Assange to host TV show

Society - 26 January 2012, Thursday 16:34

MOSCOW (QHA) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given TV talk show at the Kremlin-funded English language channel Russia Today, Reuters reported on Thursday.
According to information, filming for Assange’s television debut is already underway from Britain, where he remains under house arrest outside London while appealing an extradition order to Sweden.
The channel said Assange will invite 10 "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries" for interviews on a show dubbed "The World Tomorrow", due to air in mid-March.
“Everything we do on the air is different from the English-language mainstream, that is something we have in common with Assange,” Russia Today’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan told.
Beamed to 430 million cable subscribers worldwide, the Kremlin channel offers a rare public platform for a man, whose WikiLeaks website has come under intense pressure after publishing a raft of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and seen its ability to fund itself crippled.
Julian Assange, a 40-year-old Australian, has said the refusal of many financial transactions firms - including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union - to work with WikiLeaks have damaged the website’s ability to continue its work.

 
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