it's hard to say certainly. sexual misconduct is taken seriously in sweden but few cases gets anywhere near the kind of judicial energy behind them as as this had so there's seems to also be other factors at play it may be partly the prosecutors and lawyers involved and issues of their careers it may also be that there is some pressure from the. foreign policy establishment in sweden and even from the united states that it's playing a role do you think that eventually will in fact be extradited to sweden it wouldn't surprise me if if he is in the end. but i but i would say that he and his lawyers have a fighting chance of keeping him there and and suggesting that whatever questioning of him prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link so many critics say

that once and if assad is extradited to sweden that it will be very easy for the u.s. to get him into custody do you agree with that i think that's quite right that it would be easier to get him to the u.s. from sweden then from britain the swedish government has has shown itself to be more pliant than the british surprisingly given the so-called special relationship of trust between britain and the usa and the swedish press has been and swedish public intellectuals have been less vocal in defending we could leaks than many people and many papers in britain so i think he's he's safer there why do you think that the media has been reluctant to. secretly openly cover wiki leaks or cover it in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a lot of coverage of wiki leaks and sweden but he doesn't. they have that

many high profile champions it's partly because allegations of sexual misconduct waste so heavily here that it is sick country where feminist ideals i may be stronger than anywhere else on earth and one wishes that that no one would be judged in any any case until they've been tried but there's so there's some hesitation to come to his defense on those grounds and then so much of our i mean here in sweden is owned by a few conservative leaning media houses particularly bone years a media group that's right leaning and has has every interest in. in not raising these questions and they are the largest player in the media marketing suite and you wrote a biography of the swedish prime minister and it's no secret you wrote about this

that the prime minister has been or is being advised by us republican strategist karl rove why one of america's most notorious neo cons and the man of course most credited with getting bush into the white house it's an interesting question. because the conservative party the called the moderates have plenty of macchiavelli and strategists of their of their own plenty of karl rove's of their own but rove has a long term relationship with the moderates already in the one nine hundred eighty s. he came to sweden to advise them and then he's been back and before the election two thousand and six and and even more recently he himself has some swedish roots and i think it may be partly initiated from his side that he wants to be involved in politics here and then what see the moderates in. come play before the two thousand

and six election had something in common with bush's electoral victory in two thousand the problem for both george bush and fredrik reinfeldt was to win the votes of groups who wouldn't necessarily benefit from having a right wing tax cutting regime in power bush succeeded so well in wooing working class votes that in the two thousand and six election. sorry that two thousand and four election. bush won the white working class by a twenty three percent margin so working class voters were really the backbone of his victory. reinfeldt acknowledged that he was impressed by bush's campaign. and yet his struggle was also to get working class voters to support his party

which they hadn't done in the past. and so it's logical that he would have wanted to bring in some of the people from from from bush's campaign to help with that and not least karl rove but you've said the method is linguistic innovation media manipulation and the art of bringing smear campaigns is that what sweden wants to take from a strategist like karl rove the moderates won the past two elections very much because of the negative image of fredrik reinfeldt supposin and in both elections where it was very much the. weakness of the opponent people were voting against rather than attraction to. and how do how to accomplish that through different kinds of negative campaigning in

the in the broader meaning of campaigning that focuses on the deficits of the other candidate. was something that the rove has been very good at so so he would be irrelevant it vies are there another thing that the rove has has been something of a genius had is finding peripheral or peripheral issues that will mobilize the great voter groups to support the republicans and and that strategy has has also been somewhat effective in sweden is it normal for call rove to be doing this kind of international advising you know on his own website he notes that sweden is his only international assignment the moderate party of sweden is the only foreign party that he's worked for.

so as far as i know he's pretty u.s. focused person. but then again it's as mentioned he himself has swedish roots and he he may feel the particular legation to be involved here or interest to be involved here how much influence do you think the us on the whole from a song to nato to asylum seekers being taken into custody how long sweden enormous influence and in a way almost puzzling only so at this historical moment that sweden should be so eager to. host nato military exercises in the north to. share. intelligence information that is at a very high level with the u.s. and and nato that fredrik reinfeldt was so very eager to to to visit bush it was one of his first major international visits after he became

prime minister in two thousand and six. all of that is a bit puzzling when. the u.s. is no longer so central to sweden's exports for example as. it has been in certain periods when. when when european relations or to or to be more central to sweden in certain ways and all that this is a far cry from the swede in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's when all of palm a was prime minister and when the most important relations were often with developing nations with south africa with the south african freedom movement with india with the nonaligned movement so that.

the the once very progressive sweden has become something of a voluntary. apprentice state some would say vassal state of the usa and why do you think that sweden took those kind of policy moves i think a lot of it is admiration for the united states among the foreign policy elite in sweden many of whom whose members have studied at top universities in the us and spent time there and have. a good network of personal friendships in the us. that and then now with the conservative government sense two thousand and six those ties have become even stronger the motto of one of the young people's divisions of the conservative party over many years was.

we would like things to be like in the usa reveal how it is so me us in swedish so and open wish to see a more americanized sweden which is exactly what we're seeing thank you very much for being with us my pleasure. than now. well when one deals with war for us to realize that 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 whether it's a sonic boom say factoring in mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on

and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that they are shall be taken in war to protect them 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. wealthy british style sign. on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds

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a. real life stories from world need. to treat nineteen forty five don't auntie dot com. russia is the most wanted man who takes responsibility for the moscow airport bombings that killed thirty six people begin to address published on the extremist website. says from the center the suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowd. and killing the soldiers noirs warned that the wiki leaks founder would face a biased trial and flagrant denial of justice if extradited to sweden stockholm wants him tried on sex assault charges which sometimes denies. us lends it support for egypt's vice president to take the nation out of the crisis in an orderly manner but people fear swapping the president hosni mubarak but some of the

country could be pm flying into the front. next on the sporting highlights with you know. good to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. queen's russia overturned love deficit against france to reach the fed cup semifinals. greats green bay secure their fourth super bowl title beating pittsburgh thirty one twenty five in texas. revving up russia's first for a in two former one man u. five showing is unveiled with a model c. virgin racing m r v zero two in the spotlight ahead of the march fourteenth opener with. the stick with tennis where it was

a weekend to remember first is fed cup squad the four time champions booking their semifinal berth courtesy of a stunning comeback over france for some of the singles school was two zero to the visitors but roared on by the moscow russia julie drew level following single wins by such. as the sea. on sunday and so to the size of doubles rubber or at least a corner julie hermann split in the way of. public. the last for a tight first set was forgotten about. through six clubs and into a semi final clash with defending champions it's silly. i really like to play doubles but haven't played for a while i miss the sea and i needed time to adjust to each other so i'm happy we bench really managed to win this time i. am very happy i could score some might seem to then. it was a really tough match and. playing very good at the end. of it and.

it was a lot of pressure on me to then. well and i was cemented to begin and so i'm happy i could get it through today. belgium will face the czech republic in the other semifinal after defeating the us rice is winning the third singles match which made it a clean sweep for the hosts her opponent bethany sounds it did take the first set on a tie break and the one strain open champion clijsters cruised through to. see victory for her. football where russia have arrived and ahead of their friendly with iran on wed and state the squad no dark delighted to be leaving subzero moscow for the sunnier climes of the you see the clash also acting as a prep exercise ahead of the next round of euro two thousand and twelve qualifiers at the end of march russian momma should pick out

a couple speaking in moscow prior to the trip the dutchman standing behind his decision not to add any new faces to the twenty mounts caught pneumonia starting you have to explain every time. the provisional use the new player listen the target. group to qualify for next year does the most important thing and then we have not so much time to make experiments because you can only make excuse if we already qualified. ok let's talk spanish football now where the gap of the top of the premier league remains unchanged after the latest round of fixtures ryall still seven points adrift of barcelona despite a four one win over reality on sunday night cock out well he got the ball rolling after just eight minutes before. the first of these two goals thirty minutes later the world's most expensive clear drawing level with lionel messi at the top of the

schooling charts with twenty four apiece the visitors did pull one back by the time it was three male ryall the ball going in via. what i will and michelle effort to somebody newsman then made it for one in the dying seconds a minute by or the player now having the al must now hold barcelona slip up in the coming months to have a chance of securing their first spanish championship and for us. now the well it won't it is possible clash between. david haye has taken a new twist it's believed klitschko a three belt world heavyweight champion house challenge today to potential unification bods on july second the ukrainian fights another briton derek in april though w.p.a. champ a must take on monday tree challenger guy of before any moment clash with klitschko i can go ahead the fight susman scheduled on and off for a year now with no end of a busa rising from both sides the green bay packers commemorated

their legendary coach the late vince lombardi and the ultimate way are in rodgers and company defeating the pittsburgh steelers in super bowl forty five bringing the lombardi trophy buck to wisconsin event of course he watched the action unfold. the packers lacked super bowl experience against the steelers steam which retained key players from their two thousand and five and two thousand and eight title wins the green bay seemed more collected in the first half aaron vij finding greg jennings with a kalamazoo native making the score twenty one to three green bay last defensive captain charles woodson among others for the second half but there was no stopping jennings the twenty seven year old making it twenty eight to seventeen against the surging steelers in the fourth one of the n.f.l.'s fastest players mike wallace keeping pittsburgh in the game with a late touchdown catch of his own that after called the leap to three but ben

roethlisberger was ultimately unable to conjure up the late game postseason magic has been known for in pittsburgh before the down past the wall is broken up with the packers left to savor their victory thirty one to twenty five the final score. a tough game and there's a lot of. things a lot of throws i'd like to have back home but i said i don't i don't put a blame on anybody except myself but. the city of pittsburgh down the fans my coaches my teammates and it's not a it's not a good feeling that's named imported trophy for a reason because we play live in titles and we got the best fans you know an organization believes in us gives us happen soon to be successful and i can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring that aboard it's over vince lombardi himself said winning isn't everything but the only thing and victory is all packers new this postseason with the trophy now back at lambeau field yvonne's a gorski are. all right moving on where they're rushing stomp on this year's

formula one season will be more evident than ever before petroff he made the headlines us the first ever russian driver last season on a sports car manufacturer model sia is entering the constructors fold partnership with virgin racing producing a sleepy. new m r v zero powered by the same cause word engines us last year twenty ten was largely a year to forget for virgin the i finished dead last in the constructor standings with zero points to a glock getting another shot behind the wheel. but osceola replaces lucas degrassi as a second driver of the twenty eleven season starts on march thirteenth in bahrain. every receiving series plenty of changes being made season to season the difference with formula one news these changes are so drastic that it's hard to carry anything over into the following year preparing for an in-form season means facing new

challenges every time our goals for this year are to finish all twenty receives and we expect to consistently qualify right behind the top tier teams the tally petrols rent. looks set to misty entire formula one season meanwhile after a freak accident the pole is suffering serious arm hand and leg injuries in a high speed crash at a pre-season rally in italy. it's better this night the. condition of those that belies the hand is warmer is a good sign you know as it is to do we need more five six days more to see if the hand is worth of us. much more time to see what would be the function. good to think positive. on finally tennis is number one the rafael an olympic gold medal skier lindsey vonn have been named laureus world sport winners for twenty ten spain

meanwhile exemplify teamwork in the eyes of the jury with the world cup champion securing the best team award than a doll he dominated the court last year winning three out of four grand slam titles in new york at native regain the world's top ranking putting some distance between himself and four time nor'east when a lot of federal involvement made her mark on the world stage and twenty ten winning during her skiing gold on super g. drones at the vancouver olympics the spanish national football squad were honored for winning their first world cup while three time world player of the year is in a dean's list given a lifetime achievement. congrats to all the love is all your sport for now i'll see you soon world weather coming up in just a tick. well when one deals with war for us to realize that 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 chemical sort of whether it's sonic booms or factory marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or it's destroyed. in the pacific for landing 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 of protocol one has taken exception to that.

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dot com. russia's most wanted man admits he was behind the moscow airport bombings that killed thirty six people. in the new video address the chechen warlord took wal-mart has said that he sounded strange a year old man who can self up in the middle of the crowd join us for the details in just a couple of moments. to dinner saunders defense team warns that wiki leaks founder risks did all the justice if sent to sweep on sex assault charges. as the u.s. pledges support for new chips vice president omar suleiman there are fears any swap with mubarak means the country could leap from the frying pan into the fire.

there around the world and around the clock this is r.t. welcome to the program our top story now russia's number one terrorist doku umarov has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at moscow international airport last month the suicide bombing at damage ever claimed thirty six lives there more. a hundred people injured and let's get more details from our teams and that's how you recover so that's how you know what exactly did our say. in the new video address that would posted on an extremist website doku umarov has said that he boarded which he told the special operation that said to police the terror attack that took place the moscow damage at the airport in the twenty floors of january bush's first get his office saying that it was nearing two year old man who believed himself up in the middle of a crowd resulting in killings there.