going to be a democracy is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics to him words on and on anger. what motivates julian assange does he want to change the world or is he just seeking fame does he out on his own or is someone else behind wiki leaks and will it whistle blowing revelations change the world forever. kunis january twentieth the city with millions of residents descends into chaos thousands of protesters take to the streets in downtown china's to demand the immediate resignation of president ben ali who has ruled the country for over twenty three years after several days of tensions resulting bloodshed ben ali had to flee the capital on january the fifteenth this. was the events that took place in the north african country in january were immediately dubbed the jasmine revolution but the two missing in couso has another name for the wiki revolution. this man is a professor at one of the universities in tunis. as a political activist he prefers to be known by his nickname. he didn't take part in the attacks on government buildings but he said to be one of the main driving forces of the revolution. aft

that you know there's a big brother out there that will get them if they step out on wiki leaks founder julian assange labeled quote a high tech terrorist i vice president joe biden for publishing leaked u.s. government documents and a video showing u.s. helicopter pilots shooting unarmed reporters in iraq he could be charged with espionage a move that is setting a dangerous precedent according to the committee to protect journalists the notion that somebody could be prosecuted for disseminating information under the espionage act in our view would open the door for subsequent prosecutions potentially of charles ramsey risk prosecution of journalist doesn't concern everyone hears and taking questions at the conservative political action conference what do you mean knowing that there are jails journalists i think there should be more in jail. i want the u.s. proclaims its press free this kind of repression has to stop or they have to be able to report to ensure. that we live in a democratic society carry media criticism understand the smart. watch when detained in the united states journalists are usua

and that was largely lore i met from london interviewing wiki leaks founder julian assange and if you'd like to see this interview in its entirety you can log on to our website r.t. dot com. well as you may have observed in the last several hours this announcement has brought about a media frenzy with wall the wall coverage on every detail from interviews with nine eleven victims families to animated graphics showing the military mission the coverage of this big event has been surprisingly uniform from mainstream networks to mainstream network. on the moon landing this is just an amazing moment for the country we're only now beginning to appreciate the enormity of this the storage situation we want to take a look at the big media response of the killing of osama bin laden and for that we go to danny schechter filmmaker and blogger joining us from our new york studio. hey there danny i guess i just want to start by getting your take on the media coverage thus far. well you know it gave the media something big to deal with and to feel important about even though twitter seems to have beat

me and so for the sake of freedom of speech at the same time washington is targeting julian assange hundred wiki leaks exactly and look at the treatment that they've done to gravel manning you know are there to sensually torturing the german man who has not been convicted of anything but i can still being held in solitary confinement they moved from one person to another. for providing information that is very necessary for people to have the order to have what they would consider to be a democratic so i think this is a go and then there's you can go very well i think if you look at where. happening in the negotiations inside. the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers which governs the internet and assigns the. three letter digits at the beginning of each website there is a tremendous battle going on led by the united states congress. to be able to have greater control over when they can shut down websites and which of states can be shut down by the us or by other governments who will object to the political content of the website to mention that there is also a great deal of effort bein

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as we read other top stories of the week now wiki leaks founder julian assange laid into online a social network for helping the united states collect information and spying on citizens and during an interview with us here at r.t. he said that the likes of facebook and google played a significant role as in the arab uprising. facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been into facebook google yahoo all these major u.s. organizations how it will be interpreting for you if intelligence everyone should understand that. when they add their friends to facebook they are doing free work for the united states and here with me for agencies including this database for that. there you can hear more of what julian assange tries to say when we bring you our tease a full interview that's coming your way next hour here on r.t. . france's leading role in a nato's campaign in libya has as well as other military forces abroad is pushing its defense budget it's a breaking point and while it's the french people who are paying the price for president sarkozy's war ambitions do

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live from moscow as we run down the top stories of the week now wiki leaks founder julian assange on charges laid into online social networks for helping the united states collect information and spying on citizens and during an interview with our team he said the likes of facebook and google played a significant roles in the arab uprisings. facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been into facebook google yahoo always made us we're going to go and have it will be in good faith and for you with an totals everyone should understand that. when they. work they are doing free work for united states intelligence agencies in the building was part of it. and i know you can hear more of what julian assange has to say when we bring you our tease the full interview that's coming your way in the next hour right here on r.t. . or france's leading role in a nato campaign in libya as well as other military for its a broad is pushing its defense budget to the breaking point meanwhile it's the french people who are paying the price for president sarkozy's war ambiti

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that's right it goes to iran who usually gets a lot of praise around here wiki leaks founder julian assange was a war of the gold medal just the other day from the sydney peace foundation for his exceptional courage in human rights but just as a son was honored the statesman acquired a copy of a document that might surprise a lot of people and looks like the master leaker feels threatened by other leakers according to the british news source assigned to handed out a confidentiality agreement to everyone who works with the whistle blowing web site which basically is a gag order this document explains that anyone who releases any and i mean any type of information acquired by weekly will face a fine of twelve million pounds that translates to almost twenty million dollars now another thing that we should note if you continue reading the document it states that releasing this classified information would damage the whistle blowing web site saying a lot of opportunity to sell the information to other news broadcasters and publishers so after reading that line we can't really help but wonder is

middle east for example but when asked about that in a one on one interview with r t wiki leaks founder julian assange leisure thoughted saying based book is being used for most first something far more sinister take a listen facebook in particular. is the most appalling with why. he we have the world's most comprehensive database about people their relationships and they are interested in people cations communications with. the relatives all sitting within the. all acceptable intelligence facebook. yahoo all the information you would eventually have it would mean. for u.s. intelligence. now those comments created quite a splash and earlier i spoke with that mccullough he is a correspondent with the net at that if that's the government's role within the world of social media and he told me he believes killian astonish is a right when it comes to facebook but then i think julian is probably right same this is the most appalling spying machine ever invented in some way because we have more volunteers only posting things that we wouldn't characterize a decade ago and you also point out the rest of the da

to stay in the shade although in actual fact he's just as much a godfather of the wiki leaks project as julian assange has. yes my name is daniel smith this is julian the sun and we're here to make a short presentation about what we can extract what we daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site through together he understands took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reality with you which i heard about wiki leaks in september two thousand and seven and in november two thousand and seven i first got in touch with julian. he was already working on wiki leaks at the on the right so i asked if they needed any help. and started working on a couple of topics john young registered the wiki leaks domain name in late december two thousand and six although young had already created something similar to wiki leaks several years before previously he used the crypto dot org site for publishing classified material secrecy is the biggest. market for your. critics worry over good and so threat

and we also heard from numerous journalists and a former wiki leaks member who talked about julian assange is someone with no regard for human life and he published the names of collaborators and informants we were told the agent in lama the hacker turned informant who handed over his chats with manning was just trying to do the right thing nothing new a lot of incrimination with no evidence and perhaps most importantly a failure of a journalistic organization to talk about how we can leaks has affected journalism how it started to date and cause the government to do everything in its power to bring it down joining me from our studio in new york to discuss this is kevin costello freelance assistant apa nation magazine kevin i want to thank you very much for joining me tonight now if you were an average american that perhaps hasn't been extensively following this the wiki leaks story and you were sitting on your couch last night and you watch this frontline documentary what's the message that you would come away with. well i believe that the message in this documentary is that there was thi

its documentary that aired last night called weiqi secrets an extensive look at wiki leaks as an organization julian assange and most importantly p.f.c. bradley manning the military analyst accused of leaking the classified documents to the organization so did they find something new a link between assigning manning could have publicly funded mainstream media organization given objective and detailed look at the whole story unfortunately we saw none of that we got the picture of a young military analyst who was gay who had been picked on for his small stature who couldn't hold a steady job and was troubled. talked a lot about his personal life about his relationships about his experiences in the military experience at their home. lomo says the person also contacted him the e-mail and they became friends on facebook. it was grandly manning intelligence analyst in iraq. and we also heard from numerous journalists and a former wiki leaks member who talked about joining a songe of someone with no regard for human life and he published the names of collaborators and informants we were told adrian lamo the hacker

back starting talks exclusively to julian assange the founder of the wiki leaks web site of the man behind the leaking of thousands of classified diplomatic cables. julian writes the talking to r.t. now through the course of your work it's reasonable to assume that you have some insights into how political decisions are being made what do you make of the recent events in the middle east and north africa do you think that we're seeing genuine social unrest or are we seeing some kind of orchestrated revolt and if so who do you think is behind or with a genuine change in some parts of the middle east i mean egypt is a clinic and so i was concerned about beginning of the revolution as to when whether we just saw a changing of the cheers and you know it may mean something same existing power structure with something really different was happening after mubarak played. you saw really revolutions occurring in every institution we've seen here from alexandria to climb them so that that's a sort of change it's hard for them to know what's happening in some other countries. different so the situatio

new york times which just us actually picked up our first interview with julian a son julian assange of wiki leaks because at that time not much press would talk to him that was back in april of two thousand and ten and jake ugur of the young turks he was coming on our t.v. long before m s n b c it's now up to fill in a seat on their anchor chair so that's something to consider we'll continue to do what we do but we are going to continue to seek to address some of the allegations that have been made against us and with that that's going to do it for now but you can always follow more of our stories online at r.t. dot com slash usa and also on our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash r t america and you can follow me on twitter at lauren lyster and i will see you for more news shortly. we. i think. we never got the says. safe get ready because their freedom. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decision its considerable breakthrough it's already been made who can you trust no one who are a sham deal with a global missionary see where we had it state controls c

the us as have been repeatedly duped into supporting interventions this according to julian assange founder of wiki leaks in an exclusive interview with our king here's a preview of what's coming your way in about twenty minutes. our number one enemy of ignorance. and i believe that is the number one in me of everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world now question is here with promoting ignorance you know is bad media. it really is by my opinion that a media in general so bad. we have to question where the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. distorting. how the world actually needs. the result is we see wars and we see corrupt governments continue nearly every war that is thought of in the past fifty years as being a result of the media why. and populations have to be fooled into wars. shifting gears now with many americans struggling to pay off their debts growing numbers are said to be subjected to extreme abuse from debt collectors from serious rants to threats of actual physical bylines there's no holding back for those determined to make people pay their w

reportedly duped by the media into backing for interventions that's the opinion of julian assange founder of wiki leaks who spoke exclusively with r.t. here's a preview of what's to come out and about a quarter our. number one enemy is ignorance. and i believe that is the number one in me and everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world now question is here with promoting ignorance it is bad media. it really is by my opinion that the media in general so bad there is no distorting of how the world actually is nearly every war that it started in the past fifteen years has been a result of media wide in the media could have thought that it did not basically populations that live. populations have to be fooling falls populations that we think we know we think it's going to work so if we have media environment it also means. three years on from the financial crash of two thousand and eight millions of americans are still mired in debt and struggling to get back on their feet but some stand to gain from the situation and spare no extreme squeezing as much money as possible out of boun

which it makes critics for example after the near term says one of the wiki leaks keeps their editor going around calling julian assange crazy maybe i mean pettiness of these journalists is just incredible so if people were serious so the labeling papers like the wall street journal which i this coverage and sort of wait weeks lanson order lose now they're trying to provide a competitor we can weeks to get stories from themselves so they can sell it to instead of letting wiki leaks control the story let's talk about the ways in which this wall street journal experiment fails first of all are not only do they not guarantee you any time and i never see and even say it in my hands you over the authorities or at least their information if they have to i also hear that there are a lot of technical loopholes here can you tell us about some of those. you know that's exactly right i mean they recommend that you use a secure anonymity service culture work which is a great idea everyone should be using to submit documents anonymously but unfortunately never tested it with tor so if you do try and use it it just didn't work so re

it makes critics for example after the new york times was one of the wiki leaks kids their editor went around calling julian assange bunch of crazy. i mean pettiness of these journalists is just incredible so people are seeing is so the reagan papers like the wall street journal which coverage in certain way wing slants on order news now they're trying to provide a competitor we can weeks to get stories from themselves so they can start to instead of letting wiki leaks control the story let's talk about the ways in which this wall street journal experiment fails first of all are not only do they not guarantee you any time and identity and even say or they might hand you over to the authorities or only three information that they have to you i also hear that there are a lot of technical loopholes here can you tell us about some of those. you know that's exactly right i mean they recommend that you use a secure anonymity service culture work which is a great idea everyone should be using tor to submit documents anonymously unfashionably never tested it with your so if you try and use it it just didn't work so really

talks exclusively to julian assange founder of the wiki leaks web site one of the world's most talked about man right now he discusses his attempts to fight extradition and hits out of what he sees as the sinister side to social networking . julian thanks for talking to r.t. now through the course of your work it's reasonable to assume that you have insights into how political decisions are being made what do you make of the recent events in the middle east and north africa do you think that we're seeing genuine social unrest or are we seeing some kind of orchestrated revolt and if so who do you think is behind or whether it's genuine change in some parts of little things i mean egypt is a critical things and i was concerned in the beginning of the egyptian revolution that just when where we just saw a changing of the cheers and you know maybe it's of the same existing power structure when something really different was happening after mubarak. played kyra you saw really revolutions occurring in every sense to truth i mean if you're. exactly right so that that's a sort of change it's

repeatedly gypped by the media and backing foreign interventions that's the opinion of julian assange the founder of wiki leaks who speaks exclusively to us at r t so here's a taster of what he said. our number one enemy of ignorance than and i believe it is the number one enemy of everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world no question is here with. ignorance is bad media. it really is my opinion that in the media in general so bad there is a store here. how the world actually it is nearly every war that is part of in a pile fifteen years as being a result of media why in the media couldn't stop it if it thirty people are basically population. populations have to be fooling towards populations by willingly and i hope we don't in our lives go into so if we have a good media environment in the also hoping for. next three years on from the financial crash of two thousand and eight millions of americans are still mired in debt and unable to get back on their feet but some stand to gain from the situation too and spare no extra to squeeze as much money out of the downtrodden as possible fr

facebook revolution as protests there were coordinated on the websites pages by julian assange was the founder of wiki leaks says the service has paid a much more sinister well skousen to watching his a preview of what's to come around to us. facebook in particular. is the most appalling with by being facebook google yahoo always made us organizations have built the interface for u.s. intelligence everyone should understand that. when they. work they are doing free work for united states intelligence agencies. with many americans struggling to pay off their debts growing numbers are said to be subjected to extreme abuse from their collectors from furious rants to threats of physical violence there's no holding back for those determined to make people pay their way for the us government being the biggest warrior in the country it's still the working american having to bear the brunt report as more. a magical call coming to your home you pick up and a stranger demands your money and threatens your life they had said that we know where you live you know your wife is you're not going to get away with this befor

us have been repeatedly duped into supporting foreign interventions according to julian assange the founder of wiki leaks in an exclusive interview with our team is a preview of what's to come in more than a little more than an hour. our number one enemy is ignorance. and i believe that is the number one in a minute everyone is not understanding what exactly going on world. question is here with promoting ignorance and it is bad media. it really is by my opinion that the media in general so bad. we have to question where the world would be better off without them altogether. talking about. how the world actually. the result of. wars and we think corrupt governments continue. nearly every war that it started in the past fifty years has been a result of the media why. populations have to be food and tools. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe in berlin police a clash with left wing demonstrators during the traditional may day rally and march was broken up with water cannons after stones and bottles were thrown the chops and bags security was stepped up across the country