accuses office does plan to charge him because the main arguments in court today will be that britain should refuse to extradite you to innocence 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 is to say that that's one point of course this is the first day of a two day extradition hearing is going to carry on on chews day and we're not even sure that we're going to have a result at the end of choose day in fact the judge might says that he might take several weeks to deliberate the outcome of this the charges that julian assange is wanted for for questioning in sweden included allegations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two women back in august in sweden he has always said self that these charges are politically motivated as in relation to the released of u.s. 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 there are scientists 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 his lawyers say a risk that the u.s. will seek his extradition in turn or even illegally subject him to a legal 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 his extradition looks like it won't take place because e.u. countries can't 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 have him and washington have a very close relationship and that may mean that it's easy. for politicians to get

involved and extradite to 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 just the other day the deer hunter 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 all this 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 has been a willingness to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years from. questions. making asylum seekers in sweden.

available to the cia buddies is particularly strong now with a red leaning government in sweden and with the u.s. wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian a song is wanted by quite a team and the songe 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 just ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source unloveable and he is a you know tamil in my mind as it is a clearly 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 before maher 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 the questions 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 another room in the british justice system to protect julian a song from the united states of sweet merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now a r t stockholm sweden. or liberty campaign a poll with and joins me now from love the skulls the g.v. in the thongs case and i have a had. a person can't be extradited to a country that allows the death penalty so how does washington plan to get him help in sweden make a case to stand him. well i think the the keep the key thing here is that

we are not supposed to be discussing his possible extradition to america because the european arrest warrant that's been issued is only relating to his extradition to sweden to well not even to answer charges because we gather that no actual charges have been laid in sweden yet it appears to be two. questions to the swedish authorities. and the european arrest warrant is designed to move people wanting for questioning very quickly and easily around europe without needing to go through some of the normal hearings expecting an extradition case complicated i think. when i have a lot of interest in working with. washington's demands do you think in this situation

. well we don't really know because of course no action has been taken from the americans to the british authorities so as far as the british court is concerned this is an extradition on the sex charges that have been alleged in sweden so you know there will be no one in the court room thinking about the possibility of the. condition to america because under the terms of this arrest warrant they're merely being required by the swedish authorities to deliver a songs to answer these charges and there's very little room for maneuver for the british courts to not for example even allowed to look at the evidence although we do gather some of the witness statements were read out in court today and unfairly graphic they were but normally. under the european arrest warrant no such.

latitude is allowed to the british court they're merely a sort of service for the requiring all thora t. in this case sweden to to deliver the person to the swedish justice system so there certainly will be very little discussion of the american situation the wiki leaks situation in the court unless perhaps by. these lawyers in an attempt to to to to expose the possibility that this case in sweden is merely a front for the us authorities to maybe deal with a country who is slightly more inclined to answer their call when they saw clearly in the case of gary mckinnon britain hasn't been very forthcoming in sending people to america just on their request so perhaps the songes lawyers will be arguing they shouldn't send their sons to sweden because they just be

a front for the americans who are dealing with the swedes and in particular at the interview there with the the american who is advising the swedish authorities. it definitely looks like a possibility and so therefore the court might be able to look at that as part of possibly an abuse of process takes on the man himself. on a very divisive think that many consider him and they one of the world's biggest freedoms rights can pay. me a trial about human rights and freedom of speach. well . he certainly is saying that you know he he welcomed today he said the chance to actually answer these charges because up until diary said they used the analogy of a black box which is how the word rape written on the outside of it but no one was

allowed to look inside but he said that today he welcomed the chance for people to actually look inside the box and he says that they will discover that there's nothing in the box now he obviously is linking it with an attempt to intimidate him into not pursuing his campaign of revelations. but of course you know he's not actually on trial for here he's not even on trial here these are merely extradition hearings so the whole subject of you know what he has revealed so far i was he maybe going to reveal it is not up for discussion in this call i came home with me livid he campaign is speaking to us from london many thanks for your thoughts on that. now let's cross over to egypt where the anti-government protesters show no signs of giving up after two weeks of revolt the

country's new cabinet has had its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo central square demanding president hosni mubarak step down. kyra with more. certainly not all about protests life here in the egyptian capital is slowly returning to some kind of normality at eight o'clock this evening local time until six am tomorrow morning there is a curfew in place but outside of that curfew there are many more shops many more businesses many more banks that have been opened and what we've seen in the last few days the major supermarkets though are still closed and this is because there is a fear of looting now the fact that people ought to choosing to try and get back to some kind of daily life is not because they do not support the protesters who are camping out in tokyo square which has been the focal point of these demonstrations for the last two weeks but one other that is a very real need here particularly in a country where many people rely on a daily wage to get back on the table for their families now we just heard reports

that the egyptian government has agreed to increase the salaries of government employees by fifteen is a saint we are also aware that the egyptian pound has hit its lowest rates in six years we're also hearing that the artifacts that were destroyed in the last two weeks of violence and being restored in numbers in the next five days it is expected that all major historical sites here in the country will be reopened tucked his square there does still remain the focal point of these demonstrations and thirty nine protesters off of herion to sleep under the cold gyptian skies there is tense between the protesters and the army tanks continue to surround government buildings embassies and other important institutions here it is important to note that he is today sunday's talks between the opposition groups and the vice president suleiman did not really cultivate a sense of moving forward particularly among those protesters and toughness square those that i've spoken to either feel that the government is simply lying to them

about any kind of commitments that it's prepared to make and others really do not believe that any kind of progress was made the kind of commitment that so the man made to be opposition groups was that he said he would in. to to to a committee that would look into parliamentary reforms instead it would investigate the violence of the past fortnight and bring those who were responsible to the book the government also committed itself to free and independent media and communications as well as lifting the state of emergency as you mentioned the muslim brotherhood was ported to those talks this is a movement that is banned in egypt and if you ask anybody here two weeks ago whether or not they couldn't visit the muslim brotherhood sitting down with the government talks it would have been laughable but the fact that the muslim brotherhood is coming to the fore is significant because it certainly is sending out alarm bells another need to but elsewhere in the region that this group which does to some extent have an islamist agenda could be gaining momentum the muslim brotherhood after meeting with the government did issue

a statement in which it said it did not trust the government so how this will evolve and how this will develop remains to be seen but as i discussed with a number of people it certainly is an issue that people are focusing on it didn't get more than a passing mention in the mainstream media hizbollah her mass and muslim brotherhood members in a jail. term here a long time i've been on there's no way to go to lebanon from egypt to go through this she or to fly so who helped them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets. support for the demonstrators has fled fast and although the muslim brotherhood the country's largest opposition group put an islamist agenda got involved only on day three that says mom do ramsey is part of the plan the muslim brotherhood will appear undershirt 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 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 for. 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 watched everything on to 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 it will never leave the blood of her martyrs who was killed in this revolution with a vengeance and then we'll both go 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 a report 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 coming to 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 trying to 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 fia much of the arab world today saying if it can happen in the streets of cairo back ups it can happen so as the brotherhood sits down for talks with the 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 omar suleiman recently appointed egypt's of seven vice president is being hailed as a distinguished and respected politician but details have since surfaced about the darker side of a man and his that the country's intelligence agency since one thousand nine hundred three bullets cross that line to the u.s. until. just a social responsibility may have been with us hey almost he said what exactly are the accusations against a mosque that a man and what what are they based on what he was apparently the he person that the us cia coordinated with in there's

a so-called extraordinary rendition program this is where they. kidnap suspected terrorists around the world and send them to crime stories in the middle east egypt quite merry among them we get so diplomatic if your answer is that the person will be tortured and then the person of course always was a forger because he's diplomatic or sherm so the word simply gave. omar suleiman was the contact person in the media for this so that he was the one who gave the appearance and he is reportedly was even present in the quarter a few individuals so why did he have given these allegations as a well cinnamon the centerpiece of the government's attempt to appease the opposition doesn't all of this all of these claims while the shooting make him uncredible at best. well one would suspect so he is as you say

credible whether with the u.s. government because with fear because he's long history and because he's considered reliable. i mean he does have a bit of reputation i remember when his name about biology is here they describe him as a distinct as distinguished and is somebody who would be acceptable to many factions i think that there may be there are factions there who who are willing to work with him and ignore him because for a there are others that will tell you that i was raised in syria square are not willing to accept that but they you know they've been focusing on mubarak and not on the succession after that when i saw these protesters in tahrir square about the egyptian people themselves he said they'll be willing to accept him as a replacement form a but i don't know i mean i mean it's not clear what they're well i've heard that

some of the. leadership from this in organization has been meeting with and being willing to assess and probably my guess is that the demonstrators in the square probably not whether it's the way that their judgment is going to decide in the end or whether they are going to be pushed aside by the official leaders in the u.s. government is not clear that remains to be determined not considering these claims and allegations that you made of a beginning of this into the what's stopping cinnamon from being held to account as a possible tool to challenges before an international court. well. there are many many people including unfortunately people who were in the u.s. government who could also potentially be to be there. so. it's hard for to me are. criminal justice system doesn't do very well with dealing with human rights abuses ok live from the u.s.

that was steve insults from psychologist for social responsibility many thanks feel full. roster as a law enforcement agencies will go through a fundamental overhaul after the president signed a new reform bill it involves a completely branding and the introduction of new standards of service to make that job a house that the child. p.t. is a long awaited word for what is a key plank of presently bet if the reform agenda ideally this law on police said was just part of this major reform of russia's interior ministry which the president started about two years ago and he has said that the made a more 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 she would 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 militants have a but image for a professional shortcomings for not living up to social romney to all protecting its citizens said russian police officers are known for severely basing 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 court 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 but 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 while 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 all 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 the key player also among other restrictions imposed on the food. this is a baton to use all the probably tongs and 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 half a thousand a month most were considered and four hundred of them rejected now that these bill has been sealed with the signature of the russian president it will go into force in less than a month. that is the way the news is this hour hey on. his business. thanks

very much alison lohman welcome to the program norilsk nickel is suspending its share buyback program following a ruling from a court in the caribbean the injunction in st kitts and nevis was sought by elected in part because aluminum giant which owns twenty five percent of most nickel now resellers in the fierce takeover battle with interest group for control of the mine there's been talk in the market that nordica would have to 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 straight into the markets now u.s. markets opened well around a percent already this sell for nasdaq point seven percent for dow jones along the biggest oil rig operator ensco has agreed to buy its rival why didn't the national in a deal worth some seven point three billion dollars and this is driving up. european

stock markets are also advancing banks are among the strongest before shares of mobile phone makers nokia rallied on the boards implant management shakeup. in russia the markets managed to last minute recovery in monday's session they were fairing in the red through all day long but finally after the opening of the u.s. markets the numbers again what do you tell now in some of the stocks it's down to one percent the weakness in the banks current share price the same but as a buying opportunity we're all counting is barely changed after reports that shareholders are the merger soon and find the north's nickel was down around three percent during the day ended the day one percent down that's on that news it's suspended share buyback program. is and these biggest insurer generali could become a primary investor in the privatization of the prospectus for russia's second largest

lender says generali may take around a percent stake. in the bank with three hundred million dollars that's s b t v which is currently eighty five percent stake turn starts a road show to sell a ten percent stake in the bank to raise around for a billion dollars is the first big sale in russia's ambitious privatization program but the deputy head of research at uni credit to the stumble says he believes a special case. i don't think that success of displacement real have any influence on on the whole predation program this kind of special case the possible investors will be of use the investment funds where that is so for investment funds or insurance companies for example or series and today i think in the us to ensure it's going to be probably long term investors which are interested in financial markets. i'll be back in fifty five minutes with an update coming up next on out see the headlines with alice don't go away.

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pressure the sun. starts on t.v. dot com. as our past now a remote sky this is almost seems an embattled founder of whistleblower web site wiki leaks london of course fighting ex had to have him extradited to sweden julian feels don't have good hospitals with us plus. a gyptian official tried to a group of the find opposition with concessions cause they were bags regime that's how the president told her that has been brought by him and which is banned in the country but after a fortnight of rallies demonstrators in cairo that they won't meet the streets to try to resign. and russia's at least four with a very low. for

a massive overhaul after the president signs of bill branded for the changes i see problems around these of. us. have more on this overhaul as well as crying about problems in russia's capital all season save the shovel announced they sat down with police chief that the americans could solve his interview up next. just as you will mr caldwell to thank you very much for joining us today with the low that's been lang now recalling the recent clashes that the miners in a square in moscow what measures should be taken to stop growing extremism and intolerance that we are observing at the moment. in the news which was through.