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that's russia run a victim picked fights u.s. attempts to get him extradited from thailand is known as plan to appeal any court decision that would see him shipped. we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies a major us media boss wants more money to battle international competitors who he says are winning over the hearts and minds of viewers across the world. and anger in europe at fresh u.s. demands for data sharing critics say america is imposing on personal privacy under the pretense of fighting terrorism.

live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day thailand says it's moving closer to a decision on whether alleged russian smuggler vick to boot should be extradited to the u.s. the country's prime minister said the hand of a period could last more than three months if it's deemed necessary bhoot will remain in a thai jail until his legal team appeals the latest verdict or to shorten thomas has been following the developments. victor boot has certainly created a name for himself some call him the merchant of death or even the lord of war but to see victor's brother he's seen simply as a great business might just sort of course he had to drive in quite an outstanding talent to organize and run business. that's what was great working with him. was arrested in two thousand and eight in bangkok thailand during a sting operation and accused of trying to sell weapons to colombian fark militants

the u.s. has been trying to extradite boot ever since he claims he's innocent and has only operated as an international businessman providing logistics for shipping that his brother doesn't understand what is driving the american push against him which was pistol and if we're making a monster out of him if you think about it victor has been out of the business for over ten years what sort of secret information can he possibly possess he has not been out of the country and he hasn't talked to any of his partners for the past ten years he was out of the business he couldn't work anymore because everywhere he went the u.s. government tried to obstruct his work and i guess the u.s. special service has. been there is increased pressure from america and the political connections within the thai government for a decision to be made a lot of phone calls have been made from the united states to thailand obviously to the prime minister's office and this is another part of the this delicious irony of the thai prime minister will be americans are saying is actually working for the it

is actually working for the americans because he's not only he's a british born but you also have british passport which means he's obviously subservient to the british american interest and with the power of american banking some say the incentive is right for thailand to play ball but america has promised thailand's fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way if he's next trade to america and stands trial in america itself i think then everything will be in public but probably what might happen is that they would like to extradite him but not have a face trial in america but to be in a prison another country as they have done with other people so we don't know so merican people don't really know what's going on and there are questions about the legality of the extradition process and of the motives of the united states but those who are close to victor boot say they are more concerned about his well. fair and safety. it's quite possible the extradite him and just lock him up on some aircraft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the us wants him to give

i think he'll go as far as it takes to get it. and now the question if true justice is even a possibility of the material was what i think there's nothing left of american democracy today the us regime is the same or worse than stallion's reign was any action is depicted as a patriotic act everything is classified they have secret prisons where they torture people and inject then with some chemicals to extract information they are willing to resort to any means to get what they want. now with the possibility of victor boot extradition growing closer to reality those who remain convinced of his innocence are still keeping up the fight to show that if this bill would look we're still hoping victor will be freed and we believe he might be it's hard for regular people like us to fight the us machine look at them and will look at us what do we have to back us up it's like a man fighting an elephant it's hard for us to get through this we're hoping for

just as we haven't seen any in the past three years. sean thomas r.t. . and us documentary filmmaker danny schechter believes victim boots case is being used to maintain cold war era stereotypes about 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 the person who is lurking to smear him in a james bond movie sense you know the. organisation of organisations 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 there a cold war echoes from america elsewhere to the u.s. organization which oversees the media directed at foreign audiences has labelled the media in russia china and iran as enemies the real costing board of governors which is sponsored by the u.s. government says it needs new tools to fight them we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies there's that freedom house report that reveals that today's autocratic leaders are investing billions of dollars in media resources to influence the global opinion you've got russia today iran's press t.v.

venezuela's tell us and of course china has a lodging international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world when early in my colleague research i spoke to political commentator peter the bell who thinks the chairman statement puts him beyond real journalism. the south a city in conflict c n n talk the side voice of america took the side of georgia iran two thousand and three the drive to war i mean this is nothing to do with journalism it's about soft power and pushing the american foreign policy agenda and it looks like the chairman is a little worried that the world isn't believing him or his organizations any more. ok now people how do you react to the chair referring to russia as an enemy because walter isaacson says we cannot allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies now isn't this ruining his mission statement of reporting news are not creating enemies i guess he doesn't have anything to do with journalism because

that's what we're supposed to do is journalist is give you facts maybe give you perspective but he's making it sound like it's just a media war and he treats everyone that is his competitor in a competitor of the united states as an enemy he says it clear out twenty years after the end of the cold war one has to wonder who's who in taliban has changed and who hasn't stayed and it's really remarkable but i'm not surprised at the same time if we if we just step back for a moment to look at the broader scope i mean if you really want to put this all together why would he make such comments because he we have a depressed economy in the united states will probably be a double dip and there are priorities and he's worried about losing budgets he's got he's from c.n.n. time magazine and you say look at our competitors are pouring money into soft power they're pouring money into alternative journalism they're pouring money into the truth i would say and they're afraid that you know their organizations and i get the word out anymore they need to keep fighting cold wars and they're afraid that because we won't. and one american media is looking for enemies outside on the

inside the country's facing an increase of racial hatred. you're a mexican immigrant ten people think that you're a threat maybe turn job or something like that they want to throw us on one basket anything who looks different all the sudden becomes bad muslims and mexicans alike are facing is that a phobia in their everyday lives. that report still to come but first investigators looking into the murder of journalist anna politkovskaya say they've identified a number of new suspected accomplices all of them are reportedly hiding in europe russian prosecutors have contacted other european countries in the hunt for the suspects to determine where they are and how they left the country a man thought to be the actual killer is now being hunted by interpol and journalist for the newspaper nevada's yet a human rights activist was shot dead four years ago and police say she was targeted because of her job three people remain under investigation despite being

freed by a court which dropped all charges against them in an earlier trial the first civilian trial for former detainees of the u.s. detention facility in guantanamo bay is due to start in new york. is accused of helping al qaeda militants carrying out the nine hundred ninety eight bombing of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya which left two hundred twenty four people dead he is the first guantanamo bay detainees to be transferred into the u.s. civilian justice system and may two thousand and nine congress blocked funds to closing down the detention center saying a clear plan for the closure must be presented before money is approved or dr allen singer the director of social studies at hofstra university in new york but the detention center puts a stain on the u.s. government. the united states claims to represent freedom represent justice represents human rights if you have secret military prisons where people waterboarding and where people are undergoing sensory deprivation the rest of the

world sees this and the rest of the world says american claims to represent righteousness. so united states is undermining unschooled position by maintaining a a prison in guantanamo the american legal system is on trial as well the united states is trying to have it both ways it's accuse these people being prisoners of war but it isn't treated as prisoners of war now it's accusing them of being criminals and if they're criminals they need to be tried civilian court i mean one question is why they're being tried in the united states and not in a areas where the crimes were committed like kenya but. the american legal system is being observed by the whole world right now and i think that the american legal system has the ability to respond if there is evidence that stated it will not be admitted in court. well coming up very shortly here on our miracle breakthrough you can find out how doctors here are given hope to children fighting a deadly disease. but first as new violence in kyrgyzstan just days ahead of

a parliamentary election there twenty people have stormed the office of a nationalist opposition political party in the capital bishkek the protests were staged by relatives of those killed in the riots that broke out after the president of the republic was exiled earlier this year they broke into the party's headquarters burning equipment and campaigning to real volatile recording by local media in which the party's leader said intended to put the president back into power the party spokesman denied the allegation saying the tape was. new data sharing demands from washington are causing anger in europe the u.s. could get access to fingerprints d.n.a. samples banking details and other private and sensitive information the u.s. says it just wants to stop potential terrorists from entering the country travelers from states refusing to share the information we have to apply for an american visa e.u. countries like austria and germany have already agreed to hand over the personal

data of citizens in june the e.u. and united states the so-called swift deal which gives american officials access to all bank transactions within europe well she's a portuguese politician and member of the european parliament you told me earlier that the information swap is still in washington's favor. now at this point we are sending about mine ninety six million bits of financial transfers ninety million messages financial messages each month to the united states so this is billions a year and. the european citizens turn to us to see. how well is this happening at this point the floor of the it is from the e.u. to the u.s. and there's a theoretical possibility of diverting this this. data but still ethical reciprocity it's not real. reciprocity and asymmetrical reciprocity it's not reciprocity so at this point we do not address process with united states only between mr brown deal

which was rejected by parliament and shift to which was approved and then with my folks against but the proved we managed to get a new rupee an overseer in washington which will be looking over the american shoulders as it were and with the power to start a search that he or she we did not appropriate the problem is that now the european commission is not willing to tell us the name of this person who isn't in washington so we are here at this place i will say ironic situation where the privacy of one person one representative that should be public from the outset is him better protected than the privacy of five hundred million european cities we have the citizens with the representatives we are once transparency on their side so if they give us transparency if we know what kind of that is very next asked by whom and when if we have representatives whose name we know then we can you know in the reciprocity between the citizen and institutions we can work in making everybody said. for years the united states was the biggest preacher of tolerance

in the world but some fairly contemporary us society is losing its reputation as free and open xenophobia nationalistic hate against minorities including islamophobia are on the rise. america is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. but bleeding through her stars and stripes. and ugliness incapable of masking protests against the construction of new mosques illegal immigration and economic reform point to a fear and frustration. an emotional climate experts say where many americans are swapping patriotism for nationalism definitely is a phobia it's a fear of the other zina phobia is defined as an unknown reasonable fear or hatred of the unfamiliar especially people of other race or religion muslim associated

with phil that's everybody knows the no fly list has ninety nine wilson names most of them sorry sacks created what he calls mobile art aviation a missile decorated with signs equating islam to terrorism at the front a mannequin dressed as an arab there is no disrespect there is no more sex drives this display all over new york this. is the other ramadan is the executive director of the council of american islamic relations his new york office repeatedly receives hate mail like this picture of a burning car on there's been a spike and obvious bike of hate crimes and islamophobia and attacks on mosques throughout the country from temecula california to sheboygan wisconsin to tennessee these are our crimes that are motivated by. hate

or intolerance or bigotry a rage that amnesty international believes is being exploited not tempered by politicians all across america now seems don't have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in washington. never accept the japanese going to show you the next to pearl harbor i was no reason for us to show to moscow actually we're afraid that tea parties around the country frustrations over taxes and joblessness are aimed more directly at us president barack obama is saying oh you think you know we'll say look you know what i don't know what the world is i cannot make up what the president is but the reason to suspect him is because he's talking like what stop talking like i mean. according to the f.b.i. obama has garnered more death threats than any other american president in the u.s. immigrants have also become the other arrested and detained in arizona beaten and bruised in new york where racial tensions have erupted in some low income

neighborhoods unfortunately most of the attacks most recently been by blacks against mexican violence many attribute to the struggling u.s. economy if you're a mexican immigrant right and people think that you're a threat maybe third job or something like that they're going through a song one basket that's the bottom line anything who looks different all the sudden becomes bad an alarming downturn in america's mood it clearly illustrates how frustrated and divided public but this leaves many hosking the land founded on freedom is becoming a land and soon i hate. fortnight party new york. what used to be a disease that very few children survived but mel hopes of a full recovery become a reality for young and chemo patients around the world and it's all thanks to a breakthrough treatment developed in a pioneering clinic in russia's urals. kareena is seven years old but if

it hadn't been for a pioneering new treatment she wouldn't have even seen her first birthday. she was a model when she started developing a strange new rash the first we thought it was malaria then we found it was an infant leukemia couldn't dance of the forecast wasn't good she was treated here actually catherine berg regional children's hospital both doctors and patients unaware at the time that they were on the verge of a breakthrough. and so on her disease anymore by their grace of him with therapy we decided to use of the. all crown city. bikini thrice in image of blood cells and trans regional acid which is better known as vessel no eight forces those cells to develop stopping the league kenya from spreading although not a new treatment ever been used on adults before. just once we start the

new treatment green are starting to wonder we got the news. that she was badgered because this new treatment combining both less noise and chemotherapy was so successful it even surprised the doctors and has been prescribed to many other patients sense with encouraging results both in treatment here at the hospital her children like market now have a much better chance of recovery just twenty years ago a drugs to treat an keamy are harder to come by in russia they correct usage a little nine and the survival rate is below ten percent now with a survival rate of seventy percent pediatric oncology has made tremendous progress we found the results so good that we can introduce it to the world but she is also working very closely with countries such as germany to develop their. expertise and helping to share the knowledge and experience they

gave corrina a second chance school the one most important thing for pains when things like this happen is to be patient you really can't give up. and that can spread globally countries may not agree on many things but when it comes to battling cancer they find a common voice that means clam breaking discoveries like this can save children's lives around the world so if r.t. you catch him. was just turned twenty one minutes past the hour here in the russian capital and ten minutes from now in our special report we meet people whose lives are back to basics as they reject modern civilization before that we have the latest from the world of business review after a quick break stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. look

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follow and a very warm welcome to the business news the investment formal free to be capital brought together experts on finance and building business says the two day event addressed two main issues turning moscow into world financial center and star versified there were some economy will bring you the highlights. all politicians and business people seem agrees that russia's economy needs to diversify but delegates say there is no single paul. what we call the best prediction for an economy is scenario seventy eight if the oil price remains at seventy eight dollars per barrel they caught i mean is likely going to the period of stagnation in the brush and if like stagnation of the seventy's and eighty's that is this will happen if there are no serious economic reforms being

undertaken right now one has to remember that there are is a relatively rich country by the world standards and at this level of g.d.p. per capita one can only girls if there is a broad based innovation economists catch up a period of economic growth is in the past so now one has to provide incentives to innovate the incentives to grow unfortunately the top down economic policy all of this has been tried the vertical the horizontal economic kind of appalls industrial policy has been tried so now to grow sustainable sustainably foster a levels one has to think about the new strategy for economic growth which is based on economic reforms so the key is to create demand forty four percent and the two top priority this is the first one as per ization to create is the amount of government involvement in the economy and not just the privatization of the minority it. a

minority shares in the large government companies but the broad based approach is ation most of the large companies which are not interested in the vacation and reforms are sold out to private investors the second is drastic deregulation of the small businesses because we all know that the small businesses are usually the most serious proponents of economic reforms the private protection of the private property and the economic institutions which are. conducive to economic growth they need to diversify russia's economy is nothing new but the financial crisis has given it more urgency business archie spoke to. chief economist at the european bank for reconstruction and development. there are some old lessons that we need to be reminded of and some new lessons and i think that in terms of new lessons in the vulnerability of the financial system russia needs to invest much

more in a minute addressing the key vulnerabilities the very largest in the with the lack of transparency in the financial system we knew that there was a problem but you're reminded of how big a problem is. in terms of the the old innocence is about diversifying building for activity the big problem in russia is that there's not enough middle size for that's what it is mourning the patient of the problems in the form of the lack of competition the problems of the business environment and the very strong regional variation in business environment the russian government is offering subsidies to boost in the station but one technology investor told r.t. that what companies really neat is simply less regulation i think that the most important is in the burbs not to create the right incentives or moving to the burbs for example in everything which is from knocked up with the globalization of the. innovation to cultural industry or more in. the costumes were done recently the

special started with together with. the price waterfalls on the bar your sort of innovation business and everybody says the most important point is the costumes. own little comfort for business though russia's finance minister admitted the tax burden will rise by of around four percent. serious which will happen over three years is mainly due to excise duty is to petrol alcohol and tobacco along with the buys or insurance premiums while it comes several months after gudrun so that there is no room to cut taxes and brush up. russia's jura graphical reacher is certainly one of its strengths that's according to the hambro who runs a gold mining company in russia's fought east he says neighboring china represents an opportunity as well as a risk. particularly in the east so here.