russia's security services say they know it all because straighted last. time it comes as russia's most wanted man says it was. in a new video much the chechen terrorists local market claims he is responsible for the suicide bombing at the my dear the whole details coming up on our t.v. in just a few seconds. wiki leaks founder julian assange songs but calls attempts to extradite him to sweden in the logs and pull him away to day with a hearing set to resume on friday saunders lawyers say it will be denied justice by the over to the u.s. . and as protests to enter their third week president mubarak is trying to take steps to amend the constitution but demonstrators remain skeptical.

welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow i'm alex habit russia's security services have briefed the country's lawmakers on the ongoing probe into the last month's bombing of the dead of the airport up to seven suspects were named at the closed meeting but they've not been disclosed to the public due to the sensitive nature of the case while this comes as a notorious chechen terrorists lays claim to most of mine to be a time to put in their reports. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more human lives have been added to his deadly account chechen born daughter kumar of says he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the idea that the airport might have made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described this you said bombing

as his special open ration and promises more terrorist attacks security experts believe the message of the world that the man should no longer be described as just a chechen militant but as an international terrorist these groups move more fiercely around the world and you know there are undoubtedly chechens operating in parts of afghanistan and people from you know foreign fighters coming into the system. 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 he is not in the back. but he's not known on the international stage for operating. terrorist operations like what we've just seen at the moscow airport going back really is a sort of step up but meanwhile russia's security forces are skeptical whether all mario was indeed in charge of the january bombing and it could be an autonomy this

terrorist cell they say is not directly linked to morrow and some analysts claim the terrorist he's talking himself up as a self-styled bin laden he is a man who wants to put all the trappings of bin ladin is and if you will a sort of grandeur to his actions and therefore it's not always clear how much authority he really has in fact from within his own group and there was a rebellion i think august of last year when he resigned and then he remained his resignation and the younger members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear where they can directly is in charge of about. number of these groups or where they can simply putting himself in a position of very near in order to gain more authority him self this second message from the lord over the past two weeks targeted at russia's main security agency the f.s.b. shortly after the airport bombing omar up released a similar address however it is believed that video had been made even before the

actual attack took place next to morrow is a man who had pierced to resemble the airport bomber earlier the f.s.b. reported he was a twenty year old man from the north caucuses a manhunt is on for six others have believed to have must reminded the attack security is being tightened all across the country they had stopped police and the half as we were meeting behind closed doors with members of the russian parliament to decide on what needs to be done to build big gaping holes in the country's security system. the current anti terror legislation of russia could soon be amended just as the country's police force is now undergoing a major overhaul it's hoped the recent changes to the police will make cop corruption and security lapses i think of the past exit in the church of r r t.

but hearings into the extradition case of wiki leaks founder julian i thought will resume on friday after the end of the second day of the inquiry in london it's then that the closing statement on the case will be read out to determine whether he will be handed over to. laura and that is outside the court with more. well it was supposed to be the last day today and it's pretty interesting that it wasn't in fact they said that there wasn't enough time to hear the closing statements going to come back on friday morning for just a half day's the defense on the prosecution can submit their closing thoughts the reason it's interesting is because sweden is requesting songs extradition under the european arrest warrant system and in general under that system the british court isn't actually allowed to hear any evidence but in fact they seem to be hearing it all and the only reason for that that i can think of is that this is a particularly high profile case of course and the court system is afraid of a media storm that could ensue if the british court system just gives. him to

sweeten in terms of the evidence that we've heard over these two days the prosecution's been arguing very simply that there's no reason that assault shouldn't go to sweden but the chief swedish prosecutor mariano has been conspicuously absent through this entire proceeding and in fact so much so that she received a challenge from a soldier's lawyer mark stephens this evening he said come on and he really threw down the gauntlet to her he said come to london and the reason that she wouldn't come to london was because she didn't want to face the cross-examination that she knows she can't win and in terms of defense evidence we heard from the defense that they have seen but not been given copies of by the prosecution around one hundred text messages from the victims these these these people that who allege that julian asked are sexually assaulted or rapes them that they heard that these two women expected to be paid and that they wanted revenge against julian assault and also

that they planned to contact newspapers to have our soldiers reputation destroyed or some other evidence that we've heard over the course of these two days was about whether whether restaurants would get a fair trial in sweden and it was from a former swedish judge and she gave evidence for the defense and she said that the rule of law in sweden has been deteriorating. since the mid one nine hundred seventy s. she also gave her opinion on marianne the prosecutor she said that she holds a grudge against men and that she's a radical feminist and that these charges are very possibly politically motivated and she also said that public opinion in sweden is very much against us laws most people she said in sweden believe that he's a rapist before they've even heard the evidence now of course the defense is main fear is that if a soldier is extradited to sweden he will then be extradited to america we've been hearing for the last couple of months that the u.s. is preparing a request for him on the grounds of espionage charges in relation to the wiki leaks

embassy cable releases which were of course deeply embarrassing to washington now sweden has what might be called a cozy relationship with the u.s. it's previously cooperated with the u.s. on illegal rendition most notably of a terror suspect who was then sent on to egypt where he was in fact tortured so sweden does have what you might call form for cooperating with the u.s. in these matters and if sent to the u.s. it's really not clear what would happen to us on she's even received death threats from certain u.s. politicians including sarah pailin who said that he should be hunted down like al qaida the defense is also arguing that he may be subject to the death penalty if he if he does go to the u.s. all that he may be kept in a detention facility like guantanamo or something similar. now former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life instantly the war on terror by publishing his memoirs in titled known and unknown it's

a chance how he served on the two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush was this pos this book in further detail in our washington studio where i'm joined by michael o'brien the author of america's failure in iraq and a former u.s. department of defense contractor in the country many things have been with us here on r.t. now in his book rumsfeld appears to be doing a lot of finger pointing doesn't even what went wrong during the iraq war but does he in your opinion take enough responsibility himself for mistakes made. i wonder if mr bryan they can hear me we seem to have a slight problem with our connection with washington d.c. i will try to get back with him in just a moment mr michael o'brien i wonder if you can now hear me over there i think we've lost that connection. to him to further discuss these memoirs that have just

been published by the former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld so do stay with us here on r.t. for that. ok let's cross over egypt and now where anti-government protests 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. 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 stores 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 in four years 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 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 ninety seven people have been killed seven kids have any kind of something to keep in egypt you got. to state television on the hall of president mubarak and he said that the president had issued a presidential decree that would see with immediate effect the establishment of a working of the committees the first committee would look at implementing constitutional reform the second committee would look at implementing the decisions in the conclusions that have 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 will consist primarily of young people and 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 progress perseus in a smooth talk to free and fair elections and again saying that the government was not planning to persecuted. 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 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 he is 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 of the human rights organization that teaches each option is about democracy he says he don't like solomon for the very reason americans do almost any man is part of the solution we consider american people in american president zero. zero want to keep him. lit mubarak who was still. in power in those sort of toted 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. terrorists around the world. 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 pick between the american cia. operators of us power around the world and the people are having to try to get 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 us 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 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 the. urging that we transparent is here very tired free but many egyptians are afraid of

and think he's more a dictator than 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. now the russian or foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entry on arrival to moscow because he broke a series of accreditation laws concerning foreign correspondents. luke harding violated several rules regulating the work of foreign correspondents but a well known to all journalists lead to november last year he left more school for london on personal business he didn't go to foreign correspondents card although he knew he was supposed to. or the foreign ministry out of luke harding will face no problems that immigration as soon as all his documents are in order harding who is the guardian's moscow correspondent was said back to london after allegedly being detained for forty five minutes or russia's foreign ministers to journalists visa

was valid through to may and it was never councils the guardian earlier reported harding had a valid visa which was the nulled when he landed in moscow i prefer it now as well the world headlines this hour in fly 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 the frigate on route from sudan to malaysia was carrying crude oil it's currently sailing west towards the somali caves. for trucks carrying oil to nato forces. will fire the star it's believed they were the target of a bomb or the explosion hit one fuel truck before the fire spread to three others police say it's still unclear whether there are any casualties convoys in pakistan carrying supplies across the border with afghanistan are frequently targeted by militants. now 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 under fifty 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 test are syria how do you tell. 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 like to stuff by barry 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 of being no enemy just the tradition do you think that's what someone should have an army. for. you know it's a joke you know it makes 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 move

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. to shoot. all. in my opinion an army to some kind of. security. well i thought we can do. anything against risking anything against social problems and disorder so why should we. are about five billion of swiss francs for something to help us solve the problems we have the arguments

are there get the swiss where jordi still cannot imagine a nation without their men in uniform. 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 swiss psyche the last there's the rise of populism and demagoguery it war is leading. 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. just a few moments we speak to a leading swedish academic about their phones and his country's timing to the u.s. .

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 bit lately with the wiki leaks scandal and the spy and sex probes into doing a song why does sweden want julian of songs 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 it has 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 community so it may also be that there's 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 we'll in fact be extradited to sweden it wouldn't surprise me if he is in the end. 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 and many critics say that once and if. sarge is extradited to sweden but 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 shown itself to be more pliant then 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 the media has been reluctant to. secretly openly. cover it in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a lot of coverage of wiki leaks and sweden but he doesn't have that many high profile champions it's partly because allegations of sexual

misconduct away so heavily here that it is sick country where feminist ideals i may be stronger than anywhere else on earth and one wishes that that no one would be judged 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 our army 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 how much influence do you think the us on a whole from a song to nato to asylum. being taken into custody how long sweep it

enormous influence and in a way almost puzzling least so at this historical moment that sweden should be so eager to. host nato military exercises in the north to. share. intelligence information that is at a very high level with the u.s. and 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 they see is a far cry from the suite in of 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 once very progressive sweden has become something of a voluntary. apprentice state some would say vessel state of the usa and why do you think that sweden took those kind of policy moves i think a lot of. admiration for the united states among the foreign policy of lead to

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. and then now with the conservative government since 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 is. we would like things to be like in the usa reveal how it is so many in swedish so and open and wish to see a more americanized sweden which is exactly what we're seeing thank you very much for being with us my pleasure.

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