the united states of america is waging war within its own army. kill no advantage no warning signs. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces sex in the army on r g. court has ruled that alleged russian arms dealer viktor ball will be extradited to the united states. start way out russia's ready to launch iran's first nuclear energy plant while the reactors operations will be under strict control. and our

close a team takes it thousand kilometers north of moscow to the industry free town of cargo hold for asian arts and crafts are the central part of people's livelihoods. it is eleven am and of the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshua welcome to the program now this is spec the russian arms baron viktor but will be extradited from thailand to the west a thai appeals court delivered the verdict after a lower court rejected washington's extradition bit the ruling says bush will be sent to american soil within three months and he was arrested two and a half years ago in bangkok and an elaborate operation led by u.s. agents washington wants vote 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. the only question is. how do we arm the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype russian businessman dictabelt nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. to play this out a lot for this very silly and i feel pity for. his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton he was arrested in thailand in march two thousand and eight in a joint sting operation by the 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 that

type of credit given to him by american prosecutors he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. media would call them merchants. i mean around quite a large airline operation and you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods are naive through television from washing or all sorts of things so we'll be talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even is not itself illegal in the 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 are afraid to lose face back home in the states but if there was any evidence that victor was guilty the case wouldn't drag on for over two years. newt's trial and tribulations have been ask los lee 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 late man himself. catarina as r r t moscow. victor votes brother sergei has again spoken to r.t. this time giving his reaction to the thai court's decision. friday's. toy justice is entirely under pressure there's no justice such

work done for previous hearings for a year and a half clearly showed there's not enough evidence of my brother's guilt but for some reason it turns out to be enough for the appeals court the u.s. kept pressing the high court the prosecutor general and then the senators signed a letter to thailand's ambassador of the consequences if my brother is released this again shows that trick to boots case is political and not criminal the us did a lot of work on this case and i can imagine how much it cost american taxpayers so it's a matter of principle for washington. russia is ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant on saturday saying the joint project will show the tiran is intitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy 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 facilities supply the fuel and remove the waste

that's expected to ease fears of tehran using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring toronto abandon its uranium enrichment program on a boycott looks at the construction of a plant. it's been a routine for more than a decade hundreds of russian constructors streaming to their workplace reshift a day six days a week building iran's first nuclear power station. it's been a long wait launched by germans in the nine hundred seventy s. the construction was halted after the revolution when russians to call for the task was to feed a new reactor into an already existing building to destroy its. direct construct is always more difficult to build from scratch had to feed an equipment that normally requires a much larger spain. this is one of the reasons why the 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. works in a local kindergarten welfare has been disputing finishing touches to the station he's explaining to her people who. get what we need nuclear power stations and transit in flight condition it. will slow down the us economy the conditions are good here every family has a separate house something that we couldn't afford at. the launch of the pushchair plant is a major political and economic model stone 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 rest committed themselves to lonely and 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 transition. very happy to go i miss my family. just as a rainy and societies isolated from the rest of the world the russian village and bush share is it's wrong to buy walls guarded by the uranium police women are required to observe the muslim dress code men have to forget about alcohol and drinks life is especially mum 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 in tangled in big politics but it is also a lot of little man and that. families spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. works in the boycott or the iran. the imminent

opening of the nuclear plant has increased speculation that the facility could be the target of a military attack by israel or of the us alison weir from a us pressure group on middle east policy says organizations within america are trying to sway public opinion in favor of armed action against iran. the groups that are pushing the us to invade iran or certainly attack iran either financially or physically are the same groups that pushed the us to invade. iraq there the the mainstream jewish organizations in this country i'm saying it because there was a four page time. in the new york times portraying a man didn't adjust the head of iran as extremely dangerous as. the ad he looks almost diabolical and the ad 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 in iran is a threat to the united states that iran is a nuclear threat. now coming up later in the program freedom of speech versus freedom of religion. debates rage over new york boston adverts that oppose building a mosque near ground zero. and seventy years after russian revolution there is death of many europeans are finding these ideas still relevant that's on the way. and how some use in brief for you american airlines plane has been grounded and sound francisco moments before takeoff after police received a threat by phone the police have since dismissed threat as not credible and a stark yet clear whether it was a bomb or hijack threat to passengers were arrested the buoying seven six seven bound for new york remained on the tarmac for two hours before travelers were sants

through security again. b.p. has rejected claims it is withholding came from asia needed for the investigation of the gulf of mexico oil spill trans ocean for 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's. already facing more than three hundred lawsuits for damages caused by the disaster but denies responsibility. the u.n. looks set to reach its target of four hundred sixty million dollars in aid for pakistan's flood victims nations have been increasing their donations after the un secretary-general ban ki moon asked for more money at a special meeting of the general sambil before the address only half the sum have been raise the secretary appealed to governments to give more generously than in previous disasters saying the floods were a bigger catastrophe than manning thought over twenty million people have been

affected by the disaster. plans to build a mosque near the side of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york are fueling anti muslim feeling among some americans that adverts opposing the mosque have appeared on the city's buses maria looks at the fact freedom of speech is having an freedom of faith. here in the u.s. media capital millions of messages for the streets but only one advertisement rolling through new york city is provoking emotional reaction it's inflammatory i think the ad that ran. 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 techs ask why they're this 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 bus ads no i'm not trying to spread islam i'm trying

to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and. freedom in a country founded on religious freedom poll shows sixty three percent of americans the development of an islamic cultural center so close to sacred ground i think it's a great and i think it is an absolute disgrace that people would think about building a mosque with 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. spend a lot of money to advertise that we're 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 i 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 pitted freedom of speech against. freedom of religion now it's quite clear that this issue has become a political issue but it's also become an issue of security to call it over here just thirty feet from the building a park police car that stands here all day to make sure things are made safe. hurried up or niam are to new york. and has been seventy years since the on trotsky one of the leaders of the lucian of nine hundred seventeen was assassinated by an undercover soviet agent trotsky spend his last days in mexico after being the puerto for opposing joseph stalin's policies but his socialist ideas are finding more support among those hit by europe's financial downturn as laura 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 . 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 europe 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 i may discontent in europe about cuts in public spending and job losses this summer has seen violent protests most notably in greece socialists around europe believe those demonstrations were successful in their view they stopped the greek government imposing harsher 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 the debt start nationalization of the banks start nationalization of the bigger 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 these struggles 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 leftwing 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 was 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 lower and r.t. london. and it's time now to pack your bags as we take you on another tour of the lesser known parts of russia with our closer team. and today we are one thousand kilometers north of moscow in the small town of cargo the town was an important trade center back in the sixteenth century as it was situated between what was then the only russian seaport our congress and moscow however its history dates back as far as the eleventh century the spy the talon slowly falling into obscurity its art and architecture of very much alive as our tests are still you found out through. the mind body.

a town crews and in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants sturdy 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 c. trade was moved to st petersburg and later on when the railroads were built bypassing the town. life here is simple quiet and for the most part that much when these mean nothing has changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash the things in the river after they wash the building machines in the room next to linen feel fresh air. today there's no real industry and gargle so people have to make do with what they do best making clothes 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 miss parents that the once dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it doesn't art potters used to make clay dishes and the most left over that way 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 pools got more to show for itself than just play figurines there was a small black as i could remember of five generations of my family have been involved in some form or want. 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 mollycoddle open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from kabul these massive wooden structures were brought to my

piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museum's team of restorers. musos is in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from her fur dries out and disintegrates over time we want to preserve it and restore. 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 pretty quickly realized 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 bring their clothes more often views 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. up next the business news for alice hip or don't go away.

i very much bring our very warm welcome to the business report with me alice had it all russia's spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that have swept across the country in the last month about according to the emergencies minister who will attempt will include money for the construction of new handless. with employing additional rescue forces in the five weeks of forest fires in central and western russia fifty three people lost their lives and three thousand five hundred were made homeless. now russia's banks are enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposit levels are all time high all confidence in the sector is on the rise both at home and abroad middle course of our reports. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and

mean and from the crisis best buy bad too low depositors and a weak loan market confidence in the sector 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 the economy recovering and well all sort of business activity to groom picking up and this is why the corporates are actually showing some demand for new credit and this is actually to be the logical reaction on the bank side in the first seven months of this year domestic banks sold more than eight billion dollars of foreign currency debts 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 as burbank gasper and bank and bank of moscow banks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate

international debt sales from russia the cme up from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the. ones we're seeing my really the first steps towards the euro bond markets after the crisis the market has changed but is not like it was back in the summer of two thousand and eight russian banks have moved from a vicious spiral turkish as sack-o. 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 financing more cheaply why didn't bush not business r.t. . ok b.p. may become the first russian the private oil company to operate in vietnam on thursday is signed a memorandum of intent with a local company petro vietnam all a ten k. b.p. says it may sell russian oil for the country and boost capacity at one of its all

refineries the company doesn't currently have any assets in vietnam but there are reports that it might be interested to curry some currently owned by shareholder british petroleum. and one of the largest buyers of rushing down towards even cheaper prices for all the fuel flew over the german the company or the droid gas that made the demand according to the very most newspaper well also from agreed with at least five european buyers on lower prices in cars with over two billion dollars at the beginning of all this deal means that chief executives of the company will start losing revenue if its main supplies don't lower their prices in the early twenty ten gazprom agreed to supply fifteen percent of down on top prices meaning two hundred million dollars less revenue for the russian giants. ok let's get a check on the markets this morning asian. economic outlook following worse than expected

to be jobless numbers in the west make a index with the hardest hit from two percent as. the bank of japan would hold an emergency meeting and hong kong's hang seng also. russia's markets were closed with energy from a new call attempting to stand those losses on the price of light sweet edged tool seventy six dollars the. sky archangels percent of the culture. just minor an explosion but only for a very very chaotic as for myself a very. well there's no trading volumes are traditional in the summer and they're contributing to the volatility on the markets david buick. is explaining. all the studies very very worst in europe the volume markets around europe. and frankly structures are in london frankfurt and paris

are running around like headless chickens responding to good news as it. falls out . we are in. mode at the moment because we've heard. this is really boy the market. celebrated in july despite the waves they rose a bigger than expected six point six percent year on year that's the best selling since they've been betty thousand eight cells or so and she got posted double digit growth compared with the previous month wallflowers cereals. regs. now moscow's prosecutors a filed eight lawsuits against russia's two discount airlines of your northern and sky exasperate us all the claims relates to flight delays from back in july with skylights press one for being among the best in reliability to the worst fifty

percent that's hope of its flight suffering hold ups however faced with the prospect of losing its license the company has managed to have the number of those delayed flights itll this. it's a good news for everyone that wants a quick getaway ok that's all for this i'll be back in the minute with more in the meantime to check out our website. flashpoints.

to fill in the military because i thought that it was my duty that it was something that might do to help my country i believe my government that this is necessary for america to feel no there was a lot of drug abuse the lot of the murder of american officers soldiers there were a lot of serious. problems by. this all the while i was stunned i wanted to live a lot of mental images of a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything. that informs.