is that you're actually going to see julian assange his extradition now going ahead and he could be under extradition go ahead on a plane back to sweden within ten days he does end up going back to sweden there he'll face questioning over these sexual assault allegations now of course it's important to remember that julian assange has never actually being charged he's just facing questioning there in sweden it's always been something the legal team have 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 which he leaks we see 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 to silence not just cute innocent 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. more on the a frantic case now from author david swanson he's also an active campaigning for giving with noble peace prize to bradley manning the american soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables to wiki leaks thanks for being with us let's start with the case he claims that his prosecution is aimed at eventually handing him over to washington where he could face trial on as be enlarged charges what do you think. well that certainly appears to be the case given the unusual ness of this extradition with no charges in place with the refusal to question him in the united kingdom and and to ship him over to sweden it certainly looks like that is the case and and this is someone of course who is in trouble with the u.s. government for having exposed secret corrupt crimes and the pressuring of other governments and now the response from the united states government appears to be

having issued a secret closed an indictment and pressured other governments in britain and in sweden to ship julian a songe eventually to the united states where he could face committee conditions amounting to torture or even murder the very crimes that he exposed so if the united states government could do anything more to prove his point i don't know what it would be when you have politician went as far as to say that a fund should be hunted down like a from a bin ladin for his activity for we can only what do you make of this kind of rhetoric i mean what is it kind of foreboding in the sense of what could happen if we get here on american soil. well the u.s. government has very much blurred the line between law enforcement and war and scale war back to the point where everybody recognizes it as murder and so i'm sure there's a great deal of frustration in corridors in washington that can't be handled by

drone that he has to be handled by courts but of course the system is being abused to the extent possible i imagine if president obama and his top staffers who go out and brag about who they killed today in a program that they also don't admit exists were treated the way bradley manning has been treated and if their friends at the new york times were treated the way julian assange has been treated both of those are actually possible in that there are now investigations into leaks and a songe of course worked hand in hand with the new york times and the guardian and l.p.'s and other newspapers it's going to be very tricky to see what's in that indictment and how they managed to prosecute him let's talk more in detail about bradley manning he's been accused of course of aiding the enemy because of the legend the leaking i think ran from a cent two week a week you think or at least i far as i know i've been told that you think you

deserve the nobel peace prize why. well he's one of the nominees who was nominated by members of parliament in iceland and i work for an activist group online called the roots action dot org which i of course encourage everyone to join and we have found our campaign of emailing the nobel committee urging that bradley manning receive the prize very very popular we're getting enormously excited feedback and most of our contacts of course are within the united states that this is among people who pay some attention and understand that bradley manning has revealed to us more of what our government has been doing in our name then everybody else put together for many years that the volume of information and the extent of the revelations is just unprecedented and he took great risks to do that for no

personal or financial gain. many of lawyers and not being allowed a fair trial in the u.s. do you agree with that and they have so why is this allowed to happen. well he's not being allowed it a legitimate trial in any sense his lawyer is being denied information and what is typically due process at every turn of course he is being prosecuted by subordinates of the us president who like the prime minister of sweden has spoken out very inappropriate lee and and announced spreading many guilt prior to his so-called trial but this is happening because i and my compatriots are tolerating it and we need to cease doing so we need to come after our governments with nonviolent pressure is substantial enough to stop these certain practices and many people are reluctant to do that because the president himself has

a nobel peace prize and is a member of the democratic party i don't think that's good enough right david tronson author and supporter bradley manning alive of us on the line via broadband from virginia in the u.s. thanks for that. to egypt now where the future is looking increasingly uncertain the supreme court has ruled that the part of the mint must be dissolved meaning the inter 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 elected even legally that's just a few days before the presidential runoff another ruling has allowed the last prime minister the ousted mubarak regime to stay in the presidential race is demanding a ban on the eve of the court session egypt's government restored the army's power to arrest civilians that's something that's usually only allowed in

a state of emergency. oh to discuss what the latest court rulings mean for egypt's future further we're now joined by activists semi follows the who's live with us from cairo on the line thank you for being with us what's the reaction to the court's decisions on cairo streets are we likely to see an escalation in the protest movement. it's not clear until now as a small number of people in the square or again is. ruling that today by the supreme military court. but it's not clear that it will as a situation will escalate tomorrow morning after friday morning because people. are thinking about what's going on and what's the reaction of the muslim brotherhood.

decided. to run for a second round of the presidential election so i don't expect that the situation will collate. until at least until is in the of the presidential election. that that's interesting that you say that because the muslim brotherhood has said has had described what happened today as a full fledged coup it seems like they're very unhappy as what's happened and maybe even are worried about this runoff are on the weekend for the president for their for the presidency. to some extent is because the muslim brotherhood and us of islamic forces. are looking into the situation from a very worrying the positions of the thinkers what's have been happening today

after the sort of things our parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority and side that may be behaving as a way forward to getting in the upcoming election which will be a few a few months later. and the think is that if she comes to power this is likely actually an egyptian situation now maybe he will crack down on them or the fees that seem very distinctive atmosphere experience to the mubarak regime was going to ask you what what will be the response if shafiq actually does run because of course what we saw on the streets with people demanding that he not be allowed was was very intense and it seems like every time egyptians after the revolution are not happy they don't stay quiet.

i think it's just kind of a supreme supreme council for the military force to send a strong message to different parts in egyptian society as i have towards quick as i would come election and then you presume should be restricted and should have. a space to work was that was different factions and there are some unconfirmed reports that the. negotiations between. the some some members from the muslim brotherhood and salafist groups during the last a couple of days or both that you would resume and then you future i think there would be some resistance from different groups a particularly youth led movements in the egyptian say to an evolutionary forces but it's a move that they. will accept that is a lot of. election and they will try to inhance the unit

is in building a new political system for. elements of the all the regime really groupings themselves and then you can party as we hear now and they will compete in the upcoming elections the political map will change it definitely. will decide not to waste their time. and resisting. sales force a parliamentary election while the world certainly watching egypt as that's all and also thank you some a fallacy an activist live with us our line from cairo. now the latest developments in egypt threatened to further escalate tensions between the country's interim military rulers and the muslim brotherhood which of course was at the forefront of the popular protest meanwhile a prominent expert on the region says egypt's moving away from democracy and the situation with the election illustrates that trant you can watch that full

interview here on our t.v. in about twenty minutes. if you think that the elections were completely transparent you have some questions to ask because approximately forty five to fifty percent of the egyptians are still supporting the all regimes all due to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know almost being inside and then. removed him and they kept your feet 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 being 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 visible

legitimacy to something which is happening from behind the scenes so they were the instruments of the coming back of the regime. just a correction there you can see that interview in five minutes time here on our t.v. now the syrian capital has been rocked by a powerful blast that's left fourteen people wounded a suicide bomber set off a car bomb near one of the holy or shia shrines but the tracks tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world it's believed the blast was targeting security police department office located nearby the explosion came just days after the release of a video. that. in command called on islamists to help rebel groups fight syrian government forces let's discuss the intensifying violence in syria with david gibbs history professor at the university of arizona thank you for being with us professor gibbs thursday's was in damascus is just the latest of course in

a series of attacks targeting government facilities and yet most world powers insist on putting the blame most of the blame for the violence only on the ousted regime why is that. well there were a number of reasons i think good and bad reasons the more understandable reason is this is a very hard line regime the assad regime going back to their caves is something of a police state but there's one of the record a ruthless record. on the other hand there's also the issue that the united states and western europe essentially decided to back the rebels i think for reasons that have a lot more to do with real politique. morella he specifically syria is lying to the wrong on any wrong is seen as the great. i don't know for a two us tour in tripoli is really in for us in the area as an ally of iran syria seen negatively so i think that's the main reason. and people like

a simplified conflict they don't want to complicate conflict or neither side looks like good. or they don't want any complications and so this is being presented as is typically the case in these types of conflicts the good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated. let's turn to earlier claims if i may about russia supplying the syrian regime with attack helicopters the statement made by hillary clinton strongly denied by moscow now the white house has also denied that they had any evidence of this claim why are we hearing such mixed statements. well you know the number of reasons russia has been syria's main supplier of weapons and you know naturally there's a tendency to assume the supply has continued although in this particular case it's quite unclear that the delivery has actually happened. beyond that i think there's a lot of western anger at russia for stating that it would block any effort to use

the u.n. and the future efforts illegitimate intervention a libya in the case of syria. and so there's a tendency to view everything russia does here with the most especially and again this is part of the black and white conflict that the united states and europe are acting in the base the reality is russia is acting on the basis of cynical real pretty teeth or is it again i think the reality is all the major powers are probably acting on the basis of real politik. right david gibbs from the university of arizona live with us on the line thank you for your analysis on syria. thank you. moody's has slashed spain's credit rating to near junk status despite e.u. leaders agreeing to provide its banks with a bell out spain could be the next nation to seek a full rescue from the european central bank one contrie that's already exhausted its ballot is our land where deep debts have led to serious social problems as

artie's laura smith found out. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the 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 crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. come on count find work or can't find no. more recourse. you know turned. on people. between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from

years of drug addiction he says a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community single 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 job incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of adding death threats against a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for like every year

state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the mcvie. series drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get they become to marlise the seances no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so how they access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs treatment programs in ireland 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 r.t. . we have egypt at a crossroads for its future are two no talks now maybe it's academic about how the arab spring saga will pan out.

tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slotnick status oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of the stomach studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i know the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that seems to be

undisputed and it's rising and it's rise of islamist movement throughout the region could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome in the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels do they know that this would happen i think that we if we want to talk about the whole situation and the results that we see in the first once again i'm not using the arab spring as a concept or even revolutions arresting that we are still seeing unfinished processes in the country now the people who are in the streets in tunisia in egypt there were young people young and not so young people and the only objective was to get treatment of the dictator and the regime so they want to treat them dignity and justice and less corruption they were not expecting anything and it was beyond any ideological trend what happened as a sec. is the presence of people who were in the opposition and had historical

credibility no one can deny the fact that in tunisia in egypt. present they had popularity and they were tortured and repressed so the first reaction was coming back to make reference and supporting the people who had this historical credibility does it mean that it's going to stay the same does it mean that we are going through steps to be seen but what we have seen in tunisia and what we witnessing in egypt is still very complex is not yet done i'm not sure even at the time i'm talking to you that the muslim brotherhood are going to win the election. is almost sure that it's going to be the opposite and all this process is the coming back of the old regime with a very strong egypt i would like to speak a little bit in detail about egypt right now the constitution is still not drafted

it's going to be drafted problem much later so the president is going to be elected and he's you know he's going to know about his powers only after he's elected and the constitution will also of course depend. on who is elected the president can't even talk about democracy with this given fact you know we call it and i think that you know i'm very tough was does and. studying what is happening if inductively you was the last election sure to tell you the truth that the last election was we transparent and i have a problem with the way it was done just even before who can be in and who is out there with these candidates was chosen by whom and then you come to the committee that has to work on the constitution and this was stopped so you elect someone as a president with executive power without having a clear. free more. power and do we destroy the structure that's they really

weird and i think that this is where we are now and we were told no just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen then look at what is happening now so we have even people saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime. how come. they were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you can't come with this because it's not in the constitution and is going to be written after the election it's a mess there is no transparency and how can you speak about democracy procedures if there is no transparency in the way it's put so in egypt i'm very worried about what is going to happen talking about chafee a former egyptian prime minister under mubarak he still has a lot of support i mean

a lot of people were shocked that he actually got to the runoff does that mean that there's still a lot of people in egypt who are actually favorable supporting the old regime so if you think that the elections were completely transparent you have some questions to because not only he got twenty percent but if you look at all the other. he also got almost twenty percent so it means that approximately forty five to fifty percent of. all regimes all of this to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know almost being inside and then the removed him and they kept someone who is ready and 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 being. that never behind the scenes lost control of the situation so this is in

a sense and it might be that even the muslim brotherhood way used to be visible. just something which is happening from behind the scenes so they were the instruments of the coming back of the regime. things. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. the. comfort is the least you have.

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from moscow to have julian assange to sort of plan to reopen his extradition case for jacket by. british supreme court decision to bring the world's most famous with football world one step closer to being set to screen to. egypt's highest court orders to this conclusion of the country's islamist dominated parliament after a ruling a third of them were elected to the number four decision allows hosni mubarak's former premier to stay in the presidential race spite of massive protests to prompt you to take place this can't. do it by car bomb explosion injures fourteen in damascus with syrian officials think terror tactics are being stepped

up to pave the way for foreign military intervention the box comes just days after his second in command on this limits to help rebel troops fight syrian government forces. i'll be back with the news in half an hour's time meanwhile couchsurfing it's a different way to travel our two special report is up next for. a few months ago i wasn't here with my hosts. and knowing he was a boy we'd like to be alone so i. feel so unsafe. why any.