twenty four he said that that he was the special gratian now it's not the first time that bill kumar of claims responsibility for similar terrorist attacks oh yeah what is remarkable should be off to the bombing at the country's largest airport in a similar video message has sat that more attacks would take place in russia and what was remarkable about that particular b.o.b. because it needs to be it sitting next to a man who. reminded to hold or was recognized by some as the various you cite cuomo who hokus traded the attack at the mighty of the hour 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 will dull kumar of his knowledge that there is wanted not just by apas b. but he is also on the international east terrorists he has links to your car early

had claimed responsibility for this between suicide bombing almost goes much for a system in march twenty ten one of forty people were killed also he is believed to have mossed a mind to the ball mean all the express train in two thousand and nine the train full we are almost two to seven it is for security has been tightened all across the country today was a important day in terms that has all pulled three major security agencies up brushed off at least so apis b.n. hope the investigative committee together for a special meeting apas be reported to the duma deputy is the name of the old of the of those of the man who carried out this you side forming it hasn't been disclosed to mass media forces investigation is still ongoing the court case hasn't yet reached the court we also know that apathy believes up to seven. who could have

been behind the attack called moskos the idea that i have now is for the address of the modified he's claims that he was the one the most a mind to hold the attack there quite cautious about it and they say that terrorist cells in russia what a ton of most of these just want to hold the versions of the investigative committee he's considering and they say that those who organized the attack may not have been directly linked to these terrorist phone monday president made video had a major meeting with russia's still 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 about it taken care of on public transport in particular and believes that these reforms up russia's police could have helped provide safety on public transport. meanwhile officials say an entire terrorist cell has been neutralized in central russia special forces stormed into the suspects house taking

them by surprise firing a shot four people were found with ingredients for a powerful homophone center plan to attack crowded public places officials say the men took direct orders from doku umarov himself. well we've got more ahead for you this hour including questioning switzerland's neutrality with 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 on in just a couple of minutes. the defense team of wiki leaks founder julian assange say he'll face a secret trial if sent to sweden to face sexual assault allegations he's now in a london court where the evidence on whether he should be handed over to stockholm is being heard as launch says the accusations are part of a conspiring to see to punish him for running his whistle blower website from london are to his lawyer and reports. this is the second day of a two day extradition hearing for julian our sons' at the end of which swedish

prosecutors will be hoping that they can extradite songs to sweden to face questioning over allegations 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 stay there for 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 rope and i hope over the next. we will see that box. is in fact. the arguments that the defense will be putting forward focused around songes 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 so there would be a lot of political pressure to extradite him on words 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. leading swedish academic dr brian palmer told r.t. the chances of julian assange being handed over to the us are much higher if you stand to sweden because of the close relations between the two. be easier to get into the u.s. from sweden then from britain the swedish government has has shown itself to be more apply and then the british surprisingly given the so-called special relationship of trust between britain and the usa the the once very progressive sweden has become something of a voluntary. produce state some would say vassal state of the usa. and will

have voted your view for you in full was dr brian palmer next hour here on our cheek. as anti-government protests in egypt enter a third week president hosni mubarak has taken steps to reform the constitution in an attempt to diffuse public anger but thousands of demonstrators remain in cairo's main square keeping up the pressure on the president to resign or just pull slayer has the latest from the capital what we've now into the third week of and mubarak demonstrations and the numbers on the street just keep growing of his 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 with who off 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 mocked tuesday why day and sunday as a million man march is the human rights watch has issued a report saying that in the last two weeks of mine and two hundred and ninety seven people have been killed we haven't had any kind of comprehensive report from the egyptian government itself the vice president almost to them and so on egypt and state television on the hall of president mubarak and he said that the president had issued a presidential decree that would see what needed to be fake to the establishment to work in the two committees the first committee would look at implementing constitutional reform the second committee would look at. implementing the decisions in the conclusions that have been reached in national dialogue those are 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 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 prose 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 mubarak 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 a man hardly the words of a neutral burka and worse far removed from the people who had ministration chains to be listening to. talk to meg heads a big human rights organization that teaches egypt since about democracy he says egyptians don't like superman for the very reason americans do almost any man is part of this regime we consider american people. want to keep him. lit mubarak who was still. in power in those sort of things told to do 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 man in cairo.

extraordinary. among silliman is accused of having being personally involved in torturing suspects this is the problem now in egypt is there's 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 a radio identified him as a possible successor to president mubarak. in many of our 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 consistent message this morning the orderly transition has been. urging the. you know the only transparency is very kind of 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. kyra. welcome to our web site where we continue our allies in the issues surrounding the crisis in egypt look at how when you was criticized as president mubarak's actions and questioned whether the obama administration would handle the situation differently if it happened in america. than thirteen cute and cuddly characters competing for the title of the sochi winter olympics mascot have been revealed see who they are and vote for your favorite that's at our website artsy dot com. now 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 as a reserve soldier but now many are questioning why a country that hasn't been seriously involved in any military conflict for some two hundred years so to have an army at all times are silly as 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 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 bobbie has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as noble called war we to be surrounded by

the european union which is. militarily speaking totally friendly so we have no one enemy 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. certainly not. just makes fun you know. just play a big word game 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 moves 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 to some kind of. security. well i saw two army can do. anything against the can't do anything to social problems and disorder so why should we worry about five billion of swiss francs for something to help us solve the problems we have the arguments

are there give the serious majority still cannot imagine a nation without their man in uniform. not only the political left supporting 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 this with psyche plus there's the rise of populism and demagogy 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 r.t. switzerland. russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entry upon arrival to moscow because he broke a series of labor laws concerning foreign correspondents well carting a moscow correspondent working for the guardian was sent back to london after allegedly being held in

a cell for forty five minutes the guardian says harding had a valid visa which was an old however the foreign ministry says he failed to obtain his license before they think that country. well look now it's a world news in brief for you this hour military officers on the two sat down sat down i should say for talks following months of tensions on the peninsula and cells severed their relations late last year after an exchange of artillery fire in november the north wished bonded to the southern tier of their territory by shelling a south korean island it's hoped the discussions will lead to higher level dialogue between the two countries. and italian flag tanker with twenty two crew on board has been seized by pirates in the indian ocean the e.u. says five hijackers fired arms and several rocket grenades as they captured the vessel for gate and route from sudan sudan to malaysia was carrying crude oil it's currently selling west towards the somali coast. and

a lawyer for the former liberian president charles taylor has walked out of a war crimes trial in the hague in a protest over procedure that's after prosecutors refused to accept a final document from the defense saying they had missed the january deadline to submit it tellers accused of arming rebels during the civil war in sierra leone in exchange for blood diamonds is also charged with masterminding trost cities during the war which claimed a quarter of a million lives. while testing on animals is an emotive issue for many people it's a debate that continues to evolve but the scientific consensus is that few medical breakthroughs would be possible without it and in russia groundbreaking research is helping in the quest to find new treatments for diseases like cancer and diabetes are to use our first story. just how do you milk rabbit

more importantly why would you want to. use the genetic and modify driblets produce a very reliable drug in the milk which is used in treating cancer. here at a 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 ordinary rabbits but if we gaze through into the next three and you've got the transgenic or genetically modified ones these guys are the proving so vital in the discovery. of new treatments for diseases. whilst it 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 traditional farming is 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 the main source of research regulation 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 russia especially lack of guidelines and solid regulation in this area mean it remains a controversial issue. we feel that playing with genes could be dangerous variables 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 could see very well end up in your medicine cabinet there for us in moscow well that

wraps up our main news block here in r.t. west check in at the business desk to me now joins us now to put it lightly not a great day on the russian stock market myself to climb two percent this is because of a number of negative factors oil is continuing to ford and there's an out of capital have more on that in just a second but first of all our top story here that russian energy major gas profits reportedly in talks with royal dutch shell to widen their global alliance sources close to negotiations cited on bloomberg saying europe's biggest oil company may offer gazprom in asia but in return shell wants to expand liquefied natural gas plant at the twenty two billion. to project to win markets in china and india however i like southerners out of fermentable doubts that these plans will come to anything more least for the time be. on one hand there are good very good perspectives for. point of view of gas for expansion. business 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 is the major global energy producers are postponing or canceling its new capacities production get us to. projects saw basically i don't think the timing knell for expansion of oil and your plan is certainly. the best time. to take a look at the stock markets first in the u.s. markets are uneasy indices are standing near two and a half year high it's barely changed now that actually losing like point one percent this is as investors are assessing the impact of the interest rate hike in china which could eventually slow down the global economy european markets have managed a recovery in late trading known as off fooling after that rate hike in china but engineering inside like group inmarsat is up more than three percent after an

upgrade from merrill lynch to russia now and yes a new me picture there they ended tuesday session kneedeep in the red correcting as crude continuous decline to around eighty seven dollars a barrel and there's now flow of capital is quite significant from russia this week as was last week more detail into stocks now knows nichols adding to monday's sharp losses a day after a suspended the stock buyback amid a shareholder dispute while the weak crude prices pulling down the energy sector of course down one point eight percent first drop in three days and bt being is down heavily four point six percent actually the record news of the day as investors are dropping. the stock huge uncertainty over the upcoming s.p.o. price john heinz or from citibank says as a number of issues giving the market a pause for thought. first of all crude continue to slide from ninety dollars last week it touched dollars plus per barrel bread was even higher above one hundred

dollars second we have chinese raising interest rates today which is not taken by the market third we have a number of stock place was crowded. it's difficult to see how the how they're going and russia's trade surplus grew by a quarter last year to one hundred sixty eight billion dollars as surging prices while and gas they board exports china overtook the netherlands and germany to become russia's largest trading partner in twenty ten and turnover rose by fifty percent in the year to fifty nine billion dollars. it has been the worst start of the year for precious metals in two decades but analysts say they are still bullish reasons union bank of switzerland says industrial demand 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 their billion for the third year in a row. so for now i'll be back in one hour's time with an update the headlines are

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but there is a report is coming up here on our team but first let's check in on today's headlines russia's most wanted man the chechen terrorists don't call him are of says he's responsible for the bombing of moscow's don't want to out of the airport which killed thirty six people last month and morals close ties with al qaeda have landed him on the list of the world's most dangerous killers. were two weeks founder julian assange is fighting extradition to sweden in the london court for a second day as long as lawyers say he will be denied justice by stockholm and handed over to the u.s. he fears persecution for revealing secret american diplomatic documents to the

world. was president mubarak attempts to appease egypt's opposition with even more concessions but demonstrators in cairo will mean defiant demand 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 the egyptian intelligence which has been widely criticized for its systematic use of torture. and now our very own financial analyst max keiser examines how the under arrest in the middle east could hit food prices around the world. have nice guys are this is the guys report you probably haven't thought much about eating plastic chickens eating plastic eggs or showing down on.