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those a movie don't understand shift he was punished but they protest promised. parties top stories of life on the mind not-i court dismisses fresh charges against celebs arms dealer viktor brute who are now a step closer towards extradition to the u.s. but his relatives fear the quick judgment that could await him there. britain's ministry of defense is slammed for purging its computers of data on its afghanistan missions making it virtually impossible to properly investigate claims of abuse by soldiers. and while europeans cry out against getting crossed by tax pikes and pay cuts the same troubles in the u.s. can't seem to coax americans into an accent. also a mountain of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problem as the trash piles up the

city says it can't get recycling plans off the ground also. and the international investment formal fee to be capital is underway in moscow with top officials and business representatives taking part will be for you highlight self event business program. a warm welcome to you live from our headquarters in central moscow this is archie with me and use to now way it's six pm in the russian capital nine pm in bangkok thailand where relatives of russian businessman viktor boot who is wanted by the u.s. for alleged arms smuggling say they fear for his life but it's wife believes washington is planning to force her husband to give the testimony they need if he's extradited to america. it's quite possible they're like sudan team just woke up in some

areas and few seem to give would have a testimony of the u.s. once you give i think we'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to fleece to do these days. well in their time boots legal team now has thirty days to appeal the latest criminal court decision earlier on tuesday it cleared the way for the businessman's possible extradition after dismissing new claims of money laundering and fraud against him those charges 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 those are allegations he denies the so-called merchant of death was arrested in march two thousand and eight in bangkok in an american led sting operation but let's talk about what could happen to victor boot joining us now is brian johnston thomas who is a former u.n.

arms trafficking expert thank you for joining us this evening from birmingham in the u.k. i'd like to begin by asking you if you think there are any chances for boots legal team to use the thirty day appeal deadline in its favor before the extradition period expires. that's a very good question i don't think anyone knows the answer just yet should be able to charge legal system. i think if i were them i would be quite concerned about the fact that we're still proceeding on the original indictment which was a sting operation with all the pitfalls. shows. a bit more in detail about the thai legal system under taiwan the final extradition decision rests with the prime minister what might affect his final decision and do you think that he could overrule the court's decision. prime ministers which was between a rock and a place on the one hand the house american pressure which is pretty impressive on

the handy house russian pressure which is also hard to say for instance i don't envy the man not decision. i have concerns about what the victim will be going back to based on your new the person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the colombian rebels there's a man called montreal council who was an arms dealer who strangely also was of assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so so i think that's on the president's lawyers in the states if it got there would not be able to bring which is a system for the pentagon into the court to example the people close to boot including his wife fear for his life assuming the us will use every possible effort to force any can fasten i'd like to hear do you think that's why clee. i just know when if you asked me what ten years ago i was had gone talum obey was not likely so you

know the world we live in is a strange and sometimes hostile place i think it's unlikely that people will want deliberately to harm anyone but i think home is sometimes done as part of the process but what people may see is getting good getting the truth out of somebody with that said what do you think the chances are of getting a fair hearing if he is sent to the us. as i said i think given the president's amman's at all costs which is the only one in recent times which seems to hold i think it's of logically that his depends. should happen we'll be able to bring into evidence the fact that he house on occasion being to assistance to the pentagon to us and nato countries in providing extra she my concern always has been not the soldiers necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly as a sting operation and he's not the merchant of death which to be to portray him as

well i would agree he's a witness of some death am i correct in understanding that you believe that victor boot is innocent. i don't know whether he's innocent because he's never been tried or then use the allegations which relates to things he may have done in the middle east in previous times i don't think the way to deal with people are is part of the elaborate sting operation which the drug enforcement administration launched against our would be happy to see a picture arraigned on charges that he was involved in up. and elsewhere in supplying weapons to people who worked on the committee with rights abuses with the thousand happened now after both been appearing in court wearing a bulletproof vest because the time government fears an attempt to assassinate him what grounds are there if for that if any do you think. i don't know i think that

the trouble is that it's a murky world this whole lot of trafficking business and i think that if. people who may have you hired in the past only member it's possible to deliver almost to a country without actually breaking any laws international law does not prohibit so you can almost broker an arms dealer. and maybe some of those people now are feeding the. you know if you get to being put in the position where you're the doc so explaining his actions so maybe that they are right to be concerned. if the extradition finally does take place many believe it will what impact do you think it might have on the relationship between the three countries involved what's at stake here. i think we should welcome the place with whatever the prime minister do so it's also the russians one's life he told the americans want. which is very important if it's on the field to people them. russian american relationships this

whole thing is not going to go. all right mr bryant johnson thomas a former u.n. arms trafficking expert joining us live from birmingham thank you very much for your analysis. but europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits while taxes are hiked are making their voices heard with loud protests across the continent they say they don't want to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bankers the latest demonstrations soft thousands of romanian teachers protest in bucharest demanding better wages an investment in education it's another country desperate to cut its budget deficit and is trying to do it by slashing public sector wages by twenty five percent but on the other side of the atlantic americans facing similar struggles are showing the same passion and fury prius reader looks at what europeans are doing a better job 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 foreigners or for us to try and make sure the change in liberty in the region that you had in the past. countries across the globe are facing one of the worst economic disasters. 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 unequal your society gets the more unequal it usually continues to get because when inequality reaches anything like the levels we see in america now the sheer amount of wealth and income in the hands of the very wealthy mean 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 tens of thousands of european 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 there there come a no nowhere close to the absolute destruction of middle class that we're seeing in the united states but many say these americans seem more concerned with getting their theoretical of freedoms back rather than specific benefits like wages and

retirement funds like what's happening over in europe so i think americans and europeans or 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 the united kingdom that's proposed to. it's 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 an enormous military budget of five hundred thirty three billion dollars 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 any time 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 is

going to happen preassure either our t. washington d.c. . in other news the u.k.'s ministry of defense has admitted that electronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in afghanistan are routinely wiped from computers one lawyer has already said it smacks of a cover up the disclosures were made about the public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist. died from multiple injuries in the crash to british soldiers in two thousand and three investigations being made harder by a lack of official records which could confirm commanders orders or who was in position at a certain time and imo de statement to the inquiry said there are gaps in the information because i t systems are routinely wiped when returned from operational deployments well it's got more reaction on this joining me now from london jim brown from the stop the war coalition thank you for joining us mr brown what kind of evidence could be obtained from military lab tops is it worth the costly procedure of collecting the

data is it really needed. well i agree with the lawyer i mean it's a strange thing because everybody knows that you can very easily. buy a mass electronic storage devices for very small amounts of money and. you would think that all the information collected during the two of operations would in my my or another be potentially useful and since the cost of storage cannot be very high therefore i agree with the lawyer that. this does smack of a cover up especially because apparently the air force and the navy do collect in a very in a systematic way all the electronic information gathered and it's the army that is that it simply wipes everything. but what i saw in the military keep us step by step account of every single detail if a crime is committed isn't it ok to presume there are victims in evidence hard

evidence why isn't that enough. well because. if you have that information anyway i think why why wouldn't you keep it i mean it's. the military's very interested in learning lessons i mean that's one of the things that's come in very much in recent years that you you constantly strive to learn lessons from what you do so that you supposedly do it better next time etc so that even for their purposes you would think that having this potential source of information not not something that you would simply analyze completely every time you finish with it but simply put it somewhere for future use of it if you do an exercise or an investigation it's potentially available. that seems to me. very useful and it seems to be striking that they say that they deliberately don't . and you've said you agree with the lawyer representing hundreds of iraqis who are

claiming abuse and says that this max of a cover up what else do you think might be at play here. sorry could you just repeat the last asking you with agreeing with that boy or claiming that this looks like it's a cover up what else do you think might be hidden from us hidden from the public what else could be at play here. oh i think i mean the the first and obvious thing is that if you look at the propaganda war that was waged and they clearly was i don't think that the military would deny that there was this propaganda war waged and certainly in this country it consisted of presenting british soldiers in especially in the early years after the after the invasion and the occupation in two thousand and three two thousand and four presenting british soldiers as being the ones who do things differently from the americans who go around in soft sort of. helmets and body armor and so on.

and who win the hearts and minds of the people all this sort of thing and there's abundant evidence that something else was going on at the same time that that was simply a propaganda thing for for fooling people and therefore that these abuses in fact. the inspiration for them comes from much higher up the like the idea that commanders actually told soldiers to be. very heavy handed and to treat iraq is quiet for the and so on and i think that's really the number one thing that stake the reputation of the army command how widespread do you think this kind of abuse is it's already known that the u.k. troops have used the course of interrogation techniques in iraq but do you think it's happening in afghanistan as well and how often and how much do we really know about how much it's happening. i think that in afghanistan.

things are far more chaotic so i think it's. almost guarantee that these things are going on in some way or another i mean you have such a law and anyway you had this thing and so until very late plea that they were obviously using for. helicopters and missiles and so on as compensation for the fact that they didn't have a large number of troops on the ground. that really seemed to be. the policy. to use technology which is what we do and clearly there's a lot of evidence that they were simply failing to distinguish between. but. so that i think we have to assure you and i we know this to some extent from the from the leak. a couple of months ago that we can we can.

so yes i i think we have to assure you that it's. going to. iraq right from stop the war coalition live in london jim brown thank you very much for your insight. to russian born scientists have won the nobel physics prize for developing a microscopic material that could revolutionize electronics on the game and constantine's of us have been working on the graphene which is a layer of carbon that's just an atom in thickness the noble academy said graphene could lead to a technical technological leaps in computer chips touch screens and solar cells the winning scientists begin began their careers at a soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain game in the west so we get to share one and a half million dollars for their ground breaking developments and ten years ago game received the so-called ignoble prize which celebrates some of science in its

most ridiculous research for proving that magnets can cause frogs to levitate. reduce reuse recycle is a slogan that's not really caught on in moscow with just fifteen percent of the millions of tons of garbage produced getting a new lease of life but burying the trust isn't a permanent solution either because space is running out. of looks into why problems are piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their frantic ten years ago the view from the thirteenth floor was so impressive the whole city before them but soon this hump turned into a hill blocking the view of the 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 some do you feel have cancer as well how will they be able to live here if these mining tombs continue growing if nothing is done to nothing or 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 you and gases are taken away by specially designed wipes afterwards insist on the deep knowledge easy 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 swell here is off watermelons which people for all weigh them all this time of year trucks come and go every minute while monster bulldozers flatten 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 ennui 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 street company responsible for that owns two huge pits wheezed by. any 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 to waste being mixed up and made an recyclable last year the city distributed separate bins enabling muscovites 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 glass blasting or people 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 dical logical consequences could be devastating so until the russian

capital gets its recycling act together millions of tons of waste will continue to be hidden from say today for future generations to deal with tomorrow you've got this going on r t moscow the business is coming up next if we are after a short break. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. the show would be so much brighter if you knew more about someone from first impression . done time dot com.

it's time to delve into the world of business that the sol russia calling the international investment form of beatific capital is underway in moscow and we'll bring you the latest reaction and comment. oh prime minister putin has the event to say that russia's budget position a strong and approving. was no puedo going to get the shit out of it with us russia state debt will reach an eleven percent of g.d.p. this year russia is likely to borrow more in coming years but even then our state debt won't exceed twenty percent of g.d.p. it's the lowest level in the world our draft state budget from next year will not contain a crisis fund as we had in two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten for

measures i don't think we'll need to stash in the budget and will be able to handle any problems from regular budget funds that would. europe is growing again south sas french finance minister christine like out she says the french economy will expend by two percent next year the public deficit is expected to fall we are getting out of the crisis growth is picking up and france has. really viewed up with its forecast for two thousand and ten we will be cruising at a growth rate of one point six this year two percent is our forecast for next year we have revised downwards our forecast for the public deficit down to seven point seven percent and we will be at six percent next year with an inflation which is forecast at one point five percent and unknown ploy meant declining.

talk more on russia's attractiveness for international investors and its chances to become international financial center i'm joined here this to do by your very much chief investment office a founding partner of think greater europe. very much as a mentor it was also one of the speakers at the international press mint formal fee to be capital thank you very much for joining us so for you as an international investor to sit matter if moscow is a global financial center or is the concept over done well certainly the first reaction is one of laughter. in the new york hong kong challenge by moscow but having spoken to mr walsh when i was in charge was asked me to participate in the effort i think the effort is an excellent effort because it brings along the right sort of changes we need both on the legal front the day to day problems be to taxi lane have the traffic jam so i think it's a great initiative and i see the potential even though it's far way better to have a goal than have no goals. what is worse is image as

a place to invest are investors looking more positive at russia as a place to invest their money in fortunately the reputation of russia the perception of russia remains quite unfortunate and shouldn't food oneself if one goes out and hears people speak honestly they extremely scared of russia. inflation corruption mafia absence of rule of law our experience in russia has been in over seventeen years almost that we haven't had to pay a bribe we haven't had to pay protection money we've had very good results and actually looking at perception versus reality i think reality is ten times better than section even though we'll tease again worse ten times that we need to be a lot can be made in russia we see it as one of the safest places for micro point of view almost no deaths compared to the us we think the dollar is at risk of devaluing strongly because the us is heavily indebted the ruble has a potential depreciation and. my great hope is that president medvedev and prime

minister putin finally go at corruption and the recent dismissal of my solution is a step in the right direction russia could be fighting corruption in earnest now and if that's the case then mr putin is well on the way of becoming an equine you highly respected global leader that took russia from being bankrupt to being a global superpower again. is russia moving away from its dependence on natural resources and what of sectors you view well the way i see it is in one thousand nine hundred eight we had a big crash in russia because of the dependence on the role materials. forms in two thousand and eight again we had a big crisis in russia one of the worst and i think in two thousand and nine with the. see go forward russia letter by president medvedev of russia announced it will move no way ordered gas and already the last ten years it's been taking away heavy heavy taxes on oil and gas to move to other sectors and growth is coming from other sectors we're heavily invested in the russian interested distribution sector we're getting eleven percent yield on the regular.