boot strap the alleged russian merchant of death is to remain in thailand for the time being as u.s. authorities fight to extradite him to the united states since most. of the school plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york opinion has some say in issues just a way of drawing attention from america's economic struggle. and prince a self-proclaimed royal seeks to a victory russian president from the kremlin saying it's his god given right to rule the country. you're watching on t.v. good to have you with us today to our top story now. a russian businessman wanted

for dealing in the u.s. will not be extradited immediately reports had suggested a special plane and fifty u.s. commandos are wrong with being held for more on the latest developments in the case for now joined by a correspondent of. contradictory messages coming out of todd and really how likely is it to be extradited to the next few days as washington is demanding. kerry there's finally been some player in the case it is very unlikely that it will be thailand day that is according to the country's prime minister who said that according to tie last because the united states already has filed a new set of charges against me that those include money laundering he will not be extradited until those charges are actually heard for of course the united states realizing that they basically said the spokesman there are now trying to do. their

best to withdraw those charges in order to be able to proceed with the extradition process but for now the good remains in solitary confinement in the infamous bank called hilton the thai prison in the capital bank called the first united states authorities are doing everything they can to extradite the man to the u.s. as quickly as possible according to some rumors there is already a charge it is a special charter plane stationed at the air force base in thailand that was said there just to pick up and bring him back to the united states so he could stand trial there but so far basically all those attempts to extradite the man as soon as the ruling was made on august twentieth have failed we don't know what will happen tomorrow but for now the boot remains in tile and of course the united states authorities do want him in the u.s. as quickly as possible there are a number of reasons for that my colleague lauren lyster looked at some of them.

last week prior to the appeals court ruling for viktor brutes extradition there was immense pressure from u.s. president barack obama's administration coming from the state department the state department met with the thai ambassador in the u.s. and said that this extradition was a top priority for the united states in the same manner the u.s. ambassador in thailand met with officials in bangkok and told them the same thing putting the same pressure on them separately six lawmakers from both sides of the aisles in the united states in the u.s. congress sent a letter to the thai government saying that victor boots release would be a threat to both thailand and the united states by the way of him selling arms to governments or organizations that would target the u.s. or thailand so there was immense pressure applied prior to his extradition what's really behind washington's vilification though is the question and there are several different analyses for this one and i. this is it that has come out is that

boots simply knew too much and could really embarrass the united states with the information that he had you know he was involved in governments and groups and trafficking and moving goods but also arms forty seventh's not only for governments all over the world but for the u.s. government for allies of the u.s. government also for afghanistan and iraq one analyst has come out saying that booth transported not only arms for the u.s. into iraq but he also transported arms for the taliban and that having him having worked both for the u.s. government the u.s. military as well as afghanistan prior to nine eleven who knows what kind of information he has that could embarrass the united states. but go through the blue turns been in the toy jail for two years now how did the in the in the first place that can give some background to this. he was arrested and at the thai capital bangkok in march two thousand and eight following charges filed by the u.s.

government using him of international arms trafficking and specifically selling and delivering weapons to known terrorist organizations he was taken down and that's why capital by a joint sting operation by the u.s. and thai authorities or so that the board has always maintained his innocence his family and his lawyers many analysts actually believe that one of the main reasons that the man is being persecuted by the united states authorities is because of his long term contracts with the pentagon itself of course of george bush in two thousand and four that president for habited to the united states government of from having any kind of contract with that and his companies but despite that. despite that request despite the order by the president the pentagon actually extended his contract to two thousand and six so for two years the pentagon operated with dictabelt and he's come. but he's basically outside of the law many

analysts now believe that because of the information that he possesses is something that he could reveal could be damaging and or potentially embarrassing to the united states of course now with new charges filed against me that i believe those include violating international traffic laws and money laundering as well his extradition could be postponed because. according to trial laws those charges first have to be seen to by the criminal court and only then can the extradition be processed the united states authorities are now of course trying to do their best to withdraw those charges but for now for over two years if that which remains in solitary confinement the infamous bangkok helped to. clear their of life for us here on our to thank you for. what investigative journalist daniel a student says the brute's case has been twisted to disguise american involvement. time teligent officers of very high level told me that in fact the whole thing was

already done before it started in the sense that you know the. instance was going to rule in favor so it looked actually the book was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boots against the bill so that nobody could say that it was askew decision or that nobody could say that the americans paid the ties everybody could say it was one for blood what it would for the americans except that the the appeals court decision was the final decision because unfortunately in thailand there was no appeals to the supreme court as far as the fourth as i think is chance of winning the case the united states is zero point zero united states states are spent fifteen years trying allegedly trying to catch an alleged gun runner but that it was a coup they spent two and half years trying to win the extradition case and it is actually said to the united states to think that he can win in the united states against america on their home turf when everything is against them so that in the end if you walks in goals hold america will will become a laughing stock of the entire world not to mention that whatever little

credibility they have as a nation will definitely be ruined if. well military analyst you're going to who shelf says that people involved in illegal arms deals enjoy u.s. support. for the state department right now there is nothing more important in its foreign affairs then to bring to justice the mood in the faraway thailand it is driven by obsessive desire to silence and to sentence the supposedly as that russian equivalent of the senator charles wilson who unleashed they saw a proxy war in afghanistan thirty years ago now it is a high possibility that before the week her case will be closed or resolved the truth will come out the u.s. state department is actively interfering with their. us lloyd force an

operations in afghanistan providing the political cover for the real culprits who are involved in arms and drug trafficking in afghanistan under the watchful eeg is all this central intelligence agency just imagine bit sooner rather than later we kill leaks we'll reveal the new data regarding the nefarious connection between the cia and drug dealers and eventually the main afghan president step brother while he got his eye. view of the incriminating evidence for leading their corruption and drug really enterprise as the drug being and as available cia asset in afghanistan well guess what happened next i can assure you. plans to build a mosque two blocks from the nine eleven site being defended by new york mayor

michael bloomberg americans are a bit like the bonnet of the projects with some of these shoes driven by politicians who think that the upcoming elections. if there had to be a dirty word this summer that word would arguably be mosque. we have all of the island we have all over the united states. really going to be as a monument to the nineteen hijackers this close to this. movie be a monument to them and i've been saying for the nineteen extremists the iceberg there is a great industry beach behind the destruction of western civilization here in the u.s. the whole country is be covering over the development of an islamic cultural center two blocks from ground zero. one of the. dueling demonstrations in lower manhattan he did opponents against supporters. with midterm elections approaching in

november some say it's no coincidence this new york city issue has become politicized around the nation and we are in tough economic times when we're in tough economic times people turn to desperate measures to gain power a lot of politicians have demonized the muslim community and we're here to say no. we've seen it before and. probably see it again unfortunately words are growing less and less is being said about the country's crippling economic situation here inside new york city's largest department of labor office. are fighting to keep food on the table it's. like. everywhere. for people. in new york city is great depression levels nearly ten percent of the country is out of a job and last month nearly one hundred thousand homes were foreclosed on.

it's a house of worship something struggling americans are concerned with personally millions of people work. it is an issue that. the media among the employed five thousand are refusing to work construction workers have signed a pledge refusing to build the islamic cultural center if it is to rise if anything can trump america's capitalism clearly its anger. new york. in the country on wednesday night's events which is part of the. history eighty thousand. had to be committed better in

a southern city of sochi. president. spoke about. poverty and aids. has been pending international long running charity across africa . the president is out of town a self-proclaimed royal is going off to kremlin buildings as he brings a legal case against the russian government saying they are rightfully his the so-called grand principle russia claims it's his god given right to rule the country the critics say he's deluded and discrediting genuine royalty. one day soon the russian president will move out of the kremlin and this man will move in if he gets his way meet the grand prince of russia but it could get it. right here we are a store procedure should play a decisive role in the fate of the country property is

a sacred right and we are the owners of the kremlin if the government just lodges that's why we filed a lawsuit for it to be returned to us. who would have claims to be a long lost ascendant over an extinct in a state that hasn't ruled for four hundred years he says his ancestors and other nobles paid for the construction of the criminal with their own money so the family should returned. he has no legal grounds at all for his claims he's just trying to make a name for himself the law clearly says that the property belongs to the state his critics say the grand prince was a communist party functionary a bank executive and a failed policy and she can that before quite unexpectedly stumbling upon his role roots. the i think some of the deigned i am this morning is socking buttoned up since it is definitive proof must recognize

the risk the crowds haven't bowed down to the new royal she is this what you would do this is not a case for genealogist but for psychiatrists he seems to more discredit the aristocracy than anything despite being labelled alternatively mentally ill or a megalomaniac the grand prince remains a beat. up i'm not a clown with my heritage i've been given the power that ordinary people have not to look off to places and these people further hearings are scheduled for october. now the kremlin is unlikely to change owners any thought and so on but what the story does prove is that with a threesome checkered history russia has left a lot of people with claims to property some ludicrous others serious. moscow. trying to force countries to accept democracies

a hopeless task that's according to historian theorists john donne he thinks the process of change must be a peaceful one he can watch the full interview next hour but here's a preview. process of democratization you could say is progress towards a very good outcome which hasn't actually come out anywhere in the world so if you have an ambitious can of democratization what those two experiences taken together of tortoise is that it's absolutely hopeless to try to move fast in direction of that kind. in countries pieces and invading them without bothering to inform yourself about. the views and beliefs and practices of most of their inhabitants. saddam hussein the very heart of the. new afghanistan which isn't really under any one ever. told promising candidates

for rapid democratization it isn't possible to democratize anywhere by bombing it in invading it. is take a look now at some other stories making news around the world this hour rescuers have found the black box of a plane that overshot the runway in northeast china killing forty two people fifty four others were injured during this trying to land at night informed and burst into flames the survivors have been taken to hospitals with three in critical condition. three people have been killed in a shootout in the lebanese capital beirut has been lost supporters in the sunni group fog machine guns and rocket propelled grenades at each other just blocks away from a busy tourist area the violence follows an argument outside a mosque for more than four hours a joint statement issued later speak later today. egyptians

have taken to the streets of cairo to protest power cuts and water shortages at the height of summer cuts have affected people in parts. the country during the month of ramadan when was the last and temperatures reach thirty eight degrees celsius the government has in the past often been criticised for failing to provide basic services in its tone and media. a rare find a tornado has been seen in the brazilian state of some primary wildfires and strong winds combined to produce running clones of flames several metres away which eventually dispersed authorities in brazil struggling to contain the foreigners and banned farmers from burning waste from the ship attain this. with u.s. combat troops pulling out of iraq some question whether iraq is or able to control the country themselves as a number of private contractors in iraq is soaring many analysts believe the

situation will get worse with only says even after withdrawal the us will continue to exert controversial influence over the country. these are dirty wars that the united states tried to cover up at one point and now have somewhat institutionalized which is why we see these these increases in funding for private contractors i mean another exposé the washington post it just a few weeks ago was on this massive expansion of the u.s. intelligence community and all of the private contractors that are now conducting intelligence operations and this is what we're seeing you know we're seeing now state authorized selective assassinations i mean it was a policy created during the bush administration but it's a policy that's been continued and reinforced during the obama administration so it's really just a question of us state policy it's not an issue of you know which president is in power and figures like nader pandey or michael vickers or you know others i mean

the rand those from the times of the dirty wars here and in latin america that came back into power during the bush years in the twenty first century like are all right. they're still around they're still consulting braver and from the private sector on us foreign policy towards that in america towards other parts of the world but yeah i mean i think they perceive what they did as something very successful. now a bad maybe a long established symbol of russia but this doesn't stop a six hundred of the animals being killed every year during a working visit to russia's problem east to discuss the problem in the region. around bath himself in the wildlife reserve promise to watch the animals wishing in the sun a great groom lake when asked whether it was safe to get close to the best replied it's the beds should be afraid of people. as to the fishing industry as philip joins us now the latest from the world of business and on the

stand. during will something of a boom that's right seething production if. you would know is probably the infrastructure. tape mean that most of the kutch goes abroad details later in the program but first this hour russia's gross domestic product grew two point five percent in july year on year but the economy contract ignore point three percent but compared to the previous month the finance ministry blamed seasonal factors for the fall in particular a three percent slump in the agricultural sector in separate news the ministry is raising its inflation forecast for the year it says it will still be lower than the level of two thousand and nine. time now for the markets in asia stocks are lower wednesday following declines a more straight or more all u.s. economic data and a k. is tanking now down more than two percent with a strong yen to pressure on exporters. here in russia the stocks it is choosing is

trading session in the red top oil producer rose net shed another two percent as the price of light sweet sweet neighbor seventy two dollars a barrel. and some news in brief for you now russia's second largest food retailer needs has reported an eleven point three percent increase in first half profits one hundred thirty seven million dollars the company as that capital spending for this year may reach one point three billion dollars i was open thirty hypermarkets and some six hundred fifty convenience tools. to poland and the country's biggest vodka producers stock spirits looking to buy a seventy five percent stake in ukraine distillate near of as according to newspaper called the silent the polish companies gave an exclusive right to acquire the shares or make a decision in a month's time emir of his estimated to be worth three hundred seventy million dollars for the reason of a possible eye of the state russian's dunbar's which previously expressed an interest in the assets says it still considering

a big. now the russian fishing industry is enjoying a boom see food production is growing twelve percent in the last three years but problems with the infrastructure and bureaucracy mean that much of the catch is not making it to the russian dinner tables and instead it's going abroad as you noted very reports. the forest regence account for twenty percent of the fish caught in russia the ocean is to reach for salmon still have trout and char there may be russian treasures but much of the stock is destinated before in markets. as a rich natural resources and the lack of domestic infrastructure processing fish makes the proximity to the asia pacific region and opportunity for russia to sell their broad even before returning to one solid shorts there is not on their lack of infrastructure but also the tariffs imposed on c. foot caught in russian waters are high and the regulations are what because austrian gent so for the fisherman it often makes sense to lend the catch in

a foreign port. we have to pass very difficult very controls the agencies impose strict requirements which means we need to spend a lot of money and sometimes it's even easier and cheaper for us to supply fish brought them to the domestic market. unlike russia's farmers the nation's fishermen are having a good to thousand and ten with a catch up nearly ten percent on their previous year of the good which is the shipping but as we all realize a good catch is just the beginning it's followed by processing transport haitian and sale most important is for us to grow the share of domestic goods and that in two thousand and nine the share russian fish consumed in russia was seventy two point four percent by two thousand and fourteen it should grow to at least eighty point five percent we've decided to extend the financing program for the industry by one year to two thousand and fourteen that's around thirty two billion rubles.

but there is one problem the government will never be able to solve and that's the distance involved in getting from the far east to russia's biggest population centers in the european part of the country both transportation is expensive but a relatively slow and arctic char caught in a monday morning in the pacific would be lucky to make it two more screen time plus one bill on church instead it's more likely to end up on then the chopstick in tokyo or be jean zinaida me to do a business or t.p. that appalls you come charging the far east and finally russian energy giant gazprom may build a gas pipeline from russia to china as early as two thousand and fifteen russia first agreed to build upon china in two thousand and two failed to agree on gas prices with beijing but some experts doubt the new plan will be a priority for china that's already investing heavily in the two biggest and he's the prize in central asia turkmenistan and kazakhstan. and that's the latest this

hour but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. disarming saddam hussein. past maturity of iraqi citizens. disadvantage brings further assurance that the

torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. played shies again over our embassy in kabul. cherish to watch occupied afghanistan . now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. commitment. that is appropriate today in accordance as much as we can with the geneva convention if a slab stomach slap if you can should do nothing so that it shocks them especially if it gets slapped but you don't actually break any bones could interrogation techniques that we use in j. to phone tom. but the senior leadership of. the we have nothing to. believe transference.