sure is that so much of it i mean if you want to get real crazy if he's going to because their neighbors a leg up for their exports by keeping their currency if left unchecked.

and there's russian victim boot fights u.s. attempts to get him extradited from thailand he's going to appeal any court decision that would see him shipped also this hour. we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemy a major us media boss wants more money to battle international competitors he says are winning over the hearts and minds of viewers across the world. and europe with fresh u.s. demands for data sharing critics say america is imposing on personal privacy and of the pretense of fighting terrorism.

live from our studios 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 victim boot should be extradited to the u.s. the country's prime minister said the handover period couldn't last more than three months if it's deemed necessary but which will remain in a time jan until his legal team appeals the latest verdict. thomas has been following the developments. victor boot has certainly created a name for himself some call him the murder. and of death or even the lord of war but to sear gabled victor's brother he's seen simply as a great business mind just a pitiful first course he had the drive in quite an outstanding talent to organize and run business that's why it was great working with him. the boot was arrested in two thousand and eight in bangkok thailand the 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 just little leaper making a monster out of him and if you think about it victor has been out of the business for over ten years what sort of secret information can he possibly not possess he has not been out of the country and he hasn't talked to any artist cartoonist with the last 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 some strange unloads doesn't but that 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 hold the americans are saying is actually working for the

victor borge is actually working for the americans because he's not only is a british war but he also all of 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 fighter jets and cheap oil if the decision goes their way if he's next ready to america and stands trial in america itself i think then everything will be in public but probably a but might happen as they would like to extradite him but not have a face trial in america but to be in a prison another cunt. free. as they have done with other people we don't know 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 both say they are more concerned about his welfare and safety that it's quite possible the extradite him and just look 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. we will see what i think there's nothing left of american democracy today the us regime is the same or worse than. any action is depicted as a patriotic act but everything is classified they have secret prisons where they torture people and inject them with similar chemicals to extract information they're willing to resort to any means to get one 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 the show thundersnow still part of but we're still hoping victor will be freed we believe he might be it's hard for regular people like us to fight machines look at them and 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 hoping for just as

with we haven't seen any in the past three years. sean thomas our t.v. . russian chinese and iranian news channels have been labeled enemies by the us sponsored media organization which oversees programming direct to the foreign audiences the broadcasting board of governors says it needs new money to fight the growing danger. 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 telos and of course china's own lodging international broadcasting twenty four hour news channels correspondents around the world. when i name my colleague research i spoke to auntie's political commentator peter de velde 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 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 that clear out twenty years

after the end of the cold war one has to wonder who's going to how do you change 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 are not going to get the word out anymore they need to keep fighting cold wars and they're afraid that because we won't. and while american media is looking for anybody else side on the inside the country is facing an increase of rachel true. 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 to throw us on one basket anything who

looks different all the sudden becomes bad muslims and mexicans alike facing xenophobia in the everyday names that report coming very soon here on r.t. . the first 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 when i have to apply for an american visa some of the countries like austria and germany have already agreed to hand over the personal data of their citizens when in june the e.u. and the united states signed the so-called swift deal which gives american officials access to all bank transactions within europe she's a portuguese politician a member of the european parliament says 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 just to ask how is this happening at this point the flow of data 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 the united states between. a deal which was rejected by parliament and to which was approved and then with my votes against but approved we managed to get a new rupee an overseer in washington which will. i'd 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 quickly from the outset is better protected than the privacy of five hundred million european cities we have the citizens we are the representatives we are once transparency on their side so if they give us transparency if we know what kind of data has been accessed by whom and when if we have representatives whose name we know then we can you know reciprocity between the citizen and the situations we can work in making everybody safe. the first attempt to prosecutor suspected terrorists held at guantanamo bay in a civilian court has been delayed after a judge blocked the use of a key witness the trial of ahmed ghailani has been postponed until next week because the key witness emerged during interrogation of a secret cia prison where his noise say he was tortured any statements made under duress in miscible the witness allegedly sold explosives to me who's charged with

plotting the nine hundred ninety eight bombings of two american embassies in africa which killed two hundred twenty four people he's the first went on a mo detainees to be transferred into the u.s. civilian justice system alone that's across live to our washington studio to speak with larry montel that he's a lawyer who specializes in these types of cases thanks very much indeed for joining us how big of a stumbling block is this delay where the appearance of a key witness is being denied in fact i understand he's the most important witness say is there a chance that galante might not actually be prosecuted no. well that's i think what's going on with regard to the delay the government has had him in custody for over six years they've had plenty of time to get their case together and on the eve of trial to have one of the seminal components of their case. be in consideration for suppression you know this is just a an embarrassment to the entire process but will it be sorted out by next week

they're saying this be a postponement but do you see that this hurdle will be overcome well you know it's unclear what the judge is going to do i think if if they do want up suppressing the information and i think there's a very valid argument for that the case is going to be in question and their request to delay is to allow that determination to be made and then the the. department of justice is going to have to determine whether they want to proceed or not could you briefly explain why this alleged terrorist is being tried in a civilian court. well. what you have in the united states right now is a bunch of opinions on how we should move forward on the issues and the the choice of form has been a subject of debate for some time the this is a manipulation by the department of justice and those trying to prosecute these

people in terms of choosing form or form shopping and trying to select certain localities that will ensure the greatest chance of conviction and the greatest amount of punishment so that they can demonstrate to the american public that there are successful ways to to prosecute these people the problem is that it's all built upon intelligence gathering not criminal justice it's all based on or a lot of it's based on tortured evidence that was. gained and you know there really is no way out of this mess and to try they're trying to force the hand of you know the u.s. government the the the article three court to pursue this and i think what's going to happen it's going to backfire because they're going to find the tortured evidence is not admissible and the government's not going to have the case that they thought they had right let's talk about this particular case. but with regard to the witness problem of the moment but you mentioned

a whole bunch of opinions involved here some are actually saying that this particular case is really a test of a bomb has promised to close guantanamo what do you see that in some ways this is being turned into a political trial of the bombers administration. well it's certainly emblematic of what's going on i mean you know we have the executive order that was issued you know within twenty four hours of the president obtaining office and yet guantanamo still stands this is not the way that the government wants to proceed because it's not going to end up in success the cost of these proceedings the security around surrounding them and if they should fail here then what do we move into do we move into indefinite detention you know what what's the final result of the case if they can't pursue prosecute so they really have put themselves in a corner and it is endemic or reflective of. sort of an impasse on the whole want on a mo issue they just don't know what to do there's

a complete paralysis of the system at this point so you could just explain briefly the implications then if he was to be found guilty what the implications of that all on guantanamo and indeed on civilian justice system in the u.s. . well you know in theory every prosecution that goes forward should result in a conviction i mean that you shouldn't be sending people forward to a court a less you have evidence of their guilt so it really is the government's case to lose not for the defense case to win and so you know this is always an uphill battle but you know we're dealing with you know classified information we're dealing with you know government investigators a whole entire system and you know he's really set up for failure particularly on the heels of the recent conviction of the pakistani man yesterday and and then trying him so close to you know the scene of nine eleven i mean that there's no mystery here i mean they're really trying to box him into a conviction just

a quick final comment from me from a from a lawyer perspective there are some who are saying this is going to set a really dangerous precedent when the alleged terrorist is not actually being treated as a prisoner of war but actually as a criminal i mean what what are they talking about there was all there was. the difference in the status all of the q's. well i think it's really not a danger for the government it's a danger for the accused because let's say you know you enter my country somebody invades the united states and i start fighting back but i don't have a uniform or i don't have you know some lawful justification with the united states to fight you back all of a sudden by the u.s. as definition i could be declared an enemy combatant and any resistance that i place upon you even though you're in my country i can then be deemed a criminal and prosecuted so you're blending you know the rules of war with the criminal justice system but you're not allowing a criminal justice system type evidence to allow i mean you're not there's no

preservation of evidence you're not being read your rights and allowed to remain silent none of the foundational components that allow you to get due process in a criminal justice system are apparent so you have this total blending of two systems that were never meant to be put together and trying to get a result and it's just a big mess ok well what we'll have to leave it there for the moment thanks very much indeed very interesting to hear what you have to say us. joining us live from washington d.c. we appreciate tom thanks very much indeed. for years the united states was the biggest preacher of tolerance in the well but some fear the contemporary us society is losing its reputation is free and open xenophobia nationalistic hate against minorities including islamophobia are on the rice. 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 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 koran there's been a spike and obvious by. 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 she's going to have the right to put up a sign next to the holocaust museum in washington. would never accept the japanese going to show you next to true hard work i do is no reason for us to show up to a mosque 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 what i don't know what the world is i cannot make up what the president is but the reason this is fact it is because you're talking like what stop talking like a bad. according to the 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 where racial tensions have erupted in some low income neighborhoods unfortunately most of the attacks most recently been by blacks against mexicans 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 to throw a saw in one basket that's the bottom line anything who looks different all the sudden becomes bad and alarming downturn in america's mood clearly illustrates how

frustrated and divided public but this leaves many housekeeping at the land founded on freedom is becoming a land and soon i hate. fortnight artsy new york. tell him no more news from around the world at this stage of the day and hungry has opened a criminal investigation into a deadly toxic sludge which killed four people injured one hundred twenty others a state of emergency has been declared in three western counties up to the chemical waste from a reservoir european union has ruled that the ecological disaster could have long term consequences for countries along the danube river it's estimated the cleanup will take at least a year and cost millions of dollars. to states as apologize for a recent helicopter attack on pakistani soldiers a u.s. investigation found that american soldiers are confused a pakistani help. within minutes after the incident pakistan closed the border crossing into afghanistan used by nato convoys some of the vehicles on a would have past were torched and destroyed by militants. so the world of christ

the redeemer that stands over rio de janeiro has been lit in pink to remind women about the danger of breast cancer the pink october campaign encourage latin american women to have regular checkups raising the chances of early detection more than a million cases of breast cancer diagnosed around the world every year. well i'll be back with an update of the headlines at half past the hour but first with the domino effect a financial disaster spreading through europe or emmett's asks the robot homer if the stronger economies should ditch the weaker ones that's a special interview next.

i'm talking to roger helmer who's a euro skeptic member of the european parliament he's very opposed to further integration with the european union and also supports renegotiating many of the treaties with the right to have the thank you very much for talking to r.t. first of all how would you characterize the u.k.'s relationship with the. there's a big question. we have always been reluctant members of the european union when we joined it we were told that it was merely a trading operation we had

a referendum i voted in favor if i had known then what i know now i would have voted against. but we have this unfortunate feeling that on the one hand we don't like it very much we resent all the nonsense on the other hand many people think well europe's a long way away it doesn't affect me very much so let them get on with it in fact of course it does intimately affect the lives of all of us and huge swathes of policy areas have decided in brussels not decided in the u.k. in my view it is making us poorer and less democratic and less free and i believe we would be better off out and do you support this state referendum on being and if it were possible well i think we should start with the referendum that every major political party in britain promised us which is the referendum on the lisbon treaty what they are now saying is what has been ratified it's too late no it isn't too late we should have a referendum saying do you accept the terms of the lisbon treaty or do you wish the government to renegotiate those terms and that would give i'm sure we get

a renegotiation and so that would give a british government a very strong position a very strong mandate to renegotiate so that's what we want to do now the question that is also arising should we have a referendum on in or out. i'm less clear there what the outcome would be i think probably after a good campaign we would actually get an out vote but i'm less confident of it and of course if we had been in or out vote on the pa and the people voted to stay in then i suppose the issue would be off the agenda for twenty years so from my point of view that is a high risk route i would just like to see the referendum that we originally were promised let's talk about what's happening in europe at the moment recently we've seen a rise in protests against austerity measures what do you see that going forwards. well i could see a long period of quite serious protests and unrest but the political and broader economic questions of really very interesting we're seeing

that the the german people are becoming extremely reluctant to be the bankers of last resort for the euro zone germans who retire it is it sixty five don't want to keep paying money to greece where they retire at fifty eight in order to maintain a mediterranean lifestyle so there's deep unhappiness there. i think it comes down to the issue of the euro currency we euro skeptics have always said that the euro or the euro currency couldn't work because you had disparate economies with different economic cycles they can't all have the same monetary policy and therefore they can't all have the same currency and frankly for best part of ten years the euro seemed to work sort of all right and people say well you predicted all these disasters nothing's going wrong well no it has and this is exactly what we expected you simply cannot have germany on the one hand which has been extremely careful with inflation and wage rates and all those things in the same moment for union places like greece and italy and spain which have been entirely profit and of

allowed their unit labor cost to run out of control cease to be competitive. those countries today that he will germany want to revalue with in a currency union they can't so either some of the peripheral countries are going to have to peel off at the bottom or germany is going to have to get out of the top you could have a currency union probably of germany the bend the locks for all. but the moment you put it in with other countries it just isn't going to work what's the solution that recently european central bank has said that countries opting out of the year is a would be committing economic and political suicide wouldn't be tantamount to suicide but they face a very hard choice because staying in they're going to have the most desperate problems getting out of the first to admit they're going to have desperate problems it's a choice between two evils and it's difficult to say which is the greater evil but the.