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life on the law in the toilet cold dismisses fresh charges against alleged arms dealer big to boot moving a step closer towards extradition to the u.s. but his relatives fear the quick judgment and put away to. britain's ministry of defense has slammed for purging its computers of data on its afghanistan mission making a virtually impossible to properly investigate claims of abuse by soldiers. the eco warriors with fake blood on their hands this ad campaign for carbon cuts includes telling kids solely for comedy jokes. that amount of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problems the trash piles up the city says it can get you cycling plans off the ground.

this is r t welcome to the latest news update from moscow i'm kevin now in with the top story for you and other tubes of russian businessman vick to boot is wanted by the u.s. for alleged smuggling say they fear for his life but it's wife believes that washington is planning to force her husband to give the testimony they want if he is extradited to america and he was very unstable that it's quite possible the extradite him and just woke him up on some eve craft carrier and forced him to give whatever testimony to us once seemed 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. starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. under the time old coots legal team now is thirty days to appeal the latest criminal court decision earlier on tuesday

cleared the way for the business possible extradition now to dismissing new claims of money laundering fraud against him those charges delayed a decision taken in the legal standing over the us is accused of terrorism 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 american led state parties in this now we spoke before with u.n. arms trafficking expert brian johnson thomas his views on big to build safety for years eventually sent to the u.s. oh. i have concerns about what effect it 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 all not president

which is lawyers in the states if it. would not be able to bring pictures assistance of the pentagon into 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 can fasten my like to hear do you think that's why i claim i just know even if you asked me what ten years ago i was had grown talent 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 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 president's amman's at all costs which is the only one in recent times which seems to go i think it's unlikely that he's depends. should that happen . to be able to bring into evidence the fact that he has on occasion been of

assistance to the pentagon and to us and nato countries in providing equipment to my concern always has been not to be accepted as the serve the innocent of all charges but the sting operation is something he didn't do quite clearly just think 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 the russian security journalist says that if the thai leadership cares about its international relationships they will not extradite vick to produce national defense magazine editor in chief eager to change course said that he believes the u.s. has played dirty by using media manipulation before and now is doing the same to boot. but it's i think that if mr booth were just stand trial in a u.s. court this case would be used to discredit russian arms exports in general we know that the u.s. competes with russia on the global weapons market and we know the competition isn't always fair we all remember the sanctions that were introduced against russian companies and then revoked as being unjustified in other words we know the u.s.

is prone to manipulate information and i think the boot case would give the us an opportunity to resort to those methods yet again. since he was well connected as the owner of a cargo company he's worked in that sphere for a long time and knows about its current problems i don't think the cia has used mr booth as an arms broker but i'm sure a lot of us agencies at the cia first of the firm most would like to interrogate it's a funny coincidence if it is a coincidence it also is the case is being looked into while there's a u.s. aircraft carrier anchored right beside i don't know if this was done deliberately to pressurize the thai court but i think that fact alone leaves you asking questions as for the extradition prospects i think the thai authorities are likely to turn over to the u.s. but i still hope they hear the voice of reason and think very carefully not only about the possible legal and humanitarian repercussions but about the general diplomatic atmosphere in the world and how such dangerous steps might affect what

we see in mr blix case is that a russian citizen has been lured out into alien territory to be detained and judged by u.s. laws in the. u.k. as mr defense has admitted that electronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in afghanistan were routinely wiped from compute his own lawyers already said it smacks of a cover up the disclosures were made to the public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist died from multiple injuries while in the custody of produce elders in two thousand and three the investigation is being made by a lack of official. called which could confirm commanders orders or who's in position of a certain time limit a statement to the inquiry said there are gaps in the information because i t systems are routinely wiped when return from operational deployments for china from the public interest law is represents more than one hundred iraqis accuse british soldiers of abuse. the minister of defense have tried everything in their

power to cover all of this up in every in every way they could including just refusing to disclose any relevant material it's a court case is. it's coming to light now because those efforts of the most defense to cover this are are being covered themselves and we're now beginning to find that we are getting hold of key documents my practices are actually for hundreds of iraqi ministers and there are an untold number of iraqis who've been killed just not by the most was whilst inside military facilities with u.k. forces no one knows how many because the minister to french refused point blank to answer questions are the from my team of lawyers or from the newspapers here the minister of defense now say look we're terribly sorry we've lost all the training materials prior to the invasion of iraq very sorry about it we're very sorry that that meant that interrogates is. who were being trained in infamous will techniques

involving coercion we we won't really know exactly how though they were being trained. they say that they're sorry that i detailed directives which would have told interrogators what they could and couldn't do it was never issued so they admit. a whole range of systemic problems of now being covered that lead up to the death of. so we we know some but we don't know a great deal. so on the way in a few minutes tonight enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting crushed by tax spikes and. the same troubles in the u.s. can't see cope's americans into action the government poured. a giant leap forward in the science of electronics which would have been impossible were it not for a script if we are to speak to colleagues of the new russian nobel physics prize

winners. appearing to blow up school children in front of their classmates is an unlikely way to try to convince people to reduce pollution but when british eco campaigners tried to put comedy and cutting carbon seems a joke about fired badly it's tongue in cheek but nevertheless you might find some of these scenes gory and disturbing the short film scripted by the british writer behind four weddings and a funeral led to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent sit was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaign to spur people introducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's bloody images as you're about to see made it one of the most short lived campaigns it was pulled from said it was just hours after being released says pressing the button now for the charity action aid which originally backed the idea said it was absolutely appalled by what it saw with richard curtis behind it said when you try to be funny on a serious subject it's obviously risky as opposed to push me try just piers call but he told me that environmentalist are hitting new depths. suppose these images

were directed against any ethnic or religious minority like black people or all 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 happen to disbelieve in their four children science and want evidence i mean it is utterly unacceptable they are arrogant malevolent. and dangerous people and they have to be stopped the messages the law eat they can only get it across by this sort of nonsense i mean you see those people off a seeing cuts like everyone else and sooner or later the public is going to get it and the fact is this total soilent and fraudulent greater harm to them so they got no difference other than this emotional blackmail histeria lorries and they have

to be stopped climate change is natural extreme events in climate change are caused by the sun it's 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 with no no correlation we're told for hundreds of years thousands of years or indeed millions of years the relationship between with the sun and sun lunar 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 induce well we trudge appears corporate talk to be will talk of the environment reduce reuse recycle it's a slogan that's not really caught on here in moscow which is 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 these days because space is running out not easy corporates can offer to the why problems are just piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their flat ten years ago that you from the thirteenth floor 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 mind terms continue growing if nothing is done soon the full sixty 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 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

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 flattened the waste into layers 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 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 and made and recycle 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 the calendrical 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 today for future generations to deal with tomorrow you've got this kind of r d moscow. two russian born scientists of woman nobel physics prize for developing a microscopic material that could rival our revolutionized tronics undergarment concent in obviously of have been working on graphene which is a layer of carbon that's just an atom infect most the nobel academy said that the

graphing could lead to technological leaps in computer chips touchscreens and solar cells and willing scientists began their careers at the soviet research center in the moscow region their work at manchester university in britain he will never see all of a get to share of one and a half million dollars for their groundbreaking development and the one of the clock back ten years ago give or receive the so-called ig nobel prize which celebrates some of his most ridiculous research what was it you are asked well for proving at the time that magnets can cause frogs to levitate but one of their colleagues has told r.t. now that the winners new techno leap forward has a remarkably simple origin. book five years ago caused an oversold created one atom physically or a group theme using just sticky tape at the time it was something exceptional it was generally believed that were impossible to acquire at all. russia has more smokers among its population than any other country in the world now the government

is on its way though to becoming a tobacco free zone with a couple of words of encouragement from vladimir putin the prime minister has long been an advocate of leading a healthy lifestyle is now want to one man crusade to stop the nation's smoking habit hooten hinted to the government that they should set the example and quit their own dangerous nicotine addiction officials didn't seem too enthusiastic it was faulty. europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits cut taxes a hike are making their voices heard with loud protests across the continent they say they don't want to pay you for the mistakes of politicians and bank is the latest demonstration saw thousands of remaining teachers protest in bucharest demanding better wages and investment in education it's another country desperate to cut its budget deficit is trying to do it by slashing public sector wages by twenty five percent but on the other side of the atlantic americans are facing similar struggles and they are showing the same passion and fury at his press freedoms and why europeans are doing better 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 country maintains their liberty in the freedom 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 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 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. country's with debts of 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 fear 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 social programs some say the u.s. is 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 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 saying we're going to cut into that is just not going to happen preassure either r. t. washington d.c. . next what we ask is that you are on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the weak. puts these other questions to well known british and john redwood just ahead.

today i'm talking to the right honorable john edwards he's a member of parliament and also of the conservative policy group on economic competitiveness he was also someone who was instrumental in keeping britain out of the euro zone john redwood thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're a euro skeptic explain to me your reasons for that well i'm skeptical about how much european government we need and want. as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals farmers and low levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the meza nine level if something requires global agreement more than the systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs a national government we have the institutions it's quite difficult i think

identifying those things that really require a european level of government as well the debt crisis and resulting unrest that we're seeing in the eurozone at the moment do you think that's a precursor to a total collapse of the what those countries in western europe that wish to create a bigger country called europe are obviously right too. try and create a single currency as well as other single governing institutions my country doesn't want to do that it is very clearly not the view of the british people that they wish to belong to a european superstate where they have to be polled again on it i think it would be very convincing that they don't want to be part of a big european superstate those on the continent to do i think prematurely going in for a currency union and it is creating stresses and strains within the system. i hope for the sake of the world and for their sakes that they make a success of it and they need to make certain changes in order to give it a greater probability of surviving and there are those who believe in hell coming

out particularly at the moment to saying that the year i was at an economic concept that was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning are you one of. where i was one of the leading critics of the euro and i was one of the leading campaign is to keep my country out of the euro i'm very pleased we succeeded as i always said if you keep britain out of the euro it gives the euro greater chance of success i think if britain had been in the euro with the difficulties we've been through in most recent years with the banking system and the strong pull of the transatlantic trade on the british currency it could well have destroyed the euro by now do you think that adjusting and balance saying is the solution or should we actually go to a more core you say for all it's germany a couple of others and just that the rest of them for the way well it's not for me to say what the future shape of europe because all i'm concerned about is the united kingdom and my country is out of it and i want to keep us out of it and there is no likelihood of us going in it so all is well and 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 and 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 but if you want. a successful single currency area you need first would have a central bank that can decide how much of currency to print in the european central bank hasn't quite reached that point yet it's making progress towards the germans sort of a bit hesitant about that and you also need quite big transfer payments around the from the richer and stronger parts to the poorer parts so the poorer parts can survive with a currency level that doesn't suit them and there aren't big enough transfers in the eurozone at the moment to make it work so it also adds to the strains for greece and portugal and so forth of course we're not part of the same but we do have a close relationship with you how do you characterize that relationship and how would

you like it to change when the you has taken more and more power from the united kingdom often against the wishes of the british people who were asked about it and sometimes with the reluctant or tacit acceptance of their politicians but not with the enthusiastic support with the politicians that's why i welcome the coalition government statement to the new government statement that it doesn't intend to transfer any more power to the european union and of course my party the conservative party the biggest party in the coalition has said that it wishes to get powers back now some of us can't wait for the day when we start to get parts back because we think the european union has too many powers we don't think it exercises them very well for example we think the common agricultural policy is expensive and bad we think it's very bad for developing africa because they can't sort as much of their a coach or produce into our markets as they ought to because of these restrictions

it's also bad for british customers because they have to pay rather more for their food and it's not even very popular with the farmers he thought might have liked it so we think there needs to be a massive reform a common agricultural policy which really means less brussels interference so what do you see happening sort of ten years down the line if that if this kind of thinking teens. no. idea what's going to happen in this area for a long period like ten years ten days will be a long time in politics in here is very long time in theory there are lots of possibilities on that i mean that this government does mean what it say and it too or can serve to success or stays in office for ten years and so no more powers are given and we learn to live with the powers that are already gone. maybe future and so if your government actually takes some powers back in the second half of your ten year period. possibility is that there's some other different kind of government which carry on giving away powers and although the british people wouldn't want that they might have chosen a different government for

a different reason i obviously hope it's going to be a five year period of current issue government followed by a five year period of conservative government and if that's the case then i think we can limit the damage prime minister david cameron is your escape just isn't with much wanted before he came to power can you see that in his actions as prime minister i think david cameron as prime minister of a coalition government is obviously more restricted than perhaps he would like to have been and he's in coalition with were democrats and if they'd been consistent about one thing above all others over the last twenty years it's their wish to give more and more power to the european union they are the closest to a federalist party the united kingdom house so i think david cameron just accepted that he's rather strange in that he cannot go in and demand what's passed back from brussels because he's coalition partners were never there on that but thank you very much.