the egyptian president hosni mubarak has seemingly pressure at home and abroad as he finally resigns following the brutal unrest seen over the past few weeks also the. wiki leaks founder. will have to wait to hear his extradition fates the judgment of the late it's hearing into whether he'll be sent to sweden on sex crime charges. however sweden may be just a short stop for a leaked cables uncover an american agenda behind a swedish what's happening along the washington to process charges on the.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day so the egyptian president hosni mubarak has finally stepped down and handed power to the military according to the country's vice president it comes after more than two weeks of mass uprisings in the country which has been accompanied by a wave of clashes between pro and anti-government protesters western powers including the u.s. supreme court and for a transition of power moving its decades long ally isolated. joins me live from washington d.c. well ghana despite a long lasting relations between the u.s. and egypt prism of barak found out to his cost that friendships don't last forever so what is the reaction now coming from the white house because i understand the president there has just spoken. well bill in the us it's presented as a triumph of democracy where heard president obama speak earlier and he was very passionate about all this he was talking about how the egyptians made their voice

heard this is how the real democracy works he was saying honestly the impression was that he was talking about his own country so passionate his speech was and judging by his speech alone one could think that the u.s. was not just a bystander in this whole process and it probably was not the force that's now in. the army that is a largely funded by the united states washington can hardly be impartial when it comes to power struggle in the region is is a is a strategic location and it is that neighbor to israel has been an ally. with thirty nine states has been pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military they don't want to lose that whoever is next in power although the official position is it's up to the egyptian people to decide who's going to be their next leader some analysts say washington is pulling some strings there any spare likely

that the next leader will be approved by the united states but as you told john and we're showing pictures of people celebrating the. people that brought down the president it's not like they were actually working alone is it. well if you listen to u.s. officials they really what they're saying in their statements is that they want to see a leader that's going to listen to the grievances of their people but actually if you closely watch american television and american politicians speak it's it's all about u.s. interests and not really about egyptians they talk about democracy in egypt but a democracy that will be acceptable for the united states and we remember what happened with the u.s. promoted. democratic revolution. happened in kyrgyzstan and ukraine people on the square as they are also thought that was the

triumph of democracy but the leaders who came to power as a result were later rejected by their own people. live from washington correspondent. well first looks at the western influence on the events unfolding there in egypt and the way the situation's developed in the past three weeks. barack his history his steely determination not to resign. as he finally stepped down as president seems a celebration marking an end to the leader's thirty year regime and a nice start for the egyptian people. but already the west is jumping on the victory bandwagon claiming this is a success for democracy and trumpeting egypt's new found freedom with one that they forgotten that if egypt is now free minutes from the regime that was in two recently largely supported and funded by the western leaders who now denounces

support. for such a. theory now talking about democracy and support the right rather than such swift policy u. turns the west might well be better placed to press harder on autocratic regimes such as when they restrict political freedoms damage economic progress. progress in terms of sticking up for democracy and human rights efficiently. in the past we parents resignation marks a significant moment in egypt's history and there's no doubt that this is a huge success for the people but this time will also be pivotal in determining that future and a real and injuring political commitment to change this now commands rather than time wasting rhetoric however inspiring. terrorist square has been the recent at

the center of egypt's democratic hopes the stage for the people's revolution and instead of the battle for better governance should be for its western involvement now needs to tread carefully to ensure that they're encouraging genuine and lasting reform as opposed to simply fueling an impassioned revelation. that risk of placing one. in for another. day. or for more on the historical situation in egypt i'm now joined by the asia times journalist pepe escobar the american president has spoken out on the events there as we've been reporting it looks like though he is the only foreign leader to pay so much attention to egypt why do you think no other country has been so outspoken as the u.s. president. well first of all we are the last in the case of the european union they don't have a common foreign policy so there isn't much more lost their native body else and

for the us egypt represents one of the two essential pillars of u.s. foreign policy one is egypt because of the relationship with israel in one thousand nine hundred ninety camp david accords and the other one is saudi arabia because of the oil now one of the pillars theoretically might have collapsed form the point of view of cold war mentality in washington but not necessarily. very important what took place that they need in egypt was a military coup and a military coup inside the army mubarak and slowly amount of course they're also military men but they were being no posed by chief of the army and the minister of defense g.'s are part of the supreme council that is issuing these communicates to officials so far probably more and they have a very close relationship with events that are very very close to robert gates they

talked on the phone at least five times this past week so obviously washington will be supervising any seing that happens in cairo intimately connected with disagreeing with military council so it's still a military dictatorship so we're going to see any difference then when it comes to future u.s. policy in egypt bring them on what you just said it's too early to tell we don't know we are still trying to digest what happened these past eighteen days and what is specially what happened today it's like a mix of seven hundred eighty nine the french the british the lights of the middle east and nineteen eighty nine the fall of the berlin wall all together in terms of a possibility of a new dawn for the arab nation because this is not only about the chip this concerns. what arabs three hundred fifty million dead called the arab nation and egypt is the heart of the arab nation and it's a reverse of the humiliation that arab peoples carry since india early twentieth

century do with promise an arab nation and france and england colonial powers divided the middle east among themselves so now it's the possibility of a new beginning but all because there will be a lot of interference from washington from european capitals and from tel aviv and from riyadh because they were very close with the mubarak regime for thirty years and before so we still don't know but one thing is certain now there's. there's. they're so popular drive and anything that happens in the palace in cairo cools watch by the whole egyptian population but as you say things should be stable now but that's because the country is run as a minute tree state and the international media has been drawing on about so-called democracy but all we really going to see a democratic state as a bomb a city want to see move to civilian and democratic rule now is that light is

a happening now that we see the military in control the operative word is what you just said for the moment we're going to have a military council. theoretically i would check in with like you know half an hour ago they're going to dissolve parliament they're going to appoint a commission of judges to start studying what fixations the constitution drug will be they will alter the constitution submit this for a referendum and then we're going to have ornaments reelections and then. this could last at least one year effect that will have been about at the like two hours ago saying that he expects this to last at least one year so it's a transition but this scene is the population and specially to be used groups started to see the april sixth group. you know if you buy that and it was internet connected to facebook connect it will be extremely good to them and they have to be

part of the table so you will know if they're going to be part of this transitional government they have to be there because they started all very interesting to hear what you have to say as always good to hear from me. pepe escobar live in r.t. thank you. thank you. other news now here on r t the verdict in the high profile case of the wiki leaks founder has been adjourned for two weeks june in the sonship appeared in court in london on friday as he continues his battle against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning of a sex crime allegations the kinds of cases fabricated so the u.s. could do sweden to hand him over on espionage charges parties nor and i've just been keeping track of developments from outside the court there in london. we were hearing today the closing statements made by base the defense and the prosecution we essentially had summaries of the evidence from the prosecution and from the defense prosecution has maintained all along and maintained again today that

there's no reason why i shouldn't go to sweden to all articles questions following the news about this basement getting our son's came out of the court and made a short statement to the media it gives me hope that we can through this particular case. not simply draw attention. to the difficulty and the pressure. that we and other people have been under. but rather. perhaps we have an opportunity. to set a new president. about the abuses of european arrest warrant we had some quite graphic details from the defense about these alleged assaults sort of almost making light of the of these allegations as the prosecution said it's talking about these sexual encounters that took place with two women in august and we also heard an angry statement by the defense solicitor about comments that

the swedish prime minister has made recently about shooting a staunch defense cool that it's a devastatingly prejudicial attack and said that the swedish pick prime minister had spread malicious lies about you and us. i'm suggesting that he believes that women's rights are worthless and also suggesting that he's already been charged with this this rate which in fact he's not the case at all you know any decent country the rule of law is separate from the political process it appears that in sweden his norms are not the prime minister has i am afraid to say so or to change the legal process just one more example the point exceptional behavior in the julian assange case another factor this is also a case that has descended at times into farce and today is no exception there's a new book out by a man called daniel dumpsite burke who used to work with student ourselves at wiki

leaks and he has essentially written a book about our son and his relationship with him the most bizarre thing about the allegations that dumpsite burke has made something to do with his cat he said that our sons lived with him for a while envy started in germany and that has a cat which julian and sid into a war of suprema see where the senshi attacking the cat and then pulling back saying he would win sometimes the cat one sometimes i saw one and he says that that shows that ourselves is some kind of power hungry maniac we haven't heard any more about the espionage charges that the us is said to be preparing against julian astonished but we do know that politicians and other people in the us have come out very much against him in terms of the relationship between sweden and the us which is a call to what all this hinges on essentially if you look at it from that perspective we at r.t. have had access to some wiki leaks cables from the us state department they told us some very interesting things about the relationship exists cozy relationship between the us and sweden i prepared this report on the subject bulked and wiretapped at the behest of the us swedish intelligence service the foia has the

power to monitor and intercept all internet traffic in the country and thanks to leaked u.s. state department cables we now know the controversial law was adopted often. pressure from washington and the security services were deliberately kept out of it to reassure swedes there was no funny business course to operate under strict data storage and protection laws for swedish citizens they are concerned that the public may perceive their involvement as an attempt to work around these restrictions by using a foreign intermediary that's poisoning any chance for success the u.s. interest is clear eighty percent of all the internet traffic from russia travels through sweden and from there to america but most mentioned by a by government representatives that no no no the purpose is not to spy on swedes it's the morning monitor among other things russian trying to traffic but what kind

of information they are almost or i think the information that is made excess will special services by this law is of course sensitive and there are ways it can harm russia's political interests oh my god the law has been slammed by some as the most far reaching eavesdropping plan in europe and prompted widespread protests ahead of its implementation cables also suggest the swedish government was colluding with the u.s. to avoid involving the public at all costs the. the agreement may have to be presented to parliament and a vague constitutional requirement for matters of great importance if so the process will take considerably longer and be subject to public scrutiny something the government of sweden will want to avoid as the ministry of justice continues to analyze the proposed text it is also considering how to craft and arrangement that will avoid the need for parliamentary review there is no parliamentary control over

what they are for us. and of course the general public in sweden has even less control much of the pressure coming from the united states and from the copyright industries. it's been in the swedish government the more than happy to. well to do whatever the american corporations. ask through the american government judging from the date on the leaked cables while sweden was debating whether to pass the bill the americans were already negotiating with the swedish authorities on what kind of information they wanted they see the twenty third meeting has an opportunity to seek precise details on the type of information the united states wants and overall aim of the agreement and it's clear the us ended up getting was it was after at least in terms of information on the eighty percent of russian internet traffic that passes through sweden our intelligence cooperation with sweden on brusha is excellent do you need a direct left turn in general burgess will be here next week for exchanges with the

swedes on russia and of the topics now it's not just information on russia that the us is off to its reportedly carrying out its own investigation into wiki leaks founder julian assange is this still sieve all this information to see if it can bring espionage charges if it can and applies to sweden first extradition all this close cooperation that we've seen may mean his feet won't touch the ground your and it's r.t. . we'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about twelve minutes from now in the meantime moscow well is next.

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they go off trail and we will work very well together. to love russian. everybody and many of the russian. have i met them that. night that the idea that any. man. with more move russians actually moving to the u.k. every year the ones that according to london grads and in fact many experts say that russians about that this is the price the bruising british make. some might be afraid the relationship is such emerging markets others to. cherish in a new opportunities include trucks they drink. russian playwrights and i can schools have been very popular around the world for decades and the british capital is no exception very strict and pays off performed

on the stage used by both russian and british companies. whenever there is a play on. usually trickles there is no doubt almost immediately when the national trust theatre does it or any private company or even the smaller french companies if they put on a russian play. it's so. so certain terms of service there is a huge about four of recently the show fees has sort of performance staged by the prominent person director say you are special titled the marriage the play is a comedy by the outstanding writer. britain almost two centuries ago. reduction remains popular still today performed by thieves come from moscow if it was cost the states a festival called russian classics of the theater in great britain. one of the oldest most famous opera system five houses chrissy's which was founded in london in the seventeenth sixty's and sell week twice

a year for the ocean itself chrissy's organizes. to give collectors a better chance to examine to learn more about the art pieces on offer to dish and they've always been to. say tradition in london it's always been in june and i just happens to coincide with christmas. but i think that is more. to say now is thing very serious to me and that she take time to do. and we need to make a decision about what they want and that collection to prepare for the show itself is also an event the b.b.c. get a. living aboard including artists and descendants from autistic families as well as collectors of the latest ocean they gathered at christie's to door more than three hundred lots of russian fine art including paintings imperial porcelain jewelry and furniture which were sold for almost fifty million pounds twenty four million dollars in total. spirit option that we

still are in the eighteenth century right up to the present day so for example in this auction we have nineteenth century rights twentieth century rights based on contemporary. one of my favorite western says that she this levittown which by the horses which is a fantastic probably eighteen nineteen to a private collection here in the it's really really special saying it chrissie let's meet this week's guest. ok let me thank you very much for your time but tell me about your position here at christine's position the international. christie's. started to work at christie's twenty five years ago in the russian department i became the head of the department in london in one to one and i believe it became the international head i mean sort of the five seven years ago and it seems that

russian art has exploded here in london arris in new york recently well i think it's the great paradox about russian audience has always been present in the alt market. yes you have kind of a boom in the field which started five six years ago but you need to keep in mind that you it's very strange in a very strange way to second boom you already had the boom in the late eighty's around one thousand nine hundred nine at the time of the perestroika people could grit interest in russian old and we got in the ninety's is especially well i presume there were many restrictions about was you could take in and out of russia or the u.s. is ours it was that well i mean you're putting your finger on something that was interesting that's at christie's or thing leave in a certain way even with or all the auction houses we saw significant put it this way russian of arts around europe around the states that in fact not in russia.

and people buy russian or in europe and in a certain way bring it back to russia but we're not sourcing this. in russia which explains why us specialists are pretty busy in the russian field sort of travelling around europe or the states and when you're traveling who is i was not the main body is always the russian but to say that it's only russian to buy a russian or to be totally wrong you still have sort of strong buyers who are not russian who are interested by russian all it's far more difficult for them to. to be. put it this way during the auction but very much present i mean you have to keep in mind that the meet up to the ninety's the.

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it's a great place. just to. have a revolution which. is one of the you actually used to probably allegedly. has dozens of different flavors of the great. taste see menu. drinks makes me shake in action. absolutely delicious. from taking i mean these papers to making major moves within the fashion art scenes appears the russians are now fixing everyone's lives in the u.k. while some are skeptical of these new foreign businessmen and women disney praised

the collaboration and opportunity it brings seems russians and the amazing culture they offer are in london to stay. not just here russia is now closer to many european cities than you think and on our next moscow our special series we should be visiting durham and historical city of paris exploring it through the prism of russian influence while listeners begin to understand the well from history of the largest country in the world better or worse is love affair with all things yorkie and shows no signs of abating. hungry.