by from a law in a toilet called dismisses fresh charges against alleged deal a big to boot moving of a step closer towards extradition to the u.s. but his relatives fear the quick judgment that could have waited. britain's ministry of defense to slap him for purging its computers of data on its afghanistan missions making it virtually impossible to properly investigate claims of abuse by soldiers. also tonight the eco warriors with fake blood on their hands this ad campaign for carbon cuts includes killing kids so if a comedy jokes fall flat. on a mountain of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problem as the trash piles up the city says it just can't get recycling plans off the ground.

hello this is our t.v. international news channel from moscow thanks for being with us since one am moscow time on the top stories and relatives of russian businessman vic to boot is wanted by the u.s. for alleged arms smuggling say they fear for his life boats wife believes that washington is planning to force her husband to give the testimony they want if he is extradited to america and he wasn't very unstable it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some eve craft 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 face to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure. well the tie low boots legal team thirty

days to appeal the latest criminal court decision earlier on tuesday cleared the way for the business means possible extradition after dismissing new claims of money laundering fraud against those charges delayed incision 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 out is innocent now we spoke to former u.n. arms trafficking expert brian jones who tell us to get his views on the safety of 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 and strangely also was assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring

back into the courts he wasn't allowed to do so so i think that or not president victor's lawyers in the states if it got there 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 wife assuming the u.s. will use every possible effort to force any can fasten my like to hear do you think that's likely i just know even if you asked we want ten years ago i was had grown talent was not alone 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 getting the truth of somebody and i think given the president's amount at all costs which is the only one in recent times which seems to go i think it's of largely that is depends. should that happen. will

be able to bring into evidence the fact that he house on occasion been of assistance to the pentagon on two of the nato countries in providing or. she my concern always has been not to excuse the survey innocent of all charges but the sting operation assuming 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 won't extradite vick to boot national defense magazine editor in chief if you go question curl simply means that the u.s. has played dirty by using media manipulation before now is doing the same for boot . but it's i think that if mr boot 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 blue case would give the u.s. an opportunity to resort to those methods yet again which knows a lot since he was well connected as the owner of a cargo company he's worked in that sphere for a long time in 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 u.s. agencies the cia first and foremost would like to interrogate the sansa but in the u.k. ministry of defense has admitted that alec tronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in afghanistan are routinely wiped from computers one lawyers already said it smacks of a cover up the disclosures were made in a public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist died from multiple injuries while in custody british soldiers in two thousand and three investigations be made harder by a lack of official records which could confirm commanders old is or was in

a position of a certain time and energy statements to the inquiry said there are gaps in the information because i t systems and routinely whitewood return from operational deployments human rights lawyer kevin lowe a from redress says vital evidence was lost. 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 to be had been serious breaches of these person's rights at the very least cruel inhuman or degrading if not tortured take place. there was no denial that somebody had actually been killed in custody

certainly there were. many abuses. in effect the torturing to death of mr moose and there's been no denial that other detainees were also severely ill treated they've been several trials civil acquittals and a 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 incidents and in fact. where there. is something like fifty or sixty cases outstanding which you k. lawyers are currently working on. always a few minutes tonight enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting

crushed by tax bikes and play at the same troubles in the us can't see because it's americans into our good report coming. first though appearing to blow up school children in front of their classmates is not a likely way to try to convince people to reduce pollution but when british eco campaigners try to put comedy into cutting carbon the job backfired badly is china its tongue in cheek stuff but some of the scenes you'll see here are quite gory the short film scripted by the british writer bound for weddings and a funeral lead to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaign to spur people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but by the seeds bloody images made it one of the most short lived ad campaigns it was pulled from cinemas just hours after being released the charity action aid which originally backley ibut said it was absolutely appalled richard curtis behind it said when you try to be funny on

a serious subject it's all the risky i suppose you produce metrology peers call but he said the environmentalists are hitting new depths. with emissions. suppose these images were directed against any f. nickel religious minority like black people 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 happen to disbelieve even their four children science and want evidence i mean it is utterly unexpected of all they are arrogant malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped the message is a lawyer they can only get it across by this sort of nonsense i mean you see those people of faith seeing cuts like everyone else and sooner or later the public is going to get it the fact is. there's fail 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 or 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 no no correlation at all 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 it is called and told to me there absolute no way to escape the destructive power of drug abuse how these addicts rebalancing their lives using the power of nature to defeat. reduce reuse recycle it's a slogan that's not really caught on here in moscow which is fifteen percent of the

millions of terms of garbage produced getting a new lease of life every year but burying the trash isn't a permanent solution either because space is running out he got a prison off looks into why problems piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their frantic ten years ago that you from the thirteenth floor it was so impressive the whole city early 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 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 since he was six he would 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've actually walking on top of around thirteen million tons of trash interestingly at the moment the so-called seasonal smell theory is off watermelons which people for all weigh them off this time of year trucks come and go every minute while monster bulldozers flattening the waste into where at the end all of this is going to walk like an ordinary hill just like that green area over there. moscow annually produces at least five and a half million tons of waste waste which has to be collected and either destroyed recycled or disposed off the state company responsible for that owns two huge pits wheezed burning factories and sorting stations but still it's only able to recycle

fifteen percent of the waste it collects most of the trash which could be recycled is ruined during the transportation to sorting stations garbage trucks press waste to collect more so everything is really mixed together that's why we recycle so little in the end. to prevent a waste being mixed up 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 picking up just glass blasting 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 reused 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 r g moscow

tackling drug addiction through medication the psychiatry hospitals may work for sub but then the clear mountain of ukraine's crimea it's back to basics is no celebrity rehab but uses ancient techniques to kick their habit through harmony with nature. it's going to see how it all. alexei 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. first to feed him a healthy first stop taken drugs people at the school told me they'd give me some pills they came here and saw these pills. water and a natural environment in cold water every day and this is better than any

medication we enjoy this life with nature around us with drugs. 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 that. the main mission of the school is to bring man back to nature of humanity departed from nature and started stagnating integrate youth with basic elements like earth wind water and fire we want them to live just like our ancestors lived respecting the good of nature it 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 peristyle and this is where students recharge their energy as well as marking the birth of each day with a ring of a bell. but finally the martian says that his school has no religious element whatsoever. she says in a fight against inner chaos all faiths can offer good solutions the school provides diverse means of self reconstruction regardless of a person's religious conviction if you. 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 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 nonviolent healing of society. reporting from ukraine's crimea. europeans who are deeply angry of the getting their welfare benefits cut taxes a hike to making their voices heard protests across the continent they say they don't want to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bank is the latest demonstrations will thousands of the main protest in bucharest money but away jews an investment in education it's another country desperate to come to budget deficit is trying to do it less trashing public sector wages which twenty five percent but all the other side of the atlantic americans facing similar struggles showing the same passion and theory is pretty shrewd looks at why they're doing better and trying to protect. 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 a country maintains their liberty in the freedom that we had in the past. countries across the globe are facing one of the worst economic disaster is in recent history fourteen million americans are unemployed one in five people in the united kingdom is living in poverty and more than twenty percent of spain's population can't find work more on equal your society gets the more unequal it usually continues to get because when inequality reaches anything like the levels we see in 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 to half. it's called a food. especially for countries 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 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 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

it's not going to happen preassure either our t. washington d.c. . now is that you're on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the we can. put these other questions to well no but if you're a skeptic john redwood just ahead. today i'm talking to the right honorable john redwood who's a member of parliament and also needs 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 decision should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom and as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals families or levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the measure nine level if something requires global agreement with and our 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 arizona at the moment i just 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 to 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 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 there are those who believe in hell coming out particularly at the moment and 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 campaigners 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 difficulty. we've been through in the 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 balancing 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 but it's not for me to say what the future shape of euro should 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 that the germans are a little 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 that 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 change when he you has taken more 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 the politicians but not with the enthusiastic support with the politicians and that's why i welcome the kurdish government statement. 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 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 serve 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 who 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 that's the kind of thinking team's. no idea what's going to happen in this area for a long period like ten years ten days could be a long time in politics in here is very long time and in theory there are lots of possibilities on there in that this government does mean what you say and it too or conserve 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. may be future and so if your government actually takes some powers back in the second half of your ten year period. possibility is that the some other different kind of government which carry on giving away powers and although the british people wouldn't want the they might have chosen a different government for different reasons i obviously hope it's going to be a five year period of kurdish government followed by a five year period of conservative government and if that's the case then i think we can limit.