well of course it's always had a big influence that at least since the great wave of immigration of sweets the united states in the nineteenth century and then created a kind of a reservoir of goodwill interest in all things then underneath this all the time certain interest in sweden had been developing stronger and stronger ties with the united states and that is especially true of the military conservative elements of society helping out a number of also been conservative elements in the source of democratic party who have been very pro-u.s. very pro-military especially those. unions that are involved in the arms industry but a really major turning point was entry into the european union. and european union as you probably know is in terms of foreign policy and military intelligence. and a subordinate to the wing of the united states really nato is completing its full

trade it you know so as soon as the social democrats announced that they were going to lead the country into the european union you started to see very clear signs that. sweden was adopting its foreign policy to the needs of nato the interests of e.u. in the united states and so forth how does this all play into julian assignments and the sax and spy programs and the push alternately for his extradition it's a hot potato as you can understand for the government here and now that they have been exposed through various wiki the leaks. as having. colluded with united states in ways that they had never before admitted over it was often suspected. it's an especially delicate time for them to go out and openly cooperate. for the next edition process reinfeldt as i understand it the prime

minister has apparently declared that this is not a political issue we have a completely through the judiciary and so on and so forth i think he is not entirely candid there. do you think that a staunch if extradited to sweden will receive a fair trial. well the trial is one thing if he's tried it will be because of these accusations of sexual misbehavior. then extradition is a completely separate process as you understand. whatever happens as a result of the trial the united states will probably request that he be extradited for these crimes that they're trying to invent you know in the united states and that will be a separate process and it will be reviewed by i haven't got all the details yet actually and when i called the justice department to try and get clarity on this

matter the people there weren't too sure about how it would work either but next the process usually is first processed by the immigration department and as i understand it then it can be appealed to a court of law and then the government can get involved it's stated right there in the legal procedure so there is room for political decision making in this matter. and then of course there are also many informal ways for the government to let its interest be known to the people underneath. what do you think of claims by an american blogger that america's most notorious right wing strategist karl rove could be involved somehow in the push for us on just extradition i'm very skeptical about that for a couple of reasons in the first place it was bush that he got into the white house not obama and he. math for my democrats because he is famous for playing stream me

dirty tricks on them that's one thing. the second point is you don't need karl rove to get the united states interested in extradition they're interested in that anyway and they have their normal channels quiet invisible channels for arranging these things the last thing they want is a high profile political figure rove to get involved in this and draw attention to it and do you think that he will be extradited to sweden. i can only tell you what . his. sources british lawyers have said to me about the british case in terms of the law they have a very strong case and if it were only. a question of the law then they figure that they have a seventy five to eighty percent chance of rejecting the swedish request for extradition to sweden then the question is how much how much politics will come to

play so they say carefully that they have a fifty fifty chance something like that. then if he comes to sweden. most of the legal people that i know here in st louis when they look at what is known so far about the charges against the fans think that there are certain he will be convicted. so if he is convicted of something here it will most likely from something very minor like then he will be either in jail for a while or released having suffered enough so to say so and then it will be up to us through its request for extradition. and then i think that will be largely a question public opinion if they are indifferent and if the media here succeed in their current efforts to give. a son a bad name to give them a bad reputation then the government will have

a lot of political freedom to. submit to the us request sweden is regarded as a neutral and independent country do you agree with that you can say. with some accuracy that when sweden joined the e.u. it ceased to be an independent nation. so it's a simple course politicians in order to justify. the entry. in just the offices that i've documented to set up membership in the. affected. regions independence and essentially eradicated or. else we didn't is not official member of nato but there are anti nato movements that are growing here in sweden in finland why is that well there's always actually there's always been in sweden and finland which are the two remaining nordic countries that are not in nato there's

been a strong opinion against nato membership. but essentially now through part of the so-called partnership for peace sweden has become a de facto member. made through official for said sweden is better equipped and performs better. in cooperation with us through. partnership for peace than many of our formal members do and that's true. and already in your thousand five hundred believe it was an official of the defense ministry here said. we are already so deeply involved in nato and participate in so many nato activities that the only thing that's missing to become a former member is the signature on a paper why does the political elite want to be in nato what's in it for sweden well i think that the. closer sense of affinity with the united

states government than they do with their own people that's the short answer and do you think that's we did and will eventually join the alliance i think it's quite possible. it is it is again it's largely a public opinion question. because. one of the key factors here is what symbols you're feeling goes into nato then that will create a lot of pressure here and then number two if the u.s. can somehow manage to conceal all of the terrible things this doing around the world and we don't become so this ability more is there now or. have been in iraq and afghanistan and that they can do more things that look like peacekeeping and the press here has actually helped for so many that right after successfully for them out of the large i think the majority of us i mean the swedish your population thinks that the afghanistan war the afghanistan war is

a peacekeeping operation i've seen you referred to as an x. or a former american citizen why is that yes i was the u.s. that is and i moved here in one nine hundred eighty eight and that was because i was. very much admire very much the swedish society through the just at that time and that started to deteriorate almost as soon as the interior so in a way is came of the historically interesting time because it's interesting that previous generations built up this wonderful society with this wonderful general welfare system and very well its foreign policy. which was the. inspiration for much of the world you know because many people in the old soviet. who when they feel about what we do next they look to sweden or from example. go to talk to the. well that's free from has just been allowed to disappear to

vitiate and to be gradually dismantled. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage gone viral bombs by napalm boy chemical slim's whether it's sonic boom six tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or destroyed reefs in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that barrier shall be taken in war

to protect one by against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions political one has taken exception to that. is eaves it's. easy to. see. the more people we killed a happier our officers were it got to be like a game like out exposed to see who could kill the most people and the different

ways you could prove the main keep being killed would be i tell you no here's now if you brought back some serious you know where we had the most years they would get the most fierce in trainers tribute. the women children in five men around the circle over the phone call automatically sixty. a great voice or several people. really. most of the in. the official delegation. from the. life on the go. video on demand. and feeds in the palm of your. question

on. the headlines on our team in egypt the army has started arresting government protesters in the center of cairo. echoes in many other countries with terrorism related groups calling for the creation of an islamic state in the streets of. the very country where the radical organization partly responsible. was created. the new york times is under fire for its treatment leaks founder julian assange the paper made a fortune off the back of stories coming from the cables leaked to it but has distanced itself from a song after the launch of a criminal investigation. the first mass produced passenger jet since soviet times gets ready to soar into a high flying market after overcoming several delays the one hundred is about to be approved before commercial flights in russia and the c.i.s.

. for the sporting news with the. good to have your company in sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. it's the dream final in spain with our tribal barcelona reale madrid yet another swipe at each other. on home soil the last time maria sharapova appeared for russia in the fed cup they wanted expectations are high once again with the return of the three time major champion. texas temperatures freezing weather forces green bay and pittsburgh indoors head of a super bowl finale. but let's get started with english premier league where it was

a case some for. field after new boy netted for liverpool on his debut in europe wind coming off the bench to score the home side second goal to no win over stoke. join the reds this week with torres of course heading to chelsea elsewhere city were unable to put the minimum between themselves and second seeded arsenal after only drawing to birmingham early peter crouch goal was enough for spurs to. bolton to the following victory over rock bottom wolves. on the carlists newcastle in the west their first win in three things at the expense of a block pool. per for another slice of the biggest rivalry in world football barcelona on the real madrid will meet in this season's cup decider after coming through their second leg semifinals on skids on wednesday well barcelona could have been forgiven for taking their foot off the gas against algeria following

a five in the first leg when. the only way goal number one coming thirty five. minutes in brazilian. doing it all themselves i know this is double their advantage eleven minutes after the break the i go making his case for a regular basis for moving down the aisle venture i became three ten minutes after that say due to hate his persistence paying off he takes the ball on the offloads to new boy for him a fellow a on the dutch international makes mistakes three no ninety eight and. it's still the enemy will be waiting for them in april twentieth final real madrid picking their passage with a two no win over defending champion sylvia just really no fighting for juicy marine you side with the goals only coming in the last ten minutes mesut ozil cooley the first after superb three goal from fellow german sammy. the tie was then

put to bed four minutes into stoppage time when to deal with signing and. blasted home. yeah it's also versus reality next. to tennis we go where it's fed cup first drawing time this weekend russia france and moscow in a clash which will see the return of maria sharapova to the squad the three time major winner will join up with because it's so honest to see a public chunk of us in ourself and the quartet aim to successfully navigate towards a world the last time show up to the plate was in two thousand and eight and russians won the event the team currently set third in the world standings son will be taking on the ninth ranked french for the right time to host two players in the top twenty that they shop of a. while kuznetsova is ranked twenty third new france participant although resides in the top fifty. that brings us to the biggest events in american sport this year

super bowl forty five preparations continuing apace in arlington for green bay and pittsburgh the. spite the rare subzero texas temperatures the packers enter sunday's clash as favorites but having raised the loft the vince lombardi trophy since one thousand nine hundred seven green bay taking up residence of a local high school in arlington us the snowstorms ranged outside whether or not they light up the carboy stadium will depend a lot on this playmaker arne rogers. everybody i've talked to this week this is a former player that's playing this game has talked about. deep breaths and getting over the first few plays of observable. i'm hopeful that. there will be an issue with me but i'm sure they'll be a lot of excitement and. a little bit nervous maybe starting to get training next door to them out of university grind with a sport's most successful team the pittsburgh steelers they can boast a record six super bowls quarterback ben roethlisberger has been startling form

recently with a third super bowl ring very much within his sights while coach mike tomlin led them to their latest title two years ago and he's hungry for more or i'm very conscious of the legacy that is the pittsburgh steelers and i simply want to do it . you know that drives me on a daily basis. i got course big respect for him in the head this job before me and all i want to do is do the job in terms of bold understand it is the deal is ok let's stay stateside where russian rookie tim a famous golf saw his new york knicks lose are to the dallas mavericks in the latest round of n.b.a. action pop sensation justin bieber and new york rangers goaltender him with being quizzed both in attendance on the two knicks fans have their hopes high all the way before the big break the hosts wear the slower out of the cult but turn the tables looking for her must go off to this modest four points to help the next away was

a far cry from the twenty three points the russian posted last time on its italian gala nori did the most for the home side in his. twenty seven points and you know enough of them are for control of the game in the third. the german having twenty nine points eleven we ball and help them. win the ball. and the result to score thirty seven with the visiting toronto kevin durant's ready for the city thunder against new orleans forty three points ten rebounds on the night blake griffin thirty two points and thirteen response to the l.a. clippers but they still lost at home to the chicago bulls. injured. and they went on to diffuse the rockets by the. margin. all right that brings us to winter sports now where cross-country skiing is called

central cup has been held here in moscow to top off went along to find out more. cross-country skiing in a fork in the center of the russian capital it may surprise you but not citizens of the european cities where such competition. this stars of russians got to try out the course before the latest races maybe then that effect during the olympic bronze medalist not. winning the final in the sprint was now imagine the. spectators tend to be very likely here to for me it was a hard freeze because of. potential. today. the men's final turned out to be a real crack at the home of bronze medal is that when you were twenty eight sam was the first to cross the line in the dramatic race after his main rival lost his balance. is. held here is by there being less than say at a world cup event they're happy with how the day turned out. has been desperately

trying to host the lack of the world cup in cross country skiing and the good news is this city has now won the right to host it in soviet times we always host of the world cup and once you get the competition back after today's races we talked to ski federation officials and they approved your idea probably we will change the venue but for sure it will take place next year. after the committee's international ski federation hants wanted to verify if moscow was able to host an event of the highest caliber and they passed the test so next year the capital will see the world's best skiers racing somewhere far away be happy even on red square. r t. speaking of world cups there's also been lots of drama the latest ski jumping event in germany stock of poland claiming his second victory of the season it was a nighttime show in the border town often gets all the partisan crowd were in high

spirits after the first draw and local hero michael jackson a monster only. one hundred forty six point five meters to set a new pill record and send the found in true ruptures but there's always premature on second attempt was but a shadow of his new mark while stock was consistent in both and celebrated his second world cup win in the process austria's thomas morgan sterne took silver increasing his overall the over time and the swiss itself settling for bronze in this one. the first medals topping hundred dives at the freestyle world championships now on the way in the u.s. more gold was the opening events on the produce the surprise and winner of french open and. leading a couple of comedians into the second and third place including a champion alexander hard to make do with silver had been out of sorts heading into the competition on the emotion port ites when he finally realized he had gotten.

more luck for a candidate in the women's mogul two thousand and six olympic champion jennifer heil winning by her breath and reaming olympic champion and a kearney of the u.s. the title could be the last her a for a high street tire at the end of the season whether t.v. christie richards completed the pole we all know and i was all your sports now world weather is coming up in just a tick. please

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thousands of protesters make their way to toughness clear as the class is intensifying telling me i want to see you in a few moments will. also tell more link cairo echoes in many other countries with terrorism related groups calling for the creation of an islamic state hitting the streets of the u.k. the very country where the radical organizational party were swung civil for the egyptian un rest was created. and that some people suspected of helping old. that's how it's not that most of those the ideas of course have been arrested all the details here not just a few minutes. break up the new york times is under fire for using julian a son to boost its profit and popularity then ditching him after the launch of a criminal investigation.

this is r.t. live from moscow where it's now or just after three pm welcome to the program the egyptian army has arrested anti-government protesters in the center of cairo as the country braces itself for more violence it marks a change of approach while the military which previously wasn't intervening in clashes between supporters of president mubarak and anti-government demonstrators five people are reported to have been killed in a morning gunfight in cairo's tahrir square that follows a day of rest in which hundreds were injured now reports from cairo. they certainly little sign of the situation letting up as i'm speaking to you we know that thousands of protesters continue to make their way to taffy a square both full and mubarak supporters we're hearing reports of.