that britain should refuse to extradite you to an assault on the grounds that he hasn't yet been charged with a crime one of the main principles of extradition is that one has to be charged with a crime you can't just extradite anybody merely for questioning because you fancy that they might have done it so you see that that's one point of course this is the first day of a two day extradition hearing is going to carry on on cheese day and we're not even sure that we're going to have a result at the end of chews day in fact the judge might says that he might take several weeks to deliberate the outcome of this the charges that you know songes and wanted for a for questioning in sweden include allegations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two women back in august in sweden he has always said as knowledge itself that these charges are politically motivated as in relation to the release to all of us embassy cables on wiki leaks which are deeply embarrassing for the american administration now the defense argument that's being heard today includes

the fact that students. human rights are understood to maybe be being violated sweden has in the past extradited people to egypt which has been accused of torture so that's one of the arguments and there's also some of his lawyers say a risk that the u.s. will seek his extradition in turn or even illegally subject him to illegal rendition to the u.s. and then from then on there's a risk they say of him being held in guantanamo bay or indeed elsewhere they will say they say arrest that he'll be subject to the death penalty and if they can argue that then his extradition looks like it won't take place because e.u. countries cond extradite jurisdictions that have the death penalty too i mean we'll have to wait and see what the outcome of this is but it looks like we're not going to know for at least several weeks don't him and washington have a very close relationship and that may mean that it's easier for politicians to get involved and extradite as. america although again the prosecutor's office says that

politicians are not involved in the legal process in sweden but my colleague at least in our way has filed a report on the relationship with washington so let's see what that says. so we didn't a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states of the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized. the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military

and some politicians cooperate intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of the stuff going on but it's not just want swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assange to terrorist suspects to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for the so-called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there is. a willingness to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years from. questions. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's.

it is particularly strong now with a raid leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying in sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian a son is wanted by quite a team and the assigned to wiki leaks case seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and love and he is a you know two million homeowners it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be advising the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songe for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed

to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured a question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly wiki leaks and if the u.k. can secure asylum for bodies because of ski and ahmed zakayev both wanted for serious crimes in russia it could be argued there's a nothing room in the british justice system to protect julian assange and from the united states of sweet merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now a r t stockholm sweden meantime journalists are on a ride now or told me earlier that sweden other u.k. will face heavy pressure to comply with washington's interests on the julian a science class. so many horrible crimes have been revealed already and the united states continues with the same policies they make some excuses here or there and their former president it makes it in his own autobiography that he gave orders for

torture so i'm skeptical that just because one knows how badly the devil is that that will curtail them from from prosecuting. on the on the other hand sweden of course or great britain if they if they do livered him that would be bad propaganda for them the people would be very upset most people i think would be very upset but again that's not the only determining factor for a government to make a decision as to whether or not they cooperate with the united states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government in the british government you are with your company today and that's now nearly ten minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come for you in the program how the battle with the bottle among russian is a fire burning out of control to stay with us as we expose the shocking scale of

the problem and what's being done to stop it that's in just a couple of minutes time. honest turn our attention to egypt now where the anti-government protesters show no sign of giving up after two weeks off revolt the country's new cabinet is set to have its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo central square they're demanding president hosni mubarak step down but as always a policy who was in the egyptian capital can report for us she says that parts of the city are trying to return to normal everyday life. life here in downtown cairo is slowly returning to some kind of normality a short time ago i got caught in my first traffic jam and a policeman helped me cross the street so the police are back the cars are back shops businesses and banks are opening albeit for a limited time today there are still though thousands of protesters out in turkey a square there relic call has not changed they say they're going nowhere until president mubarak steps down now just yesterday sunday there were talks between the

government between vice president omar suleiman and opposition groups those talks do not seem to have yielded much more than sit up a committee to discuss constitutional reforms that committee has one month in which to deliver its results and also for the state of emergency to have ended earlier i compiled this report. it didn't get more than a passing mention in the mainstream media hizbollah her musts and muslim brotherhood members in a jail break. from here and want to lebanon there's no way to go to lebanon from egypt only to go through this she or to fly so who helped them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets was support for the demonstrators has fled fast and although the muslim brotherhood the country's largest opposition group with an islamist agenda got involved only on day three that says mom do ramsey is part of the plan the muslim brotherhood will appear when they're sure the presidency will fall and when they have the support and power to control everything

they work in every arab country there they're below the surface and there they're now talking with the government and this supporters are here shouting on the streets in two weeks of demonstrations they are rallying call hasn't changed step down mubarak has made any living of his friends traveled for forty eight hours to get here they've come all the way from eritrea to be part of what they believe is the new revolution sweeping the middle east i was in eritrea and i watch everything on t.v. i wish i was here before but coming here now is my contribution i'm asking all my brothers in egypt to express their opinion without fear we will never leave the blood of her martyrs who were killed in this revolution with a vengeance. the brotherhood gets some of its funding from the ran and tehran is already cashing in its foreign minister says the protests show the need for an overhaul in the region and ayatollah ali khamenei has called the protests an islamic awakening there's an opportunity for an increased role for muslims in the

international arena from a political and economic perspective for the first time in quite a long while six years ago the american national intelligence council which is linked to the cia warned of exactly this it mapped out of a port on the global future it consisted of a caliphate one big muslim state created through social. unrest a slowdown in the economy and fueled by religious movements if such a pan regional union did genuinely come into being such a regional union would necessitate the breaking of very strong very resistant bonds that exist between the u.s. and many of the participants in such a putative arab muslim world and the u.s. is already feeling the heat with confusing messages coming from an administration that's unsure what to do when the protests first started president obama was careful not to abandon his old friend hosni mubarak but his loyalties soon shifted and he sided with the protesters to try and keep on top of things for sure of the

muslim brotherhood reach the top of egypt's though impose their special agenda they'll go ahead to establish a religious state and despite them saying they don't want to be in the government they do they want to rule egypt and it's not just egypt many fear much of the arab world today saying if it can happen in the streets of cairo but what's it going to happen here so as the brotherhood sits down for talks of a government it despises it's not just egypt's future that's at stake but so to that of the region policy r.t. kyra. well russia's law enforcement agencies will go through a fundamental overhaul after the president signed a new reform bill that involves a complete rebranding the introduction of new standards of service our teams are considering going to has more. petey's a long awaited report what is a key plank of president with bet if the reform agenda ideally this law on police said was just part of this major with form of russia's interior ministry which the president started about two years ago and he has said that the made

a most of these police reform is to make russia's police officers more efficient and the work of police transparent. i've been asked many questions as to what exactly this law means it's just what we need it's a detailed regulation of police rights powers and duties it's fundamental for police to work effectively not to be tempted to abuse their powers this is why the bill is a breakthrough should like any other law it's not ideal and we should bear that in mind from the very outset i'm sure that implementing the law will trigger a number of suggestions and opinions which we can also use in the future russian milly's to have a but image for a professional shortcomings or not leading up to social raw made to all protecting its citizens said russian police officers are known for severely between demonstrators for being corrupt for not following the rule of law themselves for

power abuse one of the worst examples of that was the so-called cold case when a police officer went on a shooting massacre in moscow killing two people at a supermarket and endangering the lives of over two dozen others for the most obvious change will be the change of tan from his post soviet name elites it will be renamed into a russian for police well another dramatic change was actually how the law was at all. cost in russia because for the first time the public was invited to contribute to this debate on this truck bill hall among the mountains introduced on measures to increase public and paul mantra control over the police and to ban the force from the private security sector where it is now a key player also among other restrictions imposed on the food. this is a bad on the use all but probably songs that tear gas during demonstrations even if these are unsanctioned rallies also it allows for a telephone call to a lawyer and interpreter in case of detention this is something new to russia's

legislation on police all in all over a thousand a month must work considered and four hundred up that rejects it now that this bill has been sealed with the signature of the russian president it will go into force in less than a month. trouble reporting right there well moscow police chief. believes that these reforms will completely change the relationship between russian citizens and law enforcers. i think that there's some concrete meaning behind this renaming it means transition to new standards of service and new standards of attitude to people i knew model of relationship between law enforcement bodies and citizens runs like a golden thread through this law in my view it's a transition from the dominant model that has existed all the z. is model of partnership and respect by citizens this law lays down a totally different continent of them.

and you can watch the full interview with the moscow police chief. in about ten minutes time. moscow has rejected renewed japanese criticism of a visit by president dmitri medvedev to russia's real islands the japanese prime minister had described many here their trip to the islands which tokyo want to reclaim as their own as preposterous inadmissible the islands in the pacific ocean actually part of a soviet union after the second world war and have been part of the russian federation ever since to me treatment here they're paid historic first visit to the november russia's defense minister also when they're just last week foreign minister sort of a laugh it off and gave a short shrift to the japanese criticism and said moscow once only a friendly relations with turkey. in that new diplomatic scheme expressions used by the japanese officials are far from diplomatic and in great contrast with the

polite and friendly tone of the meeting between president give and prime minister noda current. i don't know perhaps it's due to the. day it's been celebrated and today at the same time as we have said repeatedly we are still willing to closely cooperate with. in carrying out specific projects regions of russia. it's nearly twenty minutes past the hour on this monday let's check out some other news now from around the world. by troops battling for a fourth successive day over a disputed border area the conflict is centered around a internationally recognized as belonging to cambodia although tyo authorities dispute this the clashes have so far claimed five lives since friday and for thousands of villagers to leave their homes cambodia has urged the u.n. security council to intervene to prevent the conflict from occurring and. president

says he will support the country's recession ahead of the announcement of the official results of an independence referendum preliminary results from a late january show that nearly ninety nine percent of voters wanted a split from the north but instances of voting meant some ballots were discounted. is expected to become officially independent in july. and the bushfires are driven by hot summer winds are raging on the outskirts of australia's western capital perth sixty homes have been destroyed and many more damaged hundreds of people were forced to flee the area which has now been declared a natural disaster zone meanwhile the cleanup from flood cyclons which struck queensland and victoria on the east coast past week those are still continuing it left about thirty five people dead and cost an estimated five point six billion dollars in damage but a series of volcanic eruptions in russia's far east are posing a potential threat to aircraft local experts are warning of the danger to volcanoes

in. more than seven kilometers above sea level they've also been a series of minor quakes the volcanoes are being constantly monitored and are considered no risk to nearby residential areas. well combating alcohol abuse by russia's teenagers on the country's main health. although it's a criminal offense to sell booze to people underage there are no stringent punishments meaning many store owners just choose to ignore the law. went in with hidden cameras. the problem. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to four so when they are brought to us. to be in for it not always we

can pull them out of this tough situation according to n.g.o.s there are anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand in the country and many blame the fact that it's far too easy for a teenager to buy alcohol legal drinking age in russia is eighteen years old so how easy is it for a teenager to get his or her hands on some hard liquor we're going to follow a couple of an. organization into that liquor store right across the street which is one of the largest supermarkets selling hard. to find out whether or not they will be successful in getting their hands on a couple of bottles of whiskey we've been in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go hear the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were elsewhere than to the station when they didn't provide it they were refused service but we're going to go to another place just down the street and see what they will be able to get some vodka or beer there. sure enough each of them had no trouble getting

a beer from this. when confronted this is woman got defensive but didn't seem to faze breaking the law i don't know i've never had it though how many times did we tell you not to sell alcohol to under-aged and you still continue to do that. unfortunately. practically every second kielce or supermarkets sell cigarettes and alcohol to adolescents and we have to make positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians had been trying to implement stringent punishments for those who sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress you know sort of our parents are responsible for the children until they turn eighteen and i think if we make parents pay a fine when they kids smell good drink it will raise the level of responsibility because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission and they use chorus several routes of this problem alcohol became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have

a tradition to drink for any reason and that's a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the scope of the problem part of it as life they want to relax to feel grown up but i don't think if you drink two three bottles of beer he automatically become an adult as things stand there is little consequence or punishment for kiosk or store owners willing to cash in on minors health but it could be the country's future at stake it even goes corti moscow. where you can always get more of these stories as well as are many of us on our website that's coming out on the crowd i was waiting for you a slippery slope thousands challenge themselves and russia's annual cross-country skiing rights discover why this year's event was so special. and if you have no fear of the dark then grab your tickets to iron maiden's a long awaited game in moscow which is on in just

a couple of days find out all the details on our website that is our team. i. back with a recap of our top stories at a half past the hour but next with the latest business news. hello and welcome to the program norris nickel is suspending its share buyback program following a ruling from a court in the caribbean the junction in st kitts and nevis was sought by elected because roussel which owns twenty five percent of north dakota the adamantium company is in a fierce takeover battle with talent into ross curry for control of the mine there's been talk at the market that no one would scrap its dividend to fund the

buyback program this was seen as a blow to resell as it would not receive money to pay off debt. so a lot of the markets now starting in the united states where they opened around half an hour ago u.s. markets of open half a percent higher on deals with london based. and sco has agreed to buy rival pride international in a deal worth some seven point eight billion dollars we can see that even nasdaq is also high tech shares going up half a percent european stock markets are also advancing on monday on the positive outlook from the u.s. to banks are among the strongest before most shares of mobile phone they could nokia rallied on reports of a planned management shakeup. but in russia the situation is quite different and they're about to close in around half an hour's time still in the red financials and energy shares are the main drag on the indices the second look at some of the stocks in more detail the t.v. is shedding more than a percent of the weakness in the bank's current share price is seen by analysts as

a buying opportunity but this is because the s.p.o. price has been announced as around ten copecks which is lower than the market price well carli is up a notch following reports that shareholders approve the merger with silver in it an enormous nickel is down more than the market down two percent this is because of that the suspended share buyback program which we told you about. russia's exactly an energy rose four point six percent in london the most in two months after the producer discovered oil into its fields stock has advanced strongly since the start of the year reflecting steady growth in output. hadley's biggest insurer generali could become the anchor investor in the privatization of misty daily reports generali may buy up to a five percent stake in russia's second largest lender that's as bt which is currently eighty five percent state and starts a road show to sell a ten percent stake in the bank to raise around three

a half billion dollars as the first big sale in rushes and vicious privatisation program but. the head of research at uni credit says bt is a special case. i don't think it's excess of displacement real have any influence on on the whole predation problem this kind of special case the possible investors will be obviously investment funds where there is so for investment funds or insurance companies for example or certain today you can read them mr bug repellent sure so it's going to be probably the long term investors which are interested in russian financial markets. but that's all there from you know credits russia's largest independent gas producer nova tech expects to increase output by up to fifteen percent this year and january perform better than gas from which decreased production by about three percent compared to last year never check is currently building a plant in the gas which. the first yields expected in five years time the company

says it's investing one hundred million dollars into liquefied natural gas project this year in addition to gas producers looking for a strategic partner to take a forty nine percent stake. there's shell there's two of the rivers. exxon mobil has looked at a conoco phillips smaller companies have looked at a couple japanese firms look out so we're looking at a series of foreigners who have studied the particular geology studied the concept we're finishing the exploration side we're drilling three wells this year there's already been fifty five exploration wells are drilled and then will engage the contractor who which was c.b.i. lomas to start with that would call the feed study and so we've completed the initial work and now all the infrastructure activity is underway in the amount of an insulin all right nothing's coming your way in around one hour's time we'll bring you the closing figures for the russian markets meanwhile headlines are next

with rory on tuesday. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from. the future.

soon from the stupid. stunts on t.v. don't. it's now a six thirty pm on monday here in moscow you with the headlines now the embattled founder of whistle blowing web site wiki leaks is in a london court fighting attempts to have been extradited to sweden julian a song here's a stockholm could. prosecutors. egyptian officials try to woo with a defiant opposition with concessions hosni mubarak's regime has held unprecedented talks with the muslim brotherhood which is actually banned in the country but after a fortnight of rallies demonstrators in cairo say they won't leave the streets

until the president resigns. and russia's police force is in line for a massive overhaul after the president signs a bill to have them a rebranded and a reformed the changes are aimed at fighting corruption and abuse of power by officers. well for more on this overhaul now as well as the crime problems in russia's capital so if you sat down with moscow's police chief. his interview is next. thank you very much for joining us today with the love that's what we're calling the recent clashes at the square in moscow.