I would offer some advice but I didn ' t start in the trade until 2004 so my knowledge of stuff older than the late 1990 ' s is pretty limited . <| sep |> A hunting rifle isn ' t going to do much good once a large animal is on top of you or thrashing you about . There ' s just no maneuvering it , assuming you can hold on . <| sep |> There ' s a couple different things that could be going on 1 RT purchased the interview from another organization , so if the interview was conducted to mislead people , it was done so by the producers of the footage , not RT . RT likely would have just bought what they thought was real and published it . 2 Again , RT bought the video . However , it ' s possible the producers are on JA ' s side . If he did in fact escape , the video could have been made to mislead people and governments into thinking everything is fine while JA makes his escape . In this case , RT still thinks it ' s a real video and they publish it . 3 The least likely situation , I think , is RT knows this video has been modified and is working with the creators of the video , whether their goals are to silence Assange and mislead people , or keep him alive .