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extradition approved court rules the man behind the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks should go to sweden for questioning over sex crimes. and insists the case is politically may join me for more in just a few moments. the people decide their own future. western meddling in international affairs at a meeting in brussels. the e.u. agreed to coordinate efforts in the ongoing political and economic crisis digital africa a few moments. from massive flow of migrants and 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.
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this is r.t. in moscow eleven pm in the russian capital and now eight pm in london where a court has ruled in favor of julian assange and his extradition but we can leaks founder is wanted for questioning in connection with sexual assault on occasions during a trip he made to sweden last summer a soldier's lawyers fear he won't receive a fair trial in sweden and risks being handed over to america on espionage charges and is currently investigating his website which was to sway the secret diplomatic wires washington wants him held responsible for leaking classified information and that brings us now the latest from the hearing in london. sensually what we saw this morning was the judge knocking down these defense arguments out of the water
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essentially one by one he said that assad's had not in fact made himself available for questioning whilst he was in sweden and that our soldiers swedish go ahead mr led 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 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 a 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
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a series of cables relating to the u.s. diplomatic service some of which were deeply embarrassing for the u.s. government has always. i maintain that this is in order to facilitate his extradition own words to the us 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 that 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 well this is very unlikely to finish 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
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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. and that their reporting from london will for more on that decision to extradite join in the song john now joined by gerald button who's a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party thanks indeed for joining us joining us blames the european arrest warrant system for the outcome of this hearing but some why shouldn't the british courts acknowledge the seriousness of this case and cooperate with sweden well i'm i do apologize we did make contact with general a little earlier can you hear me now and your about in there in london can you hear me. i did make contact with him a little earlier and unfortunately seems of we've lost our link there with gerald back in london and i hope that we'll be able to return to him a little later to hear what he has to say so apologies for that now the continuing crisis in north africa has highlighted the need for russia and the e.u.
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to coordinate their efforts in terms of foreign policy and economy that's according to prime minister vladimir putin who addressed the media following the meeting with the european commission president manual but also well daniel bushell has been following events in brussels for us. 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 we have come out with a passion usually for foreign powers to shape them out of the conflict with them in so much as to allow the democratic process the people to elect their own leaders in that region with selves he gave several examples of how interviewers can reverse effect. as that which in this day 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
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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 and even a palestinian autonomy to get him asked once 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 is the mystification of north africa was unlikely 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 unless they get to double in 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
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european union the prices for energy would be lowered he reminded you that it was in both sides interest to to allow maximum cooperation between the e.u. russia. well we'll have more on the ripples being sent out through the economic world by the political crisis in north africa later in our business update. italy fears it will be brought to its knees as a new wave of immigrants is expected to flood the country thousands of refugees are 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 one million people well arty's reports on help locals are 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 main sources of income for the first time in years the bolts on the mats are drawing. of the profession they're
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always out here we haven't gone out to sea for twenty days now and since the recent uprising in tunisia the island has been flooded with great fiji's over five and a half thousand 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 have already drowned medial bills for me to have nothing to turning. on its head with no money and no jobs they have already been cases of. that just not to me it was started leaving the lights on at night they always wonder ronde none of the local seventy used to lock their doors now that this people out here will feel uncomfortable due to its location lumpy doozies familiar with refugees but never so many in such a short period of time and with many voices strong beliefs official say defying
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doing what he says is one of the biggest problems. that. we are historically a free nation and we want freedom we want to live like our prophet told us and who live in an islamic state. most are at this refugee center where they're provided with food water clothes and medical aid financed from the state budget is designed to house only eight hundred people so under tight security hundreds of fiji's are flown to the mainland big. city we sent four planes yesterday but on average two planes with very few gees leave every day to. it really used to have an agreement under which mostly a few jews were intercepted before even reaching the island but now that the government has been overthrown the floodgates have opened
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i once continue to spread in both north africa and the middle east already warned other street up to three hundred thousand refugees could we leave alone for decades limpid those are managed to remain a tiny isolated world of its own the world all cool calm peaceful lives and no one was afraid to leave their doors all along well find some peace and the biggest wave of refugees may still be out there the only one this tiny island but the entire continent you want the school board you want you know about italy. for now return to our top story this hour london's decision to extradite the wiki leaks founder julian assange and on this i'm now joined by gerald batten an m.e.p. for the united kingdom independence party sorry about the communication problems earlier now joining us blames the european arrest warrant system for the outcome of
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this hearing but why shouldn't the british courts a good knowledge the seriousness of this case and cooperate with sweden. well i think the what mr sounds case does is illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about now ever since it was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen i want to extradite to sweden but this affects every british citizen and anyone who's a guest in our country and what it does it removes the fundamental rights of the english courts to protect its own citizens and yourself because they are not simply not allowed to look at the promise i should have didn't say in the case like this and take into account it's what the lawyer called to die to justice and i would now so i. been signed now for some time that extradition which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnapping but what are you doing about it then there's an m.e.p. there in brussels because clearly the british courts are being influenced by
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brussels well my party voted against this i was an m.e.p. then this is been going on since before i became an m.e.p. we've consistently voted against all the other british parties voted for it and monday before last in the european union are sorry in the european parliament i tried to get an emergency by on the european arrest one and is it being misused for political purposes against political dissidents and i was refused that did by and the person who stood up and spoke against it in the parliament was none other than martin short's the leader of the socialist abs amazed that somebody as important as him would get up and argue against someone as insignificant as me but they were so terrified of having this debate that they stopped in its tracks and we were not even allowed a measly half an hour to actually talk about how this arrest warrant is being used now but i understand there could be a review what in june over extradition procedures do you think anything will come out of that i mean you're in the science reckons that there's something might come out of that but what do you think. he will i've asked our i've been pressing the
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previous home secretary in the current home secretary on a new number of these cases before mr sanchez one came along and pointed out all the injustice is going to happen in either asked to be consulted in this review they're going to talk to witnesses and people have direct evidence of all this but i'm not sure what they can actually do because once something becomes a european law then it can only be changed by unanimity so you have to get all twenty seven states to agree to and i don't think that's going to happen my view is we should unilaterally withdraw from all this rubbish and we should have our own. unilateral extradition proceedings with the rest of the world whereby all we're asking is some time fairly basic which is that the english courts can actually look at the problem the facia evidence can decide. if there is a proper case to answer is there a proper justice system in the country concerned is it politically motivated and give the courts and ultimately the home secretary as well the power to refuse extradition if they think those things are not being fulfilled we're not against criminals being extradited but we want justice for our own people which is has been
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our traditional safeguards under the law now i've been destroyed and swept away under this these mechanisms all right and this is just part of a much bigger process of a common system of european criminal law let me ask you about your stance on the surge putting aside these serious allegations in sweden for which he could well be extradited you're heading on that appeal do you think that he should be tried for his role in weeks and brought to account by the u.s. . while at the u.s. are saying that there are no charges against him there in all how long it's been going on that's been going on for months and they haven't figured out what the charges are yet and also not only are there no charges against him in america there are no charges against him in sweden this is where our such a justice system is fundamentally different from continental ones because in english law but police have to investigate then charge venue can be remanded in custody awaiting trial on the continent they have a completely different system whereby inquisitorial magistrates can ask for somebody to be did time in custody while they investigate the case that is
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completely contrary to seven hundred years i hundred years of english law and that's the system that we've now subjugated ourselves to an interest if i can say about what's going to happen just briefly very well they're going to use a very very rarely used mechanism here to try this case in secret so we won't even be able to hear what's being said what the allegations are what the charges are and all the full evidence because it's going to be done in a secret hearing which is absolutely astounding jerad time is upon us thanks very much indeed gerald button member of the european parliament from london for the u.k. independence party joining us there in the british capital thanks very much indeed . the continuing crisis now in libya it's seen more bloodshed as colonel gadhafi is clinging to the last vestige of a country which only a matter of days ago he presided over entirely the capital tripoli now reportedly the only part still under his control gadhafi is caught of thousands of mercenaries to defend his bastion as he's faced with more defections from his own regime the
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overall death toll for the ten days of unrest has been difficult to determine conflicting reports put the number between three hundred and two thousand meanwhile the swiss government has ordered a freeze of any locally held assets belonging to the libyan leader ahmad badawi from a burn in based conflict analysis think tank police the crisis we're currently witnessing in the arab world is the consequence of years of wrongful policies in the last. what is happening at the moment in the arab world. taken everybody by surprise there is definitely an intelligence failure on the part of the worst and big part of it is actually the outcome of years of policy failure from the worst in not being able to understand correctly the mood of of the people in the street in the arab world and their continuous support of leaders in this part of the world while the readers were continuously losing their legitimacy there was this faulty assumption that he can rely on leaders like mubarak and ben ali and even that there
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are few recently in the last few years. by giving weapons and arming these leaders to the teeth thinking that they will be able to control the population of course that proved to be a very faulty assumption indeed on behalf of many people in the worst bahrain yemen in algeria all up in arms calling for reforms the anti-government discontent has spread across the arab world with tunisia and egypt leading the charge and sweeping aside decades old cycle of oppression well arty's peter all of us travel to cairo to investigate whether the revolt has brought real change to egyptians that. one month on from the outbreak of the revolution and so on the bought a step down from power many protesters who stood up to the egyptian regime jubilant what they achieved until you square the moment but more works and it was announced that we had on the screens on the square and people just couldn't resist for a second to get overwhelmed by the joy of like get rid of their big figure of
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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. these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now for the growth of freedom and democracy in egypt ultimately of the united states can't he can't sort of them dictate what happens but you know we can but 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 hard to each of these countries and the fact that they might be falsely made to believe that they have won but they
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have a victory is very dangerous because they are heating up 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 great about this from what is happening in the chart 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 hasn't stopped 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 termed in some circles as cameron was on his way to the gulf
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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 is in charge they're taking they're taking action there the hand the upper hand to give everyone everything on control so yes and getting more and more to figured that fact and hated and thing about how we're going to deal with it we don't want to make who place a military 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 from three decades of dictatorship peter oliver r t cairo egypt. well before kareena joins us with the business news a little later let's check out more world news in brief for you this hour rescuers in and say they have little hope for more than two hundred people still missing as the death toll from tuesday's earthquake which is ninety eight of one side alone up
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to one hundred twenty people unaccounted for crews to continue to comb through the rubble of the country's second largest city meanwhile thousands of flocked to christ churches recently reopened airport in an attempt to escape the devastation. 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 safe house and it's believed that 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. broome bolivia declared a state of emergency with massive flooding affecting both nations and bolivia three people killed and almost seven thousand were 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 were similar scenes in peru where some three and a half thousand people lost their homes. the controversial islamic cleric abu bakar
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bashir has denied terror charges as he returned to court in indonesia is 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 us conspiracy and all charges against him from britain to his previously escaped terror convictions into trials in attempt to link him to the two thousand and two bali on weekends. by the way go to altie dot com a web site for more on our top stories you're seeing here on screen as well as videos blogs and analysis here's a taste of what you can find there right now the world's first robot marathon is underway in japan on an indoor track major ability will be put to the test during the evening feat forty two kilometer distance. and arguably france's most successful movie export actor star of. the da vinci code talks to r t you can catch the interview about his latest film based on the plight of prison jews during the holocaust online at r.t. dot com.
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but as part of the business update is coming up right now with kareena stay with us . and our welcome to business thanks for joining me well those are straight to our top story world leaders are considering the prospect of an all shock resulting from the end rest of the middle east and north africa could prices surged to a two and a half year high on the back of supply disruptions from libya she hasn't russia's energy companies have done well in the crisis speaking in brussels promise to put in the said spiking oil prices are not in russia is trust. if and if the city of new models and this is a serious threats to economic growth in the world if this goes on i can tell you
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the russian economy is not interested we want all prices to be fair we realize if economic growth slows down worldwide this will have a negative effect on our economy as well so we will do everything we can with our european partners to prevent this from happening. russia has limited options to pump more oil although energy minister said again says it can provide extra gas to make up for the shortfalls in need his production russia faces the same jeopardy as the rest of the world from an economic slowdown but it is likely to get some political credit from being a reliable energy partner. the beginning of the. big global instability of course with can be very bad news for russia's thirty's you could because it's. the beginning of the call of so follow global call them and so on. of course the serious serious strategic problem for russia but they were speaking about next month's us of course crowd crisis is
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a good news for us and one more good news is that. with us on oil and gas markets now we understand what of the real political stability of 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 you. now let's take a look at some of the figures are trading for earlier highs that's after saudi arabia said it was considering stepping up supply to compensate for the loss from libya light sweet crude is nearly ninety seven dollars a barrel down one percent of the day brant crude is trading at over one hundred and eleven dollars a barrel now turning to equities both the r.t.s. and my zinc a closed in the black health primarily by the energy sector defensive gold stocks were also doing well among the losers were retailers banks industrials and miners let's have a look at some individual share moves gas from one of the lead is up more than five percent may have ended three and a half percent higher so does look oil helped by news it signed
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a deal with american back go into to develop two offshore oil fields and all mania and gold producers gained as a price for the precious metals surge high up called up two point four percent. and you have any mixed on tuesday the footsie ended in the red down for a fifth day its longest losing streak since july the dax has finished under a percent lower indices were heavily weighted by banks and industrials two sectors that are struggling most with certainty created in the middle east shares of ten percent in frankfurt concerns its merger with volkswagen may fail. and u.s. stocks pair losses as all retreated from earlier highs treasuries trimmed gains up sinking as much as seven basis points the dow jones is down forty five points or zero point four percent for the nasdaq composite index is up point four percent airfares are rising again united and continental started the latest price hike by adding twenty dollars per round trip to most of mastic lights. that's all from the
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business to hear from a korean american it's goodbye and thanks for watching. down the.

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