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the wiki leaks of founder julian alphonse has appeared in a u.k. court if he finds extradition to sweden over the sexual assault allegations which he clings to simply motivated. portuguese all fours he's refused speculation the country is going to all for a multi-billion euro bailout but experts say it'll do little to sure up before

touring single currency. the u.s. is accused of protecting a home with the i agent to vent in the america for deadly terror attacks this new goes on trial over immigration reform plus. a breakthrough in the rescue mission to retrieve the shit star of russia's far east place with the icebreaker is now close to retrieving the final show. a very warm welcome to you this is our team coming to you live from moscow with me allies have heard the wiki leaks founder has briefly appeared in a long been caught as he continues his battle against extradition julian our son launches want to be in sweden to face sex crime allegations which he claims have been fabricated in order to eventually prosecute him all espionage challenges in

the u.s. . it is keeping a close on developments it was essentially what they call a case management hearing today which is when they set the date for the main hearing and just check that all the evidence is in course of being prepared in a timely fashion we do know know when the full extradition extra to. and herring is going to be that's going to take place on the seventh and eighth of february so we've got to wait another sort of three weeks for for the full herring to happen and julia stiles appeared in court on tuesday for this case management hearing after it was a that he made a short statement to the media outside let's hear what he had to say we are happy about today's outcome. i have the court to make available to members of the press. skeleton argument which we've had to produce in very short time over christmas what happened

before christmas was that you know innocence 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 a rest warrant on sexual assault allegations made by to film a wiki leaks support says i'm joined to talk more about the details of this case by general patton who's a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party he's also a valium and opponent of the european arrest warrant which is of course the legality under way students ourselves his extradition to sweden is being requested joe budden thanks very much for talking to us so we now know that the main hearing is going to be on the seventh and eighth of february what what do you expect to happen that will you see if the lawyers on mr sanchez so i try to challenge the evidence against him which i might do and say well it's not sufficient to justify

extradition of judicial surrenders it now is all the judge can say is well i'm not allowed to consider the evidence i'm not allowed to tell you the into account the only grounds that you can oppose extradition very narrow you have to be old enough to commit to the crime it has to be not a distant past you know twenty five years or something. it mustn't be because you're being processed persecuted on the grounds of your political sexual orientation very narrow grounds like that which he won't qualify for and of course i have sat through a case where it seemed fairly obvious to the coup and indeed to the judges hearing the appeal that the evidence had been manufactured by the police but of course another important element in this particular case is this pressure that we understand is coming from the u.s. to eventually extradite ourselves there to face espionage charges what you think that will bring oh yes i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering so the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on a song which authorities now think the game's up people can see what the european

arrest warrants are about you know so my guess is our car know what they're going to do but i'm fairly confident that they're going to come up with some kind of cynical fix that will allow him either to go back to australia or possibly to go back voluntarily to sweden if some kind of deal is done about what charges will be laid against him but what we'll want to do i'm sure is put to bed this whole problem media publicity about the european arrest because this is just this there are other legal instruments coming through which remove our freedoms in other areas of life all done in the name of integrating europe's legal systems. the member of the european parliament batten they're talking to our door emmet in london. now the portuguese finance minister says he doesn't expect lisbon to ask for a bailout to resolve its economic problems senior officials from the country have been resolutely denying media room is that portugal is being pushed to ask for

a hundred billion dollar package but a member of the european parliament there it is says portugal is likely to be next in line to suffer from the cusp of the euro saying. there are mixed messages there are everywhere on the back row on the background of the great instability of the eurozone and of great institutional weaknesses of the eurozone that are ultimately the causes of all of this so. a certain stage either portugal goes to the i.m.f. or no either portugal manages to lower its deficits right away or make it in the medium or long term what happens that is that still the euro has institutional weaknesses that haven't been solved. even if modern medical and mrs the have told us in december that they will do everything to save the euro fact is that they who can union has not done its homework from december to january and now the

pressure is back again. and while portugal moans over its economic woes all those are being more practical months kyra and say see how one european government doesn't find to throw rocks off fiendish poets with new tax net kinds of reporting is coming your way in just about twenty minutes time but here's a quick preview. of years which is curse income tax ruling so because of the financial crisis and the collapse of the banking systems and g.d.p.'s around the world romania's government has started taxing witches of fortune tellers from the first of january this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought her a booze there is fierce about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement a dead dog just won't goldman sachs collateralized debt obligation most of it is

cat extreme it and dogs this is what they're fighting the federal reserve bank's balance sheet in washington the reason why they're afraid to do an audit at the request of ron paul is because they know that they've got basically beatles eye of newt some old chicken bones some extra mint that's about all they've got at the federal reserve because the u.s. is technically. grow up installed so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah the. dog poop. now former cia agent and lead to be one of the most think tourist terrorists in recent history has gone on trial in the us. is wanted in cuba and venezuela for most of minding a number of deadly terror acts including the one hundred seventy six bombing of a passenger plane which killed the seventy people but not all of these episodes are among the challenges he faces in the us. this explains.

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 ladden 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 and impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed when cuban airliner for fifty five was bombed in one thousand nine hundred ninety six a terrorist act posada plans from venice walla and according to cia documents the agency was aware of it before it happened it was a mastermind of the. flight and still he's here

posada was convicted in absentia and then a swell of masterminding the bombing however not only did the us government refused to extradite decided to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element of the contra wars which clean lines of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. with 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 in my shoes my brother was killed in libya the still most brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the efforts 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 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. oh and a series of attacks across latin america after jailing posidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warned the justice department up aside its terrorist past but he was set free anyway was now prosodic 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 provide 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 posada on trial but insists it's going to be too little too late 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 half a century after post a lot of 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 hemispheres most notorious terrorists are t. washington d.c. . well still ahead for you this hour a look at how loyalty comes as a price in afghanistan before for local militiamen trained by u.s. forces are putting their financial well being and of any protection to the community. but they were put in has expressed his condolences to

a u.s. congresswoman and others caught up in a mass shooting in arizona the prime minister was visiting russia's mission and control center where he spoke to democrats and god really gives the brother in law who's currently on all the i.s.f. . i want to assure you that everyone in brushes sympathizes with the situation i know that mrs giffords is the wife of your brother he's also an astronaut who visited moscow just like you with a very sorry about this and hope that she will get well we give our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this shooting. of a shooting rampage took place outside a supermarket in our zone it left six people dead and fourteen others injured on monday suspects jared long made his first court appearance on five challenges including attempting to assassinate a u.s.

congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot in the head and remains in a critical condition the shooting spree once again ignited the debate on gun control in the u.s. p.r. consultant it t.j. walker says it would be a very tough task to cool down america's liking for firearms americans how passionate love affair and it's basically politically impossible for any politician to try to propose living. just recently rules are written to let people bring guns into schools in arizona so that is an extraordinarily difficult political challenge because the gun lobby basically controls congress in america and local legislators as well. afghanistan now where the u.s. army is training a local militia to help fight the taliban and while the strategy appears to be working in some areas there are few think that's going to back to us is just a more. as the southern gateway to kabul and home to

a long stretch of afghanistan's national highway has been the focal point of the taliban's comeback in recent years in early two thousand and nine but we're stretched afghan forces were struggling to hold back some military planners decided to raise a local militia to help cover the most dangerous gaps the 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. the situation was bad and i needed to do something for my family before it got worse. there are hundreds of militiamen like him spread across wardak province now if you have good government the 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 their own 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 the valley 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 in the 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 president karzai they will certainly be loyal to those who would be able to replace united states financing the former head of the program and ward. shady ex taliban commander in england 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 these forces if they had not

support it not a decorative resource it could be used against the government because he will join those groups who can support them those who are in afghanistan militia stand accused of murder theft and rape in northern province local say they are worse than the taliban with support for the war effort flagging the u.s. military is looking for a quick fix of forces can 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. . i refrigerator in it ship that has been fucked up phone off and i saw frost says far east coast has been transported to safer was his bites he whines break his well they are now heading to the final a ship that's been stranded for almost a fortnight with more than three hundred crew on board asking therof and how the

team to help this rescue operation. so i certainly welcome to the crew a large supply vessel as the two ice breakers. 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 a small refrigerator 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 marker of ice breaker and they managed to see the area idolize the ice play and they managed to find distasteful to leave this refrigerated vessel and that's freed up these two icebreakers to now pay back the same way they've come down which means they can avoid having to break free for their eyes coming back so they'll be making their way back to last largest

supply vessel that we had stand 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. helicopter to send by the emergencies ministry was observed to the canals which before would regularly freeze and i'm clear unstable. because compton's have decided to turn around and come back for the supply ships 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 to get both ships. were 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 for these icebreakers they come up against 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 stages and it's. and from the frozen waters of russia's far east to the freezing land of eastern siberia where we take you in just a few minutes. reading around one of the coldest regions on the planet is not only returns going short time to see if you're good you're coming up we'll show you how it's done. a civil nuclear deal between russia and the us is finally come into force it's seen as one of the symbols of the reset between the two nations it took place as russia's deputy foreign minister and the u.s. ambassador to moscow exchanged diplomatic malone's the agreement allows washington to exchange atomic energy technology for joint commercial nuclear power ventures and work closely on proliferation. that is hailed it as a step forward in promoting the peaceful use of nuclear power it comes on the back

of the atomic bombs caught steel which is expected to be ratified by russia's parliament seeing the start treaty was approved by the u.s. congress last month in house wrangling. ok and now let's take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world including capital raising itself for its worst flooding in over three decades the heavy rains swept through the australian state with the brisbane river overflowing its banks officials warn that the country's third largest city may be inundated in the next few days affecting some fifteen thousand people that follow the violent way of a flash flood that deluge a ton of queensland killing at least ten people two thirds of the state has been declared a disaster zone. china is confirmed conducted a successful flight test of a new stealth fighter the news comes while the u.s.

secretary of defense robert gates is on a lot of visit to the country the chinese president's state of the tests were pre-planned in the time. timing was a coincidence david says visit boosting ties followed the series of confrontations between the two countries over china's military modernization. now the russian province of records here located in the eastern siberia has the an enviable reputation as one of the most hostile environments known to man but the locals and the other excitable choice of transportation seem to mind that much as you sean thomas tells us how they've adapted to life in one of the coldest places in the worlds. dream temperatures call for exploring the modes of transportation if you are already one of the pirate we decided to pick our form of transportation and that's a pretty nice guy back. in one of. these dogs can live in an extremely harsh environment

they can stand easily winter temperatures going up 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 like. perhaps because of their versatility traveling long ago became part of the a cuttin tradition i. saw back if you like the dogs are all are you can like us the equation like is one of the oldest aboriginal groups 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 took and the polar area. traveling 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 aren't your style well you could choose going by reindeer or there's even

a special type of course you could you know 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 to go with a new order because you know my ancestors were deep breeders and hunters too my grandfather was a sniper in germany during world war two he was a hero of the soviet union he returned to deal breeding off to coming home from the war in total there have been about ten generations of deer breeders in our family and this is a market here and your goods kind of ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh frozen and. just lets you know that even the food around here has something to do with ice. through is a specially prepared fish dish where the frozen meat is shaved it directly from the fish on to the plate here even the milk is sold in frozen blocks and if you're

looking for a quick afternoon snack for the love of it all the yes but what this is called meet the culture of the cootie and green it was slow to them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat at frozen because frozen meat 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 hamburger 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 shan thomas party. make a day go away good old ladies business on the way now good to meet you. but i'd welcome to the program start with currencies the ruble has jumped to a twenty two month high against the euro and is it

a one year high this is its target basket because it is up more than two percent against the euro what is the first trading day and rush up to the long holiday now analysts suggest that local investors are repatriating money amid concerns that europe's debt crisis will worsen the ruble is little changed against the dollar. mergers and acquisitions activity in russia more than doubled in twenty ten thomson reuters study says sixty seven billion dollars worth of deals were done making the country the m. and a leader in eastern europe telecoms chemical and energy sectors where the main drivers the global m. and a market began this year with new highs with eighty three billion dollars worth of consolidation signed in the first ten days of jack that's a twenty one percent increase from the same period last year. belo russo is raising the transit tariff for russian oil by twelve and a half percent starting from next month the increase was agreed upon both parties

by the end of last year following months of talks that lowers expects eighty million tons of oil to be pumped through the territory during twenty eleven and that's roughly the same value as twenty ten. oil prices hit twenty seven month highs near ninety dollars a barrel at the moment and it's a cork in senior oil and gas and this from says the rally is partly being driven by speculation. well since we can't identify any fundamental drivers strong enough to cause a rally of this magnitude and all we can do is describe this to financial speculation nothing less than prices actually translate to end user prices which are. consumers worldwide have to have to pay for the fuel. and so this is going.