parties delayed the extradition to the due west of the man dubbed the merchant of death that small new charges brought against the alleged russian arms dealer are investigating. new revelations the online whistleblower wiki leaks promises to release a secret cia document this just a mom after lifting the lid on scandalous u.s. military files. that really that it lead to in the world of farming effectuate industry all in one report on the latest from the world of speed and glamour in the moscow international motor show. russia's fishing industry grows by well the fence in three years but still faces problems in the domestic market i'll have lots more in the business but then in twenty minutes to.

a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is art to you with me a new some not way it's six pm here in the russian capital nine pm in bangkok where tires are to say a russian businessman wanted for arms dealing in the u.s. will not be extradited immediately reports that a special plane to collect victor boot had already arrived in bangkok well considering azar of a has been following the story there's finally been some clarity in the case it is very unlikely that if they both will be thailand today that is according to the country's prime minister who said that according to tile laws because the united states already have filed a new set of charges against me that aboard those include money laundering he will not be extradited until those charges are actually for. it sort of course the

united states realizing that they've basically set a spoke in their own will 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 if the boot remains in solitary confinement in the infamous bangkok 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 i think that a boot remains in talent he was arrested in at the thai capital bangkok in march

two thousand and eight following charges filed by the u.s. government accusing him of international arms trafficking and specifically selling and delivering weapons to known terrorist organizations and george bush in two thousand and four that president prohibited the united states government from having any kind of contract with that and his companies but 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 fit the bill and his 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 so if the board has always maintained his innocence well brian johnston thomas former arms trafficking expert for the u.n. security council believes extradition is a matter of when not in. i'm not quite clear why the americans have fought this case so today actually maybe just imagine what it is about thomas thing operation

but certainly there are very very keen to get back to the states and the consequences that will follow i think ritu point you want is that the reason why they're not dropped the money laundering charges may be that they can concentrate purely on the sting operation where the victim 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 very charge when victor was of some service to the pentagon or whoever else the think that victor will go to america he will go on trial in manhattan and he will be found guilty on the narrow charges of agreeing to supply the far i don't think that's necessarily fur but that's what's going to happen my from moscow you're with r t we've got plenty more ahead for you this hour including. thousands of people are flooding out of the mattress and heading into

the luzhniki stadium for the first ever u two concert here in moscow. it was a boeing web site that posted more than eighty thousand pentagon files online is set to cause a star once again with the leaks has announced it's now going to make public cia papers but it comes while the site's founder remains under investigation in sweden over my last station claims more and has the details. 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 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 as 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 wiki leaks does come from the cia so it's not clear whether this is the fifteen thousand documents that julian assange and his team started when they may be originally now ready to put them out or whether this is coming. from an entirely new source which is more related to the cia 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 came to light over the weekend in a rest warranted being 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 the prosecutor is going to decide on wednesday whether or not he will stand charges for molestation the rape charges already be. thrown out the prosecutor in sweden said that there was no evidence to suggest that there was a rape and we have to draw a parallel between these two events happening on the same day releasing of new information and deciding whether whether he will stand charges from a station it's possible that this was done to deflect attention from this sexual charge that he may and may have to face. trying to establish democracy by military force is a hopeless task so says political theorist john donne who believes the process of

change must be peaceful you can watch the full interview later this hour but here's a quick preview. the 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 taught us is that it's absolutely hopeless to try to move fast in the right direction of that kind of. country. invading them without going into inform yourself is. beliefs and practices of most of their inhabitants and neither. you nor 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 us and invading it. more than forty people have been killed in a string of bombings that have rocked iraq in baghdad alone over twenty bombs exploded in at least twelve separate incidents the attacks come just a day after the u.s. announced it had withdrawn the last of its combat troops over fifty thousand remain to advise iraqi forces although it's the lowest number of soldiers since the start of the war in two thousand and three but today's bombings are raising questions about iraqi government's ability to deal with an ongoing insurgency discuss this now we're joined live from london by savant from the arab boyer's association thank you for being with us this hour mr almost far the u.s. withdraws the last of its combat troops and we immediately see this surge in violence is this a coincidence. well it's not a coincidence and the withdrawal of the forces it's the would draw of some forces

leaving more than fifty three thousand combat troops as well as increasing the number of their mercenaries to about one hundred thousand so we are back again to our around one hundred fifty thousand u.s. citizens u.s. instructed us employed people in iraq as an occupying force and supporting the government and that's why we're seeing this spate of explosions but there are a variety of reasons why it should happen and various theories but one of the i think one of the more credible one is that the government is actually involve itself in it in order to prevent an american from pulling out or at least the troops they leave they must be engaged in military and use of force not just training it was playing by the americans when do you think that the iraqi government will be ready to function without the u.s. . unfortunately i don't see it in the foreseeable future as there is no government

anyway because the people are talking about forming a government whether it's allowed whether it's my leaking and what have you that is really not the situation iraq has been dismantled there is no government there is no authority in iraq the prime minister cannot leave the green zone there is no military or police in iraq because they are all militias who have been recruited to wear the same uniform but that allegiance is not a national one but there are legions even after their faction or group or to their tribe or to some one or another aside from the use of the corruption in iraq which is now so rife that iraq is at the bottom of the list of the transparency international it's the worst place on earth to live in and it is actually a failed government by the international standards and of course in the states u.s. midterm elections are coming up congressional elections of course how do you think

the u.s. political calendar will influence any decision regarding further troop withdrawal. well the u.s. always it's us policy has been dictated by the domestic politics especially when it is needed to election president obama is now facing a lot of difficulties he's proving to be a very weak president he has not delivered on any of the promises he made whether it's. iraq or any of the foreign policies and indeed even on the domestic politics so in this respect i think the pressure within the usa is so domestically is so high on the agenda and it's so important that i think it's going to influence the decisions of the u.s. government anywhere in the world whether it's a new iraq or indeed even outside iraq which is being influenced totally by deduction and this is where one feels that the world is the sea of the election in america president of the arab lawyers association and independent political

analysts. thank you very much for your time. now don't forget that there are plenty more stories on our website. we also feature different wants to get space travel. picks and latvian pallor russians premier takes to the water on the cross and. on the hunt for gray whale shark just to collect skin samples to help with the preservation of the species in the country's far east. the end of the road new york's iconic yellow taxi is riding to extinction find out why and learn how big apple's residents are feeling about losing a piece of their history. well

petrol heads are being driven to distraction in the russian capital as the moscow international motor show gets into gear manufacturers from around the world are showcasing their latest shiny offerings that i have no covers been checking out what's hot on four wheels. even if i have the money to buy one of these the choice would be very difficult as you can see there is still cars that are covered up as we're expecting world premier is during this salon carbon capture is such as porsche mercedes and jag your among others are going to present their latest masterpieces all together this small fits about six hundred vehicles so picking just one would be a pickle at events like these there's always a lot of champagne and beautiful women so if you look at the expressions on faces of some because there's here they look like children who've been taken to disneyland. two million people are expected to visit the salon as a glass until a fifth of the so if you do have a chance and you are on moscow's perhaps you will witness one of the eight would

releases or one of the twenty cons of releases they place here you will also see some serious looking guys here who are trying to keep their hands cool and not get distracted by all the shiny and glittery beads there is here as they came to make some business meanwhile i'm going to take this bad boy for a test drive. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world this wednesday the bodies of eight victims of the abbas hijacking have arrived back in hong kong earlier survivors relatives and friends together with the coffins boarded the plane after ceremony airliner took on the philippines observe a day of mourning the attack took place on monday when an ex-boyfriend how the boss told of tourists at gunpoint in hopes of getting his job. in china the black boxes of a plane that crash landed killing forty two people have been found fifty four others were injured but one was trying to land at night in fog when it overshot the runway and burst into flames a group of chinese officials were on board including

a deputy minister who is in critical condition. now a self-proclaimed royal is bringing a legal case against the russian government claiming the kremlin is rightfully his so-called grand principle ross says it's his god given right to rule over the place but critics think he's bluffing 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. we need the grand prince of russia but it could get it. right there 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 what we filed a lawsuit for it to be returned to us. who would have claims to be a long lost descendant of an extinct in

a state that has an awful four hundred years he says his ancestors and the other nobles paid for the construction of the criminal with money so the family should return that one year old 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 proper. belongs to the state his critics say the grand prince was a communist party functionary a bank executive and a failed policy candidate before quite unexpectedly stumbling upon his roll roots which is what you would do this is not a case for genealogist but for psychiatry he seems to more discredit the aristocracy than anything despite being labeled alternatively mentally ill or make a maniac the grand prince remains upbeat. 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.

i am not the problem to change owners any so the story goes through. checkered history russia has left a lot of people with claims to property some ludicrous serious. well that's why the news this hour from r.t. we're going to take a short break and stephanie will be here brooke. i our our house.

look looks like we're struggling. just. hello welcome to the business bulletin russia's biggest bank spared bank has reported a ten fold rise in first things just under two point one billion dollars despite the apparent the style of growth the figures are a bit below analysts full costs provisions for bad loans fell by the fifty percent compared to the first half of two thousand and nine when the state run company was feeling the full force of the financial crisis of analysis of the quarterly

performance does reveal some weakness in the results that profits in the second quarter it was maybe fifty percent below that's achieved in the first three months of figure. russia's gross domestic product grew two and a huff percent in july year on year but the economy contracted to a point three percent twenty pad to the previous month the finance ministry blames seasonal factors for the full in particular a three percent slump in the agricultural sector in separate use the ministry is raising its inflation for costs for the year but says it will still be a lower than that of two thousand and nine. russia is planning to sell federal bonds with a ten month expiry date will be the shortest term debts the government has issued in seven years the finance ministry is auctioning roughly one billion dollars of the paper it's turning to shorter maturities as investors have demanded higher yields to counter the rest of rising inflation the worst drop for fifty years is expected to significantly up to food prices for the rest of the year. ukraine is

once again raising the thorny issue of the price it pays for russian gas the country's prime minister nikolai as art of told his cabinet on wednesday that the price formula was still unfavorable for ukraine that's despite receiving a one hundred dollars discount five thousand cubic meters of gas as are of said he will urge moscow to revise the contract. let's have a quick look at how the equity markets are doing a european markets are down on whether the state europe's sovereign debt problems and global recovery fears are weighing on the foot see that's the standard and poor's downgrade islands credit ratings the rest of concerns over advance have more than offset any positive sentiment from good u.k. company results. and stateside stocks are also slipping on wednesday another round of disappointing data is fueling more uncertainty over u.s. economic recovery both the dow jones and the now start shedding half

a percent already weaker than expected demand for u.s. manufactured durable goods in july it has disappointed that market porches. here in moscow stocks are also sticking in the red blue color of the only main gainers on the my six bytes are really suffering that would be shutting nearly three percent this hour on spare uncles down two percent following the company's announcement of first things. now moving from the stocks to the seas and the russian fishing industry is enjoying a boom sea food production has grown twelve percent in the last three years but problems with infrastructure and bureaucracy being most of the catch isn't hitting russian dinner tables instead it's going abroad in the fight of our reports. the forest regions account for twenty percent of the fish caught in russia the ocean is weaker salmon still have trout and char there may be russian treasures but much of the stock is destinated markets. natural resources and the lack of domestic

infrastructure proto fish makes the proximity to the asia pacific region. just sell their broad even before returning. there is not only a lack of a for structure but also the terror. russian waters aha and the regulations of what because it's a strange and so for the fisherman it often makes sense to land the catch in a port. we have to pass very difficult 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 abroad to the domestic market. unlike russia's farmers in nations fishermen are having and good to thousand and ten with a catch up nearly ten percent of the previous year of back again which are going to ship and as we all realize a good catch is just the beginning it's followed by processing transportation and

sale most important is for us to grow. it in. russian fish consumed in russia seventy two point four percent by two thousand and fourteen it should grow to at least eighty 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. 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 just partition is expensive and relatively slow and the arctic char caught on a monday morning in the pacific to make it to moscow in time launch instead it's more likely to end up on then the chopstick in tokyo or beijing zinaida individual business are cheap it appalls he come to the far east. and that's all the latest

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