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movie don't understand shipping it was punished but they pretty much promise. life on the line up tie court dismisses fresh charges against alleged arms dealer viktor boot moving him 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 crying out against getting crushed by tax hikes and pay cuts the same troubles in the u.s. can't seem to coax americans into action. also a mountain of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problem as the trash piles up the city says they can't get recycling clowns off the ground.

it's seven pm in moscow and this is r t coming to you vibe with me and he said no way first stop relatives of russian businessmen victor boot who is wanted by the you asked for alleged arms smuggler. so they fear for his life but its wife believes washington is planning to force her husband to give the testimony they need if he's extradited to the states and he was mostly very unstable it's quite possible they're like sudan team just look him up on some aircraft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think he'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 starting to mingle since psychological pressure well under thai warbirds 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 delay 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 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 brian johnson thomas a former u.n. arms trafficking expert says he has concerns over victor boot safety if his axe to die did to the u.s. . i have concerns about what the verdict will be going back to based on the new the person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the for the colombian rebels is a man called monster all count who was an arms dealer who strangely also was assistant to the americans on many occasions when his lawyers sought to bring that

into the court he was in the larger douceur so i think that's on the president's lawyers in the states if he got there would not be able to bring which is a system for the pentagon and to the court example the people close to boot including his wife fear for his life assuming the u.s. will use every possible effort to force any confession i like to hear do you think that's. i know even if you asked me well ten years ago i was had grown talent it 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 calm is sometimes done as part of the process but what people may see is getting getting the truth of us and with it i think given the president's amman's at all costs if you give the recent films seems to hold i think it's the iraqis depends. should that happen will be able to

bring into evidence the fact that the house on occasion being of assistance to the country going on two of the nato countries and providing it. to my concern always has been not to use the serve the innocence of all charges but the sting operation is something he didn't do quite clearly existing operation and he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a merchants of some death. europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits cut 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 thousands of romanian teachers protesting bucharest demanding better wages and 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 shiri

looks at why europeans are doing better and 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 we 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 an equal 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 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 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 it would be 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 they're coming no nowhere close to the absolute

destruction of middle class that we're seeing in the united states but many say americans see 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 it's kind of very odd as 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 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 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 saying we're going to cut into that is just not going to happen preassure either our t. washington d.c. . a former british government minister says swelling social unrest in europe means it's the session time for the club of countries using the euro john redwood tells us why it's time to choose who should stay. i think it's up to the current member states of the euro to come to political conclusions democratic inclusions well 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. you can watch that full interview with john redwood next hour here on our t.v. at eight thirty pm moscow time. now reduce reuse recycle it's

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 trash isn't a permanent solution either because space is running out parties or groups going over looks into why the problems are piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their flat ten years ago that you from the thirteenth floor it was so impressive the whole city 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 mine terms continue growing if nothing is done soon the full 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 so well 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 rude during the transportation to sorting stations garbage trucks press ways to collect more so everything is really mixed together that's why we recycle so little in the end. to prevent a waste to 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 king of just glass blasted or people which were all mixed up anyway so the experiment was trashed this is money which is being thrown the way most of the waste which could be used as lost the whole system needs to be changed or the 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 sight to be

for future generations to deal with tomorrow you've got this kind of moscow. 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 coverup. well the disclosures were made at the public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist baha died from multiple injuries robbed in the custody of british soldiers in two thousand and three the investigations being made harder by a lack of official records which could confirm commander of orders or who was in position at a certain time and imo d. statement to the inquiry said there are gaps in the information because i t systems are routinely wiped when returned from operational deployments jim brown from the stop the war coalition that copper robs from mishandled operations in afghanistan may be even worse than those in iraq. and 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 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 and sort of our. 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 but that was simply a propaganda thing for for fooling people and therefore that these abuses in fact. the inspiration for them comes from the like the idea that compounded actually told soldiers to be. very happy. 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 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 it's. cetera 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 so that if you do an exercise or an investigation it's potentially available and it seems to me striking that they say that very deliberately done that in afghanistan things are far more chaotic so i think it's. almost guaranteed that these things are going on in some way or another i mean you have such a such a blue line anyway you had this thing and kill and so very lately that they were

obviously using firepower helicopters and missiles and so on as compensation for the fact that they didn't have a large number of troops on the ground and that really seemed to be a policy to use firepower to use technology which is what they do. it with our teens live from moscow up soon for you a way to escape the destructive power of drug abuse. there are rebalancing their lives using the power of nature to defeat their demons. to russian born scientists have won the nobel physics prize for developing a microscopic material that could revolutionize electronics under the game and constantine you know what soul of have been working on graphene which is a layer of carbon that's just an adamant that commits the nobel academy said graphene could lead to technological leaps in computer chips touch screens and

solar cells the winning scientists began their careers at a soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain game in no but still live get to share one and a half million dollars for their ground breaking development ten years ago game received the so-called ignoble prize which celebrates some of science's most ridiculous research for proving that magnets can cause frogs to levitate. let's have a look at some other stories from around the world this hour the felde bomber who tried to detonate explosives in new york's times square has been sentenced to life in prison on may the first faisal shahzad drove a car with a homemade bomb into the square which was packed with tourists no one was injured and shocked zod was arrested two days later he pleaded guilty to ten terrorism and weapons charges and prosecutors say he shows no remorse no remorse. also a series of raids by french anti terror police has uncovered an islamic extremism

network eleven suspects have been arrested on suspicion of arms trafficking and supplying false papers for afghan terrorist last month fred said it was checked off on a possible suicide attack in paris the u.s. britain entropy of all issued a travel alert for continental europe. also. heavy rains in northern italy have claimed at least three lives after a car was swept into a flooded underpass it happened in a city north of florence the three victims are of chinese origin another submerged car was also found in the underpass but there was no one inside but here storm has hit italy this weekend as flooded streets and cut power in most colorful tuscany and korea. and tackling drug addiction through medication psychiatry or hospitals may work for some but in the clear mountain air of ukraine's crimea it's back to basics and this is no celebrity rehab it uses ancient techniques to kick the habit

harmony with nature or it seems alexei ourselves has seen how it helps users get clean. i look say 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. the first to feed for my health the first stop taken drugs people at the school told me they'd give me some pills they came here and saw these pills. and a neutral environment even cold water every day and this is better than any medication we enjoy this life with nature with drugs. 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 of humanity departed from nature and started stagnating integrate youths with basic elements like earth wind water and fire we were. 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 doubt about its absence this is the spiritual heart of the school a piece of meteorite sits on a buddhist 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 morrison says that his school has no religious element whatsoever she's 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 that you are 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. where on line twenty four hours

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international investment forum of v.t. be capital is underway in moscow and we'll bring you the latest comment and reaction. foreign direct investment was the key topic on the first day of the to be investment forum here in moscow with top officials and business represented just taking pot all correspondent shot it's almost folly has the details. the main message being conveyed here by the russian officials is that they are satisfied with the progress that russia has made on the success of the anti crisis measures now like other economies like japan and the u.s. so they know it's no using stimulus packages and they will soon move towards actually sustained longer term economic growth but the russian officials have acknowledged that to achieve this it does require a more direct foreign investment in the needs to actually tell the international

delegation here that russia is a good place to invest a good place to do business and that actually there isn't as much money coming into the russian economy as there was before the crisis hit so a lot more is needed to be done and to achieve this this was that she idea picked up on by the prime minister vladimir putin who did call in there to be more incentives for foreigners to do business. we're not counting tax incentives but broadening to encourage investment in modernizing the economy within days we'll introduce a draft law to the state duma to release investors from the income tax when they sell shares so long as they've got five years and they're traded on stock exchanges this should help develop french or capital and attract long term investment. so there was a lot of talk of more cooperation and deepening relations between russia and its international partners there really from the day warn of the capital investment

forum here there is agreement that russia has made progress but that it also does need to make sure that there is tighter financial regulation and supervision in the future and all russia might be on the path towards growth and towards diversification always economy there is still a long road ahead. meanwhile gone for more chief investment officer and founding partner at paramount asset management told r.t. that russia still has a poor image among foreign businessmen and that's hurting investment. unfortunately the reputation of russia the perception of russia remains quite bad unfortunate shouldn't food oneself if one goes out and hears people speak honestly they extremely scared of russia the. 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 perception even though we will tease again worse ten times that we need to be . the privatization of russia's largest state companies could go slower than planned ahead of ficci bank has told r.t. to present a fee to be bank on trade question also spoke about the company's move it to a new nation insurance we do have entrance company but i agree that. business doesn't play very important. group here so we have plans to expand as maybe including some position emerge or some other company but we love working on one additional. in this area i think we will strengthen our management team and. we will we will definitely invest more in this activity as we feel this is a. related business to the banking teach and so we will be very much interested in

seeing as one of the major business of the group if we can just move towards. other plans for the bank to uproot and do you feel that the conditions are favorable at the maybe it's nothing will. change the look at our strategy here that beside the large warnings which were. organizing on the national markets we also will focus on the specific come to a more we like we did in singapore. probably some other countries that we did a one in in switzerland it will help us to get the best best price for that so we'll continue to come by these larger international issues with. the currency issues maybe in south pacific no one area i'd like to touch upon is the privatization of businesses what timescale can you give us the when the government will hand over control in the midterm the government will keep the controlling

stake in this link up it is about the. prime minister mr putin mentioned this morning i mean ideologically there's no restriction so. sooner or later the government will be ready to go below this i think that that will not happen within the next let's say three year. perspective i don't think it is feasible not only because of pollution the government but mainly because i'm afraid to give you the markets will not digest. them less. let's have a look at the russian markets and the markets closed a tuesday session in the black the r.t.s. was up one point seven percent while the my suits gain just six percent all the major blue chips finished in positive territory. that's all we have time for now get most torah small website r.t. dot com slash business.