could vick -- makovec. >> reporter: today the lack of gunshots makes the news. >> we have been lucky. >> reporter: the city's 2010 homicide rate has gone down by about 50% over last year. >> i am glad that it's dropping. i'm being invited to funerals every other year is not fun. >> reporter: in 2009, 47 murders record. this year 52 with one month left to go. >> officers are staying in the beats. >> reporter: police say it seems as if people that live in the neighborhoods where crimes are being committed are more willing to step forward and help police solve the crime. >> that is a big part of how we so

documents is an attack on the united states any international community whistle blowing web site wiki leaks published two hundred fifty thousand secret u.s. diplomatic cables from around the world some analysts claim the revelations show government incompetence. under suspicion tehran accuses the u.s. and israel of plotting the assassination of iranian nuclear scientists one physicist died another was wounded in separate attacks the two researchers were actively involved in iran's nuclear program. and china calls for an emergency meeting of the six nations involved in north korea disarmament talks this tension rises on the korean peninsula joint naval exercises between south korea and the u.s. are underway despite warnings from pyongyang north korea has reportedly put its surface to surface missiles on high alert. back now to part two of the a loan to show up next we'll look at president obama's pay freeze for federal employees and ask if it's too little too late stay with us. well it's time for tonight's to all time award and it also centers around the wiki leaks release of state departmen

control we already know that a state department has at the state department has issued a statement to wiki leaks saying that it has once again endangered the lives of innocent people as well as to your already officials and diplomats around the world and that it is an acceptable to be leaking documents of such a sensitive nature but of course the most important question the one that many will be focusing on in the coming days is what the consequences of this latest leak to u.s. diplomacy will be and turns out of a thanks very much indeed for that live update there in central moscow. also in the news this week china is seeking to ease tensions on the korean peninsula by proposing an emergency meeting of the six nations involved in north korea disarmament talks high level envoy was sent to seoul to speak with the south korean president but the self has said he was not interested in formally resuming talks on nuclear disarmament tension remains high in the peninsula with the u.s. and south korea having begun a four day. joint military exercise. reportedly deployed surface to surface missiles in res

state department documents were released by wiki- leaks. and within them several arab leaders reportedly urged the u.s. to attack the iran nuclear facilities before it is quote too late. ahmadinejad dismissed the lead saying iran and regional states are friends. iran insists the nuclear programs are purely for energy production. the explosions are the latest in a string of targeted attacks. and five doctors and professors have been killed in tehran. an israeli government spokesman would not comment on monday's bombings. washington has strongly denied any link to the previous killing. iran's nuclear chief warned the west and the allies not to play with fire. saying it could not stop tehran from developing the atomic program. charlie d'agata, cbs news. >>> the oregon state student accused of plotting a terror attack in oregon will appear in federal court. 19-year-old mohamed osman mohamud allegedly planned to blow up a van full of explosives at a crowded christmas tree lighting ceremony friday. the fbi secretly worked with the somali-born sus

wiki leaks cables that suggest that is certainly the case but tensions are being ratcheted up. north and south korea and the western sea area. and it's certainly been a longstanding goal of u.s. foreign policy to maintain considerable military pressure on north korea and the events that have happened in the last few weeks in particular the movement of the u.s. aircraft carrier george washington in the area certainly intended to continue to escalate that you know terry tension. what a way for wiki leaks and those continuing joint military exercises close to north korean border mentioned just know what is the agenda of seoul here diplomacy doesn't seem to be a word that easily comes to the lips of the current south korean leadership when dealing with its northern neighbor does it. no it doesn't what we should keep in mind in trying to understand these events is that this is happening in disputed waters waters that are disputed because the end of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty three the united states unilaterally drew a sea border called the northern line win or limit li

documents appeared on the web site wiki leaks. this time sensitive diplomatic files.and the obama administration is considering criminal prosecution. now, available for anyone to read on the web site wiki leaks is startling information about iran's nuclear program and what other countries urged the u.s. to do about it. in one cable sent he by u.s. ambassador, the kick king of bahrain urges the u.s. to take action. quote the danger of letting it go on is greater than danger of stopping it. it also indicates hillary clinton directed u.s. diplomats to participate in espionage. monday, secretary clinton condemned the leaks. the state department denies diplomats are used as spy autos there is nothing laudible about endangering innocent people. >> the attorney general says a criminal investigation is underway. >> there is an active, ongoing criminal investigation. and are not in the position to announce the result. >> this is the third time p a matter of months wiki leaks published the information n july more than 75,000 classified reports on the war in afghanistan were pub

issue because wiki leaks have exposed the torture that is going on systematically and i think the death sentence pronounced for the territories is to divert attention absolutely no point in this form of victor's justice being carried out will be nothing to reconcile people in iraq i think what we need is a real investigation into the behavior of the occupying forces and the iraqi army and its forces ever since the invasion of two thousand and three cancel the death penalty abandon the whole idea of the death penalty and instead look at the issues of human rights and justice and look at the behavior of forces ever since the invasion took place i do not see the value in executing terek izzy's any more than executing anybody else it will not bring the dead back it will further brutalise what is already a very brutal situation the death penalty does not work the seventy four year old to regas these was sentenced to death by hanging on tuesday he served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister to iraq's former president saddam hussein he was convicted of killing members of political par

they refer to some other countries not only the us but told me about any possible revelations in wiki leaks concerning russia. some of the documents concerning russia were leaked and passed over to the skinny but it's your magazine the russian reporter and like i said they do some of them are quite controversial if we talk about this batman and robin nicknames or the alpha dog nickname alleged nickname for a fortune or sound the cd and the situation around that but you know so far the reaction here in moscow has been quite soft we've heard just heard less than an hour ago the former prime minister silvio of all saying that although these documents are interesting russia and moscow is not going to base its that's not going to change and so his point of view on the relations with washington d.c. just on words or documents go basing their view on the relations strictly on the actions of the apartments that's according to foreign minister so you go up north also heard the press secretary of the russian president about it's michael was saying. about the from and i didn't find anything interestin

would be simply to see in print or on documents the reason for this for this for the fact that wiki leaks sent a number of these documents to a russian publication a weekly magazine called russian reporter here in russia is that many of the e-mails and documents the letters that we could leaks have leaked to the press do concern specifically russian matters relations between russia and the united states and all things russian specifically of course one of the main focal points of the documents that russian reporter has in his possession is those concerning the georgian a second war in august of two thousand and eight the international position the official position was of course that russia was the aggressor with not everybody accepting georgia's self-proclaimed innocence in the matter but as the documents that a russian reporter has published on their website show that the us ambassador in georgia was not actually agreeing to this matter and has in fact sent a various e-mails and letters to the u.s. state department in washington saying that georgian troops are arming and moving toward s

control we already know that a state department has at the state department has issued a statement to wiki leaks saying that it has once again endangered the lives of innocent people as well as you already officials and diplomats around the world and that it is inacceptable to be leaking of such a sensitive but of course the most important question one that many will be focusing on in the coming days is what the consequences of this latest leak to u.s. diplomacy work. well if you've got in the stories head over to. have your say. children. russian president dmitri medvedev has urged the country's political system to be shaken up in his latest video he said they're all signs that the country's stability is threatening to stagnate. well. if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal in that if the ruling party never loses a single election is just coasting ultimately to degrades just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of political competition by what our main tossups the task of

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the obama administration is blasting wiki leaks for the release. a quarter million supposedly private state department documents went online yesterday. it puts pims lives in danger. it threatens our national security. >> the justice department said it was working to get to the bottom of the leak autos we have an active, ongoing criminal investigation with regard to this matter. >> the documents pull back the curtain, including concerns over iran's nuclear program and continuing efforts to target al qaeda and revealed rather candid comments about u.s. friends and foes, russian prime minister vladimir putin is mocked as alpha dog, hamid karzai described as driven by paranoia. >> in my conversations one counter part said to me, well, don't worry bit. you should see what we say about you. >> there were no bomb shells and less than 10% of the documents were classified. but administration officials warned the laegs resulted in damage to national security. the white house order aid government review. a memo sent to agencies sunday states failure to save g

foreign affairs so tell me what went on behind the scenes according to wiki leaks. well first of all this is truly a huge blow to the american diplomacy since we're talking about over two hundred and fifty thousand classifying diplomatic documents conversations between american diplomats in the world many of these documents are very sensitive. the touch and talk about american partners major partners in most course of the world including central leisure in the middle east russia and europe as well the united nations to some documents suggesting that the united states were planning to spy on some of the united nations top officials including secretary general the spying included listening to their conversations while collecting data of their personal data including on their bank cards and are following them around as well some information on. this incident when a group of american diplomats walked out during the statement of the speech of the president of iran at the united nations general assembly and this until the document suggests that the walk out procedure was

it's another sign that the us is no longer dominating the world as we remember earlier this year wiki leaks released thousands of secret documents on u.s. actions in afghanistan and iraq they showed civilians killed by american forces though this was just another huge batch of classified files leaked by the whistle blowing web site the wiki leaks are definitely causing a lot of american and for the obama administration they're trying to sort of play this down in obama's case just to just think more he walked out on a reporter who asked about the way we came legs earlier today secretary of state hillary clinton is now doing all the damage control work sort of sort of here's what she said i want to make clear that our official foreign policy is not set through these messages but here in washington our policy is a matter of public record as reflected in our statements and our actions around the world mrs clinton as we know is now on her way to central asia wanting get some awkward moments are awaiting her there because of us they pull. it's opinions on a whole variety of of issues in the way j

department thousands of classified diplomatic that's been released by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks i'll be back with more from washington d.c. in just a few moments. to see. nuclear targeted in bomb attacks blames israel saying it's an attempt to hamper the country's nuclear program. and keeping tensions high career. with the regional joint naval exercises with the u.s. coming dangerously close to directly provoking come from. live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you as a day good to have you with us unflattering assessments of world leaders by u.s. diplomats and spying on the u.n. secretary general that's information anyone has now access to after classified documents from u.s. embassies across the globe were revealed by online whistleblower wiki leaks a correspondent has more now from washington. those files exposed definitely exposed diplomatic information never meant for public eyes but experts say most of those documents are nothing new for the international diplomatic community most employers are kind of aware of the u.s. attitudes take a listen we k

embassies across the globe were revealed by online whistleblower wiki leaks for more on this we cannot cross live to r.t. correspondent you've got it chris going on so where you go to the files contain highly sensitive information about u.s. foreign affairs tell us if you can take us back behind the scenes according to wiki leaks what actually happened. well first of all this is a huge call to the american diplomacy and to the state department and saucers we're talking about over two hundred fifty thousand classified documents conversations between u.s. diplomats talking to each other in various parts of the wall these documents that consume some of the united states key allies in most parts of the all the including central lesia the middle east russia and europe as well some very controversial information which is if if it is true then. meet me on the relations and harm the image of the united states and its diplomacy according to some documents published by week in leaks though the whistleblower website which allegedly not got hand got these documents on their hands according to some

now while many are waiting for the latest cables from whistle blowing website wiki leaks to drop some countries are still trying to get details from there last week in light of wiki leaks iraq documents that mark has attempted to launch an internal investigation but as our correspondent explains their investigation led to some very bizarre realisations. defense officials seem to be on a quest for the truth of the week you leaks after the whistleblower web site released thousands of iraq war logs showing prisoner abuse in iraq denmark launched its own investigation to find out whether danish soldiers were involved if anything had happened in a wrong way of course we should be open about that at first they turned to nato and the united states for help with no luck get the documents from the americans because the americans of a close ally often mark in these documents are american after being refused access to information by nato and their american counterparts. to turn to wiki leaks ironically we got to see those documents before they did because the very same logs that the ministry of

embassies across the globe were revealed by whistleblower wiki leaks well for more on this we cannot cross of course. in washington. the files can tell us foreign policy secrets but has the leak exposed anything really surprising or even explosive. well bill you're right those are thousands of cables from american embassies around the world sent to washington and from washington they expose diplomatic information never manned for public eyes for example the documents show hillary clinton ordered american diplomats to spy on u.n. leaders including ban ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from china russia france and the u.k. another file suggest for example two years ago the us ambassador in georgia reported about georgia preparing a major attack on south a city it was before the war started there what's interesting is after the conflict it was writing about how to save georgian president mikheil saakashvili reputation basically his image among other files released are for example direct calls from saudi arabia to attack iran or detained accounts or detailed accou

embassies across the globe were revealed by online whistleblower wiki leaks well for more on this i can now. choose in washington the falls could tell us foreign policy secrets as the leaks expose anything surprising or perhaps even explosive. well below a lot of people are saying no there are thousands of cables from american embassies around the wall sent to washington and from washington they expose diplomatic information never meant for public but experts most of say it say most of those documents are nothing new for the international diplomatic community and most diplomats are kind of aware of the u.s. attitudes but all all that they revealed in public they'd raise some eyebrows take a listen. we know pretty much more of the united states thinks leaders of the ability vance and for us to seize. a thing would be simply to see in print or documents you know some experts are saying that what's really outrages is not the fact that the u.s. has secrets but that it's no longer able to keep its own secrets those are some very embarrassing moments for the u.s. state department now that rea

reporting that while their chief editor of a russian reporter magazine says that wiki leaks could never have happened without people inside the u.s. government wanting the information to be exposed. these leaks would never have happened if not for the number of insiders who are ready to lead this information it looks like it's linked to the wars in iraq and afghanistan when officers and astute that they're working for a not exactly fair business and this moral decay inside the pentagon caused these leaks the main thing this leak has done is break the illusion that the state department has everything under control they have been exposed mechanisms not secret but quite simple and cynical partners of the u.s. will be more careful now it's another sign that the u.s. is no longer dominating the world. and that is vitaly labor in the chief editor of the russian reported magazine. a prominent iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another wounded in a pair of bomb attacks in tehran report suggests they were targeted in two different locations both by men on motorcycles who touched bombs

the publication by wiki leaks of a huge raft of communiques has a wreaked havoc with american diplomacy politicians around the world say the confidential reports of u.s. officials offer a few new facts but the director of the trends research institute says the revelations are a damning indictment of the united states. today in the american media's disgrace now how about you know look at the garbage they talk about michael jackson for months on end tiger woods so the internet is opening up a whole different way of of new journalism for the twenty first century and this is an example i heard hillary clinton's quote about how american foreign policy is public while great this is these wiki leaks are making it more public we're seeing how incompetent they are how would double speak to a you how they show was handshakes and smiles on t.v. while they're doing dirty talk behind their backs no this is the new way of journalism however look what's going on also some clowns out there that call themselves congressman have this stuff terrorism so we're going to have a position with the federal gove

all right many thanks for that indeed alice now to other news now and the latest a wiki leaks revelations are nothing new and will not damage international diplomacy that's according to major world leaders they voiced doubts about the leaks from the online whistleblower which contained more than two hundred thousand classified documents from u.s. embassies around the world but it's all to use a guy nature can reports many experts say it's still a huge blow for washington's reputation. those files exposed definitely exposed diplomatic information never meant for public eyes but experts say most of those documents are nothing new for the international diplomatic community most employers are kind of aware of the u.s. attitude many were quick to dub it as a diplomatic crisis for the u.s. not just because of the facts revealed in those files but most most of all the first of all because of the revelation itself how is that possible right the secretive u.s. they department allowed this to happen how weak their protection system must be if more than two hundred fifty thousand classified files ma

well some of the cables obtained by wiki leaks concern tensions around north and south korea suggesting senior chinese officials favor a reunification of the two countries under seoul's control but documents were revealed as north korea's parliamentary chairman came to china for diplomatic talks earlier the us south korea and japan reportedly rejected beijing's call to sit down and resume full on north korea nuclear disarmament the north is further unnerved by adroit american south korean military exercises in the disputed waters professor ruediger frank of vienna university says seoul's current policy is dangerous with a volatile state like north korea. but south korean president finds himself between a rock and a hard place on one hand if you goes nothing you can lose credibility at home and abroad if you overreacts you will risk a major confrontation and may be disastrous consequences for his own people so after the sinking of the channel in march however it seems that you doesn't feel like sitting still this time so he's walking a very tight rope between showing force strength and a

i think that would be very doubtful to imagine the wiki leaks and the soldiers responsible for giving these documents to them have the undermining of the iraqi government in mind when they chose this date and let's bear in mind that there hasn't been an iraqi government for seven months so exactly as if there's many dates to choose from when it comes to releasing this in a sense this is u.s. military documents really unlike any previous media story or report from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the pentagon and state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of the nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers or informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by them they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of the iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years some fifteen thousand iraqi deaths have not

government demanded wiki leaks return millions of classified documents the u.s. says the leak could endanger lives of some people and to cause permanent damage to foreign relations terrorism and foreign policy expert from the king's college from kings college i said john gibson says the files published by the website could be just one insight but not the country's policy. let's believe there could be a vast release of huge number of documents but those documents are only one part of what is a vast government machine and so the opinions of let's say an ambassador in one station in one consulates will be taken with intelligence sources personal relationships between political leaders taken out of context these documents might give a misleading picture if we just take one documents and say it says this rude thing about this at this leader and their reliability that doesn't necessarily mean it's that country's policy it means that's one insight in this globalized world with communications twenty four hours a day having a presence of of different countries officials in

denmark's defense ministry wants to know if its troops abused prisoners in iraq the media and wiki leaks have published some evidence but they won't give military chiefs all the data in case it puts their sources in danger denmark's nato allies are also staying tight lipped and so into the school reports other whistle blows think there are more sinister motives. when the going gets tough the tough go to for help that's what denmark's military officials have apparently resorted to there after access to classified documents to try to establish whether danny's forces were involved in prisoner abuse in iraq if anything had happened in a wrong way of course we should be open about that but to be sure that there are no new information in the wiki leaks document we ask weekly to provide us the four hundred thousand documents so we can actually work them through together their own own information and then compare but the whistleblower web site was not the first place denmark went to in its supposed quest for the truth a damaged newspaper had the documents in its possession for quite some time an

foreign policy secrets this according to wiki leaks tell us what other. or read those are thousands of cables from american embassies around the world sent to washington and from washington they expose diplomatic information never manned for public eyes for example the documents show hillary clinton ordered american diplomats to spy on you when leaders including banki moon and the permanent security council representatives from china russia france and the u.k. among many other files. revealed by weekend leaks two years ago u.s. ambassador in georgia for example reported about preparations of by georgia's president mikheil saakashvili to attack. and then it was right before the attack and after the attack he would like to washington with calls to come up with a response to those who don't believe in the innocence of saakashvili a sort of maybe a trying to to. whiten his image or someone in those for example. those documents are also. are also direct calls from saudi saudi arabia to attack you read or detail the cowards of what u.s. diplomats think of the a

embassies across the globe were revealed by online whistleblower wiki leaks our correspondent has morefrom washington. those files exposed definitely exposed diplomatic information never meant for public eyes but experts say most of those documents are nothing new for the international diplomatic community most employers are kind of aware of the u.s. attitudes take a listen we know pretty much more of the united states thinks of being leaders of the village events and for us to seize the very same thing would be simply to see in print on if we should documents some experts are saying what's really embarrassing is not the fact that the u.s. has secrets but that it's no longer able to keep those secrets also the reason they released shows not so much some huge secret facts but rather the level of correspondence among u.s. diplomats which which some described as similar to high school kids chat the u.s. embassy in paris for example described the french president as as a naked emperor things skinned and also read or the german chancellor angela merkel was were mentioned as angola tafel on

world leaders more cold water on the exposure of america's empty tables saying that wiki leaks was will not affect global diplomacy. and the loyalty test for president obama's political course as a democrat suppressed the republicans get the cuts deal signed while the senate is still in action. there you're watching on t.v. live from moscow welcome to the program in a few hours time dimitri medvedev will outline russia's goals underachievement to parliament in his previous state of the nation address the president said more than the rising the country's politics and economics with the main challenges with more on this. in central moscow now look through no let you know what's expected in this year's address. will carry on like last year's address the topics of this year's address that will be delivered by russian president dmitry medvedev in just a few hours remain undisclosed there are of course general areas that the president is definitely going to cover concerning both domestic and foreign policies problems successes and failures all those will be addressed by the russian leader in