seven more suspects are identified the connection to the moscow airport bombing in january this comes on the ups's most wanted terrorist claims he ordered the. wiki leaks founder julian assange is important you pay for him day banking extradition to sweden with a hearing set to resume on friday saunders no it's a political pressure from washington could see a song on the day between us on policy. and as protest enter their third week president mubarak is trying to take steps to amend the constitution but demonstrators remain skeptical.

a very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow i'm alex had heard russia's security services have briefed the country's lawmakers on the investigation into last month's bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport opportunist seven suspects were named in connection with the attack during the close to me saying well this comes as al qaeda linked terrorist model of says he ordered the attack author believes he was also behind last year's mosque a metro bombings on the two thousand and nine bombing of a moscow st petersburg and to train there cannot chew up a report. 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 thought of fighters coming into the system should 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 evolvement in the past. but he's not known on the international stage for operating you know terrorist operations like what we've just seen at the moscow airport really is a sort of step up the hit meanwhile russia's security forces are skeptical whether all mario was indeed in charge of the january bombing it could be an autonomy as 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 ism 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 of last year where he resigned event 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 a. number of these militant groups or where they can simply putting himself in a position of very near in order to gain more authority and so it's the second message from the warlord over the past two weeks targeted at russia's main security agency the f.s.b. shortly after the airport bombing omar police to similar address however it is believed that video had been made even before the actual attack took place next to

doku umarov is a man who appears to resemble the airport wal-mart earlier the f.s.b. reported he was a twenty year old man from the north caucasus a manhunt is on for six others who are 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 exceed in the church over r t moscow. or the website which has posted the video of a dock or model has apparently registered in finland you own one laurie

a priest and an artist says that any attempt to stream this website has been shut down by finnish or thorazine before these attempts he's even received death threats from the terrorist cells based in the caucasus. we know if you weren't. we how wide strong under our sun roebuck on day in this moment i told to example. e.p.a. are there is. exactly even arguments where from dagestan is a. matter of minutes. we turn to police that the news boys would investigate carcassonne the activities and networks but the ball is a silent den mounds and didn't. know investigate even though in the start you missed it because according to fears all these and political leaders are concerned is no inequality and it is poor under an organization. all these

are the leaders. now the founder of the whistle blower web site wiki leaks will reappear in a london court on friday to find a swedish extradition warrant julian assange and his defense lawyer says the swedish side should come to the u.k. and explain the sexual misconduct allegations facing their client washington or mit's amanda with more on this high profile case. 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 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 the incentive 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 marianne no i 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 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 falls most people she said in sweden believe that he's a great this 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 are 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. for the head of the

u.k.'s pirate party case says there's overwhelming support for the work that julian the song just doing. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in go on a tunnel and actually basically pursuit of some kind of. charges and i was 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 united states politicians out to criticize him but even actually have been calling for his assassination i think that means that it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just it's happen if june in the sand is

going to be extradited to sweden. i was the party head. into us for lunch as the. thing over to egypt now where our constitutional reforms intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands of protesters poured back into areas square in an apparent rejection of the proposals the demonstrations are now entering in their third week with anti-government protesters demanding the president step down. or have the latest from cairo. what we've now entered the third week of and mubarak demonstrations and the numbers on the streets just keep growing and his square is still remaining of 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 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 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 have also mocked to state fly day and sunday as a million man marches 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 support from the egyptian government and so the vice president almost saw him and so on egypt on state television on behalf of president mubarak and he said that the president had issued a presidential decree that would see what you needed the fate of 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 were those

meetings between six opposition groups and the vice president almost two men there is a third 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 a smooth progress process and a smooth poff to free and fair elections and again saying that the government was not planning to persecuted. anyway people who have taken to the streets over the last two weeks now it is interesting that the president is increasingly using his vice president to speak on his behalf we haven't heard from the barack since that first week of violence back in january so meant 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 broker and worse far removed from the people who administration claims to be listening to. dr meg deep below all heads of the human rights organization that teaches egypt since about to mock you see he says egyptians don't like solomon for the very reason americans do almost any man is part of the solution we consider american people. don't. want to keep. this little mubarak who was still. in power in those sort of told to the 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 for us so. extraordinary. parents. are among the silliman is accused of having been personally involved in torturing suspects this is the problem now in egypt is this a struggle between not between mubarak and the people but because between the american cia. cove 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 already 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. transparent is very hard 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. want to log onto our web site where we continue analyzing the issues that the round in the crisis in egypt we'll look at how the west breathalyzers part of the barracks actions and question whether the a bomber of this regime would have handled the situation differently if it happened in america. i'm thirteen and harry is competing for the title of the song she wins and the big three mascot have been revealed to see who they are and vent your favorite about our website dot com.

former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror by publishing his memoirs the book his time during the wars in iraq and afghanistan will likely brian a former u.s. contractor in iraq says rumsfeld still refuses to take responsibility for his actions. i think it will hurt his reputation because he says he doesn't really take the responsibility for poorly executing the war or it was his war he prosecuted it for it was carried out by tommy franks who did everything wrong still told him to do. he blames paul bremmer well he hired paul bremer so don't blame the guy that you hired if he wasn't doing the job right then get somebody else he blames all these other people but he was the one responsible for executing the conflict no one else i really do believe that it will like like

robert mcnamara in viet nam i don't think this is going to help donald rumsfeld reputation it's just a book to try and use his selective memory to to describe what happened in his own words now the russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied and shown arrival to a mosque because he broke a series of accreditation laws concerning foreign correspondents. no one has canceled his research was valid told me this year it was informed about numerous breaches of regulations which he signed when he received a creditor nation as a journalist working in the russian federation he used it to visit an area where an anti terror operation was underway without notifying the russian security service he visited border areas where the access of foreigners was limited here admitted his mistakes and asked us to call on his views are told me as an exception for

family reasons he simply behaved in the wrong way in the field to observe basic regulations which have been in effect since ninety four. the foreign ministry added that luke harding will face no problems at immigration as soon as all of his documents are in order holding his the guardian's moscow correspondent was sent back to london after allegedly being detained for forty five minutes the guardian earlier reported the harding had a valid visa which was counsel when he landed in moscow. i prefer it now in some other world headlines this hour and italian a flight. with twenty two crew on board has been seized by pirates in the indian ocean says five hijackers fired several rocket grenades as they captured the vessel the frigate on the route from sudan to malaysia was carrying crude oil it's currently sailing west towards the somali case. four trucks carrying oil to nato forces the afghanistan the port fire and the star it's

believed they were the target of a bomb but the explosion hit one of the fuel truck the small the fire spread just three alpha's police say it's still unclear whether there are any casualties they say convoys in pakistan carrying supplies across the border with afghanistan often could be targeted by militants. and in just a few moments we speak to a leading swedish academic about the case and his country's times to the u.s. that's coming up.

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 and why does sweden want julian of so much to be extradited is it just for to be questioned rather for the sex crimes alleged against him. it's hard to say certainly. sexual misconduct is taken seriously in sweden but few cases gets anywhere near the kind of judicial energy behind them as it is this had some of it there's seems to also be other factors at play it may be partly the prosecutors and lawyers involved and issues of their communities it may also be that there's. 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 so many critics say that once and if 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 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 why do you think that 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 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 always so heavily here that it is a 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 in a case and until they've been tried but there is so there's some hesitation to come to his defense on. on those grounds and then so much of our media in sweden is

owned by a few conservative leaning media houses particularly born 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 market in sweden 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 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 although 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.

once a 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 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 since two thousand and six those ties have have become even stronger the motto of one of the young people's divisions of the conservative party over many years boys

. we would like things to be like in the usa reveal how it is so me us can sweetish so and open and wish to see a more americanized tweet in which is exactly what we're seeing thank you very much for being with us my pleasure.

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