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own web site wiki leaks should go to sweden for questioning over sex crimes. and insists the case is a political. join me for more in just a few minutes. let people decide their own future that's the message sent by prime minister vladimir putin as he addressed western meddling in international affairs at a meeting in brussels. for a massive flow of migrant son calls on the e.u. to rescue it from a humanitarian crisis which could see more than a million people flooding the country from the troubled arab world. and business energy security is the topic of the day in brussels where russian prime ministers

meeting commission president manuel barroso will also look at how the equities around the world are reacting to the oil price all that in twenty minutes. from moscow welcome to the program a court in london has ruled in favor of julian assange extradition the wiki leaks founder is wanted for questioning in connection with sexual assault allegations during a trip he made to sweden last summer a soldier's lawyers fear that he won't receive a fair trial. sweden risks being handed over to america on espionage charges the u.s. is currently investigating his website which released. secret diplomatic wires washington wants him to be held responsible for leaking classified information. brings us the latest now from outside the hearing in london. sensually what we saw this morning

was the judge knocking down these defense argument out of the water essentially one by one he said that our sons had not in fact made himself available for questioning whilst he was in sweden and that our soldiers swedish go ahead misled the court when he said that he had. was unco on contactable and avoided interrogation while he was in sweden he also said that the european arrest warrant had been issued for our soldiers might be disproportionate but it was valid and it was definitely issued with a view to prosecuting ourselves for these charges and he also said that certainly one of the charges that's being brought against these allegations that are being made against student ourselves for sexual assault certainly one of them would constitute rape in the u.k. and all four of them that were extraditable offense is now our source has always maintained his innocence in this case and in fact he says and his defense team say

that this is politically motivated in connection with his work with wiki leaks wiki leaks of course we've seen releasing a series of cables relating to the u.s. diplomatic service some of which were deeply embarrassing for the u.s. government has always maintained that this is in order to facilitate his extradition own words to the u.s. we have heard in the last couple of days from the justice department in the american justice department in london saying that there are no charges currently against assault in america but that there is an investigation underway into wiki leaks but the judge again said that there was no evidence that our son should be extradited on to america all of the. he might be tortured all that he could be executed although he could be sent to guantanamo bay if he indeed was sent to america is very unlikely to finish here the defense team have already said that they're going to launch an appeal they have now have seven days in which to do that they will take the appeal first to the high court and then if that doesn't succeed

to the supreme court here in the u.k. and then if they have to they say that they will go to the european court of human rights so this is a case that will certainly continue into the summer but i wouldn't be surprised if it carried on for much longer than. i was artie's i lorimer the report of the outside the courthouse in london or let's get some more do some details on this are and i'm joined by investigative journalist tony gosling who can bring us up to date on this. it looks like we're now having some openable difficulties here on r.t. we apologize we will get to our investigative journalist tony gosling to talk more about the julian assange goes in the very near future bear in mind if you missed anything on any of the stories we're covering on so much more you can always log on to our web site that's our two dot com. we are going to have to go to the issues with the fears and. that is going to be brought to his knees as a new wave of immigrants is expected to flood the country thousands of refugees

have reached the shores from unstable regions particularly in the arab world in northern africa the government has called on the european union to help with their predicted invasion of up to one million people. now reports on how the locals dealing with the situation. at eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian. fishing tourism means sources. for the first time in years. are drawing. but. they're always out here we have been going out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with word fiji's. have arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. doesn't.

mean you. have nothing to turn. on its head. jobs they have already been cases of them. started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder around none of the locals are used to lock their doors now that these people are here. with refugees but many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say identifying genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. we historically a free nation and we want freedom we want to live like a prophet told us and who leave us to live in this. state. most are hairless at this refugee center where they are provided with food water clothes and medical aid

all financed from the state budget is designed to house only around eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of freaky g.'s are flown to the mainland to be. sent full planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day. and pollute. with. italy and tunisia used to have an agreement under which most with fiji's were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened. i put violence continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east already warned other e.u. states up to three hundred thousand refugees could flee libya alone for decades managed to i mean isolated world of its own political. peaceful lives and no one was

afraid to leave their doors all. find some peace and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there the one this tiny island but the entire continent it was just a lot more like you know about you know we. get back to our top story here on odds here and that is that a court has ruled in favor of an extradition of the wiki piece founder julian assange to sweden to face sexual assault charges and let's get some more details now with investigative journalist tony gosling on there so didn't take long for the court to rule on this extradition to sweden what do you think there was perhaps a particular swaying point for the judge and his decision. well i mean i'm getting a bit of deja vu i don't know about you but this is the sort of decision that britain used to accuse the soviet bloc hold back. in the cold war which is really the politicize ation of the courts this is an obscure little magistrates court in southeast london next to the biggest high security prison in the country where

these decisions been made not where you would expect maybe in central london and i think that it's a really dangerous decision essentially what's happening here is that wiki leaks is being sabotaged by the british judicial system there haven't even been charges laid in sweden against the sand and it just seems to me like this is a blatant piece of victimization so if they haven't any solid charges being placed against julian of science then why would a u.k. court rule to extradite him in the first place to sweden. good question and actually there is everett some evidence but it doesn't seem even in sweden enough evidence to reach the stage of charging him with rape even though the rape. criteria in sweden are very different to some other parts of europe so this is a very worrying decision and it seems to me deliberately designed to keep in jail because it looks like certainly from the guardian's been reporting today that he's actually going to be kept in custody now this is an act of sabotage against wiki

leaks and also there's the other aspect of this which is that by going to sweden this is a way a by the back route because it's actually a lot easier to extradite assange to the united states from sweden it is a back route getting around all the political problems they would be extraditing directly from britain to the united states. i know tony as i'm talking at the moment we're showing live pictures right here on r.t. of julian assange outside the courthouse in the u.k. addressing the media right now it's well known that assad is expected to appeal the decision some say could take months what you're forecasting how long could this. well it seems what's happening is sort of classic old old style system or what they're doing is they're trying to trying to bog down with this legal court case to take these attention away to stop it running wiki leaks and if it's going to drag out to the summer this is going to act in favor of the western powers and the united states particularly against those people who are trying to leak material via

wiki leaks now wiki leaks are not one hundred percent kosher should we say because there are some are questioning over the funding people like george soros are alleged to be funding it and there are questions about him by the end of the day we've got to have these web sites out there like cryptome which i can remember back you know nine hundred ninety s. open leaks and now wiki leaks to this is a really important way that we can get round some of the i think obsessive secrecy that's going on in international diplomacy right now one of the things that's come out constantly through the wiki leaks is the attempts by western powers to demonize places like iran and libya and other countries in the middle east and really to build up an. occupation and invasion as we saw with iraq and wiki leaks is actually quite a powerful tool to stop that happening now imagine if we go back to seventy years if there'd been a wiki leaks around during the run up and ensuring the second world war whether the attacks on the jews would have been allowed to happen if this information is even

more freely available what was going on time and i think wiki leaks is really a valuable thing and equivalent websites to it today that's why i think this is an act of sabotage and needs all the help you get right now our investigative journalist tony goes thing as we're talking to you we've been showing these live pictures of of julian assigned to addressing the reporters in the press outside the courthouse in mind then. thank you very much. thank you. for the unfolding crisis in north africa has highlighted the need for russia and the e.u. to coordinate their efforts in terms of foreign policy and economy that's according to prime minister vladimir putin who's addressed the media following the meeting with the european commission president jose manuel barroso. to brussels and. the conference for us and. he was quite fascinating watching the conference here prime minister putin talking about working closely together they covered a broad range of issues that about a visa free travel all of that about how russian gas is crucial to keep europe

alive they talked about many issues also addressing the kind of ongoing instability in the middle east and the arab world what more can you tell us. the obviously our question is dominating world affairs at the moment and this was no exception although vladimir putin has kept his powder dry on the issue up until now that's allowed him to avoid the embarrassment of some e.u. big wigs foreign minister of britain william hague saying more my gadhafi is in venezuela just before gadhafi gave a speech in tripoli for example but now he has come out with a passion plea for foreign powers to stay out of the conflict in so much as to allow the democratic process and the people to elect their own leaders in that region themselves he gave several examples of how interference has brought the reverse effect of what the west wanted have been one such organization democratically elected and then put on the terrorist list as soon as they were elected he also said that the islamist occasion of north africa was on likely in

his view if the democratic process was allowed to take its natural course of course this is having an effect on the economy already we're seeing brant oil prices at one eighteen dollars a barrel. to double in the short period and he said that there were western power. to interfere that would further damage the world economy which is of course being hurt by high oil prices we've seen the economy suffering already and so let's listen to what were they repeated had to say on the issue exactly. it was because of that which is today we say we're concerned about things happening in libya please note the following the north african cell of al-qaeda is also concerned about what's happening in libya do you think that's a coincidence i would like to go back in history a little the former leader of the iranian revolution where did he live he lived in paris and as a whole he was supported by the western community now entire western community

fights against the iranian nuclear program i remember just recently our partners were very active in supporting democratic elections in the palestinian autonomy and the mass one and immediately they declared how mass a terrorist organization and started fighting against it we need to give people a chance to determine their future themselves we need to give them an opportunity to take a natural way without any foreign interference to build a future in the. midst of lithium a poet in the here and his european counterparts jose manuel barroso said told us they had an open frank discussion now that is diplomats talk for some really only talks for example or putin was very open about the fact during the conference that had the e.u. already allowed such gas projects as north and south stream to pass through the european union the prices for energy would be lower he reminded the e.u.

that it was in both sides interests to to allow maximum cooperation between a you and russia back to you or indeed the russian prime minister was very straightforward in what he had to say about the ongoing gas deals the so-called third energy package but as you were saying at the end of the day by. saying that today's meetings had been extremely can strap. if you're bush will live in brussels thank you. to libya now where areas still under the control of colonel gadhafi are shrinking all the time protestors have reportedly taken over the east of the country the capital tripoli remains heavily guarded by a pro khadafi forces with tanks deployed all around it the leader has called on us thousands of mercenaries to defend his bastion as he's faced with more defections from his own regime the result is now into its tenth day the overall death toll has been difficult to determine at this point conflicting reports of the number between three hundred and a thousand many foreigners caught up in the trouble are attempting to flee russia

has flown most of its citizens out with the remainder being taken to two turkeys by ferry. by well let's discuss the troubles across the arab world and live to london where we're now we're joined by. international relations so widespread on the rest the continuation it's neverending what's your interpretation of the ongoing crisis would you call this democratization or is it something else. that is really hard to determine at this point what we've really seen so far is the regime collapse rather than regime creation so we still don't really know how to characterize it whether it is a wave of them accreditation or whether we're going to the way. the government through rising up across the region or actually and i would say worst case scenario whether we're going to see waves of a day in which you will have regime collapse or the very difficulties in really creating you and the government let's talk about

a potential long term implications here the global financial implications of the situation in libya because it's a major major country as an oil producer it's what is the twelfth largest in the world you've heard about a fifth of its all production being shut down how can people get a expect rather to be hit in the pockets by what we're seeing in these. spiking all promises. well yes i think they do ripple effects will be quite major but not just in terms of the oil issue but generally in terms of the end certainty and the instability that's we're going to see across the region and of course we need to remember that some of the catalyst that actually fueled this whole process where economic to begin with the food crisis for one thing in food prices and of course what you're going to have to see is feedback effects where you have wise you know oil prices rising energy prices that will actually contribute to higher food prices

these well talk about a hike in through prices you suggest about how a lot of these economic woes are fueling a lot of the rest but let's just take a step back and talk about the bigger picture here the role of the west both the u.k. and the u.s. have been accused of having double standards with regards to libya and supplying the military equipment and then denouncing gadhafi. what's that story all about what do you what's your view on that. well there will problem here is between the long in the short term obviously in the long term everybody would like to see democratic station and you know friendly economic open regimes but in the short term a lot of the actual relationships were built with these kind of regimes that seem to be stable and you work with what you have and of course that creates a problem now because even if he saw the unsustainable tensions underlying these regimes you never know what dick tipping point is going to come so it could have been this could mean ten years ago so analysts could see the end sustainable

tensions but because you don't really know at what point thinks will start to take you really can't build your policy or do you when you i think you could phrase the . tensions certainly many would say that that's being seen across the region. describing a domino effect across. the middle east north africa do you think that with the widespread unrest could go beyond that region is there a chance of why it spread incarnation of violence and protests. definitely yes again the tensions that are kind of bearing. very. very low economic development in relation to population growth the. growing man and those kind of things and again together with food prices and other global trends such as social media. the

fact that of course we do also have to remember that actually we've been all these different states. ok we do apologize here and we just lost the connection there that was dr live for us from london talking about the ongoing unrest in the middle east in the arab world and much of the southern european nations worried about the potential influx of migrants trying to flee the fighting so let's get to some other world news headlines now in brief for an artsy rescue and see them say they have little hope for more than two hundred people still missing as the death toll from choose to his earthquake reaches ninety eight one side alone up to one hundred twenty people are still unaccounted for crews are continuing to comb through the rubble in the country's second largest city meanwhile thousands are flocking to christ churches recently reopened after water in an attempt to escape the devastation. are. paraded six suspects in front of

the media arrested for the fatal shooting of an american immigration and customs agent a week ago they were caught in a raid on a gang safe house it's believed three of them took part in the attack which sparked outrage in the united states a second american agent was also wounded in the incident when they were ambushed as they drove towards mexico city. through the bolivia have declared a state of emergency with massive flooding affecting both nations in bolivia three people were killed and almost seven thousand were left homeless after a trench or rain back to the country for the past few weeks swollen rivers bust their banks destroying crops and bridges and washing away roads that were similar scenes in peru where some three and a half thousand people lost their homes. while the controversial islamic cleric abu bakar bashir has denied tara charges as he returns to court in indonesia he's accused of setting up a cell there was preparing a series of high profile attacks on western hotels and embassies last year claims

he's the victim of a us conspiracy but all charges against him are fabricated. had a previously escaped terror convictions in two trials the attempted to link him to the two thousand and two bali bombings. well career is now here with the latest from the world of business and we can talk more about this ongoing all of price hike i corrina what do you know about the well that's right laurie world leaders considering the prospect of an all shock resulting from that and we're from this unrest in the middle east and north africa now crude prices have surged to a two and a half year high on the back of supply disruptions from libya shares and russia's energy companies have done well in the crisis but speaking in brussels prime minister putin has said spiking oil prices are not in russia's interest that the condition of cereal this is a serious threat to economic growth in the world and if this goes on i can tell you

that actually the russian economy is not interested we want prices to be fear real or soof economic growth slows down this will have a negative effect on our economies will so we will do everything we can with our european partners to prevent this from happening but. take a look at some of the numbers now news that oil companies are shutting down their operations in libya which is the world's twelfth biggest producer light sweet crude a bubble one hundred one dollars a barrel over three and a half percent on the day brant crude is going even faster up three point eight percent at over one hundred fifteen dollars a barrel. the markets are going up at the moment on two things they're going up with the physical loss of supply from libya which is serious but the fear factor is in there the fear factor is the the armrests could spread to other oil producing countries as well it's very hard to predict the peak in this market the moment

nobody is going short and turning to equities now and my six are off but that's because of the heavy dominance of the energy sector defensive gold stocks are also doing well retailers banks industrials and miners are all down now let's have a look at some of some individual moves gazprom is among the leaders it's up almost five percent is rising two point six percent it's also being helped by news that signed a deal with american banco international to develop two offshore oil fields in romania and go producers are also getting as prices for the precious metal search higher is over two percent. a similar story on europe s'pore says with oil majors and gold miners providing the relatively few bright spots the foot is losing half a percent down for the day its longest losing streak since july the dax is down over eight percent it's heavily weighted with banks and in an industrials two sectors that are struggling most with uncertainty created in the middle east. that's all

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