the united states of america is waging war within its own army. jono advantage is our no one sign. 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. a thai court rules that the alleged russian arms dealer victor boot is to be extradited to the us within three months but russia's foreign minister described the decision as political and founds to bring him back home. power on stand by a pair of long term first nuclear plant on saturday under the observation of the un

energy watchdog. the debate over the building of a mosque around new york's ground zero site up as a campaign seen by many as an anti muslim is posted on bounces around the city. and our close up team takes you want to turn you back in time to town in northern iraq with the way of life for residents has stayed much the same for hundreds of years. it's five pm in moscow and this is our team coming to you live with me a nice and now way our top story he's 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 a thai appeals court has decided that boat will be extradited to america overruling

an earlier verdict by a lower court to reject the bit that's why bureau chief of russia's ria novosti news agency you've been keep reports from bangkok for. peter bullock walked out of this door behind me for the last time in his life because he is never going to stand again before at the high court pylon 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 exit 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. servicemen by attempting to sell anti aircraft missiles to colombian leftist guerrillas before the united states is calling your term 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. as you gain a bending key of the time here r.t. for russia's reinette overseeing news agency well as foreign minister sergei lavrov has vowed to continue offering help to victor boot and criticize the money base and 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 in a 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 we'll continue to do our best to get him returned to his homeland. victor bird's life story and alleged arms dealings have inspired writers and filmmakers but he has always denied all the accusations and says he's never done anything wrong. delves into his mysterious past people plan how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in 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 victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels well i don't know very sorry for nicolas cage to play this sort of

love for 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 to 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. i mean around quite a large airline operate in many in africa and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television we see from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five

percent of the cargoes possibly being. even just not itself illegal in a long and drawn out extradition hearing that took over two years the united states changed. added and modify their charges against mr boot to include violating international trade law as well as arms trafficking his family believes at some point it became a process for the process instead of a process for justice. friday's court ruling shows that toy justice is entirely under u.s. pressure there's no justice. worked on four 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 u.s. kept pressing the high court the prosecutor general and then the senate has 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.

trial and tribulations have been ask los lea followed by the media as hollywood's version of the life of the merchant of death unlike a scripted movie there are no punchy closing lines thoughtful soundtracks or a list of all those involved in production unless that many believe is even more interesting than the laden end himself. catarina as r r t moscow. it's coming up to seven minutes past the hour plenty more ahead here on our team including a clash of cultures americans are divided over plans to build a mosque near ground zero and the dispute is eating up. as we report on why socialism ideals of one of the leaders of the balsamic revolution are still popular across europe. iran's first nuclear power plant is ready to start up on saturday it's been built by russia which says the joint project where share

will show that tehran is entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy the reactor will be loaded with fuel under the strict control of the un's nuclear watchdog. the plant is expected to be fully operational in about a month russia will help run the facilities supply the fuel ever move the waste proving out the possibility of tehran using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons iran is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. has the story of the fifteen year 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 the ready existing building through its. direct instructors always more difficult then 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. mueller works in the local kindergarten welfare has been disputing finishing touches to the station she's explaining to her peoples what it's all about. why we need nuclear power stations that it does it in the light condition it the militia asked chillax it in one of. 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. 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 a rainy and societies are slated for the rest of the world the russian village and bush air is caught all 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 among not a nose 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 do a lot of little man and their families will spend years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. on a boycott artsy iran. russia's military will stay in a mania. until the year twenty forty four at least a new deal on the lease of a military base has been signed by president dmitri means rage of during his visit to the contrary moscow in return promised to guarantee armenia security and provide advanced military hardware for its armed forces russian leader also praised the progress in resolving the conflict between our mania and neighboring iser by john over the disputed mountain region of new gordon carr bach are many and troops gain control of the territory in one nine hundred ninety four after a six year war but the region is still internationally recognized as part of.

now controversial plans to build a mosque just two blocks from the site of the nine eleven terror attacks in new york is causing anti islamic sentiment in the us posters asking why there have been put up on buses around the city and as artie's marine important 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 for the streets but only one advertisement for new york city is. emotional reaction to its inflammatory i think. 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 isn't 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 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 shows sixty three percent of americans of the development of an islamic cultural center so close to a 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 where three thousand new yorkers are murdered more than one hundred of those victims were muslim americans if you're saying. there's a number of people who are. willing to spend a lot of money to advertise that were islamophobia r.t. got an exclusive tour of that nineteenth century building in lower manhattan it turns out it's already been serving as a temporary mosque for the past year as

a citizen. and as president. believe that muslims have the right to practice their religion as everyone else in this truck 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 what we are this issue a political issue it's also become a security hold over here just thirty feet from the building. expanse here all day to make sure things remain safe. hurried up for nine am hard to believe. u.k. government has urged libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al mcgregor he was freed by scottish authorities on compassionate grounds suffering from terminal cancer a hero's welcome you received on his 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 when the pan am flight exploded above lockerbie in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. b.b. has rejected claims it's withholding key data 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 not the platform which killed over two workers and led to the worst oil spill in u.s. history b.p. is already facing more than three hundred lawsuits in the u.s. alone for damage caused by the disaster. an 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 to finish with the conservatives prime minister julia guillard has received one good omen though a psychic crocodile has predicted she's going to win the reptile name dirty harry

snapped up a chicken treat under the p.m.'s photo ignoring the opposition's paltry. seventy years since leon trotsky a leader of the one nine hundred seventeen both of the 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 more emmet 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 common economic crisis brought about by the rich a lot of work of socialists now is focusing on talking to working people about how they're suffering under the recession and engaging in the political arguments and ideas which will help them fight about against the governments against the capitalist class so that they don't have to bear the brunt of the crisis may discontent in europe about cuts in public spending and job losses this summer has seen violent protests most notably 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 you can develop a real program which is for example stop all the paying off 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 throughout. countries in southern europe for example but also 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 its left wing ideas and plant the idea the economic crisis wasn't brought about by individual policies it stems from capitalism itself when capitalism went into its bust phase in two

thousand and eight when the recession. the governments decided to give the banks as much money as they wanted there 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 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. now or close of team takes you want to journey to one of russia's haven.

her having a thousand kilometers north of moscow to the small town of particle ball its history dates back as far as the eleventh century something reflected in the tells art and architecture artist has our survey at 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 onyango 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 goggles so people have to make do with what they do best making clay toys. which 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 lay dishes and used leftover clay to make toys for children and a so-called god global toy has become a brand 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 pulls got more to show for itself than just glee figurines there 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 my 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 mind you could really piece by piece then reassembled and restored here. an intensive 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 fur. 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 pickwick we realize that in this way it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i'm here at a paulina 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 pull in the region. crossover star that now for the latest in the world of business are there what do you got for us this hour hello well the total cost of the forest fires which swept through the country has now been estimated of four hundred million dollars we'll have more on this later in the program but first this hour crude oil is trading at a six week low it's been struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars range the moments after briefly hitting eighty two dollars at the beginning of august prices of slipped back on concerns about faltering economic growth and high inventories in the u.s. and as alexei caulking for metropol explains the risk appears to be mainly on the downside for the rest of the year. i rather doubt this country in my chair breaks

through three say to. the next three to six months but would probably say you were going through eighteen to the eighty's or five range and thousand and eleven but if we were experiencing it in excess supply. probably seeing prices lower and i think the big question is is demonstrably misled. and there's some doubt as to chinese chinese demand if you look at the three year in year growth apparently in july it went down point from i think it's about three percent year over year so the question is was three high demand in the first help you 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 if i trust the case that i have in my potential kerry case or for coming down to sixty five. with a whole deal to make. riley interfere. time now shall the markets miss a sea of red for the global stocks on friday they are down for the third straight day tracking the u.s. in asian losses off the poor us data brought back fears of a double dip recession here in russia stocks also side against the reds commodity prices for my meter goals iron steel has dropped to point eight percent all over cali is down one point five percent. now russia has spent four hundred million dollars fighting the far as far as of swept the country in the last month that's according to the country's emergency ministry the total amount includes 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 homes. russia's banks are enjoying a revival after suffering through the financial crisis deposit levels are this all time high while confidence in the security of the sector is on the rise both at home and abroad due to a question of reports. the russian banking sector has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis best 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 debt a four fold increase over the same period in two thousand and nine among the companies that have made the move to the euro markets burbank gasper and bank and bank of moscow banks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate international debt sales from russia this year up from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the. ones we 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 the sector ultimately manning the banks can secure more fine now.

moscow's prosecutors have filed eight lawsuits against rushes to discount airlines of in the. us all the claims relate to flight delays in july skies price went from being among the most reliable airlines to the worst with fifty percent of its flights suffering hold ups the days of the prospect of losing its license the company has managed to halt the number of deflect delayed flights this month. so for this hour you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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