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Video: Syrian Army helicopter downed over Damascus, crashes in flames

A Syrian helicopter engulfed in flames has crashed in eastern Damascus on Monday amid witness reports of shelling and fierce fighting in the area – MORE INFO on.rt.com VIDEO COURTESY: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! www.youtube.com Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Follow us on Google+ plus.google.com [...]

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Fact-finding not in vogue as US smear tactics punish journalists

Freedom of speech and journalism tend to go hand-in-hand – but it’s not a union that everyone supports. In the United States, for example, the government’s found it’s own methods of punishing reporters whose overseas operations don’t meet with the wishes of Washington. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan has the story. RT LIVE rt.com Subscribe to RT! [...]

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‘War on whistleblowers must end!’ – Assange speech at Ecuador Embassy

Julian Assange makes his first public appearance in two months, ever since he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The WikiLeaks founder was granted political asylum on Thursday — a decision that ignited a wave of international responses, with the UK and Sweden opposing the verdict and Latin American countries strongly supporting Ecuador’s [...]

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The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (p.1)

Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy, but in fact infringing people’s rights to online privacy. It’s an increasingly topical subject – and the world’s most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it. In this edition of his interview program here on RT, Julian Assange gets [...]

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The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks Uncut (p.2)

You can’t do much online or with your phone without someone, somewhere, knowing what you’re doing. But there’s one group on your side. They’re called the Cypherpunks Movement, and they’re on Julian Assange’s show here on RT to talk about their plans to keep your private data, private. If you’ve missed the previous episodes, you [...]

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Euro Exit Plan: Ditching austerity for prosperity

FULL SCRIPT on.rt.com Leaving the eurozone could be done over a weekend, claims Lord Simon Wolfson in an interview with RT. A bank holiday needed to convert all assets into a new currency may become the dawn of a new economic era for those who dare to abandon the euro. A country that dares to [...]

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Keep it to yourself! Twitter to block ‘racist’ tweets

A social media website Twitter wants to censor your posts. It’s aimed at blocking, what it believes are racist and offensive updates. But will it compromise the public’s freedom of speech? The Resident is in New York to find out the opinions of people there. Follow ‘The Resident’ on Twitter www.twitter.com Watch RT LIVE on [...]

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The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali (E10)

A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT. If you’ve missed the previous episodes, you can always watch them online [...]

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Assange Episode 9: ‘Pakistan a hired gun to kill US enemies’

Julian Assange interviews Imran Khan, a Pakistani anti-corruption activist and politician known by some as ‘a one-man-party’ – WATCH the full program www.youtube.com If you’ve missed the previous episodes, you can always watch them online on our official video page assange.RT.com Subscribe to RT! http Watch RT LIVE on our website rt.com Like us on [...]

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The Julian Assange Show: Imran Khan (E9)

No country has ever been bombed by its own ally, like Pakistan has been bombed by the US, Pakistani politician Imran Khan tells Julian Assange. He says it is time to put an end to the US-Pakistani ‘client-master’ relationship. In the ninth episode of his show, Julian Assange talks to Imran Khan, whose political party [...]

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Cypherpunks to Assange: How to secure your online privacy?

You can’t do much online or with your phone without someone, somewhere, knowing what you’re doing. But there’s one group on your side. They’re called the Cypherpunks Movement, and they’re on Julian Assange’s show here on RT to talk about their plans to keep your private data, private. You can catch the 2nd part of [...]

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The Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks, Part 2 (E8, p.2)

You can’t do much online or with your phone without someone, somewhere, knowing what you’re doing. But there’s one group on your side. They’re called the Cypherpunks Movement, and they’re on Julian Assange’s show here on RT to talk about their plans to keep your private data, private. If you’ve missed the previous episodes, you [...]

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