a thai court rejects a u.s. request to drop fresh charges against alleged russian arms smuggler victor boot. brazil faces a second round of voting in its presidential elections after the front runners failed to secure fifty percent of the vote. president because interest not only go beyond diplomatic sent. to d.c. . on his video blog president dmitry medvedev accuses his belorussian counterpart alexander lukashenko of anti russian rhetoric despite this he remains positive that those ties between the countries will prevail. plus the u.k. becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the news influence that's according to the freedom zone the largest event on the fringe of the conservative party conference.

two am in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on r.t. our top story judges in thailand will decide on tuesday whether alleged russian arms dealer viktor boot should answer the secret to a second rather set of charges a court earlier rejected a request to have been dropped denting u.s. plans to have him extradited on terror related charges artie's sean thomas has been following developments. 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 booth 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 which are both would be receiving a 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 of the high court ruled that the 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 he would be 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 reporting there from our teams correspondent sean thomas investigative journalist daniel estulin interviewed victor boot in thailand he says that even though further delays could work in boots favor the chances for his legal team to win are quite slim. you have ninety days from the twentieth of august for the united states government to extradite victuals and now with the new charges being put against believe this could actually delay the proceedings because even if the judges rule against the old and by all looks it actually date i think they will because today's developments at the core of the judges were very much against victory and finally they agreed to postpone the case where again there's going to be no witnesses just the reading of the decision on the second set of charges of

the united states government that said the defense team can theoretically appeal so that could theoretically actually take it beyond the initial ninety days i talked to my people in the state in the united states who are watching very very carefully they said that a lot of phone calls have been made this morning from the united states to thailand obviously to the prime minister's office and finally in the development of the wood was brought to court today he was brought in wearing a bulletproof vest and protected by thirty commandos government alleges that the russian government is actually trying to assassinate victor boot which is if you want to talk about conspiracy theories this one takes the cake. brazil's presidential elections are going to a second round runoff after the main competitors failed to secure enough votes for an out white an outright win this comes despite a push by the popular outgoing president lula da silva to line up his chief of staff as a successor dilma rousseff fell just short of the fifty percent threshold that she would have needed to make her brazil's first ever female president her popularity

is based on the promise to continue with the policies that have made brazil one of the world's biggest and fastest growing economies to face opposition leader jose serra at the end of october laura lister has more. on the streets of brazil after eight years of this like a miracle because. her spirit bring it cools to the people people lined up to decide the next chapter of bad luck out i hope that the female candidate a woman to make history in my country that is summed up the loudest voice on the streets and in the pulls ahead of the elections for a new head of state while many credit the outgoing ones. was 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 a duma 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 that she is the one what do you want with brazil is going to continue to rise though. confidence has helped popularity some activists familiar with lula's politics past and present aren't convinced are right that 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 thinks that this 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. 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 can go to with more to do much better there they are people who before lula had no voice may now continue writing their own songs.

lauren lyster r.t. paulo brazil. dr case coning who is an expert on brazil and your trek university says if domer software is the election she's likely to continue will his legacy. i think missions will shift for the most likely to win the second round two will by and large continue to move. and if international economic circumstances remain favorable for brazil issue will most likely. continue brazil the powerful for economic expansion and increasing political significance unchanged in principle you have to remind of course a very active internationally and also very able to engineer a good relationship cross the globe had the 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 deep in their economic and diplomatic relations over the next four to eight years there's no doubt about it questions that politicians may not feel comfortable answering are being raised on the sidelines of a conference of the u.k. coalition governments leading party the conservatives the freedom zone is anxious over the erosion of civil liberties civil liberties in the country as well as what it sees as the domination of britain by the e.u. archy's laura and it has been following the conference. it's hard to imagine. but also. rest in europe in the past week or say of course we remember that we had a summer of relative quiet and then just in the last week european countries all

over europe people have come out to protest against. the results of the european debt crisis we saw one hundred thousand people gathered in brussels the. island of course the trouble we had. fifty billion euros is going to cost the government. that means that they now have a budget deficit ten times. the highest seen any. really for ireland it's crunch time now that this latest round of austerity measures works or have to go. to the e.u. the i.m.f. . greece very humiliating. so i'm very happy to be joined by philip davies he's a conservative party member of parliament just tell me what you think what effect do you think the irish situation will have on the eurozone as

a whole both it will see the collapse of the euro so it goes to show that the system is flawed. countries with different economic circumstances all being forced into the same interest rates that we've seen. to other countries around the world and you get. to use typical free school measures to try and pin down. interest rates in order to help them do that they've got no will the trick pony they can only use the spending plans and think we see in the beginning of the end of the eurozone because it is fundamentally flawed if you had china has stepped in stay invested in the. that's something that. temporarily the things i like in paper over the cracks but it doesn't stop the fundamental flaw in the system having walled interest rate for so many diverse countries can't possibly. be difficult to have one interest rate for a country like the united kingdom where the economy tends to different rates in the

north and the south as a percent you can have one for the whole of the e.u. . for the moment and the effect it's having on society. that's something that you see continuing absolutely be a particularly because people have been forced into this economic political. against their will in many countries even being asked with. the feeling of powerlessness in the face of the people being forced into something they don't want to belong to they're just bills. now you advocate for. people here the freedoms and saying it's a very good say. complete withdrawal from the european union is that really a. point in the future for our future prosperity as a. country like china india south america. africa we do our future. in would face.

businesses and. we've built. our future wealth is being global the view of little europeans who see everything. thanks very much for joining us. has been whipping up some anti russian sentiment of late and president medvedev is now trying to clear the air using cyberspace in an online video medvedev says the belorussian leader is using aggressive talk towards moscow to bolster his presidential election campaign r.t. sarah for of takes a closer look. well in his cloak we can hear president. making specific reference to the election campaign in bellary and saying that it's based almost entirely on entourage and slogans on accusations of russia's unwillingness provide

support and also direct criticism to the russian leadership so the person i'm afraid of his used his 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 sense they're downright indecent he's obviously concerned about a lot of things to our economy russian journalists 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 of going to 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 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 good. to see a shared culture and he also makes it very clear that despite the tensions at the top of. things such as the gulf this meeting his son the mother russia has provided support both in the past and we. i'm deeply convinced that russia always has and will consider better routes. to be the closest of its neighbors we are united by a known shared history culture common joys and greece a good neighborhood has been the reason we've been helping belarus ever since the fall of the soviet union twenty years ago the scope of our aid effort no matter what people might say has been huge this year alone we've made discounts on those

shipments to buy the roost worth approximately two billion dollars in total shipments to baton rouge have been subject to committal concessions the reason we did that was because we sincerely believe that our nations were inseparable this is why i was extremely surprised to see the brunt of russian authorities have lately taken up anti russian rhetoric. in the summer thought to be one of the main problems and of course the subtle but suddenly over relations between the other eastern russia and we know that what happened there was very stressing to cut off transit routes for the supply of oil and gas and search essentially that she was a result but it's certainly one of the things that seem to have given rise to the sudden increase in this anti russian with tore it up but the overall point the person making this focus was saying much better rather than making an enemy of russia to be focusing on the problems internally. it was artie's sarraf earth

reporting from moscow present made better of blog is available on our website right now just click on our team dot com here's a look at what's also online. a month in the arctic massive expedition headed to the north pole to explore the consequences of climate change is a board read the blog updates on long. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a controversial dutch and be known for his strong and muslim the uses on trial for inciting hatred it hatred it stems from a speech good wilders made when he compared islam to naziism and called for the koran to be burned but the court failed to move forward with the case as wilders has exercised his right to silence his lawyer also accuses the judge your bias and

requested a substitution if convicted wilders faces up to a year in prison. a toxic waste reservoir in hungary has burst killing at least two people and injuring dozens more three others are missing after a red sludge from an aluminum factory flooded two villages it contains high levels of poisonous metals which can burn the skin and eyes the army has been deployed to help rescue people trapped on top of their homes. in 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 rising violence that has so far claimed twenty lives and left scores wounded militants have been trying to overthrow the u.s. backed government there for more than three years. united states' concerns over a new terror attacks are ramping up now a federal audit scholar calling for workers at a nuclear power plants to be trained in spotting terrorists among employees is comes after the u.s. warns that attacks were eminent in europe advising its citizens to be vigilant and

alert that has since been echoed by britain and japan the russian fighting technique adopted by the k.g.b. has found a new following across the world so much so that the twenty ten a hand to hand fighting world cup finals are being held in the u.s. for the first time always up for a challenge our correspondent guy nature has gotten into the fighting spirit for us . for comedian elo louis his sham hand to hand fighting is still new. he mostly does judo and teaches thai boxing but this russian born sport takes the best elements of many fighting techniques. when you think about it it's more real thing else plus as 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 tossed to russian special forces and it's

a growing sport and with this going international. program developed by the k.g.b. to. try to think. i mean that's a real game unlike in mixed martial arts russian hand to hand fighting has rules on limitations which newcomers are still getting used to the xan 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 authority i was always curious what's on the mind of the hot and sweaty guy when his on demand maybe girlz meet one of today's winners russian you go out or. if you don't think about anything but your next move once you get distracted in anything except the fight you should never allow the thought that you're losing if you have the slightest guarantee that you want to 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. 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. here in the making is just one day he decided he was going to stand up for himself the man said that russian special forces move involves gone bad for stuff like that but in this sport it's just hands and feet and it's not just fun to watch actually a lot of the moves are pretty useful for itself to fans who are fragile girl like me and is going to teach me something something really simple i'm going to put my hands on you ok so you use your hand 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 with the right ok i'll do that as. fighting for our team in the state of pennsylvanian she's got a mean left hook by the way next to leading french historian tells our team about russia's role in the world politics today and why the country is often misunderstood in the west that interview is coming your way next stay with us.

everyone got out of them 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 one thousand nine hundred seventy eight in her book the 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 so you talk about russia can we presume from the title that you think russia still hasn't found its place in the wall media. at the news of sims was looking east was not exactly what the looks as is that russia has made this kind of decision but over the past ten years it's been pursuing two different parts rather than one which i've been trying to explain is that after the soviet union does integrate its 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 wallasey for more than ten years now and it's brought great success then you in your introduction you raised the. whether russia should be fear of it do you mean that piro 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 showed their fears and passed them on to the e.u.

saying that russia used to be an empire so why should it cease being an empire and we 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. but that's completely different thing what a 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 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. what are the main types of russia places today. russia has the legacy of the soviet union and it will be marked by this stigma for a long time yeltsin sat take as much independence as you can swallow and another

day he sat free get out of here many things about russia for water and 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. 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 did a long comfortable 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 annoyed and hungary was affected by the soviet union to a certain extent given by russia has come

a long way and he. 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 be realized 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 and asia even the u. .