focused straight at this you side bombing which took place set moskos made out bought 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 you know what is remarkable shortly after the bombing at the country's largest airport in a similar video message he said that so more attacks would take place in russia and what was remarkable about that particular b.t.o. because it needs it sitting next to a man who remarked who reminded to all who was recognised by some as the very suicide bomber who hokus traded the attack at the mighty of the on january twenty fourth the suicide bomber happened to the international arrivals area of the tap water and blew himself up. among the crowds thirty six people were killed among them six foreign citizens well dull kumar of his not there is wanted

not just by apas b. but he is also on the international east terrorists he has links to the new 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 most of mine to the ball mean all the express train in two thousand and nine the train full we are almost due to sept it is for security has been tightened all across the country today was they import day in terms that they had so pulled three major security agencies up rush so at least so apis b.n. of the investigative committee together for a special meeting apis be reported to the duma deputy is the name of the old hold up those of the man who carried out the suicide bombing it hasn't been disclosed to mass media forces investigation is still ongoing the court case here. doesn't he

have breached that. we also know that that was be believes up to seven people could have been behind the attack moskos the idea that i have now is for the address of the that he's claims that he was the one that must a mind to hold the attack there quite cautious about it and they say that terrorist cells in russia quite a ton of us. has just won all the versions of the investigative committees 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 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 he particularly and believes that reform up russia's police could have helped provide safe don't public transport. investigative journalist pool law says dr models clegg's ties with al

qaida mean he's now taking his terrorist activity to a whole new level. these groups move more fiercely around the world you know their own down to the chechens operating in parts of afghanistan and people from you know foreign fighters coming in to assist the church or the important thing is that this is really the first time we've heard him emerge you know as a major player in terms of international terrorism i mean he's no threat he is involvement in that but also in chechnya but he's not known on the international stage for operating. terrorist operations like what we've just seen at the moscow airport really is a sort of step up because it's obviously not the first time the militants are about to gauge the impact of terrorism because it's the russian state but this is this guy seems to be coming into the frame and tell you cannot some of the space that's been left by people have been killed or captured meanwhile officials say an entire

terrorist cell has been neutralized in central russia special forces stormed into the suspects house taken the by surprise without firing a shot or four people were found with ingredients for a pound or for him a bar and transmits. places they say the method to direct orders from the model himself. we've got more stories ahead in this hour including questioning switzerland's neutrality guns better than any other european country many swiss are wondering if it's time to finally lay down their weapons fall in just a couple of minutes. the defense team wiki leaks founder julian assange on sale he'll face as secret child 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 able to stockholm is being heard a song that says the accusations are part of

a conspiracy to punish him for running his whistle blowing web site from london artie's reports. this is the second day of the two day extradition hearing for today now stands 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 say they're 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 rape and i hope over the next. we

will see the ballot box is in fact. the arguments that the defense will be putting forward are focused around us 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 onward 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 onward 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. as antigovernment protests in egypt and 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 support of the latest from the capital. what we've now entered 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 you off the course of

the day tens of thousands of people have been coming to protest these small stocks heard at around midday when government buildings close in the last day also people have received their 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 to state fly day and sunday as million man marches human rights watch has issued a report saying that in the last two weeks of mine and two hundred ninety seven people have been killed haven't had any kind of comprehensive the key government is right there. on egypt and state television on the hoff of president mubarak and he said that the president had issued a presidential decree that would see what needed to be faked 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 on the conclusions that have been in national dialogue those were those meetings between six opposition groups and the vice president almost sort of men there is a committee that is due to begin working in the next few days it will consist primarily of young people then it will focus primarily on young people it will investigate the violence of the last 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 process and it's moved off to free and fair elections and again saying that the government was not planning to persecuted. wait people who have taken to the streets over the last week now it is interesting that the president is increasingly using his vice president on his behalf we haven't heard from the barack 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 burka and worse far removed from the people who had ministration claims to be listening to. dr meg heads up a human rights organization that teaches each option is about democracy he says egyptians don't like solomon for the very reason americans do almost any man is part of this. we consider american people. didn't. want to. live mubarak who was still.

in power in those sort of things tortured last year by the u.k.'s telegraph is the most powerful spook in the region so the 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 so. extraordinary. parents. are among the solomon is accused of having been 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 identifying him as a possible successor to president mubarak. 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 war any other country to determine egypt's leaders only the egyptian people can do that people here laugh because his secretary of state is admitting to something different but we have to do is to say

and says this morning the orderly transition has the. urging. transparent is very 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 policy r.t. kyra. or let's return to one of our top stories now for more on the julian us phones case we're now joined live of on the. head of the country's pirate party made that for being with us mr kay what do you think the public reaction in britain would be if the song was to be extradited to sweden. well we everyone who supports wiki leaks i think are very concerned that the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of julian assange. we think there is

a very real danger julian assange could be taken to the united states even possibly detained in gonna turn him over and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage charges and what i'm seeing in terms of how people are responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy we can see for example the role it's played in north africa and we've just in the previous report heard about the role that wiki leaks has had in actually giving useful information so people i think would be very concerned about any kind of attempt to apparently through a politically motivated action to crackdown on that work or you mentioned there the

. people in the u.k. are placing on the freedom of speech the weekly personifies it do you think that the rest of the songs in the entire case really could be seen as a as a test case really about human rights and freedom of speech per se. yes absolutely that it's it's about freedom of speech and what's what what we could very concerned about is the attempt to try and focus on the personality of songe to actually over all kind of crackdown on on the wiki leaks project now we've seen that actually the clearly there is that the united states politicians out. and to criticize him but even actually have been calling for his assassination that which we see as hugely irresponsible i think that means that it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just happen if if

junior is going to be extradited to sweden now you mentioned earlier all of this we have a lot of interest in working closely with the u.s. how much of a part could that play in all of this. well. obviously. we we're hugely concerned that this could be be a start to some kind of espionage trial or extradition. during to during the proceedings today some of the witnesses dismissed this but but we already know that defense officials have been exploring the possibility of using the espionage act to pursue julian and with this would be wished would create a very worrying precedent also what's kind of hugely surprising to me is that now we have julian assange here on british territory that the united kingdom government

has been so silent about this case. from the pirate party you can say absolutely asking the british government to seek assurances that no one be extradited to the united kingdom simply for having a connection to work and work in the x. . working for freedom of speech and protecting the whistleblowers ok a loss like a head of the u.k. pirate party many that speaking to us live from. skates. and able to log on to our website where we continue analyzing the issues surrounding the crisis in egypt what we. criticize this president the ballot sanctions and question whether the a bomb or ministration would handle the situation differently if it happened in america. and thirteen cute and cuddly

characters competing for the type of the soppy winter lympics nonskid have been revealed see who they are and vote for your favorite that our website our time dot com. now the russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entry arrival to moscow because he broke a series of labor laws concerning foreign correspondents the foreign ministry says luke harding failed to taint his accreditation license before leaving the country something all journalists are asked to do it out of that he'll face their problems at immigration as soon as all his documents are in order harding who's the guardian's moscow correspondent was sent back to london after allegedly being detained for forty five minutes the guardian says harding had

a valid visa which was a null when he landed in moscow that despite its neutral image switzerland has a strong military tradition it also has europe's highest per capita rate of gun ownership and every male citizen of the fifteen years of age is a reserve soldier but now many are questioning why a country that hasn't been seriously involved in any military conflict for two hundred years should have an army at all as australia 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 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 likely stuff

by day has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as normal cold war we totally surrounded by the european union which is. militarily speaking totally friendly so we have no war in the me 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 a joke guys make fun you know. just play a big war against 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 a moment to feel 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. all. in my opinion nor me to speak. for security. well i saw two army can do. anything against the can't do anything to social problems and disorder so why should we. believe in

of swiss francs for something to help solve the problems with. the arguments are there get the swiss where jordy still cannot imagine a nation without their men in uniform he could not only the political left to 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 swiss psyche plus there's the rise of populism and demagogy it war is leaving. 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 or so you're r.t. switzerland. former us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life in the war on terror by publishing his memoirs entitled it known on though it

charts how he served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush brian becker from the answer coalition says the book is just an attempt to save his own reputation. 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 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 but 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 that regime of the bush 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 with a thug in a 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 pond in a geo strategic chessboard led by an american empire so rumsfeld has

a problem i think it's the blame game i think it all fell. away that he's this is. the way now take it away. only it was business news we have time for russian and the major gazprom is reportedly in talks with the royal dutch shell to widen their global alliance sources close to negotiations cited on bloomberg say europe's biggest oil company may offer gazprom asia in return shell wants to expand the liquefied natural gas plant at the twenty two billion dollars i need to project to win markets in china and india however alexander knows out of fermentable doubts the plans will come to anything at least for the time. but 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 of the market is not so favorable for a new energy plants and current trend that made sure global

energy producers postponing or canceling its new capacities production get us to. basically i don't think the timing for expansion of oil and you plan and secondly. is the best time right now. but look at the markets now in the u.s. pretty flat standing near two and a half year highs more positive than they were last this isn't just as are assessing the impact of the interest rate hike in china which could slow down the global economy and in russia markets. in the red correcting as crude continued its decline during the sessions actually now it's more than eighty seven dollars a barrel right now there's also an outflow of capital quite significant for russia second to some of the stocks nick was adding to monday's sharp losses the day after it suspended a stock buyback amid a shareholder dispute meanwhile the weak crude price is pulling down the energy sector which was down one point seven percent at the close and the t.v.

is down heavily as investors drop the stock due to uncertainty over the upcoming us . so for now i'll be back in one hour's time headlines the next nazi. discovery. communicate with the wind. and become free.

nature can give you. this is the russia's most wanted chechen terrorists and model says he's responsible for the bombing of. homes which killed thirty six people last month models close ties with al qaeda have laughed at him on the list of the world's most dangerous commits the. president to appease egypt's opposition with even more concessions the demonstrators in cairo remaining defiant take to replace the body makes the cia fueling fears that washington is going to string president omar

suleiman is the former head of egypt's legends like the present size court system of twenty. last week unique founder julian al saunders. by saying it's tradition we'd love to think for a second day a soldier isn't going to say he'll be denied justice by a stalker but how under the tree be us if his prosecution for dealing secret american diplomatic don't commit the. next is an interview with dr brian palmer a social anthropologist from uppsala university he says the u.s. is playing a key role behind the scenes all that you've been a staunch case. 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.