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 him to do in iceland why does sweden want julian of so much to be extradited is it just for to be 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 this week prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link so many critics say that once and if 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 then 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 and so i. i think he's he's safe there

why do you think that the media has been reluctant to. be secretly openly comfortably q coverage in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a a lot of coverage of wiki leaks and 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 and until they've been tried but there is 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 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. and 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 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 where 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 deficits of the other candidate. was something that. the rove has been very good at so so he would be a relevant vizor there another thing that the rove has has been something of a genius had is finding peripheral or 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 you know 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 pretty u.s. focused person. but then again it's as 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 u.s. on the whole from the 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. we would like things to be like in the usa reveal how it is so me us in swedish so and hope in wish to see a more americanized tweet in which is exactly what we've seen thank you very much for being with us my pleasure. well one one deals with war for customer laws but this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage gone viral bombs boy

napalm boy you come from the city whether it's our sonic booms or tractors marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in the rock or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on along with 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 of political one has taken exception to that. wealthy british style supplements and that's not on the president's right.

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hundred forty five dot dot com. russia's most wanted man chechen terrorists says he's responsible for the bombing of moscow's dome of dead of an airport which killed thirty six people last month mars close ties with al qaida have landed him on the list of the world's most dangerous killers. was wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting extradition to sweden in a london court for a second day songes lawyers say he'll be denied justice by stockholm and headed over to the u.s. the fear of persecution for revealing secret american diplomatic documents to the world. and president mubarak attempts to appease egypt's opposition with even more concessions but demonstrators in cairo remain defiant the man being tipped to replace mubarak has links with the cia fueling fears that washington is pulling the

strings vice president omar suleiman is the former head of a gyptian intelligence which has been widely criticized for its systematic use of torture i'll have more details on all those stories in about fifteen minutes up next it's the sports news with. you know they're welcome to their sports are dating or not it's fair to come to. two weeks of top class winter sports 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 has arrived in abu dhabi ahead of their friendly with iran on wednesday they scored no doubt delighted to be living subzero in moscow for the sun it climbs of the year they clash also acting as a preparation exercise ahead of the next round of euro twenty twelve qualifies at the end of march question manager of the card was speaking in moscow prior to the trip but the two men standing behind his decision not to add any new faces to the tent and scored a clue and we are starting you have to explain every time about the provisional use the new players listen the target is reduced group to qualify 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 box the remaining members feel they have more than enough quality to. see to bring forth fruit places below them. tennis now where was that weekend to remember for russia's top scored four time champions book in the semifinal a stunning comeback over france after the singles world 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 in

seoul and public the last four it's not said was forgotten about. with roots six love interest semifinal clash with defending champion speaks. i really like to play doubles but haven't played for a while and if they see 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 contentious really motivated and. there 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 semifinal after the facing the same classed as the singles match

making it sweet for the halves bethany to take the set on a tie break in that one but a certain open champ and class has to the next to sets to say a victory for her. now the greenback packers have commemorated the legendary coach the late. and company defeating the paid spokes tennis and super bowl forty five bringing them to trust back to wisconsin to watch the action on felt. that backers lacked super bowl experience against the steelers team which retained key players from their two thousand and five and two thousand and eight lin's the green bay seemed more collected in the first half every vijay was 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 vet 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. there's 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. the city of pittsburgh there and 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 and we got the best fans you know in order to take some believes in us gives us an opportunity six. and i can't wait to go home and see those friends and bring our borders over vince lombardi himself said winning isn't everything but the only thing and victories all packers new this

school season with the trophy now back at lambeau field evander gorski archie. now the russian stand on this year's formula one season will be more evident than ever before the taliban made the headlines as the first ever russian driver last season and now a sports car manufacturer in the. constructors' fold a partnership with virgin racing producing a sleek new zero by the same cost as last year twenty ten was largely yet to forget for a version that finished dead last in the constructor standings with no points to mclaughlin getting behind the wheel while rookie jerome dunn replaces lookers degrassi as the second driver the twenty seven season starts on the thirteenth of march in the rain. three recent series sees 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 but we're preparing for a new form season means piecing new challenges every time our goals for this year or to finish all twenty recently was told and we expect to consistently qualify right to be heard even charge team arrives. meanwhile the toilet patrol through to mate robert kubica looks at the entire formula one season after a freak accident the pole suffering serious hand and leg injuries in a high speed crash at a princes and rather in. my opinion of the pair there's now a. good condition on the condition of the belies of the hand this warm up is a good the. as it told us to do we need 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 . winter sports know the thoughts and world ski championships gets underway in

garmisch bottom and germany there's just 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 super g. and super combined both men and ladies and the team event with members of both sexes racing get underway on tuesday for the close of the polls that it is very excited by the action. that looks 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 eighteen. nine the opening call to buy points i bought joe wallace who finished the night with nineteen stone back in the second pool the celtics by five points and

finished the one up for someone to the quarter by nine twenty five points from. the sin not enough for the celtics as the found themselves on the wrong side of the ninety eight school. let's now take a look at the other results from monday the lakers successful a visit to. the crazies ninety three to eighty four points minnesota also came out with an away victory while cleveland. portland defeated chicago turn one hundred ninety to one hundred three and other games andrei kirilenko is used to jostle subcommands on the road and also one day wake. up today no more sports news from around the globe time how not to say goodbye.

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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 protocol one has taken exception to that.

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pulling the strings. it's five pm in moscow this is our chief coming to you live first up this hour a link chechen terrorists has claimed responsibility for the bombing of moscow's don't out of an airport officials say at last month's attack was orchestrated by a group of up to seven people who could have been taking orders from more of security measures have been stepped up since the bombing in the country's police force is also in line for a serious overhaul of that in a crush obama has more. in a new video trust posted on an extremist web site russia's most wanted terrorist vocal lot of claims that he was a monster mind behind january.