and he could be are under extradition law here 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 is 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 of wiki 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 amounting to nothing more than a smear campaign an ad campaign to silence not just in the stands 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 he waits to see what that next crucial steps going to be to serve for us reporting for us there now journalist and author afshin

rattansi says it could not be clearer that washington is working with stockholm to extradite assange to the u.s. . i think this is your action is very dangerous indeed i mean it's a bit of a shame the british highest court in the land the supreme court they couldn't even get it right as to whether julius entre being charged at least. council one on that point because paragraph three of the documents that he had been shot you'd think they'd get that right basically you know the united states could be a little bit more could be a little bit more or less obvious about it will hillary clinton was in sweden over the weekend which called built a good friend of call rove the bush white house it couldn't be over obvious the connection between the united states and sweden not one nation in the world has been unaffected by wiki leaks and julian. personified because that's the way the

media likes to take on stories the corporate media and he was doing the best for his sources. days ahead of egypt's presidential election runoff vote the country's supreme court has called for the dissolution of parliament judges that ruled that the election of the legislative body was unconstitutional a third of the m.p.'s in the assembly dominated by islamists are said to have been elected illegally the ruling that paves the way for the military council to retake political control until new parliamentary elections are held in another ruling the court overturned the law that banned the last prime minister of the mubarak regime and one of the main contenders for president from running for office a day earlier egypt's government restored the army's power to arrest civilians a fixture of a permanent state of emergency that existed for thirty years of president mubarak's rule cairo based activist some a fallacy says the situation in the country has grown very tense and the muslim

brotherhood could be looking to change their political strategy. the muslim brotherhood and other islamic forces. looking into the situation for. very positions of the finke is what's happening today after this sort of brings up parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority and side that may be moving that way. getting. upcoming election which will be a few months later i think is that if. this is likely actually an egyptian situation maybe it will crack down on. this seem very distinctive atmosphere experience to the mubarak regime elements or was all that easy in many groupings themselves in the new political party as we hear now. will compete in the upcoming elections

a political change should definitely slimmest this will decide not to waste their time. and it is this thing. to prepare themselves for the parliamentary election course here with r t we have more on the turmoil that is gripping egypt still ahead we speak to some of the country's women who say their greatest fear is the islamist a domination of their country. and as ireland suffers the fate of many debt ridden euro zone countries look at the spike in drug addiction in a despairing population all that just ahead for you right here on r.t. . the syrian capital has been rocked by a powerful blast that has left fourteen people wounded in a suicide bomber set off a car bomb near one of the holiest shia shrines which attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world it is 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 called on islamists to help rebel rebel groups fight syrian government forces david gibbs a history professor at the university of arizona. says the west keeps trying to see the middle east in too simplistic of terms. regime going back and it's something of a police state that they want to record and ruthless record. on the other hand there's also the issue the united states and western europe have essentially decided to back the rebels i think for reasons that have a lot more to do with real politique. morella to you specifically syria is lined with iran and iran is seen as a great. i don't know a threat to us there in tripoli is really in for us in the area and as an ally of iran syria seen negatively i think that's the main reason. people like a simplified conflict don't want to complex 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. the ratings agency moody's has slashed spain's credit rating to near junk status in the latest blow to a struggling euro zone it comes after leaders agreed to provide spanish banks with a bailout as the country is unable to rescue the banking sector on its own author of the book the tragedy of the euro professor philip bagus believes the key to solving spain's financial woes is to brain in public expenditure and invest in the people. well most probably spain really need and once they're all out later the spanish government committed in this financial bailout to two errors first it basically admitted that it cannot lower one hundred billion on the private market

that it needed. in the other european countries and second they also said they would amount to any other reforms any more and this is not enough to have stable finances so they will probably need another bailout what we need this of the of the public sector and growth of the private sector and one leads to the other if the public sector from executive starts to lose some resources and leaves room for the private sector there can be growth in the private sector so we need tax cuts and cuts in government spending and structural reforms in spain of course in the labor market mostly it's very open how this all will end but i fear that in in the end these. two political pressure and start running the printing press but a recession raging and a social problems soaring the two go hand in hand and in ireland

a growing drug addiction is among the many difficulties as artie's laura smith explains 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 mary 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 crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. come on can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you know.

between drugs and crime and no 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. we live on social. knoll 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 isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get

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 them. varies 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. the say no point even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs. is vitally in this fight against drugs and programs and. hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even holiday they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for communities and for society. and if you've missed any of the stories we're covering here on our team don't forget you can always log on to our web site to catch up with them again and take in

a lot of other stories as well including gambling on read. his body is currently in the open to the public. square but now bookmakers are taking bets on when and where . might be bared. most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote but in one texan city it seemed a for making enough find out more of our to dot com. as the falkland islands marks the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the war argentinian president cristina fernandez is attending the united nations committee on decolonisation to put her country's view on the island status around nine

hundred people died in the one nine hundred eighty two conflict before argentinean troops surrendered argentina says that the british illegally occupied the falklands which it calls the. two hundred years ago islander. will hold a referendum next year to decide their future political analyst martin mccauley says it's what lies off the island's coasts that is fuelling the dispute. if you like signal to. that the focus is or is the argentinians call the last movie in this part of britain and don't wish to become the province of argentina if you look at the leg which is coming from what is always the argentina government is using very very strong language and some people might say threats about security of the falkland islands the falklands have been claimed by britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. to claim is very soon one but argentina is concerned about structure.

which under the watch of the. genius of the school with. this possible right through to the. british companies. prospecting for that and. so we see find. that makes that strategically economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world right now. british prime minister david cameron has been testifying in front of a u.k. media ethics inquiry saying press regulations needed to improve cameron came under fire following the phone hacking scandal that rupert murdoch's now defunct news of the world's tabloid british officials were accused of helping the media giant of void investigation cameron was criticised for appointing disgraced tabloid editor

andy colson as his communications director. torrential rains have swamped large areas of central china triggering mudslides and forcing hundreds from their homes officials have set up shelters to house those displaced by flooding villagers also have worked to save one man trapped amid the raging waters he was successfully pulled ashore after an hour of rescue efforts emergency repairs are underway with several highways being destroyed by landslides and cave ins. back to egypt now as the country waits to vote for a new president and parliament is ordered to be dissolved concern is building that the military is not prepared to completely give up political control policy or found out for many of the country's women it is limited domination that is their country the country's greatest worry. 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 a few no winnings a seat or so but for the sake of proving that egyptian women can deal with 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 you should it is for the equality states or the freedom for their 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 perceived 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 or our children any money and he treats me very badly. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if their 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 or. wouldn't. that.

undermine their for. him because it is the hand that is. in the road to progress to full development and so widely and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in treating and blogging about the revolution normal people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of its policy on r t cairo. or whether you're watching in chicago arizona or here in moscow this is r.t. i'll be back with your headlines shortly but before that we continue our look at egypt as r.t. talks to renowned middle east academic tariq ramadan about the state of the egyptian revolution.

tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slotnick start with the oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of a 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 its rise of islamist movement throughout the region

could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome and even the pro-democracy protesters or the rebels do they know that this would happen i think that we if we that 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 and 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 second step 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 mr

president 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 is 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 i'm. almost sure that it's going to be the opposite and we 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 and studying what is happening if inductively you was the last election i'm 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 the way 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 frame or the power and do we destroy the structure that's a really weird and i think that this is where we are now and we were told oh no

just say 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 was just because it's not in the constitution and is going to be written after the election it's a mess it's not 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 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 this to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know almost being inside and then they removed him and they kept someone who is ready to my sense of all this is that we are not dealing with a. parent process we are dealing with calculation and calculation means that i. never from behind the scenes lost control of the situation so this is my sense and it might be that even the muslim brotherhood way used to be the visible

see just something which is happening from behind the scenes so they were the instruments of the coming back of the regime tariq ramadan thank you very much for this interview thanks. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything. becomes a big picture. the . comfort is the least you have. money is the last that you need to if you travel this way. language is

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