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wiki leaks founder julian assange all she's back in colts this time facing extradition to sweden to also rate charges i'm here at the court and we'll be bringing you all the latest. the cia comes under fire as one of its operatives goes to court for minor offenses despite me wanting for a string of terror attacks and. a breakthrough in the

rescue mission to retrieve the shits of russia's place where the iceberg is now close to achieving not one final shed. i know you're watching artie world news and much more welcome to the program well the wiki leaks founder has arrived in a london court as he continues his battle against extradition to the song she is wanted in sweden to face sex crime navigations well to his lawyer and that is keeping a close eye on developments and joins us now with more what's expected to happen in court today. well judy nassau as we know arrived in a short time ago about half an hour before the case was juice to begin that apparently has now started and what it is today is what's called a case management hearing and that will then say it's the final extradition hearing

officials of the court that say that what's going to go on today is that they're going to ensure that the will issues of the case all are being identified and examined and also that preparations for this extradition hearing are taking place in a timely fashion and what we expect to come out of today is that the full extradition hearing which is expected to last a couple of days will take place to walk through beginning of february so another couple of weeks. will say its own bail and wait for this extradition hearing to be heard what happened before christmas was that you and i saw she was released on bail that happened around about the middle of december after after a fight release to be released on bail in the end the bail sum was set at over three hundred thousand dollars and he's been staying at a friend's house in the east of england ever since then waiting for this extradition to happen and that of course follows the issuing by sweden of a european arrest warrants on sexual assault allegations made by two former wiki

leaks supporters. who are a soldier insists that the u.s. is trying to extradite him for the embarrassing revelations that came out on wiki leaks what evidence is washington trying to assemble that. that's right judy innocence has said repeatedly that he's absolutely sure that the u.s. is planning to extradite him from sweden and in fact his lawyer said that there was an extradition request from the u.s. in progress or in fact already having been launched the u.s. government seems to be amassing evidence to put student assaults on trial for espionage although we don't have any official confirmation of that yet last week they the u.s. government handed out subpoenas to this social networking site twitter and what they want is the personal details of people who are connected to wiki leaks and julian ourselves as well we also hear in the daily telegraph that apparently the

u.s. authorities are offering bradley manning a plea deal now bradley manning of course was the of the army the u.s. army personnel who issued video footage of an apache helicopter shooting civilians in iraq and that of course was wiki leaks first big coup the first big leak that they released that came from bradley manning he has already been made to face charges for that but we now hear from the daily telegraph that he's being offered a plea bargain in exchange for incriminating information about ourselves and wiki leaks so it does seem that an espionage case is being prepared in the u.s. we do have to wait to see whether he's going to be extradited to sweden and to see inter and then whether the u.s. does apply for his extradition that. ok or end it for now thank you for that. well still to come on the program when great political rhetoric turns into a rampage. titian's groups turns into

a black box imus to tell us what they think growth going to tell us six cents a day gross for. the price of loyalty trying to. get in the shoes of this. taliban instead of creating more instability. former cia operative who is wanted in venezuela and cuba for terrorist attacks throughout latin america has gone to trial in the us that's not why. he's in court steady he's being charged with lying to gratian offices. looks at why the us is turning a blind eye to the terrorist. miami florida white sandy beaches miniskirts and bikini. this vacation spot is also home to a convicted international terrorist luis posada could be less coined the bin laden

of the americas the anti castro cuban was the cia's dirty secret in south and central america trained as an explosives expert at the new tory a school of the americas posada's acts of terrorism spanned five decades it impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner four fifty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act posada plans from venice and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened either cutlass was a mastermind of the of the overall mean of the of the of the crew on a flight and still he's here posada was convicted him stenchy and then as well of masterminding the bombing however not only did the us government refused to extradite posada to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as

a key element in the contra wars which clean lines of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. he was a leading figure in the iran contra affair in the one nine hundred eighty s. had the cia stop assad in his tracks just off my shoes my my brother. livia distil mills brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the us of a victim of the family victim of terrorism and it's absurd distil know an italian businessman was murdered in one thousand nine hundred seven bombing orchestrated by posada it was one of a string of hotel and nightclub bombings in cuba distil know describes posada as a monster created by a country that is. their government officials to push their agenda are willing to go for any or any wrote after jailing posidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warn the justice department up aside its terrorist past that he was set free anyway was now put solder is on trial in el

paso texas the charges against him not international terrorism but immigration fraud and perjury we unleashed him on the world peter kornbluh of the national security archives obtained dozens of documents pertaining to preside his involvement with the cia he says the case is about whether the united states truly can hold real terrorists although in this case a terrorist who was once our terrorist accountable livio acknowledges the importance of poseidon on trial but insists it's going to be too little too late and it wasn't the only acts of terrorism poseidon was involved in there was the two thousand assassination attempt on cuban leader fidel castro and a series of attacks across latin america the legacy of luis posada is that he is a cia created frankenstein and he went out and committed murder and mayhem the cia

once described posada as a reliable asset to the u.s. government a man of good character pro-u.s. who would make an excellent official in a post castro government their evaluation of him could not have been more mistaken half a century after post. i could be less again doing the cia's dirty work in latin america his bloody legacy lives on for the countless victims and as the u.s. government continues to fight the so-called war on terrorism extraditing kidnapping and assassinating suspects in other countries it continues to harbor one of the hemisphere's most notorious terrorists are t. washington d.c. well around one hundred activists gathered for a symbolic people's tribe you know ahead of monday's trial to hear terrorism charges against saddam and his accomplices. campaign brian becker was also that he believes the wanted man is being protected by american interests the american

government has harbored terrorism they finance terrorism luis posada carriles is there are terrorists protected particularly by the bush family and he was imprisoned in venezuela but escaped his imprisonment now venezuela is demanding he be extradited and yet the united states government won't extradite him to. because they say they fear that the venezuelan government will torture luis posada it's nonsense is just shows the absolute hostility towards a minute's wailing government towards the cuban revolution and of course showing the world that the united states is above the law above international law there's no good reason moral reason political reason or legal reason not to extradite luis posada carriles to venezuela where he escaped from prison for blowing up a civilian airliner that had cuban athletes on it. a refrigerator vessel has been transported to safer waters by two ice breakers ships on russia's far east heading for a supply ship stranded last night with more than three hundred crew onboard so far

the vessels have been rescued over the past week that he tells now from sarah ferguson sarah it seems that there is so smart at the end of the icy tunnel. well certainly the welcome needs to the. law. so there's a two ice break his growth and crosses and heading back towards the no it's a slight change in strategy that we've seen in the final stages of this rescue operation we saw in the early hours of yesterday morning they managed to free up the small refrigerator vessel and they started fighting that all of yesterday and today tools. but what happened earlier today was that they managed to dispatch a helicopter pick hydrologists from the album micro icebreaker and they managed to see the area idolise the ice and they managed to find distasteful to leave this refrigerated vessel and that's freed up these two ice breakers to now go back the

same way they come down which means they can avoid having to break free for their eyes coming back making their way back to last largest supply vessel we had sten a press conference a federal fishing agency say the final part now going of freeing up this large ship is going to be the most difficult. reconnaissance helicopter sent by the emergencies ministry was observed to the canals which before would regularly freeze over and i'm clear in stable the ice breakers compton's have decided to turn around and come back for the supply ship leaving the refrigerator vessel for now to try and get the supply ship out the operation has now entered its final and most difficult stage according to our calculations it will conclude within forty eight hours first to get both ships i don't. know the estimate as to when the final operation is going to be finished still very dependent on these weather

conditions that we think we know about the whole operation that is really being very tricky as they come up very late which is incredibly because. they've now been able to continue back along the path they'd already broken not so it's now entering the final. serious you mention the conditions there and there's been some speculation about why these two ships were working in harsh weather conditions in this area in the first place. being questions all the current day. in the ice is renowned for being a very dangerous marine area this very clear space is now we know that at this time the conditions have really made that was but people will be looking to see whether the company. should have allowed them to get in the area in the first place whether they could have avoided that risk anyway as we said it's been an incredibly long

operation. over these icebreakers they've been working to retrieve the ships and say once it's over we're looking at whether the companies who are in the hold any responsibility and whether possibly any fines will then be followed but at the moment of course really the focus now is all making their way back to that supply ship getting it then be joining up with the refrigerated vessel that they've left and getting. together. ok we'll leave it there for sarah for three forty thank you. well from a sea of ice to weld of snow in just a few minutes takes you to eastern siberia. going around one of the coldest regions of the planet is not going to return after i'm sure talking to your good year and coming up we'll show you how it's done. twenty two year old man charged with attempting to assassinate a u.s. congresswoman her two brothers could face life in prison the death penalty if

convicted the court ordered stronger to be held without bail he's accused of going on a shooting rampage outside a supermarket in the state. democrats were shot in the head and remains in critical condition a nine year old girl and the district judge were among the six. schechter says it's the norm. such tragedies the. assault weapons ban which show republicans in two thousand and four laps this was a big battle over gun control and the republicans lined up against a ban on assault weapons that the gun that was actually used in the shooting would have been covered in that ban so actually the failure of having the ban you know made that weapon legally available to this young man there are many cases like this of violence that probably could have been prevented had there been regulations and laws in effect obviously you can't protect everyone from from

a lone nuts as this guy has been called or people who are you know mental distress and who have access to weapons but clearly more could be done to educate people about these issues there's been a lot of studies about how the coarseness on t.v. encourages you know the sort of bullying that takes place in our schools and the violence in our communities people tend to see monkey see monkey do usually what happens is people take out the violence on themselves with suicides and and killings in their own families from despair and because we are living in an economic recession slash depression people are pretty desperate and if there's a gun around they might use it. the u.s. army is training with is to secure afghanistan's most dangerous areas for a few dollars a month washington to keep fighting. against about jason what about for

the world it's not so easily it. isn't so the good way to call home to a long stretch of afghanistan's national highway wardak has been a focal point of the taliban's comeback in recent years. in early two thousand and nine overstretched afghan forces were struggling to hold back so military planners decided to raise a local militia to help cover the most dangerous gaps sides a kia quit a better paying job to join because he was tired of the fighting around his village in the valley nicknamed by u.s. troops the valley of death for its deadly ambushes and firefights mike. the situation was bad here and i needed to do something for my family before it gets worse. there are hundreds of militiamen like him spread across wardak province now the afghan government and u.s. military are about to launch dozens of new militias in hotspots around the country the minute this outpost were trained for three weeks by american special forces

units if you kalashnikov rifles and are paid about two hundred dollars a month to keep watch over the community they are approved by the village elders and they work within the district there from which gives them not only do they understand the dynamics and the people that they're working with their understand the community and and the threat in the area two years ago it was a taliban stronghold where u.s. forces and armored vehicles came under fierce attack nearly every time they tried to drive through it today attacks are rare and afghan local militia travel freely in pickup trucks from the beginning however critics have argued that arming militias in place of government forces could create vigilante groups which are impossible to control militia forces will be loyal to the government a problem with the present cateye they will certainly be loyal to those who would be able to replace united states financing the former head of the program in wardak a shady ex taliban commander named mohammed has already been replaced some u.s. officials privately suspected he was playing both sides and of the twelve hundred

men that began the program nearly four hundred have quit taking their weapons with them it's believed that dozens of join the insurgency if the militia continues to be under resourced or that governor for die worries it could backfire to the taliban's advantage. these forces if they're not support it or not a decorative resource it could be used against the government because he will join those groups will get support there those who are in afghanistan government backed militias stand accused of murder theft and rape in northern province local city are worse than the taleban support for the war effort flooding the us military is looking for a quick fix of forces could leave but hasty decisions risk making a bad situation worse it is more militias are raised in the year ahead it appears there will be more risks to manage jason more in the job is valid for r.t. . let's update you now on some of today's other well he's. been is bracing itself

for the worst floods and for three decades as heavy rain squalls rivers to swell and raced towards australia's third largest city officials are warning that's one of a six thousand properties may be inundated in the next few days affecting some fifteen thousand people the raging torrent seven sweeping through eastern australia for two weeks at least nine people dead seventy two missing. iran has arrested ten people it's linked to israeli intelligence here for espionage and involvement in the killing of an iranian scientist in yemen in a motorcycle bomb explosion the suspects were seized for an operation last thing several months which infiltrated mossad officials believe israeli spies are targeting brain scientists and specialist was killed another wounded in the twin bomb attacks last november. now life is tough in remote eastern

siberia what is surprising for a place which is occupying the coldest inhabited region on earth as thomas now reports from iraq it means the locals need to turn the landscape's frozen features to their advantage. room temperature for exploring modes of transportation if you are already one of the coldest region around acquired it really started to pick are a form of transportation and that's true and i'm star trek which i'm one of. these ducks can live in an extremely harsh environment they can stand easily winter temperatures when you're from minus fifty to minus sixty degrees with strong winds and very hot summer temperatures from plus thirty to plus forty degrees celsius they're well adapted to the local climate. perhaps because of their versatility travelling long ago became part of the a tradition. that back if you like the dogs are all are you cookin like us the equation like is one of the oldest aboriginal breeds that exist on this

planet these dogs have been used for i don't know how many thousand years a sledge and hunting animals there in demick to cull them out and the polar area. travelling by dog sled is necessary for those living their lives here but there are many others who come from all over the world for this experience thank you it's just you and the dogs in the forest with the white snow and the snow capped mountains and if dogs are your style well you could choose going by reindeer or there's even a special type of course you could hear in a horse specific to this area that can handle the temperatures but no matter what animal you choose you're going to have to pick a sleigh all the way here's your way through your eyes and your the one you know my ancestors would be a breed isn't hunters too my grandfather was a sniper in germany during world war two he was a hero of the soviet union he returned to dia breeding off to coming home from the

war in total there have been about ten generations of deer breeders in our family. this is a market here and you could scan it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh is frozen. it just lets you know that even the food around here has something to do with ice. stroke and you know it is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved it directly from the fish onto the plate here even the milk is sold in frozen blocks and if you're looking for a quick afternoon snack what was it that the you gave but what this is called meat the culture of the committee and greens was slow to them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat at frozen because frozen meats preserves more vitamins than when you boil it for convenience we mince the meat in a meat grinder then it's easier to pick up the hound aga and put it in your mouth if the temperatures in this part of the world are sometimes as low as minus sixty

two have shaved every aspect of people's existence from their parents how they get around to the very food they eat life here is on ice. in yakutia sean thomas r.t. . to show that i think that our stories are ready to watch any time it. takes to what else is there for you today look up the roots of russia's most infamous fraudster and scam it is a new pretty. perilous state that is a comeback with an internet. helping feed doctors are prescribing creature comforts to help cure aches and pains read about. future.

coming up next though it's the business news with you here. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program the russian currency is expected to climb to an eight month high this quarter and stronger oil prices and rising interest rates new investors and increased demand for the ruble a bluebook survey of most accurate analysts in the last quarter predicts ruble will lead once over three percent by the end of march they expected surge will be the largest since the first auto last year when a five to help percent jump oil prices helped the currency strengthen almost six percent but russia could also play a part in their world bulls appreciation by loosening control of the chorus trading range against the dollar. mergers and acquisitions activity in russia more than doubled in twenty ten a thomson reuters study six to seven billion dollars worth of deals were done

making the country i am a name leader in eastern europe telecoms chemical and energy sectors where the main drivers the global and name market began this year with new highs with eighty three billion dollars worth of consolidation signed in the first ten days of january that's a twenty one percent rise from the same period last year. raising the transit tariff for russian oil by twelve and a half the cent starting from next month the increase was agreed by both parties at the end of last year following months of talks but of course expects eighty million tons of oil to be pumped through its territory during twenty eleven that's roughly the same as in twenty ten. gas production russia jumped almost twelve percent in twenty ten compared to the previous year the vast majority of those cave from gas problem which accounted for around eight percent off russia's output. and

a quick look at the markets european stocks are higher in london the footsie is high point eight percent and in london barclay is rallying twenty point seven percent and lloyds banking group is agent two percent shares of h.s.b.c. holdings have jumped two point six percent off to citigroup upgraded the investment bank to hold from by citing strong new management and expectations for stronger growth from asian operations the dax is just marginally harve point two percent shares siemens giving two percent in germany after the electronics and engineering group's chief financial officer said the company will report higher fiscal first quarter earnings and sales. ok and here in russia the markets have reopened after a ten day break for new year some making only modest gains on the back of the strong but well priced the r.t.s. is up a third of the senate and m i six is trading point three five.