quite a bit lately with the week you leaks scandal in the spy and sex probes into julian assange and why does sweden want julian assange has 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 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 the swedish prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link so 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 he's safer there why do you think that the media has been reluctant to. print the openly cover on wiki

leaks or cover it in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a 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 weighs so heavily here that it is a 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 a case and 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 i really i mean 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 and strategists of their of their own plenty of karl rove's of their own but rove has a long term relationship with the moderates 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 see the moderates accomplished before. the two thousand and six election had something in common with bush's electoral victory in two thousand the problem for both george bush and fredrik reinfeldt was to win the votes of groups who wouldn't necessarily benefit from having a right wing tax cutting regime in power bush succeeded so well in wooleen working class votes that in the two thousand and six election. sorry that two thousand and four election. bush won the white working class

by a twenty three percent margin so working class voters were really the backbone of his victory. reinfeldt acknowledged that he was impressed by bush's campaign. and yet his struggle was also to get working class voters to support his party which they hadn't done in the past. and so it's logical that he would have wanted to bring in some of the people from from from bush's campaign to help with that and not least karl rove but you've said the method is linguistic innovations media manipulation and the art of bringing smear campaigns is that what sweden wants to take from a strategist like karl rove the moderates won the past two elections very much because of the negative image of fredrik reinfeldt supposin and in both elections where it was very much the. weakness of the

opponent people were voting against rather than attraction to. and how do how do you accomplish that through different kinds of. if campaigning in the in the broader meaning of campaigning that focuses on the did the deficits of the other candidate. was something that. that rove has been very good at so so he would be irrelevant it vies are there another thing that the rove has has been something of a genius that 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 be 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 application 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. we would like things to be like in the usa viva hyde is so mean in swedish so and hope in wish to see a more americanized tweet in which is exactly what we've seen thank you very much for being with us my pleasure. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. 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 bombs by napalm boy you come from the city whether it's our solid problems or tractor mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed reduce the search for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that are shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of political one has taken exception to that . wealthy british style. has moved on to the front.

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fully that you have to live a. real life stories from world need. to treat nineteen forty five gold. rush says most wanted man chechen terrorists don't know model says he's responsible for the bombing. which killed six people. models the clothes toys will claim to have around the head of the mist the wells most dangerous to. wiki leaks of tunnels a judy enough volunteers fighting extradition to sweden in a london court for a second day phone just lawyers say he'll be in tonight just as my stop of the day to get the rest of his prosecution for revealing secret american diplomats and documents to the. president mubarak attempts to appease egypt self-possession with

even more fashions but demonstrations in cairo remain the find the man being taken to a place about it i think that with the cia moving into washington and living during president putin is that you pull back head of egyptian intelligence which has been widely criticized in the matter. i can't say with what i did sports now with you. thanks very much for joining us if this is sports today i'm going to 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 a marathon session in arizona. too early to tell the career of formula one driver robert qubits remains open the year following a crush over the weekend but dr c.

he is improving. and celebration time super bowl m.v.p. our rogers on the victorious green bay packers are welcome tome after securing their first super bowl crawlin in. let's get going on the greens though where the in for mark wilson has knocked his second p.j. title of the golfing year frosty conditions causing a delay but since game was far from cold the thirty six year old did so for us in the 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. 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 visitors though who started 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 belong 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 score. 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. cleveland home by three points continuing on as you just saw of sacramento on the road the big reaching double digits in scoring in the clash it was a good night for portland

a soft chicago at home one nine two one zero three. phoenix also took the points and their way games. i think 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 report stating 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 reporters the 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 for arm now the crash occurred exactly five weeks before the start of the f one season in bahrain. all right that brings us to. ball 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 man squad. starting he. explained every time about the provisional 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 excuse if we already 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 morphic side determined to extend a winning run of five matches since losing the world cup final to spain in johannesburg

last july england based trio of 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 outfit ranked full forty three places below them. all rights winter sports star with a forty first alpine world ski championships have gotten underway in garmisch parton kirk in germany that some folk visitors from across the globe flocking to the spear resorts to watch the opening ceremony on monday total of eleven gold medals will be up for grabs in slalom giant slalom dunhill super super combined for both men and women and a team event with members of both sexes. have lived cherish for about fifteen years working for the american government and i love the local community i love the u.s. ski team of the do it ski team. 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 a cif. value to appeal their bonds for spot fixing and a test with england the anti corruption tribunals the verdict was also this week 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 their last few years are suspended the rounding the time down to fight for both amir is waiting on the official release of the i.c.c. verdict after which you have twenty one days to present his case in the switzerland . finally arne rodgers 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 teams and five 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 join the rest of the team back in green bay and while the weather wasn't as nice the pocket fifty four reception was surely much warmer on the spike being fresh off and unbelievable career achievement rodgers says he's already looking forward to the next challenge. i'm always looking for challenges i think the challenge now goes to repeating. scrutinising this season finding ways to get better so there's been a perfectionist and having 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 this portion i'll see you soon the world weather is coming up in just a tick. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom say factoring in mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed. in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on

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rushes it guarantees services say they know who has raided last month's moscow terror attack it comes as russia's most wanted man says it was. in a new video about the chechen terrorists local market claims he is responsible for this you start foaming at the my dear that are all the details coming up on our t.v. in just a few seconds. wiki leaks founder julian our soldiers fighting extradition to sweden in a london court for a second day of silence his lawyers say hope he did not like justice by stock oh man how though the to the u.s. . and as protests enter their third week president mubarak is trying to take steps

to amend the constitution but demonstrators remain skeptical. a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow i'm alice habit al qaeda linked chechen terrorists or model for the claimed responsibility for the bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport officials say last month's attack was orchestrated by a group of up to seven people who could have been taking orders from a model or security measures have been stepped up since the bombing of the country's police force is also for a serious overhaul. that in the great job of house. bill kumara is a russia's most wanted criminal most wanted terrorist and in these latest videos posted on extremist websites he claims that he was the one who gets.