seven more suspects identified in connection with a moscow airport bombing in january this after russia's most wanted terrorist claims he ordered the attack. wiki leaks founder julian assange engine court in the u.k. for the second day battling extradition to sweden with a hearing set to resume on friday assad his lawyer say political pressure from washington could see assad headed over to u.s. authorities. and as protests enter the third week president mubarak is trying to take a name to the constitution but demonstrators remain skeptical. it's two am in moscow i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story russia's

security services have briefed the country's lawmakers on the investigation into last month's bombing of moscow's domodedovo airport up to seven suspects were named in connection with the attack during the closed door meeting this comes as al qaeda linked terrorists doku umarov says he ordered the attack authorities believe he was also behind last year's moscow metro bombings and the two thousand and nine bombing of a moscow to st petersburg passenger train but he's catarina gretsch over reports. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more human lives have been added to his deadly account chechen born doku umarov says he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the idea to the airport when one of made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described this you said bombing as he's special open ration and promises more terrorist attacks security experts believe the message. that the man should know. i'm to be described as just

a chechen militant but as an international terrorist these groups move more of a sleeve around the world you know their own down to the 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 know he is involved in that but also chechnya 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 that really is the 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 is talking himself up as a self-styled bin ladin 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 of last year when he resigned event he would have made 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 barge number of these militant groups or where they can simply putting himself in a position of their own near in order to gain more authority him self it's the second message from the lord over the past two weeks targeted at russia's main security agency the f.s.b. shortly after the apple bombing omar police test similar traps however it's believed that video had been made even before the actual attack took place next to door kumara is a man who had p.t.s.d. resemble the apple boner. earlier the f.s.b.

reported he was a twenty year old man from the north caucuses and manhunt is on for six others have believed to have must have minded 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 of r r t most. of our of the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks will reappear in a london court on friday to battle a swedish extradition warrant julian assange as a defense lawyer says the swedish side could come to the u.k.

and explain their sexual misconduct allegations facing their client or his lawyer and it is a london with more on this high profile case. well it was supposed to be the last days day 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. 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 assad 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 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 raped that they heard that these two women expected to be paid and that they wanted revenge against julian as songs and also that they planned to contact newspapers to have a soldier's reputation destroyed was some other evidence that we've heard over the course of these two days was about whether whether essence 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 all as 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 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 full cooperation 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 to that of the u.k. is pirate party lows there is overwhelming support for the work out of saunders to do it. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be taken to the united states even possibly detained in guantanamo bay and actually basically pursuit of some kind

of espionage 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 and 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 and i think that means that it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial of justice if julian the song is going to be extradited to sweden commentary from u.k. pirate party leader lo's case speaking with us from manchester. turning now to egypt were a constitutional reforms intended to diffuse public anger have backfired after thousands of protesters poured back into tahrir square in apparent rejection of the proposals demonstrators are now entering their third week with anti-government

protesters demanding the president step down. as the latest from cairo. 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 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 of also marked to stay for a 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 heat from the governor to the vice president omar suleiman 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 you 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 on 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 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 persecution. anyway people have taken to the streets over the last two weeks now it is interesting that the president is increasing using 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 administration claims to be listening to. talk to meg heads up a human rights organization that teaches each option is about to mock you see he says he don't like superman for the very reason americans do almost any man is part

of the solution we consider american people. didn't. want to. live mubarak who was still in. power in those sort of things told to 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. countries. 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 c.e.o. . kovar operators of u.s. power around the world and the people are having to try to get a place 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 a radio identified him as a possible successor to president mubarak. many of her 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. transparency is very hard 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. journalist pepe escobar says that egyptian leaders have common garden depending on which one will accommodate u.s. interest in the region. but it's all related to israel in oil so you need dictators

you need all to kratz you need more ne that will not attack israel that tool always ensured the floor voyage to the us and western markets is on and they're not going to contest us foreign policy so that fit the bill and the camp david nine hundred seventy nine accord same a whole lot of shit to build for thirty years of pensively money which mubarak too as the street protest is rightly say also fits the bill thus he is the first interlocutor for the us and always leave us don't know who to talk to india opposition they started a dialogue with the old guard the last week and now its new nobody talks about are they for three or four days in the us press because they are not talking anymore. log onto our web say where you continue analyzing the issues surrounding the crisis in egypt we look at how the us criticizes president mubarak's actions and questioned whether the administration would handle the situation differently if it all happened in the u.s.

plus. thirteen cute and cuddly characters competing for the title of sochi winter olympics mascot have been revealed see who they are and vote for your favorite that's on our web site r t dot com. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror publishing his memoirs the book charts as time during the wars in iraq and afghanistan michael o'brien a former u.s. contractor in iraq says wrong rumsfeld still refuses to take full 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 all it was his war he prosecuted it for and it was carried out by tommy franks who did

everything rumsfeld told him to do. he blames paul bremmer well he hired paul bremmer 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 or 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 the russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entry on arrival to moscow because he broke a series of accreditation laws concerning foreign correspondents. you know when this council does reserve it was valid to tell me this year he was informed of

numerous breaches of regulations which he signed when he received a critic as a journalist working in the russian federation he used it to visit in the 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 he admitted his mistakes and asked us to prolong his visa until 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 nine hundred ninety four. the foreign ministry added that luke harding will face no problems and agree as at immigration as soon as all of the documents are in order harding who is the guardian's moscow correspondent was sent back to london after allegedly being detained for forty five minutes the guardian earlier reported harding had a valid visa that was cancelled when he landed in moscow. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe and italian 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 propelled grenades as they captured the vessel the frigate on route from sudan to malaysia was carrying crude oil it's currently selling west towards the somali coast. for trucks carrying oil to nato forces in afghanistan a fire in pakistan it's believed they were target the target of the explosion hit one fuel truck before the fire spread to three others police say it's unclear whether they're any casualties nato convoys in pakistan carrying supplies across the border with afghanistan are frequently targeted by militants. and a few moments we speak with to a leading swedish academic about the case and his country's ties to the u.s. stay with us here on r.t. .

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 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 drew to show energy behind them as it is 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 found will 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 this week is pressing. one 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

us 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 us 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 that the media has been reluctant to. secretly openly compliment wiki leaks or 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 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 media in sweden is own by a few conservative leaning media houses particularly born years a media group that's right leaning and has has every interest in it in not raising these questions and they are the largest player in the media market in sweden how much and. steve think the u.s. 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 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 this is a far cry from the suite in the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's when all of pomade 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 it is admiration for the united states among the foreign policy of lead to

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 become even stronger the motto of one of the young people's divisions of the conservative party over many years was. we would like things to be like in the usa reveal how it is so mean. 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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