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he starts on t.v. dot com. alleged russian got run a victim picked fights us attempts to get him extradited from thailand is known as plan to appeal any court decision that would see him shipped out also. 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 the it was across the world. and in europe put fresh u.s. demands for data sharing critics say america is imposing on personal privacy under the pretense of fighting terrorism.

life or was studios in central moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day tara and 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 handover period could last more than three months if it's deemed necessary but it will remain in a tiny jail until his legal team appeals the latest verdict sean thomas has been following the developments. it has certainly created a name for himself some call him the merchant of death or even the lord of war but to sergei boot lickers brother he's seen simply as a great business mind just a little for of course he had the drive in quite an outstanding talent to organize and run business that's why it was great working with him. who 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 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 didn't work any more because everywhere he went the u.s. government tried to obstruct his work i guess the u.s. special service has some strange. stuff but 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 holby americans are saying is actually working for the

victor board is actually working for the americans because he's not only is a british war but also all 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 or they will be in public but probably what might happen is that they would like to extradite. but not have a face trial in america but to be in a prison and another country as they have done with other people we don't know samaritan 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 welfare and safety. it's quite possible the extradite him and just lock him up in 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 now the question if true justice is even a possibility of all the material we will see was i think there's nothing left of american democracy today the u.s. regime is the same or worse than stallion's reign was any action is depicted as if they too arctic act everything is classified they have secret prisons where they torture people and inject them with some chemicals to extract information they're 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 they're still but look we're still hoping victor will be freed we believe he might be it's hard for regular people like us to fight the u.s. machine look at them and look at us what do we have to back us up it's like a man fighting an elephant and it's hard for us to get through this we're hoping

for just as with we haven't seen any in the past three years or. sean thomas r.t. . us documentary filmmaker danny schechter believes that ficta beach 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 shit in a james bond movie sense you know the. organization 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 russian and i think there's a case to be made here. and there are a cold war echoes from america elsewhere to the u.s. organization which oversees the media directed at foreign audiences has labeled the media in russia china and iran as enemies that broadcasting board of governors which is sponsored by the u.s. government says it needs a 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 is

a lodging international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world. when early in my colleague rule research they spoke to who commentator peter bell he thinks the chairman statement puts him beyond real journalism. the south a city in conflict c.n.n. took 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 catching ok but 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 is that

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 a competitor and a competitor of the united states as an enemy he says that 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 do if we just step back for a moment and look at the broader scope i mean if you were 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. one american media is looking for enemies outside on the inside

the country is facing a rise of racial hatred. 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 to throw us on one basket anything who looks different all the sudden becomes bad muslims or mexicans a line of faces in a phobia in their everyday lives that report coming up shortly here on the t. . a new data sharing demands from washington a 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 when i have to apply for an american visa or some e.u. countries like austria and germany who really agreed to hand over the personal data of citizens and in june the e.u. and the u.s. signed the so-called swift deal which gives american officials access to all bank transactions within europe. should portuguese politician

a member of the european parliament told me earlier that washington doesn't want to allow the e.u. the same access. now at this point we are sending about nine 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 flow of data is from the e.u. to the u.s. and there is that theoretical possibility of diverting this this this way of the data but still ethical reciprocity it's not real reciprocity and asymmetrical reciprocity it's not reciprocity at all so at this point we do not address process with the united states really between mr brown deal which was rejected by parliament and shift to which was approved and then with my vote against but approved 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 really did not appropriate the problem is that now the european commission is not willing to tell us the name of this person is it in washington so we are here at this they all say ironic situation where the privacy of one person one representative that should be public from the outset this is better protected than the privacy of five hundred million europeans it is with 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 been accessed by whom and when if we have representatives whose name we know then we can you know in the reciprocity between the citizen and the situations we can work in making everybody say. investigators looking into the murder of the 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 upon a cough scar the journalist for the newspaper editor and renowned human rights activist who was shot dead four years ago and police say she was targeted because of a 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 home and galliani is accused of helping al qaeda militants carry out the nine hundred ninety eight bombing of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya which left two hundred twenty four people dead he's the first guantanamo detainees to be transferred into the u.s. civilian justice system and in may two thousand and nine congress blocked funds to closing down the detention centers a clear plan for the closure must be presented before money is approved or doctor

and singer director of social studies at hofstra university in new york believes 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 fully so you really see it as undermining the school position by maintaining a a prison in one part of the american legal system is on trial as well the united states is trying to have it both ways it's accuse these people of being prisoners of war but has been treated as prisoners of war now it's accusing them of being criminals and if they're criminals they need to be tried in civilian court i mean one question is why they're being tried in the united states and not an area where the crimes were committed like daniel 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's tainted it will not be admitted in court. coming up very soon here for you may recall breakthrough and. you can find out how doctors here in washington given hope to children fighting a deadly disease. but first the united states was the biggest preach of tolerance in the world but some fear the contemporary us society is losing its reputation as free and open and a phobia nationalistic hate against minorities including its number phobia are on the rise. america is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. but believing 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 unreasonable fear or hatred of the unfamiliar especially people of other race or religion muslim associated with bill that's everybody knows the no fly list has ninety nine 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 out of 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. hate crimes and islamophobia correct 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 out ok financially holocaust museum in washington would never accept the japanese going to have to say yes to pearl harbor was no reason for us to simply mosque actually were afraid some at tea parties around the country frustrations over taxes and joblessness are aimed more directly at us president barack obama they say oh you can be able so look you know what i don't know what the reality is i cannot make up

what the president is but the reason to suspect it is because you are talking like what stop talking like. a. to be f.b.i. obama has garnered more death threats than any other american president in the us immigrants have also become the other arrested and detained in arizona beaten and bruised in new york were racial tensions have erupted in some low income neighborhoods unfortunately most of the attacks most recently had 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 to a job or something like that they're going through a saw in 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 asking if the land founded on freedom is becoming

a land and soon i hate. fortnight party new york. used to be a disease that very few children survived but no hopes of a full recovery have become a reality for young leukemia 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. 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 catch remember greta you know children's hospital doctors and patients unaware at the time that they were on the verge of a break three they found. her disease anymore by their aggressive him with therapy we decided to use of. all brands.

the kimi thrice an image of blood cells and trans regional acid which is better known as fastenal eight full says those cells to develop stopping the league kenya from spreading although not a new treatment everything used on adults before. we started the new treatment green i started to wonder. would be great for that year's graduates. this new treatment combining both personally and chemotherapy is so successful it even surprised the doctors and has been prescribed to many other patients sense with encouraging results advances in treatment here at the hospital have been like mark head now have a much better chance of recovery just twenty years ago a drugs to treatment. the harder to come by in russia they correct usage a little nine and the survival rate is below ten percent now with the survival rate

is seventy percent pediatric oncology has made tremendous progress we found their results so good that we can introduce it to the world and she is also working very closely with countries such as germany to develop their. expertise and hating to share the knowledge and experience that gave kareena a second chance to school the one most important thing for parents when things like this happen is to be patient you really can't give up. and not shape 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 and r.t. you catch him back. in time for some more news from around the world in our world update hungry has opened

a criminal investigation into the deadly toxic sludge spill which killed four people and injured one hundred twenty others a state of emergency has been declared in three western counties after the chemical boast burst from a reservoir european union has warned that the ecological disaster could have long term consequences for countries along the danube river system into the cleanup will take at least a year and cost millions of dollars. not to states as apologize for a recent helicopter strike in which two pakistani soldiers were killed u.s. investigation found that american soldiers have confused a pakistani outpost with a militant camp after the incident pakistan closed the border crossing into afghanistan used by nato convoys and some of the vehicles on able to pass the torch to and destroyed by militants. and a lot of putin has received some unusual birthday gifts in his time rare leopards books above him and even a cannon well this year students at moscow state university of come up with a present that some little more provocative members from the faculty of journalism

released a sexy calendar dedicated to russia's prime minister each model is pictured with speech bubbles containing. like about a third time or the fall as a result but i'm still burning some plea some simply say that we love you we created say the idea was to show smart young women can still be beautiful the university however called the projects inappropriate. to bring you up to date for the moment here in our team about ten minutes from now you can join peter lavelle he's the host of our debate show cross-talk to discuss currencies imbalances and also global currency wars first through the business with you to stay with us for that. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news the investment for more free to be capital brought together experts on finance and building businesses the two day event addressed two main issues turning moscow into world financial center and turn

versifying through russian economy will bring you the highlights. all politicians and business people seem agreed that russia's economy needs to diversify but delegates say there is no single path. what we call the best prediction for an economy is a scenario seventy eight's it 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's 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 a 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 level so one has to think about the new strategy for economic growth which is based on economic reforms so the key is to create demand for us and then to top priority this is the first one as per it is ation to create is the amount of government involvement in the economy not just the privatisation of the minority it . a minority shares in the large government companies but the broad based approach is a shunt most of the large companies which are not interested in of asian 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 the need to diversify russia's economy is nothing new but the financial crisis has given it more arch in st business r.t. spoke to. chief economist at the european bank for reconstruction and development. there are some old listeners that we need to be reminded of and some new lessons and i think that in terms of new lessons it's the vulnerability of the financial system that russia needs to invest much more in a minute addressing the key vulnerabilities the very largest certainly there for the lack of transparency in the financial system we knew that there was a problem but you were reminded on how big a problem. in terms of the the oldest son is about diversifying building for

activity the big problem in russia is that there's not enough middle size for that's what it's morning to haitian all 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 company is 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 connected with the globalization of to. innovation to cultural industry are more in. the costumes they're done recently. the special started with together with all smart and 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 alex accouterments interests which will have another 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 off to court and said that there was no room to cut taxes and russia . russia's geographical reach is certainly one of its strengths that's according to the to hambro who runs a gold mining company in russia's fought east he says neighboring china represents an opportunity as well as a risk that needs to particularly in the eastern sector whether it's demographic there and one point one million people in the region fifty eight million people in the general china. and so that demographic potential needs properly to be exploited i think that's what.