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starts on t.v. dot com. moscow calls thailand's actions illegal as it sends russian prisoners more than a victim booed off to the u.s. to stand trial for trafficking are the world's wars are. a blow to the very foundation something used its president warned failing currency could drag down the union itself. and out of their aid and human rights policies seem cheap but critical lending can say stand back to the u.s. for abusing prisoners and the secret detention centers with claims there are more cases of torture to be made public and.

very well welcome to you this is r.t. moscow has dubbed the thailand's extradition no russian businessman viktor boot to the u.s. as illegal washington is accused of using unprecedented political pressure to have him handed over america says the man nicknamed the merchant of death trafficked dictators on conflict zones around the world let's not get the latest details from our to use a gun if you can what washington d.c. so bring us up to date if you will where is victor boot right now. well already some reports are saying he landed in new york at nine am local time though it's quite a sudden extradition vic the bullets lawyers family and the russian embassy in thailand said they had no notification of that happening and here in the united states we haven't heard any fresh statements at this point but we earlier contacted the f.b.i.

there are no official comments yet but they said they're going to be holding a news conference this wednesday will surely keep you posted on that but you can imagine the u.s. is really more than happy to have good on their soil now they've been trying to get him extradited for two years in the u.s. he faces charges of the selling arms to a terrorist group and to end conspiring to kill american citizens if convicted here in the u.s. he may face life in prison and according to the u.s. he was one of the world's most active black market arms traders who denies any wrongdoing and he says he has only engaged in perfectly legal aircraft sales as for the upcoming trial back in august when would further tie court decision to extradite him he said he would face trial in the u.s. and and win it. during a russian has been hunted critical of the decision by thailand tell me what exactly has moscow have to say at this point well we russians believe the us managed to get

extradited by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and judicial authorities of thailand here is what foreign minister sergei lavrov had to say. we let me share with you despite two rulings in thailand's criminal court saying victor boots guilty was not proven the thai government has still decided to hand him over to the us i consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on thailand's government this is an example of striking injustice we as a state will continue to give all necessary support to boot as a russian citizen. i know you said there was an air of secrecy and urgency around. tell us more about why it's not the case. well worry you have to remember americans are talking about millions of dollars worth of russian weapons sold by bought board is is was dubbed you know the merchant of death but is the former soviet military

officer what makes the case political really is the underlying implication of the u.s. accusations that good was able to pull it off because of these government connections actually both lawyers and some intelligence experts claim that the reason the u.s. so wanted to have put in custody is his allegedly extensive knowledge of russian military and intelligence operations it's really unclear to what extent is knowledgeable in all those things but my my colleague. got that in the us are working to shed some more light on why the u.s. wants to boot wanted both so badly. how the woods lord of war there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we were in the other eleven and his ledge to realize prototype russian

businessmen you think that a boot nicknamed the merchant of death denied on like using shoes and laughed off parallels. well it's all over resulted from nicolas cage who rang the to play this out a lot for that's what is silly and i feel pity for it so it's been more his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton but that did not stop the thai appeal court from ordering his extradition to the united states despite the fact the country's criminal court earlier refused to do just that in a move worthy of a bureaucratic wreck or entire thora he's moved good from prison to a u.s. airplane in under three hours without him seeing his wife or his lawyer. and even though this case may seem closed the biggest question remains unanswered what does victor know to make the americans want this badly victor board is

a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and because what knows too much heat is more dangerous than we kill it's for the u s smuggling role in weapons in not only in africa and latin america but all over the world it's not everyone that's willing to give the russian businessmen the type of credit given to him by u.s. prosecutors he's possibly a merchant of some death but he certainly isn't the man the u.s. made you would call them merchant of death i mean around quite a large airline operation in many rekha and i would think that ninety five percent of his flights were ordinary commercial goods i know you through television see from washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. run even as is not itself illegal but ever since his arrest in the thai capital in march two thousand and eight the american side did everything it could to make charges stick including adding allegations of trade

love violations. boots family have repeatedly criticized the court procedures firm in their belief that he's being made a scapegoat but does this room with his decision to tie court of appeal has demonstrated to the work of the criminal court has no will you roll evidence gathering the question of eye witnesses old this works to meet the lower court too low to dictate or sex tradition to the us has been thrown the way the court of appeal is controlled by the thai government directly and so huge pressure from the us both strauss and tribulations are anything but over his fate in the us is very uncertain with only one thing guaranteed more time behind bars rumors of a sequel. hollywood's blockbuster lord of war has been circling around for a while and last ordinary moviegoers await that release dictabelt will be awaiting his own at this point in time both look at equally unlikely. kashrut as our art

moscow. ok rory in media. reports just russians want immediate access to victor borge and they want his rights respected as the russian citizen here in the united states all right also he's gone in there with the latest from washington d c on today's a sudden extradition to the united states thank you. where you are watching are still to come georgian a spy fiction tbilisi releases of placed on an alleged russian spy network we try to separate fact from fiction. if europe's single currency fails so with the union itself the warning comes from the e.u. president who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the eurozone finance ministers portugal has warned it could be forced out of the eurozone and is also being urged to use european bailout money to prevent bankruptcy but financial analyst max

kaiser says going to the international monetary fund for help would be even worse. the e.u. right now is investigating criminal activity over there at the anglo irish bank four hundred fifty one million dollars of illegal loans that are now parked in offshore accounts implicated are shown fitzpatrick david drum shown quinn the financial terrorists that are taking ireland down in less ireland's willing to give up its sovereignty unless ireland is going to become a debt slave unless ireland wants its affairs conducted by the i.m.f. and the i.m.f. everywhere they've gone they've they've brought destruction and economic mayhem you know they're licking their chops waiting to get in there to cause havoc pay themselves a huge freeze give bonuses to their cause of crony capitalists and terrorist bankers and ireland is quitting in its boots and the government unfortunately in

our lives not standing up for the people it's abdicated its role as representative of the people the the i am out and the and the e.u. and the e.c.b. caused ireland's crisis so why are you going to them to ask you to solve the crisis they're the ones that caused the crisis the ireland needs to divorce itself from these financial terrorist and stand on its own two feet well i mean as the same case whether it's portugal ireland greece or any of these other european countries they all are facing the same problem bankers have been allowed to conduct fraudulent activity look at happened in greece for example thanks a lot goldman sachs to come in and buys them on entering into the euro goldman sachs got them to cook their books and commit fraud and now they're in dire straits so now who are they asked to help them get out of their problem while they ask representatives from goldman sachs this is a case of stockholm syndrome these countries are being held captive by financial terrorists and to get out of their problem they're asking the same financial

terrorists please sir how do we escape the clutches of your terrorism you know ireland they went to war against the ira the irish republican army but they seem to just give a pass to you know sean fitzpatrick. well for more of those analysis on the latest from the world of finance just tune in to the kaiser report that's in just over one hour's time right here on our. well the u.s. and afghanistan are trying to downplay rumors of a dispute brewing between the two of them and follows president hamid karzai as criticism of washington's war type fix in afghanistan because i demanded the u.s. led coalition to reduce military operations and night raids against suspected taliban commanders which often result in civilian casualties but the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says the strikes are crucial to fight insurgents all of this is just days before a critical nato summit where the alliance will unveil its new combat strategy up

until two thousand and fourteen but as r.t.g. hunt office reports america's rules of engagement on the only thing troubling afghanistan. to thirty eight billion dollars have been poured into afghanistan by the u.s. since the two thousand and one invasion to bolster security and economic development a significant chunk of that money humanitarian aid to provide food build health clinics schools and one of the poorest countries in the world all part of the u.s. effort to win over hearts and minds and to convince afghans to reject the taliban and al qaeda drop off some humanitarian aid supplies as much as we can and give the people the knowing that we are out here we are the good guys but there is a dark cloud looming over the battle for hearts and minds it's known as america's black hole in afghanistan

a secretive place journalists and human rights activists still depict as a liability to america's so-called war on terror former detainees have described the bug room detention facility as the scene of heinous crimes a place into which people simply disappeared without a trace two detainees were tortured to death by u.s. forces in two thousand and two while the scandal exposed the use of torture to obtain information from detainees today bob graham rename part when detention facility rarely makes the news blog is still very much a black hole it's a prison facility that is operating that we don't have very much information about there are about six hundred or so detainees that are there many of them captured outside of afghanistan although a list of names that were released last year a federal court recently denied access to any other information pertaining to those

detainees. global outrage and condemnation over detainee abuses america's the tour has gone time obey prison forced the. u.s. to change its practices there but those languishing within the walls of bug room were less lucky this interaction so your one problem is that was the most transparent work time to sit in history bob graham detention facility and afghanistan to have the same standards for litigation process in a wartime theater tonight the war zone would be on president to have such access to the original bug room detention facility may have been renamed relocated but it will take more than a fresh coat of paint to ease the fear afghans associate with the prison reports of a prison with an imprisoned persist with afghan president hamid karzai recently demanding greater afghan insight into the prisons affairs and greater legal recourse for its detainees which is why human rights advocates insist the billions

of dollars sent to afghanistan does little to bufferin sign an image of america has already been tarnished by places like bob graham and out of the. human rights policies seem hypocritical and inconsistent and i think it's a problem for the government mixing humanitarian aid with contentious u.s. policies and nontransparent detention practices relay a different reality on the ground for the people of afghanistan hypocrisy is basically what it is jan hoffa's r.t. washington d.c. . and you can always follow up our stories leave your comments at any time you want . to dot com well there's no escape for russians drink drivers russian policeman an hour with super bowl laser seybold to detect moves from twenty paces each cost the police a cool ten thousand bucks. and even in crisis head florida selling

drugs can be a very lucrative business if you offer your customers a kalashnikov as a sweetener find out more about the light is promotion a web site to talk. now let's get to some other news making headlines around the world this hour the british government has agreed to pay millions of dollars in compensation to its citizens held at america's guantanamo bay detention camp nearly a dozen former detainee who say they were illegally in prison and u.k. security services were involved in their torture they also claim or thought these had information and they were being ill treated yet did nothing to help them. at least sixty six people have been killed and over seventy injured after the collapse of a five story residential building in new delhi apartment block was used mainly to house of migrant workers poor construction material and bad foundations are blamed for the collapse rescue workers are at the scene now struggling to save doesn't that

are still under the dead. chinese police have detained for welders after a massive fire at an apartment block in shanghai more than fifty people were killed and dozens injured by the blaze reporters say a license to builders may have accidentally started the fire on monday the inferno ripped through the building forcing dozens to climb down the scaffolding to escape . buckingham palace has confirmed to prince william is to marry his longtime girlfriend kate middleton the wedding will take place in spring or summer all next year the couple became engaged during a holiday last month now william and kate started dating eight years ago while studying together and andrews university. a spy thriller where the russian intelligence agency as the protagonists but it's not the latest hollywood movie it's a georgian film based on an alleged russian spy network busted just weeks ago moscow

has probably seen accusations calling them a political farce and as r.t. sick i think of a reports there are a few lapses in the spy story. he's the hammer and sickle. and the f.s.b. in this movie georgians have used classical russian stewart types to put zest into the spy thriller it's georgian state t.v.'s version of the rest of fifteen people accused of being russian spies in reality the only evidence police is given to reality is the parent can fashion of one of those arrested a super agent who actually turns out to be a georgian spy. i personally enrolled him and he was my agent from ninety two to ninety four after the rose revolution he was recruited to work for george intelligence also his brother runs the security service of the whole republic of vegetarian i assert it officially this man is

a georgian agent. but the story is certainly doesn't and there are especially for roussillon one of the suspects appeared to be his father. in may this year my dad went to georgia to visit relatives on the border he was thorough interrogated on where he was going to stay before arrest him and took away sweets he was bringing for his nephews two days later he was arrested he never contacted us afterwards we found out about his arrest by chance and were shocked. six months ago this sixty three year old was detained for crossing the border allegedly with a fake id and trying to sell counterfeit doulas landing he would aid. years in jail it's only now on the screen because being accused of spying for russia but he's family says a spear knowledge is beyond the age pension or instability in one or two use the

cell phone sure to push just to bertram's degree on the road one she couldn't even send some of us. go here is just one of the obvious blunders of the spy thriller georgian authorities claim that russian citizens screen nick of course the georgian border with a fake passport on a fake identity they also say they never set eyes on his real passport and haven't seized it meanwhile. here is the photo from that id well the stamp question where did they get it from. this is a sanction provocation a political action it's known to discredit russia before the upcoming russian nato summit and the overseeing meeting turkish really wants to attract attention to him and his super secret services but we want to tell him you can't treat old men just like this they're innocent you can't jail them just because they're russians.

relatives are now appealing against the charges and hope that their high level lobbying of nato and o.s.c. countries will get them justice it's the democrats who are tea moscow. ten minutes from now we'll talk to an oil industry insider about the environmental consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill but first its yuliya with the business . that's right time to have a look at what's happening in the world of business kasparov is still suffering from the effects of the financial downturn they and session economic outlook in europe is creating uncertainty in russia's biggest company but cast from has been working to diversify its customer base our correspondent medina question explains how the strategy is progressing from the gas of russia conference taking place of gas pumps headquarters in moscow. a lodge was

a mansion today about how the gas industry will recover from the financial downturn and gazprom announced that it will return to pre-crisis level of two thousand and eight by only twenty twelve and this was one of the main hard lines of the gas form that is taking place at the moment add gas problems in moscow had water said according to the deputy chairman of the board alexander mediate if the gas demand in europe has fallen quite significantly due to the crisis and it has just started to pick up birds it hasn't reached the pre-crisis level but a to tell you more and in terms of their the a longer perspective for the gas consumption in europe we're willing quis out quite a significantly and to give you more details that were mentioned today at the conference the european gas the consumption will reach a three hundred eighty billion cubic meters gas and only by two thousand and twenty

meanwhile despite the fact that most of the russian gas x. now flows into europe of the main focus and the main drive for the future growth lies in a completely different direction and it's of the asian pacific region. demand for gas in the asia pacific region will definitely grow well analysts predict that it's not even to mention energy demand in such developing countries like china and india also plans to supply at least turn billion cubic meters of gas to south korea starting from twenty seventeen by the time we expect the korean market to have grown by a further fifteen percent but the main focus is a china this november gazprom plans to continue negotiations over gas supplies into the country and alexander them invaded also mentioned today that gazprom is a relaunching work over sakhalin three four and five projects and this of follows of the overall company's strategy to diversify its. doesn't the asian upis ific

region meanwhile there are two major gas transportation project that the i touch in today and these were nori stream and a south stream while the construction of a north stream project is almost done and the first gas supplies by the pipeline is will start next year in twenty eleven but whatever the situation over at the south stream project as is still unclear alexander the midday do for only mentioned today that other players from of the global energy community are welcome to participate and this project. figure has come up for a seven week low against the dollar but it remains vulnerable as a vet says wait for a decision on a possible bailout for ireland dublin is continuing to resist pressure to accept aid from its euro zone partners it's a meeting of finance ministers in brussels it says it is not in danger of defaulting on its debt paul marco from h.s.b.c.

explains why arlen small economy is such a big problem. it may not be a big economy because and still have quite a big impact for the european economy as a whole and really what it comes down to is that conditions in our own got a lot worse from a financial market perspective what it could mean for the real economies elsewhere in europe is that what what what could actually happen to contagion so it's yes arlen has a problem but could it impacts possibly portugal even more so and eventually even the spain so this is what the market is quite nervous about it's more about the contagion risk rather than just our story by itself what the market wants to see is obviously if there is going to be some sort of package support package announced today something credible something detailed so they can walk away with thinking well actually maybe this is a good somebody that can take out some of this contagion fear is present if not then the market will be very nervous and i think what would probably happen is that the euro would probably remain under downward pressure. let's take a look at the equity markets u.s. stocks on the way in and

a trade off toward ports china would announce measures including price controls and food to slow the country's rapidly konami private. european stocks a sinking further into the red meat session on tuesday holding how it falls in china on losses on wall street parliament is still in support life as it comes under pressure checks up to bail out from the euro. and the russian markets on the slide here in moscow with both indices showing nearly two percent thanks and energy majors are waiting for bankers shedding nearly twenty percent on but this is a net is down more than two percent in the mice it's the sound. as largest still make a simple style has almost doubled its profits in the thought who show beijing and this is the system that's in that to income jumps to wrong three hundred seventy billion dollars the company benefited from high roquemaure of his prices. and russia's central bank has announced it will accept gold as collateral from banks

analysts have welcomed the decision as it gives new opportunities to raise cash prices have almost doubled in two years and demand is still high in a type of this year russian banks held in excess of one billion dollars of precious metals. it's all the business news for now you can get small store small website r.t. dot com slash business. wealthy

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