it's 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 step one point of course this is the first day of the 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 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 wanted for a full questioning and sweep an include allegations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two women back in august in sweden he has always said i thought himself that these charges are politically motivated in relation to the release to all of us embassy cables on wiki leaks which are deeply embarrassing for the american administration 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 i saw 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 it'll 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 gone to 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 took 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 although again the prosecutor's office says that politicians are not involved in the legal process in sweden but my colleague i need to now way has filed a report on a still came to relationship with washington and say let's see what that says. so we didn't know why. 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. the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for some sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like swedens 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 all the stuff going on but it's not just what 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 this 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 ariens of the united states over many years from. question of. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia buddies is particularly strong now with a right leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the wiki leaks case seems to be just the next. a new way sion 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 you see is a bit over two million loveline as it is it clearly ought to be grabbed him 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 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 flume 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 using now a r t stockholm sweden still as they found a battle of epic proportions all in the name of sport. coat favorite animated characters that could be twenty forty when to take all the details of the candidate like the top and a common. anti-government protesters in egypt show no sign of giving up to two weeks of all the rest and sweeping president hosni mubarak out of power the country's new cabinet held its first meeting in thousands maintain a human chain in cairo the central square. or how the latest from the egyptian capital. cabinet has just met for the first time in their knowledge that the

salaries of government employees would be increased by fifteen percent now they're hoping to address one of the running calls to people to the streets and that was it lou wages wising few prices and mess of unemployment the immediate reaction from the thousands of people who remain in tough year square is that it is to do still too late certainly not all about protests life here in the egyptian capital is slowly returning to some kind of the magnitude eight o'clock this evening local time until six am tomorrow morning there is a curfew in case 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 tucker square though does still remain the focal point of these demonstrations and for the full two nights protesters are preparing themselves to sleep under the cold and 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 though to note that sunday's talks between the opposition groups and the vice president almost saw them and did not really cultivate a sense of moving forward particularly among those protesters and toughness with 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 will do not believe that any kind of progress was made any wisdom brotherhood was party to those talks this is a movement that is banned in egypt and if you asked anybody here two weeks ago whether or not they could envisage the muslim brotherhood sitting down with the government talks it would have been a lot of bull but the fact that the muslim brotherhood is coming to the fore is significant because it certainly is sending out alarm bells another in egypt 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 they 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 hamas and muslim brotherhood members in a jailbreak keep come 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 help them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets was support for the demonstrators has faded 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 to ramsey is part of the plan the muslim brotherhood will appear wonder sure the presidency will fall if and when they have the support and power to control everything as they work in every arab country there they're below the surface and there they're now talking with the government and its 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 nevin of his friends traveled for forty eight hours to get here they've come all the way from him a trip to be part of what they believe is the new revolution sweeping the middle east i was in it were true and i watch 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 it will never leave the blood of our martyrs who was killed in this revolution without adding. the brotherhood gets some of its funding from me 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. 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 us and many of the participants in such a putative arab muslim world and the us 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 there while solve the shore of the muslim brotherhood reach the top of egypt's though impose those special agenda will go ahead to establish a religious state despite them saying they don't want to be in the government they do so 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 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. . now the search for a new and limpid icon is almost over over a dozen animated characters afford it out in a live t.v. event to find out who will be masked for the saatchi winter games in twenty fourteen all that's left is for the russian public to choose its favorite art is covering as out of a tells us how it all came down to a final lucky thirteen. originally over twenty four thousand potential mascot ideas and drawings were submitted to the committee who in the forest had a very difficult task of narrowing them down to just thirteen that's ten for the main olympic games and three for the paralympics a games that will of course take place around the same time also. the lucky

thirteen that are being presented to the people tonight are all as you said cute and cuddly some of them very traditional russian symbols like father frost which is of course the russian analogue of santa claus also our hair which is a prominent character in a very popular russian cartoon so that one is guaranteed to be a popular with the younger generations also some very traditional winter symbolics such as a snowman a snowflake and various other small related mascots have been presented and chosen by the jury they've made the short list also other potential mascots on that short list among them a bullfinch a very beautiful winter bird white bird with a pretty red breast that is said to be by some in this country to be a sort of a lock poem and if you do see one in the winter it is said to have disposed to bring you luck because they are quite rare so the people of this country will then

have to engage in a nationwide vote and that will of course take place at the end of the month at which point the jury the jury will announce what the people have chosen they'll be one mascot for the main olympic games one mascot for the paralympic games up until the moment of voting actually comes the ballot however the website of the russian olympic mascot will be operating available to everyone not just russian citizens because there will be a very handy feature that will allow users and browsers basically to choose the language that they want the presentation to run in. all of the shortlisted mascots will be on that website basically themselves explaining to the visitors of that website why it is them that have to be chosen to represent the russian winter olympic games. i can is going to check on some other international headlines at this hour now and come both are battling for

a form of successive day over disputed the area the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized as belonging to come both via toil dispute this with the clutches of say fall claimed five license friday and forced thousands of villages to leave their homes cambodia has urged the un security council to intervene to prevent the conflict from. election officials have confirmed that removes the into the u. electorate in sounds to downs independence referendum have voted to split from the north nearly ninety nine percent were in favor of the breakaway will they lost once vote was peaceful tensions remain high in parts of the oil rich border region before the announcement of the results the country's president said he would accept the outcome of the southern sudan is expected to become officially a dependent on july. bush five driven by hot summer winds

a raging on the outskirts because he is back with. almost sixty homes have been destroyed and many more damaged hundreds of people were forced to flee the area which has been declared a disaster as a wee while the cleanup from floods struck queen's the tour. last week. left five people dead because of an estimated five point six billion dollars in damage. russians more in force when agencies will go through a fundamental overhaul off to the president signed a new reform bill it involves a complete rebranding in the introduction of new standards of. the house for the town. petey's the long awaited report what is a key plank of president mitt 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 two years ago and he has said that the made a mold 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 have a butt image for a professional shortcomings for not leading 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 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 its both soviet name elites it will be renamed into a russian for police or 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 drug bill all among the mountains introduced on measures to increase public and calm 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 bill. this is a bad on the use of the rubber but 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 half a thousand to man must work considered and four hundred of them rejected now that these bill has been sued with the signature of the russian president it will go into force in less than a month. before more on this overhaul as well as the crime problems in russia's capital he's a safe haven now thanks sat down with the police chief his interview next.

that's as to whether mr god whites of thank you very much for joining us today hello that's what we're calling the recent clashes at the my usenet square in moscow what measures should be taken to stop growing extremism and intolerance that we are observing at the moment. which if there is no universal measure we need a set of measures to improve the current situation we need to find an overall solution involving firstly family secondly school and other educational institutions to foster tolerance to other nationalities at the same time the law

enforcement system should not lay down obligations so that the reaction of the law enforcement agencies to any kind of wrongful acts committed by people from other regions and nationalities will be equal to the deeds and misdeeds. just talking about the state of crime officials often refer to illegal migrants and nonresidents is this kind of crime a big problem for the city but abloom with the issue there is such a problem but in the past year we managed to stabilize the situation. frankly speaking every year the number of crimes committed by people from other cities grew in two thousand and ten we managed to stop the growth but nonetheless the number is huge almost half of crimes in moscow are committed by nonresidents this figure it implies crimes by foreigners from c.i.s. states and other countries and by russians coming to moscow from other cities.

they meet the peak of fascinate tension newspapers were reporting that seventy percent of crimes were committed by the visitors to the city but it wasn't detail it was that these visitors were also from the moscow region and not cook asian republics do you think this may provoke more hatred and aggression. towards we take into consideration the circumstances in the city when evaluating its criminal situation of course we consider the statistics the thing is that dealing with gangs consisting of people from other regions requires more effort on our part for example an informational breaking into a criminal gang formed on an ethnic hatred basis is very complicated so we say that half of crimes are committed by nonresidents but that's just reported ones but since we know there are many on reported crimes we realize that the real number is higher but anyway we act taking into account this kind of criminal activity. media

around the world recently caught on the necessity to tighten civil liberties particularly in regard to registering moscow's visitors what exactly did you mean. i do not support hardening responsibility i backed the idea of registration to be preserved along the existing rules of notification requirement i'm speaking about the procedure we have now every moscow visitor when arriving in the city has to be registered this procedure is very democratic and it's. to be preserved but if this democratic notification procedure is violated the punishment should be significantly higher that's my idea. when people from non c.i.s. countries may ask you why do you need this measure in many cities there is no such procedure. which with them our situation is different due to the fact that our southern borders with the former soviet states including the c.i.s. member states borders easy to cross the existing situation in the southern regions

of the former u.s.s.r. dictate a necessity to introduce measures like registering new comers transit routes for drug trafficking to europe come through russia to that is why the registration procedure provides for order in european countries also and in my opinion we are doing everything right in this regard. how safe is it now for foreigners to stay in the territory of the russian federation. the number of crimes committed against foreign nationals from the near abroad mainly the c.i.s. states dropped by twenty five percent last year while crimes against foreigners from the far broader have dropped by fifteen percent this is showing a stable trend towards a stabilization of the crime situation in moscow and it makes it possible to draw long term conclusions. but

a lot is being said about modernization this in fact is presently dredges goal prison has recently suggested renaming militia force as the police force what do you think about that why do it what's going to change except for the name. of my attitude to this initiative is normal i think that there's some concrete meaning behind this renaming it means transition to new standards of service a 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 to model of partnership and respect by citizens this lays down a totally different continent and standard. of them. how long will it take to carry out this reorganization it's not an easy task there are many law enforcers who just cannot reorganize overnight. some

deadlines have certainly been set to allow loren forces to adapt to new service conditions but i don't think that this adoption period is going to last for too long we plan to get down to working under a new conditions for a march the first. of the western media has written a lot about this fault image and reputation of moscow's militia. series of scandals and cases of power abuse what measures are you taking to eradicate corruption. of which and with its strict discipline the introduction of personal responsibility of bosses for the actions of their subordinates and a comprehensive approach to restoring law and order you now own ranks i will once again refer to two thousand and ten we managed to cut the number of offices facing criminal charges by one and a half times the measures we've started introducing on a daily basis have proven to be affected we've increased the responsibility of our

employees and have set high standards and that has produced results. thank you for this interview my pleasure. assures that so much definitely there's a huge music. in the market politics graphic a recent pew research report predicts muslim populations around the world will increase significantly compared. to. discover its beauty. communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free.

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down here this is the embattled founder of whistleblower web side wiki leaks is in london finding attempts to have him extradited to sweden julian assaulter fears stop him put him on to the u.s. because of nuisance. egyptian officials try to woo the fund opposition with concessions. regime has held on presidential talks with the muslim brotherhood which is banned in the country but all too often fortnight of rallies demonstrations in cairo say they won't beat the street the president resides.

on russia's police force is in line from non-survival along the president signs a bill to have the meat branded angry for the changes i am disappointed corruption and abuse of power by office it's. now an all special report we find out about wall sign and casualty the environment skulled lands and wounded lives is coming up next here on aussie. sometimes we think that it's easier to make war and to work to prevent it or to clean up after it the military is a major player in terms of environmental outcomes. the environment is wars silent casualty when we talk about the costs of war we rarely focus on what happens to the way the enemy.