the united states of america is waging war with its own army. jono advantage is on no one signs. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the us armed forces sex in the army on r g. the time court rules that suspected russian arms trafficker viktor booth nicknamed the merchant of death is to be extradited to the us. russia standing by to switch on the wrong first nuclear power plant which will be under the strict control of the you once atomic watchdog. and follow our close up team i

found kilometers north of moscow to see how life in the arts and crafts town a part of the poll remains virtually unchanged for generations. it's three pm in moscow and this is r.t. coming to you live with me nice and now way first stop the suspected russian arms baron victor boot 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 boot will be sent to american soil within three months he was arrested two and a half years ago in bangkok and in the operation led by u.s. agents washington wants brut on charges of terrorism and supplying arms to

colombian rebels allegations he denies that he nazar of a house more. how the woods 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 businessmen victor boot 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 it's been moved on 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 them 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 merchant. 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 plying 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 superstition is. reeling so is the thai justice is entirely under. his nose. justice a such work done for previous hearings over a year and a half clearly showed there is not enough evidence of my brother's guilt but for some reason it turns out to be enough for the appeals court the us kept pressing with high court the prosecutor general and then the senators signed a letter to thailand's ambassador warning of the consequences if my brother is released this again shows that vick to boots case is political and not criminal. booth'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 and like 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 then himself. catarina as our art moscow. well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says the thai court has bowed to pressure and made its ruling based on politics so. we're sorry that a thai appeals court has made this political decision but according to the information we have this ruling was made under very strong outside pressure and this is upsetting as for the interests of this russian citizen we've been assisting him for all these months we've been in touch with his lawyers in this family and will continue to do our best to get him returned to his homeland. russia is ready to launch iran's first nuclear power plant on saturdays saying the joint project will sell the tehran isn't tied 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 the plants expected to be fully operational in about a month russia will help to run the facility supply the fuel and remove the waste

that's expected to ease fears of terror on using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program while artist takes a look now 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 a new reactor into a no ready existing building to destroy its. direct construct is 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 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 the local kindergarten welfare 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 to transit in full light condition it. was long known as the climate 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 the major poetic. and economic models go on 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. 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 isolated from the rest of the world the russian village and bush share is it's a rounded by walls guarded day and night by the uranian 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 version. 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 the lot of little man and their families who've spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. on

a boycott or the iran. peace efforts in the turbulent caucasus region have been up the forefront of talks between the leaders of our mania and russia during president medvedev first official visit to the country they signed a deal extending russell's lease on a military base there until two thousand nine hundred forty four in return moscow agrees to help protect our manias security and provide modern weapons for its army its me from invades it also praised the progress made in resolving the conflict between armenia and neighboring iser by sean over the disputed mountain region of knickerbocker. war ended with armenian troops when the control of the territory in one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the region is still internationally recognized as part of. a coming up later in the program for you freedom of speech versus freedom of religion debates rage over new york advert that opposes building a mosque ground zero. and seventy years after

a russian revolutionaries that many europeans are finding his ideas still relevant only. let's take a look now at some stories dominating headlines around the world b.p. has rejected claims that it's withholding 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 already 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 of the old mcgraw he was released by scottish authorities on medical advice that he had only three months left to live there was

anger in the u.k. when al mcgraw he received a hero's welcome in tripoli on his return the foreign office said similar scenes would be insensitive to the families of the two hundred seventy people killed when the pan am flight was attacked. 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 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 have been braved the secretary general appeal 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. through train carriages have plunged into a river in southwestern china after floods washed away part of a bridge heavy rains caused support columns to collapse leaving part of the train

suspended above the fast flowing water 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 are 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 is provoking emotional reaction. 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 their 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 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 i think it is an absolute disgrace that people would think about building a mosque where three thousand new yorkers and americans died 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. r.t.d. 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 take a look over here just thirty feet from the building a park police car it stands here all day to make sure things are mean c. r t new york. has been seventy years since the trotsky one of the leaders of the bolshevik revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventeen was assassinated by 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 by europe's financial downturn as more and 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 and 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 back 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 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 s.a.v. that's just the beginning i think if they 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 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 nor am it r.t. london. time now to pack your bags as we take you want another tour of the lesser known parts of russia where our clubs have to. today we're one thousand kilometers north of moscow in the small town of cargo part of the town was an important trade center back in the sixteenth century as it was situated between what was then the only russian seaport are congress and moscow however its history dates back as far as the eleventh century despite the town

slowly falling into obscurity and architecture are very much alive as artist has are so you found out. a town frozen 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 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 machines 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 clothes 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 way dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called gargle 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 very hands dirty as go 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 eyes 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 slug back 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 as on the lookout for a sturdy piece of history are the people of my you couldn't 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 mind you could really piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive labor of love for the museum of restores. 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 i know feels 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 arty cargo pull in the region. about this hour from r t up next all the latest business with charlotte. hello welcome to the business program with may shock i was following russia has spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires have swept the country in the last month as according to the country's emergency ministry the total amount includes money for the construction of new houses and costs associated with employ

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 off their homes. russia's banks are enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposit levels are at an all time high while confidence is the insecurity of the sector is on the rise both at home and abroad did a question of reports. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis passed by bad data to low depositors and a 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 structure just eighteen months later and that has changed what we're seeing now is gonna be recovering and well all sort of business

activity room picking up this is why the corporates are actually showing some demand for new credit in this actually to be the logical reaction on the bank side in the first seven months of this year damasio bank 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 bond 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 c.m. up from twenty percent last year. a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the big. ones we are seeing now 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 finish as sack-o. public confidence in the institutions has returned bursting deposits to record

levels this in turn has reduced the risk associated with this chapter ultimately meaning the banks can secure more financing cheaply i do question our business r.t. . to be paid may become the first russian private or company to operate in vietnam on thursday signed a memorandum of intent with a local company petro vietnam to be paces it may sell russian oil to the country and boost capacity at one of its or refineries become three does not currently have any assets in vietnam but there are reports it might be interested in preparing some currently but shareholder british petroleum. and when the largest buyers of russian gas once even cheaper prices for the blue fuel according to reporting that a wall street newspaper a german company on gas says it will start making a loss if supply costs are not lowered last year gas from the great at least five

european buyers to lower prices in cuts worth over two billion dollars and early two thousand and ten gas pump agreed to supply fifteen percent of gas to spot bally's meaning two hundred million dollars less revenue for the russian giants. tom check out the markets now is the sea of red for the global stocks on friday you're down to straight day tracking the u.s. and asian losses all to poor u.s. data brought back fears of a double dip recession in frankfurt the dax is now trading moving more i'm concerned. here in russia stocks also sliding into the red as all of the methods of foreign goals on steel has dropped two point eight percent or cali is down one point five percent. now in other news retail sales in russia acceleration in july despite the heat wave they rose a bigger than expected six point six percent year on year the biggest showing since november two thousand and eight sales of salt and sugar coated double digit growth

compared to the previous month. cereals of pasta also runs. now most of those prosecutors have fall eight lawsuits against russia to discount airlines and sky express all the kinds relate to flight delays and in law i express where i'm from being among the most for law and viable to the worst with fifty percent of its flight suffering hold ups in the face of the prospect of losing its license a company has managed to halt the number of delayed flights in august. so for this hour we can respond more stories on our website auto business.

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