first step is already assured it's a pretty tree speaks they have no idea about the hardships to face it. they wanted to says it all to news and for any army the life of a usaf is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. to three thousand nine hundred forty five dollars r.t. dot com. the thai court rules that suspected russian arms trafficker viktor brut nicknamed the merchant of death is to be extradited to the us. russia is standing by to switch on iran's first nuclear power plant which will be under the strict control of the you once atomic wants. and follow our close up team

a thousand kilometers north of moscow to see how why from the arts and crafts town a credible poll remains virtually unchanged for generations. more welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is are to you with me a nice and now way it's two pm here in the russian capital five pm in bangkok and russia's foreign minister has called a thai court's decision to extradite the suspected russian arms baron victor boot to the us political rove also said the ruling was made under pressure from in his words the outside he added moscow would seek to bring boot back to russia that's why appeals court delivered the final verdict after a lower court rejected washington's extradition bit the ruling says it will be sent

to american soil within three months he was arrested two and a half years ago in bangkok and in a lot of great operation led by u.s. agents washington wants a boot on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels allegations he denies company has more to expect. how the woods lord of worry 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. 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 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 cross accusers 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 in maine 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're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even flying 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. friday's coote ruling so is the thai justice is entirely under pressure is no justice such work done for previous hearings in the home clearly showed there is not enough evidence of my brother's kilts. reason it turns out to be enough for the appeals court the u.s. keeps pressing this high court the prosecutor general and then the senate is going to let it to thailand. the consequences if my brother is released this again shows that trip to boots case is political and not criminal. trials and tribulations have been asked loosely 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 r t moscow. russia is ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant on saturdays saying the joint project will sell the tehran is entitle to the peaceful use of nuclear energy the russian built reactor will be loaded with fuel under the strict control of the un's nuclear watchdog but why it 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 terror using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring tehran to abandon its in richmond program. on a boycott 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 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. the normal requires a much larger space 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. leila works in a local kindergarten or has been disputing finishing touches to the station she's

explaining to her peoples what it's all about. what we need nuclear power stations a transit in flight condition it. will slow down 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 milestone for iran but for the russian constructors who built it it's the 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. ciggies 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 the rainy and societies are isolated

from the rest of the world the russian village and bush share is it's wrong to buy walls guarded day and night to buy the uranium police women are required to observe the muslim dress code men have to forget about alcohol and drinks life is especially money 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 their families spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. on a boycott see iran. well from moscow here with our team coming up later in the program freedom of speech versus freedom of religion debates rage over new york boston that oppose building a mosque near ground zero. and seventy years after

a russian revolutionaries many europeans are finding his ideas still relevant only way. let's take a look at some world news in brief for you this hour b.p. has rejected claims it's 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 a ready facing more than three hundred lawsuits for damages caused by the disaster but denies responsibility. the u.k. government has urged libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber abdel baset ali al macgraw he was released by scott of south already is on medical advice that he had only three months left to live there was anger in the u.k. when on the ground he received

a hero's welcome in tripoli on his return the foreign office said similar scenes would be intensive insensitive rather to the families of the two hundred and seventy people killed when the pan am flight was attacked. the un 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 assembly before the address only half of the sum had 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 air. and to train carriages have plunged into a river in southwestern china after flogs washed away part of a bridge heavy rains caused support columns to collapse leaving part of the train suspended above the fast flowing water the carriages held together just long enough

for everyone to escape. now plans to build a mosque near the site of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york are fueling anti muslim feeling among some americans now adverts opposing the mosque have appeared on city buses were an important aisle looks at the effect freedom of speech is having on freedom of faith. here in the u.s. media capital millions of messages flood the streets but only one advertisement rolling through new york city it's. 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 text ask why there 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 and. in a country founded on religious freedom poll shows sixty three percent of americans of the development of an islamic cultural center so close to sacred ground i think it's a great 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 but you're saying. there's a group of people who are. willing to 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 is what we are this issue a political issue but it's also become an issue of security over here just thirty feet from the building. least fans here all day to make sure things remain safe. hurried up or niam hard to hear. well it's been seventy years since me on trotsky one of the leaders of the bolshevik revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventeen was assassinated by an undercover soviet agent trotsky spent his last days in mexico after being deported for opposing joseph stalin policies but his socialist ideas are finding more support among those hit my europe's financial

downturn as more and now 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 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 if we 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 bear outs and then when it comes to ordinary people we suffer cuts we suffer austerity measures so it's about making up political argument and making it 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 that r.t. . time now to pack your bags as we take you on another tour of the lesser known parts of russia with our close up team. and today we're one thousand kilometers north of moscow in the small town of cargo power in 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 despite the town slowly falling into

a security at art and architecture are very much alive as artie's tests are so i found out. a town frozen in time. the eastern churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants stirred the imagination. once upon a time cargo paul 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 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 natural and easy nothing has changed some have automatic machines but they still come to wash the things in the river after they wash the building machine the room next to linen feel fresher. today there's no real industry and gargle so people have to make do

with what they do best making clay toys. this is our main work in means of support which figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them. it's the parents that the once dying craft was restored in the one nine hundred sixty s. they call it a peasant art potters used to make clay dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called goggle toy has become a brand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these had made pieces of ancient local culture and to get their hands dirty as well back in the day these clay figurines were made without eyes now as the saying goes the eyes are a window to the soul and the locals believe that these creatures had souls that wanted to escape through the ice and they didn't want that to happen but today not only do they have ice they become the face of the town but cargo pools got more to show for itself than just clay figurines they're

a slag as i could remember five generations of my family have been involved in some from want. because art brought back smiles and color into a place otherwise left behind by history but only is on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of mali could 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 mali could really piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museums of restorers. musos in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from 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 commune along the route 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 cargo pull in the region. well if you can spare the time to travel that far shortly martin andrews takes us just beyond moscow as he continues his tour of the golden break. destination today is a little gem of a place a quite well town that sits in the shop corner of the volga river it's part of the beauty culture history in fact it was even often the terribles favorite location so we're always well down so that is as we continue our tour of the golden ring cities .

and you can watch martin and his adventure in fall in about ten minutes here on our t.v. but first it's the business news out. biographies that a very warm welcome to you this is the business report with me have it now russia house spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that have swept across the country in the last month that's according to the emergencies and then insisted again all the total includes money for the construction of new houses and costs associated with employing edition rescue forces in the five weeks of forest fires in central and western russia some fifty three people have lost their lives

and three and a half thousand made this. russia's banks are enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposit levels all asked all time high while confidence of the security of the sector is only arise both at home and abroad but in the course of a report. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis best buy bad to low depositors and the weak loan market confidence in the stock just 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 room picking up this is why the corporates are actually showing some demand for new

credit and this is actually 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 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 now are 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 to fish 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 i do question our business r.t. . ten k. b.p. may become the first russian private oil companies to operate in there now all on thursday is following a memorandum of intent with local. petru vietnam today b.p. says it may sell russian oil to the country in boost capacity one of its all refineries the company doesn't currently have any assets in vietnam but there are reports that it might be interested in hearing from current shareholder. and one of the largest buyers of rushing down even cheaper prices for the blue fuel according to a report in their german company on a rule of gas says it will start making a loss to supply. lowered. from agreed with at least

a five european buy is to lower prices in cuts worth two billion dollars in the early twenties from agreed to supply fifteen percent of gas to. fund these meaning two hundred million dollars less revenue for the russian giants. they're going to check out how the markets are doing at the moment for you to see a very as you can see asia shares closed down it concerns a founder of the economic outlook following worse than expected we was in the u.s. so he's nikkei index was the hardest hit down two percent as rima circulated the bank of japan would hold an emergency meeting hong kong time saying also slipped. over to europe now where stocks are trading friday down for the straight day and track u.s. major in losses after the poor u.s. dates back fears of a double dip recession of two different investors' minds. and close the dow now

having started the day off positively russia's mall kids are now also following the downward trend in trading in the red on friday it's a continuation of thursday's spiral and that's despite elegies dark skies probably lukoil at seven saying it's a loss is the light sweet edge to rule seventy six dollars a barrel. some of the news in brief now retail sales in russia accelerated in july despite the heat wave they rose a bigger than expected six point six percent year on year that's the best showing since they were two thousand and eight sales of salt and sugar posted double digit growth compared with the previous month wallflowers cereals and pasta also a rate. and prosecutors have filed eight lawsuits against rushes to discount airlines that have even though of the unscom express on all the planes relates to floods delays that back in july sky express went from being among the

best in terms of reliability to the worst with a fifty percent out haul off of its flight suffering hold ups however faced with the prospect of me using its license the company has managed to home of the number of delayed flights in august so good news for people heading off the best of all a days ok that's it for a made my colleague charlotte they must follow me will be here in the next out of date yet of course you can always had a website. slash business. because

i thought that it was my duty that it was something that i do to help my country. my government by the necessary for america. it was a lot of drug abuse there was a lot of murder of american officers so. there were a lot of. this is the way i always thought i wanted to live a lot of methods to have a lot of desperation. but afterwards i realize that they don't mean anything.