and wiki leaks publishes over a million u.s. diplomatic cables from the kitchen in whistle blow during a song his latest project to open up global geopolitics. you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now arac is marking ten years since the overthrow of saddam hussein when baghdad fell to the u.s. led invasion a decade on and the country remains unstable more than two hundred civilians have been killed and over eight hundred wounded in the past month alone a situation that many a tribute to america's presence in the country after a massive loss of life and no weapons of mass destruction found was it all worth it artie's marina porter spoke to one man who had very different hopes on the day iraq's leader was toppled. exactly ten years ago a u.s. marine from new york city made international headlines for his actions in baghdad edward chen tied a large noose around a massive statue of saddam hussein wrapped the face of that statue of an american flag before that monument was eventually toppled right now i am joined by m

morning by the way it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army veteran ethan mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume these guys. and from looking at it now you can't see anything when i mean that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. for that guy has a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven the two hundred sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this was a battalion wide mission and then the situation turned deadly. we heard the apache was firing. ethan and his infantry squad began running toward the scene to provide support again the apache helicopter opened fire. when he arrived on the scene the apache guns were quiet the accused enemies were dead. one guy's head the top of his head was completely off and the brai

and he controls the controls the future of wiki leaks publishes over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic records from the kissinger era revealing washington's past involvement with dictatorships and showing its present day policies and unite. if you just joined us kevin owen here live with you at eight pm moscow time from r.t. and first off deadly suicide bombings and political uncertainty now the realities of everyday life for millions of iraqis but it's something few of them imagined when they were cheering the symbolic toppling of saddam hussein's statue in baghdad a decade ago. met the u.s. soldier who played a key part in that historic moment he says the reasons for invading iraq don't justify the lives lost. exactly ten years ago a u.s. marine from new york city made international headlines for his actions in baghdad edward chen tied a large noose around a massive statue of saddam hussein wrapped the face of that statue of an american flag before that monument was eventually toppled right now i am joined by mr chen for a one on one conversation on thank you for speaking

my next guest is a former member and was instrumental in a number of wiki leaks releases her name is brygada john stator she's an icelandic member of parliament who's in the u.s. for the very first time since the controversy unfolded three years ago earlier today i spoke to her about justice for bradley manning i first asked her what her response is to administration officials claiming that bradley manning deserved to be in prison and this is what she had to say. very surprised i have to say because if you look at the stuff bradley manning has. claimed responsibility for and the media decided to publish it then he must also mean. the new york times the guardian and or speaker and all the other media used. from the source from bradley manning were aiding the enemy. at the time the collateral murder video that bradley manning did release got a lot of traction you are enjoying the songs were out on the media circuit say that there was an afghanistan massacre video that was much more devastating because much more casualties why don't we can weeks release this video. i don't know i stoppe

be like a much more complicated and often darker situation will avoid london for critics accuse wiki leaks now of going soft for the kissinger cable saying that the dated records are much of a leak but is london based our contributor should return as he explains next the publication could have a major impact. these are incredibly relevant cables they weren't able to be searched and the mainstream media doesn't like what wiki leaks is doing which is dedicated as far as. anyone interested in journalism i think would say is the powerless against the powerful one doesn't have to doubt why the united states doesn't want these cables searchable because they detail very clearly a horrific time in us foreign policy these are stories that reverberate even today and if we do what we have to do is look at egypt for instance because the ramadan war there the seventy three kissinger's role in trying to squawk that off to try and destroy arab unity and we're living with those consequences today project k. is hardly going to cause is it a reaction like the outcry that sparked the collateral murder video

well that was christian robinson wiki leaks spokesperson. well he's been called one of the fathers of the internet partially responsible for the invention of the internet and last week chief internet evangelist and google vice president and service spoke with r.t. producer giving her a service spoke about what anonymity means for certain people who live in places where there are otherwise at risk of their personal safety for voicing their own opinions let's take a listen. the fact that you've been quite outspoken about at least online protecting user names in countries like iran and china and saudi arabia that has enabled people to almost have experience freedom and otherwise tyrannical so that society has talked to me about why you've been so adamant about protecting people's identities so a lot of the rhetoric that you hear from me on this point is less and google properties as it is generally aimed at using the internet right don't really i don't believe that someone needs to identify themselves in order to use the internet and for the re

mation from wiki leaks. julian assigns i think it is if you take him at his word his charge it tries to make sure that the identities of people are not compromised when leaks publishes things nonetheless i am very concerned about the chilling effect on . the people who should come forward i don't know if you know this but. i think back to some of the. i'm involved with the issue of agent orange and the use of agent orange against vietnam in vietnam and the fact there was a a study that was done in one thousand nine hundred sixty five that showed the the problems with dioxin and agent orange and it was suppressed and finally it was leaked four years later and then it was banned and the fact is that in those four years from one thousand nine hundred sixty five to one thousand nine hundred seventy there were huge numbers of people who were exposed both u.s. veterans of u.s. military and others fighting in vietnam as well as the vietnamese people and that there was really a climate of fear at that time as well wi

well just today wiki leaks has released the kissinger cables the searchable database of over a million diplomatic records delves into the u.s. support of a certain seventy's dictator we'll speak with a spokesperson of wiki leaks straight ahead. while the guantanamo bay detainees continue their hunger strike the u.n. human rights chief now calls for the closure of the prison camp she claims the camps indefinite detention of prisoners without charge of trial violates international law more news developments later in the show and a new bill in california is introduced to protect consumer data now this bill calls for companies to inform customers when their information is shared with third parties and even give customers access to their own data pull this bill passed details i had i. was monday april eighth five pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret howell you're watching r t starting this hour the latest from wiki leaks earlier today the whistle blowing web site released one point seven million diplomatic cables ranging from nine hundred seventy three to nine hundred seventy six and these ca

london's been examining wiki leaks biggest release to date them. according to julian the sun the us administration can't be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this he controls the present controls past and he controls the past controls the future and that is because of the vital role that history place in deciding our interpretation of what is happening in the world the period of the one nine hundred seventy s. in diplomacy is referred to as the big bang this is when the international order came to beat the most incriminating cables are likely to be the ones that reveal the relationships that the us administration had with some very dictatorial regimes back in the one nine hundred seventy s. we've got franco's spain pinochet's chile the jointer ruled greece they're all known to have committed appalling crimes with the support of the american administration and perhaps the most illustrative quotation within this huge release of cables comes from henry kissinger himself now he's quoted as saying the illegal we d

ugly the good wiki leaks and a monday of out of the national press club the news or leaking organization announced the release of over one point seven million u.s. state department cables and memos from the period of one thousand and seventy three through one nine hundred seventy six party to wiki leaks founder julian assange spoke to the press club crowd via skype from london this newest trove of documents is actually been in the public domain for over a decade but has never been presented in a format usable for researchers wiki leaks decided to publicize the so-called kissinger cables named after the former secretary of state henry kissinger because that organization believes new classification policies could remove them from the public domain before they get out like this in a way that people can search the journals hope to use the documents to shed light on some of the more controversial moments in american diplomatic history like the cia's support for agosto pinochet's nine hundred seventy three overthrow the chilean government happy hunting and good work wiki leaks the bad image be

plus d. a massive release of diplomatic communications by wiki leaks the documents spanned the period between one nine hundred seventy three and one nine hundred seventy six and they paint a unique picture about the united states as relationships with foreign nations during one of the most important moments in history in terms of international cooperation r.t.d. has been carefully sifting through the one point seven million documents released and here's what we found out today wiki leaks has revealed that australian foreign minister bob carr is a long time intelligence source to us car then an up and coming figure in local australian politics help the us to gather information about internal labor party politics and the players involved meanwhile former prime minister carl bildt played a similar role in sweden acting as a source for the us feeding them information pertaining to strategic interests now before we go on it is important to note that these two men that are under scrutiny happen to play a direct role in wiki leaks co-founder julian a songes current political predicament sena

still ahead the wiki leaks hits back with a new website and the biggest document release. introduces a new project called the kissinger cables revealing america's pulse support for some of the world's bloodiest regimes war and that's in just a few minutes plus. adult history of fascism does little to stem its rising popularity at least in italy where the dollar economic situation is pushing some towards radical ideology as a solution in troubled times those stories and all those still to come. more news today. these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada. corporations rule the day. news continues here on r.t. wiki leaks is back launching a new website packed with the largest amount of geo political material ever published the project k. archive includes more than one point seven million confidential or formerly confidential diplomatic communications from former u.s. secretary state henry kissinger well here are some of the revelations on we could leaks some documents reveal the u.s. backed dictatorships known for brutality against their people including franc

into an integrated format so does he controls the past control the future well i was joined by wiki leaks post spokesperson kristen roughen said earlier today and i asked him to break down what these leaks actually mean and why they're so important take a listen. well i mean they are declassified in these documents but they are very hard to access so they are defacto kept secret because it's only you need expertise to actually be able to get in get access to them and find it your interest there so what we're doing of course we're unearthing them bring into the public light making it was so simple to the general public so it's a it's a question of semantics but i would. call it a leak is ok so what do they mean essentially for journalists who. talk to me about does it actually change anything well i mean for me as a journalist this is this is so important to have a database like that a you can go back to would of reference again and again this is this is i do that frequently with every news story that comes up you go to cable gates now you have one point seven million all the documents jus

the wiki leaks whistle blowing web site hits the internet with the biggest release of documents. the project called the kissinger cables reveals the u.s. supported some of the world's bloodiest regimes like. a dog history of. little to its rising popularity at least in italy or the diet economic situation is pushing some towards radical ideology as a solution in trouble. sometimes you see a story so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything. is a big. couldn't take three. three. three. three. three three. three . news today violence is once again. these are the images. from the streets of canada. good to have you with us here on r.t. today wiki leaks is back launching a new web site packed with the largest amount of geo political material ever published by the project includes more than one point seven million confidential or formally confidential diplomatic communications from former u.s. secretary of state henry kissinger and here are some of the revelations all wiki leaks right now are some

speak volumes about us foreign policy and we've already seen reports actually that site wiki leaks saying that the vatican may have collaborated with the us in supporting the pinochet coup in chile which we all know saw a very bloody regime come to power there's already a scandal in india over the release of the new cables as the late prime minister rajiv gandhi may have been a middleman for a swedish company trying to sell weapons to india there are also unconfirmed reports that cables are going to reveal that undersea i.a.e.a. orders the swedish secret police was spying on its left leaning citizens these reports are yet to be confirmed and there is another very big scandal where there are unconfirmed reports that unreleased cables are going to reveal that called built the current foreign minister for sweden was in fact an informer for the cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they revealed the giufà let's see of us foreign policy will be very illustrative of the way that u.s. foreign policy may be functioning today so on the outside we've got a lot of talk abo

like if you would donate one would want to make donations to wiki leaks you can still do that and get horn following growing mistrust of a stoppage currency after the botched bailout of cyprus people want their money where governments can't touch it and i think the a you did a really good job to raise awareness when they seized the bank accounts in cyprus since then i mean there has been the rule of a con craze going on but coins are secure nobody can seize it nobody can freeze an account to get involved you have to download an application called a wallet that you can start to buy them at this bar digital currency exchange a group once a month to trade their electronic cash on the establishment is happy to take coins as legal tender for any purchase but once you get all set up with the big calling software it becomes as simple as point click and your electronic. turns into something very real indeed. now more than ever people want to make sure their cash is cared for using an online wallet is still a very new concept how safe is it some of them have been hacked some of them have turne

what is a staunch tell you about his future and what about wiki leaks future. well one thing that's got the man excited is politics as many of you will know he's making a bid for the australian senate there's now a wiki leaks party that stands for truthfulness and the free flow of information the free flow of information and when our studio songs about how he found sees this chances at getting into the senate considering that he's holed up in the embassy and campaigning is going to be very difficult he actually mentions that he's got quite a considerable interest in both him and the we can make and the wiki leaks party and i've got to mention though that pollsters have said that that interest might not necessarily might not necessarily translate into enough votes to actually vote him in but of course in terms of political goals of silence is very clear he says he wants to put a stop to the u.s. corruption. so let's take a listen to him elaborating on that point for mr perot was the u.s. embassy before it even back in the nineteenth seventy's even when he was a

it's being exactly three years since wiki leaks published a graphic video which left an indelible blot on america's reputation the footage which shows u.s. helicopters killing more than a dozen iraqis not only shocked the world but had a dire impact on american soldiers who witnessed the event. we did speak to a former veteran who shared his memories of a day he would rather forget. by the way it was the video that put wiki leaks on the map turned the tide of war in iraq and landed private first class bradley manning in military detention but for army veteran ethan mccord it was just another day on duty the helicopters are approximately about a mile and a half away. when they resume these guys. and from looking at it now you can't see anything when i mean that right there is obviously a camera dangling. if you're to really pay attention. that guy has a k forty seven right there baghdad iraq two thousand and seven the two hundred sixteenth battalion was out patrolling a volatile part of the city i was about five blocks away four or five blocks away to the. to the left of the screen this