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life on the law in a todd court dismisses fresh charges against alleged arms dealer big to boot moving a step closer towards extradition to the u.s. in his words to fit a quick judgment that could awaits him. britons but his true 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. or europeans cry 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 as we report this hour. and a mountain of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problem as the trash piles up the city says it just can't skate recycling plants off the ground.

hello this is r t welcome to the latest news update from moscow at nine pm this choose day i'm kevin zero in with our top story and relatives of russian businessman vic to boot who is wanted by the u.s. for alleged arms smuggling say they fear for his life victor the boots wife believes that washington is planning to force her husband to give the testimony they need if he is extradited to america and he was very unstable that it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some aircraft carrier and four seem to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think they'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands they're playing to face to do these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. under title boots legal team now thirty days

to appeal the latest criminal court decision earlier on choose day it cleared the way for the business from a possible extradition are to dismissing new planes of money in melbourne for the games to press charges delayed a decision taken in august to hand him over to the us 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 now he's in this now we spoke to former u.n. arms trafficking expert brian johnston thomas for his views on safety if he is eventually said to be honest. i have concerns about what the big three will be going back to based on the only other person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the part of the colombian levels is a man called montreal counsel who was an arms dealer 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

which is lawyers in the states if it got there would not be able to bring pictures assistance of the pentagon into the court to 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 can fasten my like to hear do you think that's why i claim i just don't know if you asked me what ten years ago i was said grant alamo berry 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 to you know brutally to harm anyone but i think harm is sometimes done as part of the process what people may see as getting good getting the truth out of somebody but i think given the the president. which is the only one in recent times which seems to go i think it's unlikely that he's depends. should that happen will be able to. bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been of assistance to

the pentagon to us and nato countries in providing. she my concern always has been not necessarily innocent of all charges but the sting operation of some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation and he's not of the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a merchant of some death. well russia's foreign minister has been speaking to the thai prime minister about viktor boots case while in brussels to get over of says that russia won't interfere in the course work in thailand. russia does not intend to negotiate with the united states over the fate of victor boot. moscow expects the u.s. not to interfere in the thai courts processes on boots case the idea that the u.s. and russia have to agree between themselves upon boots case is outside the legal field. the u.k.'s ministry of defense is admitted that electronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in afghanistan a routinely wiped from computers one lawyers already said it smacks of

a cover up the disclosures were made at the public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist who said died from multiple injuries while in custody of british soldiers in two thousand and three and the investigations were made harder by a lack of official records which could confirm commanders orders all who was in position at a certain time and energy statement into the inquiry said there are gaps in the information because i.t. systems were routinely white when it returned from operational deployment let's get more reaction to this kevin lowe is a human rights lawyer from the redress organization he's on the line with us from london tonight thanks for being with us mr what evidence then is usually available in investigating torture cases in your experience would data for example from military laptops help with all. well i think the answer is that it would be important to have as much information which was officially recorded by the.

british army by the ministry of defense personnel in this case because the whole purpose of this inquiry ofter all is to try and establish the facts of what happened in september two thousand and three when mr musso was killed in custody and other civilian detainees were tortured so i think the inquiry would be keen to have as many of the facts as it possibly can here just reminding ourselves in our view is that it's understood isn't it that u.k. troops were told to use coercive interrogation techniques in iraq most notably in the case that we're talking about how widespread do you think intensive questioning has been used on afghan civilians like this. iraq you may know or have can because this particular inquiry is concentrating on iraq although. i think they are wider issues which would which would also. relate talk about let's

focus on iraq again let's focus in on iraq. yeah well i think it's it was quite clear even before this inquiry began that they had been serious breaches of these persons rights that that at the very least cruel inhuman or degrading if not torture take place. there was no denial that somebody had actually been killed in custody there was a court martial which would lead to only one conviction. showed that you know many things had had gone wrong so to speak so the inquiry was set up to try and get to the bottom of the whole issue and i think a huge amount of evidence has already been. put before it and of course it's not finished yet the inquiry is still ongoing and the results will only come out next

year i believe. the answer is that yes certainly there were many abuses on pleading. in effect the torturing to death of mr mussa and there's been no denial that other detainees were also severely ill treated once the convict how grants for when soldiers are accused overstepping the mark in abusing suspects and civilians. well as i say in this particular case relating to what happened in september two thousand and three there was a court martial where several soldiers were charged including the commanding officer of the of the ridgeland concerned the queen's lancashire it meant but only one soldier was actually convicted of one of the charges and that's in effect because he pleaded guilty to man by the name of corporal payne and he went to jail

so in this particular case you know there was there was only that one conviction but part of the. but they have you know the cases yeah i'll just say but but but but broadening it out what is the conviction rate i mean there are people brought to justice enough do you think if this is going on. well it's hard to say to be honest i mean there's a. even just looking at iraq and there's actually another inquiry which is going on as we speak which is recently been ordered by the high court. in what's called the. case and that that involves. iraqi civilians who were allegedly unlawfully killed by british soldiers and others who were detained and ill treated inquiry is really only just begun now as far as i'm

aware they haven't been any prosecutions in that case so they may still be some prosecutions once that inquiries but they have been a number of prosecutions for other incidents over the last while tearing as a result of the the role of the british army bit they've been not many i don't have the precise numbers to hand they've been several trials several acquittals and the number of convictions it's hard to say what what the rate is but i think i think what the concern is is there. is certainly more then has just happened in this one incident that effectively this incident which the by a moose inquiry is looking at this certainly have been several other incidents and in fact i know where they're there or something like fifty or sixty

cases outstanding which u.k. lawyers are currently working on and the movement by these these lawyers to try and have an all embracing inquiry into these other allegations this little not that isn't known understood kevin lowe a human rights lawyer the redress organization things he thought things being on the program tonight. thank you both in twenty minutes excuse me we focus on the human cost of the war in iraq r.t. explores how the mass media puts into taman values ahead of real life stories ignoring the brutal reality faced by millions. show biz that entertainment value is absolutely present high production

success it's grass and so. all of this is a way to try to solve these people's attention by using techniques that are sensitive to the now during this war we had nearly military entertainment. europeans who were deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits cut while taxes a hike to making their voices heard with loud protests across the continent they said they don't want to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bankers the latest demonstrations saw thousands of romanian teachers protest in bucharest demanding better wages an investment of education it's not a country desperate to cut its budget deficit and it's trying to do it by sashing public sector wages by twenty five percent but on the other side of the atlantic

americans facing similar struggles showing the saying passion and fury he's pretty sure to look for the why europeans are doing better is 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 that our country maintains their liberty in the freedom that we've had in the past such. 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 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 because if they do. 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

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 fair radical 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 so. social programs something the u.s. is enormous military budget of five hundred thirty three billion dollars is the only logical place to make it 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 it's not going to happen preassure either r. t. washington d.c. . appearing to blow up school children in front of their classmates is an unlikely way of trying to convince people to reduce pollution but when british eco campaigners try to put comedy into cutting carbon seams the joke backfired badly it's tongue in cheek but some of these things you will find quite gory must warn you of the short term scrutiny by the british writer behind four weddings and a funeral lead to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent it was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaigners for people introducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's. coming up in a minute it's bloody images made it one of the most short lived pains it was pulled from cinemas just hours after being released the. charity action which originally

backed the idea is that it was absolutely appalled that richard curtis the creator said that when you try to be funny on a serious subject it's obviously risky ok let's see what environmentalist play is called and things about this will just be watching with pictures well i've been talking we're showing two of you is guess it depends how you look at it as some people might look at it and say well you know that was obviously not happening it was all meant in some sort of comedy for shock tactics they are they work for other causes if you've got a problem either. well it's utterly disgusting now look suppose these images were directed against any ethnic or religious minority like black people or gays or jews then there would be absolute international uproar in fact this man curtis wouldn't have even thought of making the film but somehow he thinks he can get away with it by attacking the children of people who are a whole people who happen to disbelieve even therefore to learn science and want evidence of a science i mean it is utterly unacceptable they are arrogant malevolent and

dangerous people and they have to be stopped ok there's been an apology it was pulled almost immediately it was shown in very few places for many verses look at the broader picture how do you get the message across what do the ad men do the climate so as not you don't want the most is very easily ignored peddled you get the message across the message is the law eep yeah but the message is a lawyer they can only get it across by this sort of nonsense i mean you see those people off facing cuts like everyone else and sooner or later the public is going to get it clear that they could in britain for example you could save eighteen billion a year by cutting the green nonsense or not means you wouldn't have to do any of these cuts in welfare the fact is this failed soil its data behind them so they got no defense other than this emotional blackmail has styria and lorries and they have to be stopped and the united nations i.p.c.c.

should be closed down this film as i said was pulled quickly because living in a huge two worlds of millions can see it now anyway of course everyone gets there was it but the ten ten campaigns actually got what it wanted at the end of the day did their does that upset you. i know where i was going to vote for i put it to you again look ok no i think it is disgusting that they can even think of this because as i said if it was directed against obama nor it is it wouldn't even have been thought of we have to think about why they're in this corner there is a more there in this corner and doing these desperate things to get attention is because their own movement is failing it's losing support it's based on failed science and false false data and what we have to do is as they get rid of the i.p.c.c. and instead the un ought to have an international body of a cost force to deal with extreme weather situations to which we can no forecast

using solar activity and forget about the hype and nonsense which comes out of the c o two one final question get rid of all this gravy train on the back of it we got our ab train in a desperate attempt to defend their position but we all know the facts we all know the problems with climate change but how do you know that alarmists. personally well below are not interested in helping lawyers and fraudsters climate change is natural extreme events in climate change are caused by the sun is nothing to do with c o two there's no connection between carbon dioxide and climate and you can look at the data and see that note no correlation at all for hundreds of years thousands of years or indeed millions of years the relationship between with the sun and sun modulations with which we predicted for example the russian heat wave in the summer and when it would end and when the floods in pakistan would end as well or i will piss cauldrons was a pleasure to be in the pro we need soil and know your views of india it is thank

you for telling us about the peace corps but much appreciated. reduce reuse recycle it fits on quite nicely this isn't it's a slogan that's not really called on him moscow just fifteen percent of millions of tons of garbage produce getting a new lease of life but burying the trash isn't a permanent solution either because space is running out our teasing opens a can of worms into why problems are piling. when alexander and his family moved to their flat 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 i was shocked i have children someday they'll have kids as well how will they be able to live here if these mine tombs continue growing if

nothing is done soon the whole 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 a bulldozer flattening the waste into where and 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 of 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 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 begin up just glass black stick 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

ducal 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 say today for future generations to deal with tomorrow you've got this going off r g moscow you without a business coming up next. hello time to delve into the world of business fast the sour russia calling the international investment forum of d.t.b. capital is underway in moscow and we'll bring you the latest comment and reaction. foreign direct investment was the key topic on the thursday of the to be investment forum here in moscow with top officials and business represented just taking part all correspondent childless folly has the details. the main message being conveyed 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 want to move towards sustained long term economic growth but the russian officials have acknowledged that to achieve this it does require a more direct foreign investment and they need to actually tell the international delegation hey russia is a good place to invest a good place to do business. 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 picked up by the prime minister. who did call on there to be more incentives for foreigners to do business . we're not counting tax incentives broadening to encourage investment in modernizing the economy within days to 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. 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 international partners there really from the day wall of the capital investment forum here there is agree with 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 of all russia might be on the paul towards growth and towards diversification always economy there is still a long road ahead. you know while you're home very much chief investment office and founding partner at fairmont asset management told r.t. that russia still has a poor image among former businessmen and that's hurting investment but fortunately

the reputation of russia the perception of russia remains quite bad unfortunate shouldn't hold 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 are t's again worse ten times it would need to be the privatisation of russia's largest state companies could go slower than planned they had a view to be bank has told r.t. the president of fiji bank andrey kostin also spoke about the company's move into a new issuance we do have insurance company but i agree that. doesn't.