an order but that's still pretty unlikely that that would be successful and the third option is that you're actually going to see julian assange his extradition now going ahead and he could be under extradition or head on a plane back to sweden within ten days he does end up going back to sweden then he'll face questioning over these sexual assault allegations now of course it's important to remember that julian assange is never actually being charged he's just facing questioning there in sweden it's always been something the legal team has been very eager to point out and to clarify we've seen a real shift in the coverage surrounding the trial surrounding the man himself of course very controversial stories coming out of wiki leaks we've seen governments around the world especially the u.s. government absolutely furious as some of the revelations wiki leaks was able to reveal and a lot of his supporters saying that this is a mounting to nothing more than a smear campaign and i can paint a silence not just cute in a stand but also we can leaks itself we're going to see as we said this very long

legal battle that is already being three continuing now as we wait to see what that next crucial steps going to be. with not talk to a u.s. attorney kevin zeese he's also an actively supporting bradley manning the american soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables to week you leaks thanks for being with us on the line there from new york i want to first talk about a flaw and his lawyers say sweden's extradition request is illegal and actually contradicts british law how do you see this. well of course it's up to the british court to decide that and they have decided and i disagree with them and i think it's a real shame all as one of four is questioning he's not been charged she could have done the questioning by skype there's no need to go to sweden to be questioned this is a very extraordinary. extradition to sweden and if this goes through and julia songes choices are getting more and more limited if this goes through in

the next ten days and he goes this way in their very strict pretrial detention policies and he'll probably be held in pretrial detention pending this this case could take a while and so this is really they've had really in their capture now for quite a while and getting more and more serious the u.s. is investigating over me and allegations and if years to be keen to see him on american soil do you think this is likely to happen that will be handed over to the u.s. and if he is what will happen to him. well there has definitely been a grand jury investigating wiki leaks including usually your song which they've called witnesses there's been rumors that there is a sealed in the words a secret indictment already against julius onj but there may not be we don't really know the answer that at this point nothing has been released about that if there is

an indictment and he is actually. going to be a long battle about that as well. then the charges will be very serious ones and the ones that will define press freedom and government transparency for the twenty first century are really would be a really critically important case and the stakes move very high for julian a song which would be very serious and so it's worrisome but this is really the battle that seems to be coming if the rumors we're hearing about a secret indictment are true. some u.s. politicians have described this as a high tech terrorist but don't you think as well then we did pose a threat to the u.s. . i think he's a high stakes journalist who does not kowtow to the authority of governments especially government united states that's involved in trying to rule the world through an expansive military empire extreme economic power and

political power and so he's been challenging not just the united states but its allies he's made. by doing what journalists should all be doing which is getting out the truth the some of the truth. julius are just gotten out have shown that from the lowest levels to the highest levels of our military and our state department there are crimes being committed hillary clinton signing a memo ordering our diplomats to spy on didn't mess coming to the united nations which is really illegal she should be being prosecuted now during the songs and so it's a real shame that the transparency that mr assad has brought to the world is being met with the fear and repercussions that's being threatened against him because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and the truth is what's really frightening the united states i want to talk a bit more about bradley manning and his case his lawyers claim he's not being

allowed to a fair trial presumably you agree why do you think this is allowed to happen. well this is allowed to have because the government denies that it's going to make the example of bradley manning to send a warning to anyone else who will report crimes on the behavior and war crimes in fact the trial has been a charade beginning he was held in solitary confinement for nearly a year before human being charged the president states the commander in chief has announced him guilty on videotape the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the highest those are the two highest military officials the commander in chief and chairman joint chiefs of staff have also announced i'm guilty and that was published in stars and stripes the semiofficial publication of the department of defense and so they sent a message down the line to everybody who works in the military that the top two military officials are found this person guilty and they want to and i can't imagine anyone who wants a career in the military going against the commander in chief or the chairman

joining the staff as a result of the military prosecutors and playing a very modular game of hiding the facts not allowing the defense to get documents that it's required to brief be provided under law materials that are real to the defense relevant to the fence and therefore should be made available or not be maybe also it's looking like a bit of a kangaroo court and railroading bradley manning or make an example of a minute another example of the lack of transparency in the obama administration and the fear of the truth one is shown about the american empire but the argument is that manning is accused of course of aiding the enemy because of the biggest leak of state secrets in american history. are you that that's the way it was and do you think his alleged activity could have put the lives of americans at risk i mean that's going to be the argument we're going to hear as well as presumably with this knowledge. well that's a really interesting question because the defense in the manning case has been

trying to get a number of reports that have been done by the cia by the f.b.i. by the state department by the department defense that looked into the impact of these leaks and we've heard former defense secretary robert gates we're going to heard surgery say clinton minimizing the impact of these leaks and so it's not that we suspect that because the guards in hiding these records that in fact they would show there was no serious adverse effect on national security there was certainly an adverse effect on individuals who were breaking the law and acting on ethically they were and there's a barrister into the u.s. empire but no one has been killed by this there's been no adverse effect along the undermining of us that security in that way the real problem is that people see what the united states day by day basis in their documents that means accused of leaking the wiki leaks is accused of publishing our documents that involve the iraq war the afghan war and diplomatic cables from the state department show day to day

activity of in all these in all these areas and so you see the good of u.s. foreign policy which does exist there is some good news in the bad you see the ugly and the illegal and sadly there's a lot of illegal and that's what the government is upset about they don't want the truth being known how can we as a poet suppose a democratic country actually rule our country pick our government if we're kept in the dark we need to know what our government is doing in our name so. is a hero for being a journalist and the many of his guilty boys accused of a hearing for blowing the hero for blowing the whistle right attorney kevin that live with beth on the line from new york. egypt's future is looking increasingly uncertain the supreme court has ruled that parliament must be dissolved meaning the interim military rulers again assume all political control now the court found that a third of m.p.'s in the assembly dominated by islamists were wrecked even legally

that's just a few days before the presidential runoff another ruling has allowed the last prime minister of the ousted mubarak regime to stay in the presidential race despite thousands demanding a ban on the eve of the court session egypt's government restored the army's power to arrest civilians something it's usually only allowed at emergency cairo based journalist and blogger or while s counter believes the move may mean a return to the ways of the pre-revolution regime the military would do everything in its power to get your feet to presidency and the point they would take every measure to every oppressive measure to crackdown on dissent and things would be it would reproduce the mubarak regime once again this is an expansion of the military presence presence in egypt and it's direct contradiction to the promise of the military to hand over power because at this moment they seem to want to grab on to power by extending the power of the police what has happened is that they've given

the police a boost by adding in military officers and personnel that have the same role as the police but this time without any kind of supervision because they only respond to a military prosecution and military judiciary and this gives it gives a military community to act as they wish without any questioning from the civilian parties. the latest developments in egypt threatened to further escalate tensions between the country's interim military rulers and the muslim brotherhood which was at the forefront of popular protest meanwhile a prominent expert on the region says egypt's moving away from democracy and the situation with the election illustrates that trend. so if you think that the elections were completely transparent you have some questions to ask because approximately forty five to fifty percent of us are still supporting the all

regimes all of this to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know omar suleiman being inside and then did she removed him and they kept someone who is ready my sense of all this is that we are not dealing with a transparent process we are dealing with calculation and calculation means that i think that never from behind the scenes the army lost control of the situation so this is in a sense and it might be that even the muslim brotherhood way used to be the visible legitimacy to something which is happening from behind the scenes so they were the instruments of the coming back of the regime. you can watch that interview in the. next hour here on our team we have more on the turmoil that's gripping egypt still ahead for you think this summer the country's women say it's an islamist domination of their country that they fear.

the syrian capital has been rocked by a powerful blast that's left ten people wounded a suicide bomber set off a car bomb near one of the holy a shia shrines which attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world now it's believed the blast was targeting a security police department office located nearby the explosion came just days after the release of a video in which al qaeda second in command calls on the islamist to help rebel groups fight syrian government forces syria's ambassador to russia says the opposition is using increasingly violent tactics to pave the way for foreign intervention really syria is now under an organized terrorist attack some of the world's mean powers are behind those acts and they also fun terror to the syrian government strives to stay committed to the non peace plan but we are constantly provoked by terror groups and we have to respond to those provocations just as the

syrian government has absolutely no interest in murdering defenseless people it's armed terrorist groups who are responsible for human rights violations and bloodbath some serious that is being done to justify for need to vent you know in the creation of buffer zones. moody's has spain's credit rating to near junk status in the latest blow to the struggling euro zone that's after evaders agreed to provide spanish banks without with a bailout as the country's on the able to rescue the banking sector on its own more on what this means for madrid still to come this hour artes to me to me today at the business desk. well basically on the stock market the reaction has been quite moderate so far but on the bond market we did see a jump to a new euro era. more than seven percent seven point zero one percent in yields for ten year bonds and spades and any value above seven percent means a much higher risk of danger zone of a nation defaulting on its debt but it has since come down to around six point nine

percent the yields and this is all because not only moody's downgraded the rating by three notches but is also put the rating on further review so that in the end in the future we could see further downgrades more analysis from the business task on spain's downgrade coming up later this hour and also max kaiser in safety harbor weigh in on the e.u. mess with what they say is fraud dressed up as rescue measures. spain bailout terms to be agreed within a week urgency reflects a growing consensus a spanish class might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all a con game and some con games are more well known the other the greeks or the spanish or the irish they are the instinct they're too polite to question the con artists because they're some of the talking they wear suits they have nice hands

you know they come in there and they talk a good game and they thought well maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and the con artist walk out the door with their money step up get their pockets picked but too big to fail banks don't waste your time a good line lives and then look. a recession raging and social problems soaring to go hand in hand and in our land growing drug addiction is among the many difficulties laura smith explains now a government struggling to keep the country's economy afloat is also struggling to foot the bill for getting people off drugs. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make merry rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs

a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know if you. have more recourse. you know. takes off on people you know it's a two way street between drugs and crime and no not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community what i was seeing more two sisters . we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around.

to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state work isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week reza day. so cool says none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of adding death threats against the drug ring have said to seeing that government funding for late every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the very is drop incentive for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says arctics need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get to become tomorrow's the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do so how they not access to treatment programs to my

mind is vitally in this fight against drugs both treatment programs in our lives or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith altie. where around the world this hour british prime minister david cameron testifying in front of a u.k. media ethics inquiry think press regulations need to improve cameron has come under fire following the phone hacking scandal that rupert murdoch's now defunct news of the world tabloid british officials were accused of helping the media giant of void investigation cameron has also been criticized for the way he handled it handled murdoch's bid to take over british sky broadcasting. tarantula rains have swamp large areas of central china triggering mudslides and forcing hundreds from their

homes officials have set up shelters to house those just place by flooding emergency repairs are under way with several highways being destroyed by landslides and kagan. back to egypt now and ahead of the presidential runoff the muslim brotherhood is warning that the military could effectively take control of the country even after the election but its limits domination some fear most especially the country's women as our polls scuppered. she's young and ambitious and planning to become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turned forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winnings a seat or so but physical proving that egyptian women can do it but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify our it would usually is

for the equality states or the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise and the muslim brotherhood's candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse afaf crème has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by

my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me very badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if that means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future over the recent. poor all over. the full equality were. anything to. undermine. him because it is the hand that is. in the road to progress to what degree and so why don't we and might be inspiring his generation and she's received awards from around the globe for his fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution more people are asking if it's

possible because evolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just land i've been slaving at least a part of it police t.r.t. . to me that is here next from the business task of thursday's session about to close in the us after a very solid session there was a net that is right now was surprisingly solid actually because we've had of that economic data in the united states indicating basically a slowdown and economic slowdown terms of the jobs market adding new jobless claims and also the consumer price index coming in with the contraction so basically seeing the dow jones up one and a half percent is a bit weird but then on the other hand there was a report by reuters saying that central banks may coordinate their efforts should liquidity be needed so basically investors are really hoping for more stimulus from the government over in europe and the mood was a bit upset by the fact that moody's downgraded by three notches spain's sovereign

debt rating to near junk status it's the yields went up more than seven percent which is a real danger zone for any country that went back down to around six point nine percent also the surprising fact here that the sessions for surprises spain italy and greece were pretty much the only ones posting strong gains today in this session on the trade. oil opec met in vienna to decide on the production quotas they decided to keep quotas unchanged at first see million barrels a day. and that's been propelling world prices meanwhile credits reasons for cost of the price of bread could fall to fifty dollars a barrel by the end of the year but that's only if the escalation of the eurozone crisis takes the worst scenario and it's a view to the u.k.'s telegraph newspaper the banks and the current global imbalances are even worse than those we saw in two thousand and eight but relations capital says this is very unlike. we have seen oil at fifty dollars level it's not

the broadway out of the possibilities but i find it difficult imagining that anyone you know was an existing supply demand environment would be taking fifty dollars a barrel as their base case. you know that's the spare capacity is still very limited as it is at the end of the day is going to be given but by what happens to the demand trends both in china and europe but i mean if you're talking about fifty dollars oil to your talking about cool old broad based economic collapse and i might not be an economist and you know i'm just i'm just an oil analyst but they don't think we're anywhere close to that yet. these are the oil prices we're seeing right now they've really come back up as soon as those of production quotas were capped as fears even though saudi arabia was hinting that the production might be actually priest and this is what we see unless we have more than one dollar this is probably going to provide support for russia tomorrow on thursday this is the

closing picture of my six hundred barely moved to the r.t.s. down around half a percent but that could be. considered a technical correction after a few sessions of growth in a row now on the my sex financials were a pressure with the t.v. declining around half a percent and secular those stock movers was down half a percent gazprom in lukoil energy shares were mixed lukoil there it is it was a bit better than the market up to point three percent. and on the currency market the euro is gaining versus the dollar still on the back of this negative data coming out in the united states but still we're not seeing any selling so no money much money is moving out into cash so it will be you know it's gaining meanwhile the russian ruble gave up its gains it's wednesday gains and basically lost the same amount that again wednesday interests. all right joy my colleague katie pilbeam she'll be here at eight twenty am moscow time to bring you friday business .

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how to live and thirty pm on scout time these are the top stories from archie julian assange has requested to reopen his extradition case was rejected by britain's supreme court a decision bringing the world's most famous whistleblower one step closer to being sent to. egypt's highest court orders the dissolution of the country's system is dominated parliament after ruling a third of the m.p.'s were elected legally another court decision allows hosni mubarak's former premier to stay in the presidential race despite massive protests the run off to take place this weekend. a suicide car bomb explosion injures ten in damascus with syrian officials saying terror tactics are

being stepped up to pave the way for foreign military intervention the blast comes just days after al qaeda is second in command called on islamists to help rebel groups fight syrian government forces. up next the kaiser report reveals how the u.k. may be blindly slipping into default along with other european nations. i am x. prize or this is the kaiser report well you know it's pretty much all a con game and some are more well known the other stacy herbertson max kaiser the short. change reason khan is known as and is a common short and involves in all sorts of chains an amount of money with someone while at the.