the head of the pirate party laws says that sweden may become just a brief transit stop before sarge is handed over to the united states the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of judea sarge and we think there is a very real danger going to be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just it's happen if if june in the sand is going to be extradited to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people are spawned ng to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy. you can find out. the. guardian. collaborate. with. that's coming your way in the next hour when. we look at the plight of christians. being continuously targeted by extremist groups. with the russian government trying to rein in the country's excessive drinking it seems that it's mayb

campaigner from the organization justice for sarge she joins us now live from london as well sharon ward thanks indeed for joining us here on r.t. now we know the verdict we know that you're in the sarge is intending to appeal but how is your organization now planning to help him. well bill we're trying to do as much as we can to support him in the stange and wiki leaks and mainly but you know by trying to have as many protesters as possible all the court hearings are obviously we have a lot of hope high profile supporters like john pilger. are also a lot of other people like me who are all high profile well known people here in london who are trying to get their point across and we have a facebook campaign going and we have twitter so we're just trying to garner as much of course we possibly can going forward the reason why i've been extradited from london to sweden is because of a very serious allegation so how can you be sure of his innocence. well i don't think anyone can be sure of julian assange and his innocence but i think it's only fair that everyone should be assumed presumed i

byron and sarge shriver, both -- byron rely heavily on lawyers.had known through his work with the american bar association. and rely heavily on former yalies. burke marshall came from an anti-for us -- and that as trash firm. he kept john doar there who had broken ground in voting rights cases in the south. they kept him back, he had the office of legal counsel. jack miller, head of the criminal division, a distinguished lawyer. he later represented president nixon and his troubles. archibald cox was solicitor general, agreed to come down from harvard and balance the yale contingent. ramsey clark, head of the claims division. it was an exciting time. fred kaufman handled press and remain in for john. it was a moment to be in the company of people who meant so much to the law, the head of the dax division one on become a distinguished judge here -- of the tax division went on to become a distinguished judge here. it was an exciting experience to come to lunch, to come to work every day and to go to lunch once every three of four weeks with that ta

our sarge with conspiracy to arm robbery and i was also given a firearm charge because there was a firearm involved i testified in those proceedings and had a pretty low opinion of angela king and her associates and quite frankly i was glad to see that they receive them. on the good news. she fell into a real neo nazi skinhead life and the result was that she participated in a major crimes so you know ultimately and went to prison for four years when i was first incarcerated i was struck and really surprised because there were so many different people women you know of all every color you could imagine every culture and they treated me like a human being. after being there for a couple months i started to really question everything that i had on what i was doing there and how i had gotten myself there. i think the first person i actually revealed my tattoos to was an older jamaican woman and i sat down after rooming with her for a while and explains who or what i used to be involved in and showed her some of my tattoos. i went from one end of the spectrum where i hated everyone to the comp

limited charge when it later on thursday on whether stockholm's extradition even will be successful and sarge denies the allegations saying they're part of a conspiracy to hand him over to the u.s. here outrage washington after his website published american secret war a logs and diplomatic cables floor amatus following the case. the court's been looking at whether the european arrest warrant for ourselves was issued correctly and whether it would be an abuse of justice to send him to sweden for questioning during the three day hearing earlier this month the defense team focused on what they termed the bizarre handling of sex crime cases in sweden there's no bail and trials are held behind closed doors which they say justice won't be done the defense also pointed out that solves could be held with no contact with the outside world in a prison complex which is being criticized for its treatment of prisoners the defense also attacked the swedish prosecutor bringing evidence that she has a grudge against men and is a radical feminist they called the warrants disproportionate and said the rape ch

dependence party says the decision to santa sarge to sweden is symptomatic of a flawed system what was the sound case does illustrates the fundamental problems with the european restaurant which i've been talking about no evidence was introduced in two thousand and four he's an australian citizen they want to actually go to sweden but this affects every british citizen and anyone who is a guest in our country and what it does it removes the fundamental rights of the english course to protect its own citizens and guests in our country because they are not simply not allowed to look at the problem of. case like this and taking into account it's what a lawyer called to what justice and i would now so i've been saying now for some time that relation which is now called judicial surrender has been reduced to a bureaucratic formality and now i'm saying that it's actually nothing better than legalized kidnapping alums it's been going on that's been going on for months and i haven't figured out what the charges are yet an interest if i can say about what's going to happen in sweden they don't

out this is not the only thing the guardian has done to cause cracks in their relationship with the sarge. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now we keep leaks in the guardian of rapidly falling out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications partners was to help publish cables on the whistle blowing web site. blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we each. have. they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will basically want to cover the world and so view they cut out everything that was negative a boy or girl position. insert your way through that of the guards. would never know how those people themselves view. the guardian reports allie has been a is just another political

the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of judy sarge. we think there is a very real danger you're going to be taken to the united states even possibly detained in quality time in my day and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just is happen if if june in the song is going to be extradited to sweden and i was what i'm saying in terms of how people are spawned into the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy. well yet another legal battle looms for julian assange you can find out about the bitter breakup between the former bedfellows the u.k.'s guardian newspaper clashes with its ex collaborator wiki leaks and even threatened with libel by the whistle blowing web site that's coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. along with. under attack in iraq we look at the plight of christians forced to flee their homes after be

sarge is extradited to sweden but it will be very easy for the u.s. to get him into custody do you agree with that i think that's quite right that it would be easier to get him to the u.s. from sweden then from britain the swedish government has shown itself to be more pliant then the british surprisingly given the so-called special relationship of trust between britain and the usa and the swedish press has been and swedish public intellectuals have been less vocal in defending we could leaks than many people and many papers in britain so i think he's safe there why do you think the media has been reluctant to. secretly openly. cover it in a way that looks like the sun shines a fair chance there's been a lot of coverage of wiki leaks and sweden but he doesn't have that many high profile champions it's partly because allegations of sexual misconduct away so heavily here that it is sick country where feminist ideals i may be stronger than anywhere else on earth and one wishes that that no one would be judged in a case and until they've been tried but th

newspaper in the country within weeks the leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks wiki leaks to his foes julian sarge is a cyber terrorist and work time he's guilty of sabotage espionage crimes against humanity he should be killed but to his fans a soft spoken as the person with the potential to radically reshape the geo political landscape voted by the people as time's man of the year but our commitment to our forces is not just to protect them we've never lost it's not just to publish the material to get the maximum. possible. today it's a political impact i believe and not the leaks that has gripped have been. allegations of sexual misconduct by two swedish women infighting within wiki leaks frozen bank accounts stone donations the obama administration and the cia they want to start wiki leaks they're doing. all sorts of extraordinary actions stop being paid or leaning on pay pal master card and other private corporations to to allow donations to be made to wiki leaks they once heroic figure now hockey nags bumper stickers and t. shirts to pay his legal bills who profits from the meaning of meanin

i want to say, on behalf of our family, how much we will miss sarge. person that died this week was iangie novello. one of my father's secretaries. i cannot remember life without her. she was very devoted to him. she would come over on sundays in take dictation. that is when you had to use shorthand. i could not understand what could be understood from our scribbles. but she always said yes, bob, with a wonderful smile. she really helped him so much. her brother-in-law was this great accountant that could figure out where the money went, and who profited. because of his help my father was able to go after many people in organized crime. that is the sadness of this week. there has been a lot of joy as well. my family has gotten together. caroline did a wonderful job yesterday in celebrating president kennedy's administration in his extraordinary inaugural address. gene smith, who i have to say, she brought peace to ireland. making me remember her wonderful husband, steve smith, who is a great friend of all of ours. vicki is with us and, as we said yeste

the uss secure sarge had moved into the red sea and there was some discussion that it was for the purpose of evacuating americans from the embassy or had something to do with with the state department evacuation efforts. is that not the case? >> actually i believe we routinely have ships on station in the region. there are a friday of challenges in the region at this point, whether it is gehman or somalia or egypt or other things. it is in the red sea i believe, but it has not been placed there at the request of the state department. >> without repeating the well-worn talking points which i'm sure you would love to do, without repeating them though, about orderly transition etc. etc., free elections, does the administration believe that labarga's departure at this point would be unhelpful and might complicate the reforms? >> well, we believe they should be an orderly transition. hang on that. and to place what role in that transition is up to the people of egypt. >> i'm asking if are you recognizing you are not telling the egyptians is the administration's view that his hasty departure co

of offices and they came over the first week in december and we lost just a few days ago as we did sarge with him and with regular ready to help make the transition easy. and there had been criticism of the president's appointment of robert kennedy as attorney general. the media echoed words like nepotism. there were members of conservative bar, who questioned whether someone who hadn't been a courtroom attorney while what he had done as a government attorney was qualified to take the job on and he was cognizant of that. i remember on the day general rogers left, he gave bob present, to presents. congress was about to pass law off rising more than 100 new federal judges, and so bill rodgers left a bottle of aspirin and a pen to sign all of those recommendations to the president. i think his first concern was surrounding himself with people who's talent and ability and professional law or admired both inside and outside the bar the president and i talked nearly top of his becoming attorney general has first call as i'm sure bethell remembers was the bar in white and with marion on the pho

cleansing and terror, and john kennedy sent forth the finest group of ambassadors america has ever had, sarge shriver and the peace corps. and many years ago, ronald reagan launched what everyone now describes as a revolution against big government. he also increased the level of u.s. foreign aid, and with democratic partners established the national endowment for democracy. this evening, i have to tell you that even after many years of being exposed to cynics and naysayer, i still believe that the united states is much more than just another country. i want america to be strong and admired, and i want the respect to continue to be earned throughout the coming decade and into the next and into the next. and as supporters of the u.s. global leadership coalition, i know you share that desire. and so tonight, let us make a beautiful noise together as we rededicate ourselves to that goal. thank you very, very much for this great honor. [applause] >> please welcome robin lineberger. >> wow. thank you, secretary albright, and congratulations for this well-deserved recognition. i'm honored to be a c