Moscow, Russia – Two Arab Spring revolutionaries, Nabeel Rajab and Alaa Abd al-Fattah explain why the reform movements stalled in Bahrain and have destabilized in Egypt on the May 8th episode of “The World Tomorrow” on RT.

Nabeel Rajab is the leading human rights activist from Bahrain and the founder of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights; right prior to the air of his interview to Julian Assange he was arrested by the Bahraini government forces and will now stand trial for inciting the acts of protests.

Alaa Abd al-Fattah is the Egyptian writer and political activist who was a prominent figure in the Egyptian revolution. The two guests discuss the impetus behind the uprisings in the Middle East, what has been achieved and the prospects for democracy and reform in these countries.

“I speak to two leading revolutionaries: one from Bahrain, where the revolution failed; one from Egypt, where the revolution is now in turmoil. What makes a revolution? And where is the Arab Spring going to go?” – commented Assange on the upcoming episode.

In the interview given prior to his arrest Rajab commented on the struggle of the protest movement inBahrain on the show: “This is freedom. This is democracy that we are fighting for. It has a cost and we have to pay this cost, and the cost might be very expensive – as we have paid high cost in Bahrain. And, we are willing to pay that for the changes that we are fighting for.”

The fourth episode of Julian Assange’s program will air globally on Tuesday, May 8th at 15:30 Moscowtime /11:30 GMT/7:30 EDT across all RT channels in English, Arabic and Spanish, and will be rebroadcast every two hours thereafter.

The progress of the Arab Spring movements across different countries is a topic that Julian Assange has explored continuously starting with the very first episode of “The World Tomorrow.” Interview with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah caused a global media firestorm and trended on Twitter throughout the day. The most recent episode featured an extended discussion with Moncef Marzouki, the interim President of Tunisia, on democratic reforms in the cradle of the Arab Spring.

“The World Tomorrow” is RT’s weekly interview program created and hosted by the WikiLeaks founder. Promotional materials, an exclusive interview with Assange and the full-length video of the aired episodes are available at http://assange.rt.com.

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Today, April 17 at 11:30 GMT RT will premiere “The World Tomorrow,” an exclusive and highly anticipated project by Julian Assange.

“The World Tomorrow” will premiere simultaneously across four channels – RT in English, Arabic and Spanish and on RT America. The broadcast will begin at 15:30 Moscow time and 7:30 EDT (New York), and will repeat every two hours. Promotional materials, including an exclusive interview with Assange, are available at assange.rt.com.

“RT is rallying a global audience of open minded people who question what they see in mainstream media and we are proud to premiere Julian Assange’s new project. We provided Julian a platform to reach the world and gave him total editorial freedom. He is absolutely the right person to bring alternative opinions to our viewers around the globe,” said RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.

Assange commented on choosing RT as a platform for the program’s debut: “When we look at international networks there’s really only two that are worth speaking about, and that’s RT and Al Jazeera,” he noted. “When we were looking at what international broadcaster…we wished to partner with, we looked to see what was the penetration into the United States. RT had greater penetration into the United States.”

Ten episodes of this interview program have been scheduled, at 26 minutes each. The show is being taped in London, where Assange remains under house arrest without official charges. Assange, who is the creator and host of “The World Tomorrow,” will interview interesting and significant individuals – those who in his opinion will form the agenda of tomorrow.

In the US RT is available to more than 85 million viewers across the country via major cables: Time Warner Cable (channel 135) in New York, Comcast Cable (channel 81) in Washington D.C., Comcast Cable (channel 103) in Chicago, Time Warner Cable (channel 236) in Los Angeles, Comcast Cable (channel 263) in Philadelphia. For more information on where to watch RT go to rt.com/where-to-watch/.

RT, around-the-clock international news channel broadcasting from its studios in Moscow and Washington, D.C. in English, Arabic and Spanish, reaches 530 million viewers, or 25% of all cable subscribers, in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the UK, RT is more widely watched than Bloomberg TV, according to a survey by Kantar Media. RT became the first news channel to pass 700 million views on YouTube. In 2010 RT became the first Russian channel to be nominated for the prestigious Emmy International award in the “News” category. RT streams online at the network’s website RT.com.

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