supreme retraced recently have no idea about the hardships the race to. play one it's this is all going to need to. bring in the army to life forever you see that is the most precious thing in the world. of self-sacrifice and terrorism with those who understand fully that you have to live a. real life stories from would need. to treat nineteen forty five don't. apply court rules that the alleged russian arms dealer viktor brute is to be extradited to the few hours within three months but russia's foreign minister describes the decision as political and grounds to bring him back home. power on stand by russia prepares to launch iran's first nuclear plant on saturday under the observation of the un's anderson wants to. end the debate over the building of

a mosque near new york's ground zero fight not stop as an ad campaign seen by many as anti muslim is posted on buses around the city. also our close up team takes you want to journey back in time to a cargo polish town in northern russia where the way of life for residents has stayed much the same for hundreds of years. and. a warm welcome to you live from our studios in central moscow this is r t with me a nice of no way it's six pm here in the russian capital nine pm in bangkok thailand now he's been labeled the merchant of death now suspected russian arms smuggler viktor brute will be tried in the u.s. we're. he faces a life sentence

a thai appeals court has decided that it will be extradited to america overruling an earlier verdict by a lower court to reject the bid the time bureau chief of russia's region overseeing news agency of getty building q reports from bangkok for r.t. we walked out of this door behind me for the last time in his life because he is never going to stand again before a thai court pylons court i would feel decided to extradite him to the united states the court 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 us extradition request back in august two thousand and nine year later today the court of appeal decided the trial and is going to accept i think it would after all victor boot 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 used a conspiracy to kill u.s. servicemen by taking to sell and missiles to colombian leftist guerrillas the for the united states as a goal in return built a major supplier of forms that fueled civil wars in south america the middle east and africa within three months he's going to be leaving thailand to stand trial in the united states of america. that if you give me bail and give their the thai bureau chief of russia's ria novosti news agency now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has vowed to continue offering help to viktor boat and criticize the motivations behind the court's ruling. so. we're sorry that a tie 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 victor boots life story and alleged dealing have inspired writers and filmmakers but he has always denied all the accusations and says he's never done anything wrong r.t. is kept at it as are of a delves into his mysterious past. people 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 businessmen victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling and laughed off parallels. resulting from nicholas cage to play this

out a lot 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 that type of credit given to him by american prosecutors he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't. going around quite a lot. and i would think that ninety five percent of his frauds were all going to commercial goods are naive through television washing powder all

sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. even. 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. but. this decision. has demonstrated that the work of the criminal court has no well you've got a whole group of evidence gathering the question of our witnesses and from this works with me to lure victor six tradition to the us with the president's role in the way we receive the court to forgive is controlled by the government directly and so huge pressure from the us. boots trial and tribulations have been ask 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 r t moscow. but more ahead here on r t including a clash of cultures americans are divided over plans to build a mosque near ground zero and the dispute going on. board on why the socialism idea of ideals rather one of the leaders of the balsamic revolution are still popular last year. iran's first nuclear power plant is ready to start up on saturday it's been built by russia which says the joint project was sheer will so that tehran is intitled to the peaceful use of nuclear energy the reactor will be loaded with fuel under the

strict control of the you want your watch dog the plant is expected to be fully operational even found among us who will help run the facility supply the fuel and remove the waste holding out the possibility of tehran using the spent rods to make nuclear weapons run is under un sanctions aimed at pressuring tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program are on a boycott has the story of the fifteen year long planned construction. it's been a routine. 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. to

build from scratch. 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 community garden here has been disputing finishing touches to the station he's explaining to her people who. get what we need nuclear power stations and transit in flight condition it. will slow most economy the conditions are good here every family has a separate house something that we couldn't afford at home the launch of the plant is a major political and economic milestone for iran but for the russian constructors it's a very joyous occasion two out of about three thousand only one in town were able

to bring back. 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 life again now he's gearing up for the opposite transition. and very happy to go i miss my family. just as a rainy and societies are isolated from the rest of the world. the russian village and bush share is. guarded by the ukrainian police women are required to observe the muslim dress code men have to forget about alcohol and drinks life is especially mum not 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 a lot of little man and their families spent years away from home building. dream. to iran. russia's military will stay in our mania until the year twenty four due for at least a new deal on the lease of a military base has been signed by president during his visit to the country. our security cooperation is very important especially protocol number five which prolongs an agreement on the russian military base in armenia this agreement aims to avoid peace and security in the caucasus region. moscow has also promised to guarantee armenia security as well by giants military hardware for its armed forces the russian leader also praised the progress in resolving the conflict between army neighboring. over the disputed mountain region of mug orkney car bomb army and

troops gain control of the territory in one thousand nine hundred ninety four after a six year war but the region is still internationally recognized as a part of my answer by sean. now controversal 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 posters asking why there have been put up on boxes around the city and as our teams were in a port i reports it's now a fight between freedom of speech and freedom 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. to 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 they're this

is the latest offensive delivered by critics opposing the development of an islamic center two blocks from ground zero this woman pam geller reportedly paid eight thousand dollars for the bus ads no i'm not trying to spread islam i'm trying to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and. in a country founded on religious freedom sixty three percent of americans the development of an islamic cultural center so close to sacred ground i think it's a great. people with. three thousand new yorkers and americans more than one hundred of those victims were muslim americans just say. there's a group of people who. are

got an exclusive tour of the 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. the right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country and throughout the country the new york dispute has become a central campaign issue perceiving the november elections some would say the national debate surrounding the so-called ground zero mosque has pitted freedom of speech against. freedom of religion now it's quite clear that this issue has become a political issue but it's also become an issue of security to go over here just thirty feet from the building a park police car expansion all day to make sure things remain safe. are to new york. that's coming up a quarter past the hour let's take a look at some other stories dominating world news this friday the u.k. government has urged libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of

the lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al mcgrath he was freed by scottish authorities on compassionate grounds suffering from terminal cancer hero's welcome he 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 of all the lockerbie in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. b.p. 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 of the platform which killed eleven 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. and opinion polls in australia suggest saturday's federal election could be the closest in almost fifty

years the governing labor party faces a quote fight to the finish with the liberals prime minister julia guillard has received you want good omen though a psychic crocodile has predicted she's going to win the reptile named dirty harry snapped up a chicken treat under the 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 first trial ground of those hit by europe's financial downturn more and it reports. gone but not forgotten to many the ideas of leon trotsky embody genuine socialism revolution an international coalition of the working classes and bureaucracy they might seem like outdated

ideas but across europe there are a lot. trotsky's murder at the hands of an undercover. agent took place seventy years ago in a whole 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 from an economic crisis post about which a lot of work 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

a back against the governments against the capitalist class 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 whole show austerity measures and according to german trotskyist greek f a b that's just the beginning i think you can develop a real program which is for example stop all the paying off the 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 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 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 buyouts and then when it comes to ordinary people we suffer we suffer austerity measures so it's about making up political argument and making clear the problems of capitalism itself and therefore there's a real terms 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.

. now or closer to him takes you want to turn it into one of russia's hidden pearls . for heading off hundred kilometers north of moscow to the small town of cargo ball its history dates back as far as the eleventh century something reflected in the town's art and architecture artists test our soviet took a cultural tour back to the water. in. a town frozen in time. these stone churches and centuries old wooden houses once owned by rich merchants stirred the magination 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 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 the building machine the room next to linen feel fresh it. today there's no real industry and goggles so people have to make do with what they do best making clay toys oh. this is all main work and means of support for these figurines are my life now i can picture my life without going broke. 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 grand in itself tourists flock to their home especially for these had made pieces

of ages local culture and to get very hands dirty as well. but cargo got more to show for itself than just play figurines. islam 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 is 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 my piece by piece then reassembled and restored here an intensive labor of love for the museum stealing over stores. in the north are built from pine wood but the windows of this one are made her fur dries out and disintegrate over time we want to

preserve and restore what we can. for vladimir it's enough that their family restored a piece of card because history and are keeping it alive after all a new feels way of life is all they've known pretty quickly realize that invest wise it's all about the simple life and going back to basics i hear at a call in a laundry room where locals were their clothes more often abused during the winter so if you'll excuse me i've got work to do. does our silly arty cargo hold in the obvious region. ten minutes from now here in our to martin andrews reveals the details of a royal murder that. changed the course of russian history before that star that joins us with the big new. star that i understand airlines are facing a lawsuit what more can you tell us about that yes two of the country's discount sky express and have come under fire because of delayed flights last month we have

more on this later in the program but first this crude oil is trading at a six week low it's been struggling to break out of the seventy to eighty dollars range from moments after briefly hitting eighty two dollars at the beginning of price of slip back on concerns about faltering economic growth and high end vertrees in the u.s. the lexical can for metropol explains the risk appears to be mainly on the downside for the rest of the year. i rather doubt there's going to be a major breakthrough through say to. me next three to six months but we'll probably see you were going through eighteen to the age of eighty five right and trained thousands and left and if we were experiencing it in excess supply. we're probably see prices are much lower i think the big question is is the months time to slow down some downturns to chinese chinese

demand if you look at the year in year growth apparently enchiladas it went down quite dramatic or to about three percent during the year so the question is more street high demand in the first how cute someone off a friend for instance or write a program on behalf of the chinese government to increase strategic stoltz crude i'm told and perhaps just no one starts the case that i have a model potential carry case or four come down to six or five. were told to go to my professors write me a different. song check out the markets now in the us talk of pulling as investors feel to new with sell off that began on thursday over worries about the pace of the economic recovery plan today investors are finding little reason to following jones and setting the will to six kind of level markets are also useful in reacting to reports the coyotes unemployment benefits the u.s.

raised last rate more than expected europe's down for the third straight day and here in russia the stocks the tracings level trying to stay off message shedding more than one percent as commodity prices for me to call sky and steel has dropped three point seven percent while gas pumps down one point one percent. now russia has spent four hundred million dollars fighting the forest fires that 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 far as far as essential in western russia fifty three people live very hard thousand lost their homes. you know the news russia's banks are enjoying a revival office suffering through the financial crisis deposit level with an all time high while confidence in the security of the sector is on the rise both at home and abroad but do you know caution about reports. the russian banking sector

has emerged lean and mean and from the crisis passed by bad 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 higher 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 to be the water cooler reaction on the bank side in the first seven months of this you had to master the 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 markets bank gasper and bank and bank

of moscow banks accounted for sixty five percent of total corporate international debt sales from russia the cme up from twenty percent last year a significant growth although still not back to pre-crisis levels but the. ones we're seeing my really the first steps towards the euro bond markets after the crisis the market has changed but it's not like it was back in the summer of two thousand and eight. vang's have moved from a vicious spiral turkish as sacco public confidence in the institutions has returned to the scene deposits to record levels this in turn has reduced the risk associated with the sector ultimately meaning the banks can secure move financing cheaply i do business r.t. . prosecutors are filed lawsuits against russians to discount airlines are very nervous and sky express all their claims are later flight delays in july skies

press one being among the most reliable allies to the worst with fifty percent of its flights suffering hold ups but those with a prospector losing its license the company is nice to halt the number of delayed flights this long. so we have. more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.