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tonight judges prepared to decide whether alleged russian arms dealer should opposite to a second set of challenges the decision could further stall the extradition america hopes for. a close call for brazil's two presidential favorites as the race to meet one of the world's fastest growing economies is forced into a runoff report tomorrow also. president because i'm sure it's not only go beyond diplomatic sense the. president but better slap the attitude russian hysteria among top officials in bed amongst. relations to come from. britain's leading coalition party gets together to talk money troubles come from strange sounds the alarm over

a loss of civil rights i don't get my marrying you. thank you. it's one am here in moscow this is our team thanks so much for being with us this hour i'm kevin zero in with the top stories and first judges in thailand will decide on choose day as to whether alleged russian arms dealer big to boot should answer to a second set of charges a court earlier rejected a request of them dropped denting american plans to have him extradited on terrorism related charges r.t. shaun thomas has been following recent developments for us. the united states has been trying to get add victor boot and have him extradited to the united states for quite some time in fact since two thousand and eight in march when he was arrested in a hotel in bangkok and in fact in august august twentieth of this year the high court in thailand said that it was possible for boot to be extradited and so it looked

like everything was set for the united states if convicted in those states on the charges that he was indicted for who would be receiving life imprisonment however has a back up plan because this is an international crime an international courts are where have you is kind of a political chess game as a backup plan just in case the high court did not rule in the united states favor us filed extra charges and it's those extra charges that are hampering of things at this moment in time because the high court ruled that victor boot should be extradited to the united states asked if those second charges could then be dropped so that they could expedite the process however a court ruled that those charges cannot be dropped because they are now part of the court system in thailand right now so it's a waiting game what we do know is that the the delays the entire process victor boot is a former air force officer who claims he is a legitimate businessman but he's a long been suspected of being one of the most notorious and prolific arms dealers

in the world in supplying arms to different conflict zones around the world in fact he's nicknamed the merchant of death by some now in two thousand and eight in march in bangkok there was a sting operation where u.s. agents posed as far as members to buy arms from him at that point he was arrested but he was arrested in thailand which started this process to have him extradited to the united states that was artie's correspondent sean thomas that i spoke to kent goodman earlier on from the trying day companies a publisher which specializes in investigative writing he told me i think to boot is stuck in a high stakes game and is unlikely to get a fair trial in the u.s. . i think the thailand tiger government is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place obviously they're being played in as just pieces in an international game between russia and america. but they don't want to seem as if they were pressured by america even though they have been that's why they are waiting for this whole thing to play out all the way through the courts and of course it was

america's own fault for adding keeping extra charges on one sleeve the original charges were deemed by the thai court to be political in nature and there wasn't even a minimal amount of evidence to convict boot on anything but america has promised thailand fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way of course so is russia so it's an international high stakes games of international chess that unfortunately victor boot is stuck in the middle of that if victor boot is extradited to america who knows if you'll get a fair trial if he's next day to america and stands trial in america itself i think then. everything will be in public but probably what might happen is that they would like to extradite him but not have him face trial in america but to be in a prison in another country. as they have done with other people so that we don't know the american people don't really know what's going on. well top stories tonight brazilians having trouble choosing their next leader despite a push by the outgoing president to line up his successor. fell just short of

becoming the country's first female president and the first round she became favorite on the promise that she will keep her previous sessions policies the outgoing president known as lula is widely acclaimed for being the man who made brazil one of the world's biggest and fastest growing economies but they will have to face opposition leader just to keep the legacy alive as laura listed reports from sub palos us. on the streets of brazil after eight years of this like a miracle because of. her spirit bring it close to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter of their cows i hope that the mayor candidate a woman to make history in my country that is summed up the loudest voice on the streets and in the polls ahead of the elections for a new head of state while many credit the outgoing ones lula da silva with starting a silent revolution for the poor. head of election day was heard loud and clear

they believe his handpicked successor is the one to continue fighting for and. she is doing the rousseff lulu's choice for president a little known bureaucrat his chief of staff who rose up to against the dictatorship when she was young. she promises to lead the country down the same road as her mentor. what's changed in these last years is in the poor neighborhoods for the lower class because the other governments just pretended to help its lula brazil's president that brings all of these people into the street in his name they're screaming but as to whether jill met his successor would be able to continue what he started in this country when you talk to people they believe one hundred percent which is the one that you want with brazil is going to continue to rise though his confidence has helped popularity. some activists familiar with lula's politics past and present aren't convinced record for i think she's going to

have some difficulties because dilma doesn't have the same history lula has and in a country that was long a colony and where the years until the lead the rich and elite still held the power for some in that world a dilma presidency would be. terrible for me terrible without horizons very sad and black horizons the exhibition was you have to have people with academic culture and not popular culture in upscale neighborhoods it's the leading opposition candidate who most closely fits that description and appears favored at those polls jose serra is a more conservative choice you know so i use a little government has been constantly role is aligned himself with people who are democratic advantage hugo chavez. but in this brazil what you don't see or hear. is the brazil that is in power a world you see now in the favelas the slums we're looking from it but that's about

it's important for you to be able to choose the future of your country once invisible to the world now one able to ignore or do much but if they play out people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their own songs. lauren lyster r.t. so paulo brazil. so to case codings is an expert on brazilian trucks university told me that if dilma rousseff wins the election she's like the continuing newness legacy. i think mrs will scheffer the most likely to win the second round two will by and large continue mr munaf policies and if international economic circumstances remain favorable for brazil she will most likely. continue brazil the powerful for economic expansion and increasing political significance unchanged in principle you have to remind of course i was very active internationally and also very able

to engineer a good relationship cross the global reputation of his likely successor mr to say if he's maybe less of a. of a capable of being maintaining it personal relations but in terms of policy objectives and approaches and shared interests i think brazil and russia and also brazil and china have will very likely deepen their economic and diplomatic relations over the next four to eight years there's no doubt about it next tonight questions politicians don't like to answer being raised on the sidelines of the u.k. coalition's leading parties conference the freedom zone is anxious over the erosion of civil liberties in the country as well as what it sees as the domination of britain by the e.u. or amidst burning and where the conference is being held. we did see big demonstrations across europe a europe wide day of action last week one hundred thousand people gathered in

brussels. against austerity measures which are a result of the european debt crisis we also had news from ireland which is teetering on the brink of collapse if reports are to be believed the cost of rescuing irish banks is now being estimated. almost fifty billion euros that means that it's now got the biggest budget deficit among developed economies and ten times the budget deficit is the recommended by e.u. guidelines so it's really crunch time fall into the moment either these new austerity measures which they going to implement all things that's all they will have to go to be you. looks forward no you know much as greece did in that which he humiliating way but their own just serious skeptics about this here if we didn't say and we've also been talking to libertarians and people who are concerned about the operation of civil liberties. and to that end i'm joined by full state say. an influential political. thanks very much for talking to us now you're

a pussy and advocates of freedom of speech what do you think is the biggest threats to civil liberties in the u.k. not civil liberties but your freedom of speech is very high privacy goes system over here where rich people can throw money at lawyers and junk to prevent you through the courts from telling the truth because you just don't have the financial muscle so get the truth out and in terms of public and private how do you see well i think private individuals do have a right to privacy was no reason to go off to civilian speech you want in public life but if you are in public life and you take public money then the public has a right to know everything about you particularly if it goes money so for instance just recently the foreign secretaries. appointment oh the very inexperienced time some young man has a special. buys of course some interest but the reason people looked at it wasn't because of their relationship or because it was public money at stake i mean what

do you think that the growth of the blogosphere there obviously looks of people like you out there now. that new technology you think infin infringes people's freedom in any way i don't see how it infringes people free freedom it's more accessible and more people can publish and it's democratized the media some extent whereas in the past to be a few news channels a few powerful newspapers now everyone can call bush we can see around the world in china around all these places where people are blogging and they're in hanson the prospects of freedom as someone who conducts his life on the internet spends a lot of time online presumably do you think that the state strikes the right balance between days to protection against getting information out there. in the u.k. they have a system of data protection which basically. companies and corporations have to tell the customers what's going to the data and they can't share the data without permission i think as long as people are told what's happening to the data and that's ok i don't think we need any more regulation on that front ok thank you very

much that was the influential. talking to our. european correspondent. has been whipping up semantic russian sentiment of late so president would read it was no trying to clear the air using server space on an online video preventives has the better russian leaders using aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign. takes a closer. and if it is a bloke we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in batteries and saying that it's based almost entirely on entourage and slogans and i should say shouldn't russia's own willingness to provide support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership so the person misstated his use his behavior in the past often to deal with the cold topics such as this and this time we've heard him using it as over stones to develop russian leadership like his

ations and actions recently but his main point being that really rather than making an enemy of russia they'd be much better place to be focusing on their internal issues but if. president lukashenko is entering this not only go beyond any diplomatic sent they're downright indecent he's obviously concerned about a lot of things to our economy russian journalist talking about a russian opposition even what happens to some of our retired and some time officials the president. should be looking into the interior affairs of his own country such as for instance the multiple disappearances have been russian citizens but it's russia like other countries is concerned over these people and actually this is being described as a feature of batteries in leadership this creation of an external enemy in the public consciousness that the worse in the past this is easy directed at the us on the west in general at this time it seems that russia has become the main target to another thing the person with the dresses in his book he talks about the fact that

the better russian people are still considered russia's closest neighbors and that he be a good. shared culture and he also makes it very clear that the spy the tensions the top of recently things such as against this meeting this summer mother russia has provided support both in the past and we. i'm deeply convinced that russia always has and will consider to be the key. his davits neighbors we are united by shared history culture common joys and greece good neighborhood has been the reason we've been helping ever since the fall of the soviet union twenty years ago the scope of no matter what people might say has been huge this year alone we've made discounts on those shipments to be worth approximately two billion dollars in total shipments to have been subject to commission concessions the reason we did it was because we sincerely believe that our nations were inseparable this is why i was extremely surprised to see that. taken up and he russian rhetoric.

and we know that what happened there was. cut off transit routes the supply of oil and gas. eventually that she was result but it's one of the things that seem to rise to the increase in this. but the overall point the president. wasn't making an enemy of russia on the problems internally. reporting there from moscow and if you're interested president video blog. to.

check it out if you. let me bring you up to date also world news a brief now a controversial dutch m.p. no vision strong anti islamic views has gone on trial for inciting hatred and statements stems from a speech that get billed as made where he compared islam to not see ism and called for the qur'an to be banned however the court failed to move forward in the case because builders exercises like to silence his lawyer also accuse the judge of bias the request of the substitution is convicted he faces up to a gear in prison. a toxic waste reservoir in hungary's burst killing at least

two people and injuring dozens more three others are missing tonight after red sludge from the elemental factory flooded two villages it contains high levels of poisonous metals which can pool burns to the skin and the army is going to call in to try to help rescue people trapped on top of their. somalia at least five civilians have been killed in crossfire between pro-government forces and islamic militants in the capital it's the third day of intensifying violence which is so far taken twenty lives and left scores wounded militants have been trying to throw the u.n. back up three years. and the united states concerns over a new terror attacks are ramping up our federal audit calling for workers at nuclear power plants to be trained in spotting terrorists among employees it comes off of us wall that attacks were evident in europe advising its citizens to be vigilant and alert since been echoed by britain in japan. a russian

fighting technique adopted by the k.g.b. has found a new following across the world so much so in fact that the twenty ten hand to hand fighting world cup finals are being held in the u.s. for the first time i was up for a challenge off i stick or respond i can go into the fighting spirit for r.t. . for comedian a louis his sham handed to him fighting is still new. he mostly does judo and teaches tai boxing but this russian born sport picks the bass that laments of many fighting techniques. when you think about it it's more real than anything else plus has an artistic aspect to it which is you don't get to spend a lot of times on the floor which is boring. and real it is the k.g.b. use this method of fighting it's now taught to russian special forces and it's a growing sport and with this going international. program developed by the

k.g.b. to this one another try to think because of the k.g.b. guys i mean that's a real game unlike in mixed martial arts russian hand to hand fighting has rules and limitations which newcomers are still getting used to he lost the fight against an american compadre are. more than enough to win but it's not so bad as long as the girls are happy the boys we like the boys and definitely when they get all sweaty i was always curious what's on the mind of the hot and sweaty guy when his on the man maybe girlz meet one of today's winners russian you go out to you and you don't think about anything but your next move once you get distracted in anything except the fights you're down you should never allow the thought that you're losing if you have the slightest that is guaranteed that you will lose an idea which could be applied to any situation in life the president of the hand to

hand fighting federation says it's not the kind of sport that's only for the sake of sport. but this sport teaches how to fight right unlike mixed martial arts we just get out there and punch the other guy as hard as you can it's more about technique did i mention he is also a lawyer in the making is just one day he decided he was going to stand up for himself remember that russian special forces involves gone bad for stuff like that but in this sport it's just hands and feet and it's not just foreign to him. watch actually a lot of the moves are pretty useful for self-defense for a fragile girl like me and christian is going to teach me something something really simple i'm going to bring hands on you ok so use you you can to push from one elbow. and you come with your right you see which is on the second show you so i use my left which is my week i hit and i come back. ok i'll do that kind of

check on fighting for our team in the state of pennsylvania well don't you go for it next to a leading french a story tonight tells r.t. about russia's role in today's world politics one of the country's so often misunderstood in the west that interview is coming right up.

got a gun call structure of history and humanity permanent secretary of the french science academy and the woman who predicted the breakup of the soviet union in nine hundred seventy eight in her book because laps of an empire is here with us today by super bowl sure thank you very much my dum-dum course for your time. in your recent book between two walls you talk about russia can we presume from the title that you think russia still hasn't found its place in the world media. at the news of sims was looking east was not exactly what the books as is certain russia has made this kind of decision but over the past ten years it's been pursuing two different hearts rather than one which i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union does integrated russian turned to europe because europe did not offer a warm welcome since the beginning of the century russia's foreign policy has been focusing on two directions rather than one on the one hand it focuses on the west

while on the other hand because of its geographical position its decided to place itself as an asian country it gives a greater pre-stage and influence in the world it's been pursuing this well as he for more than ten years now and has brought great success. in your introduction you raised the question. whether russia should be fear of it do you mean that the imperial russia and the soviet union which you were used to be afraid of are still alive. not only in europe the collapse of the soviet union it was not anticipated it happened overnight many countries primarily those who were under soviet influence based in european countries and the countries that used to be part of the soviet union but are now independent states did not understand russia and were afraid of it as eastern european countries have become e.u. members they have show you their fares and pass them on to the e.u. saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it cease being an empire

which trusted now that it's in peril past has been forgotten by now people have already understood that russia is pursuing its own path through so you don't believe in russia's imperial ambitions just right i don't believe it i'd rather say there is some kind of nostalgia but that's completely different thing what country can forget overnight that it used to be a powerful empire but still washing people and specifically those in power of common sense and they understand too well that it's over and it's russia's future is not to be an empire but rather to build up its reputation and influence via soft power rather than by force the king as long as that is what are the main types of russian places today. because russia has the legacy of the soviet union and it will be marked by the stigma for a long time yeltsin sat take as much independence as you can swallow and another day he sat your free get out of here with many things about russia were forgotten

people forgot that the soviet system was dominating and instilled fear and then got scared of the country that neither the power nor the ability to speak as poignantly with other countries all this was forgotten and this new russia was not understood as i see it. what and in your country are people suspicious of russia i don't know what to say to that or the thoughts of your current president nicolas sarkozy said in his election campaign it's better to shake hands with bush than with putin who would you shake hands with but. first of all i feel uncomfortable talking about my president he's changed a great deal he was in love with america it was an example for him he did not know russia is of gary noise and hungary was affected by the soviet union to a certain extent given by russia has come a long way and he chose for russia and i agree with him it's in europe's interest

and france's interests. and why has the course changed what is these changes really to to realize that dialogue for a european countries the most important thing to build relations with russia he also realized russia was a european country which he didn't understand very well at first he also realized that europe was no longer strong it was falling out of the history of global relations it would have if it was cut from russia his current position which i think is very smart is not that russia should be part of europe russia is to vast for europe it would not adapt what we need he thinks is a model for relations. why does europe net russia now. russia is needed because the entire history of international relations is moving away from europe it's played out in asia even the us a pacific country is referred to saying its foreign policy in asia where are the heat.