around wikileaks and founder julian assange. police arrested him on a warrant from sweden. swedish police want to ke him about rape and sexual molestation allegations by two separate women. assange was in a courtroom today and was denied bail for another week. so far there is no sign today s developments have triggered that encrypted file that assange has threatened to release if he was arrested or if he was harmed or if wikileaks was shut down. so exactly how would that actually work? we looked into it. this is from my colleague brian todd. reporter: some call it a doomsday file, others a poison pill, he calls it an insurance file to be opened in the event he is captured, killed or wikileaks is taken down. with me is ira writtinkler.
regard to the consequences. it is deeply distressing. reporter: the swiss government froze assange s bank account. assange s team sees all of this pressure as a coordinated effort to silence him. there s been an incitement to commit murder by people in high places. which is outrageous. reporter: to strike back, assange has his so-called doomsday plan. vowing if his site or he is harmed in any way, they ll release an entirely new cache of documents. revelations about bp and bank of america. secret military papers on the guantanamo bay detention center. video of a u.s. air strike on civilians. more than 100,000 supporters have already downloaded the doomsday file. all they need to open it is a password, a virtually unbreakable 256 characters long. and that s what assange is saying he will send out to the world if anything happens to wikileaks or to his own safety. jim sciutto, abc news, london.
it would photograph the speeders, give them a citation. and that money goes in a pot, but if you re obeying the law, your picture will get snap td. you ll be entered into the lottery. using money from speeders to pay for a safe driving jackpot. it was the winning idea from a volkswagen contest. unfortunately, it was just a one-op experiment from germany. they ve already got the cameras in new york, which is a shame. because it wasn t just a clever idea in theory. it worked. the average speed of drivers on the stereet was redused by almot 25%. up next, behind bars. what s next for the wikileaks founder and whatever happened to that threat of a doomsday file? nobody in my family ever had a heart attack.
custody vowing to fight extradition to sweden and promising to release more secret documents. so far, no sign of that doomsday file. joining us now, executive director for the international bar association. and lexy mustra. alexi was in the courtroom today. what was the scene in the courtroom? it was an extraordinary day. there were photographers packed outside the courtroom and there were the world s media crammed into the courtroom and not only did you get to julian assange making his first appearance since unleashing these cables last sunday, but you also got three celebrities who had come out in public and were willing to stump up a lot of money to make sure he remained free. being who?
wikileaks founder julian assange says he is ready to pour more secret documents onto the web if governments don t lay off on him and if they come after him he ll do it. called the doomsday file and is believed to contain files on bp, guantanamo, and bank of america. president obama says he is open to keeping tax cuts in place, for everyone including the rich, if republicans will work with him on issues like jobless benefits. eric: as always, every sunday, time for dr. isadore rosenfeld, house call with the host of sunday house call, dr. rosenfeld, the rossi distinguished professor of clinical medicine at the wild cornell medical center, here in new york city. doctor, good morning, as always. good morning, nice to be here. happy holiday. eric: a lots of people, our first topic has to do with herbal dietary supplements and,