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the family of alleged illegal arms dealer viktor booth fears for his life if he's extradited to the u.s. after a thai court dims dismisses fresh charges brought by washington. the u.k. ministry of defense comes under fire for tamely deleting records of its campaign in afghanistan making it impossible to investigate cases of misconduct by soldiers. and an advertising campaign backfires badly on eco campaigners trying to cut carbon emissions. plus moscow's garbage problem begins to mount up with waste sites already useful and no space for a new one. two

am in moscow i match reza good to be with you here on our t.v. our top story relatives of russian businessman victor boot who is wanted by the u.s. for alleged arms smuggling fear for his safety but woods' wife believes washington may try to force a confession from boot if he's extradited to the u.s. . i'm still able to but it's quite possible the extradite him and just look him up on some eve craft carrier and force him to give one of the testimony to us once he gave 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. on tuesday the thai criminal court cleared the way for boots possible extradition after dismissing new charges of money laundering and fraud those claims have delayed his hand over following an august ruling confirming he was to be sent to

the us through its legal team now has thirty days to appeal the latest decision the so-called merchant of death denies accusations of terrorism and supplying arms to colombian rebels he was arrested in a u.s. led sting operation in march two thousand and eight in bangkok earlier r.t. spoke to former un this trial u.n. arms trafficking expert brian johnson thomas for his views on the case. i have concerns about it's watched a bit too will be going back to based on the news a person who in recent times has been convicted on a sting operation involving the fox the colombian rebels is among the coal mines of all counsel who was unarmed as the the who strangely also was assistance to the americans on many occasions and when his lawyer sought to bring that into the cools he wasn't allowed to do so so i think that's all not presidents the lawyers in the states if it got up would not be able to bring which is assistance of the pentagon then to the court example. i think it's unlikely that people will want to do that

brutally to anyone but i think home is sometimes done as part of the process but what people may see is getting getting the truth of somebody and i think given the the president's amman's at all costs which is the only one in recent times which seems to hold i think it's of logically that his depends. should happen we'll be able to bring into evidence the fact that he house on occasion being a systems with the pentagon to within the countries in providing. he my concern always has been not the sort of business is innocent of all charges but the sting operation is some he didn't do quite clearly just think operation he's not the merchant of death which the media portray him as well i would agree he's a witness of some of the u.s. documentary filmmaker danny schechter believes viktor boots case is being used to demonize russia there are many who don't recognize that the soviet union is gone

and that the new russia is not the old soviet union but we need an enemy in their view and russia is just as good as any other and the idea that somehow you know can be the magic man the genes by the person who is lurking to smear in the james bond movie sense you know the. organization of organizations that so secret we don't know anything about it it also seems to play well in the media because the more information that can be offered often without any evidence the better the story is in the case of blood here's a guy who's been accused and now is basically supposedly going to be extradited to the united states the mastermind the merchant of death all the labels have already been affixed to him but it's really unclear if there will be any extradition because russia sees this as an effort to demonize a russian and i think there's a case to be made here. 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 says is already smacks of a cover up the disclosures were made a public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist. died from multiple injuries while in the custody of british troops in two thousand and three staff on the inquiry have had difficulties locating official documents which could confirm commanders of the orders or who was in a position at a certain time and then modi statement into the inquiry said there are gaps that information because i t systems are routinely wiped when returned from operational deployments jim brann from the stop the war coalition says that so-called cover ups for mishandled and for mishandled operations in afghanistan maybe even worse than those in iraq. but i don't think that the military would deny that there was this propaganda war waged and certainly in this country it consisted of presenting british soldiers in

especially in the early years off the off 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 . helmets and body armor and so on. and who win the hearts and minds of the people all this sort of thing and there's abundant evidence that something else was going on at the same time that that was simply a propaganda thing for fooling people and therefore that these abuses in fact. the inspiration for them comes from the law the idea that compounded actually told soldiers to be. very heavy handed and to treat iraq he's quiet for the end so and i think that's really the number one thing that the stake the reputation of the army kimono the military's very interested in learn. lessons i mean that's

one of the things that's come in very much in recent years that you you constantly strive to learn lessons from what you do so that you supposedly do it better next time etc so that even for their purposes you would think that having this potential source of information not not something that you would simply analyze completely every time you've finished with it but simply put it somewhere for future use so that if you do an exercise or an investigation it's potentially available it seems to me striking that they say that they deliberately don't. stay with us here on our t.v. coming your way in a few minutes enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting crushed by tax spikes and pay cuts the same troubles in the u.s. can't seem to coax americans into action. a giant leap forward in the science of electronics which would have been possible were not for a strip of sticky tape party speaks the colleagues of the new russian nobel physics prize winners. the first of the appearing to blow up schoolchildren 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 into cutting carbon the joke badly backfired it's tongue in cheek but some of the scenes you'll see here are point gauri the short film scripted by the british writer behind four weddings and a funeral led to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent it was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaign to spur people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's a bloody images made it one of the shortest lived ad campaigns it was pulled from cinemas just hours after being released the charity action aid which originally backed the idea said it was absolutely appalled but richard curtis said that when you try to be funny on a serious subject it's obviously risky british meteorologist piers corbyn tells our t.v. that environmentalists are hitting new depths. i suppose these images were directed against an e.f.

nico religious minority black people will jews then there would be absolute international uproar in fact this man curtis wouldn't even full to make in the film but somehow he thinks he can get away with it by attacking the children of people who happen to disbelieve even the fool to linux on its evidence i saw it so i mean it is utterly unacceptable. malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped the message is a law eat they can only get it is. cross by this sort of nonsense i mean you see those people all facing cuts like everyone else and sooner or later the public is going to get it it's a fact is this fatal soylent fraudulent harm to them so they got no difference other than this emotional blackmail hysteria and the last 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 no no correlation the total for hundreds of years thousands of years or indeed millions of years the relationship between with the sun and sun lunar module ations 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 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 on life but burying the trash isn't a permanent solution either because of the spaces running out of our piskun objects 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 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 to nothing the 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 go 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 flatten the waste

into where at the end all of this is going to walk like an ordinary hill just like that green area over there. moscow 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 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 more 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. hospitals in russia's far eastern city of a lot of austar have seen an influx of patients with a rare form of fish poisoning here's the culprit the food to fish also known as the puffer fish the traditional and popular japanese delicacy but there is a catch to it it must be prepared very carefully because just one fish contains enough poison to be capable of killing more than thirty people and not usually found off a lot of all those warm summer saw their numbers or grow when hungry anglers took

it upon themselves to make what they thought would be a tasty fish soup there's more than twenty types of food when it takes an expert i don't know which ones won't leave you clutching your stomach while wars. two russian born scientists have won the nobel physics prize for developing a microscopic material that could revolutionize electronics andrzej gaming constantino bosio of have been working on graphene which is a layer of carbon that's just an atom in thinking this the nobel academy said graphene could lead to technological leaps in computer chips touchscreens and solar power and solar cells the winning scientists began their careers of soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain gaiman of o.c. a lot of get a share get to share a one and a half million dollars of their groundbreaking developments ten years ago guyon received the so-called ig nobel prize which celebrate some of scientists science is the most ridiculous and dubious research proving that magnets can cause frogs to

levitate but one of their colleagues tells r.t. that the winners new techno leap forward has a remarkably simple origin. five years ago close to a soul of creatures and one. using just sticky tape at the time it was something exceptional it was generally believed that were impossible to acquire at all. the trial against a controversial dutch m.p. known for his strong and time muslim views will resume with its original judges a special panel refused her wilder's request to change what he calls a biased panel euro m.p. gerard bad and says wilders opponents are laying into him without properly trying to understand his position this whole thing his whole argument and i come from it from the same angle is we're not talking about muslims not about individuals we're talking about an ideology and a belief system and if you actually look at that belief system in detail you'll find that it does it doesn't fit in with it's not compatible with the west and

western liberal democracy and free speech as we see you know this whole thing is this this is trial is this pression of free speech what is he saying these are actually talked about the ideology and the koran and and we're now having a trial because somebody has dared to criticize a book now recently here we've had professor richard dawkins had a whole t.v. program criticizing christianity and the bible and said you know equally strong things that it was it was a crime against humanity in the you want to arrest the pope i believe when he came over now nobody to kill professor dawkins i wanted to lock him up or put him on trial and he is doing exactly the same thing he's arguing about a belief system this is not about individuals it's about what individual shrew choose to believe and what will this is doing is criticizing that belief system and i think that said i don't agree with everything i said i think most of his criticisms are valid. europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare

benefits cut while taxes are high are making their voices heard loud with loud protests across the continent they say 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 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 across the atlantic americans facing similar if those aren't showing the same passion in theory our kids preassure to look at why europeans 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 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 you do you linda. 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 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 that'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. . next is the euro on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the weaker ones artie's laura i mean it puts these and other questions to well known british euro skeptic john redwood it's coming up just ahead .

today i'm talking to the right honorable john edwards who's a member of parliament and also leader 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 farmers and lower levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need in purpose of a lot of european government at the mess a nine level if something requires global agreement well than our systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs 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 they use 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 but 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 is saying that the year i was at an economic concept that was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning are you one of them 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 difficulty. as 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 and 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 be 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 and the european central bank hasn't quite reached that point yet it's making progress towards 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 the poorer parts can survive with a currency level that doesn't suit them and there are 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 that's why i welcome the coalition

government statement. the new government statement that it doesn't intend to transfer any more 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 sell 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 could be a long time in politics in here is very long time and 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 successor 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 the some other different kind of government which carries on giving away powers and although the british people wouldn't want that 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 the damage prime minister david cameron's euro skepticism was much wanted before he came to power can you see that in his actions as prime minister i think david cameron is prime minister of a cur.