that is appropriate to the. accordance. with the. face lab stuff if you can. especially if you do sleep but you don't actually break it you. could deter a geisha techniques that we. can talk all of. the things. we believe. the rules of the alleged victim has to be extradited to the u.s. within three months but russia's foreign minister describes the decision as political and valves to bring him back. russia prepares to launch iran's first nuclear. of the u.n. energy watched. under the building of new york's ground zero site.

campaign seen by many as a muslim is posted on buses around the city. when live from central moscow twenty four hours a day this is russia has condemned the decision by a thai court to extradite the suspected russian vik to boot to the u.s. previously a lower court rejected the u.s. extradition bit but the appeals court has overruled the verdict party's correspondent brings us the details now from the russian foreign ministry here in moscow. moscow's very unhappy with this ruling because it believes that it was made under significant outside brashness pacifically pressure from the united states the

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking earlier said that it is evident from the fact that the thai criminal court earlier refused to extradite mr billow and today of course the thai appeal court has sanctioned this extradition that this request was made possible after the severe pressure from the united states there for making this decision a political thread little one and that is an acceptable she. was sorry that a thai appeals court has made this political decision according to the information we have this ruling was made in a very strong outside pressure and this is upsetting and 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 appears to get him returned to his homeland mr bush remains a somewhat mysterious figure an international businessman who has had contacts with many people throughout his career he is believed by some to be nothing less than

the merchant of death and one of the most notorious arms dealers in the world to date by others including his family to simply be a man who was caught in the wrong thing at the wrong time and is basically being made as scapegoats by the united states of course mr boot has received a lot of international attention following his arrest in march two thousand and eight in the thai capital bangkok and still the media today could not figure out whether mr boot is simply a good man a bad man or what kind of a man is he actually is how the woods lord of war there are over four hundred fifty million firearms in world war three if you're. that's one farm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we on the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype russian businessmen think that it would nickname the merchant of death denied all accusations of arms selling

and laughed off parallels. and i feel. 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 booth that type of credit given to them by american cross accusers he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you would call them merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation and you know and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods are now you see from washing powder

all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. 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 against whom with this decision to take or to put you has demonstrated to the work of the criminal court has no role evidence gathering the question of eyewitnesses old this works that meet the law record too low to dr sacks tradition to the u.s. . has been thrown the way the court to do is controlled by the thai government directly and so huge pressure from the us. newt'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 unlike a scripted movie there are no punchy closing lines powerful soundtracks or a list of all those involved in production unless that many believe is even more interesting than the lead man himself. catherine those are our teeny moscow. being extradited to the us because he posed a direct threat to american businesses in africa so says goodman publisher of the books that cover the subject back in the ninety's when everybody left africa because of all the civil war problems going on the american interest also left victor because one of the only people have been brave enough to go into that country and after a number of years it had ninety percent of the traffic that he controlled and then when things out a little bit better americans want to back him but he controlled all the gold in

that way all the diamonds and that sort of thing so the american business interests were very interested in getting him out of the picture his family america punishing him for taking over what the cia had been doing before and he was the only person left you know that was brave enough to go in there in the midst of all those conflicts. iran's first nuclear power plant is ready to start today it's being built by russia which says the joint project will show that to ron 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 says expect to be fully operational in about a month russia will help run the facility supply the fuel and remove the waste possibility of using the spent rods to make you can weapons something un sanctions and pressuring tehran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. 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 to destroy. direct instructors always more difficult to build from scratch. the normal requires a much larger space this is one of the reasons why do 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. the works in the local kindergarten while here 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

to trace it to the light condition in the little shaft chillax it in was one of the conversation the conditions are good here every family has a separate house something that we couldn't afford at home their launch a bigger share plan is the 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 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 a rainy and societies are slated for the rest of the world the russian village and

bush air is caught all its 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 money not to notice for the local teenagers version of what 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 spent years away from home building iran's nuclear dream. works on the boycott r t iran. the former intelligence officer for the told me earlier that israel might strike iran if it feels bush years were poses a threat to the region. the bush era plant is not actually capable of producing any

weapons grade uranium or plutonium so i don't really see what the argument is except that many people in the west in the united states and israel are completely opposed to iran having any nuclear capability at all i don't think there's any chance of nuclear military action by israel this weekend i think they're probably in the longer term there is considerable risk of military action but it would really be directed against the known sites that iran might be using to develop weapons technology places like the times my warning would be that if we take if we or the israelis take military action it would start a much bigger war and a be a war that would be very difficult to contain so would be very dangerous in that sense and also bear in mind that either we or the israelis would be attacking a country that has not attacked anyone else that does not have a nuclear weapon currently in the opinion of most people and it's not even clear if they intend to create one so it's a it would be

a be an attack that would be very hard to justify. russia's military will stay in armenia until the year twenty forty four at least a new deal on the lease of a military base has been signed by prison dmitri medvedev jur in 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 disagreement provide peace and security in the caucasus region. moscow has also promised to guarantee armenia security and provide advance military hardware for its armed forces the russian leader also praised the progress of resolving the conflict between armenia and neighboring azerbaijan over the disputed mountain region. 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. electricity supplies have been completely restored in some petersburg after a power blackout that lasted for almost an hour however two cities in the leningrad

region remain without power the blackout plunged around forty percent of russia's second largest city into chaos friday evening it knocked out traffic signals causing massive congestion on the roads train stations and metro services were also hit while water supplies are still affected according to reports the emergencies ministry says it was all caused by an accident at one of the city's electricity plants but it hasn't given any more details. 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 u.s. post as asking why there have been put up on buses around the city and as artie's marina portnoy 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 provoking emotional reaction to its inflammatory i think the ad

that ran. this ad has been slapped on twenty six buses in the big apple on the left a plane crashing into the north tower on nine eleven on the right the proposed mosque slated to rise two blocks from ground zero the red text ask why there this is the latest offensive delivered by critics opposing the development of an islamic center two blocks from ground zero this woman pam geller reportedly paid eight thousand dollars for the bus ads no i'm not trying to spread islamophobia i'm trying to spread openness and you know what we are hoping to pander and criticism and and. you know does it in a country founded on religious freedom poll shows sixty three percent of americans those the development of an islamic cultural center so close to secret ground to get the grade 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 we're 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 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. now it's quite clear that this issue has become a political issue but it's also become an issue of security people who are here just thirty feet from the building our police cars you can hear all day to make

sure things i mean see. the u.s. secretary of state says israel and the palestinians have agreed to resume peace talks for the first time in almost two years they aim to reach an agreement which would lead to two sovereign states gyptian president and jordan's king will also attend the session due to the critical role in the peace effort and president barack obama will hold one on one meetings with each of the leaders beginning early next month in. the u.k. government deserves libya not to celebrate the first anniversary of the release of the lockerbie bomber guy he was freed by scottish authorities on compassionate grounds suffering from terminal cancer the 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 above lockerbie in one nine hundred eighty eight. b.p.

has rejected claims it's withholding data needed for a probe into the gulf of mexico oil spill disaster trans ocean the swiss firm which owns the rig has also 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. so to bring it up to date moment i'll be back with a recap of our main stories in about ten minutes from now in the meantime martin andrews delves into the history of an ancient town that's been a stranger to modern lifestyle the tour of russia's golden ring continues with a visit to oakley coming up.

our destination for that is a little gem of a place quite old that sits in the shop quarter of the volga river its height and the coach on the straight facts it was even often that parables favorite location so we're always on the outs that is it as we continue at school the goldbergs. is most likely to be visited this part of the boat trip the approach into the towns

where the most memorable sights of the cruise along with. as the town lies in the shot bend in the river here that's why it's name is said to have come from google in russian meaning corner. is located two hundred fifty kilometers from the russian capital regarding ground transport you can get here by train and bus taking various routes but the best way is by cop it takes around four hours as central colorful and in jones reflects off the river it's a fairytale picture perfect location ideal for snap happy tourists. moved into centuries old houses and streets are amazingly preserved here but at the same time is not just an ancient town it's a very modern place to have done a lot to develop infrastructure for tourists there are several new home. many restaurants and cafes and most importantly peculiar interactive museums. where a population of just around forty thousand it's more. like the oldest.

profession origen. documents back as eleven. either way it's very very old. the biggest changes were to come centuries later the soviet era brought a new stage in the development of. l.a. the foundations for many existing industries cheese production machinery and energy . hydroelectric power station is located here a landmark you don't miss the river. a most will mention the tragic event that took place here over four hundred years ago after ivan the terrible steph in fifteen eighty four his second son dmitri was sent here. however several years later on the fifteenth of may fifteenth ninety one the dentist. was cut short as

a ten year old boy was found dead. this left to the time of troubles in the bloody period of civil war was imposed and foreign intervention russia's history was changed forever. suspicion immediately fell on the tsar chief advisor but it's close enough to break the news of the death cause public outrage and chaos its tongue was ripped out an exiled to siberia fortunately though it was returned to in eight hundred ninety two and here you can see them reunited as for the cause of death after an investigation it was determined that the young boy died. today in the tumultuous period is a distant yet prominent memory people in. really relaxed simple life here and now even since the fall of the soviet union unlike moscow to gauge doesn't seem to have changed much. i think it.

struggles. but that doesn't mean there aren't some new and exciting if not strange places to visit. the museum of myths and superstitions already looks out spooky to me. with its many orthodox cathedrals and churches which is known for its history surrounding religion and alongside that very supernatural fairy tales and folklores have existed in russian villages. i wouldn't want to be inside here late at night. to. human for those myths and legends that are represented in our museum a very well kept in full in many villages across russia many people still live very close to nature in rituals and superstitions parts of their everyday lives but.

this museum opened ten years ago it has a large display of items and models of characters that have lived in lakes forests and houses both good and evil this one here is our domovoi is like a house elf people believe that its wooden house had such a protector said to have come from the soul of the tree is used in the construction to see it represents a black magic in russia many young girls believing such forces and tradition fortune telling was very popular to some people it still is today vs evil spirits are being called so the girl can see the future husband i think she looks extremely shocked maybe she saw me. and if you have a ride by cruise liner to get you must take a true. on a boat while you're here it's the best way to see the volga river and that sounds sights from denise to rowing boats there's plenty of choice. full unless you're an

actual organized but it's all a high end by the hour as for me the local police have invited me to tag along for a ride. just to make sure there are no river pirates pools. if you prefer to stay dry this plenty of other activities you can enjoy while side saying and you can experience life as it was a century ago our. opened in two thousand and four there are two halls here at the museum of nineteenth century life one represents a local shop another is a living room of a middle class family from the past. highlights which traditions the museum is interactive with various costume and dance performances and dining experiences being organized at the venue.

there's also an unusual exhibition in town a museum of prison art the features various objects have made by comics cities items created from word plastic newspapers bread and even paintings drawn on bed sheets one of the museum's rooms represents a cell with wax figures of prisoners in stride robes different to say the least. as for where to stay there's a choice of accommodation in the several hotels located right in the cultural and historical heart of the town one of the newest hotels is the full stall riviera with its eighty rooms with views both of the city's architectural monuments and the volga river ok to the in the mansion recreating the style of the nineteenth century . the price for. around one hundred to five hundred dollars a night.

now my trip to. village not far from eighteenth. trading house in eighty six and ever since his label has become one of the most recognizable brands in the world. there are hundreds of bottles from factories from all over russia and from. a production you'll be surprised how diverse such a simple thing as of. now. my favorite parts. three. and yes of course thomas just wants to have before.

moving on from the book a museum ten kilometers from where indeed russian countryside. is a refreshing change from museums a cathedral and here at this location they have a popular school cool one day as a russian peasant some of the. curious part of his son and a somewhat different day. course come here for parents activities that amounts to classes on how to cook life eyes in the study of how to look after various farm animals all my journals would be proud. just so provided with spamhaus and jackets a little hot for the weather in some of the helps to keep your clothes from getting

dirty. time to feed a fairy friend and that we have a happy rabbit. have developed a special program for our guests called and museum offer great one course the cello this race about farm courses because they can help people and share what facilities and access. the farm animals and care about them. are created by the horse is well known throughout the entire region i'm not surprised. and whether it's a painting finding out the truth beauty of rural russia wanting to search in a trip to riches gold when decisions will amaze you. it's much content in a place to change the face of russia just

a few hundred years ago the town's visual appeal as well as its transit costs made it a good show one of the most beloved towns in the country well actually i think i found my proof the place in life a russian farm boy well that would have about four probable good i'll see you get of the same time next week from another place in golden ring that i simply tell them for me and the rest the same. life. cultures that so much about the taxpayers and i mean there is a she made me think a lot of people are hearing is the age of obviously come to women internet based social networks.