molestation and unlawful coercion made by two women back in august in sweden he has always said associate self that those charges are politically motivated as in relation to the released 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 some of his lawyers say a risk that the u.s. will seek his extradition in turn or even illegally subject him to illegal rendition to the u.s. and then from then on there's a risk they say of him being held in guantanamo bay or indeed elsewhere they will say they say arrest that he'll be subject to the death penalty and if they can argue that 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 came 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 relationship with washington so let's see what that says. sweden a 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 models and on 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 in politics through the back door like swedens times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross reading 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. questions.

making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the bodies 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 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 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 he is a hero to millions my mind as it is a criminal only ought to be. put on trial for what he used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be. advising the

country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songe for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured the questions of 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 assange from the united states of sweden merica and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now a r.t. stockholm sweden douglas may have now been international lawyer explains the legal loopholes that the u.s. could exploit to push through assad his extradition there is a provision in the supplemental treaty between sweden and the united states that

sweden could agree to quote temporarily transfer a mistress on to the u.s. to stand trial in the u.s. on u.s. charges and then at the conclusion of the at her saving that he would be transferred by to sweden thanks to paul neutral agreement of the parties my reading of that provision of the supplemental treaty is that the u.s. could hold on to mr of songs if he is convicted in the u.s. so that the charges lodged against them that mr assad does his jail time in the u.s. which could be significant jail time and then afterwards transfer back to the story . still ahead this hour a battle of epic proportion all in the name of sports for their favorite made characters to be the mascot for the twenty fourteen winter olympics all the details on the candidates and are applying to the top of the pile a couple of minutes. the russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov has claimed

responsibility for january's bombing of domodedovo airport that took the lives of thirty six people and injured more than one hundred eighty he made the claims in a video message on an extremist web site and in earlier release he warned that he warned for a year of blood and tears authorities believe he was also involved in the march two thousand and ten moscow metro bombings that killed thirty nine people as well as the november two thousand and nine bombing of a train from moscow to st petersburg. and government protesters in egypt show no sign of giving up after two weeks of on arresting but removing president hosni mubarak from power the country's new cabinet held its first meeting as thousands maintain a human chain in cairo central square artie's paullus leader has the latest from cairo. cabinet has just met for the first time an announced 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 rising food prices and massive unemployment the immediate reaction from the thousands of people who remain in tough here 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 ramallah today at 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 two days talking a square though does still remain the focal point of these demonstrations and forty two nights protesters are preparing themselves to sleep under the cold egyptian 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 sunday's talks between the opposition groups and the vice president almost all the men 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 when we do not believe that any kind of progress was made and he was my brother who was party 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 could envisage 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 there this group which does to some extent and this is understood gender 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. no 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 jail break. from here and want to lob a non there's no way to go to lebanon from egypt only to go through this she or to fire so who helped them any one of the thousands of protesters on egypt streets was support for the demonstrators has played 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 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 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 him

a trip to be part of what they believe is the new revolution sweeping the middle east i was in eritrea and i watch everything on t.v. i wish i was here before but coming here now is my contribution i'm asking all my brothers in egypt to express their opinion without fear it will never leave the blood of our martyrs who was killed in this revolution without having. the brotherhood get 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 globe. future it consisted of a caliphate and one big muslim state created to 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 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 trying to 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 happened in the streets of cairo back 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. cairo. organizers of the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics in russia have unveiled the cartoon candidates competing to become the game's mascots now it's up to the country to choose a winner it is carried out as our tells us 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 forest 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 in the salt you know 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 and 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 brass 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 to boast of 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 floating actually comes about 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 and 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe . troops are battling for a fourth successive day over a disputed border zone the conflict is centered around a temple internationally recognized as belonging to cambodia although thai authorities dispute that the clash has so far claimed five lives since friday and forced thousands of villagers to leave their homes cambodia has urged the u.n.

security council to intervene to keep the conflict from escalating. election officials have confirmed that almost the entire electorate 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 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 southern sudan is expected to become a fishel independent in july. russia's introducing grassroots reforms to the country's law enforcement system the move is aimed at stepping out corruption in the police force as well as improving its tarnished public image or he's a catarina gretsch of explains. it 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 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 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 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 you know which we can also use in the future russian milly's to have a but image for a professional shortcomings or not leading up to social 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 for the most obvious change will be the change of attack from its both soviet name elites it will be renamed into beliefs a russian core 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 our 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 ban on the use of the rabbit songs and tear gas during demonstrations even if these are unsanctioned rallies also even 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 the thousands of months were considered and four hundred of them were checks it's now that these bill has been sealed with the signature of the russian president it will go into force in less than a month. for more on the overall as well as crime problems facing russia's capital r.t. sophie shevardnadze sat down with moscow's police chief bloody miracle a culture of the interview coming up next stay with us.

that's 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 years in a 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. 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 implies crimes by foreigners from c.i.s. states and other countries and by russians coming to moscow from other cities.

and meet the peak of fascinate tension newspapers were reporting that seventy percent of crimes were committed by 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 breakin 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 a visit. 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 of 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. a lot is being said about modernization this in fact is

presently dredges goal president 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 easy is to model of partnership and respect by citizens this law 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 laurent forces to adapt to new service conditions but i don't think that this adaption period is going to last for too long we plan to get down to working under a new conditions for a march the first. western media has written a lot about this false image and reputation of moscow's militia. tera series of scandals and cases of power abuse what measures are you taking to eradicate corruption. and with its stricter 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. of nature and discover its beauty. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free. to. see what nature can give you the. wealthy british style the stock.

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with the muslim brotherhood movement which is bad of the country about their fortnight of rallies demonstrators in cairo say they won't leave the streets until the president resigns. russia's police force is in line for a massive overhaul after the president signs a bill to have them rebranded and reform changes or even fighting corruption and abuse of power by all sorts. coming up as lithuania takes its turn to head in the organization for security and cooperation in europe talks to the country's foreign minister about the challenges that lie ahead spotlight coming your way in a few moments. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from. the future.