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go says top acting outside the law or is it ships russian businessmen who picked up to the u.s. to be tried for gun running. because their boat is expected to land in the u.s. in a few hours join me guy i need to check out for more from washington d.c. . striking the e.u. at its core the euro president warns if the currency collapses the union will sink along with it. and the threat from islamic militants can be overcome by military force only contained says britain's top soldier.

with twenty four hour news from russia and from around the world this is r.t. here in the russian capital good to have you with us moscow has dubbed thailand's extradition of the russian businessman vic to to boot. u.s. as a legal washington is accused of using unprecedented political pressure to have been handed over america says the man nicknamed the merchant of death traffic domes to dictators and conflict zones around the world does not get the latest from or to go to church and she's in washington for where is victor right now well bill as reports have it victor borge will land in new york at nine pm local time following a very contentious extradition procedure there in thailand victor good lawyers family members on the russian embassy in thailand said they received no proper notification of this on this snap extradition plan here is what mr good's wife says . yes it's hard for me to talk about but what happened

was totally unexpected for both me and victims know where the thai cabinet how to closed meeting today where political decision was taken to extradite my husband to the us the extradition took place within four hours of the meeting against all the rights and laws of the country we only know that exist in thailand as us influence i guess the decision was paid for. he was apparently put on a plane in a very speedy manner and sent to the uighurs well meanwhile the united states is more than happy to have food on their soil here he faces charges of. selling arms to a terrorist group and conspiring to kill american citizens americans also believe he had stoked violence in some war torn regions by selling weapons to sierra leone afghanistan sudan and so on if convicted he may face life in prison denies any wrongdoing he says he has only engaged in perfectly legal aircraft sales we

contacted the f.b.i. for more comments on the upcoming trial here in the us they did not comment but tomorrow they are holding a news conference we'll have more information then let me remind you of it to boot was detained in thailand as a result of a sting operation carried out by american agents two years ago back in august when would target thai court decision on who to extradite him he said he would face the trial in the u.s. and when it. russia is highly critical of this decision by thailand what exactly did moscow have to say about this well the moscow police the u.s. managed to get good extradited by putting unprecedented political pressure on the government and judicial authorities of thailand here's what foreign minister sergei lavrov said. despite two

rulings in thailand's criminal court saying viktor boots guilt was not proven to be the government has still decided to move to the us consider this unprecedented political pressure on the legal process and on thailand's government this is an example of striking injustice and we will continue to give all necessary support as a russian citizen. well russian diplomats say they need an immediate access to victor boot who is apparently a russian citizen they hope these rights will be honored here in the united states we have to keep in mind for two years our friend the u.s. have been in a tug of war over this extradition the u.s. believes is evil russia says because of this load of factorizations that the u.s. has hung upon boot and all the negative hype that there is around him russians really doubt that good has it has a chance to stand a fair trial in the u.s. be able to use it a little earlier there was an air of secrecy urgency around his extradition.

bill as you know there has been an amazing hype around this case russians believe it wasn't just a law enforcement operation they say was politically motivated good is the former soviet military officer americans are talking about millions of dollars worth of russian weapons sold by victor books what makes the case political is the underlying implication of the you are so accusations that brute was able to pull it off because of his government connections actually boots lawyers and some intelligence actors claim that the reason the u.s. so wanted to have him in custody is his allegedly extensive knowledge of russian military and intelligence operations it's really unclear to what extent victor boot is knowledgeable in all those things. but here is my colleague up to the nines out of it with more on why americans want him so badly. people on the planet

hollywood florida who warn that there are over five hundred fifty million firearms in the world wide circulation that's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. the only question is. how do we arm the other eleven and his alleged real life prototype. russian businessman victor boot nicknamed the merchant of death deny all like his ations and laughed off parallels . over resort. to play this sort of love for this very silly i feel suited for. his statement never changed even when he came from behind bars in the infamous bangkok hilton but that did not stop the type you 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 record thai authorities news goot 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 viktor bhutto know to make the americans want this badly victor board is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and because book knows too much he is more dangerous than we kill wigs 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 is and. will call them. around quite a large a lot. and i would think that ninety five percent of his frauds were

ordinary commercial goods. washing powder all sorts of things so we're only talking about five percent of the cargoes possibly being. is not itself illegal but ever since his arrest in the thai capital in march two thousand and eight the american side it everything it could to make charges stick including adding allegations of trade love violations. boots family have repeatedly criticised the court procedures firm in their belief that he is being made a scapegoat. principle but this is a question of principle to dissimulate to news spending money taxpayer money on trying to root out gun runners so they have to have someone to show for it and they chose victor from it's nothing but. you know the noise actually refused to take his case and was they were visited by u.s. officials both stroud and tribulations are anything but over his feet in the u.s. is very uncertain with only one thing guaranteed more time behind bars rumors of

a sequel to hollywood's blockbuster lord of war have been circling around for a while the last ordinary moviegoers await that release dictabelt will be awaiting his own at this point in time both look equally unlikely. kashrut as are the r.t.d. moscow. well snapple extraditions are apparently business as usual for for americans we just there was another case that of a russian pilot who was arrested in liberia in may and transferred to america to face drug trafficking charges although his lawyer say there is no proof he committed any crime in the u.s. he was handed over to american agents in a matter of days the lawyers claimed the pilot had been basically kidnapped so it seems when the u.s. won someone extradited there is not much that can stop them but for example having someone extradited from the u.s. is so much more legally complicated next to impossible bill. from washington thanks

very much indeed for that update. if europe's single currency fails so would the union itself the warning comes from the e.u. president ahead of the euro zone's finance ministers meeting portugal has warned it could be forced to ditch the euro and all and is also being urged to use funds to prevent bankruptcy now and from the london based investment company says small e.u. states may have little choice but to take the money i don't really in a position of of much choice because clearly it's a sort of rock and a hard place norio and the short term expediency of bail out so it's better than the. whole. immediate reactions of the situation but just you know you what you want to keep an eye on the fact that one country after another appears to be on a slow roast in terms of news flown in terms of the way the market is looking at

this but my guess would be it's likely to be a short term situation for arlen because i believe that they will be forced to take bailout money and that will put them back probably bar in portugal in terms of the country being looked at most closely. well financial analyst max kaiser says even worse than taking bailout money from europe would be to turn to the international monetary fund for help. 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 in our john fitzpatrick david drumm 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 colleagues 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 i.m.f. 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 or cause the crisis the ireland needs to divorce itself from these financial terrorist and stand on its own two feet i mean as the same case where their departure go 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 they allowed 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 are 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 charisse to add to get out of their problem they're asking the same financial terrorists who sir how do we escape the clutches of your terrorism you know ireland they went to war against the ira and the. the irish republican army but they seem to just give a pass to you know sean fitzpatrick. max kaiser reporter talking to us a little earlier on r t. six months after two hundred million gallons of oil gushed into the gulf of mexico the u.s. claims its waters are good for fishing again but american oil industry insider bob herbert told r.t. we've yet to see the worst consequences of the environmental disaster. the problem is that the vast majority of the oil never came to the surface it's in the oceans

still today in cold water three thousand four thousand feet deep there could be vast plumes of oil that we can't see this destroying the food chain how talking about this you know it's tragic the u.s. government and b.p. both wanted this story off the television. that full interview for you with the bob is coming your way in just over an hour from now britain's top commander says al qaeda and the taliban cannot be defeated using military force but general david richards argued that militants could be contained he also suggests nato should be planning to be in afghanistan for the next forty years to help local forces let's talk about this with british labor m.p. jeremy corbyn who's also a member of the antiwar coalition thank you very much indeed mr coleman for joining us there in london so do you agree with the fact that islamic militants cannot be defeated using military force. well in that sense david richards is right that

there is no military solution in afghanistan there is only a political one. the united states britain and russia are long since discovered over the past hundred fifty years but his analysis that follows is that some are of the britain should remain involved for the next generation is something that i think is going to be very unpopular in this country and is actually probably going to be unpopular the government that wants to have a complete exit strategy by two thousand and fifteen indeed president obama wants to be out by two thousand and twelve but what about this idea of containment whereby the taliban and al qaeda could be contained militarily surely military action in that case is justified in order to work in the interests of regional security and global security well if that assumes that the taliban is a totally insurgent force and that al-qaeda is alongside them in the same action

the reality is that there is huge opposition to the occupation of afghanistan by the western forces and the taliban has become a cipher for that opposition there are some places where is the taliban in other places where the taliban is a kind of license for that degree of opposition i think what we have to recognise is that the people of afghanistan don't like being occupied by the western forces the longer they stay there the stronger the taliban gets because people see them as the main and credible opposition and i think it is time that we have a totally different political strategy in the region look at the threat that's now on in pakistan look at the threat in the border region which is largely occasioned by people wanting to oppose the western presence in afghanistan but what about the idea of the fact that british forces could be there in a supportive role and not a combative role would that be more acceptable. not really because history shows us that where forces go into any situation in

a supportive role they are often well equipped probably better equipped than the afghan forces they are often quite experienced they are then dragged into situations they don't want to be dragged into think back to nine hundred sixty nine sixty three to be exact the united states sent in military advisors and then support forces into vietnam five years later they had half a million troops there fighting a full scale war in vietnam ten years after that they had to retreat from. from vietnam with ignominy and i think that that is the process with the ground in afghanistan foreign forces have now been there for nine years we're going into the tenth year of occupation of that country it has cost billions of pounds it's cost thousands of lives no good come of it i suspect in the long run we're going to end up with possibly western companies trying to exploit the military sources from that

country instead we should be looking to an economic and political solution including possibly purchase of more of the poppy crops for the manufacture of diamorphine whole lot of much more imaginative ways can be done can be used in afghanistan than those that are being used at the present time can i just ask you one final speculative question here and that is the general also said he sees no case for military intervention in other countries at the moment he didn't rule out though that one day being back in that position do you think that if the u.s. were to start another campaign somewhere in the world that actually britain would follow and be involved. i think we're in the center of a very interesting political debate in britain i hope we've come to the end of the the grand imperial plan but after the prime minister's speech last night i'm not so sure britain is a small country in the northwest corner of europe i want us to be a force for good a force for peace and a force for international not. to do whatever the united states requires of us

anywhere in the world jeremy corwin as always good to hear what you have to say labor m.p. and antiwar activist joining us live from london thank you for your time and. well by the way you can follow all our stories watch that interview again indeed and leave your comments online at our website it's our dot com to get an idea of what else is the moment no escape for russians drink drivers russian policemen our quick . able to detect from twenty paces each gadget calls the police ten thousand dollars. and even the crisis hit florida selling trucks can be a very lucrative business if you offer your customers a kalashnikov as a sweetener find out more about that latest promotion on r.t. dot com. on the news now a man in some petersburg has died after being hit by a car wheel trying from an upper window of an apartment building the wheel landed

centimeters from his feet before bouncing up and smashing into his head the forty four year old was hospitalized with brain injuries and a broken jaw and died two days later police suspect a group of teenagers seen entering the building may be to blame several of them were later allegedly seen checking him as he lay on the street before walking away . when up for the business news let's check out some other world news this hour the british government to pay millions of dollars compensation to its citizens held in america's guantanamo bay detention camp doesn't former detainees say they were illegally imprisoned and you can security services were involved in their torture they also claim authorities had information they were being treated yet did nothing to help them. six people have been killed and over seventy injured on the collapse of a five story residential building in new delhi the apartment block was used mainly to hells migrant workers poor construction material and foundations of blame for the collapse rescue workers are at the scene struggling to save dozens still trapped under the table. police have detained for welders after

a massive fire department block in shanghai more than fifty people were killed and dozens injured by the blaze reports say your license builders may have accidently started the fire on monday the inferno ripped through the building forcing dozens to climb down scaffolding to escape. the fate buckingham palace has confirmed prince william is to marry his longtime girlfriend kate middleton the wedding will take place in spring or summer next year the couple became engaged through a holiday last month when a kate started dating eight years ago while studying together it's an andrews university. the landscape of the camp check your peninsula russia's far east has been continuously molded by sentries of volatile geological activity and artie's documentary team takes you on an exclusive venture to the land of volcanoes. are you. comfortable shuttle bus. just.

serving. unscary. on the. crater's. scorching. toward there are included. a photo with the wild lunar rover for free. so do stay with us here or to watch the full documentary in about ten minutes from now julia joins us in the meantime with a business update. try to very well welcome time to delve into the world of business gas from a still suffering from the effects of the financial downturn in the uncertain

economic all token europe is creating a session to end russia's biggest company but gasp from has been working to diversify its customer base all correspondence much in a courtship explains how the strategy is progressing from the gaza russia conference taking place at gas pumps headquarters in moscow. a large 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 up by two thousand and eight by only twenty twelfth and this was a one of the main had lines of the gas form that is taking place at the moment add gas problems moscow had water according to the deputy chairman of the board alexander the media the gas demand in europe has fallen quite significantly due to the crisis and it has just started to pick up but 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 are willing crease 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 annually by two thousand and twenty meanwhile despite the fact that most of the russian gas x. now flows into europe at the main focus and the main drive for the future growth lies in a completely different direction and it's the asian pacific region. demand for gas in the asia pacific region will definitely grow all analysts predict that it's not even to mention energy demand in such developing countries like china and india gastro also plans to supply at least turn billion cubic meters of gas to south korea starting from twenty seventeen by that 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 the overall company's strategy to diversify its paw. isn't in the asian pacific region meanwhile there are two major gas transportation projects that the i touch in today and these were nori stream and a south stream while the construction of a north korean project is almost done and the first gas supplies by the pipeline is will start next year in twenty eleven however the situation over at the south stream project as is still unclear and looks under the midday do for only mentioned today that other players from of the global energy community are welcome to participate and this project. but in the course of reporting from headquarters in moscow the euro has come off

a seven week low against the dollar but it remains vulnerable as investors 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 from h.s.b.c. explains why on one small economy is such a big problem. it may not be a big economy because i'd 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 could actually happen to contagion so yes arlin now is a problem but could impact possibly portugal even more so and eventually even 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 with 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 fears 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. must take a look at the equity markets us talk so low and the trade off to reports china would announce measures including price controls on food to slow the country's breath of economic growth. stocks finished into the red on tuesday following heavy folds in china and losses on wall street and is still in the spotlight as it comes under pressure to accept a bailout from here. and the bush markets finished tuesday session in the red in moscow with both indices shedding nearly two percent banks and energy may just we're waiting for a bank shed me three percent on but it's also central smash will still move the two percent on the my sex. rushes not just to make a separate stock has almost doubled its profits in the third horse at beating and

let's just let's net income jumped to a wrong three hundred seventeen million dollars says the company benefited from my role commodities prices. one of russia's largest telecom providers called style says the third quarter earnings moving doubled from me here to reach fifty eight and then thomas the results especially and. spore expecting to come out so that it is on track to hit its full year targets. that's all the business news for now join me next hour for more stories and get more news small web site r.t. dot com slash business. thank. you are.