questioned rather for the sex crimes alleged against him. 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's 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 he is in the end. 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 the swedish prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link and 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 comparably q. coverage in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a lot of coverage. wiki leaks and asuncion sweden but he doesn't 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 that i may be stronger than anywhere else on earth and one wishes that that no one would be judged in a in a 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 i read 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 so 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 in 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 power. takes here and then what see the moderates accomplished 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 wooleen 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 innovations 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 it was very much the. weakness of the opponent people were voting against rather than attraction to. and how do how do accomplish that through different kinds of negative campaigning in

the in the broader meaning of campaigning that focuses on the did the deficits of the other candidate. was something that the rove has been very good at so so he would be a relevant vice are there another thing that the rove has been something of a genius had is finding. peripheral or prefer peripheral issues that will mobilize the right 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 no on his own website he notes that sweden is his only international assignment the moderate party of sweden is

the the the only foreign party that he's worked for. so as far as i know he's a pretty us focused person but then again it's mentioned he himself has swedish roots and he he may feel a particular application 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 personally 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 suite 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 no pin wish to see a more americanized tweet in 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 straw. in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions for the one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style. that's not on.

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nineteen forty five don't. russia's most wanted man says takes responsibility for the moscow airport bombing that killed thirty six people in a video address published on an extremist web site the chechen warlord says he sent the suicide bomber who blew himself up in the middle of a crowd. joining us on just lawyers warning about the wiki leaks founder would face a biased trial in a flagrant denial of justice if handed over to sweden stockholm insists on his extradition for sex assault charges which songs to knives. and the you ass loans and support for egypt's vice president to take the nation out of the crisis in an orderly manner but people fear swapping president hosni mubarak for a war seven months could save the country leaping out of the frying pan and into

the fire. super bowl results and other sports are next went to meet they i'll be back with our top stories in about fifteen minutes. hello there welcome to the sports update its fears that come from sources. two weeks of top class winter sports action the. world championships gets underway in germany. gridiron grades green bay secure the super bowl toppled between thirty one twenty five in texas. and queens rushed to overturn a two love deficit against france to reach the cup semifinals. but first football where russia have arrived in abu dhabi ahead of their friendly with iran on wednesday this squad no doubt delighted to be living subzero moscow for the sun and

climbs of the year in their class also acting as a preparation exercise ahead of the next round of euro twenty twelve qualifies at the end of march russian manager dick advocaat was speaking in moscow prior to the trip but the two men standing behind his decision not to add any new faces to the twenty nine scored. we are starting here i have to explain every time. the protrusion lose to a new player you listen the target is reduced group to qualified floor for next year does the most important thing and then we have not so much time do we make experiments because you can only make excuse if we already qualified. in the meantime the netherlands are preparing for their friendly against. will go into wednesday night's game favorites despite missing several first choice players but

determined to extend a winning run of five matches since losing the world cup final to spain in johannesburg last july the england based. upon to involved and nigel de young have all withdrawn from the scored the remaining members feel they have more than enough quality to. see it rained for places below them. tennis now where was a weekend to remember for russia's top scored four time champions book in the semifinal the stunning comeback of the france after the singles was two zero to the world on the most crowded russia drew level following single wins plus with one of those until the end of the super bowl trying to work on sunday and so to the decisive doubles draw but where it is call it and today can stood in the way because until and public the last for it was forgotten about. through six love into

a semifinal clash with defending champion speaks. 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 happy we eventually managed to win this tie. i'm very happy i could score it's might seem to me and. it was a really tough match to say i was really playing very good and she's really motivated and. it was a lot of pressure on me to their. well and i was nervous really had 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 u.s. clusters in the singles match making for the health bethen in the arctic sens did take the first set on a tie break in that one but a certain open champ and clusters to the next two sets to suit victory.

now the green better actors have commemorated their legendary coach delayed to vince lombardi in the ultimate way aaron rodgers and company defeating the pittsburgh steelers in super bowl forty five bringing the moderator of the back to wisconsin to watch the action unfold. the packers lacked super bowl experience against the steeler 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 vijay 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 ville with a late touchdown catch of his own that africa delete to three but ben

roethlisberger was ultimately unable to conjure up the late game pull season magic has been known for in pittsburgh a fourth down past the wall is broken up with the packers left to savor their victory thirty one to twenty five the final score. it's a tough game and there's a lot of water. things a lot of pros i'd like to have back. there said i don't i don't put a blame on anybody except myself before i let the city of pittsburgh down the fans my coaches my teammates and it's not a good feeling that's naming a party drove it for a reason because we play and live in titles i've got the best fans you know an organization believes in us gives us opportunity 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 victories all packers new this full season with a trophy now back at lambeau field evander gorski archie. the russian

stand on the only one season will be more evident than ever before the taliban made the headlines as the thrust of the russian driver last season and now a sports car manufacturer on the road and trying to construct a style it's a partnership with urgent racing producing a cynic and zero. by the same cost as last year ten to ten was largely a year to forget for virgin as it finished dead last in the constructors' tendency of not points to a block getting behind the wheel. replaces lookers degrassi as the second driver the tent eleven season starts on the thirteenth of march in the rain. series sees plenty of changes being made season to season the difference with formula one is 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 recently i was told and we expect to consistently qualify right behind. us. meanwhile the toilet patrol team mate robert kubica looks at the entire formula one season after a freak accident the post suffering serious hand and leg injuries in a high speed crash at a precision brother in. the picture the bathers knight the. condition of the belies of the hand is warmer is a good. build yesterday really the more five or six days more to see if the hand is worth of us. much more time to see what would be the function. to think positive . when the sports know they thought upon world ski championships gets underway in. germany visitors from across the globe flock to the ski resorts to watch the opening ceremony

a total of eleven gold medals will be up for grabs in slalom giant slalom downhill sympathy and support combined for both men and ladies and the team event with members of both sexes racing gets underway on tuesday with a super g. pulls up to it is very excited by the action. i've lived here in garmisch for about fifteen years working for the american government and i love the local community i love the u.s. ski team of the joint ski team all of them all and we're here to support them i know that the u.s. ski team doesn't get a lot of fans at a lot of these races and my god there's been so much work we're so proud so it's a possible now where in the end charlotte beat boston home colt ninety four to eighty nine the opening for by four points. wallace would finish the night with nine. stone back in the second school the celtics by five points and finished the one up for someone the for sure but lost the final quarter by nine

twenty five points from. this not enough for the celtics as the found themselves on the wrong side of the night before tonight. paula. let's now take a look at the other results from london to lake successful of is to. decrease in these ninety three to eighty four points minnesota also came out with a no wait victory while cleveland. portland defeated chicago turn one hundred to one hundred three and other games andrei kirilenko is used to draw a soul on the road to houston and also one day wake. up today no more sports news from around the globe time how nutty.

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those most wanted man admits he was behind the moscow airport attack like killed thirty six people. are going to be judged as chechen terrorists global bought of sad state boards at this you side told me that the idea of the cold it is healthy are not cheap in just a few seconds. also this hour julian assange just defense team warns that the wiki leaks founder risks are denial of justice have sent to sweden on sex assault charges. and of the u.s. pledge of support for egypt's vice president omar sunni among there are fears any swap with mubarak could see the country leaping from the frying pan into the fire.

it's three pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live on an isa now away our top story this hour russia's most wanted terrorist dr laura has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack at international airport last month the suicide bombing adama dead of a claimed thirty six lives and left more than a hundred people injured parties are getting a grouch obama has the details and then you'd be good trust posted on an extremist web site russia's most wanted terrorist the local motto claims that he was the monster mind behind january the twenty four attack of the country's largest airport he said that he ordered what he describes as a special over a show on january twenty fourth the suicide bomber and took me to national rival scenario the countries because now we've been known to be proud of himself.