is the russia's most wanted criminal most wanted terrorist and in these latest of his videos posted on extremist websites he claims that he was the one who woke astray to this you side bombing which took place at moskos made outpost on january twenty fourth he sat that's right he was the special local ration now it's not the first time that bill kumar of claims responsibility for similar terrorist attacks oh yeah what is remarkable shortly after the bombing at the country's largest airport in a similar video message he said that more attacks would take place in russia and what was remarkable about that particular b.o.b. because it needs it sitting next to a man who. reminded all who was recognised by some as the various you side bomb who. straight at the attack at the might be of the on january twenty fourth the suicide bomber and to the international arrivals area of the tap

water and blew himself up. amongst the crowd thirty six people were killed among them six foreign citizens well dull kumar of his knowledge there is wanted not just by apas be but he's also on the international east terrorists he has links to a new car early had claimed responsibility for this between suicide bombing almost goes much for a system in march twenty ten one forty people were killed also he is believed to have lost a mind to the ball mean all the express train in two thousand and nine the train following from moscow to sept that is part of. how our russian officials reacting to this latest video from omar of. local knowledge no that's a russian security forces happens to be as refused to comment on these most recent video to morrow up his address but we know that meanwhile security has been too.

all across the country today was a important day in terms that they had so war three major security agencies of russia what we saw happen to be and all the investigative committee together for a special meeting here at russia's lower chamber of column and to discuss what the monuments could have been introduced to the current and to terra law it was a closed meeting it was behind closed doors we know that was be reported to the duma deputy is the name of the of the of those of the man who carried out this you side bombing it hasn't been disclosed to mass media forces investigation is still ongoing the core of the case hasn't yet reached the courts we also know that believes up to seven people could have been behind the attack moskos the my dear that i have now is full of the address of the modified these claims that he was the one the must a mind to hold the attack they're quite cautious about it and they say that

terrorist cells in russia quote a ton of us and the local modifiers just want all the versions of the investigative committee he's considering and the say that those who organized the attack may not have been directly linked to these terrorist but on monday president made video had a major meeting with russia's top police offices we now know that police in russia are undergoing a major reform as part of a reform of the interior ministry in general and the president believes that security should be. better taken care off on public transport the particular and believes that this reform russia's police could have helped provide safe to public transport. but we will continue to bring you analysis on these latest developments developments i should say for now in katrina groucho while live from moscow. now meanwhile officials say an entire terrorist cell has been neutralized in central russia special forces stormed into the suspects house taking them by surprise

without firing a shot four people were found within greedy years for a powerful homemade bomb and one to attack crowd in public places officials say the men took direct orders from dr maher of himself. we've got more stories ahead for you this hour including questioning switzerland's neutrality but more guns per capita than any other european country many swiss are wondering if it's time to finally lay down their weapons that's coming up in just a couple of minutes. the defense team of wiki leaks founder julian assange say he'll face a secret trial of sent to sweden to face sexual assault allegations he's now in a court a london court i should say where the evidence on whether he should be handed over to stockholm is being heard as launch says the accusations are part of a conspiracy to punish him for running his whistle blowing web site from london are to his lore and reports. 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 validations over great molestation and unlawful coercion made by two swedish women back in august of last year julian assange himself has always maintained that these allegations are politically motivated he says that directly follow on from wiki leaks release of the us embassy cables which were deeply embarrassing to washington and say therefore the us will do anything to get its hands on him a black box has been applied to my life and on the outside of the black box. has been written the word right and i hope over the next. rule see. that box. is in fact. the arguments that the defense will be pushing forward focused around us all of these

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 there'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 say there would be a lot of political pressure to extradite him on woods once he gets to stockholm you know what 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. in other news as anti-government protests in egypt enter a third week president hosni mubarak has taken steps to reform the constitution to diffuse public anger but thousands of demonstrators remain in cairo's main square keeping up the pressure on the president to resign but across an hour to you to vision council where our correspondent paula so we're is standing by paula if the fifteenth day of demonstrations the political future of egypt obviously remains unclear what's the situation like now on the streets. what we've now entered week of and mubarak demonstrations and numbers on. the streets just keep growing testy a square still remaining the focal point here in downtown cairo hundreds of

thousands of people on the streets as we speak and also the city of alexandria way throughout the course of the day tens of thousands of people have been coming to protest the swell started at around midday when government buildings close in the last day also people have received this salaries and just yesterday monday the government announced that it would be giving a fifteen percent increase to the wages of government employees and pensions but that was greeted with a lot of anger at people saying that if the government can do that now why couldn't they do it ages ago when people were campaigning for those kind of changes organizers of also marked to stay quiet and sunday as million man marches so there was of course earlier today for people to come to the streets and vent their anger there was some concern that the protests were losing momentum that the morale was down but certainly not with the kind of numbers we seem to nelson they will still waiting to get into the square those kind of fears and those kind of concerns have

been abated at the same time there are large crowds gathering in front of the parliament building they calling on the new prime minister ahmed shafik to resign now he's only been in that post for the last week and a half the human rights watch has issued a report saying that in the last two weeks of violence two hundred and ninety seven people have been killed we haven't had any kind of comprehensive report from the egyptian government itself. now paula we have been hearing of the government together with president mubarak trying to attempt to establish dialogue with the opposition how has that played out among the public who still of course just want the president to quit. well today to stay the vice president almost saw them and spoke on egypt on state television on the hoff of president mubarak and he said that the president had issued a presidential decree that would see what he needed to fake to the establishment. the working of two committees the first committee would look at implementing

constitutional reform the second committee would look at implementing the decisions of the conclusions that have been reached in national dialogue those with those meetings between six opposition groups and the vice president almost two men there is a committee that is due to begin working in the next few days it won't consists primarily of young people and it will focus primarily on young people it will investigate the violence of the past few days and also ways of bringing people to book the vice president did reiterate that all these kind of moves were a way for the government to ensure a smooth post-process and a smooth path to free and fair elections and again saying that the government was not planning to persecute in any way people who have taken to the streets over the last two weeks now it is interesting that the president is increasingly choosing his vice president to speak on his behalf we haven't heard from the barak since that first week of violence back in january so the man is somebody who is respected but he's not particularly well liked here in egypt and here's someone that people

closely aligned with the american administration as i investigate in this report. it's important to support the transition process announced by the egyptian government actually headed by now vice president. omar so i'm on hardly the words of a neutral broker and far removed from the people who had ministration change to be listening to. dr meghji below his appeal human rights organization that teaches each opinions about democracy he says egyptians don't like superman for the very reason americans do almost see the man is part of this illusion we consider american people. zero. zero. zero usually i'm a little mubarak who was still. power in the authority told to last year by the u.k.'s telegraph is the most

powerful spook in the region so a man is suave sophisticated and fluent in english but the former head of egypt's intelligence service worked for years as the cia's men in cairo. are among the solomon is accused of having been personally involved in torturing suspects which 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 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 u.s. administration was grooming him for years as far back as two thousand and seven it had already identified him as a possible successor to president mubarak. many of her contacts believe that solely because of his military background the 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 laugh because the secretary of state is admitting to something different but we have to do is to set a. it says this morning the orderly transition has the.

urging. transparency is very concrete but many egyptians are afraid of and think he's more dictator the mr mubarak which leaves the united states out in the cold when it has to explain why it's backing him. kyra. despite its neutral image switzerland has a strong military tradition and also has europe's highest per capita rate of gun ownership and every male citizen under fifty years of age is a reserve soldier but now many are questioning why our country that hasn't been seriously involved in any military conflict for two hundred years should have an army at all tests are silly has the details. 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 swiss

militia is being child in february the longstanding tradition of keeping a government issue 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 has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as normal cold war we to be surrounded by the european union which is. militarily speaking totally friendly so we have no war so the army has no reason to be no enemy just a tradition do you think that's what someone should have an army. for. you know. just make fun you know. just play a bit more 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. there is a political clout which means that the parliament is made rich people and rich people want an army. 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. to shoot. more. or. in my opinion an army to get some kind of false security you say

well i thought we can do. anything against terrorism they can't do anything against social problems and disorder so why should we worry about five billion of swiss francs for something that could help us solve the problems we have the arguments are there give the swiss majority still. not imagine a nation without the 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 sweet psyche plus there's the rise of populism and demagogy each one is 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 there are to switzerland. former us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror by publishing his memoirs entitled known and unknown charts how you served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush well to discuss the book let's cross our washington studio where joined now by brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition thanks for being with us this evening following bush's own memoirs this is another insider account of recent u.s. foreign policy how big an impact do you think this book is going to have. well you can't help but think about the old cliche that history is nothing but fiction agreed upon and the bush administration figures starting with bush and now with rumsfeld are trying to create a new history based on

a fiction the fiction is that the war in iraq was justified that they did the right thing that they spent these hundreds of billions of dollars perhaps up to two trillion dollars in a war that took the lives of a million iraqis according to the lancet medical journal reports and somehow it was all justified i think it will have almost no impact because people can see for themselves that the war in iraq was an absolute catastrophe this is a self-serving a self-serving journal a memoir a revenge memoir in some ways but nothing but a self-serving action the history is clear for all to see right now. of course there were scandals like afghanistan guantanamo bay and abu ghraib do understand correctly that you don't think any of his recollections will be told in a very honest way. well indeed i mean he has a he has a big job to do here just think about it i mean he set up an interrogation regime

that allowed a starting of course anchoring with abu ghraib that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world as nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the cia not only not only that guantanamo bay which was the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black hole prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture and can at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense now some critics have said if we just focus again on iraq that

there's an attitude of defiance in this book over the war how do you think rumsfeld is going to be able to defend iraq. well i mean it's only because he's been given a great big megaphone that he that his voice is even heard it all i mean i think he in particular he was the one who raced to war he was the one who felt that there was no need for a post opposed invasion plan he felt that the iraqis would either put flowers at the end of the american rifles and welcome them as liberators which of course we know to be completely false or he didn't care whatsoever as he said when the museums in the great archaeological treasures of iraq were being looted he said well stuff happens in other words perhaps at that time rumsfeld felt the primacy of american power what allowed the americans to go in and crush the iraqi regime as a priest script for going into iran or perhaps north korea he thought then that the

americans were on a roll and that military power would do it he now has a problem and that is that the war was a catastrophe the american image is completely trashed around the world and iraq is a broken country but it's not about to be a puppet for the united states. now in his book or it's also said that he criticizes fellow members of the bush administration especially colin powell and condi rice it seems there's a lot of score settling here do you agree with that. yeah i mean it's known in washington as a revenge memoir of the regime of the bush george w. bush was such a catastrophe all of them were arrogant managers rumsfeld the most arrogant of all a reckless person someone who most people in washington and around the world consider to be nothing but a thug a thug in a pinstripe suit so now that they've had this catastrophe on their hands they're playing the blame game colin powell will blame rumsfeld rumsfeld will blame everybody else but himself and of course i think this only makes the administration

look what it really is as as a bunch of fools arrogant part of an imperial empire thinking that military supremacy and it alone could dominate world events when the rest of the world is unwilling to go back into a nineteenth century mode except being themselves as nothing but pawns in a geostrategic chess board led by an american empire so rumsfeld has a problem i think it's the blame game i think it will fail ryan backer of the antiwar answer coalition thank you very much for your analysis. thank you well business is next here in r.t. with dimitri stay with us. thanks very much and go straight to our top story russian energy major gazprom is reportedly in talks with royal dutch shell to widen their global alliance well sources close to the negotiations site on bloomberg say europe's biggest oil company may offer gazprom assets in asia in return shell wants to expand the look

of gas plant at the twenty two billion dollars project to wit markets in china. however alexander knows out of metropole doubts the plans will come to anything at least for the time being. on one hand there are good very good perspectives for. point of view of gas for expansion. but at the same time current situation on the global energy market is not so favorable for a you know making new energy plans and current trend the major global energy producers postponing or canceling its new capacities production give us to. projects so basically i don't think the timing for expansion of oil and you plan is certainly. is the best time right now. to go straight to the stock market first of all to opening picture in the united states the open opens a softly positive us instead be a fresh two and

a half year highs this is as investors are assessing the impact of the interest rate hike in china which could slow down the global economy therefore not so significant gains we're seeing right now european markets have managed a recovery in afternoon trading that's on the positive opening in the united states swiss bank u.b.s. has posted net profit of seven point two billion swiss francs for twenty years the first full year profit since the financial crisis positive sign and in russia the markets are still trading in the red correcting as crude is falling to around eighty seven dollars. and there's also a significant outflow of capital from russia in more detail now some of the stocks nickel is adding to monday's show losses down one percent that's the day after it suspended a stock buyback amid a shareholder dispute meanwhile the week crude prices as you can see the adding their toll and taking it all in rosneft it's down two point two percent and b.c.b. is down heavily more than four percent this is as investors are dropping the stock due to uncertainty over the upcoming s.p.o.

price john however from citi bank says there's a number of issues giving the market pause for the full. first of all we had crude continue to slide from ninety dollars last week it touched ninety dollars plus per barrel brant was even higher above one hundred dollars second we had chinese raising interest rates today which is not taken by the market and third we have a number of stock place was crowded russia right now. it's difficult to say how the how they're going well no more time left i'm afraid i'll be back in when i was time with more i'll see that headlines are next don't go away.

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at six thirty am time to sneeze are the headlines on our team most wanted man a chechen terrorists are of says he's responsible for the bombing of moscow don't want out of an airport which killed thirty six people last month a warrant. close ties with al qaeda have landed him on the list of the world's most dangerous killers. president mubarak attempts to appease egypt's opposition with even more concessions the 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 is truly among is the former head of

a gyptian intelligence which has been widely criticized for its systematic torture . boss wiki leaks founder julian assange is fighting extradition to sweden in a london court for a second day as long as lawyers say he'll be denied justice by stockholm and handed over to the u.s. he fears persecution for revealing secret american diplomatic documents to the world so i had a chance to speak with dr brian palmer a social anthropologist from uppsala university to discuss why sweden wants julian a song so badly he says the u.s. is playing a key role behind the scenes that's next. 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.