one say misstating their annual jam in the dolemite sinisterly on their main drive financial lawns arrive sporting meetings latest gear new logo and jackets for them joining the party later in the wee bit to cathy may teach and painting valentino rossi and you can hayden are expected to attend with a ski race planned for the stars on a frozen lake. that is all the sports weather commitment. for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers.

tonight in the program the wiki leaks founder julian assange appears in the u.k. court of the fights extradition to sweden over sexual assault allegations which he claims are politically motivated. portuguese authorities refused speculation the country is going to ask for a multi-billion euro bailout but experts say it will do little to shore up the fold for example currency plus. a breakthrough in the rescue mission to retrieve the

start of russia's east place with the icebreaker is now close to achieving that final. this is r t it's now nine pm here in moscow welcome if you just joined us my name is kevin though in our top story tonight the wiki leaks founder is briefly appeared in london court as he continues his battle against extradition to. sweden to face sex crime allegations which he claims have been fabricated in order to eventually prosecute him on espionage charges in the united states laura much keeping a close eye on developments for us. it was essentially what they call a case management herring today which is when they set the date for the main herring and just check that all the evidence is in course and being prepared in a timely fashion we do now know when the full extradition extradition hearing 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 julian assange has 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 a record 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 julian assange which was released on bail out happened around about the middle of december after after a fight really 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 warrants on sexual assault allegations made by two film a wiki leaks support says i'm joined to talk more about the details of this case by gerald batten 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 which 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 saw try to challenge the evidence against him which i might do and say well it's not sufficient to justify extradition on judicial surrenders and now it's all the charges. well i'm not allowed to consider the evidence i'm not allowed to take into account the only grounds that you can oppose extradition very narrow you have to be old enough to committed the crime it has to be not a distant past you know twenty five years or something and it mustn't be because

you're being prosperous acutely on the grounds of your political or 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 court 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 our stars there to face espionage charges what do you think that will bring oh yes i'm sure there's lots of political maneuvering inside the powers that be a very difficult position the americans want to get their hands on a sound authorities now think the game's up people can see what the european arrest warrants are about me. 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 come 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 pub 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 as a member of the european parliament talking to artes nor am it in london a bit. this is r.t. coming up in the program we'll look at how a country bent on fighting terrorism appears to be sheltering one instead the u.s. is accused of protecting a former cia agent who is wanted in latin america for the deadly terror attacks with the details on that just ahead. first the work of the u.k.'s border agency has been slammed in a report by british m.p.'s the document suggests that at least sixty thousand asylum seekers will be left to live illegally in the u.k. because the agency has lost all trace of them robin simcox a research fellow at the center for social cohesion told me that the situation

results from the u.k.'s open door policy and its obligations as an e.u. member britain is essentially lost control of who is coming into the country and once you can secure your borders you can't secure your country this is a outrageous situation that's allowed to develop why there is a huge problem with the britains inability to deport generally. being part of the european union we often can't deport people but country of origin because it may contravene the european convention on human rights on top of this there's a systemic problem where the huge backlog of cases and we have something like a half a million backlog of cases simply can't be processed and can't be dealt with quickly enough so you have a lot of people and net immigration last year into the u.k. was around two hundred thousand people more coming to the u.k. than leave it to any out that on top of the assignment seekers and the backlog and of course we're going to have a massive problem we just need to be much stricter laydown much stricter criteria

on who should be allowed into the u.k. and i don't think we've got it in control in anywhere near amount enough because it is a. 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 been resolutely denying media rumors that portugal is being pushed to ask for a one hundred billion dollars package to discuss this in more depth as catch up mode financial advisor marco pitiful is joining us on the line from london tonight mr pitts poly evening to you well we're hearing the germany is reported to be making this move to push lisbon to take the money to prevent the crisis from spreading further must ask you is plunging another country into debt really the only way to save the euro is it actually worth saving anyway well good evening kevin well the germans and another europeans may wish to try and push portugal into the is to try and stabilize the economic markets and stabilize the situation the

portuguese on the other hand of course the go to face their own electorate as soon as they accept help from the european union or the i.m.f. they are effectively admitting defeat and therefore they're going to have a hard sell against their own population to try to explain to them why this is a good option but also of course you're giving up national sovereignty you're going to have another power who you're indebted to coming in and started dictate how and where you can spend and what austerity measures probably severe austerity measures need to be implemented further and again that's going to be very difficult sale to the population in portugal if severe further austerity measures are implemented but it's only of course that greece and ireland are the do very recently they had to go cap in hand with the begging bowl out it didn't stop the crisis from spreading so why is there optimism that if indeed portugal does the same thing it will be the

panacea to all these ills. i think we need to understand that stopping greece from going bankrupt which was really the first of the european countries was to try and prevent a knock on effect or a snowballing effect because those only european debt mainly other european countries and the banks and investors it would have had a knock on effect and so what the what we're trying to do is to to try and stop a snowball effect by rescuing these countries but this is not in any kind of way a final solution for the european debt crisis it is just buying time for these countries so that hopefully they will be able to get control of their fiscal situation and the markets will start to to believe in them again that they are able to service their debt moving forward in reality what's happening is burden in this country with these countries a lot more debt to service and the jury is still out on whether they can actually

turn their fiscal position around over the next few years now cutting cutting expenditure is fairly straightforward but actually trying to generate economic growth when that severe austerity measures are being being implemented is going to very difficult to achieve and there's no guarantee that their financial position is going to improve substantially in the coming in the coming years so what are you saying that this this whole policy is folly. some stage in my view someone's got to fail you can't save all the banks and save all the countries because at some point someone's got to file or which is the other option which we've been pursuing so far is that we just carry on printing money and everybody carry on printing money and we end up with hyperinflation and most currencies then become worthless so at some stage someone's got to fail but what we're doing is patching up patching up patching up hoping that the issue's going to

go away pushing the can further down the road now the europeans have to start thinking about a complete reform of the european structure what that means is a federal integration in terms of fiscal federal integration there has to be a system generally based on the e.c.b. being able to issue debt at the european group strength level which will be the lowest interest rates and then be able to bail out countries with some kind of treasury system. set up or of course the e.c.b. is the only issuer of debts and then allocates a certain amount to different members countries but you can't really have all of that without a stabilisation or normalization of of retirement ages for example or months other issues across the european union why should the germans work till sixty seven to help bail out the southern european states who are who are retired earlier this

this can't happen without reform on a number of different levels mark foley thank you for being on the line from london tonight's currency. and while portugal mulls over its economic woes are those of the more practical excursion stacy herbert here one european governments incited the wrath of fiendish powers no less with its new tax net because report on shortly . romania's 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 which is the fortune teller's from the first of january of this year and because of this the witches are basically cursing the government now queen which brought terror because they are is fear it's about the new law and she says that she plans to cast a spell using a particularly effective concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog goldman sachs collateralized debt obligation most of it is cat extreme

it and dogs this is what they're finding 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 dead beatles eye of newt some old chicken bones some dead cat extra man that's about all they got of the federal reserve because the u.s. is technically. grow up and solve and so these witches are fighting fire with fire yeah they're extreme it with dog poop. and nothing. more for mr carson and friends here on this channel and two times more news a former cia agent alleged to be one of the most notorious terrorists in recent history is going on trial in the u.s. to spend as one today in cuba and venezuela for most of on the number of deadly terror including the one thousand nine hundred six bombing of a passenger plane which killed over seventy people but none of these episodes are

among the charges he faces in the u.s. as. reports next. 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 and impacted half a dozen countries. over seventy people were killed in uganda airliner for fifty five was bombed in one nine hundred seventy six a terrorist act posada plans from venice wallah 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 u.s. government refused to extradite but started to venezuela to serve his term the cia continued to employ him as a key element of the country wars which plane winds of seventy thousand civilians in nicaragua. 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 distil most brother fabio would still be alive put yourself in the place of the ex of a victim of the family victim of terrorism and it's absurd distil know an italian businessman was murdered in one nine hundred ninety 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 in a series of attacks across latin america after jailing posidon upon entering the u.s. illegally law enforcement agencies warned the justice department a poseidon's terrorist past but he was set free and he was now procedure 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 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 posada karela 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. . so you know about something coming up tomorrow russian investigators will deliver the final report on last april's plane crash which killed the polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others the documents expected to reveal yet no fuck some point to those responsible for the tragedy you can follow the full coverage of the

results of the investigation tomorrow here on alt. the tragedy. which. president. reveal. in the kitchen see plane crash. course tomorrow. refrigeration ship that has been stuck fast in ice off russia's far east coast has been transported to safer waters by two ice breakers they're now heading to the final ship that's been stranded from a fortnight with more than three hundred crew still aboard the sarah firth as the details of the rescue operation. certainly welcome to the crew

a large supply vessel as the two ice breakers. cross and heading back towards the no it's a slight change in strategy that we've seen in this final stages of this rescue operation we saw in the early hours of yesterday morning they'd managed to free up the refrigerator and they started doing that all of yesterday and today tools. but what happened earlier today was that they mounted a helicopter pick hydrologists from the album micro icebreaker and they managed to see the area idolize the ice layer and they managed to find distasteful to leave this refrigerated vessel and that's freed up these two ice breakers to now back the same way which means they can avoid having to break free further ice coming back making their way back to the largest supply vessel that we had to attend 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. the icebreakers 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 out. now 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 it's really been very tricky for these icebreakers they've come up against very late temperatures incredibly. bit as 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. so for a correspondent on that story for you the russian province of u. kuti are located in eastern siberia has the an enviable reputation as one of the most hostile environments known to man but the locals there in the weather excitable choice of transportation don't seem to mind that at all sean thomas tells us how they've adapted to life in one of the coldest places on earth. very i'm tempted to call for extreme modes of transportation if you are already at one of the whole region around acquired it we were started to pick our form of transportation and that's plain i'm sorry fact that 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 cuttin tradition. saw back if you like the dogs are all are you cookin like us the equation like is one of the oldest aboriginal brits 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 color 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 to your new order because i 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 and this is a market here and you are good and it ends the debate of fresh or frozen because here fresh frozen and. just let's 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 agreed with slaughter them in autumn and freeze the meat we eat it 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 to have shaped 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 schon thomas our t.v. . show and his new found friends calling tell me it's time to look at what extent made messages lead to human violence we've got a special report lined up for you tonight but before that the business update with dmitri after a quick break. blown

a warm welcome to business with me dimitri medvedev and co the ruble is jumped to twenty two month high against the euro and is at a one year high versus its target basket currency is up more than two percent against the euro and one of the first trading day of course in russia after the long new year holidays and the suggested local investors were repatriating money amid concern that europe's debt crisis will worsen the ruble was not significantly change versus the. 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 some of europe's telecoms chemical and energy sectors where the main drivers of 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 january another twenty one percent

increase from the same area last year. valerie says raising the transit tariff for russian oil by twelve and a half percent starting from next month the increase was agreed upon by parties at the end of last year following months of talks bellerose expects eighteen million tons of oil to be come through the territory june twenty seventh that's roughly the same as in twenty ten same with crude oil was hitting twenty seven month highs all session long just over ninety one dollars a barrel at the moment and exit corkins well and gas and that's from what else it says the rally is partly being driven by speculation. war since we can't identify any fundamental drug was strong enough to cause a rally of this magnitude. or we can do is describe this to financial speculation nothing less than prices actually translate into

end user prices which are. consumers worldwide have to have to pay for the fuel. and so this is going to have a real impact. we call them is. the stock of the stock markets now in the u.s. the markets are trading they're rising on optimistic reports also being given a lift by japan joining china and saying it will buy bonds in the european bailout fund bank of america that had a big trend with a two percent. european stock markets traded in the black on tuesday in london the footsie was up a percent for the strong financial rally after tensions over the euro area sovereign debt eased in frankfurt the dax ended up also one point zero eight percent shares and siemens gained three percent of the electronics and engineering groups chief financial officer said the company would report higher first quarter earnings and cycles.