peroration on january twenty fourth the suicide bomber ran to the international rival scenario the country's biggest outpost evening olds with the crowd and blew himself up several dozen people were killed in that attack and six out of those killed were foreign citizens in an message gulp or lot of claims that more terrorist at school followed will take place in russia and that the country was in for a year old blood and tears what is remarkable about that particular video is that indeed he was sitting next to a man where he has to do resemble the very idea that a suicide bomber from the investigative could meet you would know he was a twenty year old man from one of russia's north caucasus republics now as for double lot of himself he was not only the most wanted man but happens to be is also on the international we stop terrorists we're seeing started qaida and have claimed responsibility for similar terrorist attacks in the past but the twins you cited bombings on the moscow match show system and twenty to one forty people were killed

and he is also believed to have orchestrated the two thousand and nine for being of an express train coming from moscow just so it is but. certainly a very wanted man what's been the reaction so far to omar is video address. what we know that russian security forces have refused to comment on the most recent address on your poor model but meanwhile we also know that security has been tightened all across the country and apparently the suicide bombing at the idea of a hazara village gaping holes in security on public transport when we saw you see a man two months introduced to the existing and to terror law well today they had to have a spiel russia's police elby investigative committee together for a special meeting with russian mo makers to dispute those possible changes on monday president medvedev followed amazing wait them out with a talk with a senior. police officials of russia where he harshly criticized the work and he

said that the way security was opened eyes on russia's be easiest to transport hops was just unacceptable and should be changed we're now witnessing that police of russia are undergoing a major overhaul and by presidential want to and the president hopes that these changes in the work of police will also improve security in the country jan. all right cancer research on the reporting line there on this latest address from russia's most wanted man. thanks for that let's get more reaction on that latest development joining me now is bertie scar need ski from moscow based institute of globalization social movements thanks for being with us it's been weeks since the domain of attacks why does the morrow only claim responsibility now. well this is exactly very strange point about it it has no overt clue whether doku umarov was really behind the attacks or whether he was involved with the telcos or

whether he just has. some chance to claim there was the dubious fame of. launching these attacks but in many ways i suspect that the more of these definitely unaltered without any connection to the event versus pictures of all the weather is exactly the right person. to move if we are trying to find the the real person who blended organize that. now with that said we know of course that omar has main bases in the caucasus but how important are his links outside the region. well it's very clear that terrorist networks global and international and in that sense of course doku umarov is not completely isolated and it's not salty which has no connection with with the rest of the world with

events happening elsewhere also i think there is a kind of strange p.r. network or information that would mean different terrorist groups which are also trying to support each other ideologically i should say or in terms of public relations but again we should understand the doku umarov for all really is just one element of a puzzle and it's not the sort of the solution. speaking of solutions there's been a lot of debate over what authorities should do to improve security what do you think of anything society can do to resist these kinds of terror threats. well to be quite honest i don't think there is anything which can be done except just. accepting the new reality which is pretty dangerous but i think they're really important thing in the long run is to change the street in the northern caucasus so that there would be no new retrofits for the terrorist networks and that's

a social policy is essential educational policy industrial policy the this purpose of a social transformation absolutely crucial to overcome the problem elsewhere we can do very little well maher has promised more attacks on russia how real do you think these threats are. i don't think we have to take. literally because mother's one point of view is that. it's just kind of p.r. manager manager of the terrorists not much more alert so. at some point you'll claim to fame but. not much else so that's i don't think. he tries to make us believe. the same time of course we have to.

from the moscow based institute of globalization and social movements thank you very much for your analysis. in other news the founder of wiki leaks would face a secret trial and flagrant denial of his rights if he's extradited from the u.k. to sweden so says julian assange just defense team a london court is hearing evidence on whether he should be handed over to stockholm over sex crime allegations and songs denies any wrongdoing and says the accusations are part of a conspiracy to punish him for running his whistle blowing web site r.t. as more and it is following the case this is the second day over today extradition hearing for cheap enough songs at the end of which swedish prosecutors will be hoping that they can extradite songs to sweden to face questioning a validations of rape molestation and unlawful coercion made by two swedish women back in august of last year and julian assange himself has always maintained that

these allegations are politically motivated he says that there is a directly follow on from wiki leaks release of the us embassy cables which were deeply embarrassing to washington and say therefore the u.s. will do anything to get its hands on him a black box has been applied to my war. and on the outside of that black books. has been written there would rape and i hope over the next day we will see that books. is in fact. the oak humans that the defense will be pushing forward focused around us on his human rights they say that his human rights will be violated if he's extradited to sweden they also say that if he goes to sweden that's a risk that the u.s. will seek either his extradition or they will try to apply illegal rendition to him to take him to the u.s. where he may be held in guantanamo bay or

a similar detention facility and they also say that he is at risk of being subject to the death penalty if indeed he is extradited on words to america they're also fighting this on the grounds that he hasn't actually been charged with any crime the swedish prosecution wants to question him about these crimes but they haven't charged him yet and they say that the principle of extradition law is that suspicion of having committed a crime is not grounds for extradition you actually have to charge somebody however many say that sweden has an incredibly close friendship with the u.s. and so there would be a lot of political pressure to extradite him on woods once he gets to stockholm now with this is the last day of this particular hearing but we're not really expecting a decision to be made today the judge has already said that he may take several weeks to consider this decision and then will be able to appeal if the decision goes against him so we'll have to wait to see how it pans out later on this afternoon. with our team live from moscow coming up not so

a neutral switzerland morganfield than in any other european country many swiss are wondering if it's time to finally say a farewell to arms. and specially farmed animals like rabbits are making their contribution towards the treatment of diabetes and cancer find out more later in the program. two weeks into their street campaign protesters in egypt are still refusing to back down until president mubarak quits thousands are in cairo's to hear square but their lines are being pushed by. by the army to get traffic moving banks and some businesses are opening but schools remain closed and the curfew is still in force the government has announced concessions and their pay raise for six million public sector workers meanwhile the country's vice president is being courted by the uighurs to replace mubarak but washington is considered to be a questionable mediator. it's important to support the

transition process announced by the egyptian government actually headed by now vice president. omar suleiman hardly the words of a neutral broker and worse far removed from the people heard ministration claims to be listening to. dr meg deep below all heads of the human rights organization that teaches each option is about democracy he says he don't like solomon for the very reason americans do almost any man is part of the solution we consider american people american president zuma. want to keep. the lid mubarak who was still in. power in those sort of told to last year by the u.k.'s telegraph is the most powerful spook in the region silliman is suave sophisticated and fluent in english but the former head of egypt's intelligence service worked for years as the cia's man in cairo so

you. are among the silliman is accused of having been personally involved in torturing suspects this is the problem now in egypt is this a struggle between not between mubarak and the people but because between the american cia covert operators of u.s. power around. the world and the people are having to try to get mubarak replaced with somebody else it's hard to ignore the fact that the very abuses that drove hundreds of thousands of people into the streets had some assistance from the united states people have collected almost with pride these empty tear gas cylinders that have the words made in the usa written on them and so so much for a regime change so

a man was as much made in america as the dictator who appointed him and who is now being thrown out by the egyptian people wiki leaks cables show the us administration was grooming him for years as far back as two thousand and seven it had a radio identified him as a possible successor to president mubarak. many of her contacts believe that solely because of his military background least have to figure in any succession scenario and so when obama goes on record and says he gyptian is must choose for themselves it is not the world any other country to determine egypt's leaders only the egyptian people can do that people here lost because the secretary of state is admitting to something different but we have to do is to set a consistent message this morning the orderly transition has been. urging. transparency is here very free but many egyptians are afraid of

and think he's more a dictator the mr mubarak which leaves the united states out in the cold when it has to explain why it's backing him policy r.t. khyber. but despite its neutral i'm peaceful image switzerland has a strong military tradition it has europe's highest per capita rate of gun ownership in every mail service and under fifty years old as a reserve soldier but many question why a country that hasn't been seriously involved in any military conflict for two hundred years should have an army at all as are so it has more. training for combat preparing for war. except these soldiers are from neutral switzerland and are unlikely to ever experience wartime combat. more and more the centuries old suicide militia is being challenged in february the longstanding tradition of keeping a government issued weapon at home as part of military obligations will be put to a vote on whether they should go on keeping their guns at home or store them in

public arsenals but that's just one of the arguments local activists like to stuff by barry has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as normal cold war we totally surrounded by the european union which is militarily speaking totally friendly so we have the war in the me so the army has no reason of being annoying to me just the tradition do you think that's what someone should have an army. for. you know it's a joke you know it makes fun you know. just play a big war against but we don't. we don't need. a nine hundred eighty nine referendum on the issue revealed that more than a third of the swiss are in favor of dissolution a figure significant enough to pressure the government to take some action to rein in military activity the size of the army and its budget while still a substantial four point five billion dollars have been cut and the option of

joining the civil service instead was introduced it's not enough there is a political clout which means that the parliament is made move a lot of rich people. people want to know me. because they feel insecure there's still about two hundred thousand army personnel with compulsory military service for swiss males and private gun ownership for all conscripts living up to a local saying switzerland does not have an army it is an army not a pleasant prospect for young draftees like adrian feller who just don't see the point. in my opinion an army just. for security. well i saw what we can do. anything against. anything.

order so why should we. or swiss francs for something to help solve the problems we have the arguments are there give the serious majority still cannot imagine a nation without their men in uniform. who not only the political left support evolution we're still a minority in this country it's hard to convince the population because it's really a tradition that is deeply rooted in the swiss psyche plus there's the rise of populism and demagoguery it worries me. many swiss feel that abolishing the armed forces is a kid to letting go of a tradition of losing that sense of security real or imagined so does a neutral country with no enemies really need an army while support for abolition is elusive the question has been asked and the debate is about to continue just are still here are to switzerland. that's what's going to army may not have any of

their stories about we have a story online about one source human rights activists with certainly why to bring to justice. the former us president george w. bush has called off his trip. to switzerland due to concerns over a protest it would spark more on the story on the website. than thirteen characters competing for the title of the sochi winter olympics mascot have been released to find out more about them and vote for your favorite had to our website r t v dot com. the russian foreign ministry is looking into claims from a british newspaper reporter he was denied entry into russia the guardian's moscow correspondent luke harding says he was held in a cell for forty five minutes after he arrived at the airport the newspaper added that his passport was returned to him only after boarding a plane back to london the guardian says harding had a valid visa which was an old. let's take

a brief look now at some other headlines from around the world this hour lawyers for the former leader of one you are charles taylor stormed out of his trial in the hague again after prosecutors refused to accept a written summary of his defense case taylor stands accused of arming rebels and neighboring sierra leone in exchange for so-called blood diamonds the trial has lasted more than three and a half years with a verdict expected later this year if convicted terror will serve his sentence in the u.k. . britain's former labor government has come under fire after a report revealed they did all they could to secure the lockerbie bomber release. he was the only person convicted of the aircraft explosion in one nine hundred eighty eight but killed two hundred seventy people he was sentenced to life in prison but return to libya in two thousand and nine on compassionate grounds a report just released by the present government says the u.k.'s personal interests

in the country were the driving force behind the deal. military officers from the two koreas have sat down for talks following months of high tensions on the peninsula going gang and soul brokaw intact late last year when the north responded to artillery fire near their territory by shelling a south korean island it's out the talks which took place in a town inside the demilitarized zone will lead to higher level dialogue between both countries defense ministers. goats shapes and rabbits are making their contribution to modern medicine near moscow that's right the animals are helping pharmaceutical companies produce drugs to treat diabetes and cancer it's a groundbreaking science known as transgenic farming and artie's surfers has more. just how do you rabbit more importantly why would you want. the genetically modified rivets produce

a very valuable drug in their milk which is used in treating cancer. here to scientific research center on the outskirts of moscow these animals are aging scientists and cutting edge research welcome to the pioneering new world of farming pharmaceuticals this is where the alamo heads these worms rabbits but if we gave three into the next three and you got the transgenic or genetically modified ones these guys that are proving so vital in the discovery and development of new treatments for diseases. boston might sound strange the milk of transgenic animals has already been used to successfully treat patients and it's not just rabbits around the world's traditional farming it's now morphing into by a farming fantasy two companies are now turning to other domestic animals in new ways to produce drugs it's a breakthrough in fairness you know we want to get to the point where we can have

goals and goals producing the same drug in their milk. at the moment this research center doesn't have the funding to produce more than a few of the genetically modified species that rabbits remain their main source of research but you lately bodies in the e.u. and the us slowly starting to allow drugs produced by transgenic animals onto the market but it's slow progress rush especially a lack of guidelines and solid regulation in this area mean it remains a controversial issue. we feel that playing with genes could be dangerous for any ml's when people haven't fully studied all the erected to remake needs from cheap to resource providers as by farming continues to grow these guys produce very well end up in your medicine cabinet there for. well shortly here in r.t. we discuss why wiki leaks founder julian assange not face

a fair trial in sweden but first as the business narrows with korea. hello and welcome to business news in a we go to our top story this hour russian energy major gas problem is reportedly in talks with all dutch shell to widen their global alliance sources close to the negotiations cited on bloomberg say europe's biggest oil company may also gas assets in asia in return shell wants to expand liquefied gas plant of a twenty second billion at the twenty two billion dollars project to win markets in china and india it may also gain access to new offshore fields to supply the plant currently currently shell holes twenty seven percent and gas pumps fifty percent of subtly into it now accounts for five percent of global production at g.e. . has been the worst start to the year for precious metals for two decades but analysts say there are still reasons to be bullish union bank of switzerland says

industrials are down for silver could be the strongest since the ninety's the bank expects hedge funds to continue buying gold while the world's central banks will add to that billion reserves a third year in a row to mccutcheon from a vocal gold says he still positive. the thing about gold this very hard to put your thumb on is that it's really not a commodity it's money it's basically a medium a transaction in a way of storing wealth in absolute terms to give you an idea of the what's been happening in the past two months china's import over two hundred tons of gold so basically take the entire production of russia china's consumer in two months. going to a private individuals not mentioning you know national banks. so china's bringing in money of course is a huge tradition a buyer of gold. basically for the first time in many many years central banks have been buyers of gold in two thousand and ten. so you know it's really all about the

marginal buyer and it's right now what we have is gold production is more or less flat or declining it has been declining for the past fifteen years. and so it's really a question of how many people are willing to hold their savings in u.s. treasuries for example or another a fixed income instruments or they want to hold an absolute store of wealth and buy gold so it's really hard to put a price target on it but i can tell you that it's very unlikely it's going to go down more than go up. now let's look at the markets most european stocks lower as investors book profits up to five consecutive sessions of gains some companies such as banking giant u.b.s. gains after reporting earnings. are still on the three point four percent the netherlands group posted a fourth quarter loss of seven hundred eighty million dollars it said the gradual dymov of coverage would contain. russian markets are trading in the black. hat for. just one no. adding to monday's sharp losses

a day after it suspended a stock buyback amid shareholder dispute. prizes pulling down the energy sector with one point three percent drop we days. consecutive days lost. wasn't banks saw the volume of household deposits grow by a third last year the total amount of all deposits in russian banks reached three hundred thirty four billion dollars just what will interest rates in some banks being lower than the rate of inflation most russians still prefer to save money the national cards. and that's all for me but join join us in less than one hour for more here on business start.

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it's two thirty pm in moscow this is r t and these are stories brussels most wanted man doku umarov says response takes responsibility for the last hour airport bombing that killed thirty six people in a video just published on an extremist website the chechen warlord says he sent the suicide bomber who blew himself up in the middle of a crowd. you ass lines of support for egypt's vice president take the nation out of the crisis in an orderly manner but people fear swapping president hosni mubarak for a larceny among could see the country leaping out of the frying pan and into the fire

. and julian assange lawyers warn about the wiki leaks founder would face a biased trial and a flagrant denial of justice if handed over to sweden stockholm insists on his extradition for sex assault charges which astonished him. now for more on why sweden wants a song so badly and say if you were to be extradited i spoke to dr brian palmer a social anthropologist from uppsala university that's next here on our team. dr brian palmer social anthropologist who teaches that uppsala university thank you very much for sitting down with us today on r.t. it's a pleasure to be on your program sweden has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately with the wiki leaks scandal and the spy and sex probes into doing a song why does sweden want julian of songs to be extradited is it just for.