Showing posts with label The World Tomorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The World Tomorrow. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Programming note: Julian Assange talks about the uncertainty of the world as he faces uncertainty of his own.


Today on RT (DStv 405) Julian Assange will be talking to the two leading intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali in his weekly talk show The Julian Assange Show (quietly rebranded from the original The World Tomorrow) at 13:30 (South African time).

Both will be talking about the future of global movements such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement in today's 11th episode.

These intellectuals share their views about the history of change, how changes are made in general, how movements are created and kept alive and share insights into where things are going now.

The discussion today about the world's future comes at a time when Julian Assange is facing a lot of uncertainty of his own.

After the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom denied his appeal of extradition to Sweden, the Wikileaks founder has sought refuge at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has been awaiting a decision on political asylum, or a guarantee that Sweden won't extradite him to the United States on Wikileaks-related charges.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

BREAKING. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launches his weekly talk show on RT with Hezbollah leader as his first guest.


Julian Assange has launched his new weekly talk show on RT (DStv 405), The World Tomorrow, with Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah, as his first guest.

RT is replaying the first episode of The World Tomorrow every 2 hours on Tuesday; more repeats will follow during the week. The interview with Hassan Nasrallah was the first done and shown on Western television since 2006.

The pre-recorded interview, done through a videolink from England where Julian Assange is in house arrest in London, had two Arab translators. "A lot of the things that we have been trying to report have not been carried accurately in the mainstream press," Julian Assange said.

RT describes the guests who will be appearing on The World Tomorrow as "politicians, revolutionaries, intellectuals, artists and visionaries". Julian Assange said "my own work with WikiLeaks hasn't exactly made my life easier, but it has given us a platform to broadcast world-shifting ideas."

Saturday, April 14, 2012

BREAKING. The World Tomorrow, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new talk show to start Tuesday on RT; promises a 'notorious' first guest.


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - currently under house arrest - promises a notorious first guest for his talk show with the news channel RT (DStv 405) which just announced that Julian Assange's brand-new interview show, The World Tomorrow, will start this Tuesday (17 April) at 13:30 (South African time).

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MultiChoice which carries RT, neither include the channel in online listings nor provide an electronic programme guide (EPG) on DStv (which makes the recording of specific shows and setting reminders impossible) - but RT in Russia tells me The World Tomorrow will debut at 13:30 (South African time) on Tuesday [07:30 in New York; 21:30 in Sydney].

RT will also make full episodes of The World Tomorrow available online, as well as behind-the-scenes content on the official The World Tomorrow website.


Instead of the initially announced 10 episodes there will now be 12 half hour episodes of The World Tomorrow with several repeats of every weekly episode. 17 April is significant for Julian Assange since it marks the 500th day of "the international blockade on WikiLeaks funding".

The World Tomorrow is recorded in London in a secret location where Julian Assange is holed up who's been under house arrest for over a year without being officially charged, awaiting a decision on possible extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault.

Julian Assange will be interviewing people who he says is ''shaping the global agenda of tomorrow". Julian Assange guests will include "figures who normally simply would not be given a voice on TV at all. What is fair to say is that the majority of what they have said to me, they could not say on a mainstream TV network."

"500 days now I've been detained without charge. But that hasn't stopped us. We're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow,'' he says.

Julian Assange also explains why he chose RT as the channel on which to do his first TV show. "A lot of the things that we have been trying to report have not been carried accurately in the mainstream press. There are many, many fine exceptions but when we look at international networks there's really only two that are worth speaking about and that's RT and Al Jazeera."

"We do not want to kill the buzz and the intrigue by revealing the name of the first guest," says Margarita Simonyan, RT editor-in-chief in a just-issued press release. "But I have no doubts that this particular guest and this interview will lead to calls to shut us down from some especially hawkish personalities who have little respect for freedom of speech."

Here is the official promo of The World Tomorrow:

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

BREAKING. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange getting his own TV interview show on RT from March entitled The World Tomorrow.


Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is getting his own TV interview show on the 24 news channel RT (DStv 405) entitled The World Tomorrow starting from March.

"We're proud to host Julian Assange's new project,'' says Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT, in a just-issued press statement.

''RT has rallied a global audience of open minded people who don't take things around them for granted. Our viewers are open to the discussions that will be presented through Julians' show on our channel''.

In The World Tomorrow, Julian Assange will talk to political players, thinkers and revolutionaries and figures who - in his opinion - are shaping the political agenda of tomorrow.

Julian Assange is filming The World Tomorrow from the location of his house arrest where he has been confined, with no charge, for 413 days. Filming of his new TV show will start a week before his Supreme Court hearing.

''Upheavals and revolutions in the Middle East have commenced an era of real political change that is still unfolding,'' says Julian Assange. ''Wikileaks, as the world's boldest publisher, has been at the frontline of this global movement for change, and our project is designed to catalyse the global discussion about the world of tomorrow. Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it''.