today will be 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 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 choose 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 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 as knowledge himself 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 including the fact

that it's 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 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 then 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 him and washington have a very close relationship and that may mean that it's easier for politicians to get involved and extradite ourselves to america. 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 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 cropping intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all 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's been a willingness to. do the ariens of the united states over many years from. questions. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is. really strong now with

a raid leaning government in sweden and with the u.s. wanting him for spying in sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian a song 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 just 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 see is a you know tamil in my mind as it is a criminal and he ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for what he has done here 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 songs for sex crimes with another link to the u.s. 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 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. that's crossed over to egypt now of the anti-government protesters show no sign of giving up after two weeks on the arrest and sweeping president hosni mubarak out of power the country's that new cabinet held its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo's central square where as the late to eight the revolt torn country from ologies poor poorer the new cabinet has discussed

a number of measures in attempts to diffuse the public anger but what's been the result of this landmark meeting. well the cabinet has just met for the first time in their nouns that the salaries of government employees would be increased by fifteen percent now they're hoping to address one of the running calls there to people to the streets and that was low wages rising food prices and massive unemployment the immediate reaction from the thousands of people who remain in tahrir square is that it is too little too late and with me to discuss this isabella i shall be a former assistant to the egyptian minister of foreign affairs and a professor in international law and relations thank you very much for joining us who is running egypt at the moment is it mubarak is it the vice president almost sort of men or is it the army. i think we have two parties now we have that a year including mubarak vice president and on and we have the people in the streets so now we have the cycle for we go forward in both of them the streets are

maintained as demonstrated and and calling for change the government has given concessions mubarak has said that he cannot step down right now which is what protesters want because he is legally not allowed to is a truth that the constitution refuses him from being able to do this no it is not true if he wants to step down it doesn't care for that because the constitution is for the last year and you can find a way for him it's a matter of political decision so let him sit down and after that everything will be advantage what can we expect to see in the new constitution the new totally different from one the one which had been tailored according to the authority and so on the signs. of the the united states what kind of role of a playing behind the scenes in terms of looking at this new constitution and this new government. intruding in the affairs of egypt very much because the thing that egypt is the best of the american interest influence in the region and i think this

is one of the misgivings of the american policy so. the the new regime would be totally tailored according to the interests of the egyptian people who are fed up of the interference or the little states the united states supported mubarak and he now is this unpopular figure and we see these protests on the streets is the same going to happen elsewhere has the united states been propping up machines that are not popular and as a result we're going to see more demonstrations like what we see here in egypt then this isn't confused with you know the street and water and this is why this hectic position of the net is states so the lettuces and facts are supporting its own enters but she doesn't know exactly where the interests lie so are i had a comment then it is serious not to repeat the failures of yesterday and it had been supporting all the dictators there should be very fearful of the transparency of the radical revolution and support the pulses of the streets of egypt what about

the muslim brotherhood can be influenced translate into real political power. muslim brotherhood just see part of their lives in society so i don't think that the will dominate the scene of asia egypt is in fact very various groups are there and i don't think they're muslim brotherhood would be the role of egypt at the moment can we see radical groups that are coming to the fore in the middle east in such a way that we could see the muslim middle east turning its back on the west no i think that the west is not just unfair for. the world and if we can see good policies and they are enthusiastic to justice the field here and democracy i think everything will be a balance the muslim brotherhood says it is not going to continue with talks with the government because it doesn't believe that the government is committed to real

constitutional change are they right muslim brotherhood were right because they have you have as for the authority now they've got the credibility. and legitimacy as well so the again. legitimacy and a vision of the authority of the sun came he came back to the states for the muslim brotherhood is one of the focuses of what people around the international community and here in egypt too are focusing on i caught up with a lot of people got their analysis and filed this report. it didn't get more than a passing mention in the mainstream media hizbollah hamas and muslim brotherhood members in a jail break these keep come here and want to lebanon there's no way to go to lebanon from egypt only to go through the sea 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 move in 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 watched everything on t.v. i wish i was here before but coming here now is my contribution i must you know my brothers in egypt to express their opinion without fear you'll never leave the blood of our martyrs who were killed in this revolution without. 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 in the global future it consisted of a caliphate one big muslim state created to sow. 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 while solve the shore of the muslim brotherhood reach the top of egypt's though impose those special agenda they'll go ahead to establish a religious state 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 will happen in the streets of cairo but what's it going to 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. cairo well omar suleiman recently appointed egypt's first ever vice president being hailed as a distinguished and respected politician details of how since surfaced about the darker side of a man he's led the country's intelligence agencies and spies in ninety three but

even salt's from psychologists for things to responsibility in the u.s. says some opposition groups in egypt are way to put up with cinnamon's murky past. he was apparently the person that the us cia coordinated with in theirs read so-called extraordinary rendition program this is where they would kidnap the suspected terrorists around the world and send them to countries in the middle east egypt primary among them would get diplomatic assurances that the person wouldn't be tortured and then the person of course always was order on because the diplomatic assurances were essentially again be bited omar suleiman was the contact person and you need you for this he was the one who gave the assurance that and he is reportedly with he'd been present and involved in the sport for a few individuals is credible however with the u.s. government because it's voice and long history and because he's considered viable

there are factions there who who are willing to work with him and ignore it because there are others that will take down the sunnis in syria square are not willing to accept that but. you know they've been focusing on mubarak and not on the succession after that. russia's laurent policeman agencies will go through a fundamental of a home with a hope for the president signed a new reform bill and involves a complete rebranding and the introduction of a nice fat is the service he could fit into that chill the city's health. p t is a long awaited word for what is a key plank of president made better 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 two years ago and he has said that the made a mold these police reform is to make russia's police officers more efficient at

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 have a but image for a professional shortcomings for not living up to social ram a to all protecting its citizens said russian police officers are known for severely bisping 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 but the most obvious change will be the change of tack from his post soviet name elites it will be renamed into police a russian court 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 bill 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 bad on the use of probably songs 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 and all over the thousand to man must work considered and

four hundred of them rejects that now that these bill has been sealed with the signature of the russian president it will go into force in less than a month. or moscow has denounced were new japanese criticism of a visit by president dmitri medvedev to russia's curdle which take you claims as its own the foreign ministry has also issued a note of protest in japan of the burning of a russian flag by activists in taking the islands in the pacific ocean the past of the soviet union after the second world war and have been part of the russian federation ever since then we could make a very paid and historic first visit to the curdles and november his defense minister also went there just last week for a member says that a get out for off a short trip to the japanese criticisms that moscow wants only friendly relations with. the 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 veered of and prime minister naoto kan and you can. i don't know perhaps it's due to the so-called northern territory's day that's been celebrated in japan today at the same time as we have said repeatedly we are still willing to closely cooperate with the japanese in carrying out specific projects lose regions of russia. ok a quick check now on some other world news this hour a tie vote is all battling for a fourth successive day over a disputed border area the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized as belonging to cambodia although tile forty's dispute this the clashes have saved all time five lives since friday and forced thousands of villagers to leave their homes cambodia has urged the un security council to intervene to prevent the conflict from escalating. election officials have confirmed that almost the entire electorate in south sudan's independence

referendum have voted to split from the north nearly ninety nine percent were in favor of the breakaway although last month's vote was peaceful tension remains high and. halls of the oil which border region before the announcement of the results the country's president said he would accept the outcome of the vote softens the down is expected to become officially a dependent into the. bush fires that driven by hot summer with the raging on the outskirts of the strait is western top of the. almost sixty homes destroyed in many more damage hundreds of people were forced to flee the area which has been declared a natural disaster zone meanwhile the cleanup from floods inside close which struck queens the oriel east coast last week. it left thirty five people dead and cools and that's to may to five point six billion dollars in damage. a series of volcanic eruptions and russians far east of posing

a potential threat to act local experts are warning of the danger after two volcanoes the kamchatka spewed a column of more than the seven kilometers above sea level they've also been a series of minor earthquake located is that being constantly monitored and all considered no risk to nearby residential areas. now the russian and formula one team. and has unveiled its new car is it gears up for success ahead of the forthcoming season the call was revealed to the public at a private media norms shimbun didn't it differs from its competitors because of a better to be the shape known featured on last year's model despite the trend of players who think you know this is will the team one race under the russian flag next season which starts in just a formal. you're watching our next stop is the financial update with the meat that he just i mean which way stay with us.

zob. i know you watching business with me to be mad but that norah's nickel is suspending its share buyback program following a ruling from a court in the caribbean the injunction in st kitts and nevis or sort by. giant roussel which owns twenty five percent more cynical resellers and a fierce takeover battle with interest groups for control over them like there's been talk in the market that nor nickel 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. one of the markets now in the us they are around a percent deal news and earnings reports london based world record rate and sco as

agreed to by rival pride international in a deal worth some seven point three billion dollars that's driving that. european stock markets advanced on monday two banks were among the strongest performers and also shares of mobile phone make a nokia rallied three point seven percent at the close on reports of a planned management shakeup that's on the day. russia's markets managed a last minute recovery in monday's session after a fairing in the red pretty much all session long take a look at some be exceptions from that trend the t.v. was shedding one percent the weakness in the bank's current share price is seen by on this as a buying opportunity. barely changed all the reports that shareholders had approved a merger with still but it and north nickel is worse than the market was down actually three percent throughout the session but it was down one percent of the close on that news it's suspended its share buyback program but overall worries

about inflation which are making investors on easy as tom monday from a clue to one. of the fronts of most investors' minds is inflation especially off the resort john reason for ation numbers coming out at the end of last week very it's. difficult for the market to believe that inflation is not going to be a big problem this year for russian equities and at the high levels of inflation on one side going to impact at the margins of particularly of russian miners russia still names. on the other side that the government's reaction to high levels of inflation is going to imply a stronger ruble which is going to impact the earnings of exports as its means biggest insurer generali could become a primary investor in it's the privatisation of v.t. be the prospectus for russia's second largest lender so generally may take around one percent in the company that's a stake worth three hundred million dollars that's as we t.v. which is currently eighty five percent states starts a road show to sell

a ten percent stake in the bank that is to raise around three and a half billion dollars it's the first big sale in russia's ambitious privatization program but that we had of research at uni credits but a stumble that's off says he to be is 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 the investment funds were various solar investment funds or insurance companies for example us or even today i think in the us to tell him sure so it's going to be probably a long term investors which are interested in russian financial markets next up and i'll take your short break followed by the headlines with alice to stay with us for that.

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a massive able to the president signs the bill to help the branded and reform the changes are aimed at fighting corruption and abuse of power by. now despite traditional wartime casualties many forget to acknowledge the long lost environmental damage is all special report coming up next. displacement is another of war's consequences the forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six after the tens of million government decided to close camps for rwandan refugees the column of refugees in this photo stretched for twenty seven miles toward the rwa.