i was wiki leaks now planning to work around that blockade so it can continue revealing the truth to the world and we're just thirteen days to go until america goes over the fiscal cliff addresses across america are asking why president obama chose to put social security cuts on the bargaining table why is the president letting republicans ak away at social security instead of presenting progressive solutions that can help us avoid that cliff. welcome to your take my take live our phone lines are now open so if you want to share an opinion make a comment ask a question live on the air give us a call to zero two nine zero four twenty one thirty four so for a first call of the night mark in toronto canada and mark thanks for calling what's on your mind. i wanted to say i think there are a lot of really good people in the republican party and well meaning people but i've been thinking about. an illustration cover for the new yorker magazine and it would be the iconic clint eastwood lone gunman. on a stage looking dejected beside an empty chair of an elementary school student i think the

leaks saying that the existence of the very existence of wiki leaks is a crime he says that he must remain in the ecuadorian embassy while other governments refuse to. attached to a specific meeting to the u.k. government which refuses to grant him safe passage to and of course his own government the australian government but wiki leaks he said will continue working and he issued a rousing cry to his supporters let's just hear that. people often ask what can i do the answer is not so difficult learn how the world works challenge the statements and intentions of those who seek to control us behind a facade of democracy and more nikki unite in common purpose and common principle to design document finance endorphin loon jones act now. two thousand and twelve been a busy year for wiki leaks he has written a book he's also made a show for r.t. and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy as we said earlier they wiki leaks the team have prepared a million documents which they promise to release with information that he

leaks through our website but then wiki leaks can be the tide that rises all boats and we can get people these organizations out to people who may not have never heard of them and then they can start to build a fan base and become more successful after that well thank you so much for coming on everyone check out freedom of the press trying to tempt the electronic frontier foundation he said of web site one more time yeah it's press freedom foundation for press freedom foundation dot org certainly there is a renaissance of citizen journalism and new media that we need to protect those freedoms online one of the things we can do thanks a lot for your time thanks a lot. i. now want to talk to about an ordinary guy doing extraordinary things his name is josh bagley and he's a graduate student and why you who's making waves in the digital world all to bring attention to us military tactic that's going by and large undetected drones i've covered on the show before but josh bagley is the brainchild behind this novel idea it's called drone plus a new i phone app that would sort public data from

of carrying out a witch hunt against whistleblowers so much pressure is wiki leaks feeling right now which eighty wonder what we know about the ongoing. investigation the secret grand jury you know sundry and. an ongoing person haven't seen wiki leaks post person joining us on the line from reykjavik and he gets right by you kristen great has ground to a whole with public sector workers walking out of their jobs in a twenty four hour nationwide strike aimed at putting pressure on the government over tough cuts that recent good news such as the latest tranche of bailout cash and the decision by the rating. now the international community i have asked the e.c.b. m.d.c. have tours of austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people angry and soon to see this strike going on and people a lot of people get very upset in greece while the investor community is relatively happy because you know there is more greater safeguards that their money is going to be returned to them in the form of laws so i think that you going to continue to see this is exactly where he'll go up

to censor wiki leaks because of the pentagon papers case forty years ago where the supreme court said that you know if information is in the public interest the newspaper publishes it even if it's secret then they can't it can't be censored so instead a couple congressmen went to various corporations and got them to cut off them cut off from their financial support from visa master card and pay pal. and we started talking about ways to solve this problem we just didn't want to become a precedent where if the u.s. government didn't like a certain organization that they could unofficial you censor it without ever going to court but so what came out of this idea was this much broader. much broader idea that we want to support transparency journalism general we're not only trying to help out wiki leaks which is in dire need of support right now because they have been cut off for two two years but we also want to support a variety of other transparency organizations because you know with government secrecy at an all time high there's no real magic bullet that will end up killing over exces

accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks so those are two things that he may mention again when he talks later on thursday he also may talk about his most recent bids to run for the senate in the two thousand and thirteen australian federal elections he's made that announcement and he's said that wiki leaks is setting up a political party for which plans are significantly advanced and they have received significant support from notable australians he says that that party is designed to promote openness in government and politics and also to combat growing intrusions on individual privacy so one of the things i learnt during the interview that he gave me a couple of weeks ago was that julian assad is increasingly on willing to talk about his personal situation he prefers to stick to the wider issues and so that's why one of the things he may talk about could be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay. that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further link that he mentioned to me that talking about leaking more documents in the

we'll begin this hour with wiki leaks founder julian assange just moments ago a songe stepped onto the balcony of the ecuadorian embassy in london to address a crowd of some supporters yesterday mark six months since a songe first made his way to the embassy after being granted asylum by the ecuadorian government today he said on the balcony giving a roundup of some of wiki leaks memorable moments in two thousand and twelve he also assured supporters that the mission of the whistleblowing organization was far from over take a look. true democracy is not the white house true democracy is not camera true democracy is the resistance of people with the truth against lies from top to right here in london every day ordinary people teach us that democracy is free speech and dissent for once we the people stop speaking out and stop dissenting once we are distracted or

promises no country in the world will remain unaffected by wiki leaks revelations. twenty. of russia's lower house of parliament approved. americans from adopting russian children in retaliation for america's so-called magnitsky. hello there a very good evening chief who just joined us my name is kevin irwin here at the new center tonight it's good to have you company first this hour in egypt dozens of people have been injured in fierce clashes which erupted between islamists and their opponents in the country's second largest city of alexandria police used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who took to the streets on the eve of the second leg of voting on the new draft constitution that split the country let's find out more now from cairo based reporter true she's joining us live from cairo like what exactly prompted the violence on the streets of alexandria today. on the day before this second round of the referendum thousands of pro constitution protesters gathered it counted it pretty mosque in the second city egypt second city out xandra this is essential run

policy magazine shows that wiki leaks cables paints a picture of kerry as a negotiator interested in climate change and engaging with the arab world where he has found both success and failure if he is approved as secretary of state it's likely he and wiki leaks will meet again. on now to rush the russian parliament today they passed a ban a bill that bans u.s. citizens from adopting russian children the controversial legislation now goes to president vladimir putin for his signature the bill could affect hundreds of u.s. families hoping to adopt russian children russia being the one of the most sought after countries for american parents that want to adopt abroad here's a look at the russian adoption statistics over the span of twelve years as you can see it fluctuates year to year the peak in two thousand and four was nearly six thousand russian children adopted the adoption ban if approved would be seen as a blow to relations between the u.s. and russia here's what a u.s. state department spokesman said about the bill quote the united states is concerned by measures in the bill pa

leaks and other independent journalist journalistic organizations now it's no secret that wiki leaks has had a major issue securing funds ever since pressure from u.s. lawmakers prompted several companies like master card visa and pay pal to stop processing donations to the website the lack of funds eventually caused the site to suspend publication now the freedom of press foundation has named three other groups will also be supporting mock rock news the national security archive as well as the uptake all of which promote transparency is behind the group. well the list includes known whistleblower daniel ellsberg actor and activist john cusack civil liberties liberties column is growing wheat greenwald and the electronic frontier foundation trevor tim who will serve as the organization's executive director you might remember him from his appearances right here on r.t. to express disappointment to the huffington post at the lack of support many major media outlets gave wiki leaks stating quote if this happened to one of the other papers visa or mastercard didn't allow people to take a

policy magazine shows that wiki leaks cables paint a picture of kerry as a negotiator interested in climate change and in gauging the arab world where he has found both success and failure if he is approved as secretary of state it's likely he and wiki leaks will meet again. a russian parliament today passed a bill that bans u.s. citizens from adopting russian children the bill could affect hundreds of u.s. families hoping to adopt russian children russia being the most one of the most sought after country being the money parents that want to adopt abroad here's a look at the russian adoptions it has six over the span of twelve years you can see it fluctuates from year to year the peak being in two thousand and four with nearly six thousand russian children adopted backers of the bill say there that there's been a trend of american adoptive parents being abusive one of the most recent is a boy by the name of nathaniel craver. he was seven years old when he died in two thousand and nine of brain injuries these are the boy's parents the net and michael craver of pennsylvania they were

those the will continue successes of wiki leaks. shouldn't be viewed merely as a demonstration of our organizations for reality or the realty of the activist community on the internet. they are also a function of this hoarding of information. by these national security states you know the reason that there was so much information to leak the reason it could be leaked all at once is because they had hoarded so much why had they hoarded so much wealth to gain extra power through knowledge they want to their own knowledge internally to be easily accessible to their people to be searchable so there's much power to be extracted from it as possible. the you know we here exude attempts to redress the imbalance of power by taking what's inside these very powerful institutions and giving them to. the commons people in general so we can understand how world works and stop takeover by these powerful institutions but it's a function of how much knowledge these powerful institutions have accumulated you know next week marks the two year mark sin

six today marks the six month anniversary since wiki leaks co-founder julian a songe took refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london to refresh your memory as songe was granted political asylum in ecuador in order to escape extradition to sweden where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assaults allegations six months and still this man remains in the middle of an international political standoff between the u.k. sweden the u.s. and ecuador arcee correspondent ana stasia churkin takes a look back at what the past half year has been like for julia songe. at least i have a voice. prisoners rarely even have a voice six long months and counting in a tiny room in london's ecuadorian embassy and joining us on to keep himself busy there been many messages from weeks in. interest between them and we are always going. to create individual privacy as well as exposing corruption which is kind of the secrecy continuing to really secret cables put out not one but a million documents in the year two thousand and twelve they try to cut off all his funding he's continued to function they haven't

to wiki leaks he has written a book you'll see made a show and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy a team have prepared a million documents which they promise to release with information that he says relates to every single government around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate so the message here is he might be cut cooped up inside the at the door and embassy based certainly not resting on his laurels we have a christmas address in full on our website r.t. dot com where you can also get more on the top of the exposures he's planning. today. these are the images the world. can. giant corporations rule the day. the russian lower house of parliament has passed a bill targeting americans accused of abusing the human rights of russians abroad and also bans americans from adopting russian children where the move comes in response to the u.s. is called magnitsky act has caused controversy in russia. france has more on the attack for tat. the most divisive part of this bill is definitel

leaks pay pal master card fees and other online payment companies they banned wiki leaks from taking payments through their organizations which essentially brought with you to its knees and anonymous the act the online activist organization then. put this block on them as well as distributed denial of service attack christopher weatherhead has been convicted of participating in that attack and now this is a crime it's a crime that's called conspiracy to impair the operations of computers but it is ultimately a crime of protest would anonymous were doing was saying you know you can't as big organizations cut off wiki leaks from their funding without seeing some kind of retribution and this was the retribution that they planned and computer activists here in the u.k. are saying that the criminal justice system really by finding christopher weatherhead guilty is sending a message basically that financial institutions can cut off organizations with impunity but when the people try to fight back there's hell to pay the full force of the law comes down on them now as i say. christopher wea

promises no country in the world will remain unaffected by new wiki leaks revelations planned for twenty thirty. and russia's lower house of parliament approves a law banning americans from adopting russian children in retaliation for america's so-called magnitsky. hello and a very good evening to if you just joined us here at the new center tonight our top story russia e.u. cooperation should be defined by choice and not forced by necessity that's how europe sees future ties with russia and it's a view that second by president putin to who's in brussels for talks with the blocs leaders for the first time since his return to the kremlin. reports. a lot of speculation happened before the summit that this will be a meeting of confrontation rather than corporation but it actually turned out absolutely the opposite scenario all these speakers but also one started off by saying that the trade turnover between the e.u. and russia has grown significantly now it's exceeding three hundred billion euros a year and this is a good sign but both sides expressed their willingness to make it a corporat

to miss sanjay's promise a wiki leaks will release more than a million the secret files over the next year in publications that will affect he says every country in the world the whistleblower gave a christmas address from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been in skulls for for year and what was his first public appearance since august of his horse with. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him to see even also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he mocked his six month in the embassy by talking about it saying me entered the building and it's become his home and his office right to the principles of ecuadorians as he called that who had taken him in and then he said that he is able to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he also spoke of bradley manning who have put is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he submitted journalists and others to the stand up to repressi

found that wiki leaks. says his whistle blowing web site is ready to reveal game changing data next year he addressed his supporters and data next year the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been ensconced for six months or smith was there. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he mocked his six months in the embassy by talking about it saying that he entered the building and it's become his home and his right to the principles of the dorians as he called them who had taken him in and then he said that he is able to communicate to the people here unlike two hundred thirty two journalists who are currently in jail all over the world he named a few of them and he also spoke of bradley manning who have roots is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he saluted journalists and others to stand up to oppression let's listen in to what he's got to say peop

america investigating the wiki leaks website for publishing documents including dossiers on the wars in iraq and afghanistan now despite having twenty four hour round the clock police protection it's been a busy six months that julian assange we've had him publish a book we seen concerns over his health we seem to live in a sound addressing world leaders as well as giving a number of personal exclusive into the sea and of course we've had the ongoing protests and vigils in support of both julian assange and the wiki leaks website and in the next couple of days judy the sun is expected to give a christmas address normally the territory of mourning but in this case julian assange will be summing up his own going predicament and outlining his plans for the year ahead now what is set to come remains relatively unknown we see in the dramas unfolding over the last six months so you can be pretty sure it will be unpredictable it's a lot of rumors a lot of talk at the moment that we could see in twenty thirty kill innocent running for the australian stan it and forming his own wiki leaks pol

act now two thousand and twelve has been a busy year for wiki leaks he has written a book you'll say made a show and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy a team have prepared a million documents which they promised to release with information that he says relates to every single government around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate said the message here is he might be cut cooped up inside the at the syrian embassy base resting on his laurels and if you like. christmas address streaming in full on our website you can also get more of the top level exposures he's planning to. use today. these are the images the world. trying to rule the day. the russian lower house of parliament has passed a bill targeting americans accused of abusing the human rights of russians abroad and also bans americans from adopting russian children the move comes in response to the u.s. so-called magnitsky act to cause controversy here in russia france has got more than on the ongoing tit for tat.

series for us talking to the key newsmakers shown by the mainstream media that's right the wiki leaks supreme oh may not have seen much daylight in two thousand and twelve but his unique interview show got the world talking with its controversial gas list our correspondent in london therof earth has been following his ups and downs throughout the years he joins us looking lovely this evening this new year evening live from london take us through what it was for you first of all covering it i would call it immediate i mean it doesn't say there were so much going on around us tons this year from his embassy bid on r.t. take us through it. well it's been such a turbulent years ahead that guy so great to be joining you counting down the final moments thirty thousand and twelve a year would be years the chill in the sun just been very very turbulent as i said and thing i have right in the center of that story we've really had a front seat view of everything that's been going on we had him at the beginning of the year fighting that extradition to sweden we saw his the pill rejected we then

is accused of leaking documents to wiki leaks and he said he syndicated journalist and others to stand up to repression let's listen in to what he's got to say people often ask what can i do. the answer is not so difficult to learn how the world works challenge the statements and intentions of those who seek to control us behind. democracy and more nicky you know right in common purpose and common principle to design documents. in loon. back now two thousand and twelve. he has written a book you'll see the show and wiki leaks has continued to release documents but it seems that two thousand and thirteen will be no less busy a team have prepared a million documents which they promise to release with information that he says relates to every single government around the world and he also reiterated his plans to run for the australian senate so the message here is he might be cooked cooped up inside the at the door and embassy but he's certainly not resting on his laurels. we have christmas address. more on the top level explosions he's planning. today. these are the images from. canada.

wiki leaks has already over a million dollar commands being paid to be released and julian assange promises during real secrets concerning every government in the world as he lays out his plan so plan for twenty four christmas address for his embassy cried out in a. new song russia and around the wall this is all she was me hello and welcome to the. pan continental energy issues are said to gather steam with president putin in brussels for talks with european union leaders russia's the largest oil and natural gas exporter the twenty seven nation bloc but such a big partnership iran it comes without hurdles as an excess explains. the media and the analysts are expecting a very interesting russia e.u. summit in brussels with the russian president attending it personally obviously the talks between. we will focus on the energy issues we know that russia has built already built several gas pipelines which will deliver the russian gas to the european continent but still there are some contradictions remaining between. brussels with the latter of course accusing gas of breaking the rules of the m

documents to wiki leaks has told a pretrial hearing that his detention conditions made him feel like a doomed caged animal and prevent suicide all thought he was speaking publicly for the first time since twenty ten about his time in confinement waiting for trial the army court was shown a noose made from the bed sheet which manning admits he made his lawyers claim the charges should be dropped because of his jail or deal. well manning's notoriety was caused by cable gate two years ago when wiki leaks released a number of american diplomatic documents on the anniversary of the project artie's laurie half an east has taken to the streets of new york to see if there's public support for the disclosure of top government secrets. it's been two years since wiki leaks released with now known as cable gate the world's largest leak of classified u.s. material so has it changed the world much this week let's talk about that i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't hurt me so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that i'm not so you're ok with. i know i'm contradi

because it by the way encourages others and one of the interesting things about wiki leaks is far from it being suppressed there are thirty three new wiki leaks all around the world there's even one in bulgaria there's one in the appalachian mountains of tennessee in the united states for coal miners to put out the truth about what happens in the coal mines i mean there's a lot of very interesting stuff going on prompted by that so far from being a discouraging thing i think a lot of people are quite encouraged by what's going on we certainly are for people watching the idea of a whistleblower is often deep throat from the watergate scandal and i say the figure that stays in the background see can you explain and summarize why it's so important that we protect these people because courage is contagious and if they are not caught. that's encouragement to everybody else. it's like any whistleblower anywhere so it's fear that prevents them if we can reduce that fear then more will come forward so they'll be more investigative reporting better and more in-depth and skeptical reporting will