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life on the line the family of victor boot the alleged russian arms dealer currently in jail in thailand fear he may be forced into confessing if taken into u.s. custody. and to the austerity protest in the gulf europe people in the uighurs seem to be taking their hardships less seriously we look at why. and a garbage goal or moscow's landfills are turning into mounds and trash city authorities been there recycling plans for the russian capital. i mean it's a national investment forum a v t v capital is underway in moscow with top officials and businessmen attending and we'll bring you the latest from that event in our business program.

a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow if you're watching our team with me and you so now way it's two pm here in the russian capital five pm in bangkok thailand and relatives of victor boot who's wanted in the u.s. for alleged arms smuggling are expressing fears for his life his wife believes washington is planning to force a confession out of him it comes as a u.s. aircraft carrier arrived in bangkok where he's currently being held she says it's no coincidence he was with the unstable it's quite possible they're like sudan team just woke up on some craft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think. to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to fleece to do. well earlier

today a thai court cleared the way for hoots possible extradition when it dismissed new charges of money laundering and fraud against him these charges have delayed a decision taken in august to hand him over to the u.s. where he's accused of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels allegations denies the so-called motif of doubt was arrested in march two thousand and eight in bangkok in an american led sting operation. goodman is a publisher specializing in investigative writing he believes victor 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 i think they're 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 due to anything but america has promised thailand fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way if he's next right 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 them 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 here with our team. still to come for you this hour an escape from the vices life are to visit a remote school in ukraine's crimea that's helping hundreds of young people fight drug addiction i taking them to charge.

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welcome back now protests have raced across europe over government all starting measures with populations anger that they're having to pay for all those mistakes meanwhile americans facing similar struggles of sound very little passion compared to the fury displayed overseas previous reader takes a look at why europeans are doing better at trying to protect their pockets. it's october two thousand and ten and while things aren't looking too good americans and europeans have reacted to the tough times very differently about this story unfortunately you can't tell from this but only with mass struggle can there be a positive development for the benefit of workers support for us to try and make sure a country maintains their liberty in the freedom that we had in the past. countries across the globe are facing one of the worst economic disaster is in recent history fourteen million americans are unemployed one in five people in the united kingdom is living in poverty and more than twenty percent of spain's population can't find

work more on equal your society gets the more unequal it usually continues to get because when inequality reaches anything like the levels we see in american male the sheer amount of well. an income in the hands of the very wealthy means they can begin to buy political parties they can buy whole segments of the house and senate so now world leaders have to decide what to cut and what to keep we've identified substantial savings and in the days and weeks ahead we will continue going through the budget line by line and will identify more than one hundred programs that will be cut or eliminated but it looks like our friends in europe might be one step ahead of us tens of thousands of europeans stormed brussels the location of the headquarters of the european union in response to news participating governments would be fined if they ran up deficits. especially for countries with debts even more pressure on budget cuts and this means cuts in social area and the public infrastructure and the crisis will end up being paid for by the workers the news

that more jobs will be cut pensions frozen and wages lowered fired up the masses there are austerity measures going on in europe and the europeans are pushing back really hard the consequence of those is going to be to reduce the european lifestyle but they're there come in no nowhere close to the absolute destruction of middle class that we're seeing in the united states so why haven't americans taken to the streets over this country's unsettling economic statistics yes we have the tea partiers and the new wave of progressives who have been rallying in response to the tea partiers but many say these americans seem more concerned with getting their theoretical freedoms back rather than specific benefits like wages and retirement funds like what's happening over in europe so i think americans and europeans are in the street what's kind of very odd is americans are in the street asking for less government help because they've given up on the government and the europeans are in the street asking for more government help because they still believe their situation can be made better by social spending. so what's the

solution while many say the united states should look at our good friend the united kingdom that's proposed to cut its military spending by one fifth while some americans. believe now is not a good time to decrease funding for social programs some say the u.s. is enormous military budget of five hundred thirty three billion dollars it is the only logical place to make a cut but others say even though it might be a good idea it's not going to happen anytime soon the problem is that because our politics are corporate owned in the united states going to the defense budget which is mostly outsourced to defense contractors and say we're going to cut into that it's not going to happen preassure either r. t. washington d.c. well american economist richard wolfe says it's the historical decline of left wing movements in the u.s. that means those struggling are now left with one voice. it's the decision of the

europeans to overcome all of their differences their different cultures and languages in a common struggle against these austerity programs i think in europe for the last thirty years you've had a pretty vibrant trade union movement compared to what we have in this country you have active socialist communist and other radical organizations that analyze what's going on in an ongoing way with daily newspapers and daily of media outlets you have an educated population that can see these issues i think american cv issues but have no organized the basis after the long term decline of our labor movement and our left organizations so it's taking longer in the united states to mobilize because we have to organize from scratch these kinds of groupings and unities the europeans could rely on their tradition and put them into play much more quickly the europeans are ahead of us they have a clear vision and they have the organizations that clearly can mobilize millions

of people in strikes general strikes and manifestations that force the change to put the cost of this crisis on be capitalist enterprises who are most responsible for producing it. social unrest in europe means it's now decision time for some of the countries in the euro zone that's according to john redwood a british m.p. and euro skeptic he gave an interview to our t.v. with the full version coming your way in about twenty minutes here's a preview. i think it's up to the current member states of the euro to come to political conclusions democratic conclusions about how much pain individual countries are prepared to put up with to stay in it whether they can reach a better global settlement within the euro zone which perhaps releases a bit of the tension and pressure on spain and portugal and greece and ireland without completely upset in germany.

moscow is the biggest city in continental europe that house faces huge daily challenges over five and a half million tons of waste is produced annually in the capital but only a small portion of it is recycled. now reports it's a problem that's not so easy to bury. when alexander and his family moved to their flat ten years ago that you from the thirteenth floor was so impressive the whole city early before them but soon this hump turned into a hill blocking the view of a whole district it became so big they thought it was a new ski resort but instead it turned out to be a mountain of waste but afterward i was shocked i have children someday they'll have cancer as well i will they be able to live here if these mind terms continue growing if nothing is done to nothing the city will be surrounded by them this is how it works first a giant pit is dug in the ground the waste is distributed in isolated layers

eventually creating on the surface dock sick water is drained away from hugo and gases are taken away by specially designed wipes authorities insist the technology is eco friendly but let's face it it leaves a stinky present for future generations. i was actually walking on top of around thirteen million tons of trash interestingly at the moment the so-called seasonal smell here is off watermelons which people for all weigh them off this time of year trucks come and go every minute while monster bulldozers flattening the waste into where at the end all of this is going to walk like an ordinary hill just like that green area over there. moscow annually produces at least five and a half million tons of waste waste which has to be collected and either destroyed recycled or disposed off the state company responsible for that owns two huge pits

wheezed burning factories and sorting stations but still it's only able to recycle fifteen percent of the waste it collects most of the trash which could be recycled is ruined during the transportation to sorting stations garbage trucks press waste to collect more so everything is really mixed together that's why we recycle so little in the end. to prevent a waste being mixed up in meat and recycle last year the city distributed separate . ways to sort their garbage as they threw it away but the economic crisis hit and there wasn't enough money to send separate trucks dedicated to be going up just go ask why stick or beeper which were all mixed up anyway so the experiment was trashed this is money which is being thrown away most of the waste which could be used as lost the whole system needs to be changed or doogue logical consequences could be devastating so on to the russian capital gets its recycling act together millions of tons of waste will continue to be hidden from sight to be for future

generations to deal with to morrow you've got this going to moscow. now just fifteen minutes past the hour let's have a look at some other news making headlines around the world chile's president claims that the thirty three miners trapped underground for too long could be rescued couple of weeks experts from around the world have been helping to dig a state south through half a mile of rock to free them that had initially been thought they want the rest until christmas meanwhile members of the mining union held a protest in the regional capital demanding to be paid there's been no work at the site since the mines collapse at the beginning of. the vatican has criticised the award the warding rather of the nobel prize for medicine to british test tube baby pioneer robert edwards a spokesman said the decision ignored the ethical question of the treatment but while controversy controversy with religious groups that procedure has helped

millions of infertile couples have children every year around three hundred thousand babies are born worldwide with the help of i.v.'s. waves and red floods have swept through western hungary killing two injuring dozens more towns were hit by the toxic flooding after a reservoir. no lunar plant burst and slurry can be deadly if swallow burns the skin guys. it's been described as healing for both body and mind a school in ukraine's crimea has found the rat recipe for helping troubled use drug addiction and get their lives back on track. what's. a look see from ukraine's crimea enjoys his new life and gathering honey is one of his favorite hobbies this man now finds it hard to believe that less than a year ago he was barely alive alexy was a drug addict until friends told him of

a special school tucked away deep in the crimean mountains. at first to feed for my health the first stop taken drugs people at the school told me they'd give me some pills i came here and saw these pills. water and a natural environment in cold water every day and this is better than any medication we enjoy this life with nature around us with drugs that. were. opened in the mid nine hundred ninety s. the dragon tiger school became the first of its kind in ukraine over the past decade it has helped several hundred young people to escape from drug addiction its director says they use only natural methods to bring us back to a normal life but. the main mission of the school is to bring man back to nature humanity departed from nature and started stagnating integrate youths with basic elements like earth wind water and fire we want them to live just like our

ancestors lived respecting the good of nature completely self-sufficient. at first glance the school looks like a buddhist monastery watching the physical exercises which students do they look more like martial arts. and one corner of the school's grounds leaves almost no. no doubt about its absence this is the spiritual heart of the school a piece of meteorite sits on a buddhist better style and this is where students recharge their energy as well as marking the birth of each day with a ring of a bell. but for a lady martin says that his school has no religious element whatsoever she says in a fight against inner chaos all faiths can offer good solutions the school provides diverse means of self reconstruction regardless of a person's religious conviction if you do your product. we've got both physical

practice and spiritual exercises we develop both body and soul we want to students to understand that their fate is in their own hands so we also educate them we have an extensive library and we do translations of historic books. from just several followers in the mid ninety's the dragon tiger school has now more than two hundred permanent students it is not financed by the state but its director says there are enough benefactors to aid their cause the cause which he describes as a natural more violent healing of society a look. see reporting from ukraine's crimea. but don't forget there is much more on our web site r.t. dot com including videos blogs and forums here's a look at what might catch your eye right now with the quest to find the mascot for the twenty four to forty olympics well underway we have a lock and some of the colorful submissions and those behind them. plus mind

reading web browser to see what the future holds with search engines that may know what you want before you do all this and more at our team dot com. time now to get down to business here in our arena going to the latest from the world of finance and markets why they're green it looks like inflation in russia is on the rise that's right and it's raising concern that any one place will be higher than the official forecast but before we go to about two out of main story today russell calling international investment forum of bt capital is underway in moscow correspondent charlotte lomas farley were ports all the efforts to make the capital a world financial center. there's.

a lot of stuff and so well underway here at the second d.t.b. capital investment forum where the most so is russia calling up basically sums up the idea of this three day event it's about promoting dialogue between russian and in some national companies and showcasing moscow as a place for foreign investment and that's what the focus is on here is trying to encourage more foreign companies come here to russia and invest also in fruit cooperation so this later we'll be hearing from prime minister vladimir putin on his thoughts but now i'd like to say hear the opinions of someone else's alexei boys they've joins me now from the t.v. captain thanks very much for speaking to us this hour one of the power discussions is russia on the cauls to innovation a modern my station how important do you feel events such as this forum here on achieving its goal baltic for much by blitz is there any attempts. to force this question to the slip at the source the realism of this conference is good or that

the russian government sick of the presence of such of the goldfields last modernists your lover to come along with us and not simply supply from israel through or for the rest of the world. the flusher raw materials important source post-feminist but it's actually not a very important source of employment so a lot of rust the source of these are sustainable country it has to political elsewhere and they're really on the choice by the subsidise the fish and the swiss through all sorts of there of protections from government subsidies but there's a sort of doing always and when all this fails and the other ways to modernize the us economy our side of the world war a lot of the raw materials tend to make washing in the noncommercial sector the boards on a global scale there have to say that the whole of the russian authorities have been for the ball there's still a lot of skepticism outside the forces of the sort of us as well whether they see from doing that because the experience in the past has not been perceived as successful as russia has them really been maybe able to authorize itself

a little before liberals are there for just a mere somebody wants one bit of experience right. the finance minister says he expects russia to see a modest capital of flawed two thousand and ten but he sees that turning to an inflow in the coming years he also gave his outlook on foreign direct investments that. are very slow to shoot them that i'd like to emphasize that we the government are counting on foreign direct investment in the past foreign direct investments reach seventy five billion dollars for example in two thousand and eight last year f.d.r. was thirty six billion dollars that's a significant decrease from pre-crisis levels but already this year we're expecting to go over the forty billion dollar mark and in the next two years to plan to reach fifty billion dollars of foreign direct investments into the russian economy. the global economic crisis has given russia the opportunity to rebuild its economy for the better that's according to presidential aide arkady dvorkovich day that there

was to know niña economic at the talks we're facing right now is not to rebuild the economy we had the structure of that economy the structure of economic growth the previous years although we would of course like the same rates of economic growth we need to refresh the economy and create the basis for a new economy one that will see steady growth over many years using you when you get russian infrastructure will need one trillion dollars of investment over the next ten years the bank committee capital has developed a special bond to help raise that money but have now developed something new which is which is withholding the infrastructure. which is in your instrument which would enable quite a lot to happen in russia future of the infrastructure want to say that this will be the board which can be guaranteed by the russian minister of finance and that can enable quite a few markets to develop and. news food prices continue to drive up inflation after

the summer's drought it reached zero point eight percent in september pushing the annual inflation rate to seven percent so far there are concerns that consumer prices will grow above official this year growth was driven mainly by food prices and eggs in particular the price of eggs. in more than fifty. let's take a look at how the market's up to four asian markets trading high on tuesday. with its biggest three weeks. after the bank of japan cut interest rates to zero we can be exporters shares of four percent and. two point eight percent hong kong shares are in the positive as well and european stocks are higher by the retail sector that's after u.k. grosser tesco reported a stronger than expected but first top of the year tesco shares climbed one percent in early trading another. saw its share point eight percent

weakness for mining stocks though and some financial woes are a break coming. in the minds of trading higher in the afternoon this is up twenty three percent six last early against slightly most of the blue chips are gaining between point two percent but most are in the red on the. trading in the red while. true. on both the. point three percent on the line. russia's central bank has withdrawn the license of international industrial bank control by sen surrogate of the central bank says the bank had submitted inaccurate reporting data and was unable to meet the demands of creditors i believe failed to pay or loan of thirty two billion rubles to the central bank that had previously been suspended for six months the bank rushes thirtieth largest

bank by assets becomes the first major bank to lose its license since the financial crisis began. that's all i have for you this hour but you can always log on to our website r t dot com slash business and find more stories there. you are.