the thai court rules that the alliance russian arms dealer viktor boon is to be extradited to the you were asked within three months but russia's foreign minister described the system as political and balanced to bring him back home. power on standby russia prepares to launch the wrong first nuclear plant on saturday

under the observation of the us energy wants to. end the debate over the building of a mosque near new york's ground zero site need some present campaign seen by many as anti muslim is posted on buses around the city. also our close up team takes you want to journey came time to cargo holds a town in northern russia where the way of life for residents has stayed much the same for hundreds of years. before welcome to you live from moscow this is our team with me nice and now way it's four pm here in the russian capital and seven pm in bangkok thailand has been labeled the merchant of death now suspected russian arms smuggler victor boot will be tried in the u.s. where he faces

a life sentence the thai appeals court has decided that it will be extradited to america overruling an earlier verdict by a lower court to reject the bed that's our bureau chief of russia's ria novosti news agency you get a bed and cube reports from bangkok for our. walked out of this door behind me for the last time in his life because he was never going to stand again before at high court now and scored zero appeal decided to extradite him to the united states the courts did not support the findings and the decision of the court in the first instance which decided to drop the case and to reject the u.s. extradition request back in august two thousand and nine year later today the court of appeal decided that thailand is going to assert i think it would after all viktor boat was arrested here in bangkok in march two thousand and eight the thai

authorities then acted on an official request from the united states containing an indictment in which the former russian military interpreter was accused of a conspiracy to kill u.s. citizens a conspiracy to kill u.s. servicemen by dumping to sell anti aircraft missiles to colombian leftist guerrillas before the united states is calling here turbulent a major supplier of forms that fueled civil wars in south america the middle east and in africa within three months he's going to be leaving thailand to stand trial in the united states of america. well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has vowed to continue offering help victor boot and criticize the motivations behind the court's ruling says it. was 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 and his family and will continue to do our best to get him returned to his homeland. we worked our butts life story an alleged arms dealing have inspired writers and filmmakers but he has always denied all the accusations and says he's never done anything wrong marty's got three nazar of adele's into his mysterious past people on the planet hollywood florida where there are over five hundred fifty million firearms and worldwide 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 . resulting from nicolas cage when the to play this sort of law through this very

silly and i feel. it's a bad move 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 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. i mean around quite a large a lot of operation and you know. and i would think that ninety five percent of his plots were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television was washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the

cargoes possibly being. even just not legal 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. justice is entirely under u.s. pressure there's no justice. who worked on four previous hearings only three years in the home clearly showed there's not enough evidence of my brother's guilt for some reason it turns out to be enough for the appeals court the us kept pressing the high court the prosecutor general and then the senate to sue and elected to thailand's ambassador to the consequences if my brother is released this again

shows that vick to boots case is political and not criminal. 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 laden man himself. catarina as our art moscow. was more ahead for you here in r.t. including a clash of cultures america are divided over plans to build a mosque near ground zero and the dispute. we report on why the socialism ideal one of the leaders of the balsamic revolution are still popular here. iran's first nuclear power plant is ready to start up on saturday it's been built by russia which says the joint project will share well so

that tehran is entitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy the reactor will be loaded with fuel under the strict control of the un's nuclear watchdog when it is expected to be fully operational in. about a month russia will help run the facilities supply the fuel and remove the waste ruling out the possibility of tehran using the spec rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program argues oxfam boy has the story of the fifteen year long plant construction 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 an already existing building through its. direct instructors always more difficult then to build from scratch you 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 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 she's explaining to her pupils what it's all about. why we need nuclear power stations i decrease it in the light condition in the littlest asked she likes it in. 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 rest committed themselves to lonely and rather tedious lives but now everybody is counting the days until they go home. cities 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 caught all 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 a nurse 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 have spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. on a boycott see iran. peace efforts in the turbulent caucuses region was the focus of president dmitry medvedev visit to our mania the two nations signed a deal extending russia's lease of a military base until twenty forty four moscow in return promise to guarantee our many of security and provide advanced military hardware for its armed forces the russian leader also praised the progress in resolving the conflict between our mania and neighboring our own over the disputed mountain region of la gordon and karbala are many and troops gain control of the territory in one thousand nine hundred four after a six year war but the region is still internationally recognized as part of eyes

are. now controversial plans to build a mosque just two blocks from the site of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york is called an anti islamic sentiment in the us protesters asking why there have been posted posters rather saying why there have been posted on buses around the city because our teams are going to pour in i reports it's now a fight between freedom of speech and freedom of faith. here in the u.s. media capital millions of messages flood the streets but only one advertisement for new york city is. 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. in a country founded on religious freedom whole show sixty three percent of americans about the development of an islamic cultural center so close to secret ground i think it's a great ad 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 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. 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 been freedom of speech against. freedom of religion now is. this issue a political issue but it's also become an issue of security people who are here just thirty feet from the building. and hear all day to make sure things remain safe. hurried up or nine hard to believe the. u.k. government has urged libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber abdel baset all mcgraw he was freed by scot herself already is on compassionate grounds suffering from the cancer

a hero's welcome he received in return was condemned by the u.s. and u.k. the foreign office says similar scenes would be insensitive to the relatives of the two hundred seventy people killed in the pan am flight exploded above won't be in one nine hundred eighty eight. b.p. has rejected claims it's withholding key daven needed for a probe into the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster trans ocean the swiss firm which owns the rig has asked for information on the explosion at the platform which killed eleven workers and led to the worst oil spill in u.s. history b.p. which is already facing more than three hundred lawsuits in the u.s. alone for damage caused by the disaster tonight responsibility for the explosion. and opinion polls in australia suggest saturday's federal election could be the closest in almost fifty years the governing labor party faces a close fight to the finish with the conservative prime minister and julia guillard

has received one oh man though like a crocodile has predicted she's going to win the reptile named dirty harry snapped up a chicken tree under the p.m.'s photo ignoring the opposition's poultry. now it's seventy years since leon trotsky a leader of the one nine hundred seventeen bolshevik revolution was assassinated by an undercover soviet agent who had been sent into exile for strongly opposing stalin but continued to develop his own views and today his socialist ideas are still finding support on the fertile ground of those hit by europe's financial downturn or emmet 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 n.k.v.d. agent took place seventy years ago and 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 permit 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 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 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 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 these struggles to other countries. in southern europe for example but also to countries like germany according to the trotskyites 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 a 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. but when it comes to ordinary people we suffer cuts we suffer austerity measures so it's about making a 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 lore and that. our close their team takes you want to journey to want to process it in perth.

we're having a thousand kilometers north of wasc out of the small town of caught a couple its history dates back as far as the eleventh century something reflected in the town's art and architecture artist has are selling out of a cultural tore back to the future. a town frozen in time. these stone 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 on younger river but it began to fade into obscurity when c. trade was moved to st petersburg and later on when railroads were built bypassing the town life here is simple quiet and for the most part that actually

means 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 and 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 tories. this is our main work in means of support this figurines are my life now i can picture my life without them . it's the parents that the ones 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 god couple toy has become a grand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these have 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 glee figurines they're 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 mali open air museum the largest in russia they've managed to save some of the majestic and ancient wooden structures typical from goggle ball these massive wooden structures were brought to my you could really piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive a labor of love for the museum's team restores. houses in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made from for dries out and disintegrate 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 corner 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. just are cilia r t cargo call in the region. now get down to business other joins us from the business desk hi there charlotte. are sent to russia's airlines are facing lawsuits was not about and oh yes here the country's discount airlines express an r.v. and over come under fire because of delayed flights last month well more on this later in the program but first this hour crude oil is trading at six week low it's been struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars range for moments after briefly hitting eighty two dollars at the beginning of august prices of

slipped back on concerns about faltering economic growth in high end countries in the u.s. as a corking for metra progs blames the risk appears to be mainly on the downside of the rest of the here. i rather doubt the spirits of premature breaks through say. the next three to six months what would probably say you were going through eighteen to the eighty's or far from writing training two thousand and eleven if we were experiencing it in excess supply. probably see prices lower i think the big question is is two months is time to slow down and there's some down times to chinese chinese demand if you look at the three year in year growth apparently enjoy a lot of it went down quarter marker to about three percent year over year so the

question is was three hard to model the first how q to someone else a friend for instance a very program to help the chinese companies to increase strategic stalks or could i'm products and perhaps just know roth's the case that i have in my potential kerry case or for coming down to sixty five. with full real time and. probably interfere. time check out the markets down into the sea of red for the global stocks the friday south the third straight day tracking us in age and losses often for us states a lot but fears of a double dip recession here in russia stocks are also sliding into the red as commodity prices fall but the totals are in the silver stock two point eight percent overall colley is down one point five percent. russia has spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that have swept the country in the last month according to the country's emergency ministry there are mounting close money for the construction of new houses and costs associated 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 and a half thousand lost their homes. russia's banks are enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposit levels are a long time high while confidence in the security of the sector is on the rise both at home and abroad do no question about reports. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis best buy bad to 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 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 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 thanks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate international debt sales from russia this year from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels with. what we are seeing are really the first steps towards the euro bond markets 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 this sector ultimately manning the banks can secure more financing more cheaply by doing business r.t. . now prosecutors are filed lawsuits against russians to discount airlines of your naive and sky express all the claims are related to flight delays in july skies breastbone from being among the most reliable allies for the worst with fifty percent of its point suffering hold ups but facing the prospect of losing his license the company has managed to halt the number of delayed flights this month. now so facing what you can always find more stories on our website our. business.

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