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This is not a matter of technicality. >> reporter: this is the issue. when he says not a matter of technicality, the swiss officials saying because they did not receive confidential documents they requested from the l.a. court system that, therefore, that undermined the legitimacy of the extradition request and thats why they rejected it. chuck? >> all right. stephanie gosk in our headquarters in new york. roman polanski in switzerland. i have been there. not a bad place to be. >> reporter: i ha...

So he is a free man. he can leave the country. and swiss authorities have said that the u.s. cannot put in another extradition request for him but they can put in an extradition request to another country. so that probably will restrict where polanski travels to next. in terms of why the decision came down, basically the swiss authorities requested for court records from the united states. that request was rejected. and because of that, the swiss authorities say, quote, considering the persistin...

Because of the interpoll red notice filed by the united states. and they were holding him pending extradition, but now that it has been rejected, they say their role is over. hes free to go. now, what happens from the u.s. side, they can certainly put in another extradition request with another country, if he travels to another country, where theres an extradition agreement. but this is a big blow to the prosecutors case in l.a. >> another interesting case. thank you so much for that report. a...

>> reporter: absolutely. hes got about 65,000 fans on his facebook site, some people are actually concocting songs that they sing and strum on their acoustic guitars and sing on youtube about the barefoot bandit, even people selling t-shirts, free colton, pretty colton fly. hes -- hes arepeat offender in the united states, in eight states, many of them in washington state. there are a lot of charges pending in the united states. so the fbi and u.s. government most likely will be asking for an ex...

This eastern, stand by! about roman polanskis extradition to the united states for a 1977 sex case. the film director has been held in switzerland since last september on an extradition request made by u.s. authorities. in december, he was allowed to move from prison to house arrest. do you think that we ought to do one of those countdown clocks? cable countdown clock? roman polanski, extradition, tick tock, tick tock. not done and not done. chris said done and done like any producer would. were...

Rights to his next movie which is inevitable. in less than 30 minutes the swiss government says it will make an announcement. >> there is the clock! >> you did not! you did not do that! >> for mika. >> chris! >> polanski announcement countdown clock. >> thats tv producing. >> thats good. >> it makes it so much more exciting. look at the drama building up there. i cant believe we are under 24 minutes. >> apparently roman polanskis extradition to the united states for a 1977 sex case will be det...

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Role in the poisoning so. its hard for more of this story now we want to go to our very own she is on the story for us tonight in london good evening to you begin you know we just heard the head of u.k. counterterrorism saying this crime was committed on british soil the suspects will face british justice but we also heard that the suspects returned to russia after the poisoning so what chance do the british police have of ever getting their hands on these suspects. well the british government t...

Its futile to ask for a formal extradition request from russia for the two suspects because they know from history that russia is very unlikely to cooperate with their relations with russia over this case australia and they are relying on the e.u. arrest warrants so if its ever the case that these suspects would travel into the e.u. then there could be the chance that they could then be extradited to the u.k. and lets talk a little bit about this perfume spray bottle. britain says that it poison...

Washington strong support of a syrian kurdish militia in its war against the islamic state. in malaysia share of being linked to an insurgency inside turkey which they consider an existential threat terrorist organization being supported by a nato ally has caused a deep chasm of mistrust between these two countries on top of that you have the failed coup in twenty sixteen where turkish ministers of openly accused washington of being behind the coup attempt and those suspicions have deepened over...