9 December 2015
WikiLeaks co-founder, whose exclusive interview show on RT caused an international media firestorm, will take part in the panel dedicated to information privacy and security in the digital age, via a live-link from his asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
Assange will headline the session “Security or Surveillance: Can the right to privacy and effective anti-terror security coexist in the digital age?” Joining him in Moscow will be Philip Giraldi, former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the CIA, Annie Machon, whistleblower and former MI5 intelligence officer, noted CIA whistleblower Raymond McGovern and historian, author and strategic analyst Gregory Copley. Thom Hartmann, a prominent American progressive intellectual and media personality, who hosts political discussion program “The Big Picture” on RT America, will moderate the discussion.
RT’s conference, titled “Information, messages, politics: the shape-shifting powers of today’s world,” brings together prominent politicians, foreign policy experts and media executives from around the world to discuss a wide range of international issues, including Middle East security, the state of geopolitical power balance, the battle of media narratives, the role of Russia on the world stage, tradeoffs between information privacy and security at the time of a global terrorist threat, the evolution that the international news landscape has undergone over the last decade and the role of media in addressing the challenges facing the world today.
The conference will take place in Moscow’s historic Metropol Hotel from 9:30 to 16:30 on Thursday, December 10, 2015 – 10th anniversary of RT’s first news broadcast. To find out more about the event, press accreditation and how to attend, please go to http://conference.rt.com/ or contact: Anton Konyaev, aakonyaev@rttv.ru , +7 (499) 750-00-75 ext. 2390.
About RT
RT is a global news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow, Washington, DC, and London. It is available to 700 million viewers worldwide. RT is the most watched TV news network on YouTube with more than 3 billion views. RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Awards for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to receive three nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Award for News.
11 April 2013
The Julian Assange Show, RT’s weekly interview program, won Silver World Medal in the Documentary/Information Program: Politics television category. The 12-episodes series aired exclusively on RT from April through July 2012 and featured exclusive interviews with some of the most influential and iconoclastic politicians and thinkers of the day. The program generated a media firestorm, was reported on by the most prominent media organizations and discussed in a multitude of blogs across the world.
The Silver World Medal that RT was awarded for The Julian Assange Show was the highest honor awarded this year in the Politics category. The only other entry honored in that category received a Bronze.
RT also won the New York Festivals Gold Medal in the Information/Magazine Program Promotion category, with its promo for From The Shadows (Desde la Sombra), a weekly show hosted by renowned author and public speaker Daniel Estulin on RT’s Spanish channel. The program takes a closer look into the secrets held by world’s business and political elites.
RT has previously been a laureate of New York Festivals in 2009, in the Best News Documentary category. Then, the network won Silver World Medal for “A city of desolate mothers” – RT’s special report on South Ossetia.
The New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards honors the World’s Best Television & Films. This year’s Awards received entries from 50 countries from around the world. RT competed with such high-profile international broadcasters as BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutshe Welle, ESPN, HBO, NHK, and TVE and was named a finalist in 5 out of the total 15 categories. The award ceremony took place on April 9th at NAB in Las Vegas.
26 September 2012
Julian Assange will address the 67th United Nations General Assembly, currently in session in New York, from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London via live transmission provided by RT. The speech will be carried live by RT on the network’s English and Spanish channels around the world.
The world-famous cyber-activist and Wikileaks co-founder will be one of the feature speakers at the exclusive event, Strengthening the International Human Rights: The Diplomatic Asylum. Via live video transmission Assange will debate the legitimacy and applicability of the Diplomatic Asylum from a legal and a human rights perspective with other distinguished panelists, Mr. Ricardo Patino, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador and Mr. Baher Azmy, Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, in front of the participants of the 67th UN General Assembly.
The exclusive event will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, September 26, from 6:30 to 8:30pm EST (2:30-4:40am Moscow time) and will be broadcast live by RT in English and Spanish, as well as on RT’s YouTube channel. The live international transmission has been organized and set up by RT at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where Assange is currently receiving asylum in his fight to avoid extradition from the United Kingdom to Sweden.
RT is a global international news network that broadcasts in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow and Washington, DC, and is available to 550 million viewers in more than 100 countries worldwide. RT became the first TV news channel in the world to pass 750 million views on YouTube and is the first Russian TV channel to receive two nominations for the prestigious International Emmy awards.
