you're asking him to be held in solitary confinement it's just bizarre so there are so many bizarre aspects to the why in which the management is being conducted up till now. from our perspective i just can't see how he would get a fair trial others have gone beyond legal arguments saying that the storm raised branson's through wiki leaks has made him a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s. authorities enraged at having their secret documents exposed may seek to have a son exadata there to stand trial but surely sweden's famed neutrality would stop such a thing i would say we. ask whether straight in and out of country sit in that's a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration event. in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have for instance the so it's presence in afghanistan you have

a clear cut it brought nato policy on the part of sweden and that it's not a tragedy with some u.s. politicians branding a son a cyber terrorist and calling for the death penalty it could get a lot worse for the wiki leaks founder the problem is not that we have too much wiki leaks we have too little. i think most people agree with. it in national public opinion polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts of wiki leaks the why worry is that it was all without julian assange governments around the world and something to hide will now launch a full scale assault on internet freedom in order to keep their secrets secret but for now the focus is on the man not his website killing our son just connections

with sweden have raised many questions about what really happened in august two thousand and ten but now with the sun just future as uncertain as ever questions are being leveled at sweden's legal system and its relationship with the united states which could prove crucial to the fate of the world's most notorious whistleblower dumbarton r.t. stockholm sweden. twenty minutes past the hour in the russian capital time now for more news from around the world this hour in our world update seventy three people have been killed and more than a thousand injured in egypt when fans stormed the pitch following a match in the top league presence supporters were caught up in clashes which all stones and bottles thrown some of the dead the security officers and reports of knife point the two teams involved in a long history of rivalry and violence has been common in recent. rival militia groups have been involved in a gun battle in the center of libya's capital tripoli witnesses report heavy and

light weapons exchanging fire in the city the road along the coast has been blocked and smoke was rising from the scene of the fighting former allies who fought together to ask mama gadhafi last year and now engaged in a battle for influence in the new libya. but i'll be back with the some of our main news stories for in about nine minutes from now in the meantime we talked to the indian ambassador to the united nations about what he thinks the international community needs to do to resolve the crisis in syria.

i'd like to begin with syria because that seems to be a great point of contention within the u.n. security council now the last and only time the council reached any type of consensus on the conflict in syria was nearly six months ago it was under your presidency of the security council a presidential statement was issued in august why has it been so hard since then for fifteen members to agree on does some kind of solution the only occasionally on which the security council was entirely on the same page insofar as developments in syria are concerned was on third august two thousand and eleven under the indian presidency when the council accepted adopted. that statement is a fairly strong statement it cause on the government in damascus to walk back from

the use of force against its own civilians equally sends a message to the opposition to stop the armed insurrection and to enter into dialogue with the government and extends both sides store you know negotiate and go down the path of reform after the unanimous passage of this b.r.s. deal on third august another attempt was made this time. exactly two months later the council is faced with the situation where two permanent members of the security council course sponsored the resolution two others vetoed it russia china russia and china and the fifth a member in the light of some aggressive public speaking in the open chamber the united states walked out now the reason the council has not been on the same page is because i think as long as the council is in a position to address that recommendation to both sides in a conflict i think you would get agreement but if the council wants to address its

recommendation to one side that is the government and is not willing to encourage the opposition to come to the negotiating table then you've got a council recommendation which clearly is not acceptable to some members what we need to do on syria clearly is to realize that the situation there is spiraling out of control that syria is a sweden in this case that unraveling of the situation in syria will have very serious consequences for the other countries in the region. unlike libya. the consequences will be far higher i'm not suggesting that what happened in libya is not serious enough but talking of libya i would still be one of the difficulties that we are having insofar as the situation in syria is concerned is that the security council's expedience in respect of resolutions nine hundred seventy and

seventy three on libya are now vitiate think the atmosphere in terms of the approach to words how to deal with the situation in syria it is reported that in the coming days the security council will be possibly voting on a resolution drafted by western countries on syria calling in part for the for the assad government to surrender its powers given the dynamic of the security council right now the positions being taken by the numbers do you think this resolution will be adopted if the proposition were to be advanced that somebody should handle the power. in other words a. regime change proposition i think some members of the council including my own delegation would have a lot of difficulty with that therefore i'd like to see how that is coached if for instance the call is for political dialogue between the government and the

opposition that's something we could support if the demand is for. you know of joining violence reform and negotiations we can support that if as a result of those negotiations there's a political formula which is that which results in power sharing or this thing that's an entirely different matter but this is something for the people of syria to determine i mean as a matter of principle i have a lot of difficulty with people advocating the reordering of societies as my prime minister put it in his statement to the general assembly in september the reordering of society. from outside using military force that's something i have serious objection to russia has proposed a draft resolution on syria when i was quite we were quite comfortable with the russian draft resolution we thought it was a good basis for seeking consensus in the council but i think some of our friends from the western countries had some difficulties with it because it did not contain

the course of our punitive measures that they were seeking i think the russian resolution is still around it's not been put on that it's not been put in blue but it's still very much on the table i want to ask you about libya because that was the first time the u.n. security council used the responsibility to protect doctrine it was invoked how come the security council does not feel that the united nations has a responsibility to protect those in syria is it because of what transpired in libya insofar as the implementation of nine hundred seventy three is concerned it uses words all means necessary now all means necessary is a cord word for military action but there's a more even more serious issue of resolution one hundred seventy three specifically referred to an arms embargo but that resolution was interpreted as some people say well it means you can carry out military operations against gadhafi but arms

embargo does not prevent you from arming the rebels now i find that situation unacceptable yes the libyan experience will continue to guide people now whether that should or should not be the gears depends on what kind of resolution the council is faced with.

culture is that so much i'm going to give each musician the power to find the mark when siri on the brink violence escalates in this in battle country the calls for strong sanctions and even a military intervention grow in intensity. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lang you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day top stories now that moscow says it won't back a weapons in bargo in damascus because of the opposition groups operating in the country that some u.n. members refuse to acknowledge and russia is standing firm on its opposition to military intervention in syria saying it will vote against any u.n. resolution that could provide the conflict. with. the u.k.'s high court considers the fate of we can experiment you're in the sun shoes wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault we can expound or insist the case is politically motivated and the response to his website publishing secret u.s.

cable. and israel's ad campaign insults jews based in the u.s. suggesting that jewish identity is being diluted by that country even given that many are already feeling any native by israel's policies of expansion and treatment promised to. mourn those stories and more news for you in half an hour from now in the meantime it's the second part of our special report that takes a fresh look at the impact of guns in america. if you want to play a guy at work and you get in they will dance to good any gun store they're going to write a background check or write what you buy there. and they are big event is a gun show they have on weekends and this is where the gun store sellers can also go and sell shop but the individual people who own guns the person in question can come in also set up a table and do is itself against the gay seller so shops are still held to the same

regulation that they need to read back and check on every purchase or food to people who come he says privately off sometimes you know the same gang that took place and seller has is now required to write a background check and said why are you not holding these to sell or selling the same the same tried ads to same standard that's the problem just a loophole. her gun show they buy they have to. go have a. way to go back and get. to it i. thought. oh. yeah. there are all right automatic and all the things i've. read all. right we're going to

have. to rely on tell you right. now. that they have never seen anything. like they are. here right. here and i an attorney. or. the way. this entire transaction that we just recorded braid broke no law federal or state law this is why i want to do is to show these simple transactions and say this is something

that's perfectly legal for countless shot i think we are like most americans who didn't have much involvement with gun violence and never to show lives and we weren't really involved in the issue or didn't know a lot of the facts i knew that there were a lot of deaths in the newspaper it should be added and that many were cheated to guns but i didn't really realize how big the problem was i to my son was sitting in french class in a small college town and he got shot for comms. that makes it to me makes it any could be anyone could anything anybody could get. after i recovered. the hospital and physical therapy and went back to school. i was thinking about this is. the gun show loophole is one of the simplest steps we can search for to improve the safety of guns falling into the wrong hands. so this is going to be a top primarily about the epidemiology of violence the prevention of violence some

research that's been done you all know that my area of expertise in general is on what happens upstream in that chain of events that brings people to the emergency department having been exposed to it i decided this was something that needs to be quantified it's a story that needs to be told. the whole report will deal with what i see is the problematic aspects of what goes on in country knows how guns are bought and sold anonymously how they're bought sold illegally what kind of weapons are bought and sold some aspects of the relationship between gun shows an extreme right wing politics neo nazi ism video confederacy. one of the things that i've been able to document is a straw purchase that is illegal everywhere and here's how it works let's say

that i'm prohibited from owning guns i'm a felon but you are not i'm going to hire you to buy a gun for me from a licensed retailer there's one in phoenix the real purchaser is handing cash to the straw purchaser in the red t. shirt which the straw purchaser then puts in his pocket the two of them walk around the corner where the real purchaser indicates the gun that he wants to buy. the strop purchaser gets hold of a sales clerk indicates that that's the gun the straw purchaser is completing the paperwork and zip to a more senior person at this retailer he gets on the phone as he is required to do and he calls the national instant criminal background check system but he's got the straw purchasers identification not surprisingly keep has passed the background check the straw purchaser hands over the money the real purchaser moves in and

helps pack up the gun nobody had the sense a body was watching nobody had the sense that they would get in any trouble so that felonies were conducted right out in the open they're the kind of transactions that make it easy for criminals to get guns. not too many years ago the air force commissioned a study of these weapons pointing out the fact that no airport civilian or military was entirely safe the range of these weapons was such that a determined bad guy could be well outside the security perimeter of an airport and still have a fair shot of an airliner as it took off or landed these guns are available from private individuals for cash no background check no waiting period no questions no record. more hate mail today. the focus is on the list for the house

for who we think could be a likely co-sponsor on the web solution that we have twenty three twenty four the gun show loophole bill and as of today we committed a couple more marks right here for example. as you mark this one you know it means they have agreed to co-sponsor our bill in the house. the basic requirements hold everyone at these gun shows everyone who sells guns to the same standard that's the first step it's not all private sales which is however much we would like to see all private sales but it's it's kind of the most from the most reasonable the most common sense first step with that. forum and we're doing the video collins undercover video and when you're speaking your house how is this going to be for that first game and what he said in minutes we'll be doing about seven minutes be the forum or be the biggest event that i've ever spoken i think

you can a lot of your story i think it's important to have and i've spoken at rallies but i've never spoken in front of congress so this would be for me it's definitely a big day you know the main thing we want to see you know is to tell the story to tell well to answer the questions you know you're laying the groundwork for us to build on for the next year or two years to come ok but i feel real good. i feel nervous you'll do great if most people agree that felons should be able to buy guns why shouldn't we do a background check on us thanks to the gun lobby in the n.r.a. try to think of every argument they could to to stop this thanks paul and they do it with the idea that we're really out here protecting your right for gun ownership but what they're really doing is they're protecting the gun manufacturers and the gun dealers and ending up supporting the illegal gun distribution system in this country. richard feldman spent two decades working with one of the nation's most

secretive organizations the national rifle association his new memoir ricocheted confessions of a gun lobbyist chronicles his time with the n.r.a. and other gun groups you write that the n.r.a. often likes to draw lines of us versus them do you think they're unwillingness to compromise has contributed to the success now that's a fair very fair question yes if. define success is fundraising it certainly has been very successful when you do fundraising you want to have an identifiable enemy you want to keep the issue black and white the word compromise to the n.r.a. is a dirty word never give an inch is the slogan fighting is good for the n.r.a. doing battle is good but they have to make issues sometimes when issues don't really exist just to keep that fund raising going well when they were asked to comment on your book a spokesperson told the washington post we don't comment on works of fiction. we all know that the n.r.a. is powerful and that the n.r.a.

is really what's but when they turn on one of their own and he decides to turn back on them it's kind of like peering into a burlap sack full of ill tempered mix so i just ask you on a personal level having been a top lobbyist at the n.r.a. having been essentially forced out of the gun lobby by the n.r.a. being unhappy with your approach to things how has this been for you personally to have been really kind of booted out well they needed to get rid of me because they want to be the only game in town and when i cut that voluntary child safety law deal with bill clinton without getting the table blessing from an ira we were threatening their hegemony over this issue thank you it was a remarkable gathering in the rose garden this morning because here with the head good industry and the president actually agreeing on something i'm pleased to announce that eight of the largest handgun manufacturers will now provide child

safety devices with every new handgun they sell back in one nine hundred ninety seven there was legislation in the senate to mandate child safety locks on guns there was pretty much universal agreement in the industry that we ought to do this on our own get the credit for doing it we thank you mr president without having led . slate of all regulatory mandates on the way we had to do it the n.r.a. came unglued after that announcement i sort of went from the guy who came from n.r.a. representing the industry to being an r a's public enemy number two. well we had really done was and several fundraisers for them i mean once we made the decision to include child safety locks was no sense opposing something that's already a done deal. i don't think n.r.a. senior leadership like that too much to feel secure in.

thirty to forty aisles of booths probably fifty thousand people going to be here over the next four days and this is just one of three balls. n.r.a. volunteers they need a lot of volunteers as they pay that staff so much. and with all your least. well are now out there and they've been watching us i guess. maybe we got in your. way you didn't have to prepare a party for me. earlier this. week

where i just heard. well we have to check the series and it's not just the n.r.a. has said and done any interviews with anyone that n.r.a. everywhere isaac has an angle. here i'd like to know that this particular issue is about mary. jo i mean it's you know we don't want to die. bury the makers of church. every. i don't know if you're her we got pulled off the floor earlier today really yes you criticize the iterate why don't think i said it on film where they had a alley some people were nervous. this is one for the history books the first ever supreme court declaration that american right to own a gun show protect. it is the first time the us supreme court has ever taken up the right to bear arms under the second amendment since it was ratified back in

seventeen eighty one the second amendment rights justice antonin scalia protection individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use it for lawful purposes such as self-defense justice scalia was careful not to throw out all gun control laws stating flatly the second amendment right is not unlimited. what do you see as being the current state of gun laws you know taking into context the history in american gun laws and where you think it's going i think in large measure the firearm debate in america is really over an hour is kind of a self-supporting sation and if it's cause goes away it goes away they need a dragon to slay in order to continue to develop their membership in order to motivate their members and in order to fundraise from their members i get a fundraising letter from n.r.a. about every other or every third week. and some

a lot it is and some of them are really pretty intense and here's one from from the summer dear mr feldman some of congress' most powerful anti gunners demanding a registration list of every american gun owner they want your name this to tell them and they want to know where you live your address that's pretty frightening stuff i kind of disagree with the idea of scaring your members out of their hard earned dollars precedented government intervention chipping away at your rights to believe your freedom the n.r.a. instills a tremendous amount of fear in its members and the thing is it works. it mobilizes their members but you can stop them if you look at the historical moment there's really very limited threats to gun rights i mean we just came out of eight years of george bush in republican controlled congress we saw gun rights legislation during that period not gun control legislation two thousand and seven we see the worst

single shooter killing spree in the history of the country at virginia tech and here a few years later we have virginia passing gun rights legislation right so repealing some of the earlier gun control legislation that was passed do you believe in your right to own a gun you so you may be an endangered species called one eight seven seven and already two thousand and join the n.r.a. i think there are a range of n.r.a. members and among the most committed are the true believers the diehard n.r.a. members those are the gun crusaders. maybe one of three n.r.a. members would fall into this category there's a huge chunk of gun owners in our country who are not n.r.a. members the n.r.a. has a membership of about four million or something like eighty million gun owners in our country but the n.r.a. is driven by these gun crusaders these really hard committees. and they're able to create the agenda. of the biggest celebration of their.