the u.s. administration goes to great lengths to get its hands on the alleged russian arms dealer brute testing the limits of international law as they push for his urgent extradition. going web site wiki leaks announces fresh revelations concerning the cia just a month after infuriating the pentagon by publishing its documentation. big apple of discord plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york opinion some say issues just a way of drawing attention from america's economic struggle. to go prince the self-proclaimed royals seeks to a victory the russian president from the kremlin saying it's he's gone given right to rule the country. coming up in a business update russia's fishing industry may be growing the problems here mean that they catch is more likely to end up doing nothing in twenty minutes time.

news and much more ahead twenty four hours a day this is r.t. welcome to the program top story now thai authorities say a russian the businessman wanted for arms dealing in the u.s. would not be extradited immediately reports had suggested a special plane and fifty u.s. commandos had arrived in bangkok where the boot is being held all correspondent has been following the latest developments in the case. there's finally been some clarity in the case it is very unlikely that week that both will leave thailand today that is according to the country's prime minister who said that according to tile laws because the united states already has filed a new set of charges against me that those include money laundering but he will not be extradited until those charges are actually heard it before of course the united

states realizing that they've basically set a spoke in their own wheels 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 boot remains in solitary confinement in the infamous bank called the 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's already a charge it is a special chartered plane stationed at an air force base in thailand that was set there just to pick up food 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 make that a bit remains and talent 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 victor but it's extradition there was immense pressure from the 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 law made. from both sides of the aisles in the united states in the us congress sent a letter to the thai government saying that victor boots release would be a threat to both thailand and the united states 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 analysis is that

has come out is that simply knew too much and could really embarrass the united states with the information that he had he was arrested in the thai capital bangkok in march two thousand and eight. mile by the u.s. government using him of international arms trafficking and specifically selling and delivering weapons to known terrorist organizations george bush in two thousand and four that he president. of the united states government from having any kind of contract with big that it would and his companies but despite that request despite that order by the president the pentagon actually extended his contract to two thousand and six so for two years the pentagon operated with it and these companies basically outside of the law he was taken down in the thai capital by a joint sting operation by the u.s. and thai authorities or speak to the board has always maintained his innocence. what investigative journalist

a student says the boot case has been twisted to discuss american involvement. time travel agents officers of very high level told me but in fact the whole thing was already gone before it started the sense that you know. for instance was going to ruin good flavor. was going to win the case and the appeals court was going to rule in boots against richard to have nobody could say that it was askew decision that nobody could say that the american sprayed the toys and everybody would say it was one for blood would be americans or the appeals court decision was the final decision because unfortunately in thailand. there is no appeal for the supreme court as far as the four has a concert. and brian johnson thomas former arms trafficking expert the un security council thinks that eventually whether it's fair or not think to boot will be extradited to the u.s. . i'm not quite clear why the americans have fought this case so today actually

maybe just about the money they spent on the sting operation but certainly they're very very keen to get back to to the states. the consequences that will follow i think ritu point one is that the reason why they dropped the money laundering charges may be that they can concentrate purely on the sting operation where viktor is alleged to have agreed to supply weapons to the far if that happens then the court in america may also be directed not to look at anything other than the sting operation so they will not be able to bring into court and to open court the many times when victor was of some service to the pentagon or whoever else i think that picture will go to america he will go on trial in manhattan and he will be found guilty on the narrow charges of of agreeing to supply the park i don't think that's necessarily fair but that's what's going to happen. now the whistle blowing web site but i'm glad the pentagon by publishing ninety thousand secret u.s.

files is now set to review a see only a paper we can leaks maybe announcement has its founder julian assange is under investigation in sweden on suspicion of one of station with more let's cross live to our european correspondents. nora what can we expect from the new information that we could be x. is about to reveal. well we know very little at the moment about what kind of information is going to be released later on today we do know that wiki leaks released a message on twitter saying that today wednesday would be the day that they released a new set of information make a new leak we're not sure what time that's going to happen we're still waiting for it at the moment and we're also not care about whether it's related to the afghan war diaries that were released earlier this month you'll remember that there were there's a huge volume of documents eighty thousand documents that wiki leaks released the afghan war that detail. the reporting of civilian casualties the evidence of

war crimes having been committed and misrepresenting misreporting basically of what was actually happening during that war a picture of a bloody conflict that's not going to come to an end anytime soon what we do know however is that those original documents eighty thousand of them they were came exclusively from the u.s. military there was no secret information then no you know top secret classified documentation and importantly no information from the cia but this information according to a really does come from the cia so it's not clear whether this is the fifteen thousand documents that she did not know his team started when they may be originally now ready to put them out or whether this is a new from an entirely new source which is more related to the cia will remember that the originally made the pentagon a very angry and they have demanded the removal. from the internet and all of those documents because they say that they endangered u.s.

troops in iraq ration and they also endanger the afghans who are helping them so we'll have to wait and see what the backlash from this nation. can you tell us a bit more about the scandal that we can expound appears to be involved in their. you know this is a big day for julian i saw as the representative of wiki leaks he is not only releasing this information but it's also going to be revealed today whether he will face charges of molestation and this is really an extraordinary story it came to light over the weekend in a rest warranted been issued for a soldier in sweden to swedish women women came forward one of them said that he had rate and another one said that he had molested her now molestation is a lesser charge than rape it's basically any on wanted sexual act that leaves all the way up to rape but doesn't include the prosecutor is going to decide on wednesday whether or not he will stand charges for molestation the rape charge has already been thrown out the prosecutor in sweden said that there was no evidence to

suggest that there was a rape at first it was thought that this might be a smear campaign of course our soldiers come in for a lot of publicity following this the leaking of the documents about the afghan war so it was suggested that the pentagon and the cia might be involved in trying to blacken his name but the lawyer for the two swedish women who came forward with these charges said and i quote the fact that the cia and the pentagon might be involved lacked all connection with reality so she's throwing that out. we have to draw a parallel between these two events happening on the same day really doesn't have new information and i'm deciding whether whether he will stand charges from a station it's possible to deflect attention from this sexual charge that he may and may have to face of course of met student i interviewed him when the first set of documents broke it's pointless to say that he didn't strike me as the type of person who would rape somebody but he did strike me as somebody who had an enormous

capacity for work but also an enormous amount of self-control so we'll have to see again whether the station charges come to anything and how him selfe and wiki leaks will deal with it if they do. ok or loreto european correspondent thank you. for trying to force countries to accept democracies a hopeless task that's according to historian theory strong don thinks the process of change must be a peaceful one you can watch the full interview next hour here on r.t. but here's a pretty. process of democratization you could say is progress towards a very good outcome which hasn't actually come out anywhere in the world so far so if you have an ambitious can of democratization what those two experiences taken together of torturous is that it's absolutely hopeless to try to move fast

in direction of that kind by bombing countries to pieces and invading them without bothering to inform yourself. of using the beliefs and practices of most of their inhabitants. the very heart of the. new afghanistan which isn't really under any one ever were told promising candidates for rapid democratization and it isn't possible to democratize anywhere by bombing it in invading it. self proclaimed roiled is bringing a legal case against the russian government saying the kremlin buildings are right for the is the so-called ground principle russia claims it's his god given right to rule the country but 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. and need the grand prince of all russia but it could but if. you're 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 the lawsuit for it to be returned to us. who would have claims to be a long lost descendant of an extinct in a city that has 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 return there. 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 column and she can that before quite unexpectedly stumbling upon his role roots which is what you put in his 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 upbeat about 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 are hearings old for october. now the problem is unlikely to change owners any thought and so on but what the story does prove is that with a three thousand checkered history russia has left a lot of people with claims to property some ludicrous serious. moscow. new york mayor michael bloomberg plans to build.

sites. attended by muslim community new york divided over the. politicians. if there had to be a dirty word this summer that word would arguably the mosque. have a number of mosques we have an island we have over the united states who are really going to be is a monument to the nineteen hijackers if close to this right it would absolutely be a monument to the forty and nineteen extremists the iceberg there is a big industry beach behind the destruction of western civilization here in the u.s. the whole country is bickering over the development of an islamic cultural center two blocks from ground zero i know you're ready 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 they 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 certainly. probably see it again unfortunately right fighting words are growing while less and less is being said about the country's crippling economic situation here inside new york city's largest department of labor office happens. americans are fighting to keep food on the table it's. like it's unemployment here in new york and everywhere. for people living on the street in new york city as. great depression levels ten percent of the country is

out of a job and last month nearly one hundred thousand homes were foreclosed on that's what the numbers are looking for. is a house of worship something struggling americans are concerned with and me personally know millions of people at work no but it is an issue that drives attention to 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 marina port i am party new york. of the spine promise from iraq a bomb on a bay prison would close at the beginning of the yeah now the two hundred detainees remain claims of torture and mistreatment and interrogation techniques that tourist attention so that he brings you a special report that inside the real on top of my bank that's saying i think it's

time. disarming saddam hussein. that's the charge of the iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone for ever. again every machine company. too much occupied afghanistan. people want china mobile. that. is appropriate to that. is what you speak with you to be the. face. if you can. especially if you get to sleep but you don't actually break things could deter a geisha techniques that we. i'm going to talk more about the senior leadership of

oregon. that's have a now at some other stories making headlines around the world. rescuers have found the black box of a plane that overshot the runway northeast china killing forty two people fifty four others were injured the plane was trying to land that night in fog and burst into flames as of bodies have been taken to hospitals with three people in critical condition. three people have been killed in a shootout in the lebanese capital beirut shiites because with our supporters on the super god machine god has a rocket propelled grenades at each other just blocks away from a busy tourist area of audience for the auger into a mosque and last for over four hours a joint statement issued way to settle disputes with more political legitimacy. in

the u.s. three people have been killed after a truck smashed into a house in south west los angeles emergency officials say the victims a man woman and child lived in the house vehicle completely destroyed the home burying parts of it on the gravel it was carrying police say brake failure may have been the course of the accident. and a rare fire tornado hit the city and state are saying that while far as the strong winds combined to produce swirling columns of late several meters away which eventually dispersed authorities in brazil are struggling to contain the fathers and the band bombers from burning waste sugarcane harvest. now a u two concert considered to be one of the most expensive gigs ever to be staged kick off in the russian capital later on wednesday a sort of the first time the band has performed a russian show is expected to generate between seventy million dollars last year and his version of history is expected. eighty thousand fans to turn the concert

under long with traditional you tube memorabilia a five piece dole set which depicts the members of the band has become a big hit among fans the artist responsible even the claims have received an order from the musicians themselves. or you have it you know how it can cause such a shot at for a business update and the more news on the most international most of social it oh yes that is indeed where we start our program this hour the most powerful porsche bulletproof jag you and those expensive bentley are among the cars making their debut at the international motor show in moscow around eighty companies in twelve countries are taking part in the event and our correspondent daniel schorr is that the business. there are several world for me is here at the most going to enough snow mode to show off devices pushing a competitive to the dominant chief he has sat nav system is called good lower not this been in development but they case here in russia enough about to finally put it in is love the calls from makes year but the focus really is on luxury cars go

ready have more of them than anywhere else i'm a jaguar a sort of pick that i knew all more a jag will take a local fun day i remember two years ago the head of b.m.w. has showing me around a bullet proof and this really follows in that tradition there's also i wold posts like a new line drove up on the most powerful level whole show nine eleven the show was cancelled last year was demobbed flop but i think today the same optimistic that there was two years ago and in big bold sales i'm also jumped almost fifty percent last month of july two thousand and nine the company with the most aggressive strategy has been missed that red zone is that the french japanese call make up has the toy dog with russia's biggest selling also brand dog off the us disappointed problem film number one here in the country and they all saw getting a massive to two percent market share in russia three of them between the eyes of

the head of mist and here in russia told me has hopes of it declines but failed to the end of a few we believe that we we will go on the off the schedule which is on the top to one what falls on gals which small as a double for a little before the well increasing the market share so it's sort of such a such unforeseen fall the next year we will suddenly look after all causing by fifteen get additional. time now to see how the markets are performing hammering russian stock slightly out of mid-morning trade as overbalanced malev and we can learn a basic outlook she says shares of transnet to jump to points like that inequality is also helping to push up the market. i think one point one percent among. european stock markets assaultive slide following another downbeat session on wall street has investors on to a mixed bag of pulpit. and is down will continue to stand and over in asia japanese schizophrenic children are being pressured to buy yen the to stay close to fifteen

million dollars against the u.s. dollar because investors look to tokyo for action to protect the economy from the currency appreciation which is getting exposed to all of the case plays down one point six percent. now moving from the stocks to the seas now in the russian fishing industry is enjoying a boom see through production is growing twelve percent in the last three years but problems with the infrastructure and bureaucracy mean that much of the cut is not making it to russian dinner tables and instead it's going forward the united and said the reports. the forestry didn't account for twenty percent of the fish caught in russia the ocean is to reach where salmon still have trout and char there may be russian treasures but much of the stock is destinated before in markets. because a rich natural resources and the lack of domestic infrastructure for processing fish makes the proximity to the agent pacific region and the opportunity for russia

to sell their road even before returning to 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 of what because a strange and so for the fisherman it often makes sense to land the catch in a foreign court. 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 the previous year of the good which. 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 fish from the far east to russia's biggest population centers in the european part of the country both transportation is expensive and relatively slow an arctic char caught on a monday morning in the pacific or ability to make it to moscow in time for sunday launch instead it's more likely to end up on then the chopstick in tokyo or beijing zinaida to do our business our teeth it appalls he come chatzky the far east. the latest this outbreak can respond more stories on our website. business.

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