brace the the outcome of this the charges that julian assange is wanted for 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 associate 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 songes 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 that 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 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 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 a has filed a report on a still came to relationship with washington so let's see what that says. sweden quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states and the country that gave us our flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top model and one bombshell. 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 deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for. the sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda of politics through the back door like sweden's ties 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 him it's also what their leaders are ready to get from julian a son 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 errands of the united states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden available to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a red leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian a son 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 u.s. with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and mobile and he is a hero to millions my mind is it is a cruel. to be out of bed 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 song 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 you we know songs from the united states of sweden merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's in our way archie stockholm sweden

still ahead this hour about all of epic proportions all of the name on. the phone for their favorite animated characters to be a mascot of the twenty four team wouldn't pay for all the details of the candidates and their fight to the top. antigovernment protesters in egypt showing no sign of giving up to two weeks of all the rest and to removing president hosni mubarak from power the country's new cabinet held its first meeting as ferals and maintain a human chain in cairo central square. for the latest from the egyptian capital. the 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 one of the granting calls to people to the streets and that lou wages. and massive unemployment the media's reaction from the thousands of people who remain in tough

year square is that it is to distill to later certainly not all about protests life here in the egyptian capital is slowly returning to some kind of ramallah to. the local time until six am tomorrow morning there is a curfew in place but outside of record few 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 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 sentence 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 brother who 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 couldn't visit the muslim brotherhood sitting down with the government talks it would have been not a ball 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 and this one mr james 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 hamas and muslim brotherhood members in a jailbreak of keep from here and want to lebanon there is 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 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 and every arab country there they're below the surface and they're now talking with the government and this support as i hear shouting on the streets in two weeks of demonstrations they are rallying call hasn't changed step down mubarak has made any level 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 will never leave the blood of our martyrs who were killed in this revolution without. the brotherhood get some of its funding from the ran and to run 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 globe. the 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. has 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 those 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 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. the organizers of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in russia have

unveiled the carting candidates competing to become the games that mascot and now it's up to the country to choose a winner aarti company there that of its health how it's all come down to a final lucky thirteen. originally over twenty four thousand potential mascot ideas and drawings were submitted to the committee who in the course had a very difficult task of narrowing them down to just park team 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 snow 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 float 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. now the russian in formula one. virgin huns unveiled its new call. for success out of a forthcoming sees that the car was revealed to the public in a packed media. it differs from its competitors because of a relatively. no good featured on last year's model despite the trend. of the next season which starts in just a. check on some of the world headlines this hour now and time.

sabbatical and for a fourth successive day over a disputed area the conflict is centered around the temple internationally recognized as belonging to cambodia. dispute this the clashes have so far claimed five lives since friday and four thousand villages to leave their homes cambodia has the un security council to intervene to prevent the conflict from escalating. election officials have confirmed that almost the entire. downs independence referendum have voted to split from the north nearly ninety nine percent were in favor of the breakaway all they lost once vote was peaceful tension remains 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 vote so when saddam is expected to come officially independent in july. first five

driven by hot summer winds all raging on the outskirts will straight is. always sixty homes have been destroyed or many more damaged hundreds of people were forced to flee the area which has been declared a natural desire to say meanwhile the cleanup from floods and cycling's that struck queens the turia on the east coast last week continues left thirty five people dead and closed system it is five point six billion dollars in damage. now russia is introducing grassroot reforms to the country's law enforcement system the move is aimed at stamping out corruption in the police force as well as improving its tarnished public image. explaining. it is 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 former proffers interior minister which the

president started 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. lowell's from i've been asked many questions as to what exactly this will mean it's just what we need it's a detailed regulation of police rights powers and. it's fundamental for police to work effectively not to be tempted to abuse their powers even though this is why the bill is a breakthrough or 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 unions which we can also use in the future it's russian milly's to have a but image for a professional shortcomings for not living up to social ra made 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 tan from his post soviet name elites it will be renamed into beliefs 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 truck bill hall among the mountains introduced our measures to increase public and follow mantra control over the police and to ban the forest from the private security sector where it is now the key player also one of the restrictions imposed on the bill. this is a bad on the use of the rubber boots balls and tear gas during demonstrations even if these are unsanctioned rallies also eat a louse 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. well for more on this overall as well as the crime problems in russia's capital all she says if you have announced they sat down with most case police chief his interview up next.

that as to whether mr god quite so thank you very much for joining us today hello that's what we're calling the recent clashes at the my as an esquire 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 this. city. limits. 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 groups 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 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 fashion extension newspapers were reporting that seventy percent of crimes were committed by the visitors to the city but it wasn't detail 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 are 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 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 has 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 modernisation this in fact is presently dredges go prison has recently suggested renaming the 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 easy is to model of partnership and respect by citizens this lays down a totally different content 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 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. gera series of scandals and cases of power abuse what measures are you taking to eradicate corruption. 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 in our 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 effect 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. well when one deals with war for us to realize what this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that humans whether it's a sonic boom sick factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for purposes the

list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that. in india in the movie joint the hotels the villas the gateway hotel the grand imperial trident the top western coast coromandel you can allege hotel

socialist saddam did to go and. run this and the colonel was hotel as a retreat. it's now past the hour here in moscow this is t.v. i'm back told found the whistleblower website wiki leaks is a. fighting attempt to have him extradited to sweden julian fears stocco could policy in the u.s. since. egyptian officials tried to woo the defined opposition with a concessions hosni mubarak's regime has how the president talked to the muslim brotherhood means and which is funded the country after a fortnight of around these demonstrations in cairo say they won't leave the streets until the president resign. and rushes that police

force is in line for a massive oval office the president signs a bill to help them move grounded on before the changes are in but fighting corruption and abuse of power since. well these are the headlines here at r.t. up next it's cross talk in this edition of his guests debate the shift in west towards multiculturalism. and.