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extradition approved a london court rules the man behind the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks should go to sweden for questioning over sex crimes. and. the verdict and insists the case is politically motivated join me for more in just a few minutes. let the people decide their own future message sent by prime minister vladimir putin as he addressed western meddling in international affairs at the meeting in brussels. and italy birds a cell for a massive flow of migrants calls on the e.u. to rescue it from a humanitarian crisis which could see more than a million people flooding the country in the troubled arab world.

here with us here live from moscow where it's not just after six pm but a court in london has ruled in favor of julius saunders extradition the way he was found or is wanted for questioning in connection with sexual assault allegations during a trip he made to sweden last summer lawyers fear he won't receive a fair trial in sweden and risks being handed over to america on espionage charges the u.s. is currently investigating his website which released a swathe of secret diplomatic wire as washington wants him held responsible for leaking classified information. and it has the latest from the hearing in london. tenshi what we saw this morning was the judge knocking down these defense all cubans out of the water essentially one by one he said had not in fact made

himself available for questioning whilst he was in sweden and that 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 us on 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 offenses now are so she 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 we 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 new charges currently against assault in america but that there is an investigation under way into wiki leaks but the judge again said that there was no evidence that our son should be extradited on to america all of that he might be tortured all that he could be executed or that he could be sent to guantanamo bay if he indeed was sent to america well this is very unlikely to finish here of 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 up 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 that. reporting meantime investigative

journalist tony gosling says this coast is a coverup and the real goal is to stop working. leagues and julian assange aren't from releasing more secret diplomatic cables. to 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 by going to sweden this is a way a by the back route because it's actually a lot easier to extradite percentage to the united states from sweden which is a back route getting around all the political problems they would be extraditing a sense directly from britain to the united states they're trying to trying to bog down with this legal court case to take his attention away to stop him 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 at the end of the day we've got to have these web sites out there 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 and 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 a case for occupation and invasion as we saw of course with iraq and wiki leaks is actually quite a powerful tool to stop that happening. that's investigative journalist tony gosling there life from bristol we spoke about earlier the continuing 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 but according to prime minister vladimir putin who addressed the media following a meeting with the european commission president jose manuel barroso daniel bushell has been following the events for us in brussels. obviously our question is

dominating world affairs at the moment and this was no exception although over to me putin has kept his powder dry on the issue up until now we have 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 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 the 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 their future he also said that the islamist a vacation 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 analysts say it's set to double it. the short period 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 lowered he reminded the e.u. that it was in both sides interests to to allow maximum corporation between e.u. and russia. that was artie's done in their reporting from brussels meantime italy

fears it will be brought to its knees as a new wave of immigrants is expected to flood the country thousands of refugees have reached its shores from the unsettled arab world the government has called on the european union to help with the predicted invasion of up to possibly one million people you've got this kind of report on how locals and i'll be dealing with the situation. at eighty miles off the coast of north africa the tiny italian island of lampedusa has relied on fishing and tourism for its mean sources. for the first time in years the boats on them that are drawing the best. there always are here we have been going out to sea for twenty days now since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with refugees over five and a half thousand arrived in just two weeks sometimes up to three hundred refugees or

just one tiny fishing boat to make the perilous journey to the mediterranean. doesn't have already drowned many of those who have nothing to turning. on its head with no money jobs they have already been cases of vandalism and theft . was started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder around none of the locals are used to lock their doors now that this people here will feel uncomfortable due to its location lumpy doozies familiar with refugees but many in such a short period of time and with many voicing strong beliefs official say defying genuine cases is one of the biggest problems. we are historically a free nation and we want freedom of islam we want to live like our prophet told us in holy books to live in an islamic state. 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 refugees are flown to the mainland each the people you know we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with refugees leave every day to crew to me and pollute. it 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 would violence continuing to spread in both north africa and the middle east it is already war and other e.u. states up to three hundred thousand refugees could flee libya alone for decades

lump you know that managed to remain a tiny isolated world amidst all the rubble with peaceful lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors on the wall while five something changed and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there one this tiny island but the entire continent he was still on board the one you know about italy. and turning our attention to libya now where areas still under the control of. shrinking all the time protestors have reportedly taken over the east side of the country the capital tripoli remains heavily guarded by a pro khadafi forces with tanks deployed all around it and the leader has called on thousands of mercenaries to meet defenders bastion as he's faced with more defections from his own regime the revolt has now entered its tenth day the overall death toll has been hard to determine conflicting reports put the number between three hundred and about 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 tokyo by ferry dr already an expert in international relations says the political and economic instability in the region it's only set to do. i think to 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 we're going to see across the region whether it is a wave of them accreditation and whether we're going to see 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 failing states in which you will have regime collapse for the very difficulties in really creating you and the government and of course what you're going to have to see is feedback effect where you have wise you know oil prices rising energy prices that will actually contribute to higher food prices as well now libyans are not alone demanding democracy bahrain yemen and

algeria roll up in arms calling for reforms the anti-government discontent has spread all across the arab world to see and egypt leading the charge and sweeping aside a decades old cycle of oppression. has traveled to cairo to investigate whether the revolt has broken any real change to locals. one month on from the outbreak of the revolution it's on the body a step down from power many protesters who stood up to the egyptian regime they did what they achieved and tell you square the works that. it was announced like we had on the screens on the square and people just couldn't resist for a second to get overwhelmed by the joy of getting rid of that big figure of corruption or the regime western leaders were quick to throw their support behind the popular revolution in a country that spent the last thirty years under mubarak and that these democratic

change has to start now. it needs to happen now for growth for freedom and democracy in egypt ultimately of the united states can't have sort of them dictate what you happens but you know we can what we can do bill is we can say that. the time is now for you to start making a change in that country or however support wasn't the only thing coming from these nations during the uprising western rumors were rife that mubarak had fled cairo was headed to germany and later british foreign secretary william hague said that colonel gadhafi had left tripoli in the midst of the ongoing crisis there but protesters are now very heated up it's all very hot in each of these countries and the fact that they might be falsely made to believe that they have won but they have a victory is very dangerous because they're heating up the of the situation opens the door for other countries other power structures to come into egypt and to come into libya into coming to tunisia and all of the other countries to try and take

some advantage in some cases might be greater than from what is happening the charge shell of a political party's headquarters in a country policed by the military todd levy image many in the west would associate with a democratic nation however this doesn't stop world leaders from speaking about a newly democratic egypt. the country is now being watched over by the armed forces while a partial curfew is still in place in cairo many key figures of mubarak's regime remain in the current cabinet including prime minister ahmed shafik a figure of hate for the revolutionaries who met with david cameron during the british leaders visit a visit that was turned in some circles as cameron was on his way to the gulf states to hawk the u.k. arms industry political groups in egypt are calling for a million man march to demand a new cabinet so how do those who helped remove barack feel about the future the army's in charge they're taking they're taking action there the hand the upper hand

to give everyone everything under control so yes and getting more and more to it and hated and think about how we're going to deal with it we don't want to make who plays a militaru regime with another. potentially elections could take place in around six months however political sources in the country suggest this could come too soon for a nation emerging in three decades of dictatorship. egypt. or not is coming to you live from the heart of moscow let's check out some other international headlines now this hour the rescuers who say they have little hope for more than two hundred people still missing as the death toll from tuesday's earthquake reaches ninety eight at one site alone up to one hundred twenty people are accounted unaccounted for crews are continuing to comb through the rubble in the country's second largest city meantime thousands of flock to the recently reopened in christ church in an attempt to escape the devastation. mexican

authorities 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 i gang's safe house it's believed three of them took part in the attack which sparked outrage in the u.s. a second american agent was also going to be in the incident when they were ambushed as they drove towards mexico city. from rwanda bolivia have declared a state of emergency with massive flooding affecting both nations in bolivia three people killed and almost seven thousand left homeless after torrential rain battered the country for the past few weeks swollen rivers burst their banks destroying crops bridges and washing away roads there were similar scenes in peru where some three and a half thousand people lost their homes. a controversial islamic cleric abu bakar bashir has denied charges as he returned to court in indonesia he's accused of setting up a cell that was preparing

a series of high profile attacks on western hotels and embassies claims he's the victim of a u.s. conspiracy but all charges against him are fabricated the mom has previously escaped terror convictions in two trials that attempt at the link. to the two thousand and two body. for the world's most journeyed rocket ship the discovery is preparing to lift off for the last time its final mission comes after almost three decades of orbital travel the launch marks the beginning of the end of the u.s. space shuttle program with the remaining two also heading for the scrap heap later this year and as i say is that guy nature can reports it's a loss some americans are finding hard to accept. by the end of this year nasa will no longer be able to send humans into space according to obama's plan responsibility will go to private companies which are expected to come up with cheaper ways to ferry astronauts to low earth orbit they know that they have

a big step to take when they if they're thinking about putting humans into space and that's going to take a you know the next phase of their development so i have a few years oh gosh i. can even estimate exactly no one can say for sure when the private american companies will come up with a new spaceship for years to come it will be the russians so use that's going to be the only means for people to reach the international space station which is perfectly fine with the leaders of russia and the u.s. but doesn't sit well with many americans how could this how. we could make it to the moon person build this wonderful equipment and then. and now we're were reduced to being passengers on a russian ship and that's that's sort of it's so a wounded pride thing wounded pride revealed itself in comments by some american lawmakers astronaut scientists and former nasa officials comedians in the u.s.

did not miss out on poking fun at american sense of pride so we pony up the cash then after a ride on the hope of the backseat all the risk is take the wheel. yes you know they're not going to let us touch the radio they won't let us. snacks or stop to use the bathroom should have gone before we left. used but those the nasa who now actually work with the russians like astronaut sunny williams have different sentiments i couldn't imagine when i was growing up walking through red square or going to a russian company and working hand in hand with my russian colleagues or going to their families homes and having dinner with them and likewise when they come to the u.s. and so i think. maybe we're not competing but we're working together i think it's more of a time of a joint cooperation and learning from one another that's just as healthy as the competition that we had in the past it's not the first time americans have to rely

on the russians to take their crew to space they depended on washing rockets during the two year grounding the few s. spacecraft after the two thousand and three space shuttle columbia disaster columbia exploded during re-entry into the earth seconds here all seven crew members died shuttles track record includes another tragedy in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the space shuttle challenger broke apart seventy three seconds into its flight. the russians so use proved to be the safest way to deliver people to space and now with the shuttle retiring it will be the only way we're no longer racing against an adversary we're no longer competing to achieve a singular goal like reaching the moon. in fact what was once a global competition is long since become a global collaboration the leaders of both russia and the u.s. are saying space is no longer a place for competition it's now a ground for cooperation but the question remains if ever wanted here in the was

ready to fully accept it i'm going to check out our to washington d.c. are you with the life in the heart of the russian capital let's go back to the troubles now in the arab world and speak to international relations expert mark waiting for us in so we heard today. at this e.u. and russia summit in brussels the russian prime minister vladimir putin telling the international community to stop interfering with the revolt that are taking place across the arab world do you really think the western powers are interfering that much do they have such a hand in the control of work here is to be just chaos and unrest. well they may not have much control over libya for instance i was a colonel gadhafi has always been a maverick even if recently courted by the west but in egypt and tunisia there was an extensive military relationship between the united states for instance and egyptian and tunisian armies but i think that played some role certainly easier now to president mubarak now the problem of course is that many of the influential american so-called neo conservatives who have been vocal supporters of people power

revolutions in the past in ukraine and georgia as well as now in the arab world quite a bit of a dilemma they want. people power they want to see new types of regimes come to power but also they are very concerned about islamic terrorism and of course we've seen particularly north africa in libya in the past in algeria particularly in one thousand nine hundred thirty violent radical islamic groups who also had contacts abroad took part in terrorist attacks in france and had some role in the caucuses too so there is a bit of a dilemma for washington do you support revolutions that could spiral out of control so when you talk about the western influence or not not so much being on the ground but the western powers are voicing their concerns are calling for democracy to come into place here but do you think in these countries where some of the chaos is going on do you think the people there are able to handle the crisis on their own. well i think ultimately if you're going to have a democracy you have to be able to run your own lives and i'm not sure that outside interference has been in the past

a very helpful for some even now would be because one basic problem we see in this is for the west we want democracy but we also want states that will be friendly to us and do what we want but almost certainly arab democracy is going to be a great deal less comfortable for the. iced the arab dictators or autocrats are. now maybe it's better for arabs in the end shape a more stable system of government that will. do more for them but i think in the short term we're in for a very bumpy ride plus also of course we're likely to see those arab states with a lot of oil so you in the west got cheap oil from autocrats who you turn a blind eye to the crimes now we want to pump up the price of wall so that we can provide better life for our citizens when you bring a very good evening to you when you talk about the energy crisis of the economic interests of the west in the arab region what do you think can be done to prevent a full scale energy crisis when you talk about libya being the world's twelfth twelve biggest oil exporter a fifth of the production has been shut down western economic interests what do you

do. well this isn't it we've got used to having democracy and cheap oil now we discover you could have democracy with expensive oil or you can have chaos and expensive or and i think again there's a limit to what we can do because even the people who talk of military intervention that is the thing that's almost guaranteed to see more sample of pipelines and pumping equipment i think this is a sign of the limits if you like western power influence we'll consumers predominantly in the industrial world ultimately whoever has the oil has a common interest in selling it to ours but the price at which so the conditions under which it's sold there are less and less likely to be set just by the wealthy consumers in north america and in western europe and that's going to make our democracy is a bit less comfortable than they've been used to the. past and again sighed the international relations expert mark almond live from oxford thanks so much. all right now the business news is next with kareena stay with us. i want to welcome to business thanks for joining me world leaders are considering

the prospect of an oil shock resulting from the unrest in the middle east and north africa could prices have surged to a two and a half year high on the back of supply disruptions from libya shares in 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 and that the condition of serious new girls and 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 world works this will have a negative effect on our economies will so we need to do everything we can with our european partners to prevent this from happening but now russia has limited options to help stabilize oil prices unlike saudi arabia it has little spare capacity and can't simply speed up the pumps but as cousin seem enough explains while washing is

in the same economic jeopardy as the rest of the globe it's likely to come out with more political credit. if is the beginning of the process so we can see the global instability of course of can be very bad news for russia strategically because it's like the beginning of the call of so far will go both for them and so on. of course of the serious serious strategic problem for russia but they were speaking about next month's us of course carol prices is a good news for us and one more good news is that our main as i said our main competitors on oil and gas markets now we understand what are the real political stability in this regime so that is where we will see the increase of the role of russia as a supplier for oil and gas first of all to europe of course. now let's take a look at some of the numbers now good is retreating at such an early highs that after saudi arabia said it was considering stepping up supply to compensate for the loss from media bites we could.