with the wiki leaks scandal and the spy and sex probes into doing a song 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 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 this week 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 safe there why do you think that the media. reluctant to. secretly openly compliment wiki leaks for coverage in

a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a lot of coverage of wiki leaks and asuncion sweeting 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 judge jenny in the 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 in 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 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 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 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 rover has been very good and so so he would be a relevant vizor there another thing that the rove has has been something of a genius is finding. peripheral or prefer 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 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 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 sleeved 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 at a very high level with the u.s. 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 viva la it is so me us in swedish so and i 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. and. well one one deals with war for us to realize that 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 bomb squad napalm boy coming from the city whether it's our sonic booms or tractors.

or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on along with the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that are shall be taken in the war to protect one 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 i am. taking things to it this is not a problem i'm looking worn and out of the. place seems it would. sure steverson is short of support for trace pieces they have no idea about the

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archies top stories russia's most wanted man chechen terrorists don't call him are of says he's responsible for the bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport which killed thirty six people who are as close ties with al qaeda have landed him on the list of the world's most dangerous killer. president mubarak at times to appease egypt's opposition with even more concessions but demonstrators in cairo will name to find the man being tipped to replace mubarak has links with the cia fueling fears that washington is pulling the strings vice president omar sunni monk is the former head of the egyptian intelligence which has been widely criticized for its systemic use of torture. plus wiki leaks founder julian assange is

finding extradition to sweden in a london court for a second day songes lawyers say he'll be tonight just to spy stockholm and handed over to the u.s. he fears persecution for revealing secret american diplomatic documents to the world. sports is next here in r.t. let's check in with him and i understand there's some good news out last performer the once driver robert yeah indeed he was involved in the bottle crash of the weekend but his doctors say he's improving and he may well risa get such great news i would have more not after this present. if you.

download the official ante up location your only phone on pod touch from the dumpster. on the go. video on demand. comes and feeds you now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. thanks very much for joining us and this is sports today i'm you know these are some of the stories we're covering this hour. phoenix rising mark wilson secures the second p.g.a. tour a win of the season after martha in session in arizona. too early to tell the career

all former one driver robert qubits remains up in the air a following a crush over the weekend but doctors say he is improving. and celebration time super bowl m.v.p. our rogers on the victorious green bay packers are welcome told up to securing their first super bowl call and in the new. let's get going on the greens though where they inform mark wilson has knocked his second p.g.a. title of the golfing year frosty conditions scorching a delay but wilson's game was far from cold that thirty six year old did so for us sufferer. final hole missing the chance to put away closest challenger jason dufner a playoff between the two in suits were dufner came up way short on a birdie putt on the second extra hole wilson having no such problems on the tenth sending home a birdie for the win over a million dollars in prize money on the second title of twenty eleven secured for

the wisconsin name. that brings us to n.b.a. basketball where there was a shock in the east on monday night charlotte seeing off the star studded boston celtics by five points it was the start of the brighter boston ending the quarter up by four but led by gerald wallace who finished night with nineteen points. in the second eventually finishing the first half by the minimum eastern conference leaders boston fire back in the third but the final quarter belonged firmly with the charlotte twenty five points overall from ray allen well it wasn't enough for the celtics as they find themselves on the wrong side of that ninety four to eighty nine scoreline. elsewhere there was no surprise for reigning champions the los angeles lakers who successfully visited memphis beating the grizzlies ninety three point two eighty four bottom in the west minnesota also came away with the points from new orleans dallas beat cleveland up home by three points

continuing on as you just saw off sacramento on the road the big russian reaching double digits and scoring in the clash it was a good night for portland a soft chicago at home one nine two one zero three. phoenix also check points and they're away the games. now things seem to be looking on the up for the red no formula one driver was involved in a crush over the weekend in italy with initial reports tipping the pole may never race again but doctors now say he is steadily improving head of the intensive care unit out some to corona hospital told him. that twenty six year old is showing positive signs but will remain in intensive care who finished eighth last season overall in the driver standings underwent surgery on sunday to try and restore the use of his right hand forearm so the crash occurred exactly five weeks before the start of the f one season in bahrain all right that brings us to football and

russia have held their first training session abu dhabi ahead of their friendly with iran on wednesday the clash also acts as a prep exercise ahead of the next drawing of euro two thousand and twelve qualifiers which occur at the end of march russian monitor take out the cup was speaking in moscow prior to the trip dutchman standing behind his decision not to add any new faces to the twenty months squad. starting he. explained. to the. new players listen the target. group to qualify for next year does the most important thing and we have not so much time to make experiments because you can only make. qualified. also on wednesday world cup finalists the netherlands take on austria in a friendly over in eindhoven the dutch shanter the clash is hot favorites the spite

being without several first choice players burke fun vic's i determined to extend a winning run of five matches since losing the world cup final to spain in johannesburg last july england based trio robin van persie. and nigel de young have all withdrawn from the squad but the remaining members feel they have more than enough quality to overcome an austrian i fit right to a full forty three places below them. all rights winter sports star with the forty first alpine world ski championships have gotten underway in garmisch parton kirk in germany some folks visitors from across the globe flocking to the ski resort to watch the opening ceremony on monday total of eleven gold medals will be up for grabs in slalom giant slalom dunhill super g. and super combined for both men and women a team event with members of both sexes as well. pamphleteering 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 a level 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 that's moved to cricket where mohammad amir mohammad seif. a value to appeal their bonds for spot fixing and a test with england the anti corruption tribunals the verdict was also this week but by the pakistani cricket board mohammad amir's career had gotten off to a cracking start but the eighteen year old will now have to serve a five year left handed fastball returning back to pakistan he waits to file his appeal to the court of arbitration for sport former captain but on a safe receiving ten and seven years respectively the last few years are suspended the running the time down to fight for both amir is waiting on the official release of the i c c u. verdict after which you have twenty one days to present his case and switzerland. finally are in rogers is finding out that being an n.f.l.

champion leaves one with little time for anything else the green bay packers quarterback getting a raw and as he soaked in the glory of his team's emphatic thirty one to twenty five win over the pittsburgh steelers on sunday the twenty seven year old greeted by the league's commissioner roger goodell presented with the super bowl m.v.p. trophy for his efforts in taxes after packing his bags with plenty of silverware and so it was off to the super bowl winners clustering destination those attending disney world catching a glimpse of the champion quite a period happening there rodgers then joined the rest of the team back in green bay and while the weather was nice the popper fifty four reception was surely much warmer on the spike being fresh off and all believable career achievement rodgers says he's already looking forward to the next challenge. i'm always looking for challenges that think the challenge now goes through repeating. scrutinising this season finding ways to get better so there's been a perfectionist and i want

a quarterback coach as well. there's going to be plenty of time to work on things and plenty things work out so i'm excited about enjoying this but also looking forward to improving. your updates that is all sports now i'll see you soon the world weather is coming up in just a tick. well when one deals with water it has to realize that 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 done by aerial bombs by

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it's four pm in london seven pm here in moscow and this is our two coming to you live with me and he said no way first stop al qaeda linked chechen terrorists doku umarov has claimed responsibility for the bombing of moscow's don't want out of an airport officials say last month's attack was orchestrated by a group of up to seven people who could have been taking orders from omar of security measures have been stepped up since the bombing in the country's police force is also up for a serious overhaul because of in a grouch obama has more pull kumara visa russia's most wanted criminal most wanted terrorist and then these latest b.t.o. is posted on extremist websites he claims that he was the one who gets traded this use which to place that most of those made now put on jan you.