from. the. from. a tie court has ruled that alleged russian arms dealer victor borge will be extradited to the united states. start me out russia's ready to launch runs first nuclear energy plant while the reactors operations will be under strict control.

and our close up team takes you a thousand kilometers north of moscow to the industry free town of cargo hold or ancient arts and crafts are an essential part of people's livelihoods. now i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program now the suspected russian arms baron victor bush will be extradited from thailand to the u.s. a thai appeals court delivered the verdict after a lower court rejected washington's extradition bit the ruling says it will be santa american soil wouldn't three months he was arrested two and a half years ago in bangkok joining us special operations washington wants boot on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels allegations he denies the has more. people on the planet hollywood lord of war there are over five

hundred fifty million firearms in the world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. you know we questionnaires. how do we arm the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype russian businessman victim loot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. to play this sort of love for the few of. his statement never changed even when he came from b. . bars in the infamous bangkok hilton he was arrested in thailand in march two thousand and eight in a joint sting operation by local and u.s. authorities he was apprehended in the final stages of arranging the sale of millions of dollars of high powered weapons to people he believed to represent a known terrorist organization the far not many people were willing to give booth

that type of credit given to them by american prosecutors he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly is and the man the u.s. made you would call them merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation in many and. and i would think that ninety five percent of his frauds were ordinary commercial goods are going through television was he from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even. itself illegal in a long and drawn out extradition hearing that took over two years the united states changed added and modify their charges against mr boot to include violating international trade law as well as arms trafficking his family believes at some point it became a process for the process instead of a process for justice. of course they're going to try and stick at least some

charge to my brother they spend so much money and effort trying to everyone that my brother is the essence of evil they're afraid to lose trace back home in the states but if there is any evidence that victor was guilty because wouldn't drag on for over two years the tycoon evidently having as much trouble as we are trying to find the proof of victor's guilt in the occupation is made by the american. boots trial and tribulations have been ask los lea followed by the media as hollywood's version of the life of the merchant of death unlike a scripted movie there are no punchy closing lines thoughtful soundtracks or a list of all those involved in production unless that many believe is even more interesting than the lead man himself. catarina as are our team moscow. russia's ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant on saturday saying the joint project will show that to iran isn't titled to the peaceful use of nuclear

averaging the russian built reactor will be loaded with fuel under the strict controls of the un's nuclear watchdog the plant is expected to be fully operational in about a month russia will help to run the facility supply the fuel and remove the ways that's expected to ease fears of tehran using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring to iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. looks at the construction of the plant. it's been a routine for more than a decade hundreds of russian constructors streaming to their workplace three shifts a day six days a week building iran's first nuclear power station it's been a long wait launched by germans in the nineteen seventies the construction was halted after the revolution when russians to call for the task was to feed the new reactor into the already existing building they destroyed. direct instructors are

always more difficult to build from scratch had to fusion equipment that normally requires a much larger space this is one of the reasons why do launch of the station has been postponed so many times for the rainy and it meant the delay in their nuclear dream for local russians more time away from home. a little meal works in the local kindergarten while here has been disputing finishing touches to the station he's explaining to her peoples what it's all about. why we need nuclear power stations and trees it in the light condition it. she likes it in let's let you know that's the plan we'll show you the conditions are good here every family has a separate house something that we couldn't afford at home the launch of the pushchair plant is a major political and economic milestone for iran but for the russian constructors who built it it's a very joyous occasion two out of about three thousand only one in town were able

to bring their families with them the raf committed themselves to lonely and rather tedious lives but now everybody is counting the days until they go home. so gay is one of them after seventeen years of marriage he had to adjust to a bachelor's life again now he's gearing up for the opposite turns it. very happy to go i miss my family. just as the rainy and societies are slated for the rest of the world the russian village and bush air is it's wrong to buy walls guarded day and night by the uranium police women are required to observe the muslim dress code men have to forget about alcohol and drinks life is especially among not to notice for the local teenagers. i wish we had more freedom there are not many things to do here and girls always have to cover their heads it took me a lot of time to get used to it. the construction of the plant has always been

tangled in big politics but it is a lot of little man and their families spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. some avoid the iran. the imminent opening of a nuclear plant has increased speculation that the facility could be the target of a military attack by israel or the u.s. and we're from the u.s. pressure group on middle east policy says organizations within america are trying to sway public opinion in favor of armed action against iran. to groups that are pushing the u.s. to invade iran or certainly attack iran either financially or physically are the same groups that pushed the us to need iraq during the the mainstream jewish organizations in this country i'm saying it because there was a four page time. in the new york times pre-training. the

head of iran as extremely dangerous and. the and he looks almost diabolical and the ed was run by all the mainstream musicians in the united states or at least a very large segment of this is who is pushing the american public to believe incorrectly that their iran is a threat to the united states that iran is a nuclear threat. and coming up later in the program freedom of speech versus freedom of religion debates rage over a new york boss adverts that oppose building a mosque near ground zero. and seventy years after russian revolutionary death and that many europeans are finding his ideas still relevant perhaps on the way. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and american airlines plane has been grounded in san francisco moments before takeoff after police received

a threat by phone it's not yet clear whether it was a bomb or hijack threat two passengers were arrested the boy's seven six seven bound for new york remained on the tarmac for two hours before travelers were sent through security again. b.p. has rejected claims it is withholding key information needed for the investigation into the gulf of mexico oil spill trans ocean the firm which owns the rig has asked for full disclosure of details about the explosion at the platform which killed eleven workers and started the leak the company is facing nearly two hundred fifty lawsuits for damages. by the disaster but denies responsibility. the u.n. looks set to reach a stargate of four hundred sixty million dollars in aid for pakistan's flood victims nations have been increasing their donations after the when secretary-general ban ki moon asked for more money at a special meeting of the general sam bailey before the address only half of some have been raised the secretary general appealed to governments to give more

generously than in previous disasters saying the floods were a bigger catastrophe than many thought over twenty million people have been affected by the disaster. now plans to build a mosque near the side of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york are fueling and a muslim feeling among some americans now adverts opposing the construction of the mosque have appeared on the city's buses were reported i looks of the effect freedom of speech is having on freedom of faith. here in the u.s. media capital millions of messages for the streets but only one advertisement for new york city its. emotional reaction to its inflammatory i think the ad. very offensive this ad has been slapped on twenty six buses in the big apple on the left a plane crashing into the north tower on nine eleven on the right the proposed mosque slated to rise two blocks from ground zero the red text ask why there is the latest

offensive delivered by critics opposing the development of an islamic center two blocks from ground zero this woman pam geller reportedly paid eight thousand dollars for the process no i'm not trying to spread islamophobia i'm trying to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and and and so you know does it in a country founded on religious freedom shows sixty three percent of americans a close the development of an islamic cultural center so close to secret ground to get the green and i think it is an absolute disgrace that people would think about building a mosque where three thousand new yorkers and americans more than one hundred of those victims were muslim americans if you're saying. there's a group of people who are. willing to spend a lot of money to advertise that were over r t got an exclusive tour of that nineteenth century building in lower manhattan it turns out it's already been

serving as a temporary mosque for the past year as a citizen. and as president. believe that muslims have the right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country and throughout the country the new york dispute has become a central campaign issue perceiving the november elections some would say the national debate surrounding the so-called ground zero mosque has freedom of speech against. freedom of religion now is. this issue a political issue but it's also become an issue of security to cook over here just thirty feet from the building a park police car that standstill all day to make sure things are mean safe. hurried up or nial hard to new york. has been seventy years since leon trotsky one of the leaders of the nine hundred seventeen was assassinated by an undercover saudi agent trotsky spent his last days in mexico after being deported for opposing

jones of stalin's policies but his socialist ideas are finding more support among those hit by europe's financial downturn as more amateur reports. gone but not forgotten to many the ideas of leon trotsky embody genuine socialism revolution an international coalition of the working classes and fighting bureaucracy they might seem like outdated ideas but across europe they're alive and well trotsky's murder at the hands of an undercover n.k.v.d. agent took place seventy years ago five and a half thousand miles away from here in mexico but here as in many other places around here his theories live on through organizations like this one which calls for the working classes to seize power from the capitalists and start the permanent revolution workers' power is a movement active in twelve countries from the united states to sri lanka the organization simon hardy says it's relevant today more than ever as ordinary people

feel they're suffering most common economic crisis brought about by the rich a lot of work of socialists now is focusing on talking to working people about how they're suffering under the recession and engaging in the political arguments and ideas which will help them fight about against the governments against the capitalist class so that they don't have to bear the brunt of the crisis may discontent in europe about cuts in public spending and job losses this summer has seen violent protests most notably greece socialists around europe believe those demonstrations were successful in their view they stopped the greek government imposing harsh austerity measures and according to german trotskyist greek s.a.v. that's just the beginning i think you can develop a real program which is for example stop all the paying off. start nationalization of the banks start nationalization of the big companies put them into workers'

control and management i think that will. lead a way where you can really fight back the measures of the government also spread this drug. to other countries in southern europe for example but also to countries like germany according to the trotskyists we're heading for an autumn of discontent with demonstrations and general strikes across europe attacking austerity measures and governments the aim is to spread its left wing ideas and plant the idea the economic crisis wasn't brought about by individual policies it stems from capitalism itself when capitalism went into its bust phase in two thousand and eight when the recession. the governments decided to give the banks as much money as they wanted there is billions and billions of dollars given to the banks in buyouts. but when it comes to ordinary people we suffer cuts we suffer austerity measures so it's about making a political argument and making clear the problems of capitalism itself and therefore there's a real target of socialism marxists trotskyist say genuine socialism minus the cult

of personality and the bureaucracy was never given a chance to prove itself in europe it's never managed to get more than two couldn't support at the ballot box now its supporters think capitalism is on its deathbed and it may be time to try out trotsky's philosophy lore and it's. time now to pack your bags as we take you on another tour of the lesser known part of russia with our close of team. and today we are one thousand kilometers north of moscow in the small town of cargo pole was an important trade center back in the sixteenth century as it was situated between what was then the only russian sea poor of our hunger and moscow however its history dates back as far as the eleventh century despite the town slowly

falling into obscurity its art and architecture of a very much alive as artie's tests are cilia found out. a tone in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants steer the magination. once upon a time cargo bore was one of the wealthiest towns in russia thanks to bustling trade by the onyango river but it began to fade into obscurity when sea tree was moved to st petersburg and later on when railroads were built by passing the town life here is simple quiet and for the most part that actually nothing has changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash the things in the river after they wash them in the machine the room next to linen feel fresher.

today there's no real industry and gargle ball so people have to make do with what they do best making clay toys. this is our main work in means of support this figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them it's thanks to bloody mirrors parents that the ones dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it doesn't art potters used to make clay dishes and left over equate to make toys for children tourists flock to their home especially for these had made pieces of ancient local culture and to get very hands dirty as well. but cargo pulls got more to show for itself than just go away figurines. as far back as i could remember of five generations of my family have been involved in some form of art. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but always on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of monaco to open air museum the largest

in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from. these massive wooden structures were brought to mali could barely piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museum's team of restorers. most houses in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from fur fur dries out and disintegrates over time we want to preserve it and restore what we can. for vladimir it's enough that their family restored a piece of congress history and are keeping it alive after all a new fields way of life is all they've known quickly realize that in this place it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i'm here at a call in a laundry room where locals grew their clothes more often used during the winter so

if you'll excuse me i've got work to do. does our cilia our tea cargo pull in the region. and in a few minutes the environmental cost of the gulf of mexico oil spill before that or get the latest business news from alex. a very warm welcome to the business report here and with me on this habit now runs so how spend some four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that have swept across the country in the last month thousand holding to the emergency in minnesota when the tank will include money for the construction of new health is and calls associated with employing additional rescue forces in the five weeks so far five in central and western russia fifty three people have lost their lives than three thousand five hundred made homeless. russia's banks are

enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposits are at an all time high all the confidence in the security of the sector is rising both at home and abroad within a quarter of our reports. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis best buy baghdad to low depositors and a weak loan market confidence in the stock to slumped as the world's economy went into reverse at the beginning of two thousand and nine russian banks were being asked to pay high rates of interest to borrow money on the international markets to offset the perceived risk in the sector just eighteen months later and that has changed what we're seeing now is a recovering well all sort of business activity picking up this is why the corporates are actually showing some demand for new credit this is actually the water cooler reaction on the bank side in the first seven months of this year

domestic banks sold more than eight billion dollars of foreign currency debt a four fold increase over the same period in two thousand and nine among the companies that have made the move to the euro markets burbank gasper and bank and bank of moscow banks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate international debt sales from russia this year up from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the. ones we're seeing are really the first steps towards the euro bond market after the crisis the market has changed but it's not like it was back in the summer of two thousand and eight russian banks have moved from a vicious spiral to a vicious circle public confidence in the institutions has returned bursting deposits to record levels this in turn has reduced the risk associated with the sector ultimately meaning the banks can secure more for. announcing.

tsotsi. to b.p. may become the first russian company to operate in vietnam on thursday to find a memorandum of intent with local company petro vietnam which says it may still russian oil to the country and boost capacity at one of its all refineries the company don't we currently have any outfits and bid on but there are reports that it might be interested in procuring some current shareholder british petroleum. but i don't see how the markets are getting all this morning asian lockets the trading in the red over the poor performance of american shares and disappointing economic data. over the first one six days get out she's trying to put into a seven week high against think you're right but japan's nikkei fell one point seven percent that's the biggest drop in one of the benchmark it was weird to be in the region that whole code was having fed and slid to some of the servants seven of them said all of the increased concern that global economic growth is slowing. and

closer to home now russia's markets also doubt the close one day energy problem a new call attempted to stem the losses after the price of light sweet to edge toward seventy six dollars a barrel. was a little ways to a halt but said this is the coal giant rebuild its largest line to an explosion. trading volumes traditional in the summer months are contributing to the volatility in the markets david buick. explains. this is very very. old. absolutely. and frankly. frankfurt and paris are running around like headless chickens responding to good and bad.

at the moment because we've had. and this is really boy. moscow's a prosecutor has the filed eight cnts rushes to discount airlines of your love and sky legs spread when all the claims relate to flight delays back in july sky express went from being among the best reliability to the worst with a fifty percent of home of its flight suffering hold ups however faced with the prospect of losing its license because of the house mileage down all that armor of delayed flights in august. to other news now foreign direct investment to russia fell from eleven percent in the first half of this year according to statistics agency and also that f.d.r. told from six point two to five point four billion dollars overall foreign investment into the country also slips. and retail sells in russia or excel rated

in july that's just plain staggering the way they rose up bigger than expected six point six percent year on year that's the best showing says they've ever two thousand and eight cells of salt and sugar posted double digit growth compared with the previous month while flour cereals and pastor also roads to the heat not keeping people out of the shops that ok that's all for this hour more stories in the next of course you can always check up on our website l.t. dot com slash business.

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