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

six am in moscow good to be with you here on r t our top story relatives of russian businessman victor boot who is await who is wanted by washington for alleged arms smuggling fear for his safety mood is awaiting a decision on his extradition from thailand to the u.s. ria novosti bureau chief bangkok you have any belling he has the details. as a thai court ruling clears the way for victor woods possible extradition to the united states of america his relatives and lawyers fear for his life. moves wife believes that washington is planning to force a confession out of him stumble because it's quite possible there likes to dine him and just look him up on some aircraft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think he'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure

everyone understands there are plaintiff ways to do these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure and we know that there is an american aircraft carrier the u.s.s. george washington in a port type or near band called right now and it is probably there standing by to take that tribute that way boots case is being looked into while there's a u.s. aircraft carrier anchored right beside a time where i don't know if this was done deliberately to pressurize the thai court but i think that fact alone leaves you asking questions what certainly is that america is desperate to get its hands on the man they created the merchant of death but many question the reasons behind the intense pressure. some believe influential officials in washington want him in jail to justify the millions of dollars of taxpayers' money that went into seven years of of the tributes che's stand and do the seemingly elaborate sting operation that landed the russian

businessman in a thai courtroom. a lot can you throughout the week who receive the part of his education in america has previously spoken about the justice that would occur if the extradition takes place everything i was taught about justice many years ago in new york seems to be totally forgotten by the american side in this case i believe that victor boot has no chance of a fair trial in the united states said the lawyer in an interview last year and fabricated evidence is also a major concern for those unconvinced that america would conduct a fair hearing. but it's thing i think that if mr boot were to 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 in justified in other words we know the u.s. is prone to manipulate information and i think the boot case would give the u.s. an opportunity to resort to those methods yet again then there's bad cultural speculation but booties a bargaining chip to secure a supply of fighter jets and a cheap american will if his extradite of. the russian businessman repeatedly denies doing and says that the charges against him are politically motivated he's also determined to keep fighting on tuesday judges dismissed the new charges of money laundering and fraud against him which means that now he can be extradited on the previous charges of an alleged conspiracy to kill u.s. citizens and material support of terrorism. u.s.

documentary filmmaker danny schechter believes that victor broods 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 bull you know can be the magic man the genes of the person who is lurking to smear him 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 russia and i think there's a case to be made here and u.k. is ministry of defense has admitted that electronic records of its soldiers day to day activities in afghanistan are routinely white from computers one lawyer has already said that it quote smacks of a cover up that disclosures were made a public inquiry into the death of an iraqi hotel receptionist. died from multiple injuries while the custody of british soldiers in two thousand and three staff on the inquiry have had difficulties in locating official documents that could confirm commanders or orders or who was in the position at a certain time i demoed the statement of the inquiry said that there are gaps in information because i.t. systems are routinely wiped clean when returning from operational deployments phil shiner from public interest lawyers represents more than one hundred iraqis who accused 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 and to court cases. it's coming to light now because those efforts of the most defense to cover these are are being covered themselves and we're now beginning to find that we are getting hold of key documents my practices are acting for hundreds of iraqi ministers and there are an untold number of iraqis who've been killed just one of our 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 what 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 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 a detailed directive which would have told interrogators what they could and couldn't do was never issued so they admit. a whole range of systemic problems of now been covered that lead up to the death of. so we we know some but we don't know a great deal. on the way in a few minutes enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting crushed by tax spikes in pay cuts the same troubles in the us can't seem to coax americans into action. first though 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 tried to put comedy into cutting carbon the joke backfired badly it's tongue in cheek but some of the scenes are about to

see are quite gory a short film script by the british writer behind the movie 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 campaigners spurred people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's a bloody images made of 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 quote when you try to be funny on a serious subject it's obviously risky british meteorologist piers corbyn tells r.t. that environmentalists are hitting new depths yes i suppose these images were directed against any ethnic or religious minority not black people 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 even their full children signs and want evidence i saw it so i mean it is utterly unexpected of all our malevolent and dangerous people and they have to be stopped the message is a law eat they can only get it across 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's the fact is this fatal soylent. them so they got no difference other than this emotional blackmail hysteria and the law east 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 and note 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 modulations with which we predicted

for example of 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 the russian capital 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 space is running out. of looks into why the problems are piling up. when alexander and his family moved to their flat ten years ago that you from the thirteenth floor was so impressive the whole city before them but soon this hump turned into a hill blocking the view of a whole district it became so big they thought it was a new ski resort but instead it turned out to be a mountain of waste but afterward i was shocked i have children someday they'll have cancer as well i will they be able to live here if these mine terms continue

growing if nothing is done soon one hundred sixty 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 was 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 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 two ways to being mixed up and need an recyclable last year the city distributed separate bins. 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 blasting people which were all mixed up anyway so the experiment was trashed this is money which is being thrown away to the waste

which could be used as lost the whole system needs to be changed or do cordial 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 to morrow you go to. moscow to russian war and scientists have won the nobel physics prize for developing a microscopic material that could revolutionize electronics gaming konstantin vasil of have been working on great graphene which is a layer of carbon that is the thickness of just an atom the nobel academy said graphene could lead to lead to technological leaps in computer chips touchscreens and solar cells the winning scientists began their careers at a soviet research center in the moscow region and now work at manchester university in britain both of them get to share a one and a half million dollars prize for their ground breaking developments ten years ago game received the so-called big nobel prize which celebrates one of science's some

of sciences most ridiculous research for proving that magnets can cause frogs to levitate but one of their colleagues tells our t.v. that the winners knew techno leap forward has a remarkably simple origin. about five years ago question of a cell of created one clear of graffiti and using just sticky tape at the time it was something exceptional it was generally believed that mana layers were impossible to acquire and all. taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe a cleanup operation is underway in the hungarian town of chair after it was flooded with toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant several other towns in the area have also been affected when a reservoir burst emergency workers are now trying to keep the chemical waste from flowing into the region's other main rivers including the danube at least four people died and hundreds have been evacuated from the area. of pakistan a bore and man convicted of trying to detonate a car bomb in new york's times square has been sentenced to life in prison. pleaded

guilty to ten terrorism and weapons charges in may he drove a car loaded with a homemade bomb into times square on a busy saturday night but the device fortunately failed to go off while being sentenced he showed no remorse and warned america of more bloodshed to come at the hands of muslims. the trader at the center of the biggest ever financial fraud cases are one of the biggest ever has been ordered to repay six point seven billion dollars paris court found that trader jerome kerviel was guilty of forgery breach of trust and authorized computer use he was also sentenced to three years in prison for his part in the two thousand and eight scandal that shook the bank society genere all kerviel insists that his superiors or at the at the bank world where of his actions and were happy as long as he was making money he's due to appeal the court's decision. a family of five has been killed after an armed gang stormed a house in mexico city one man was shot dead at the scene while his family was

kidnapped their bodies were found later in the day elsewhere in mexico with ortiz arrested seventeen people they suspect of having links to the gulf drug cartel nearly thirty thousand people have been killed in drug related violence since the two thousand and six crackdown on the cartels. europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits co while taxes are high are making their voices heard with loud protests across the continent they say they don't want to pay for the mistakes of politicians and bankers the latest demonstrations 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 in this trying to do so by slashing public sector wages by twenty five percent across the atlantic americans facing similar struggles are showing the same theory and passion parties preassure to looks at why europeans may be doing better and trying to protect their pocketbooks with it one of its 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 and 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 they 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 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 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 lower and puts these and other questions to a well known british euro skeptic john redwood it's coming your way just ahead. today i'm talking to the right honorable john redwood 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 your 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 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 with and 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 way 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 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 and saying that the year i was at an economic

concept that was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning are you one of the. well 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 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 of europe 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 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 euro zone 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 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 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 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 from 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 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 out there in that this government does mean what you say and it two 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 there's some other different kind of government which carry on giving away although the british people wouldn't want that they might have chosen a different government for different reasons.